I had three experiences that I would consider somewhat supernatural. Two were when I was in the Air Force. The first occurred in the dorm I lived in, I woke up and saw an apparition of a woman hovering in my room. It was weird, kind of freaked me out, but not so much that I couldn't go back to sleep. I had been drinking the night before so that could have impacted that.
The other one is REALLY strange, and others have had similar experiences to what I had.
RAF Mildenhall England is a USAF Base that I was stationed at. I was on the flightline on overnight shift doing clean up for our equipment, dropping off generators, picking up generators, refueling ect. As I drove down the flightline I saw a C130 on a hardstand, with a Generator that wasn't hooked up, but was running. I pulled over to it, went over to shut it off to bring it in and although it was running, the power switch was off. I switched the power switch on then off and it shut down. I hooked the generator up to my bobtail and started back towards the shop. I called our ground controllers and told them I was picking up GGXX from hardstand XX bringing it back to the shop, as was the norm. The responded back and asked why there was a generator on that hard stand. I told them there was a C130 tail number xxxx on the hardstand, but that the generator had been running but not hooked up, and the plane was dark. They asked me to confirm the tail number, I repeated it, they responded back and said that C130 with that tail number was not only NOT on that hardstand, but was not even on the base. I told them, "Well I'm looking at it right now, that's the tail number, and it's sitting on hardstand xx" (After they started asking questions I turned around and went back to the hardstand) They said ok, but sounded really confused, so I headed back to the other side of the flightline where our shop was to refuel and serve the unit, my shift ended, put it out of my mind.
While I was there, there was a "legend" if you want to call it that, of a situation where a crew chief, upset that he had not been allowed to take emergency leave for a family situation, had stolen a C-130 to fly back to the states. He took off, but unfortunately headed in the wrong direction and eventually crashed. This was a 1960's incident.
As it turns out, research that I've done since, indicates that this legend was in fact an actual event. It did happen, a crew chief, stole a C130 and crashed. The interesting part is that the C130 he stole was parked on the hard stand that I experienced this event.
Additionally, there have been several similar experiences on that hard stand over the years that have a similar theme. Someone sees a C130 on that hardstand, the ground controllers have no knowledge of that C130 being on the base, and a generator sits there running without being hooked up to the aircraft. These sightings always happen on the overnight shift. The crew chief stole the C130 on the overnight shift.
Things that make you go "hmmmm".
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