The Ghosts of Brooklands Race Track : Percy Lambert, Racing Ghosts, Arthur Moorhouse, Aviation
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- Welcome to the Ghosts of Brooklands Race Track
#ghosts #haunted #history #Brooklands
Start your engines! Today, we are going on a journey to look at the hauntings and stories from Brooklands Race Track in Surrey. Between 1907 and 1939, this was the home to rip roaring car and motorcycle racing, as well as being a significant Air Field. Who is the ghost that’s seen in white overalls, walking along the track? Does a phantom motorcycle rider still haunt the tunnel? Who are the mysterious aviators who still visit Brooklands after all these years?
Some of the stories focus on historic events and I hope you feel that my video covers the sad side of history in a respectful and honest way, without the need for sensationalising the past. Please stay tuned to the end to hear a small post script from me, Nicola, where I’ll share some thoughts about racing, the sad death of Ayrton Senna, some historic postcards and a painting that I love.
The Brooklands Story (Please be aware there is a fatal crash at about 7 minutes in)
• The Brooklands Story
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Hi Nicola, my grandparents worked for a Lady, Mrs Collins who, back in her younger days was a Lady racing driver who used to race at Brooklands.
I love this! Fantastic and interesting how many wealthy women enjoyed a spin around Brooklands! 🙏🙋♀️👻
@@ghostcasebook1266awesome video Nichola....motorcycle racing,aviation and ghosts all in 1 video...3 things i love.....👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤
WHO is this lady racecar driver Mrs.Collins....could she be related to Joan Collins from Dynasty fame she was also on Batman 🦇 66 as Lorelei Lee the Siren
Well that had me gripped unbelievable courage and madness they had. An imprint off his goggles on post ouch. Brilliant story to cover 🇬🇧🙏
Thank you ever so much. Yes it’s a rather chilling detail, I think! 🙏🙋♀️
I have been researching and investigating ghosts, cryptids and the paranormal in general for over forty years. As you might imagine, it's a rarity nowadays to come across stories that I haven't heard before. This is a new one. I thought I had a good knowledge of British hauntings, especially for an American, but you put another place on my wishlist of investigations. Thanks.
Thank you ever so much and I am glad this is new for you. It is a bit of a forgotten gem to be honest but its history is amazing 🙏🙋♀️
Absolute first rate . The research and attention to detail on this subject is far beyond all expectations . My family has been involved in motor sport for nearly a century . As well as my love for parapsychology and history .
Wow, thank you! I am so glad you enjoyed the subject and how it links to your family. That’s wonderful 🙏👻🙋♀️
I was thoroughly engrossed in this story. The postcards were a lovely touch at the end, with the story of Mme. de Lempicka rounding it out. Nailed it!
Wow thank you ever so much! Yes I love those post cards. Funny how a motor car race begins with a race to the vehicles! Lempicka’ a work is fantastic, I think 🙏🙋♀️
@@ghostcasebook1266 Couldn't agree more. Tamara de Lempicka was in a class of her own.
@@ghostcasebook1266 Bit like the RAF pilots who use to run to their planes and it would've been during that period.
I so enjoyed this video Nicola ! You are a wonderful story teller . I felt very sad for Percy.
Thank you so much! I am so glad you enjoyed the stories and the storytelling! You are very kind 🙏🙋♀️👻
What a fascinating video about the pioneers of racing who, sadly, lost their lives participating in the sport which they loved. I hope your unsettling dreams about walking around Brooklands have now abated. Thanks, Nicola!
Yes, they are on the way out now. I’ll move on to the net video and probably have dreams about that now! 🙏🙋♀️👍
That was very interesting and well presented. Back in the early 70s some friends and myself used to go down to the members banking on sunday afternoons to clear the trees out of the track, we would ofetn get chased off by security. One time I was walking along the top of the banking and I`ll swear a man in blue overalls and wearing glasses walked out from the bushes in front of me and then vanished !
