Soon Halloween, sorry, the Samhain, the veil between the worlds is thinning, creatures will cross it soon. Sometimes necessity, hunger, hunting In Dàngelshe, Dangolsheim, for example, an apparition has terrorized the inhabitants for a long time, but not for what you think. in Dangolsheim, between Soultz-les-Bains and Bergbieten, there is a spring. Only geese and ducks fully appreciate this mysterious spring which flows at the bottom of the village, where it flows into a large basin. A dark vaulted corridor, well masonry, sinks there under the hill which dominates the whole town to the south. No one really knows how far this tunnel leads, which would have already existed in Roman times. Rightly so, you will hear it.
Many of the elders knew this story, they often told it to each other in the Stùb, on long winter evenings. Each had an ancestor who had seen him. Him. One evening at the end of July, when many inhabitants had gathered around the spring at nightfall to take advantage of its freshness, a strange noise was heard. It came from the end of the corridor from which the spring flows. It resounded like the footsteps of a man walking heavily and whose sound of sandals or shoes was amplified by the arches. Slowly, he seemed to be approaching. Yet everyone knew there was no way out of this hallway. At the same time, a faint glow approached the depths of the black gut. She was getting clearer and clearer. And suddenly arises, passing the bars as if they did not exist and yet still securely close the entrance to the underground, a silhouette
enveloped in a cloud of light. The apparition threw great terror among the assembly, several people rushed away. Others were so frightened that they remained stuck in place. The apparition looked like a Roman soldier, a legionary who raised his right arm in salute. No sound was coming out of his mouth. But all those who remained, frozen with fear, distinctly saw tears flowing from his eyes. Slowly, lowering his head, he turned and walked again down the long hallway, where he was soon absorbed into the darkness. It was in 1914.
A few days later the First World War broke out. The same appearance was again reported in 1939 and it was then that we remembered that it had already been seen long before, in 1870. Thus we now know in Dangolsheim that this strange being leaves an underground world where everything is known. to announce to the living the great dramas that await them. Perhaps their passage to death. It is not without apprehension that the inhabitants think of this phenomenon, with the hope that the legionary never again comes to greet them and announces a butchery to come.