warbird/museum ghost stories

[Nathan]

Anyone got any good warbird ghost stories? I don't beleive in this kind of stuff but I still find it interesting.

[viking73]

Well here's a link about some ghosts at the NMUSAF in Dayton:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... tml?cat=16

I want to believe...

-Derek

[McCollum11]

Here is a story about the B-29 at Castle Air Museum in Atwater Ca.

http://www.ghost-trackers.org/castleair.htm

[gregv]

here's a 33 page thread on a similar topic at the Flypast Forum:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showth ... 02&t=22567

some good reading in there!

greg v.

[jet1]

http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Stations-Li ... 696&sr=1-3

I have the whole series and they are really a great read....I bought them years ago in York, bought one and devoured it and went back the next day to the book store in the shambles and bought the whole lot. Really good reads!

[gordonpagecolorado]

In early 1994, our Warbird Recovery group shipped several Messerschmitt Bf-109s to our hangar at Jeffco Airport near Denver, CO. Once they arrived the planes were carefully laid out in the hangar to inspect all the parts.

At the time, an aircraft dealer was located in the hangar next to ours, and what I didn't know at the time is that one of the salesmen was sleeping in his office because he didn't have a home to go to.

I came to our hangar a few days after the 109s had arrived and saw the aircraft salesmen out in front of his open hangar door standing next to his car and white as a ghost. The trunk to his car was open and next to his feet were several bags and boxes of what looked like personal items. I asked him how things were going, thinking he was about to throw up on me.

He said "Man, I don't know what the hell you have in your hangar, but the last several nights I have heard what sounds like Nazi soldiers yelling in German, and I have heard freakin' goose step marching going on". "I'm OUTTA HERE!"

He quit his job that day and no one at Jeffco has seen him since.

The freaky part of this story is that I walked into the hangar to the pile of parts sitting on the floor and stood there thinking that guy had been drinking way too much.

Out of the pile of parts a lone 20MM shell came rolling out to my feet, all by itself...

That 20MM shell now sits in a glass case with other German items at our Spirit of Flight Center in Erie, CO, but we don't tell the story of how it got there, so we don't scare visitors off...

Stop by and see it sometime, if you dare!

[Second Air Force]

My story isn't a ghost story--it's more from a historical perspective.

We have spent many, many hours at the various WWII airfields throughout the Midwestern U.S. Every time I step into a hangar or other building, land on an original runway system, or just walk the cantonment areas I feel a strong connection to the people who worked and trained on those fields. I haven't ever had a paranormal feeling, but the presence of the thousands of people who were stationed or employed there is always something I can sense.

It's all the more evident when I get to spend time with a veteran or civilian worker and they point out landmarks they remember. Here is a friend of ours, Hugo Lorenzen, looking for (and he found them) the tie down lugs where his B-29 parked at McCook in the summer of '45. Hugo was an electrician with the 98th B.G. and was in preparation for transfer to the Pacific when the war ended.


Scott