Thank you so much for this. I wonder if you spotted the legendary mechanic and tuner Dan O’Donovan perhaps? I wonder if he returns there because he was responsible for tuning many of the record breaking vehicles there. I wonder? 🤔🙏🙋♀️👻
Imola 94 was a cursed weekend, it was a miracle Rubens Barrichello survived his crash when his car went airborne during qualifying. He went from 120-0 in 2 seconds when his car flew into the tyre wall. Ratzenberger was killed later that day, and of course fate was awaiting Senna during the race the next day. Just an awful, insidious race.
I agree. It was an absolutely bizarre weekend and I didn’t know that about Rubens but thank you for sharing this with us. Do you agree that you maybe knew where you were when you heard the news about Senna? Thank you again 👻🙋♀️🙏🙏
@@ghostcasebook1266 I'd have been 12, so I'd have been out on my bmx with my mates probably. Earliest death I remember exactly where I was would probably be Princess Di, my little sister was watching Nickelodeon downstairs and rushed upstairs after the channel said viewers needed to switch to a news channel immediately, that Diana had died. That's still vivid nearly 30 yeara later.
I'm surprised Senna lasted as long as he did. Considering he pretty much started his career during the peak of the 80s turbo era..
With a reported 1500hp available during qualifying.
900~ during the race.
We have to consider these early F1s were quite basic, with turbo lag manual gearbox s no traction control and all that power..
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I honestly can't remember what I was doing when senna died.
Think I missed the actual race.
My dad & I watched F1 religiously during late 80s all through the 90s on Sunday BBC sport NO adverts.
Watching
Mansell constantly breakdown, battling it out with Piquet and Prost..
Barrichello’s crash was in practice on Friday, Ratzenberger in qualifying on Saturday, Senna on the Sunday. Listening to this story, I thought Percy’s crash had much more in common with Jim Clark’s crash at Hockenheim in 68 (blown rear tyre and into trees). Indeed, he was very much the Senna of the 60s and was Ayrton’s hero.
Another informative video Nicola, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you ever so much 🙋♀️🙏👻
Brooklands is a fascinating museum and the old banking and the underpass underneath is spooky.
Thank you so much and it is a creepy place! But at the same time I don’t think there’s anything bad there as such. The headless one sounds scary, though, having said that! 🙋♀️🙏👻
Definitely going to visit looks creepy can’t wait go!
The level of detail you go into with the history of people, events, and places (outside the paranormal events) never ceases to amaze me. Another wonderful video! I love the Lempicka self-portrait near the end -- I need to look up more of her work. Very stylized and graphic, which I enjoy in art.
I am so glad you enjoyed the video and the history for sure. Yes, Lempicka is a fantastic artist who had a very unique way of painting. Rather iconic and very deco for sure! 🙏🙋♀️👻
You did it again! Another fantastic and fascinating video. Thanks so much for all your efforts in putting these together!
Thank you ever so much Jason! I am so glad you enjoyed the video for sure and much more to come 🙏🙋♀️👻
Hi Nicola, thanks for posting another great video. I'm going to save it for later after a workout it'll be the perfect way to unwind after I'm done. Well done again 👏 👍
Sounds great! 🙏🙋♀️👻
The Roland Ratzenberger crash is horrific he was interviewed before his awful accident and he said he was worried about how wicked fast his car could go and how he was right on the edge he knew he was in big trouble it was so tragic
Yes I agree. And sadly his death was barely talked about at the time although Senna's drew attention to it. I think Ratzenberger could have gone on to great things but his life was cut short, far too early.
