Trevor Collins

During World War I, battle was ruthless, and many fell to the innumerable German forces.

Among the fighters was the British Expeditionary Force who made their first appearance in the Battle of Mons.

Largely outnumbered, they were sure to be defeated until, as legend has it, a phantom army reigned from the sky, aiding them in the battle and saving many of their men.

Was this a case of hallucination, or did these ghostly visitors save a multitude of lives?

Today we're investigating the very interesting Angels of Mons.

This is Red Web.

Welcome back, Task Force, to another episode of Red Web, the podcast all about unsolved mysteries, true crime, and the unknown.

I am your resident mystery enthusiast, Trevor Collins, and joining me, hearing about this really fascinating topic, this very intriguing case for the very first time, Alfredo Diaz.

I have a piece in this episode that I actually, I was like, I'm going to shoehorn in my Lord of the Rings references right here.

You're not wrong.

In fact, when researching this particular story, this comes from Christian who has known about this for a few years.

I'll talk more about that in a second.

But like when reading about this, I was like, did Tolkien use any part of the stories here?

to inspire what happened in Lord of the Rings.

And I don't think I actually Googled that.

So Christian, if you don't mind taking a dive into that to see if there's anything that comes up, we can resurface that as the time comes.

But yeah, the Angels of Mons, a very interesting topic because we know everything about it.

On a rare occasion, we'll talk about a solved mystery, and I think that's kind of what's happening here, but very much like some of the paranormal episodes we've had before, some of the folklore episodes, some of those kind of interesting gray area episodes,

we're going to watch the origins of a ghost story in real time.

Because when Christian mentioned doing this and we put it on the docket and we scheduled it and we started doing research, we didn't know that there was actually an understanding of what happened underneath this.