Haunted Places in Italy

Haunted Places in Italy

 

Calabria – In the mountains – Sometimes you will see a white light glowing at night. Also people have reported seeing a very pale women wearing a white dress walk around for about a minute then disappear at about 12:00 at night.

Florence – Belvedere Fort- On the other side of the Arno River lies a plot developed only after the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Witches were burned there at the stake; numerous incarcerations, exiles, murders–during the night, the labyrinthine streets vibrate with preternatural energy. Footsteps in the dark on an abandoned cobbled street. Voices in empty alleyways; churchyards wherein one can see the faint images of victims denied succor. The Belvedere Fort itself is a brick edifice that had once divided the outlying country from the inner city in the Middle Ages. Ghosts, shadows, wraiths walk beside the wall, vanishing beneath the street lamps before reappearing anew in the shadows. Children’s laughter and singing.

Florence - Pensione Burchianti – small, translucent, pinkish male ghost has been seen in the frescoed room (the one in which Mussolini once stayed), as well as the feeling of icy cold breath on people’s faces, the feeling of someone sitting on the bed when there’s no one there, and the feeling of being watched when there’s no one there. People have also reported seeing a child ghost wandering throughout the halls, a maid ghost that will clean rooms at night, and an old knitting woman sitting in a rocking chair. The owner of the pensione will not stay there at night because of the hauntings.

Forio – Island of Ischia – In an old villa at the end of Via Spinavola, on Easter morning you will see a short looking ghost walk up the outside stairs to the balcony. the story goes that the man that owned the home in the 60`s committed suicide on Easter morning by drinking rat poison because his gay friend left him for another man. The ghostly figure appears short because in the late 70`s the 3rd floor was raised 18 inches during renovations.

Northern Italy – Lucedio Monestary – This place is haunted by monks and people who were sacrificed. There were footsteps heard, apparitions were seen, sounds were heard.

Pensione – Burchianti -small, translucent, pinkish male ghost has been seen in the frescoed room (the one in which Mussolini once stayed), as well as the feeling of icy cold breath on people’s faces, the feeling of someone sitting on the bed when there’s no one there, and the feeling of being watched when there’s no one there. People have also reported seeing a child ghost wandering throughout the halls, a maid ghost that will clean rooms at night, and an old knitting woman sitting in a rocking chair. The owner of the pensione will not stay there at night because of the hauntings.

Pompeii – Ancient Roman city where a volcano erupted, burying the city killing 2,000 people in ancient times. Screams, shadows, and sulfur have been smelled and seen here.

Rome – The Coliseum - It had been reported at night, noises of swords clashing, horses snorting and the sounds of chariots running at the coliseum. One time as a woman was leaving at night, she felt her hair being grabbed and pulled back into the coliseum.

Rome – Area around the Forum - There are a lot of old ancient Roman housing areas surrounding the Forum in Rome. Mostly at night, especially when there aren’t too many visitors or tourists, you can look down over the barriers into the arches and catch glimpses of shadowy figures walking around or gesturing. These figures are mostly just memories of the past or lasting imprints, not anybody with “unfinished business”. These “ghosts” are hard to find because most of Rome is lit up at night, but if you are lucky enough, you can find a rare unlit section of ruins, and watch the figures.

Sicily – Palermo Catacombs - the corpses hanging on the walls sometimes faintly move. When you walk by them, they will be in one position, and when you pass by them again. They will be moved. In one of the rooms, you can here, whistling, talking and people talking amongst themselves. You get a creepy feeling when you walk in the main door.

Venice - If you are not careful while walking in small groups after dark, it is possible to get trapped in a time loop. There are also many places where you can see the ghosts of people lurking in the shadows, although they will usually disappear when they realize that they have been seen.

Venice - Island of No Return – Reports of voices, footsteps, sounds, and an overall sense of evil permeates the island. Locals of the area still will not journey there at night.

Venice – Poveglia - An island not open to tourists. Was originally a self-governing island hundreds of years ago before being taken over by Italy. When the black plague swept over the country, Poveglia was where the dead bodies and even those who were still alive were dumped. They were put into “plague pits” where hundreds or even thousands of bodies and still-living victims of the disease were thrown in and either buried, burned or just left in the open to rot. Centuries later, a hospital was built by a doctor who tortured patients and who tried experimental therapies of his own invention on mental patients. The hospital, his office and the crematorium, still stands. The island is used for farming only and no tourists are permitted on the island at any time. Psychics have received special permission to visit and even they were scared out of their minds.

