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The Hell Hound of Mons

posted April 6, 2009 - 10:41am
The Hell Hound of Mons

The French author Albert Dauzat told a fascinating legend that emerged from World War One in a book that was published two years after the Great War. Civilian skeptics laughed at the soldiers' tales of the murderous giant hound of No Man's Land, but to the soldiers it was a gruesome reality...

The most famous legend of the First World War is undoubtedly the story of the Angels of Mons. In August 1914, during the retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from the Belgian city of Mons, it seemed impossible to break through the German army that outnumbered the British soldiers twice. Arthur Machen, a writer of supernatural tales, published a "report" of an eye witness in a newspaper. He said Saint George was seen on the battlefield fighting of the Germans, together with a 15th century band of bowmen. It was a story he made up, but suddenly British soldiers found themselves indeed fighting side by side with angels!

In those dark days, Mons was also made famous by another, much darker legend. On a night in November, Captain Yeskes and four of his London Fusiliers went on a patrol in No Man's Land. Several days later their corpses were found, with teeth marks at the throats. And in the British trenches a weird, blood-curldling howl was heard... the howl of the Hell Hound of Mons.

Full story:
http://www.socyberty.com/Military/The-Hell-Hound-of-No-Mans-Land.633853



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The propaganda of the victor becomes the history of the...

There is a famous quote that "the propaganda of the victor becomes the history of the vanquished." It takes a lot to make one man kill another man if the two have never met or have a quarrel with each other. That's why the military has a "boot camp" to euphemistically brainwash the new recruits into obeying orders a civilian would find morally reprehensible. In order to get civilian backing for the military, the government uses propaganda and a carefully-prepared script of lies and half-truths, which the mainstream media gleefully parrots because it sells newspapers and draws viewers. For those who view the government through the eyes of a skeptic, the lies are transparent enough but exposing them to the people who believe them is like trying to convince a Bible-thumping Christian that there is no God. The lies are "believed" with a religious zeal that no amount of proof or logic can break. Even the events leading up to the current situation in the Middle East, including 9/11, was carefully propagandized and those willing to believe the worst about our government's enemies cling to those official storylines with a fervor that would make Joseph Goebbels himself dance a jig. I have heard of the Angel of Mons before in my study of wartime supernatural phenomena, but I had not heard of the Hell Hound of Mons. Even beyond propaganda, war does strange things to a man's mind and psyche and many otherwise benign things can appear to have other causes. Interesting article! +1 CLICK HERE TO JOIN XOMBA TODAY!

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