Thread: Haunted Barracks

Originally Posted by WhiteHorse

Originally Posted by 5_mile_sniper

A couple of years back during on an annual camp in Gibraltar, during a tunnel training package, a number of the local Gib Reg intimated that there were parts of the tunnel system that they would try to avoid going into if at all possible! The two names that I recall hearing on several occasions were Green Lane Magazine and also the REME Workshops down the southern end of the Rock. I belive that during WW2 part of a tunnel collapsed at Green Lane Magazine, killing some Canadian troops.

Never saw anything myself, but the tunnels certainly are pretty atmospheric and you do find that there are some places that your senses tell you that you don't want to linger too long!

Yep Gib, during an Ex I was running around blatting the young toms and then off into the darkness. Up by the "Hospital" I waited for a patrol, opened up and ran into the tunnel to escape, only I didnt get very far as I approached a large rock to climb over I felt very cold and as if I were being watched. I kidd you not.
I began to edge forward, I stood on something which was not rock and decided to bang on the torch for moral support. (we had been using cylumes) I was standing on an old wreath! I had arrived at the site of a roof collapse and had been just about to climb over the Graves as it were.
Speaking to the other DS we all agreed that at various stages we had intended to escape that way but on arrival, found it impossible to do so for no other reason than the feeling of impending doom

Later we got a full tour from the Gib Gegt who told us all the stories etc, glad they told us after the Ex as it would take a very brave lad to go back on his own afterwards.

Originally Posted by hogspawn

The tunnels in Gib, theyre said to be haunted. When doing the tunnel fighting Ex there in 2002, the Gib Reg guide showed us a haunted chamber and it was f'kin freezing in there where everywhere else was quite warm.

When returning past said chamber a couple of days later me and my mucker both had our torches go out at the same point and felt the same coldness as before. Not nice at all!!

Originally Posted by Japster

On Ex in Gibraltar in the summer, did the usual tunnel fighting stuff, felt decidedly uneasy when I had to act as enemy and was posted in the Bde HQ area by myself and remembered the stories on this thread!!Luckily I was too busy to get really spooked, but I made sure that I extracted myself with the attacking force!

Our Padre (who is an exorsist, apparently) was with one of our PSI`s when he felt a presence in the area. He started to prey and then suggested that they got away from the area, pronto!

All guff you might say but I organised a battlefield tour of the Great Siege, along with a tunnel tour, done by P**** J******, where he told the following tale....

He took on one of his tours a lady whose father had been killed in one of the numerous accidents in WW2 when the tunnels were being made. She wanted to lay a wreath near where she thought he had been killed, in the Pererborough Chambers. This was duly carried out and everybody went home happy.

A few weeks later he was guiding another group which contained a small child, who was a bit boisterous and kept running around. He was mildly irritated by this kid but ignored him, came to a bit of the tour near above spot above where he turns out the lights (to illustrate how pitch black it is)

Turns lights off, starts to tell his tale when he feels a tug on his shirt. Thinking it`s the kid, he ignores it, shirt gets tugged again. Right he thinks , I`m going to tell said brat off, so he turns the lights back on expecting to see the kid hanging off his shirt, but guess what?

Kid is at other end of group, behaving himself?

Strange, he thinks, must have been somthing on the pipes, has a look `round...............Nothing!

A bit shaken he finishes off the tour and goes down to the Europa Pool to see his missus, who can see that he`s a bit shaken. Before he can tell her the story, he spots a woman who he`s never seen before nearby who comes over and says to him

"You`ve just had a strange experience in the tunnels?"

"Yes" he says, hairs on the back of his neck standing up

"I`m a Psycic and I`ve got a message for you. Apparently you`ve put the wreath in the wrong place"

Well, after nearly falling off his chair, she goes on to tell him that it was the dead man pulling on his shirt in the tunnels to get his attention! He was pleased to see his daughter and approves of the tunnel tours because he follows them regularly!

Glad I didn`t spend any more time in the tunnels by myself after that!!

We did the tunnel tour in Gib and were taken to the area of the tunnel that is now a war grave after collapsing on and killing many Canadian Engineers. The guides said that they were scared of it due to the problem of torches going out, cylumes going dim after a very short space of time.

Well having none of it and felling bold as brass 6 or 7 of us went round there to investigate, 4 torches failed, we didn't hightail it out but moved briskly to the entrance. We stripped the torches, changed the bulbs, batteries and any changeable component but they never worked again. I know right angle torches are sh1t but 4 failing all at the same time and never working again..........weird.

Anybody ever served in Clifton Barracks in Minden? The sergeants mess was built over the cookhouse and consisted of a kitchen, dining-room, ante-room, TV room, and bar. A small annexe was added later to one side of the building with accomodation for about 16.