Excellent video, well done Nicola, love the artwork, maybe a few haunted galleries could be a thing🤔
That would be cool and I do love galleries and museums! 🙋♀️🙏
I loved this vlog like all your vlogs but this one you could almost smell the gasoline!!,I do believe in ghosts; this house Im in at the moment has too much weird stuff happening.2012 my father died and I decided to care for mum who had dementia. I used to sleep beside her on top of the covers, she had a habit of wandering off. Used to wake hearing my dad talking to mum quite regular. I decided to take a bath one night, a very quick one, only me and mum in the house!!Washing the shampoo off my hair I heard suddenly a mans voice booming to me.Looked in the rooms upstairs no one, went downstairs, just mum with a cigarette in hand, went into the kitchen. The gashob is on, one burner lit and the other three leaking gas!!Mum had obviously gone looking for something to light her cigarette thus the gashob on!!Got many more like this even when mum sadly passed on in 2017.Keep up the excellent work
Oh wow thank you for sharing your story. This is very interesting and sadly my dad has lost two of his brothers to dementia and it is a horrible illness. That’s very interesting about hearing your dad etc. Sorry you lost your parents but I hope they are at peace and reunited now 🙏🙋♀️👻
Thank you for the reply,youre one hell of a vlogger and look forward to them with bated breath,I developed after mum died a form of epilesy that has cost me a few jobs but I will keep going.Mum has been back twice!!I had a witness too!!Thank you keep up the very good and important work you do
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Please please PLEASE make more of this!
Oh thank you! Well, I’ll have to investigate further but Brooklands really does have a unique history. Have you been there? There are lots of videos on YT that show the museum and footage of the track eto 🙏🙋♀️👻
And I think the energy and racing excitement that attracted these people whilst alive still attracts them once they have passed. And it is my understanding that people haunt places where they actually died.
Thank you so much. Do you think people can return to a place they love even if they didn’t pass away there? 🤔🙏🙋♀️
@@ghostcasebook1266 Yes, it seems at least some can do this. The late American actor John Wayne - I can’t remember; I think it’s his boat. He is seen there regularly. There are quite a lot of stories about a lot of well known but corporally deceased people/ spirits that show up all over. Another example is Queen Elizabeth I, who is regularly seen (and felt!) going into the Iibrary at Windsor Castle.
Thank you, a wonderful video. Your account of the shock of Senna's death in 1994 was very moving, and made me think how very shocking it must have been for the spectators at the earlier races, and what high emotions would have been generated not only by the intensity of the racers, but by the horror of those who witnessed scenes they could never have imagined. The air at Brooklands must be electric with all those traumas. By the way, the newspaper account of one crash, (sorry I can't recall names at once) describing in pretty gorey detail how the telephone pole was marked by the driver's goggles, and that bits of wood were on his clothes, and all the injuries: I can't imagine any newspaper going into that kind of detail nowadays!
Thank you ever so much and I’m glad you enjoyed the video. Yes I still remember the Senna death vividly. The Arthur Moorhouse mention of the goggles is chilling and also the Herman death, with the photographers hoping to get a snap of the bodies on the stretchers in the clubhouse is also a reminder of what the press were like, perhaps, at the time! 🙏🙋♀️👻
We owe these pioneers a debt of thanks. Rest In Peace brave souls.
Rest in peace also Kelvin Kiptum, marathon record holder who has been killed in a crash along with his coach.
Yes very sad news today. Thank you for your kind comments and I agree, these pioneers need to be remembered 🙏🙋♀️
I have to say hats off to you for the research you do for these videos, it makes it more enjoyable for me to hear the back stories in more historical detail…..additionally the bravery of the drivers and pilots at Brooklands was phenomenal, huge respect to them.
I appreciate that and I agree. They were brave and daring souls to accomplish the records and experiments in racing and aviation that they did. Respect for sure. Glad you enjoyed the video Brad 🙏🙋♀️👻
I went to Brooklands for a track day a couple of years ago, not knowing anything about its being haunted and was so interested that the area I found quite eerie, on the track by the bridge, is one of the locations mentioned - it all makes sense now! A fantastic video and the deaths are so sensitively handled, looking forward to your next video! ❤
Thank you ever so much. I am so pleased you enjoyed the video and thank you for sharing your Brooklands experience. Initially I thought this was just going to be a video on Percy Lambert, but then I found the other stories and I had to include them, so it became a bigger project than I thought, but I’m glad I included them 🙋♀️🙏👻
Great video, my Uncle worked at Brooklands so it’s a place close to my heart. We live close to Brooklands and visit is regularly we will keep an eye out for ghosts thank you for this 😊
Thanks for sharing! Fantastic! Apparently some of the shops and houses have echoes of racing inside them as though the drivers don’t recognise the modern constructions! I hope you don’t see the headless one though! Frightening! 🙏🙋♀️👻
Yoooooooooooooooooooo! Nice job, Nicola
Thank yooooooouuu! 😂🙋♀️🙏👻
This was really interesting- sad, certainly, but fascinating. They must just have felt immortal, like we all do at times. The rush overshadows the fear I guess. Thanks Nicola :)
Glad you enjoyed it and I absolutely agree. There may have been a feeling of adrenaline over judgement maybe? I don’t know. But they were pioneers and I respect them so much as their efforts have changed racing, car manufacturing, aviation and made advances in safety across the board, I think. 🙏🙋♀️👻
I'm only 22 seconds in & I'm already scared ....the music & the pics....
