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The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins? That was written by Edgar Allan Poe, and he poses a question

which we hope to explore here.

Considering the existence of what seems to be an ever-growing pile of stories to read through,

I think it's safe to say that the military and the supernatural have a very close and complicated

relationship. In the chaos of war, where the life of every man, woman, and child

hangs in the balance. Tales of the extraordinary often emerge. Some speak of luck or coincidence.

But in the eerie quiet of the aftermath, something unexplained continues to haunt the survivors.

It's not so much a question of why they survived when others died, but who or what was it that kept them alive? During my time in the

Marines, particularly the more dangerous parts of it, I certainly was able to recognize my own mortality

in those moments. And yes, when I had time to think about it, I sincerely hoped that there was

some higher power waiting to intervene. While I don't recall any specific instances where my

life was overtly saved by something I couldn't explain,

the following stories are from those who do.

From full-bodied apparitions, disembodied voices, and prophetic dreams,

these are just a handful of the many incredible stories of people who, in times of war, say that something supernatural

stopped them from dying.

I'm Luke Lamanah, and this is wartime stories. And this is wartime stories. By late 1915, the First World War had been raging for little more than a year, and yet it was already the most catastrophic conflict Europe had ever seen.

On the fields of Belgium and France, British and French armies clashed with the invading

Germans, the two sides quickly getting bogged down in hellish trench warfare.

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