Haunted Airfields/Stories

[Quixoticish]

There are no "ghostly going ons"; there's no such thing as ghosts.

[gonk]

During the late seventies my brother was at wildenrath, during an exercise he was guarding a H A S, and noticed three coal scuttle helmets moving in line on the other side of the wire,looks like jerry never left.

[Flyingmonster]

Is there not a story about a Ghost in the mess at Linton-On-Ouse? My mate flys up at 642 VGS and he mentioned something Will see if I can get in contact with him. Another one is Lincoln RF398 at Cosford Not sure if it 100% related but were I come from in Skipton we have Rolls Royce in a town over the border called Barnoldswick. There is many reported sigtings of a so called Ghost Bomber flying around very low and making no sounds at all! People that have seen the so called Phantom state it has 4 engines and is camouflaged! Good idea for a thread mate!

[22A]

During WW2 an army officer was driving from London to somewhere up North and stopped for the night at RAF Wittering. The airfield was bombed that night and the army officer was amongst those killed.

Many people have since claimed to have seen someone walking round the rebuilt building at night. Best story is an officer threw open a door and demanded of the guy lying in bed
"Have you seen a stranger in the building"?
"Sorry Sir, I've been drinking. I thought I saw someone walk through that wall and out the next one".

I served at Coltishall, Brampton & Gutersloh, but never heard of any hauntings there.

[Tiger 1]

Hi coningsbycrazy

Not sure if you already know about these, but they make very good reading about this subject.

I am of course refering to the collection of Ghost Station books.

There are about 6 books in the collection if my memory serves me correctly.

These cover sightings and stories from places such as

RAF Hemswell ( ghostly Lancaster )

RAF Finningley ( Haunted Tower )

RAF Lindolme ( The ghost know as Lindolme Billy )

RAF Colby ( Haunted Tower )

etc etc etc .

If you havn`t read these before i recommend you do, they are very interesting.

Hope this helps

Best Rgds

Tiger 1

[davedubya]

The viewing area at Lakenheath is haunted by a spooky ice-cream van apparition.

[gonk]

Gutersloh transit accommodation, the one the right as you come through the gate, the top floor is supposed to be haunted by a tall blond SS soldier, also the wraf block ,which was the SS HQ during the war,the sellers were the detention cells and screaming has been heard from that area.I also heard the officers mess there had some thing spooky going on there, i believe it is to do with the hinged beam in the mess.

[Newcastle_Paul]

one of my old school mates dad was the editor of the local paper and also a author on various paranormal and local history books which are excellent (doug pickford). my mate used to take the mick out of his dad for the stuff he wrote about. so one night his father took him to a certain spot at a place called the 'roaches' near Leek . this area has had loads of aircraft crashes since the 1930's due to the high rocky outcrops etc. one of these was a lancaster durning the war and it is said one of the aircrew can be seen walking in the area and a small torch light can be seen hanging of his flying jacket. anyway, sure enough my mate saw the the ghost walking away from where the plane crashed. it changed his mind on the subject.lol

Are you sure it wasn't a set-up?

[deerhunter]

whoooooooooooooooo

[TankBuster]

My favourite ghost story is that of 'East End Charlie'.

The story goes that this was, or is the ghost of a German airman who was at one time lynched by the local residents of Woodbridge in Suffolk. East End Charlie made himself known to the american airmen at RAF Woodbridge when his apparition was apparently seen on several occasions by USAF aircrew when coming in to land from the east end (27) of Woodbridge's runway. It is said that Charlie also burned his handprints onto the paintwork of one of the bases fire trucks.

I've been to WR plenty of times & never seen Charlie, but I have to admit that the East End of Woodbridge base is rather creepy, even on a nice day .

Of interest here is another story of 'East End Charlie', taken from ghosts-uk.net...

England - Suffolk - RAF Woodbridge - "East-End Charlie" was a German pilot who, during WWII was flying his badly damaged plane back to what he thought was Germany. He instead crash-landed at the east end of the runway at RAF Woodbridge. A witness reports, "When I was stationed there in the late 70's, it was a US Air Force Base. The area in which Charlie would be seen was a weapons storage area which was bordered on the east side by what we referred to as 'The Queen's Woods'. Often British 'Ghost' societies would go out at night in the woods on 'Ghost Hunts' and we were advised of this. However, there was an old metal guard tower in the Northeast corner of the weapons area where a guard would always be posted. Anyone coming up the stairs to the tower would be heard as the stairs creaked". A guard looked up at a tower window and saw Charlie looking in on him. He jumped up, grabbed his M-16 and kicked open the heavy iron door. Charlie was already on the ground (15 feet below) running to the Southeast corner. He called a response team. When they got there, Charlie was running into the woods (which was on the other side of two alarmed fences, covered with concertina wire). This is the same RAF Woodbridge where a UFO was widely reported to have landed in a farmer's field right outside the base in the late 70's/early 80's.




TankBuster

[PeteHemsley]

had a strange event in a hangar at the Thorney island airfield. my brother was stationed there with 47 battery around 6 years ago. all the hangars are still in great condition, but still have various strafing holes in the doors and walls. great to look around.

anyway.....Thorney island was a seaplane station for Catalina's many moons ago and one hangar in particular housed these machines and the top brass staff. after being out on a drive around the airfield in the HVM tracked vehicles, we arrived back at the hangar to shut down and try out the javelin shoulder mounted SAM simulators. after hearing various noises from the old officers rooms above our sim room i asked my brother what it was. he told me to ignore it and thats all that was said. my father and i locked up the sim room and walked out below the officers rooms only to see what appeared to be a US officer walking past the window of one of the offices. well i just froze and i turned to see my father RUNNING out of the hangar and i soon followed him!

we were both white as a sheet and my brother didn't even need to ask what had happened. needless to say, i never went back in!!

still believe it to this day.

