Halloween Special: Ghost Armies, Ghost Planes & a Ghost Ship
From Bloomin' Legends with Johnny Vaughan & Gavin Woods · 39:58
Show by Global
It's the Bloomin' Legends Halloween special, and Johnny Vaughan and Gavin "The Woodman" Woods have five wartime ghost stories across land, sea and air. Although Johnny would like it on record that Gav has a frustrating habit of explaining ruining the spookyness of them.What You'll Hear in This Episode:🏹 The Angels of Mons – August 1914, the retreat from Mons, and the phantom Agincourt bowmen said to have held the German advance long enough for the BEF to get out. Why Johnny thinks it should be the most famous story of the entire war 🪖 The Corridor of Lost Souls – a historian camping at Verdun digs a tin out of the mud, finds a 1916 diary, hears a French voice in the fog, and sees a soldier in a 1916 helmet. Then the diary page had moved ✈️ The bomber that landed itself – November 1944, Belgium. A B-17 comes down, bounces to a halt and sits there with its engines growling. When they finally open the hatch: no crew, half-eaten candy bars, code books still aboard and a full set of untouched parachutes 💀 The dead pilot still flying – 1942, over China. Two American pilots intercept a P-40 with no canopy, no landing gear, part of a wing missing and the pilot slumped forward in the cockpit. It never fired, never manoeuvred, and crashed into a rice field. Nobody knows who he was 🚢 The destroyer that came back – the USS Stewart, scuttled in 1942, spotted months later cruising the Pacific under Japanese colours 🐠 Plus: the three methods of pet burial – Navy, Army and RAF. You have to be fairly senior to qualify for the RAF oneIf you love war stories, ghost stories, military history, Halloween and unbelievable true tales, this episode of Bloomin' Legends is for you.Got a legend you want us to cover?📩 Send it to: [email protected]📲 Follow us on TikTok & Instagram: @BloominLegends🎥 Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bloominlegendsListen to all episodes on Global Player, download the app, or visit www.globalplayer.comBloomin' Legends is a Global productionProduced by Ben FaircloughNew episodes are released every Wednesday & Sunday. Subscribe to never miss an episode!
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