I was stationed there in the early '80's and was one of a small number of livers-in. I did my fair share of BOS's etc (and then some!) and would often find myself in the TV room in the early hours browsing the Chronicles or watching porn. On a number of occasions I was certain that I could hear voices and laughter from the other rooms and found myself searching the building for their origin, always to no avail. I would put this down to the Duty Cook working late in the Dining room below, German workmen servicing the boilers etc. Thing was though, I had exactly the same experience when it was obvious the place was deserted, late on Sunday nights etc. I never really gave it much thought until years later I was chatting to another (now deceased) mess member who casually mentioned that the mess in Minden had been haunted. He told of an occasion when he and another guy were the only ones in the mess, everyone else being on exercise, and the bar having closed they sat finishing a pint in the TV room. Sure enough they heard voices and laughter coming from the Ante-room and beyond. His companion wanders out to have a look and finds no-one there, returns somewhat puzzled but thinks nothing more of it. Soon after it starts again so my mate wanders out, checks ante-room, dining room, kitchen, bar and even wanders down into the cellars and into the empty accomodation block, nothing! He, equally puzzled, returns to the TV room and sits down, tells the other guy theres nothing out there and suddenly they hear it again, loud and distinct, they look at one another and as he put it:

"Poor old Choggies eyes bulged-out and his hair stood on end"

I must admit as he told me it had a similar though less obvious effect on me! I'd never mentioned my experiences to anyone so it was quite a surprise to hear them confirmed out of the blue years after the event!

HQ Berlin British Sector at the Olympic Stadium. I hated being duty clerk- this building was seriously spooky! The offices for the British Ambassador and his staff were on the top floor and therefore the main entrance was guarded by FCO security staff. One night I got called in, it must have been about 0300 hrs because the main keep alarm had gone off and I needed to reset it. I drove in from Spandau, pulled up outside the HQ and went through the first set of doors to the security desk. The security officer, whose name leaves me now, says "I will let you in then", he then unlocked the second set of doors to let me in the main part of the building. I asked "why have you got the doors locked?" He said "if you heard the noises and sounds that come out of this building at night - you would keep the doors locked!.

I was a medic at Glyn Hughes barracks- back of the golf course- from 81-84. One incident was when I sent a guard to get a bod from the 1st floor accm. As he got to the doors two lads bolted from two ajoining rooms looking horrified as they'd just seen something go through the wall. In the war that the wards were used to treat injured SS officers so hence the thing going through the wall. Also the POL was the old morgue and it still had the slab in and formalin body caskets, there was a rumour that bods would bet each other to sleep in it during the night. I never knew anyone who did do this. On crash outs (active edge) we had to use the rear gate by the POL, once I had to guard this at sumat like 2 in the morning and can verify I toffee-ed me trolleys. VERY VERY spooky as Belsan is a stones throw away. There was lots of 'secret Tunnel' stories about, I never saw them but again going in the normal tunnels on yer own at night put the shivers down yer back. I'd love to go back and have an explore......

i've been told by a few people that the old hangers on longmoor camp are haunted, apparently was where troop trains used to load/unload blokes and more than a few met there ends on the rails there. whether its true or not who knows !!!!

In my time working for Leeds Metroplitan University, I worked at the Headingley Campus which during the First and Second World wars had been a military hospital, being such, it had one of two "Cold Spots" that quite a few of the Security assistants wouldn't go to unless they were forced or really had to, one of these was a study area on the top floor of the main building (The James Graham Building).

It turned out, after a bit of research it turned out that this part of the building was used as a modern day version of the "Dying Room" used in Napoleonic times and also as a mortuary further down the corridor.

Late at night I used to frequent this area for various reasons (Before finding out these details) and to say I felt comfortable up there would have been a bit of a lie, as a matter of fact, certain areas were far colder than others and these areas also had the effect of making the hairs on your neck stand up, one other effect or facet was that you often felt like you were seeing things that were "Just out of the corner of your eye" flitting movement, shapes just going around a corner out of sight and the feeling of a presence other than your own.



Also further down the site was a building called Cavendish Hall which had the same kind of atmosphere and from further enquiries it was found that this place had been the "Surgical ward" and in the First World War had a rather high Mortality rate.

Originally Posted by Blue/GreenJob

It turned out, after a bit of research it turned out that this part of the building was used as a modern day version of the "Dying Room" used in Napoleonic times and also as a mortuary further down the corridor.

No Wah ..."Dying room" ?


Wotsat ?

It's where the bed sheets were turned from white into a nice lilac.

