Voices of the dead and ghostly orbs of light 'prove airbase is haunted'

Published on Wednesday 13 October 2010 18:08

PARANORMAL researchers claim to have uncovered proof that there really are ghostly goings on at the stretch of the Angus coast where the Royal Flying Corps established Britain's first operational military airfield.

• How one of the light anomalies appears on display at the former airbase

The former airbase at Montrose has been the focus of reports of ghostly sightings and other paranormal phenomena since a young pilot, Lieutenant Desmond Arthur of the Royal Flying Corps, was killed in 1913 when his biplane crashed at nearby Lunan Bay.

Over the years, there have eyewitness claims of menacing footsteps, mysterious mumbled conversations, ghostly apparitions in First World War flying suits and the sound of a phantom plane flying overhead.

And four months ago speculation that the former wartime airfield is haunted by the ghosts of dead airmen intensified after an old radio in the airfield's heritage centre - filled with cobwebs and with no power and no aerial - began broadcasting speeches by Winston Churchill and music by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Allies' favourite band during the Second World War.

Two Scottish-based paranormal researchers now claim they have uncovered conclusive evidence that the airfield is a major centre of paranormal activity following a spooky all-night vigil at the former air base.

Using state of the art digital and analogue recording equipment, they have captured "the voices of the dead" and other unexplained sounds which they are convinced back the claims of ghostly goings on at the airfield. They have also captured various sightings of "orbs" - light anomalies said to be evidence of the paranormal - on film.

Cat Perks, a Montrose-based paranormal researcher who runs the Circle ITC (Instrumental Trans Communication) Group, and Dundee-based researcher Linda Williamson spent a night at the station where they set up an array of sophisticated digital and analogue voice recorders.

And Ms Perks revealed that the paranormal activity began within 20 minutes of the research team arriving there.

She said: "We are scientific researchers and not ghost hunters and we were using a range of voice recorders as well as night vision camcorders and digital cameras. And within the first 20 minutes, even before we had finished setting up our equipment, the activity started.

"I had gone into the 1940s room at the heritage centre and it was pitch black. I was on my way to put a tape recorder on a table there and leave it there all night when I saw this black shape coming towards me. I then heard an eerie mumble and I shot out of the room."

Ms Perks revealed: "During the night we also picked up the noise of rattling doors, some kind of a thumping noise going on and a dogs barking - noises we couldn't actually hear with our own ears."And during the night we also heard a voice clearly saying 'Hello it's Charlie.'

"There is definitely intense paranormal activity going on at that airfield."

Ms Williamson, who has been researching the paranormal since 1998, said: "We picked up an amazing amount of electronic voice phenomena - voices which shouldn't be on your recorder and which we believe come from spirits or ghosts."