Any reports of paranormal activity at the Marshall plane crash site? The question was posted
in the Huntington, WVa. forum of the Topix.com website.
On the night of November
14, 1970, a jetliner
carrying most of Marshall University’s football team, coaching staff, school
administrators and boosters, slammed into the side of a mountain as it
attempted to land at Tri-State Airport. There were no survivors among the 75
passengers on board.
You may or may not believe
in the existence of the paranormal. Even so, the forum has some
thought-provoking comments. A former airport employee – “A Witness” of Scott
Depot, WVa. – shared the following
recollection on the forum in late October 2010:
Must have been 20 or so years back as far as I can remember.
I was mowing the grass around the Tri-State Airport when I heard a loud roar
and saw a large passenger jet slam into the hillside over the edge of where I
was working.
I thought I had lost my mind. But instinctively, I ran toward the site where I
saw the plane crash. What did I find when I finally made it to what I later
found out was the exact spot where the Marshall
flight crashed?
Nothing.
It wasn't what I saw, but what I heard that sent shivers
down my spine.
I heard a faint chant, as if the 75 passengers of the doomed flight were
speaking in unison, “we are, Marshall,
we are, Marshall.” I didn't bother
telling anyone for some time as I knew I would be labeled “psychotic.”
To this day I know what I heard and no one will ever tell me otherwise.
I always felt a presence in the air while I worked at the airport and that day was just far more bizarre than usual. People don't appreciate the great number of lives lost in the immediate area surrounding the airport. There's bound to be a lot of paranormal activity there.
“A Witness” isn’t the only person who weighed in on this topic. On this same Topix.com forum, “I Know” of South Point, Ohio wrote:
There were some very strange occurrences that happened on campus while the crew for “We Are Marshall” was filming … especially during the filming of the fountain scene. I was there.
The almost palpable presence of “something” is always there at the ceremony when MU celebrates the anniversary of the crash.
I always felt a presence in the air while I worked at the airport and that day was just far more bizarre than usual. People don't appreciate the great number of lives lost in the immediate area surrounding the airport. There's bound to be a lot of paranormal activity there.
“A Witness” isn’t the only person who weighed in on this topic. On this same Topix.com forum, “I Know” of South Point, Ohio wrote:
There were some very strange occurrences that happened on campus while the crew for “We Are Marshall” was filming … especially during the filming of the fountain scene. I was there.
The almost palpable presence of “something” is always there at the ceremony when MU celebrates the anniversary of the crash.
Photography: agrannysplaceisinthecockpit.blogspot.com
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ReplyDeleteI believe it. With the Anniversary coming up, there will be a ton of paranormal activity at the crash site. I am clairvoyant and I have American Indian blood so oddly enough, 6 days before the 14th I am having dreams of the crash. I was born in 1974 and have no connections to Marshall or Huntington.
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