RAF Bassingbourn, USAAF Station 121 - Ghost Stories
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- After 3 sleepless nights i have completed this far quicker than i would have thought possible
Bassingbourn in Cambridgeshire, just to the north of Royston was an expansion period airfield opened in march 1938 but was most famous for being the home of the USAAF 91st Bomb Group from October 1942 until June 1945 when the airfield was handed back to the RAF
August 29the 1969 The last RAF Commanding Officer, Sqn Ldr A.M. McGregor MBE, turned over the station to the Royal Anglian Regiment, the Queen's Division and Bassingbourn became an Army base
it has kept its RAF links by becoming the home of 2484 (Bassingbourn) Squadron Air Training Corps.
Bassingbourn was the home of the Memphis Belle and footage for the 1944 film was shot here, The airfield was also extensively used for the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket
Great video Chris, Bassingbourn seems like a very active place. Reminds me of doing night guard duty as a reservist soldier years ago....nothing but silence, darkness and the memories of generations of soldiers long gone....it could get quite creepy not to mention a little trigger happy 😬. Thanks for another fantastic video, have a great weekend buddy 👍👍👍.
Love Pachebel's Canon. Excellent choice, and excellent work as usual. Thank you.
it seemed to fit 8)
exellent video again thanks for compiling and sharing and was a good length very enjoyable
At last being hoping you did one on my old place thank you and yes the tower was spooky as hell.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🍺🍺🍺🍺
What a fantastic video Chris, keep up the great work 👏
Another superb video! I wish, as a young 'Woodentop' I'd realised that some of the army barracks I was either visiting or posted to were previously airfields (wrote to you a few years ago re. Driffield). Stopped off at Bassingbourn once as part of a convoy, but, instead of going for a wander, opted to stay in the vehicle and achieve a nicotine and sleep replen😳
Driffield is another one with a fair number of reports from...wish i could put them online at the click of the fingers, the truth is they take at least a week to make
This was great! Love these stories.
Keep up the good work young man.nice vid.
young - wow haven't been called that in many many years - made my day - thank you
Just watched this video again Chris and I have got to say this is one of your best yet , it's very emotional especially the start with the B-17s and the wonderful classic music, you should be very proud of yourself Chris. 👏
i had more to work with that's all Leighton...I try to push the envelope on every video, learning new and hopefully better ways...i'll make your accounts from balderton one day - this year hopefully
@British-Hauntings-and-History Chris you already did enough for RAF Balderton on the great video you produced recently, to be honest the little bit information I shared about RAF Balderton and the paranormal wouldn't last a couple of minutes on video, so I will try and find out more stories if I can for you, to put together mate.
Thank you
Leighton
Very awesome early colour footage of B-17s taking off. A majestic looking yet very tough aircraft. Great varied accounts from Bassingborn. Think my favourite one, is that of the Chapel, where the USAAF spirit let himself be known to the Chaplain, he must've been seeking help to move on. That's my thought on that one, anyway. Great video, Chris. 👍
Fantastic video Chris, I'd recommend you look at RAF Coltishall; RAF Wyton; the old Royal Naval Air Yard at Wroughton; RAF Scampton and the Dambusters Inn, Scampton village. A story of interest to you is whilst RAF Wyton was still a flying unit RAF Police Guard Dogs refused to venture down the side of the ESA building located on the airfield. If you would like to know more then please leave me a reply. Cheers 👍
morning...i have nothing in my files on RAF Wroughton.... Coltishall and Wyton have some accounts, Scampton has a lot ...would love any personal accounts to add to the files - please send to me via email at huffchristopher67@gmail.com
That was a terrific video Chris. Really enjoyed the well
Researched stories. Well done sir!
Bassingbourn is an active barracks for special forces I think, you can’t even see the memorial now unless you ask the guard nicely
No,it’s not SF
Super video, Chris, of this still lively, but in another dimension, airfield. I met the curators of the Tower Museum about five years at a Bletchley Park event and they were planning to re-open it, but I'm sorry to learn that it's now closed permanently and the artefacts have gone to the USA. I wonder if the Tower is still standing? Thanks and best!
the tower is listed they can't touch it.....unless oh dear someone left the brakes off on the jcb ...have to demolish now...or it could have an arson attack of course - that seems a popular option
@@British-Hauntings-and-History I hope not and perhaps someone would convert it into a home which has been done before. If my Lottery numbers come up tonight....
