Trevor Collins

Right.

You know what I mean?

Someone somewhere.

has a grandpa who had a grandpa, and this arrow's been passed down like it's the Hobbit.

You know what I mean?

This is the arrow that will take down Smaug, but I have it above my mantle.

That would be very fascinating.

This is said to be an arrow from St.

George.

I feel like that has to exist somewhere.

So bless his heart, Macken goes on for many years throughout his career, reiterating and reiterating again that this story was imaginary, but the notion seemed to be widely ignored.

Now that is the part I find so deeply fascinating because we see the kernel of truth, we see how it blossoms into a tree of rumor and...

fascination and story and lore that is now almost immediately out of hand beyond the the creator's extent of pulling it back or whatever you know so i find it like why was that there's a lot of the psychology of war happening here a lot of the fears we'll talk about newspapers and the importance of news from the battlefield uh kind of as we enter the theories as to why this might have happened but that's i think the to me the nugget of intrigue here

Jumping back into the timeline and some more eyewitness accounts.

It's August 1915, and we have a nurse named Phyllis Campbell, and she wrote about her experience helping veterans of the war.

She's working in the army hospital, right?

And around this time, you know, she sees two soldiers who had themselves told her that they had a vision of St.

George on his horse.

And so again, we have just a few nuggets of truth coming from different angles.

This is the most vivid one we have that isn't just he said, she said, kind of the general atmosphere.