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The tall-tall man with a body like a giant question-mark and a face like a relief map of Colorado (all peaks and crags and gullies) folded himself into the chair opposite me. We were there to talk about ghosts, and even though Raymond Massey may be Dr. Gillespie — Dr. Kildare's doctor — he was not about to pooh-pooh these haunts with scientific explanations. Raymond Massey has lived with ghosts for too long. He knows they're real.
He has been fighting ghosts — his own and other people's, including Richard Chamberlain's — for a long time. Looking back, he thinks it probably began when, like many young men during World War I, he sailed off to Europe to "get in on the excitement," convinced it would be a "romantic adventure"! But, as a lieutenant in the Canadian Field Artillery at Ypres, France, he soon discovered war can be dull. Digging trenches is not adventurous. Being buried in dirt churned up by enemy mortar fire is not romantic — especially when it happens several times a week.
Then, one day in 1916, young Massey also discovered war is hell. A German shell came through the roof of his shelter — killing a major, badly wounding another officer, and "clobbering three of us." Massey was wounded in the hand and arm, and suffered from shell shock. For months, he lay in a hospital near death, before recovering completely.
The ghost of Massey the would-be hero never recovered. But this is not the one that haunted him. That was to come later. Once out of the hospital, Ray was sent to Siberia as a member of (Please turn the page)
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