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Mysteries of wars > Hauts-de-France Mysteries 14/18

The hell of the north 14/18

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Scars of the Great War.

Northern France drags with it an extensive and misunderstood legacy of the First World War.

Military necropolises, untouched battlefields and sites with relics are silent and poignant witnesses to the violence of war.

Especially the area between French Flanders ( Ploegsteert ) Armentières and Arras sometimes seems like a 'forgotten front'.

Ploegsteert – Armentieres – Fromelles – Illies, het dorp met 200 bunkers - Aubers – Festubert  - Mijnstreken & Slakkenbergen: Givenchy – Auchy Les Mines – Loos en Gohelle - Notre Dame De La Lorette – Vimy – Neuville St Vaast – Arras

Hindenburg Line. The battlefields of Arras, Bullecout, Bapaume, Péronne, Cambrai and Saint-Quentin

The Somme preserves the scars of the Great War: trenches, shell holes, haunted forests, military cemeteries and ruined villages remind us of these tragic events.  The Ghosts of the Somme is a search for unusual, inexplicable and paranormal occurrences on the battlefields of the First World War.

The memorials of Pozières, Thiepval, Ulster Tower and Beaumont-Hamel.  Nearby, more paranormal sightings have been recorded at Ancre British Cemetery, Sunken lane, Hawthorn ridge crater, Serre road cemetary, Sheffield MP and Knightsbridge Cemetery.

The Most Haunted Parts of the Somme: Delville Wood - Devil's Wood / The Hell -They Called High Wood / Mametz Wood / Trônes Wood

Oise & Aisne - Tunnels of Death: Rendezvous with history and death at the gates of hell.

The extraordinary underworld of the soldiers of the Great War.

Between 1914 and 1918, hell was on the surface of the earth, but death was underground (underground fortifications, regimental quarters) Soldiers faced death daily. Their fate prompted them to create shelters in underground quarries.

Underground remains along Oise and Aisne Front.

La ligne rouge: A trail to discover the scars still visible from the Great War.

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