Otherworld North East Research Society Journal 01 | Page 50

Otherworld North East

to staff, the north east corner of the area was supposedly inhabited by a spirit of an
airman, again told to them by an investigating medium. In the centre of the hangar, two
ghostly World War Two veterans were also supposed to walk across to various pieces of
equipment: certainly the staff could confirm that people working in the area had tools
vanish and reappear before their eyes, and there was also the sense of being watched.
Sadly, camcorders set up in the hope of catching either of these phenomena only
produced footage of two small moths going about their business, and infra-red beam
motion sensors set to detect anything moving down the alleged path of the spirits didn’t
activate.
It can be said though that Hangar 3 provided to myself some of the most startling
evidence of ‘something out there’ that I have experienced during the two years
researching this book. In the early hours of the morning, myself, Susan, Fiona and Keith,
the site manager were undertaking EMF and temperature surveys of the area when we all
heard, very clearly, the sound of a stone being thrown, landing and bouncing. Searching
for the source of the sound, and again like Hangar 2, the stone itself, we split up supported
by motion sensors and camcorders, but could find nothing. Susan, standing next to me
asked for anything present to again show itself, and to my instant surprise something
small flew past by left cheek and cracked sharply on the wall beside me. Neither the
instruments nor the team could find who could have thrown the stone - could it really
have been the spirit of an airman wanting us out of his territory?
So has RAF Usworth left a ghostly impact on the present day North East Aircraft Museum?
During the daytime there is certainly no feeling of threat or otherworldly presence about
the place, but come night time and a paranormal investigation, there certainly seems to
be something present at the Wearside site that doesn’t want visitors poking their noses
where they don’t belong...

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