[ythanpythan]

I heard one years back whilst on ATC camp at Digby about a ghost of a chap killed running between two hangars during an air raid in WWII. Apparently one of the RAFP had seen a figure sprinting across that area and had sent the dog off after him only to turn up a blank.

Personally I don't believe in ghosts myself and also feel that the burden of proof lies with those who do, it's difficult to prove the absence of something.

Cheers

Ian

[Quixoticish]

Personally I don't believe in ghosts myself and also feel that the burden of proof lies with those who do, it's difficult to prove the absence of something.

Cheers

Ian

I agree in theory, however in practice those who set out to disprove such things tend to be equally as happy if the subject matter turns out to be true, usually because the implications are much larger than them. However in such a situation those who set out to prove them do so with an almost dogmatic, religious fervour that results in them usually finding what they set out to discover even if the evidence is non-existent.

[22A]

Hey Gonk! Gutersloh was purely Luftwaffe; the SS were housed in Mansergh barracks, the other side of town. The Luftwaffe officers were housed in a hotel in town and they made a point of ignoring the SS guys. I spent a month or two on the top floor of that transit block and was only disturbed by a mouse running across the floor one night. As for screaming from the WRAF block...........

The Soviet Military Mission "found" evidence in the early 1980's that there is a Soviet soldier buried "somewhere on the Gutersloh site" and asked therefore to be permitted access to all areas of the airfield so they could pay respects to the man. We said no.

[von_trippenhopf]

Anybody met 'Twinkle' at Kemble?
I've heard a few tales of him from locals who worked there in it's RAF / USAFE days.

[old_git]

when i worked at Prodrive, based at the Test track on Former RAF Honiley, there were a number of "incidents".

The best being, when i was working very late one night, a security guard came round to check i was still alive and stopped for a brew and a chat.

Then told me the story from the night before, he was driving out on the airfield checking the perimeter and was driving from the tower down the cross runway, when he passed a bloke dressed in full flying gear with Mae west and leather hat and dangly cables, the full works.

As no one should be on the airfield that late at night he stopped just past him to find out what he was doing there and kick him out.

He got out the van and went to the rear where the man was and he was gone, he let the very nasty dog out, but the dog stayed put.

He radioed in to say there was a strange man walking on the airfield and another van was "scrambled" to help search.

nobody was found throughout the 250 Acres and only after they started discussing the dress of the man and his demeanour did they get scared and legged it.

He also told me about reports of faces being seen in the windows of the building put up on the site of the old RAF Medical block, and the lift in that building is rarely used due to it mysteriously going up and down of its own accord late at night.

Also there are reports of an airman being seen wandering about on RAF Church Broughton site as well.

[gonk]

Hey Gonk! Gutersloh was purely Luftwaffe; the SS were housed in Mansergh barracks, the other side of town. The Luftwaffe officers were housed in a hotel in town and they made a point of ignoring the SS guys. I spent a month or two on the top floor of that transit block and was only disturbed by a mouse running across the floor one night. As for screaming from the WRAF block...........

The Soviet Military Mission "found" evidence in the early 1980's that there is a Soviet soldier buried "somewhere on the Gutersloh site" and asked therefore to be permitted access to all areas of the airfield so they could pay respects to the man. We said no.

22A, hi mate, i am going by what i was told when i went there in the mid 70s,and by meeting an old chap that was on tempests there as the war was ending.The story of the SS soldier in the transit block was well known,as for a soviet soldier being found , it was more than one ,there was a mass grave found in the area were they were building the new chinook hangar,going by what i heard soviet prisoners were brought in by rail and worked on the airfield defences-construction.This story came to light by chance,the station commanders wife was been driven on the airfield and noticed a building with gas chamber on it,she apparently lost it, and was in floods of tears,the old man got the story out of her, and the graves were found.As for the WRAF block, i do know the cellar is not the usual air raid shelter,but cells,with doors removed.If i remember rightly, it was turn right after the transit block and it was on the right hand side.I went gut many many times on detachment,lovely area,just to add a mate of mine was in the sanger at the front gate, when the german copper lost the plot and started shooting at him,new undies for him,gun no ammo.

[chrisfg1]

Really enjoying these stories. Personally, I need to see a ghost before I start believing. When I was an AATC at Finningley, in the 80s, one of my jobs was to collect the lamps from the runway after night flying (not the most popular of jobs). The more lamps I collected in the Land Rover the more eerie the airfield would become. I always felt like somebody was watching me so those last few lamps were always picked up in record time!

[LM47]

There are a couple of tales from Montrose.Can't remember the details but one involves a a pilot flying in the area and seeing a Sopwith Camel (I think) flying alongside him.Others are about WW1 airmen on what used to be the airfield.

[Skywatcher]

Hellow all
Can I just say I find theses stories huge fun to read keep them coming
Has anybody got any stories about fairford???as it sometimes fells quite spooky down there in certain times of night ,and when it's dark and foggy ,kind of like your Not the only one watching.......
All the best
Would be interesting to know more about above
All the best
Max