In the "spirit" of Halloween

[TAdan]

Sounds like a fun topic. I am not big into ghost stories but I always thought someplace with as many relics like the NMUSAF or other military museums may have some good stories...

[mustangdriver]

True story, I was working at the NMUSAF at closing time one weekend. As people were were walking out, I saw an older couple walking out. I said that i hoped they enjoyed their visit and to stop back. The lady said that she and her husband travel alot, and that he drags her to alot of aviation museums. She said that she really enjoyed our museums, and that we had many things that some museums did not. She said, "we really enjoyed the reenactors that you had back in the WWII Gallery. They were great to listen to. Knowing that we have no reenactors, I had to go and see what the heck she was talking about. So after the gallery was clear, I walked into the WWII gallery to check things out. They turned the main lights off, so only a few were on, and when I got over to the B-17, I kicked something with my foot. It was an USAAF patch. Of course no signs of any reenactors.

[RickH]

Martin Caidin wrote a great book documenting ghost stories that involve aircraft it's called Ghosts of the Air.

It's not an aircraft but there is supposed to be a young sailor in whites that shows up in one of the USS Lexington's shaft alley. He has supposedly been seen by many people.

[TAdan]

True story, I was working at the NMUSAF at closing time one weekend. As people were were walking out, I saw an older couple walking out. I said that i hoped they enjoyed their visit and to stop back. The lady said that she and her husband travel alot, and that he drags her to alot of aviation museums. She said that she really enjoyed our museums, and that we had many things that some museums did not. She said, "we really enjoyed the reenactors that you had back in the WWII Gallery. They were great to listen to. Knowing that we have no reenactors, I had to go and see what the heck she was talking about. So after the gallery was clear, I walked into the WWII gallery to check things out. They turned the main lights off, so only a few were on, and when I got over to the B-17, I kicked something with my foot. It was an USAAF patch. Of course no signs of any reenactors.

I've been in the museum at opening and closing (First visitor in and out of the WW2 hanger... I wait till you guys chase me out )...and I've got to say the manequins changing that engine on the A-20 always get my attention when I hear that audio.

[Glen]

The Texas Fire Museum ( Old Dallas Fire Dept Maintance Building ) in Dallas Texas is Haunted I was calling BS on some storie till I was working late one night and heard a rapping on the pipes sounded like a wrench I dissmissed it as to the fact that their was always some one in another part of the building doing something. I as k why he was banging on the pipes ? He looked at me with a sheepish look and siad that he had just got their. That I was the only one their and the rest of the building was locked up. It seem's that the last Chief that worked down their was O.C Martin and if he was in the back of the shop and not near a phone he would wrap on the pipes ! He love a certain type of motor's that was used in most of the Fleet trucks and to this day If any body is working on one usally they seem to feel as if they are being helped like the tools seem to work with out stress . He didnt like Rock Music anybody that brings a Boom Box in and tries to listen to Rock the Raido seems to get all stasticy . But C&W or get this Classical Clear as a bell. One other fireman that worked down their seem to always be stashing a snort of his favorite ( When cleaning up the building We found bottles of Burben either empty or in a few cases almost full) hooch ! more than once it has been reported the sould of a bottle being kicked accros the floor and the smell of Burben in the Air .

[mustangdriver]

Martin Caidin wrote a great book documenting ghost stories that involve aircraft it's called Ghosts of the Air.

It's not an aircraft but there is supposed to be a young sailor in whites that shows up in one of the USS Lexington's shaft alley. He has supposedly been seen by many people.

Hey Rick, when we were putting "909" back together, there was a rumored ghost in the aircraft. No one ever saw it or anything, but you could here it walking through the aircraft at night.

[RickH]

News to me. I don't do much with the bombers, we're kind of busy down here in Texas with the Phantom that we have in the hangar. Sometimes it seems so real you can touch it ! A whole lot of people have seen it too !!

[Greg87]

There is a story about a restoration worker who asked his partner for a wrench, was handed the wrench, only to realize seconds later that his partner was standing (some distance away) outside smoking a cigarette and nobody else was around.

Funny thing is I've heard the exact same story, right down to it being a wrench that was handed to the worker. Only difference is this came from the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton Ontario. There are a few others, one of them was something to the effect of every time the lights were turned off at the end of the day and the last person was leaving they would hear something that sounded like army boots marching around. I can't remember the others, but there were at least a half a dozen, they all took place in the old hangar which later burnt down. It had been a part of the air base when Mount Hope was an air base. I later worked in the same hangar (only half of it was destroyed) and I worked every strange hour possible, sometimes by myself, and I never heard any of these ghosts. Apparently the coffee maker had a strange habit of turning itself on, but I never had a ghost make coffee for me, oh well, I prefer Tim Hortons coffee anyways

[corsair166b]

You folks want the ultimate thread on this subject, a couple of years ago someone started it over on the Flypast forum and it grew to immense proportions, quite a few pages long with GREAT haunted stories including airfields and aircraft all over the world....do a search for 'haunted airfields' I think it was called and check it out....some incredible reading on there...

M

[Second Air Force]

The Queen Mary is supposed to be haunted by two crewmen that were killed when the Queen cut the cruiser Curacao in half during a crossing. The ships were zig-zagging near Scotland and the Curacao crossed the Queen's path, damaging the bow of QM (killing the men) and severing the stern of Curacao. She went down with heavy loss of life but the Queen finished the crossing without further incident. Supposedly, if you are in the forward part of the ship, you can hear the two lost men talking, etc.

Incidentally, my father was below decks on the Queen Mary when this happened, and told us he felt a little bump or jolt but she never slowed down. By the time he got on deck, the Curacao was gone.

Scott

[krlang]

In the spirit of Halloween....

I live three miles outside of Salem, MA and I havent been into town to see the usual Chaos that is Salem's "Haunted Happenings".
Maybe this weekend.

[famvburg]

Haunted or not, I dunno, but when I started managing the local FBO in 1994, on one of the glass doors to the ramp, down near the floor, was a handprint that would show itself when the humidity was high & the glass got condensation on it. The handprint showed itself first. We tried cleaning the glass with everything from Windex & other window/glass cleaners to paint thinners & MEK. It stayed put. Then, about 4 or 5 years later, while a Beech Baron was starting up on the ramp, not really even close to the doors, so I don't think the prop(s) threw anything, that door glass just shattered into a million pieces! I was standing about a foot from it & that's why I really don't think some foreign object hit it & all those little pieces fell, right before my eyes, at my feet. The joke is that the hand pushed thru it. Fortunately, 'the hand' hasn't returned.