Archive briefing
The Darkives lists 7 former RAF bases where our community has documented paranormal phenomena. All are in the United Kingdom, and the most-recorded areas are East Riding of Yorkshire (2), North Yorkshire (2) and Lincolnshire (1).
The phenomena most often recorded at these former RAF bases are ghost and spirit activity (4) and high strangeness (3).
Members have filed 1 first-hand witness report across 1 of these places; each location page holds its full history, photos and reports.
United Kingdom
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1 reportHigh StrangenessRAF Staxton Wold (RRH Staxton Wold)
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
RAF Staxton Wold (or Remote Radar Head Staxton Wold) was one of Britain’s earliest radar stations, established before the Second World War and later…
Former RAF BaseOpen file
High StrangenessFormer RAF Bempton
Bempton, East Riding of Yorkshire
RAF Bempton, a former cliff-top radar and Cold War listening station, now lies abandoned above the North Sea. Its empty bunkers, echoing corridors…
Former RAF BaseOpen file
GhostFormer RAF Castle Comb
Chippenham, Wiltshire
RAF Castle Combe was a Second World War flying-training airfield opened in 1941 and closed in 1948. Thousands of aircrew trained from the site before…
Former RAF BaseOpen file
High StrangenessFormer RAF Catfoss
Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire
Once a wartime training airfield and later a nuclear missile installation, RAF Catfoss occupies an isolated stretch of the Holderness countryside…
Former RAF BaseOpen file
Ghost › ApparitionFormer RAF Coleby Grange
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Once a wartime night-fighter station and later a nuclear missile base, RAF Coleby Grange is now largely reclaimed by farmland. Its derelict control…
Former RAF BaseOpen file
Ghost › ApparitionPrimrose Valley Holiday Park (Formerly Butlins Filey, RAF Hunmanby Moor)
Filey, North Yorkshire
On the coast south of Filey, North Yorkshire, Primrose Valley Holiday Park occupies part of a landscape shaped by Butlin’s holiday camp and its…
Former RAF BaseOpen file
Ghost › ApparitionRAF Weston Green
Bicester, Oxfordshire
Beside the A4095 near Bicester, Oxfordshire, RAF Weston-on-the-Green is a military airfield with First World War origins and a continuing association…
Former RAF BaseOpen file