Scary Stories!

[Hotel Tango]

It's the day after halloween and I'm awake on a sugar high! So lets have some fun!

Does anyone have any good aviation ghost stories? Over the years I've heard mumblings of haunted hangars, haunted airplanes and UFO's (ok not really ghosts but they seem to have been accepted as part of halloween). With so many medevac aircraft flying around, I assume there have been a some deaths on aircrafts and possibly some hauntings. So if you have any stories, please share!

So bring it on boys and girls!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

[Cat Driver]

I sometimes listen to Art Bell, does that count?

[Juggs]

Art Bell? Oh wow, I used to listen to that guy after work sometimes. Didn't he retire though. George Norry or something like that is the new guy. I think Art Bell still does the weekend show. There are some awfully weird people on that show.

CBC Radio Overnight is a much better program. News from around the world from different public broadcasters. Very interesting to see what else is going on around the rest of the world.

[phillyfan]

The camper our old dockhand lived in until his death during the off season was haunted. We could'nt seem to keep a dockhand after that. Going through 3 this past season. One just packed his shit up and left after telling us he was attacked by a ghost in the camper. True story

[wanpaku]

I used to visit Brandon MB often. I would rent a plane from the Winnipeg flying club to build up my night time and look after my business in Brandon while I was at it. One night I was covering up the plane at the airport when I heard some woman screaming "help me help me". It was just after dark when I heard this. I yelled back "Where are you, how can I help you" and all she said was help me over and over. It sounded like she was yelling from a field just across from me. I called 911, cops came within 6 minutes and searched the area. No luck, found no one. The next day when I was leaving, the airport manager was there and he asked if I was the one who called the cops. Of course I said yes and he then proceeded to tell me about a car accident a few years previous where a young lady was burned alive and she screamed over and over "help me help me." He also told me that he had heard her as well on many occasions and that many others had as well. Apparently there was a flight instructor living at the airport in a camper who heard it too, who moved or quit his job and moved on after hearing her many times. True Story, no lie. I get goose bumps and the hair stands on the back of my neck everytime I think of it.

[Out of Control]

Creepy s--t.

[bobcat18]

Brandon seems to have more than its fair share of ghosts. There is the lady you talked about. Then there is the fat guy and the tall guy that my wife saw down by the ramp door one night when I was closing up. She actually asked who the guys that were with me were when I got back to the other end of the Hangar. We also had the "Night Watch Man" that was seen by almost anyone who went into the hangar after dark. You clould also hear people working in the Hangar and then when you got to the hangar it was empty. My favorite was the guy in the blue coat that would walk up to the front door and then disappear. I saw him more than once.
There were many people that refused to go into the hangar after dark the General Manager included. The cats also refused to go into the southwest corner anytime of day so there is my two cents worth, Bigred probably remembers more of the stories than I do.

[bigred]

Yes I remember the stories rather well. The hangar turned many non believers into believers rather fast. My brother was one of the many that were converted after he heard a pool game being played(the brandon Flying Club has a pool table in the east end of the bldg) we turned on the lights and walked to where the table is and looked and the cues were still in position on the wall and the balls were still racked as they were wehn I had a few hours earlier. As for the southwes corner of the hangar that was a wierd one there was a little room that had no power to it ( I know as I was the one that killed the power and removed the wire) and there were a few times you would either drive by the hangar at night or look into the hangar from the offices and you would see a light glowing from the room there was one time when myself and another coworker got enought courage and went and investigated and the light fixture was actually lit up we left rather fast from there. The worst time for that part of the hangar was when the BCATP museum did there renos and most of there a/c were stored in the hangar they have a harvard mk2 that was pushed into the far corner as well as the rest of there a/c that had to be the worst. There were many times when you would walk into the hangar and the hair on tha back of your neck would stand up and you would have the overwhelming feeling of I shouldnt be here right now. Those are a few of the many i have from my 4 years working there another thing that was noticed was that for the most part the hauntings were seasonal there was always minor things though that would always happen if you want more just ask and i will tell.

[LostinRotation]

Tell ! ! Tell ! !

Heck I want to work there now !

....more please


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[bob sacamano]

Hmmm, I lived at an airport for a while, slept in the office, but never did hear anything. One of the other pilots tried to spook me out by telling me ghost stories from his old place.

I bet foreign pilots musta thought I was the ghost. Walking around the ramp in my shorts and towel.

[gelbisch]

Anyone ever read the Ghost of Flight 401? It's a bit silly -- especially the part about the pilot's head in the microwave -- but an interesting read.

[monkeyspankmasterflex]

For those who haven't seen it:

This is a car advertisement from Great Britain. When they finished
filming the ad, the film editor noticed something moving along the side
of the car, like a ghostly white mist. They found out that a person had
been killed a year earlier in that exact same spot.
The ad was never put on TV because of the unexplained ghostly
phenomenon.

Watch the front end of the car as it clears the trees in the middle of
the screen and you'll see the white mist crossing in front of the car
then following it along the road ......Spooky!

Is it a ghost, or is it simply mist? You decide.

If you listen to the ad, you'll even hear the camera man whispering in
the background about it near the end of the commercial.(See attached
file:

See it here: http://justinteague.com/blog/media/GhostlyCarAd.wmv

[Rudy]

Wow. I can see why they chose not to air that ad. Weird stuff.

