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Re: Any Ideas.??? :>0
Posted by Richard Woods on Wed Oct 31, 2001 04:41:11 AM
In reply top Re: Any Ideas.??? :>0 posted by Pete on Tue Oct 23, 2001 09:37:01 PM
I don't know where the rumour of the name started but it is just a myth.There IS a Lanc up on the Snake Pass(A57),it is a canadian one,(408 sqn)and it is mentioned in the book Dark Peak Wrecks by Ron Collier.There are about 140 other wrecks up here,and I live about 15 mins away.
The ghost rumours come from two separate bits,the sightings of a ghostly B-29 and crew at the crash site(search Ghost planes of the peak district:I don't know the URL),but I go up there regular and haven't seen anything(apart from s**t loads of wreckage,engines and landing gears).
The other is the ghost of a lanc that supposedly rises from the Derwent Reservoir on the first full moon of every month and tries to head off East to join its comrades before vanishing.
I find the latter more interesting as some old boy in a pub in Derwent village told us a Lanc had gone in to the reservoir during practice for the Dams raid,and that there was a big cover up.
Regards,
Richard