Haunted Places in France

Haunted Places in France

 

Blois – Fougeacuteres Sur Bieacutevre – Poltergeist outbreaks with loud banging noises on house walls, things being frozen in ice and eerie figures that make themselves noticed from the window sills.

Lyons – Seyssuel – Rumor has it that there was once a school ground that got destroyed in World War One. Since the village was re-built in the late 1920s, ever since then, there have been reports of poltergeist activities, contagious laughter and singing.

Besancon – Downtown - A man was driving down a road at a very high speed and crashed into a brick wall. At night time, you can hear squealing tires, and a man saying, “Merde!” (French curse word) before hearing a crash.

Paris – Best Western Montparnasse - Reports of awaking from strange dreams to see a bright wispy blue hand and arm directly over their face.

Paris – The Catacombs - Found Camera and video, of an explorer, the footage shows him running, and being afraid of something. He was never found.

Paris – Eiffel Tower - One night, a girl and her boyfriend went out. The girl arranged the date to break up with him. He wanted to propose to her. When she told him, he erupted. He took her to the top of the Eiffel tower, and threatened her. She didn’t believe him, because he had always been so nice to her. So when he said if she married him, he would spare her, she said NO. Then, he pushed her off the top! At night, you can hear a girl laughing and saying NO, then a scream, and silence.

Versailles – Chateau of Versailles - This was the home of the French royal family from 1682 to 1789, when the French Revolution began, and in the end, the King and Queen were beheaded. People experience seeing people in 18th century clothing and a different landscape from what it is today. It is said that you travel back in time during their visit. Also an odd silence is heard. The most famous ghost of this palace is Marie Antoinette herself, the queen who was beheaded long ago.

Vimey Ridge - One student tells of hearing the sounds of the war. Another described being grabbed by someone who looked like they were in a period movie about the site and being told to “run for your life you stupid kid” and being shoved towards the tunnel exit. As they were exiting the tunnel, yet another student tells of seeing, in plain daylight, a soldier stepping on a land mine and then nothing.

Vimy Ridge – Canadian trenches - Soldiers have been awoken by the sounds of heavy breathing and gear rustling, we where startled and amazed to see a German soldier in full ww1 combat gear attempting to “stick” them with a bayonet.

Ghost and Spirit Haunting Activities

Ghost and Spirit Haunting Activities

 

Residual Haunting Activity:

Residual haunting activity can occur when something traumatic/stressful occurs, such as a murder or a rape. Negative energy is literally blasted into the atmosphere, causing the atmosphere to imprint or record the events. Like a recording tape, it will play the events over and over again. The entities involved in this residual haunting activity are unaware of their surroundings. This is not an intelligent haunting, there is no interaction between you and the entity.
Residual haunting activity can also be caused by positive energy blasted into the atmosphere. Many times you have heard ghost stories, where people can hear the sounds of a party. They hear music, singing, dancing, laughter and when they enter the room where they hear the party, there is no one there. Residual haunting activity can be the specters of living beings.
Case example: Woman who faces domestic violence from her husband
The husband and wife move out of the apartment and the new renters see residual haunting activity in which the previous owners are involved in a domestic dispute, they appear to be specters. The new renters are able to identify the faces of the specters. When they go to a neighborhood barbecue, they see a neighborhood get-together photograph and identify a man and woman as being the specters they see in their apartment. They discover that their specters are still living, but are now divorced. Their specters were the previous renters who were always quarreling in that apartment.
Residual haunting activity can be caused by agitated nervousness, such as a new politician that is nervous about talking in front of a crowd of people. The speech by this politician is played back over and over again as a residual haunting effect.

Poltergeist Activity:

Poltergeist activity is usually caused by an adolescent teenage girl going through puberty stages. During this stage of development, a young girl can harbor an extreme amount of inner energy. This energy can be projected with the mind, which can cause tapping sounds, the movement of objects, lights flickering off and on. Poltergeist activity usually originates from a human being.
Case Example: Walter B. Gibson, The Shadow
Walter B. Gibson, writer of the pulp series The Shadow thought about his character The Shadow so much, that his projected thoughts would actually create a hologram image of The Shadow, that would lurk in his apartment. When he had guests over, his guests were frightened by a man dressed all in black, with fedora hat and red scarf covering his face. They were describing the fictional character The Shadow. The Shadow was Walter B. Gibson’s poltergeist, an entity projected from his mind. With this case example, not all poltergeist activity is created from adolescent teenage girls.

