So I guess we're haunted?

[davidsinn]

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[JoeTomasone]

CPI's investigation turned up recordings of what they described as "paranormal heavy breathing, whispering and sobbing" in the base's Civil Air Patrol building, according to a report by the base's public affairs department.

Maybe they were all disenfranchised FOs?   

[hatentx]

time to make a haunted house and charge admission.  You have the press backing up the story.

[desertengineer1]

CPI's investigation turned up recordings of what they described as "paranormal heavy breathing, whispering and sobbing" in the base's Civil Air Patrol building, according to a report by the base's public affairs department.

There are so many responses in my mind about that one, I don't know where to begin...

But then I remembered this is supposed to be rated G.. 

Must... Resist....tasteless.... comments....about....aircrew...PFT....air university.... staff officers...  ahhhhhhhrrgggg...

HAHAHHAHHAHA!

[flyerthom]

CPI's investigation turned up recordings of what they described as "paranormal heavy breathing, whispering and sobbing" in the base's Civil Air Patrol building, according to a report by the base's public affairs department.

Maybe they were all disenfranchised FOs?   

That wasn't any ghost. That was the senior who got to the meeting after the last donut was gone.

[Flying Pig]

When I was a cadet, our Sq. building was the old base morgue back in WWII and Korea.  It always had a creepy feel it.  We had a cadet once who was in the building by herself once while the rest of us were out, and she swore someone put their hand on her shoulder.    bawhhh ha  ha haaaaa

[♠SARKID♠]

Its the ghost of the headless Spaatz cadet come back to torment all those with unauthorized belt buckles!  BOO!

[DC]

CPI's investigation turned up recordings of what they described as "paranormal heavy breathing, whispering and sobbing" in the base's Civil Air Patrol building, according to a report by the base's public affairs department.

Maybe they were all disenfranchised FOs?   

That wasn't any ghost. That was the senior who got to the meeting after the last donut was gone.

No, he was the one that arrived right after they ran out of coffee....

That's kinda cool, I'm not totally sold on the 'science', but it is some interesting publicity...

[ol'fido]

I'm not really a believer in all this stuff(Don't tell my wife.She's a GhostHunters fanatic.), but I did enjoy reading Martin Caidin's book "Ghosts of the Air" about strange occurances related to aviation and airfields. Of course, I also enjoy all of Martin Caidin's books.

[Smokey]

It's just probably he whose name shall not be mentioned

That would explain the sobbing.

[smitjud]

A few other interesting tales of haunted CAP buildings lurk the net.

http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/78/ghost-town

"The Civil Air Patrol, whose Phoenix Squadron still holds classes and trains in the building, was holding one of its regular Tuesday evening meetings in the ornate upstairs rooms. It was late in the year; night had fallen. A cadet was sent downstairs to the vast, vacant drill hall on an errand. He returned, ashen, having seen something - but what it was he did not say. Only that he would not be going down there alone in the dark again."

The Redstone Composite Squadron in Alabama meets at Aviation Challenge/US Space Camp which has its own stories as well.

http://theshadowlands.net/places/alabama.htm

"Space Camp counselors tell the story of a man who was working on the sleeping quarters of the facility.  One day, they were using explosives to make lare holes in the ground for the below-ground quarters.  The explosives went off early and the man was buried alive by dirt and rubble.  Until this day in the halls and in some rooms, they can still hear his cries for help echoing though the halls and large moans late at night."

Have seen some other stories about that place on the internet, but can't find them now.

I'll go ahead and say that I refuse to work in Wing HQ late at night by myself if we have activities at Maxwell,  because of some weird stuff i've heard and weird feelings I get there.

I don't beleive every story I hear, but I think there is definitely merit to some of them.

Happy Halloween!

[notaNCO forever]

 I think the whole haunted thing is BS but that is just my opinion.

[Johnny Yuma]

I've yet to see an Air Force base that didn't have some sort of ghost story. It usually involves an airman who killed himself in the "old" barracks that still roams the hallway and latrines where they found him hanging.  I'm sure the Army/Navy/Marines have them, too.

With that said, I'd say these ghost busters would probably have a field day here in Kansas at Fort Riley and Leavenworth. Leavenworth's the oldest fort West of the Mississippi and Riley's the place where the 1917 flu epidemic began. Plenty of old loer at both to keep their imaginations running.

[RiverAux]

Leavenworth's the oldest fort West of the Mississippi

The oldest one still operating as a military facility, not the oldest....

[Johnny Yuma]

Leavenworth's the oldest fort West of the Mississippi

The oldest one still operating as a military facility, not the oldest....

I know, my bad.

[PaulR]

Just think of all the tormented souls who join the military... It is no wonder...