Aircraft with the markings DF - A is the Memphis Bell which took off from there.
The movie full metal jacket was made there during the training scenes as it was near Stanley Kubrick‘s house
I did my training there we used the old runway circuit when it was foggy it got really foggy to the extent that you couldn't see anything in front or behind you
brilliant chris.love these videos
With reference to the B-17 that supposedly landed in the sixties. It was quite possibly one of several B-17s flying around East Anglia while participating in the movie The War Lover (1962) starring Steve McQueen, although the real stars were the B-17s. I saw one fly over the sports field of the school I attended in Essex - what a thrill! The B-17s were based at RAF Bovingdon, northwest of London - don’t know if it still exists - and did a lot of their flying over Cambridgeshire. Every now and then I’d be driven past Bassingbourn on the main road and always enjoyed looking at the Canberras that were based there at the time. I didn’t know then that it had been an American base in the war.
A very good & eerie video . But very enjoyable nonetheless . My late brother was based @ bassingbourn barracks with the army . And told me of the rumoured ghost sightings there . A quite spooky place .
Did my basic training at Bassingbourn with Queens Div !
Was At Bassingbourn in 1978 very creepy.
Like and shared out in you tube community. ⌚
thank you as always
No problem have a awesome weekend 😎
I did my basic training there. Hated being on guard duty and doing the walk round the old hangars. Really creepy
i find dark empty hangars always creepy whether they are allegedly haunted or not....perhaps its the way they crack alarmingly as they cool or creak in the wind - or have the doors rattle 8)
@@British-Hauntings-and-History we had to do a doors check to see if they were secure. There were 3 hangars when I was there. One was what we called the drill hangar which was used to drill when the weather was crap. That had the plane in it. One was the PT hall and the other on was used for storage. There was also a gate next to the Control Tower which separated the main camp from the airfield. Hated doing the check on the gate. Always felt something watching you from the tower.
my ATC summer camp 1959 aged 14 went to the local pub had two glasses of scrumpy cider........
did similar when we went to Odiham in the late 70s 8)
i worked on Parham Airfield in THE YR 2000 i was walking my dog there and a "little pink man" stood up in the tufted grass ahead of us and ran away down the path .About 18 inches tall,no hair,thin and i didnt see its face it darted into the bushes and was gone. Around the same yr on another walk i found a mans lower jawbone with very good teeth below a tree .Didnt know what to do so i heaved up a piece of broken concrete and carefully lay it below it. 6 months later i decided to go and look at it again,i lifted the slab up and....it was gone
Great video and research. As a novice what equipment do you use for your investigations
i take my nikon D7100 that's it...that shoots the vidoes, takes the pictures and the microphone in the camera is excellent for evps - other than that i walk around simply being a medium and comment on the camera of the spirits i meet
@@British-Hauntings-and-History Thank you I appreciate your work in this field . I would like to do my own investigations but I am so new to this field and there are few investigators with your experience and calibre that I can ask for advice.
Absolutely fantastic...love it..we have an old airfield over in the next village that was occupied by USA Military during WW2 and ive often wondered if its haunted..i believe there was an explosion there and USA personell were killed..love the background music..very haunting..Jxx 🙏⚘🙏💐🇬🇧🌺🐾🐕🐕🐕👩🏼🦯🐈🐾
which airfield ???
@@British-Hauntings-and-History Metfield..Suffolk.
did a quick check...i have nothing on Metfield (as yet) in my files...yes 1,200 tons of bombs went up on the 15th of July 1944
Hi Chris, thank you for a grand film that has cheered up a rather dull and overcast Cumbria. I find your vids a "go to" history and haunting as you seem to deliver without frills and have a level headed approach. I really love the history and the examples of activity that comes through. Having served on a haunted RAF base I can empathise with and have sympathy for the bods who come across our spectral friends.
Thanks again and I look forward to the next instalment my friend.