back in 2000 i was walking my dog on a former ww2 Airfield one summer lunchtime. suddenly about 10 yards ahead of us a “tiny pink man” popped up in the tufted grass and immediately ran away from us,arms swinging by its side. it had no hair,was about 18 inches high and i never saw its face . it ran only a few paces along the path then darted off into the undergrowth with a rustle of the grass/leaves it was gone…
Course iv never forgotten it. Recently i was browsing images of that airfield and came across some of a monkey that was a mascot for one of the crews . it rode in the plane apparently . the crew were lost in a mission in 1944 over germany
possibly,it’s a well known fact that airfields are haunted,people over the years have reported sightings of what appeared to be pilots and crew,or even engines starting up from planes that are not there,i read a book once called ghost’s of the highway’s and skyway’s,quite an interesting read
Elvington air field nr york is suppose to be haunted. Reports from local people hearing plane engines when nothing is about, people seeing airmen running from the tower towards airfield then just vanishing.
I have not been able to find much on google, but i find stuff like this interesting
Yes…but I’m not sure I want to talk about it…maybe I should get it off my chest as it’s been troubling me for a while now…in the not too distant past I was in a bit of a spot and I actually considered…only very briefly mind…but I did consider to my eternal shame…
HGV:
Elvington air field nr york is suppose to be haunted. Reports from local people hearing plane engines when nothing is about, people seeing airmen running from the tower towards airfield then just vanishing.
I have not been able to find much on google, but i find stuff like this interesting
I’ve been told a few stories about the old Mendlesham airbase. Have a couple myself too.
TiredAndEmotional:
Yes…but I’m not sure I want to talk about it…maybe I should get it off my chest as it’s been troubling me for a while now…in the not too distant past I was in a bit of a spot and I actually considered…only very briefly mind…but I did consider to my eternal shame…
applying to Stobrats for a job!
No. Dont believe it. I simply dont believe my eyes.
More years ago than I care to remember (well, OK - around 1983) during an earlier career, I may have taken part in a very puerile “induction” of a rookie police officer. All newbies could reasonably expect to be sent on a “suspicious noises from graveyard” call - or indeed any one of a dozen or more similar contrived incidents designed to humiliate and/or embarrass said rookie. Team building (or bullying, depending on your POV) if you like.
Whatever the political correctness, said rookie was sent to a gloomy cemetery, where strange noises were alleged to have been heard. Naturally he was expecting something to be sprung on him as he noisily got out of his panda car and made his way through the graveyard - big, bright torch scanning all around and segs in his boots giving a reassuring sound to his footfalls. He was probably expecting one of his colleagues to “rise” from a recently opened grave, or to emerge from the shadows at some point. What he didn’t anticipate was someone using a spare set of keys to “spirit away” said panda car, leaving him (a) stranded and (b) with a huge pile of paperwork to complete explaining how said car had been stolen…
Roymondo:
More years ago than I care to remember (well, OK - around 1983) during an earlier career, I may have taken part in a very puerile “induction” of a rookie police officer. All newbies could reasonably expect to be sent on a “suspicious noises from graveyard” call - or indeed any one of a dozen or more similar contrived incidents designed to humiliate and/or embarrass said rookie. Team building (or bullying, depending on your POV) if you like.
Whatever the political correctness, said rookie was sent to a gloomy cemetery, where strange noises were alleged to have been heard. Naturally he was expecting something to be sprung on him as he noisily got out of his panda car and made his way through the graveyard - big, bright torch scanning all around and segs in his boots giving a reassuring sound to his footfalls. He was probably expecting one of his colleagues to “rise” from a recently opened grave, or to emerge from the shadows at some point. What he didn’t anticipate was someone using a spare set of keys to “spirit away” said panda car, leaving him (a) stranded and (b) with a huge pile of paperwork to complete explaining how said car had been stolen…
MY house is haunted, we just get on with it, but it troubles the dog at times…Just today, I had my hood on my hoody pulled down…I have to say, I rather like being in a haunted house…My wife is of the same opinion.
You never feel lonely.
HGV:
Elvington air field nr york is suppose to be haunted. Reports from local people hearing plane engines when nothing is about, people seeing airmen running from the tower towards airfield then just vanishing.