I hope you were able to sleep after watching it though 🙏🙋♀️👻
The amount of research you conduct is truly monumental and is evident in your informative, compassionate, and thought-provoking videos! You really brought these people to life, and their tragic deaths made my heart hurt for them and those they left behind.
Thank you so much for sharing your time, talent, and insights with us!
I hope your relative continues to get better!
You are very kind and I am so glad that you enjoyed the video, despite its rather sad subject, I suppose! My relative is home and on the mend, thank you for asking 🙏👻🙋♀️👍
You should get a book called The ghost at brookland museum by Mark Richardson It tales the story of witnesses at the brooklands museum of seeing ghosts around the site. great video Nicola
I will have to have look for that for sure, thank you 🙏🙋♀️👻
Fascinating stuff imagine all that psychic energy stored up there all that adrenaline and thrill of racing coupled with being on the edge of danger no wonder there's activity?
You might be right there. Immense energy perhaps? 🙋♀️🙏🤔
Again great video, thankyou Nicola
Glad you enjoyed it! And thank you 🙏🙋♀️👻
What a great video & a very informative interesting commentary where your enthusiasm for motor racing history (& ghosts) really shines through.
What a shame though some British zillionaire racing fan hasn't bought a huge plot of land & rebuilt a replica Brooklands circuit.
I have read the fine actor James Robertson Justice raced there.
Thank you and I am so glad you enjoyed the video. Sadly the land has been developed and there are shops and houses now where sections of the track used to be. Also since Brooklands closed, other race tracks became more prominent I suppose, but Brooklands still has some vintage transport events etc. But it would be lovely to see a version of it restored to its former glory but I think the bumpiness of the concrete really was a nail in its coffin, ultimately. 🙏🙋♀️👻
Hi Nicola
What a wonderful video. Your narration certainly showed the excitement, danger and allure of motor racing.
It’s cool you followed F1; didn’t know that. I’m not surprised your research into fatal accidents affected you so much. As you research each accident you get to know the competitor a little, then the horror of the accident and it’s details take on a slightly personal aspect.
Thank you so much for the mention. I really was not expecting that; bless you.
I really enjoyed this video; you did well. Thank you for all your hard work in bringing it all together and sharing with us.
Hope you had a good weekend; stay safe. 👍🙏📷😀♥️😱
Thanks Neil! Yes, I did follow F1 back in the days and when I was at university when I had the time to watch it. I loved Michael Schumacher and it was a lot of fun to watch. I could probably get back into it and the coverage on the tv today with all the technical behind the scenes stuff is incredible but to be honest, I would miss Murray Walker, I think. My mother in law watches it and she’s nearly 90! Glad you enjoyed the video and the subject. I had to mention you and you can see now why I had to ask. With Arthur Moorhouse, some journalists at the time said he had a problem with his exhaust on his Indian but it seems he died reaching down with one hand and seconds later he hit the telegraph post. Chilling about the imprint of his goggles though. Yes, lots of crash images and details but I’ll move on to the next video now. But I’m glad I have highlighted these brave people who are probably largely forgotten 🙏🙋♀️👻👍
@@ghostcasebook1266 Yes indeed, the goggles imprint is a terrible thought.
Yep, time to move on as you say.
If I can be of any help, you only have to ask👍🙏👻
Interesting stories, Nicola! 👻👍Loved seeing the postcards and painting at the end too.
