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Trevor Collins

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

I appreciate that you like my story, but it's fictitious.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

So around this time, stories began to emerge, almost kind of like as if something sparked them of soldiers claiming to have seen St.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

George on the battlefield that day or knowing of someone who did.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

So suddenly, you know, the timeline shows Macken's story hits the newspapers, gets republished, and then in 1915 becomes a novel with a collection of stories.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

And somewhere along this timeline, now people are starting to go, yeah, a buddy of mine who fought in that battle saw this.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Or rumors are stirring of somebody saying, I saw this.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Now, others say that they saw a ribbon of shining soldiers coming down between the two armies.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

This is kind of why you see that line of bowmen going kind of infinitely into the horizon.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Now, this in particular correlates very well to Macken's own story, as the soldier in the story saw, quote, a long line of shapes with a shining about them, end quote.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

So...

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Now we're seeing very specific details to the story also appearing in real life.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

And it's evolving to the point that people are even saying, not only did my buddy see St.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

George descend from the skies on a white horse, I also saw German soldiers who had been struck down by arrows in the battlefield.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

And so, again, you're not getting a lot of new inventive eyewitness accounts, but you're getting a lot of very detailed copies.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

I would imagine that they'd stay ghost form, you know, the souls of dead arrows everywhere start flying through the air and then just kind of put invisible holes into everybody.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

But then those might just be bullet holes, you know.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

But people are saying they're seeing actual physical arrows on the battlefield.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

And so to that, I'm saying, right.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Can I see one?

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Right.