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Chapter 1: What health update does the host provide at the beginning?
May 10, 1940. Belgium falls to the Nazis. The German army is not your enemy. Surrender, and you will be treated with compassion and respect. You have nothing to fear from surrender. If you wish to live, do not resist. Once the war has ended, you will be free to return to your families. Are you hungry? Are you cold? Are you tired?
Chapter 2: What story does Ben share about his experience in the woods?
Warm, dry clothing or a medical treatment and a safe place to sleep await you. There's no need for this senseless bloodshed between our nations. The German people are not your enemy. If you surrender, you will be treated well. Death is the way through which there can be no salvation. Jean-Michel Longchamps was born into Belgian nobility.
He inherited the title of Baron from his father, Baron Raymond Charles Longchamps. At the outbreak of the war, Jean-Michel spent most of his adult life fleeing the Nazi regime as he conquered one country after another. He fled to Great Britain, where he was accepted for the fighter training with the RAF.
Jean-Michel was posted to 609 Squadron RAF and flying the Hawker Typhoons quickly made a name for himself as not only an able pilot but a very aggressive one.
Chapter 3: What unusual event occurs while Ben and his brother are in the woods?
A rumor comes from home that his father was captured by the Gestapo and tortured to death for conspiring against the Germans. In fury, Jean-Michel came up with a plan for revenge. He proposed his plan several times to officers. Here was the plan. Upon the fall of Belgium, the Gestapo commandeered Residence Belvedere. It was a luxurious Art Deco apartment building located at 453 Avenue Louise.
The Gestapo were using it as their headquarters, and it was known that they tortured prisoners in the cellars. The plan was Jean-Michel would fly his Typhoon into Brussels, down Avenue Louise, He would be flying so low and fast, every building would shake as he passed. When he reached his target building, which was in the middle of town, he would make several high-speed passes.
Chapter 4: What do Ben and his brother see that frightens them?
And at the last moment, he would go vertical. Those Nazis will think he vanished. But what he's really doing is making a wide turn and coming back down Avenue Louise. He wanted to give the stunned Gestapo time to make their way to the windows.
In shock, and before they could react, he would open up with his four 20mm Hispano autocannons, cutting through the building and killing every Gestapo in his path. Then he would turn and head home. Every time Jean-Michel proposed this plan, he was turned down, and he proposed it many times. Little did his superiors know Jean-Michel wasn't asking. Let's call it a miscommunication.
January 20th, 1943.
Chapter 5: How do Ben and his brother react to the mysterious figure?
Jean-Michel, along with his wingman, Andre Blanco, had just completed an approved railway striping. Jean-Michel ordered his wingman to return to base without him. He then turned to the southeast, heading for Brussels, which was about 50 kilometers away. This was not an approved mission. On this day, the legend of the Belgian Baron was born.
With the throttle wide open, the Baron flew down Louise Avenue, mere inches from the rooftops. Up ahead was the Gestapo headquarters. The Baron performed several high-speed passes, circling the building and shaking it violently. Then he went vertical and seemingly vanished. Summer's free
Chapter 6: What happens when they try to leave the area quickly?
Foolishly, the Gestapo gathered around the large windows, trying to see where the mystery plane went. The Angel of Death had arrived. Everything had gone into slow motion. The Baron looked up. Every window in the headquarters was full of Nazis. Every day is a good day for killing Nazis, and this was turning out to be one hell of a day.
In the aftermath, there were over 30 dead Gestapos, including some high-ranking SS officers. The Baron opened the canopy and threw out small Belgian flags as a patriotic trail. He then flew over the royal palace and dropped a very large Belgian flag, which landed on the roof for all to see.
It looked like somebody was bent over and had their head in the window of the deer blind and it either heard me or smelled me and he pulled his head out of the tent and stood straight up and that shocked me.
Chapter 7: What did Ben and his friends experience with the Jeep?
They don't make people that big. The way it moved, Almost as if it was gliding across the beach. I've never seen anything move like that in my life. They were screaming at each other in gibberish. It sounded like a language and they were chuntering away back and forwards, back and forwards, back and forwards.
I know what a bear looks like and there is no way on this planet that what I saw were bears.
911, what are you reporting? Jesus Christ, you better... Sheriff?
See him!
Chapter 8: What conclusions does Ben draw about the creature and the lights?
Hello? Get somebody out here. What's going on now, sir? That son of a bitch is about six foot nine, I don't know. Do you see him now, sir? Yes, I'm looking right at him. Uh-oh. Bonjour, this is Yves from France, greeting the audience of the greatest podcast ever, Sasquatch Chronicles. Welcome to the show everyone. Thanks for being here tonight.
You know that intro there was actually a request from an 11 year old kid. He had listened to episode 812, A Higher Call, and asked me if I would do something on the Belgian Baron. Normally I don't take requests, but... You know, for a kid, I could probably make that happen. I just wish I had more time to work on it. Now that I listen to it, I'm like, I would change that. I would fix this.
Though you can never get them perfect, no matter how hard you try. But I appreciate you guys being here. I got a great show planned for you. We'll be chatting with Ben. And Ben comes to us from Maine. And back in 2015, Ben and his brother had a very scary night out there in the woods, running into the creature. but it doesn't quite end there. I'll let Ben go into it.
If you've had an encounter and you'd like to be on the show, shoot me an email. My email address is Wes at Sasquatch Chronicles dot com. And if you get a chance, check out Sasquatch Chronicles dot com. You can become a member and get additional shows. Let's jump into it tonight. I want to welcome Ben to the show. Ben, thanks for coming on. Hey, pleasure to be here, man. Thank you.
Yeah, and you had a pretty scary night out there in Maine. I know we're going back to 2015. If you would, just kind of start from the beginning. What were you guys doing, and what happened? Yeah, so it was May 2015. I think it was the 2nd of May, and I only can narrow it down that much because it was the day of my prom, and I stood a girl up to do things with my brother, and I don't regret that.
And so what had happened was my brother and I and one of our friends from Bangor, Maine, we were coming back from a race car event in Loudon, New Hampshire, when I had gotten a text from my buddy Evan, who lives in Sweden. He had texted us and said, hey, if you want to come out to Sweden, I have this Jeep Wrangler and kind of going to thrash it around the woods a little bit.
And we were really, I mean... That's right up our alley. That's really what we like is thrashing on vehicles. So be it that we came from a race event. So we went back to my parents' house, which was, I call it two towns over from Sweden, depending which way you went. And we grabbed my pickup because my brother's truck was a little nicer and he didn't want to beat that through the woods.
So we grabbed my pickup and we met. Evan out in the woods and he showed us this Jeep. And I mean, it was just, it was a cool little Jeep, cool little woods buggy. And Corey, he was our friend from Bangor. He basically, he wanted to be the first one to ride in it. And me and my brother were kind of like, eh, I don't know. Cause we don't, him and I are kind of, we like being the drivers.
We don't like being passengers. So yeah, We're like, yeah, you know, you can go on the roller coaster ride first, Corey. So we let him go ahead, and they took off down the trail. Now, this trail, if you're in Sweden, which isn't much of a town at all, small population, we're right off of Route 93. And we're way back in the woods.
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