Originally Posted by polar69

Originally Posted by Blue/GreenJob

It turned out, after a bit of research it turned out that this part of the building was used as a modern day version of the "Dying Room" used in Napoleonic times and also as a mortuary further down the corridor.

No Wah ..."Dying room" ?


Wotsat ?

Basically it was a ward where at the time if anyone was at the point of death, mortally wounded or probably going to pass away nursing staff recommended that the patient was taken somewhere quiet to spend their "Last Hours" it was an attempt to maintain morale by removing quite obviously "Dying" patients from wards full of recovering troops and minimising the "And the bed was empty in the morning" syndrome, and the "Where's Tommy gone?" type of experience.........changing it from that to..."he was moved to another ward"...

Originally Posted by HeavyHorse

Part of the spider blocks in the old training camp at Kimnel Bay was supposedly haunted...It seems the camp was used to house Canadian soldiers at the end of WW1 prior to their return to Canada.

The local church has a larger number of Canadian graves from that period and the story is that they were killed during a mutiny after their ships home were diverted for other use...The offical story is that they died during the flu outbreak...

One of the steel support beams in the roof of one of the spiders showed marks where a Canadian supposedly hung himself. These marks supposedly reappared even after the buildings were repainted ect. That particular block was always the last to be used and when you pulled a guard duty and had to prowel the area it was quite common to hear footsteps or doors being opened/shut which were supposedly locked...

Circa 1989, on Ex at Kimnel Parc saw something that I still have difficulty explaining. In an OP when a shapeless mass passed about 10 feet away on my LHS. It floated/drifted about 20 feet and disappeared into thin air. It was only later on in the ex that one of the guys asked if anyone had seen or heard anything weird that I told him what I'd seen. He then told us what HeavyHorse has mentioned above.
Spooky!
Went back there in 91 for adv trg never had any probs though!

I have just read this thread from beginning to end...quiet day in the office, and I fully concur with the Hohne bit. It has got to be the spookiest place ever.

Did 2 years as RMP there in the mid 80s and myself and R***y P***r were on night mobile patrol around the Verlanderampe, the railway siding where tanks would on and off load. (Im sure many of you will know what I am on about) It had also been at sometime the 'end of the line' for trains bringing people in during the days of Bergen-Belsen. Sometimes the people were forced to march down the road from the Rampe to Belsen Camp.

This night R***y and pulled up in the area of the Rampe. It was a typical cold dark N German night. The fog/mist was about 3 ft off the ground and the lights illuminating the Rampe and platform were reflecting back off the ground hugging fog.

Now I am a 6 footer, rugby playing ex-Monkey. R***y was a good 4 inches taller than me, built like a brick s**t house and a large character, not a wimp. We sat in the car looking towards the Rampe and the railway lines disapparing towards Hohne town and he looked at me and said, 'can we f**k off, I don't feel good sitting here' (The hairs on my neck have just stood up remembering this) I who any other time would have taken the piss out of him agreed wholeheartedly and the speed with which we shot out of there and back into camp was truly amazing. No ghosts seen, nothing said to each other, no winding up. Just two down to earth blokes experiencing the same dread empty cold feeling at the same time.

I hated Hohne, I heard of the glass pane thing, Glyn Hughes Bks, Schloss Breaderbeck etc etc and many the night I have had to travel the range road back from Fally to Hohne and I used to sing every hymn I knew and pray like f**k that I wouldn't break down.

Happy days!!

i remember hearing a story about the super sanger in Dungannon SF base being haunted, i think the story goes that the area of land it was built on was where people used to be hung in days gone by. I also recall hearing a story about forkhill SF base being haunted to, in particular one of the sangers out the back near the heli pad. Can anyone shed any light on these stories?

Apologies if this has allready appeared but does anyone know anything of the supposed ghosts in Cultybraggan Camp, Perthshire? (Since sold, I beleive) - used as a POW Camp during WW2 and a Pilot had his head used as a football and was then strung up by the more hard-core Nazi prisoners when he informed on an planned escape attempt. Heard this a number if times but never had anyone confirm it. The place looks haunted - all those Nissan huts, coke burners, etc - like a museum piece!

The amoury which houses my father's regt, at which I spent much of my time growing up playing in as he and Mom got pissed in the Sgts/ Wo mess , is said to be haunted. It has a turreton one side which is only accessible through Officers mess. Apparently, soon after WW1, the newly returned CO of the Essex Scottish Regiment stretched his neck up there. Also, it was used to house Italian/Canadian internees during WW2, and a couple of them died by their own hands in the cell blocks. Always were wierd noises, and the cleaning staff told lots of creepy stories

When RAF Honington was being built they found a gibbet complete with skeleton of its last occupant. Don't know which hanger it was but the gibbet is in the Museum at Bury St Edmnds