One Step Beyond - The Vision (1/6)

[Alephvoid]

2:30 - the most French line of dialogue ever uttered.

[CandysAllMediaReview]

I searched the background on some of these shows and found they are def based on fact. Truth really is stranger than fiction

[hwy61media]

@CandysAllMediaReview It certainly is. Thank you for your comments.

[MrsNorris55]

@CandysAllMediaReview I have (somewhere) a copy of a book written by a local man who was a soldier in the Second World War and he told at least one very similar story in it. These stories are both fascinating and very, very eerie ...

[drafe007]

@CandysAllMediaReview sure is!!

[phillydisco]

I've been hooked on this show for a while. I've also been trying to find the source of the stories, but with little success. I did find an online article that might be about this particular story. It might have been just folklore that came out of WW1. Either way, if the shows are works of fiction, they're still interesting to watch. Enter 'Rumourrs of Angels' and 'legend' into google and the article will come up.

[phillydisco]

@phillydisco That's 'Rumours of Angels"

[hwy61media]

@phillydisco I believe that the stories are supposed to be "loosely" based on real life stories.

[phillydisco]

@hwy61media True, although occasionally they brought in a person who participated or witnessed the story they dramatized.

[Kirke182]

The Miracle of Mons was likely a made up story but some of these others--it seems as though, it sounds silly, but as though someone was experimenting with hypnosis as a possible weapon.

[hwy61media]

Are you thinking, "Manchurian Candidate?"

[Kirke182]

Isn't that about brainwashing? I'm wondering if things seen in the skies over the battlefields could have been a weapon that induced hypnosis. How and by whom is another issue. But it seemed as though something was always happening in the sky. Now, a lot of it seemed to be later embellishments and some mass hysteria thrown in but there seems to be a kernel of something happening that seems like it caused hypnosis of some sort. The angel of Mons was thought to be Joan of Arc by the French,

[hwy61media]

Yes it was about brainwashing. I believe that hypnosis was a method of achieving the end result.

[Kirke182]

St. George by the British but the Germans seemed to have nothing to say. Some saw one thing, some saw another, some saw nothing at all or offered no opinion if they did see something.

[hwy61media]

Mysterious.

[Kirke182]

Maybe not so mysterious. You have to cut through a lot of hearsay and malarky to get to the truth by which time there isn't a lot left.

[Kleokhareia]

This is pretty amazing can't wait to see part 2.

[hwy61media]

One of my favorite OSB episodes. Thanks!

[Kirke182]

I read of some kind of vision seen on a battlefield in WW1 somwhere in Europe when two divisions of cavalry on horseback prepared to battle between 2 hills. The armies charged at one another and at the spot where they were about to clash there appeared the image of a huge powerful man on a magnificent steed. He held a gleaming sword aloft. The sight was so terrifying that the horses balked throwing the riders and both sides charged back up their respective hills.

[hwy61media]

It seems that it was not uncommon for these incidents to be reported during WWI. It's a rather shaky reality and who knows where that perceived reality ends and human exaggeration begin? Yet the reports endure.

Thanks for commenting.

[phillydisco]

@hwy61media I thought it also could have been some kind of biochemical weapon being tested, something like LSD that might have caused the hallucinations. But the article I mentioned indicates there might have just been fictitious stories from the battle front that circulated during WW1, perhaps to boost the morale of the people. I didn't see any mention of French soldiers dreaming about being home, or on a ship, just mentions of religious or historical figures seen.