Angels of Mons | Hundreds of Soldiers Claimed to See Angels Descend on the Battlefield
episodePreviously titled “The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 3, 2026
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What was the significance of the Battle of Mons in World War I?
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 mean, it kind of feel like we're just talking about Return of the King here.
Yeah! Oh, yeah, buddy!
The army of the dead and the oath breakers. I was like, what do you mean Ghost Army came in and saved them? I've seen this already.
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. We thought that this was some sort of like, maybe it was aliens, maybe it was ghosts, maybe it was something, divine intervention. But we know actually a lot more about
But despite that, despite what we do factually know, we get to watch this thing take on a life of its own. And I think for that reason, it's even more interesting than what we first started out to explore. So it is a wild time. And of course, you know, I love a little dabble with history. This is a very interesting case to be sure. But as you're hearing this, aside from Return of the King... Does anything else stand out to you? What are you feeling when you hear something like this? It's in the midst of World War I. The British Expeditionary Force makes their debut, essentially, against the German Empire, which we'll talk about their army sizes, but they were vastly outnumbered. It was tremendous.
I mean, it gives me 300 vibes as well. But then also on top of... but also on top of that it's just one of those things where i mean at least in media and entertainment you know there's all these grand stories of you know this time period you know the german army experimenting with crazy things whether it be science that has pushing the boundaries of science or mystical type things and and so do i believe that It was that like that. No, it's a movie, right? Or it's a show. But I can see the German army trying to experiment with whatever they can. I mean, there's a lot of conspiracies around that, too. Yeah, there's a lot of actual conspiracies around it.
How did the legend of the Angels of Mons originate?
And so, you know, for this story to be like, you know, I don't know. It just seems like such a fun story, such a grand story. And I'm very intrigued to, like, learn all the details because.
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