GHOSTS IN NORFOLK....

In north Norfolk, running along the coast, there is a small place called
Mucleburgh. There you will find many old tanks , being leftovers from
the war. I had passed this site so many times and had no compulsion
to stop by, that is, until I had heard of a ghost that haunts the offices
there. Apparently, one late summer evening, when all the visitors had
left and the caretaker was about to lock up; he felt someone had passed
him. Behind him was the hallway that led to the back office. The care-
taker decided to take a look and has he stepped into the passage he
caught a glimpse of a person in uniform going through that office door.
The door was locked. He was not allowed a key for that room. It was
locked when visitors came on the weekend to see the tanks in the hangers.
The caretaker described the figure as being 5ft 10 and lean and wearing
a RAF uniform. When the office was later opened, nothing was amiss,
but in a black and white photograph on the wall, a group of airmen
who had used the premises during the war were standing shoulder to
shoulder and the caretaker recognised one of them as being the figure
that had passed him on that unforgetable Sunday.....
Another place of note was the old airfield at Bircham Newton near to
Hunstanton. This was a bomber base for the RAF I believe, although it
had some American activity at some point. There were many deaths
linked to this site of course, when bombers didn't return from their
missions, or in some cases, some apparently did come back but not to
take to the skies anymore, but to take up other interests on the old base.
It has been reported that at the end of the base is a squash court used
by many airmen at that time. There have been sightings of certain men
in uniforms passing through the building. An investigating team that
was linked to TV had visited the squash court and left sound equipment
and mini cameras and any other detecting device. They left the site
for two days completely secured and on their return found that a micro-
phone had been turned upwards and around. They also heard footsteps
and murmurings and much activity. Photographs revealed effects of
wisps of smoke and strange tubes of light from many angles and so on.
The team felt that who ever was in the squash court knew exactly what
they were doing and played tricks on them. This site is still
being investigated to this day.
There is an airbase in Hethal, just outside of Wymondham, south of
Norwich. Home now of the Lotus car factory. This was once used by the
Americans flying Liberators. One airmen is often seen moving between
the two old hangers that have remained. A dog also comes and then
vanishes after the airman has disappeared. In a pub in Wymondham
where the Americans mixed with the locals, some say an airman walks
down the passage from the back bar plus a ghostly airman used to walk
the Tower on the old Tibenham base until the tower became unsafe and
was eventually knocked down and replaced by a modern one. The site
remains much the same and is now used for gliders.....

(more to come)

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