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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 08:30:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Carrie Powanda-Croft (cpowanda@nova.umuc.edu)
To: ghost-discuss@aurora.cdb.com
Subject: A ghost story (what else?)
At long last, I'm making a real contribution of a ghost story! This is one of those friend of a friend of a friend stories, but it's from a friend who a credible source and doesn't particularly dabble in ghost stuff. On with the story...
This took place somewhere in England, probably around London. The woman who originally told the story lived north of London and said the events occurred in a small village south of her village.
It involved a man who lived in the village and did odd jobs about town. He was what we call learning disabled, to be PC. He is/was not crazy, but just a little touched. This friend of a friend, etc. had the man come to their (her and her husband's) cottage and do some work in the basement, some carpentry work, I believe. The couple went out for the day, leaving him to his work. When they returned, they went to the basement to see how he had done. They found him horribly beaten up, yelling incoherently. They took him to the hospital to be taken care of.
After being in the hospital for a while, and finally calmed down, he explained what had happened. As his was going about his work, a band of Roman soldiers came driving through with chariot and horses, running him down in the process. The doctors at the hospital said that the injuries he sustained were consistent with those that would occur if one was run over by such a thing.
In addition, he gave a full account of the soldiers' appearances--what they were wearing, their weapons, etc., in full detail. That information was later checked out against historical records that are not easily obtained by the general public, and his accounts were dead accurate. And add into the mix his disabilities, and it seems quite impossible that he could have made up the story.
Has anyone heard this story before, or know anything else about it?
************************************************************************* Carrie Powanda-Croft Make it idiot proof and someone cpowanda@nova.umuc.edu will make a better idiot.