Investigating ghostly goings on at RAF base

FURTHER frightening encounters have been discovered by an investigator carrying out research into paranormal happenings at an RAF base.

John Hanson has been looking into reports of hauntings at RAF Alconbury and the surrounding area made by former USAF security staff working there, especially in the 1970s.

Reports of children’s voices, possibly linked to a Victorian train crash, hav.come in since Mr Hanson’s story was highlighted in the News.

Mr Hanson said, in addition to the reports of ghostly voices, he had been told how searchlights had gone out inexplicably and it was found a switch in a secure building had been turned off.

He said he visited the area with local paranormal investigator Emma Vachos seeking information about the train crash at Abbots Ripton in 1876 in which 14 people, including at least six children, had died.

“Whether the ghostly children’s voices heard by a number of airmen at the base in the 1970s can be connected with this accident is, of course, impossible to say, although we should take some solace in the fact that the voices sounded like happy children playing, rather than the opposite,” he said.

Mr Hanson said they had also been told of strange sightings of monk-like figures in the Monks Wood area near the base and a former security policeman at Alconbury who had worked at the high security nuclear bomb store recounted how colleagues had heard the children’s voices and seen a “hairy creature” which lived in woods adjacent to the airfield.

Mr Hanson, from Alvechurch, Worcestershire, said he had been sceptical when he first became interested in paranormal happenings, but felt there must be something to the sightings because of the weight of the evidence.

“There is no doubt the strange happenings that took place at the airfield are still continuing to this present day,” he said.

He said he hopes people working at the base or others with information about unexplained happenings and the Abbots Ripton train crash would contact him at 31 Red Lion Street, Alvechurch, Worcestershire.