Demon Activity:

Demons are entities that never had a mortal human form. Origins: Extraterrestrial. Why? If you believe that God and his angels are from the ‘heavens’, that would make them extraterrestrial. If Satan and 1/3 of the angels rebelled against God’s Kingdom, then Satan and 1/3 of the angels that became demons are also extraterrestrial. That is why they never had mortal human form. Einstein said that E = MC2. Energy can be converted into matter and matter into energy. Demons are pure energy entities. They are described in three different ways.
1. As angelic, a being of beauty that will manipulate the person to commit something that is sinful or out of the ordinary.
2. Horrific, evil looking. Some people claim, they have seen demons that are incredibly hideous to look at. I believe demons do this for a scare effect, they know what we fear and this is not their true appearance.
3. Black mist, black fog, black shadow, black smoke. Most demonic hauntings, the occupants claim to be followed by black mist or black fog.
Demons can travel from San Francisco to Hong Kong in a blink of an eye. The demons main purpose is to cause chaos and havoc upon mankind. Demons are deceivers and they manipulate our society towards social upheaval. Demons seek out our destruction. Demon cases are extremely rare. To handle demonic cases, it is essential that a blessing of the purest kind is conducted on the person or home. Consult your clergyman, priest or Demonologist.

Intelligent/Interactive Activity:

Back to Einstein’s theory. As matter beings, we are all energy beings on the quantum level. We are made up of atoms and neutrons. As matter/energy beings we have intelligence. While we live, we have an energy aura that surrounds our living bodies. This aura is created by the millions of electrical currents that are created through our bodies. Our brains creates brain waves, a form of pure energy that is transmitting our thoughts, what we see, what we feel, etc.
When our mortal form dies, the aura that constantly surrounds our bodies, leaves our bodies. We lose 6 ounces on the instance of death. What is this 6 ounces? Perhaps it is energy leaving our body. Our soul. This energy, the aura, or you may even call it your soul, is carrying the information of what we used to be. If it can do this, then why couldn’t it also carry our intelligence? If it can carry our former intelligence of our previous life, then it should be able to interact with us intelligently. When we see this aura, we call it a ghost.
If this ghost is able to interact with us, is aware of us, can touch us, can communicate with us, then this is an intelligent/interactive haunting.

Shadow People or Shadow Creatures Activity:

This is a type of haunting activity that has no real explanation. They are different from ghosts. They are usually shapeless dark masses. Mostly seen with your peripheral vision. They are known to do things that are different from ghosts. They can move between walls, they have no human features, they wear no clothes (except for the hat man/hooded figure shadow creatures). People who encounter them, have a feeling of dread. Clairvoyants that encounter Shadow People, say they do not feel they are human and consider them non-human.
Shadow People have no discernible mouth, noses or facial expressions. Some are seen as child sized dark humanoids. Some people say they seem to be made up of dark smoke or dark steam. At times when they move, they appear to be moving on an invisible track from one place to another, such as a toy train on a small scale railroad track. They have been seen to hop or what appears to be a strange dance. They are known to stare at the floor.
Two common types of Shadow People are the ‘hat man’, that looks like he or she is wearing a 1930s fedora hat and the ‘hooded figure’, which looks like the shadow person has a hood over their head. The hood and hat stand out as clothing, but otherwise, they are not wearing any clothing at all. There are also reports of shadow animals, such as a shadow in the form of a cat, with no discernible mouth, nose or eyes.

Doppelganger Haunting Activity:

Extremely rare.
Case example: German ghost hunting investigative team is called upon a doppelganger haunting activity to investigate.
The woman victim was standing on a street corner and with her peripheral vision saw the image of herself on a bus. The image of herself was staring back at her. One week later she again faced her doppelganger in a crowded mall, it stared at her and seemed to disappear amongst the mass of people. It wore the same clothes that she wore. One week later, she was diagnosed with cancer.
Doppelganger haunting activity is considered the evil twin, the harbinger of misfortune, the omen of death.
In most cases, the victim of this haunting activity is in danger with her immediate surroundings, her family or in some cases the victim themselves are in grave danger of illness or death.

