Curated by the Underwood family, this channel is dedicated to the life and work of the late Peter Underwood (1923-2014). Investigator of the unknown. Historian of the paranormal and the occult.
Intelligent and thoughtful man. I agree with his initial explanation but consider that other ghosts exist which do have presence beyond just an atmospheric imprint.
Good question! The question mark in the title likely serves multiple purposes: 1. Engagement: It can be a way to pique interest and encourage viewers to watch the video to find out more about the story. It adds an element of mystery and invites curiosity. 2. Open Interpretation: The question mark leaves room for interpretation, suggesting that while the story is presented as it was told, there might be different ways to understand or believe it. This can make the story more accessible to a broader audience, including skeptics. 3. Authenticity: Using a question mark can reflect your own stance of presenting the story as your grandfather's account without making a definitive statement about its truth, respecting both believers and non-believers.
Haunted airfields are ten a penny. I was posted to Leeming in 1956 and yes there was a resident ghost. Apparently a certain Squadron Leader Halifax had been shot down and killed on a bombing raid. After the war he had been ‘seen’ coming down on a parachute over the airfield. Total nonsense of course just as all ghost stories are.
Ah THE Collection from the late great Peter Underwood 🫂😊👍🏻 The music makes me feel like an icicle is jarring up and down the individual disks of my spine🥶-superb!
Great stories! I had a Peter Underwood book when I was young and loved scaring myself reading it! Are the intros spoken by Christopher Lee? If not, it certainly sounds like him! Thanks for the upload.
I don’t live far from this old ex airfield and it has had many reports of paranormal activity I hope to gain access to the squash courts one day as they are reported to be haunted by the anson crew .
I wonder what Peter would make of all the ghost hunting equipment that's out now and the progress we have made in making ghost hunting a popular pastime👻💗👻💗
(From The Ghost Hunter’s Guide [1986], chapter 2: ’Ghost Hunting Equipment and Its Uses’): “I think it might fairly be argued that simple equipment is just as effective in the investigation of ghostly phenomena as the most sophisticated apparatus, for there are drawbacks to the latter. The value of any report is really only as good as the investigator concerned and it is not really dependent upon the equipment used.” “To simplify the question of equipment: the barest of essentials that should comprise a ghost hunter’s bag would be a notebook and pencils, chalk, measuring tape, sealing apparatus for doors and windows (this need be no more elaborate than coloured tape, wire, fine string, drawing pins, cotton and ‘pluto wax’ or something similar), torch, flour, sugar, thermometer, camera and a small mirror.” “But in a computer age it is appropriate that my friends Dr Alan Gauld and Tony Cornell have just devised a ‘spectre detector’ that is in fact a computer-controlled ghost hunting kit in which interference with any one of various sensors (temperature, infrared, ultrasonic, etc) triggers cameras, video-cameras and tape-recorders, and is followed by a detailed print-out of the readings on all instruments”
Hi Adam - you wrote me several years ago and I was wondering if you would be interested in coming on the show to talk about your grandfather. I tried emailing you but the gmail no longer works.
Still have great PU paperbacks from when i was 15 and bought them in the newsagents. My first intro to the genre. I have only had one aerodrome experience, and that was in Summer 2000 at RAF Elvington (York) This station still has it's control tower, but the atmosphere in there was....positively angry. The lower section is decked out with period equipment and dummies in service uniform, all protected behind perspex or acrylic shields to prevent theft or wear & tear. I have always assumed that the angry atmos. was (is?) grounded in an objection to former residents being represented as 'dummies'! Somewhat subjective i will admit; dummies can create a creepy atmosphere just by their presence. After this i read about a couple of ghost hunters spending the night on the top floor; only to hear footsteps coming up the stairs and stopping right outside the door. They stayed awake till dawn.....then legged it.
Ah! A time when they were available at local newsagents. Those were the days! And one would appear to need nerves of steel to spend a night in that aerodrome! And with good reason! Dummies in service uniform in a space locked into that period from the past. I agree it would be awfully difficult to remain calm and objective! The productive power of the imagination is not to be underestimated. Which I suppose is precisely what these sites, now turned into attractions, are intended to engage!
There should still be free Audible codes available for other titles by Peter on Audible, so feel free to email me if there are other titles of interest to you - I'd be happy to send you any available codes to use to access them (alternatively you can send a message to the Peter Underwood page on Facebook): sherlockghosthunter@gmail.com
'Every ghost hunter worthy of the name will, however, invent simple gadgets for himself: the bowl of mercury that detects tremors; the spirit level mounted on wood or board that can be used to establish or disprove the apparent slight movement of, say, a stair tread; the sealed tin full of fine sand with a tiny hole in the base that leaves an almost invisible trail of silver sand if it is moved; the balanced rod connected to a bell or buzzer or bulb that reveals the movement of an object placed on one end of the rod; the flour-covered sheet of newspaper that reveals footsteps or other disturbances, or spread sugar that quickly reveals the presence of someone and possibly some ‘thing’ by the unmistakable crunch, both substances often exposing (since they both cling) a ghost’s earthly ‘agent’! The list is endless and the setting-up of such simple yet ingenious ghost-catching gadgets helps to pass the long and quiet hours that form the main ‘activity’ of the ghost hunter.'; The Ghost Hunter's Guide; Chapter 2: 'Ghost Hunting Equipment and its Uses'
what about concentration camps where millions died first world war any war disaster hospitals etc etc billions of people have lived and died endless horror and mayhem
Very likely. Peter was a member of the Savage Club, and it served as an address for correspondence, which he encouraged in his many books dedicated to ghosts and haunted places.
Ah. Perhaps. But this is a recording from the 1980s, that was originally broadcast on the radio, to which a somewhat humble visual aspect has been added. As a comment on the style or quality of the original production, it is hard to know what to say, since the archival value perhaps overshadows such a judgement.
