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The Ghost Club and the First World War

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Wartime Revelations of a Ghost Hunters’ Dining Club The Ghost Club was a private, but not quite secret, dining club that met in London to discuss ghosts, naturally. Sir William Crookes, one of the leading lights of the Society for Psychical Research, was President of the Ghost Club throughout the duration of the war. According […]

First World War Predicted in 1913

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Raphael’s Almanac Predicts Crisis in German Empire Before 1914 even began, its terrible course had already been seen in the stars. Mars, the Roman god of war and a twinkling red spark in the night sky, had laid claim to 1914. Each year, beginning about 1827, a book of astrological forecasts appeared called Raphael’s Almanac, […]