whether it's government secrets the public will never truly know ghost ships or strange
happenings during the horror of war there are plenty of military mysteries which have
fascinated both serving men and civilians alike throughout the centuries number five
the phantom p40 or ghost p40 is a mystery that has been baffling researchers for more than 60 years
like many ghost stories the exact details vary from telling to telly but all have many
similarities and it's likely there's something they were all based upon
the most famous version of the story is set more than a year after the attack on pearl harbor radar
detected a lone aircraft flying towards the us from the direction of japan it didn't have any of
the hallmarks of a typical attack and two pilots were sent out to intercept the mystery plate
when they got visuals on the plane they discovered it wasn't an enemy aircraft
it was a p-40 bearing the insignia that had not been used since pearl harbor
getting closer they discovered that the aircraft was very damaged it was riddled with bullet holes
in the landing gear which was an important piece for such a heavy plane was non-existent
inside the pilot was slumped over with red stains on his flight suit but when the pilots pulled
alongside he lifted up a little turned to smile at one of them and waved the plane then plummeted
to the ground and crashed another version of the story is almost identical but instead set in china
in the decades after the first sighting there have been many other sightings in west china burma
and thailand supposedly helping u.s forces during excursions into these areas during the vietnam war
while it sounds like a typical ghost story it may actually have some truth to it
during the war there was a group of american army personnel stationed in the philippines
trying to block the japanese while there they took delivery of a number of p40 plates japan
eventually took over the islands and most of the american forces were forced to surrender
but many took to the jungle to launch korea campaigns a small group of pilots
and mechanics on the island of mindanao which is often mentioned in legends of the ghost p-40
maintained one of these planes for as long as they could at one point the landing gear fell away but
it still managed to land safely figuring there was only one flight left in her the team created
temporary landing gear from bamboo and stripped the p-40 of everything not needed for her to fly
she was also fitted with an extra fuel tank in the hopes of making it all the way to china
a mystery pilot took the plane and set off not long after the team put it together they were
captured a plane matching this description did allegedly make it to china before crash landing
a small team of u.s men went to the wreckage where a number of letters and a partially
burned diary were recovered but japanese troops approached before the pilot could be extracted
who the mystery pilot was remains unknown and the letters and diary have since been lost
number four it was the early hours of the morning on july 1 1973 when five loud bangs
ring out in an otherwise silent suburb of chevy chase maryland colonel joseph alone had just been
returning home from a dinner party with his wife and was struck five times as he got out of his car
the person or people responsible for taking his life have never been found alone was an israeli
diplomat and military ambassador to the u.s he'd held the position for almost three years and
had been living happily in maryland with his wife and two young daughters the entire time
but in the early summer of 1973 the family had noticed some strange things
it seemed like strangers were always watching their house and they often received calls from
an unknown person they assumed it was part of some practical joke or perhaps paranoia but they would
be very wrong the fbi launched an investigation into the crime at the same time a group in cairo
claimed responsibility for the hit the so-called voice of palestine claimed it was retaliation
for a hit on their own leader but who exactly had been on the street in maryland remained a mystery
without much evidence the case quickly went cold and it was closed in 1976. despite alone's family
asking the israeli and u.s government to reopen the case it wasn't until 2011 that
a further development was made an investigative journalist took an interest in the unsolved crime
he found the man who had taken over leadership of the group that had claimed responsibility
eelich ramirez sanchez was in prison in france at the time
the journalist wrote to him to ask if he knew anything about the act that had taken alone's life
sanchez said he did but would only hand over that information at a price the fbi took over at
this point and interviewed sanchez he said it had actually been an american vietnam war veteran who
had taken alone's life he said that a small group had been living in america in the decades since
he insisted no palestinians had been responsible for the act though added that the veterans had
been taking orders from another group closely linked to his own how much of the information
the fbi could believe is impossible to say sanchez had no real reason to offer them information
even taking the information at face value there doesn't seem to have been much progress in the
years since and the mystery remains unsolved number three the ub-95 was a german submarine in
service during world war one that was plagued with such bad luck many of the sailors wanted to see it
be taken out of service during its year-long life it was the scene of numerous tragedies
and even ghost sightings the events began before the sub was even finished it was built in 1916
and was specially designed to be stationed in occupied belgium and work in the english channel
during construction five men lost their lives two were involved in an accident when a steel girder
fell from a crane while another three suffocated on toxic gases things didn't get any better after
it set sail in 1917. on its test run a sailor was washed overboard while inspecting the hatchets
shortly before its first test drive another sailor jumped overboard for apparently no reason
