airplane ghost stories

[Nathan]

Alright, lets hear your airplane ghost stories. Gary started.........

Im not a believer but still interesting to hear what "might" be out there. I know airplanes can tell a story, sometimes within.........

[mike furline]

Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherf'n ghosts on this motherf'n plane.

[UC61K]

Look up the haunted B-29 at Castle Air Museum in CA.
I worked on it back in the late 80's when I was stationed there.
Strange things were said to have been seen and happen in the aircraft.
Not sure it was the stories, but the hairs on the back of my neck always stood up when I entered that plane!
Jim C.
Midwest Aeronatutique LLC
UC-61K USAAF# 43-14964 / RAF# HB-690

[PbyCat-Guy]

"Ghosts of the air" is an interesting read if you're curious.

[flightsimer]

Before I became a member of the museum, there was Ghost chasers that came through our museum room and toured our C-123. They said the museum room itself had presences, but the 123 showed the most activity. And it was around the seat that the old loadmaster (I believe he was the loadmaster, again before my time) would always sit in while traveling.

[flightsimer]

Not a warbird, but Eastern Airlines Flight 401 which CFITed into the Everglades was a brand new Lockheed Tri-star. They salvaged what they could from the aircraft and reused the pieces throughout the fleet. But there was numerous reports of visits from 401's Commander and Flight Engineer on the other aircraft that received parts off of 401's aircraft.

http://www.near-death.com/ghosts.html

[Martin80]

Supposedly the Avro Lincoln at RAF Cosford is haunted, a fantastic series of books mainly covering Britain is Ghost Stations by Bruce Barrymore Halpenny. I think the series runs to about 10 books so plenty out there!

[Courier Sportster]

the grey C-130 at the air force musuem was making alot of spooky groaning and cracking noises when i was there on sunday. not being a ramp guy, i surmised i am just not used to the sounds of a static plane heating up in the sun, expanding. or it could've been some ghostings! i bet it makes a contracting racket after the sun goes down too. but, nothing else but the C-130 was singing to me.....

[Matt Gunsch]

the grey C-130 at the air force musuem was making alot of spooky groaning and cracking noises when i was there on sunday. not being a ramp guy, i surmised i am just not used to the sounds of a static plane heating up in the sun, expanding. or it could've been some ghostings! i bet it makes a contracting racket after the sun goes down too. but, nothing else but the C-130 was singing to me.....

not ghosts, corrosion

[p51]

Before I became a member of the museum, there was Ghost chasers that came through our museum room and toured our C-123. They said the museum room itself had presences, but the 123 showed the most activity. And it was around the seat that the old loadmaster (I believe he was the loadmaster, again before my time) would always sit in while traveling.

God, don't even get me started on this stuff. How about those shows, they go to a spooky place at night, with bad night vision, talk about 'cold' it is, and that proves anything?
I have one word for these ghost hunter types which, in my mind proves they don't really believe it:
Auschwitz
Say what? Think on it, imagine a crew going there with their NV at night doing this shtick. The locals would re-enact the ending of "Frankenstein," -torches and all- at the mere thought of doing something that disrespectful! And yet, if there really are tangible ghosts out there, surely, wouldn't they be there if anywhere?
It makes me sick to the gut to see what they've done at Gettysburg, and the only reason anyone tolerates that is because nobody's around who was there at the time (and very few people today have even talked with someone who had fought there). If my uncle (AAF pilot, passed in the 50s) had flown a specific plane that still existed and someone started this ghost nonsense around it, he'd soon find that the living are to be feared, especially a nephew who's had enough of this crap.
I find it insulting to the memory of vets to go play ghostbusters every time a piece of metal makes a groaning sound or someone feels a draft (in an airplane, what are the freaking chances of that, right? ). Those who have gone before deserve more than that.

[GARY HILTON]

Remember the "Lady Be Good" stories? I have never heard about the B-24 it's self being haunted...but there were rumors that parts off this aircraft that were used on other aircraft has proven to be fatal, now that's pretty spooky. I know most of the time since discovered, the LBG was left sitting in the desert, maybe some traveling caravan drivers have a few stories about her, maybe that's why she had not been striped down all these years..the haints scared the camel jockies. I know that there are some parts of the LBG in the museum at Wright-Pat....I always get a little chilled around aircraft, as well as other items that have been involved in fatalities, but that is just me...perhaps someone working at the museum has another view point?

[gemmer]

After all those years in the desert, and more importantly, given the significance of the aircraft, why would anyone see the need to recover any parts from the LBG and use them in another aircraft? I seriously doubt that we were that hard up for spare parts back then
to even imagine stripping her.

Duane

[Matt Gunsch]

After all those years in the desert, and more importantly, given the significance of the aircraft, why would anyone see the need to recover any parts from the LBG and use them in another aircraft? I seriously doubt that we were that hard up for spare parts back then
to even imagine stripping her.

Duane

When Lady Be good was found, there was nothing historical about it, it was just a undiscovered wreck from a war that had ended less than 15 years earlier. It is no different than going to a salvage yard and getting parts off of a 1999 chevy today.
The C-47 that landed at the site had it's BC-348 radio take a dump, so they took the BC-348 out of Lady Be Good and installed it as a spare, and it worked fine. The another plane that landed at the site, the pilot liked the arm rests on the pilot seat of the B-24 and removed them and put them in his plane. the strange part is, both planes were later lost, the arm rests were the only parts that were found.

[old iron]

"The Shepherd" by Frederick Forsyth. Sorry but cannot find an accessible copy on the web. Easily the best airplane related ghost story.