The Air Station Ghosts
During the Aerodromes early days as a pilot training facility an American pilot wrote that there was "a crash every day and a funeral every week". The military grave stones at the local cemetery, Sleepy Hillock, bear witness to the numerous deaths of those learning to fly at Montrose
RAF Station Montrose is famous for its ghosts and has been described as possibly one of the most haunted places in Britain
Lt Desmond Arthur was the original Montrose ghost. Killed in a flying accident on 27 May 1913 and his spirit is said to have haunted the officers’ mess. Since then there have been many other unexplained sightings of apparitions in pilots’ uniforms and phantom planes. In 2010 wartime music and speech was heard to come from a 70 year old radio which was not powered in any way
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