Welcome to our paranormal afterlife.

This is episode 160 of paranormal stories.

This episode I'm reading from Dr. Leo Ruikbiz Prize winning essay,

The Ghost in the Time Machine, the survival of human

consciousness after permanent bodily death. When I have guests on my podcasts, I read their

books to work out questions for the episodes. When reading these books, I always find such

amazing information that never makes it into the podcast, and here I get a chance to give you a peek

into the book. I've put a link to the book in the show notes, and I did seek permission to

record this extract, and the author kindly said yes. So I'm going to read from a part of the book

that's titled Ghosts Still in the Past, and this is what Leo has written. 18-year-old plumber's apprentice, Harry Martindale, was in the cellars of the treasurer's

house, an historic house in York, UK, working on the central heating system, when he heard

the distant blaring of a note, in his words. Perched on a ladder, Martindale continued his work as the sound grew louder.

Looking down, he saw a figure wearing a plumed helmet and holding a trumpet-like instrument

come through the wall, followed by a horse and rider, and a column of Roman soldiers.

Martindale fell off his ladder with fright and watched as about

twenty soldiers marched across the cellar. Martindale described the scene. They were coming out

of the wall. The wall didn't exist as far as they were concerned. The only other Roman soldier

I'd seen prior to this is what we call, or I call, the Charlton-Heston type,

riding a beautiful horse, very smart. These were the complete opposite. The first thing that

struck me was how small they were. They were very small indeed. Another remarkable thing when

they first came out of the wall, I couldn't see them from the

knees down until they came to where the Roman road had been excavated, then I could see them

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