Thread: Bad feeling

Originally Posted by gundoc

Visiting the battlefield at Culloden some years ago I was suddenly overcome and felt terrible, feeling like I had been hit in the stomach with a sledge hammer. A staff member came over and asked if I had ancestors who fought here which I confirmed was correct. He said he has seen it often in descendants who visit. I came right after a few minutes and continued my visit in a fairly somber mood. I had never experienced it before or since.

This happened to me at Gallipoli 1998,
There’s a long story to this. But let’s just keep it simple it was as you discussed above. Like being hit in the guts and feeling really ill and out of sorts.
Only found out after that I’d lost a family member there. William Simpson.