"Ghosts of the IXth?" Topic
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Tgunner | 22 Jul 2018 3:10 p.m. PST |
This is more for us US gamers than the UK types because they probably know about this.
How is this for a ghost story? link link Here are some videos about the incident. The first, I believe, is filmed on-location. YouTube link youtu.be/l3auJWh-aPo |
robert piepenbrink | 22 Jul 2018 3:28 p.m. PST |
And what would you have to have done to still be walking off your demerits after nearly 2,000 years? |
FABET01 | 22 Jul 2018 4:11 p.m. PST |
I don't know what they did, but my roommate at OCS had so many demerits he was still walking them off the night before graduation. For all I know, he could still be marching back and forth in the parking lot almost 40 years later. |
robert piepenbrink | 22 Jul 2018 7:33 p.m. PST |
Fortunately for me, when you're canned from OCS, you leave your demerits with the company, just like your officer's ID card--and, of course, the money they extort. Only fair, I suppose. Worth noting though, despite the illustration these ghosts are not IX Hispana. From the description, they're 3rd or 4th Century troops, and the observers described them as quite solid, unlike the semi-transparent legionnaires above. I had this sudden vision of my ghostly self still plugging information into a database in 3500 AD. I really hope not. |
parrskool | 23 Jul 2018 1:06 a.m. PST |
….. re the drawing: - this was an artists impression so don't but much faith in accuracy, also… - the original account said that the men were only visible from the knees up implying that they were walking on a lower level. |
Tgunner | 23 Jul 2018 12:05 p.m. PST |
I had this sudden vision of my ghostly self still plugging information into a database in 3500 AD. I really hope not That will be me teaching reading at school. Or more accurately, grading papers at school…
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