Thanks so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it Don 🙋♀️🙏👻
So enjoyed. Ghost Casebooks have become one of my favorite things to watch. I will have to tell you, Nicola, that my favorite moments are the ones at the ends of your films. Please keep them coming. They are wonderful and insightful entertainment.
I'm so glad! Thank you ever so much Joanne. I will keep the videos coming for sure 👻🙏
Brooklands was a place of great passions. These people deeply loved what they did. It makes sense that they would feel the draw back to Brooklands.
I agree. It was everything to many of the brave souls there. 🙏🙋♀️👻
Thank youNicola!!!!! I new of racing in England but this is great!!!!!!!!
Thank you and glad you enjoyed the video 🙋♀️🙏👻
That was excellent all around ! Thank you for sharing more fascinating History !
Glad you enjoyed it! It is an area of history that is often overlooked but it meant everything to those brave souls! 🙏🙋♀️
Thanks for another fantastic video, Nicola!
You are very welcome and I am so glad you enjoyed the video for sure 🙏🙋♀️👻
Now that is some old history i never knew of.Very intresting and a Great Video.
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you. Yes it’s sort of forgotten but it was such an important place really 🙏🙋♀️👻
Hi Nicola....
Thank you for posting this video.
Don't laugh....the first time I ever heard about Brooklands, was from the series
"Downton Abbey"
As for the speed limit of 20 mph...also from "Downton Abbey".....it was the scene when Tom Branson was applying for the position of chauffeur, and explained he left his previous employer, because the old Lady did not allow him to drive over 20 mph....
Thanks so much for the info, and explanations.
Hope you're doing well.
Yes it was mentioned in Downton abbey or as I called it for years Down Town! I don’t remember that about the chauffeur but it makes sense. I think they filmed the Downton scene at Goodwood but it was meant to be Brooklands itself. I think they captured the society elegance etc of being a spectator there at the time. I am so glad you enjoyed the video for sure 🙏🙋♀️👻
Awesome just settling in with a beer 🍻
Enjoy! I hope you like the video and cheers!
The research you do on all of your videos is so impressive. I'm not a racing fan, but this was fascinating. I especially like your personal stories and the postcards you find. I now feel the need to look up Tamara de Lempicka's work!
Thank you ever so much. This means a great deal to me because whilst there’s a fair bit of history, I wanted to focus on the people more than the vehicles etc. I love the postcards too and glad you enjoyed the post script. Lempicka is an amazing artist, I think 🙏🙋♀️👻
My internet went down! I'm so glad I've got it back up and running, so that I didn't miss this. Thankyou.
Welcome back! Thank you so much for watching 🙏🙋♀️👻
great episode. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you so much 🙏🙋♀️👻
This is great! It's just off the A3 road. I've visited the museum and walked on whats left of the track. Its right next to the Tesco supermarket car park! 👻
Thank you James and I understand that the houses and supermarkets there (Tesco and maybe M and S) hear echoes of racing drivers that seem to ignore modern construction, apparently 🙋♀️🙏👻
super stuff - I used to live in West Byfleet and the walk home past the track on several occasions has left me thinking "Whaaaat????!!!!" great video
Thanks for sharing! I love this. Apparently, some of the shops and homes still hear and see apparitions of racing to this day, as though the modern constructions won’t interfere with these racing ghosts! 🙏🙋♀️
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Local legend....
There was an air crash next to the old circuit/airfield during ww2 and locals claim to see or hear it. I believe the location of the crash was opposite the entrance to the supermarket behind the houses in what would of been fields possibly?
A legendary circuit
Yes it is and sadly it’s largely forgotten, in some ways. But it must have been immense in its hay day for sure. 🙋♀️🙏👻
I saw a documentary on TV, probably on PBS, a few years back about the history of racing where Brooklands was shown, but they didn't mention the ghosts! Very unusual, but what better to hold a spirit than very sudden death? One moment, you are vibrantly alive; the next, the most horrendous pain, and your physical life is ended. There is a similarity between the track and a field of war. I could tell by the emotion in your voice how dear this subject is for you.
