Ghost Bombers

A view of the Derwent Dam situated above Ladybower Resevoir. Photo by Gary Tacagni.

Another view of the Derwent, does a phantom airman emerge out of its waters on fire? Photo by Gary Tacagni.

The emergency services receive at least a couple of reports every year from members of the public reporting a plane that has crashed, an example happened on the 24th of March 1997 when the police in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire received a number of 999 calls reporting a plane that had crashed north of Howden resevoir, a police constable, two gamekeepers and several farmers were amongst the witnesses of the crash and also the  huge explosion that accompanied it which seemed to come from the moors near Strines forest. A full mountain rescue team as well as 100 volunteers, a helicopter and tracker dogs were used to search more than 40 square miles of moorland, after 15 hours of searching and no wreckage found the search was called off.

A distant view of Bleaklow which has claimed many aircraft, among them being a U.S. airforce B29 Superfortress, all thirteen crew including Captain Langdon Tanner died, a large amount of debri from the crash still remains and sightings of the ghosts of the aircrew still occur to this day.

It has been speculated that ghostly images of the past sometimes replay themselves when the right conditions are present and perhaps a witness who posseses the right sensitivity to receive the information is in the right place at the right time. Many witnesses also claim to hear a buzzing noise when a paranormal event takes place in the Pennines rather like the noise you experience when standing next to high tension power lines, is this evidence of a very powerful electromagnetic field? In laboratory experiments it has been found that electromagentic fields can generate altered states in the human brain, is it possible that the rocks which can be under tremendous strain in the Pennines are generating these fields and are responsible for the phenomena that is being reported?