a few hours later it looked like this man would be the crew's only survivor
during the drive the sub hit the sea floor and would not resurface a leak led to sea water
rushing in when it reached the batteries a toxic fume was released luckily the sub resurfaced at
the last moment but all the crew were violently sick and two passed away in the hospital
the accidents would continue and soon stories of the spirit of one of the fallen men
began to circulate it started with a lookout spotting a man on deck as they were preparing
to dive all the hatchings were closed so there was no way for him to be on deck when the man turned
to look at the lookout it was clear this was a second officer who had passed away in an accident
not long earlier the lookout had such a commotion the captain came up to see what was going on and
was also shocked to see the spirit the ghost was spotted inside the sub and drove one man insane
prompting him to throw himself overboard the ub-95 service ended in mysterious and dramatic fashion
it was spotted off the coast of england by a u.s vessel as the u.s vessel lined itself up to attack
there is an explosion aboard the sub and it sank while much of the story of the cursed submarine
has been embellished if not entirely created out of thin air the mysterious sinking is something
that has been attested to in recent years the submarine was found off the coast of england
inspections found no signs of any attacks from an outside force and what exactly happened in july of
1918 remains a mystery number two the story of wanda wilson or more accurately her photograph
is one of the countless world war ii mysteries that highlight the personal tragedies of the
war in august of 1943 a group of paratroopers were dropped into bougainville island in the
south pacific it was another operation to try to liberate a small pacific island from the japanese
sadly every one of the paratroopers lost their lives in the battle a few weeks later another
mission was launched this wasn't some great liberation it was an attempt to collect or bury
the bodies of the troops that had already been lost u.s marine corporal robert goddard was one of
the men sent to the island once again the japanese forces attacked and a firefight ensued this time
though the u.s forces were able to overcome their attackers at first goddard looked over the bodies
of the men who had moments earlier been attacking him it was a common if not morbid practice at the
time to take souvenirs from fallen enemies and goddard was looking for one of his own in the
pocket of one of the soldiers he found a newspaper clipping he was astonished to find not only was
the clipping in english it looked like it had come from his hometown of saint petersburg florida
the clipping was mostly a large headshot of a young woman described as miss wanda laverne wilson
a student at st petersburg junior college she had been chosen to represent the city in a beauty
pageant it was a surreal reminder of what was going on in goddard's hometown while he was half
a world away after the war goddard made it his mission to find the girl and figure out why her
photo had been in the pocket of a japanese soldier in 1945 he found her wanda wilson was still living
in saint petersburg working at florida power and was engaged to a man named frank badger
goddard showed up at her parents home and asked if she was the girl in the photo
wanda confirmed it was her the beauty pageant took place in march of 1942 but she couldn't
explain how it had ended up in the south pacific she didn't recognize the names of any of the men
in goddard's troop or any of the paratroopers who had dropped onto the island before her
she didn't know anyone who would have met the japanese soldier either wanda's friends and
family always assumed it had been a random man who had taken the clipping as a reminder of home
nobody she had any connection to besides being a pretty face in a newspaper
but as wanda passed away in 2012 it's unlikely the real identity of her admirer will ever be known
number one bascom down in wilshire england has been called the uk's area 51
while stories of aliens haven't been attracted to the base as much as its u.s counterpart its focus
on experimental aircraft explains the comparison that only became all the more clear in 1994
when the mysterious boss come down incident occurred at the time the base was under the
control of the ministry of defense's defense test and evaluation organization it's likely
many once top secret aircraft spend some time here before being used in the uk and u.s operations
but in september of 1994 residents nearby reported hearing a loud rumbling they'd never heard before
according to news reports it sounded like a freight train or a low frequency rumbly there
was little said about the incident at the time and many had already begun to forget about it
when on september 26th the incident occurred an unknown aircraft tried to take off from
boscom down but the pilots abandoned takeoff shortly after london air traffic control was
told to take the runway out of service there was something blocking it witnesses on the ground
reported the aircraft had already been covered in a tarp but it was clear by the way it was angled
that something had broken at the front of the craft emergency service vehicles surrounded it and
copters usually reserved for the sas were on hand after the next few days a c5 galaxy from america
used to transport planes and other aircraft was diverted from germany to the air base and the
mystery vehicle was presumably loaded aboard also spotted was a boeing 737 t-43 with the red and
white markings of eg g the same company that runs the infamous janet airlines in and out of area 51.
the uk government has officially denied anything happened at the base in september of 1994
despite investigations from specialist media with sources inside the base
it's understandable why at the time such an incident would have been kept a secret but the
continued silence on the subject and what actually the aircraft was has left the boscom down incident
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