The Ghost of RAF Laarbruch
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That's one way of trying to distract attention, at least from the self publicity seeking "investigators ".....however, I have some friends at the Museum, one of whom is as hard nosed as they come. He also encountered the same presence at Dishforth as I did one day, which more than alarmed him as it did me... and he's said in the past, he doesn't like being in the vicinity of the Lincoln because he feels the same alarm.
A friend was on the Museum staff when these "ghostly" reports were first made. They were started by a couple of Museum helpers who were winding up the local newspaper. It's all snowballed since then. I've been in and around that Lincoln and never experienced anything slightly unusual.
That's not to say that inexplicable events don't happen connected with aircraft and airfields - I accept that they do - just not that particular aircraft.
That's not to say that inexplicable events don't happen connected with aircraft and airfields - I accept that they do - just not that particular aircraft.
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Yes, I recall hearing that it was a hoax (a convincing one) including a broadcast I’d previously listened to about recordings taken inside the aircraft, where noises similar to magneto switches being operated could be heard.
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On a different theme, I drove through my old home town last week, and past a three storey furniture shop where my father had worked a number of times, for some years, latterly up until his retirement. He used to tell how some really strange and very unsettling things had happened there, witnessed by a whole variety of people, including customers. The staff actually gave a name to the resident ghost, that of a man who had previously lived in part of the building some years before had been killed after being hit by a bus whilst crossing the road from the pub on the opposite side of the adjacent main road.
What was really strange was that after a lull in activity for some years, a whole raft of (poltergeist) things occurred during the time that the then very aged widow of the alleged “ghost” had died and her body was lying in the funeral parlour 100 yards up the same road.
The activity became quite intense again during the time of some interior building work, which was being done after shop closing time, to avoid disruption to the business, to the extent that police were called in by builders to investigate what was initially thought to be an overnight burglary. No signs of a break in were found. When it happened a second time, the builders got totally spooked and refused to work there after normal hours.
The building is now a ladies gym. I couldn’t help wondering if similar “happenings” still occur.
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On a different theme, I drove through my old home town last week, and past a three storey furniture shop where my father had worked a number of times, for some years, latterly up until his retirement. He used to tell how some really strange and very unsettling things had happened there, witnessed by a whole variety of people, including customers. The staff actually gave a name to the resident ghost, that of a man who had previously lived in part of the building some years before had been killed after being hit by a bus whilst crossing the road from the pub on the opposite side of the adjacent main road.
What was really strange was that after a lull in activity for some years, a whole raft of (poltergeist) things occurred during the time that the then very aged widow of the alleged “ghost” had died and her body was lying in the funeral parlour 100 yards up the same road.
The activity became quite intense again during the time of some interior building work, which was being done after shop closing time, to avoid disruption to the business, to the extent that police were called in by builders to investigate what was initially thought to be an overnight burglary. No signs of a break in were found. When it happened a second time, the builders got totally spooked and refused to work there after normal hours.
The building is now a ladies gym. I couldn’t help wondering if similar “happenings” still occur.
There is a stream running through the forest opposite the camp gates called the LAAR - it is the Laar-bruch (Brook)
(and no, I don't know what Laar means!)
Willy's Taxis are still going but greatly reduced to cope with the lack of his former regular NATO customers - and I dont think he's the same guy who was at Wild-Parts?
MATKAT - I used to spend loads of very dark winter evenings crouching in small cold holes around XV, listening to the telephone lines for the latest jokes ("Can ya send a rover over - over?") and clutching an SLR for warmth!
We'd probably only recognise each other if we wore S10's and Green suits!
Happy Days?
(and no, I don't know what Laar means!)
Willy's Taxis are still going but greatly reduced to cope with the lack of his former regular NATO customers - and I dont think he's the same guy who was at Wild-Parts?
MATKAT - I used to spend loads of very dark winter evenings crouching in small cold holes around XV, listening to the telephone lines for the latest jokes ("Can ya send a rover over - over?") and clutching an SLR for warmth!
We'd probably only recognise each other if we wore S10's and Green suits!
Happy Days?
my late brother Dickie, who was fluent in ‘old/high’ German once told me (probably at the LFC fly In) that Laar translated to the tree ‘Larches’ and the ‘bruch’ bit was ‘break’ Ergo…. It’s a break (clearing?) in the woods.