 

Most Haunted Places in Afghanistan

Most Haunted Places in Afghanistan

 

Afghan – Tajikistan border – Hindu Kush mountains – The “Ail”, feminine looking entities with floating hair, pale eyes resembling milky white orbs and glacier pale skin are said to inhabit the region whenever the suns rises so high, that you cannot see your own shadow, or at twilight. Even though they normally go on about their business, it is best to treat them with respect, since the Ail are known to be quite violent and hostile. That is why you almost never see any villagers or nomads out during those times in the day.

Kabul – Kabul University - It has been told that some of the abandoned dorms and abandoned classrooms were used by the Taliban to torture and kill people whom dare defy them. While some foreign aid workers were helping out on re-building Kabul University, it was said by many that they smelled the foul scent of rotting flesh, feces and other bodily wastes. Others said they also saw the entities of the victims that were tortured to death by the Taliban or heard screaming and crying in pain, when there was no one there.

Most Haunted Places in Japan

Most Haunted Places in Japan

Atsugi Naval Air Base – BEQ 985 - The spirit of a young man is often seen wandering from room to room. Believed to be the ghost of a marine that was killed in a car accident in the 1960′s.

Hiroshima - It was said that the souls of the nuclear bomb victims at the end of World War 2 haunt the area. voices, pleading for help, crying and screaming can be heard around twilight. It was also said that some of those souls sometimes lurk in the shadows of the living.

Iwakuni – Barracks 1687 Room 301 - A Marine living in that room a few years ago committed suicide. In a drunken rage the Devil Dog broke the mirror in his room and slit his wrists with the broken pieces. From Marines checking in and out of that room since then, late at night if you look at the mirror you can see a Marine staring at you from the mirror.

Kanagawa – Atsugi Naval Air Facility – The Corrosion Hangar Bay - Located on the other side of the base stands over the old hangar used by Imperial Japan Kamikaze pilots. After Imperials surrender, many pilots killed themselves in this hangar for disgracing their nation.. At night, you can hear doors slamming on their own and sightings of floating “red eyes” can be seen from inside the bay. There was one incident during watch in which a man dressed in a Imperial era uniform walked through the bay access doors and out the back exit.
Kanagawa Prefecture – field hospital – The hospital is an old field hospital located on a military base by the name of Sagami Depot. There have been reports of noises and individuals walking around in the hospital. The building is seldom used but at night when security checks on it they often find a windows raised or a door that ha been locked previously unlocked. The Military police usually have a new soldier go there to conduct checks his first night on the job. Many have reported hearing some one walking around inside. The Japanese have experienced the same.

Nagasaki – Like Hiroshima, it was also said that the souls of the nuclear bomb victims in Nagasaki at the end of World War 2 haunt the area. voices, pleading for help, crying and screaming can be heard around twilight. It was also said that some of those souls sometimes lurk in the shadows of the living.

Okinawa – Camp Hansen – Gate #3 – Every weekend at night a soldier dressed in WWII gear, with blood all over his fatigues, a cigarette in his hand, and would ask the gate guard the same thing. “Gotta light?” Usually, the MP would light the cigarette for the soldier. As soon as it was lit, the GI would disappear. Update: this gate is closed because of this haunting; they had problems keeping a Japanese Sentry at this gate.

Okinawa – Camp Hansen – Gate #3 (Across the road from) - there was a fierce Samurai battle down that road one time. They said that at night, you can still hear the moans from the wounded Samurai Warriors, as they lay there dieing.

Okinawa – Gate One MCAS Futenma – Apparition of an Okinawa man from the waist up.

Okinawa – Machinato - HQ Spec Troops Barracks – Doors opening, cold spots, manual plumbing working automatically.

Okinawa – Marine Housing – persons living in the area reported a spirit sitting on the end of their bed, or feeling cold spots in certain areas of the house. One person stated seeing a shape of a little man walking through the halls.

Okinawa – The WWII Room - Witnesses have felt things touch them that were cold with no wind in contact.

Okinawa – USAF Storage Area - This whole island is haunted, mainly from WWII. One of the many haunted areas is in the Munitions Storage Area on Kadena AB. Along one of the main roads is a small clearing for people to stop and fish in the lake there or do whatever. It is reported that some nights when it’s foggy, people will be sitting at that clearing (security forces looking for speeders) doing whatever. They will hear noises like feet stomping on the ground. Then they will look out onto the lake and see a whole battalion of Japanese soldiers marching on the water. Then all of the sudden that person is surrounded by all the soldiers. Then they just disappear.Okinowa Experience

Tokyo – Akasaka – Weekly mansion Akasaka - There have been reports from many people that the weekly mansion building No.1 is haunted.  Many have seen visions standing at the end of their beds, white mists coming in through the air vents, the room becoming suddenly very cold there have also been reports of lights going out or coming on by themselves, television and radios turning themselves on and a feeling of someone stroking their heads while they sleep and even being pushed into the bed by some unknown force being forced into a state of being so frozen they cannot move.  One person even repirted being dragged from her bed to the other side of the room and then back again, she had scratches on her back the next day!