I have not been able to find much on google, but i find stuff like this interesting
I’ve been told a few stories about the old Mendlesham airbase. Have a couple myself too.
there is a book about haunted Yorkshire WW2 airfields, cant remember title but shouldn’t be too hard to find… I used to live at Full Sutton where there is an old airfield, one story mentions a delivery guy driving up the lane and coming across some guys in the road which were apparently the crew of a bomber, only this was in 70,s… but spoke about this story to locals and had a few other folk saying similar stuff… York uni students had a function at elvington airbase museum which I attended, very strange feeling in the early hours mist…
One thing ill never forget. I was following one of Thomsons tourist coaches up the mountain pass ‘The Serpentine’ from Sa Colobra, the coach rounded a slight bend with a sheer rock face to the nearside and in front of the bus was a tall guy dressed in black wearing a black hat. Naturally expecting the coach to pull out to go around him, it didnt, the bus seemed to pass straight through him and when i passed that point this guy had disappeared. There was absolutely no where to step out of the way as the rock face extended right down to the road surface and was sheer. There are numerous places with small crosses where some havent made it round one of the hairpins…
Was on my way to a small industrial estate in the arse of nowhere, time was getting a bit tight and I had noticed a lay by was coming up, handy thinks I.
I went to turn in and had a horrible feeling, almost like sheer terror. It just gave me the absolute fear, I can’t really describe it. Never had it before that or since, needless to say I didn’t park there but I was on edge all night.
The lay by was no different to any other one, it was actually lit and had a low hedge between it and the road and it was a clear night making it look the least scary place ever. Just something about it made something in me scream no chance. I’m not one who gets spooked or scared easily and I don’t believe in supernatural pish. Still makes me shudder thinking about it.
I was a young lad driving home in my car one Saturday night along a B.road running alongside the beach.
A motorbike came up behind me and was following, when suddenlly his lights pointed up and he appeared to hit the bank and crash on the beach.
I turned around stopped at the exact spot and walked on the beach to find and help him. It was well moonlit, but no sign of this bike at all, which was a bit of a puzzle.
Anyway a week later sat in my Grans who lived up the road from there, she said to my Granda…‘‘Do you know what, it’s exactly a year last Saturday since that young lad John from the village was killed on his bike on the coast road’’
I felt sick.
on that same airfield a few months prior to the man/monkey experience summat else happened. i wasnt sure whether to include it case it sounds like hes good at making up stories
yet again i was walking my dog. i spotted under a hawthorn tree laying on the ground ,half of a mans lower jawbone,it had very good teeth . looked old ,i imagined wartime anyway .
. i wasnt sure what to do with it,so i heaved up a broken slab of concrete laying nearby and carefully placed this under it . months went by , then one day i thought id go take a look at it , lifted up the concrete - and it had gone !
I saw the film Blair witch project and a day or so later, I was parked for the night alone, in a forest south of Bordeaux.
Every twig cracking, tree branch creaking, and animal noises kept me awake all night.
I didn’t shut the cab curtains to keep an eye out for French witches.
The late Patrick Swayze played a truck driver in the film Black Dog.
He hallucinated due to fatigue and hit a car, tired drivers saw animals crossing the road then hit the brakes, a black dog.
I was tired one day and pulled in to an empty layby with the engine running.
I fell asleep on the bunk then awoke in sheer panic , to jump in the seat and apply the foot brake as while asleep, a truck had parked in front.
It was a dream that I thought I was driving in to the back of a trailer.
corij:
on that same airfield a few months prior to the man/monkey experience summat else happened. i wasnt sure whether to include it case it sounds like hes good at making up stories
yet again i was walking my dog. i spotted under a hawthorn tree laying on the ground ,half of a mans lower jawbone,it had very good teeth . looked old ,i imagined wartime anyway .
. i wasnt sure what to do with it,so i heaved up a broken slab of concrete laying nearby and carefully placed this under it . months went by , then one day i thought id go take a look at it , lifted up the concrete - and it had gone !
I’ve found human bones on WW1 battlefields in Belgium, but on a WW2 airfield in the UK?
It may have been part of a body buried to cover up a murder, …or it could have i/d d a missing person.
