Haunted hotel at Heathrow ?
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Haunted hotel at Heathrow ?
Can anyone shed any light on this?
A mate was trying to tell me that a hotel at LHR (Renaissance?) was haunted??? Apparently, it was built on the site of a crash...
Can someone help me win a bet?!
A mate was trying to tell me that a hotel at LHR (Renaissance?) was haunted??? Apparently, it was built on the site of a crash...
Can someone help me win a bet?!
With MY reputation?
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depends what the bet is really...How do you prove somewhere is haunted? Depends what you believe in really I guess?
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Always recall that the George at MME was haunted. Apparently by a WWII pilot!? Lots of bumps in the night and I always ended up with the girlies staying in my room!
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Do not know if this helps but I grew up adjacent to LHR in the late 50s through 60s. As I recall there was never a crash outside the airfield boundary on the north side where all the hotels are located along the A4.
However one of the hotels-its current name escapes me as I no longer live around there but it used to be called the Aerial. It is ( was -- cos it might have ben renovated or extended) a disctinctive circular shape. As far as I knowit was built on the site of a very old pub frequented by travellers and gentlemen of the road in the days when LHR was Hounslow Heath and a stagecoach wasnt a dodgy bus company.
I cannot rememeber the name of the pub but given its reputation and the murky past of that area as a haunt for highwaymen , footpads and other 18th century exotic criminals I think its quite likely that theres a haunting legend associated with it
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Do not know if this helps but I grew up adjacent to LHR in the late 50s through 60s. As I recall there was never a crash outside the airfield boundary on the north side where all the hotels are located along the A4.
However one of the hotels-its current name escapes me as I no longer live around there but it used to be called the Aerial. It is ( was -- cos it might have ben renovated or extended) a disctinctive circular shape. As far as I knowit was built on the site of a very old pub frequented by travellers and gentlemen of the road in the days when LHR was Hounslow Heath and a stagecoach wasnt a dodgy bus company.
I cannot rememeber the name of the pub but given its reputation and the murky past of that area as a haunt for highwaymen , footpads and other 18th century exotic criminals I think its quite likely that theres a haunting legend associated with it
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QUOTE: Always recall that the George at MME was haunted. Apparently by a WWII pilot!? Lots of bumps in the night and I always ended up with the girlies staying in my room! :UNQUOTE
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Innnnteresting.....
Think that would be the Travel Inn Aerial - on Harlington Corner. Still the same shape although it might have replaced an older one of the same design; I don't think there's another hotel like it in the area now.
Edit: just realised how hotel-spotter-ish that sounded, sorry!
And who says the area isn't still a place for highwaymen and the like?
it used to be called the Aerial. It is ( was -- cos it might have ben renovated or extended) a disctinctive circular shape.
Edit: just realised how hotel-spotter-ish that sounded, sorry!
And who says the area isn't still a place for highwaymen and the like?
LHR is renowned to have a few ghosts. I read a chapter in a book once a long time ago and have a few faint memories - perhaps someone can enlighten:
There was a plane full of horses that crashed near 27R on the site of T1 shortly after the airport opened - can't remember exact details but apparently there are some ghosts associated with that.
There is also a ghost in one of the central car parks and a chap in a pin-striped suit and bowler hat has been seen on 27R.
More recently however I read a story about a motorist who was driving East down a deserted M4 late one night near the LHR junction and saw a figure of a woman in white standing in the middle lane. The motorist woke up her boyfriend who was asleep and didn't see anything and then turned off got, back onto the Motorway and went the other way. This time they both saw the figure. They turned around again at LHR and headed back towards London by which time the figure had vanished. This event occured in 1994.
There was a plane full of horses that crashed near 27R on the site of T1 shortly after the airport opened - can't remember exact details but apparently there are some ghosts associated with that.
There is also a ghost in one of the central car parks and a chap in a pin-striped suit and bowler hat has been seen on 27R.
