Weird News: Haunted Outpost Frightens Soldiers in Afghanistan
Friday, January 8, 2010
War zones have regularly served as stations for the undead. Ghosts, gremlins, and other horrors regularly patrol the close border between life and death that curls around every battlefield. Sometimes, accounts of supernatural events are lively and one-sided, such as the English bowman who allegedly returned from the dead to help Entente soldiers stave off their German foes at Mons during the Great War. In other instances, such as the latest weird stories from Afghanistan, the spirits are much more restless and without any clear objective. They may be maddened mirrors sent from the afterlife, or the self-obsessed delusions of shell shocked troops, but they're always fantastic symbols of the most nightmarish environs our species is capable of making.
