House to House
This is going to be a regular feature of supernatural stories. All stories I have obtained first hand, and have no reason to doubt the authenticity of. In coming weeks I will share stories of strange visitors, a ghost with a mission, and today’s story, a WWII era revolver that literally had stories to tell. I will not identify the sources of these stories in the interest of privacy.
In 1895 Imperial Russia adopted a new, more modern revolver to replace it’s aging .40 caliber Smith and Wessons, once widely regarded as the finest military handgun in the world. To replace it, they adopted a design by the noted Belgian gun designer Leon Nagant. Leon and his brother Emile were well known in the Imperial Court, which could explain why a relatively mediocre and complex revolver like the M95 Nagant was adopted.
By the 1930’s the Soviet Army was finding their handguns were getting long in the tooth, and a replacement was sought. The new TT 33 semi automatic was a brilliant design, but had a couple of shortcomings, namely it would jam in the cold Siberian winters, and would not fit out of the firing port of the new T34 tanks. So the venerable old M95 remained in production.
The particular revolver in this story left the Tula arsenal sometime in 1936 and was issued to an unknown officer or non com. Over the years before WWII this weapon may have changed hands several times, or it may have remained with the same soldier, there is no way of knowing.
It fought through the second world war, finally to be obsoleted, cleaned and put away into deep storage as a reserve weapon for a future war that never came. At some point in the early 21st century, this well made piece of late 19th century technology was stamped with a US arms importer’s stamp and sold on the collector’s market.
The person I got this story from acquired this nondescript weapon in a Western Washington gun shop, and took it home with him and stored it in his bedroom.
For three nights after acquiring the revolver, there were dreams. The longest dream of the three is what I will detail here.
A broken building stood along a street. The fighting that had destroyed the building left the fragment of a wall standing, with bricks and rubble littering the street. Everything was seen first person, as if seeing through the eyes of the soldier carrying the Nagant. The scene shifted left to right as if to scan and secure the area.
The two other dreams were of similar nature, short vivid bursts with photographic reality, showing scenes of destruction from a long ago war. There was no bloodshed or combat shown, a few minutes of moving through an area, perhaps the soldier’s base of operations, or perhaps the last few moments before a Nazi bullet took his life.
It is believed some items that have been exposed to strong mental energy, much like the kind combat will produce can carry a “memory” that can be experienced by some people.
In this case we have an item that literally would have been at the side of someone engaged in some of the fiercest fighting of the 20th century. Many times a soldier’s sidearm is a lifesaver and a tool of last resort to save their life, or to engage in close quarters fighting that is not suitable for a rifle.
The stress, the unimaginable horrors of war clearly imprinted themselves on this tool of war. I was told there were no more dreams after the first three days. I wonder if future owners of this weapon will experience something similar?
I have heard several similar stories regarding guns, military packs carried in combat, or of items associated with violence and tragedy. Perhaps the item serves as a talisman, a focus that serves to align itself and the person holding it with whatever energies surrounded it.
There is no way to know for sure what sort of action this weapon saw, but I believe for three interesting nights, someone was given a unique view of WWII Russia.
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The image of an M95 Nagant was taken from the Wikipedia article.