More recently however I read a story about a motorist who was driving East down a deserted M4 late one night near the LHR junction and saw a figure of a woman in white standing in the middle lane. The motorist woke up her boyfriend who was asleep and didn't see anything and then turned off got, back onto the Motorway and went the other way. This time they both saw the figure. They turned around again at LHR and headed back towards London by which time the figure had vanished. This event occured in 1994.
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The Ariel was the first dedicated airport hotel.
It used to be haunted by the ghost of a stewardess who lost her virginity there, but that idea became so implausible that nobody even believes in the ghost any more.
It used to be haunted by the ghost of a stewardess who lost her virginity there, but that idea became so implausible that nobody even believes in the ghost any more.
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Blackwell Grange in MME is also haunted by the dreaded Tartan Lady ( and NO not a lost ex Calidonean Purser)... Oh well....
Nowt anything to do with LHR though I did stay in the aerial... didnt it belong to Posthouse once.... thats the only circular hotel I can think of there.... Oh then there's that god awful place near Hounslow with the castle turrets that should be ashamed to call it a chain (is it Jarvis???). What a vile place and so glad I am up in nice old Leeds now!!!
Cheers Hottowel xx
Nowt anything to do with LHR though I did stay in the aerial... didnt it belong to Posthouse once.... thats the only circular hotel I can think of there.... Oh then there's that god awful place near Hounslow with the castle turrets that should be ashamed to call it a chain (is it Jarvis???). What a vile place and so glad I am up in nice old Leeds now!!!
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The Renaissance on the Bath Road, formerly the Ramada, and before that the Penta.
I stay in it all the time, due to the fabulous views across the runway.
I have never heard about it being haunted, but the hotel was famously in the news years ago when a BA 747 nearly landed on top of it, when the crew mistook the Bath Road for Runway 27 in very bad weather conditions.
That's the only gossip I have about the place.
I stay in it all the time, due to the fabulous views across the runway.
I have never heard about it being haunted, but the hotel was famously in the news years ago when a BA 747 nearly landed on top of it, when the crew mistook the Bath Road for Runway 27 in very bad weather conditions.
That's the only gossip I have about the place.
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I thought I read something on here in recent years about an Indian pilot killing himself one of the hotels around Heathrow and now haunts the place, or maybe it was the hotel was haunted and he was driven to killing himself during the night?
Tried a quick search but no returns.
I've heard similar stories as Doors says above. Infact father told me one once from his younger years and driving the company mini-bus with a few one night and they all swore they saw a ghostly figure of a man in the middle of the road on a bike. Maybe it was the Hovis bread man?
Tried a quick search but no returns.
I've heard similar stories as Doors says above. Infact father told me one once from his younger years and driving the company mini-bus with a few one night and they all swore they saw a ghostly figure of a man in the middle of the road on a bike. Maybe it was the Hovis bread man?
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WindSheer,
"The Ghost of Flight 401".
Written by John G. Fuller.
Published by Corgi Books.
It concerns the crash of an Eastern Airlines (USA) L-1011 in the Florida Everglades in 1972 and subsequent reports from EA cockpit and cabin-crew on the company's remaining Tristars. They lay claim to ghostly sightings of, in particular, the crashed aeroplane's Flight Engineer and Captain.
Very interesting reading but only in broad daylight and when surrounded by lots of people!
"The Ghost of Flight 401".
Written by John G. Fuller.
Published by Corgi Books.
It concerns the crash of an Eastern Airlines (USA) L-1011 in the Florida Everglades in 1972 and subsequent reports from EA cockpit and cabin-crew on the company's remaining Tristars. They lay claim to ghostly sightings of, in particular, the crashed aeroplane's Flight Engineer and Captain.
Very interesting reading but only in broad daylight and when surrounded by lots of people!
There was a plane full of horses that crashed near 27R on the site of T1
http://aviation-safety.net/database/...?id=19680703-0
A mate was trying to tell me that a hotel at LHR (Renaissance?) was haunted??? Apparently, it was built on the site of a crash...
http://aviation-safety.net/database/...?id=19651027-0