Tokyo – Outskirts - Outside Tokyo is a haunted mansion that was the basis of the game “Fatal Frame”. It is said there are other houses close by linked to the past of the mansion. People who have gone in there were later found by police with rope marks on their wrists, legs, and neck. There are also vast tunnels under this mansion but it is unknown what they’re for. Sometimes during the day you can photograph a small girl in a kimono in one of the windows

Tokyo – Square Building – A bluish male child wandering the halls at night. If he thinks he has been seen he will disappear.

Yokohama – Ikego – The middle gate - A World War 2 concentration camp. Where thousands of Chinese and Korean people were put to work and killed by the Japanese army. It is now a U.S. military housing Base. There are five incinerators that still stand today. It has three gates that keep it separate from the Japanese community. The Main Gate, The middle Gate and a back gate. At the middle gate, gate guards have experienced hearing voices, footsteps and a feeling of being watched. Some have reported a World War 2 Japanese soldier in a brown uniform with no legs between the middle gate and back gate.

Yokosuka Naval Base – Gridley Tunnel - This is a narrow, one way tunnel that runs through a hill from Gridley Lane to Nimitz Blvd. There have been numerous reports of people driving through the tunnel and seeing a man dressed as a Samurai. The reports are all similar, the people are driving through the tunnel when they look in their rear view mirror and see a man dressed as a Samurai standing in the road behind their vehicle when there was no one in the tunnel a moment before. Some people have been so startled by this that they have wrecked their vehicles into the side of the tunnel. The sightings are reported most often on rainy nights between midnight and 1:00am. The base newspaper, The Seahawk, once featured a story on this haunting.  The rumor is that the apparition is the ghost of a Samurai who was on his way to avenge the death of his lord when he was ambushed and cut down in the tunnel. Because he failed in his mission of vengeance he can’t leave his place of death.

 

The Most Haunted Places In England

The Most Haunted Places In England

 

Hgh gate Cemetery

 

1. The “Highgate” cemetery, London. In the late sixties of the last century there were hearings that visitors of this cemetery were terrorized by a tall dark figure with hypnotic red eyes.





2. The house of the parish priest in Borley, the Essex County. It is considered, that in this house lived various vampires, the most well-known of which was the slaughtered conventual. In 1944 the house was taken down, but yet the number of the people wishing to look at that place where it stood earlier, did not become smaller.

3. The Penndel-hill hill, the Lancashire County. In 1612 in the castle of Lancaster had been executed ten so-called “witches of the Penndel” who, as they say, are haunting till now the inhabitants of the village of Njuchyorch. One of them was buried right on the Penndel-hill hill.

4. The Red lion pub in Avebury, the Wiltshire County. In the «Red lion” children-phantoms, light circles, strange shades and abnormal cold areas had been noticed in the “the Red lion”.

5.The “Ancient ram” hotel, the city of Voottin-under-Edge, the Gloucestershire county .They say that in this 12th century’s building constructed on a pagan cemetery, murders, acts of a Satanism and sacrifice of children took place.

Glamis castle

6. The Glamis Castle, the city of Angus, Scotland. According to hearings, the residence of the Stretmorsky count and countess is full of secret rooms. Among the phantoms of this building it is possible to point out a woman without tongue, running in the garden, and the mysterious Grey Lady.

The Tower of London

7. The London Tower. The most well-known ghosts of this building became the princes in the tower, killed by their uncle Richard III. Also the illusive shifts are made by Lady Jane Grey, Anna Bolejn and the White Lady.





8. The Culloden Bogs , in the neighborhood of Inverness. In 1746 in a battle between Scots and Englishmen the first had lost their chances on independence.

9. The Private residence Llancaiach Fawr Manor near to Caerfilli, the Wales. In this private residence continuous mutter of unbodied voices is heard, and visitors frequently burst into tears in one of the rooms.

10. The castle of Berry Pmroy, the Devon County. There, according to hearings, the Dark blue Lady and the White Lady come with a visit quite often.

