Introduction

The Ghost Soldiers

In 1953 a young lad was working alone in an old cellar in York when he saw Roman soldiers march through solid stone walls

Nobody beheved his fantastic ``ghost story'', but a few years later evidence was uncovered that seemed to back up his tale of a visit from the distant past

The Doomed Voyage

At the end of the 19th century a book was published that described the sinking of an ``unsinkable'' passenger ship

Fourteen years later, the great ocean liner Titanic snak to a cold grave on its maiden voyage

Both vessels were hit by an iceberg in the North Atlantic, both had too few lifeboats, both saw massive loss of life

And that's not all...

The Dream of Death

In April 1865 Abraham Lincoln

President of the USA

suffered a nightmare dream --- about his own death at the hands of an assassm

Ten days later, Lincoln was shot dead on a visit to the theatre in one of the most dramatic events of American history

The Lost Leader

In the wartime London of 1943, a chilling telephone call to the headquarters of the free Polish forces predicts the death in an air crash of their leader General Sikorski

Six weeks later the General died when his plane mysteriously plunged into the sea near Gibraltar

The Palace of Ghosts

On a quiet visit to the gardens of Versailles near

Paris, two genteel Edwardian ladies were lured by a ghostly figure into an earher time

Was this the vivid imagination of two women --- or a ``time slip'' into a very different past?

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