I do know the NW dispersal area was not a place to be on your own at night. I hated being the one locking up the gliding club bar after everyone had gone. It was hard to ignore the sounds coming from corners of the empty hangar.
- as for the S10? Could do with one now..Just in case😉
Re: Ghosts on RAF bases? ..
There are at least a couple on RAF Bicester. The most often ‘seen’ one walks across the 24 threshold at night or in fog…
There are at least a couple on RAF Bicester. The most often ‘seen’ one walks across the 24 threshold at night or in fog…
Many find a strange atmosphere around the old bomber bases, but could such feelings depend on one's knowledge of their history? My father's postings took me from India to Binbrook in 1948 until Aden in 1951. Even then, wandering around the airfield which the Lancasters had vacated only a few years earlier made me wonder about those who had gone before, while Mr Gordon our schoolmaster often mentioned the young Australian airmen he had known during the war years. Nothing spooky though.
I recall a spooky lock up of the junior mess at Cranditz....
I was sufficiently familiar with the geography to put the lights out and cross the floor to the other exit.
....well, in the inky-poo, rustling s and the occasional crunch suggested something very sinister was stalking in the darkness....
I reached my exit door and snapped on the lights...
The floor shimmied and rustled as about a billion cockroaches legged it for cover under the kitchen surfaces.
Will that be a full breakfast, Sir?
I was sufficiently familiar with the geography to put the lights out and cross the floor to the other exit.
....well, in the inky-poo, rustling s and the occasional crunch suggested something very sinister was stalking in the darkness....
I reached my exit door and snapped on the lights...
The floor shimmied and rustled as about a billion cockroaches legged it for cover under the kitchen surfaces.
Will that be a full breakfast, Sir?
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During my time at RAF Scampton, Mess staff told me that none of them liked going down to the bar cellar because of a certain unseen but unpleasant “presence” down there.
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I took my late old friend there as it was on his bucket list, he used to fly in it several times as an Air Cadet thanks to a kindly FL LT that more or less adopted a few of them and sorted out flying for them.
They, by now old gents searched for him in vain in their later years to sadly find he had died a scant few months before locating him.
The musum staff were kind enough to let Jim get up close and personal with the old girl on the other side of the barriers...
I took a photo of him by his pride and joy and managed to get him positioned without him knowing to get the perfect St Jim shot.
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There was supposed to be a Ghost at the Officers Mess at Teeside....said to be the fellow to ran off the runway in a Meteor and crashed into the Mess.....running over his private auto along the way and finally smashing into his own room....to be killed by the bridge block from over the window falling down on his neck.
Sounds to good to be true....but you could see a difference in the brick work at one of the windows facing the runway and car parking.
Sounds to good to be true....but you could see a difference in the brick work at one of the windows facing the runway and car parking.
There was supposed to be a Ghost at the Officers Mess at Teeside....said to be the fellow to ran off the runway in a Meteor and crashed into the Mess.....running over his private auto along the way and finally smashing into his own room....to be killed by the bridge block from over the window falling down on his neck.
Sounds to good to be true....but you could see a difference in the brick work at one of the windows facing the runway and car parking.
Sounds to good to be true....but you could see a difference in the brick work at one of the windows facing the runway and car parking.
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That is supposed to be Flying Officer Norman, who foolishly attempted an asymmetric roller landing in a Meteor and paid the ultimate price after losing control.
Here’s one newspaper report on the subject:
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/op...-old-raf-base/
Here’s one newspaper report on the subject:
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/op...-old-raf-base/
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Krystal et al.
You can't just leave us hanging with the stories about Dishforth and others - would you mind expanding a bit?
I've personally never experienced anything spooky as such but am fascinated but the experiences of others.
I've personally never experienced anything spooky as such but am fascinated but the experiences of others.
The mess became a hotel and the Air UK cabin crew used to get haunted.
Perhaps those heard soft footsteps heard were some folks sneaking back to their assigned abode.
There is a wonderful story I could tell about a former Lancer (right term for someone in the British Army Tank Corps?) and an order for a 0430 Wake Up, the Guardian, and Smoked Kippers for two but the Statute of Limitations has not expired yet.
There is a wonderful story I could tell about a former Lancer (right term for someone in the British Army Tank Corps?)
but the Statute of Limitations has not expired yet.
