Modern Hauntings
Ghosts do not always have to haunt old buildings - they can simply have occupied the site since before modern buildings. Some of these modern hauntings in Peterborough include:
RAF Westwood
The Westwood area of Peterborough now covered by housing
estates was once an RAF base - RAF Peterborough. It was used as a
training base for pilots throughout the 1930s, up until 1948.
Accidents happened during training, including a serious crash in
1936 when four men were killed. It is said their ghosts still haunt
the area today. Activity reported in the area includes:
- Sounds of phantom aircraft passing overhead
- Ghostly airmen have been seen across the area
- Strange footsteps are heard where there used to be airfield buildings.
Other Modern Hauntings
- Ghostly footsteps and the giggling of an invisible child are often heard at night in the Queensgate shopping centre.
- At a modern office site on the south of the city, ghostly Roman soldiers have been seen...
- Bretton residents have seen the spectre of an elderly man on the local park...
- An old lady who died in the 1970s haunts a house in Netherton, visiting the children late at night...
- A phantom 1920s lorry has been seen at Ferry Meadows - a relic of the Brick Industry?