[squawk 7600]

monkeyspank,

Thanks alot for that scare, i'm cleaning my shorts as we speak.

[bob sacamano]

For those who haven't seen it:

This is a car advertisement from Great Britain. When they finished
filming the ad, the film editor noticed something moving along the side
of the car, like a ghostly white mist. They found out that a person had
been killed a year earlier in that exact same spot.
The ad was never put on TV because of the unexplained ghostly
phenomenon.

Watch the front end of the car as it clears the trees in the middle of
the screen and you'll see the white mist crossing in front of the car
then following it along the road ......Spooky!

Is it a ghost, or is it simply mist? You decide.

If you listen to the ad, you'll even hear the camera man whispering in
the background about it near the end of the commercial.(See attached
file:

See it here: http://justinteague.com/blog/media/GhostlyCarAd.wmv

In't that the Zoom Zoom kid?

[Hedley]

I once visited tower C

[co-joe]

I once worked for this flight school, and had to hand prop the 172 when the starter packed it in.

I saw it done once on TV so I figured I could do it... still have both arms anyway... So I "post it" snagged it and in the night a "ghost " fixed it without making a log book entry.

Scary stuff man...I still get chills when I think of what went on in that hangar.

[Lommer]

Not the scariest one out there, and not a personal ghost story, but The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth is quite possibly the best aviation ghost story ever told. I believe they still read it every christmas eve on CBC, so listen for it this year. I couldn't find the online text, but its definitely worth a few bucks at your local used book store.[/i]

[FSS]

Brandon eh? One quiet afternoon, back in ought sixty three, a big blue Mercury station wagon comes east on the main runway, (don't remember numbers anymore), she puts on the turning lights and turns left on to the taxiway, drives by the Aeradio and between the terminal and the Flight Club hanger and out off the airport. Phone rings, its the APM, Ed McGill, "who in hell was that??" "Don't know Sir, she didn't use the radio". Lads went out on the field, but couldn't find any trace of how she got on the field, no one had seen her before, no one saw her since. When she went by the Aeradio, she appeared very unconcerned that she was driving on an active air field. I know the midnight shift was kinda scary sometimes as the terminal wasn't locked and there was all sorts of noises in there. Mayhap she was a ghost of some sort.

[Hotel Tango]

Wow... remind me never to go to Brandon.

Thanks for the great stories, keep 'em coming! I'm really enjoying them.

The car ad is really spooky, everyone should take a look at that one and decide for themselves.

[27pilot]

Great stories! The idea of an aviation ghost story or real phenomenon had never occurred to me before. I hope I never encounter a ghost while flying single-pilot IFR in IMC. That would freak me out!

[shitdisturber]

Not the scariest one out there, and not a personal ghost story, but The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth is quite possibly the best aviation ghost story ever told. I believe they still read it every christmas eve on CBC, so listen for it this year. I couldn't find the online text, but its definitely worth a few bucks at your local used book store.[/i]

The Shepard, read by Alan Maitland was/is so popular that CBC continues to air it every Christmas eve, despite the fact that Mr. Maitland went to meet the shepard several years ago. I try not to miss it if I can possibly avoid it and my brother and I have tried to pass it on to the next generation. For those wanting to read the full version; a book was published around 95 or 96. "Fireside Al" a collection of his favourite Christmas stories published by Penguin Books.

[bush pilot]

There are a couple good ghost story's up in Uranium City. Apparently there was a pilot and his girlfriend flying up from PA, I can't rememder exactly where they had the engine failure but they ended up in very poor weather doing an approach with one engine and put it into a hillside. When the locals found them the pilot was dead and the girlfriend died on the way to the hospital(this was also in the dead of winter). No the plane rests up at the airport behind one of the buildings, needless to say numerous noises can be heard at night. No wind nights and you can hear doors creeking open. One gentleman was up at the airport by himself and was getting his snowmobile ready to go into town, he started it up and turned its light on while it was parked by "the building" as it was warming up he went into the office a short walk away to make a phone call. When he was done he noticed his ski-doo was not running anymore, he figured it had stalled so he went back out to start it and go. As he got closer he found that the key was taken out and put on the back of the seat? Once again, the airport in Uranium is way out of town and the only one's there are the pilots!

[bigred]

I know of the story FSS is speaking of one of the tower guys told me about it. at the front desk at the bfc there is a glass display case and you would often hear one of the cats jump up onto it and then onto the desk and when you would lift your head up there wasnt a cak there but there have been a few bfc cats thet have met unfortunate ends and we felt that that was just morris ( one of the first cats for the bfc as i recall) coming to see what we were up to and to say hi. the door that was at the east end of the bldg that exited in to the hangar was another curious one as it would open and close on its own it was wierd to see happen there was the occaisional time that you would see a black shape going with it but not much else. Its not that it was really scary it is more that the spirits wanted you to know they were there. ! thing i found kind of helpful was when you went into the hangar and felt as though you were being watched was to just say hi to them or communicate with them and it usually helped the situation out. There was a student who was living in a camper at the hangar for a while in either 2001 or 2002 and there would be some mornings where he would come into the bldg and ask about the noise that was heard in the hangar the previous night. occaisonaly there would be voices heard or the sounds of mechanics working dropping tools etc the first few times you heard it you were kind of wierded out but after a while you came to accept it as part of the building and its history