Mantell UFO incident

Mantell UFO incident

 

The Mantell UFO incident was among the most publicized early UFO reports. The incident resulted in the crash and death of 25-year-old Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, Captain Thomas F. Mantell, on 7 January 1948, while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
Historian David Michael Jacobs argues the Mantell case marked a sharp shift in both public and governmental perceptions of UFOs. Previously, mass media often treated UFO reports with a whimsical or glib attitude reserved for silly season news. Following Mantell’s death, however, Jacobs notes "the fact that a person had dramatically died in an encounter with an alleged flying saucer dramatically increased public concern about the phenomenon. Now a dramatic new prospect entered thought about UFOs: they might be not only extraterrestrial but potentially hostile as well.


Mantell was an experienced pilot; his total flight history consisted of 2,167 hours in the air, and he had been honored for his part in the Battle of Normandy during World War II.




On 7 January 1948, Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox, Kentucky received a report from the Kentucky State Highway Patrol of an unusual aerial object near Maysville, Kentucky. Reports of a westbound circular object, 250 to 300 feet (91 m) in diameter, were made from Owensboro, Kentucky, and Irvington, Kentucky.
At about 1:45 p.m., Sgt Quinton Blackwell saw an object from his position in the control tower at Fort Knox. Two other witnesses in the tower also reported a white object in the distance. Base commander Colonel Guy Hix reported an object he described as "very white," and "about one fourth the size of the full moon ... Through binoculars it appeared to have a red border at the bottom ... It remained stationary, seemingly, for one and a half hours." Observers at Clinton County Army Air Field in Ohio described the object "as having the appearance of a flaming red cone trailing a gaseous green mist" and observed the object for around 35 minutes. Another observer at Lockbourne Army Air Field in Ohio noted, " Just before leaving it came to very near the ground, staying down for about ten seconds, then climbed at a very fast rate back to its original altitude, 10,000 feet, leveling off and disappearing into the overcast heading 120 degrees. Its speed was greater than 500 mph in level flight."






Four P-51 Mustangs of C Flight, 165th Fighter Squadron Kentucky Air National Guard already in the air—one piloted by Mantell—were told to approach the object. Sgt Blackwell was in radio communication with the pilots throughout the event.
One pilot's Mustang was low on fuel, and he quickly abandoned his efforts. Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt (the first head of Project Blue Book) notes that there was some disagreement amongst the air traffic controllers as to Mantell's words as he communicated with the tower: some sources reported that Mantell had described an object "[which] looks metallic and of tremendous size," but others disputed whether or not
 Mantell actually said this.


The other two pilots accompanied Mantell in steep pursuit of the object. They later reported they saw an object, but described it as so small and indistinct they could not identify it. Mantell ignored suggestions that the pilots should level their altitude and try to more clearly see the object.
Only one of Mantell's companions, Lt. Albert Clemmons, had an oxygen mask, and his oxygen was in low supply. Clemmons and a Lt. Hammond called off their pursuit at 22,500 feet (6,900 m). Mantell continued to climb, however. According to the Air Force, once Mantell passed 25,000 feet (7,600 m) he supposedly blacked out from the lack of oxygen (hypoxia), and his plane began spiraling back towards the ground. A witness later reported Mantell's Mustang in a circling descent. His plane crashed at a farm south of Franklin, Kentucky, on the Tennessee-Kentucky state line.
Firemen later pulled Mantell's body from the Mustang's wreckage. His wristwatch had stopped at 3:18 p.m., the time of his crash. Meanwhile, by 3:50 p.m. the UFO was no longer visible to observers at Godman Army Air Field. The Mantell Incident was reported by newspapers around the nation, and received significant news media attention. A number of sensational rumors were also circulated about Mantell's crash. Among the rumors were claims that Mantell's fighter had been shot down by the UFO he was chasing, and that the Air Force covered up evidence proving this. Another rumor stated that Mantell's body was found riddled with strange holes. However, no evidence has ever surfaced to substantiate any of these claims. In 1956, USAF Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the supervisor of the Air Force's Project Blue Book study into the UFO mystery, would write that the Mantell Crash was one of three "classic" UFO cases in 1948 that would help to define the UFO phenomenon in the public mind, and would help to convince Air Force intelligence specialists that UFOs were a "real", physical phenomenon (Ruppelt 30). The other two sightings were the Gorman Dogfight and the Chiles-Whitted UFO Encounter.