Thank you so much and I agree with you. It is the sudden nature of the death maybe combined with the thrill and speed? It reminds me of war and also perhaps air crashes that are so fatal. Yes, it really moved me making this video for sure 🙏🙋♀️👻
Most evocative and moving 👍👏👌
Thank you so much. It is an interesting location and a bit of a snapshot of history, long forgotten 🙏🙋♀️👻
Thank you Nicola, this was so interesting but, also quite sad. These were very daring and dedicated people who just loved speed!! ❤
I totally agree! They were brave people with rudimentary or non existent safely measures to be honest! Glad you enjoyed the video Joan 🙋♀️🙏
Thank you for another great video Nicola.
My pleasure! thank you so much 🙋♀️🙏👻
Gutted we lost to England 😭😭but your latest video has giving me and Daniel something to live for🥲very entertaining it's the first time l've heard of a haunted race track your research is outstanding well done my Welsh beauty👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. I hope all is well with your relative sending prayers and love🙏🏻❤️
Thanks again Nicola TXT you soon God bless from me and Daniel.XX👻👻🐑😱🫣🏃🏻🏃🏻🏉🏴👍🏻
Hi both and I hope you’re both well. I’m good, my relative is in the mend and I am so glad you enjoyed the video. Yes, it is a bit of a hidden and forgotten gem really! But lots of interesting history and lots of ghosts! 🙏🙋♀️
@@ghostcasebook1266 l'm so pleased to hear your relative is on the mend you must be so relieved.
We really enjoyed your latest video l take my hat off to you Nicola you really know your stuff who would have thought a race track could be haunted great stuff👏🏻👏🏻. Looking forward to your next video you deserve a medal for the amount of research you put in AMAZING👏🏻🥇.
Look after yourself angel and thank you.❤️XX 🏎️🏎️👻🐑👻😱🫣🏃🏻🏃🏻🏴🏴👍🏻
Thank you so much for watching and yes, it seems it really does have a whole array of activity there, for sure. You’ll have to visit there one day, maybe 🙋♀️🙏👻
@@ghostcasebook1266 In the daytime maybe and not by myself🥺
Looking forward to the next video God bless angel.XX🏎️👻🐑👻😱🫣🏃🏻🏃🏻🏴🏴
I truly love your channel. We are Texans and we were so fortunate to live in the UK for several years. Our family absolutely loved everyone and everything about the UK, and still have many lovely friends there:) We lived in West Kirby, so the stories you've shared about Liverpool and Chester were truly fascinating and brought back fond memories and interesting history we've not known. Your channel is brilliant and I hope you continue to share your findings and stories! Xx
Thank you so much! I am so glad the videos bring back some memories for you. I’d love to go to Texas one day! It looks fantastic! Thank you again 🙋♀️👻🙏
I managed to get a copy of the Jack Hallam, Ghost's Who's Who 📖.
(Many thanks again)
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You did? It’s good isn’t it? 🙏🙋♀️
This is such a lovely video Nicola! Where do you come up with these lovely ghostly stories? And the car racing is so very British too. I hope your relative is doing better. ❤🥰🐾👻😊🙋♀️
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video and the history. My relative is on the mend thank you 🙏🙋♀️👻
Excellent as always Nicola. I do recall that moment Ayrton Senna was killed and how shattered I was. As a child I saw an old image of Wolfgang von Trips thrown from his Ferrari at Monza in 1961. That image haunted my psyche for years. I'm envious that you were able to view Tamara de Lempicka's Autoportrait in person. Art can be quite powerful when the actual piece is viewed instead of a reproduction. My wife had a similar experience when she viewed The Buddha by Odilon Redon in the d'Orsay.
Thank you ever so much and I agree, that moment when they announced Senna’s death was so tragic. Thankfully things have improved these days but it was a very odd accident in itself. Thank you for the reference to Monza. The one that struck me as so awful was Roger Williamson who died at Zandvoort and I don’t know if you have seen the footage but his car is on fire and his fellow driver David Purley tries desperately to help him with a pretty useless fire extinguisher. The Marshalls did virtually nothing but it was too late an Williamson died when he probably could have been saved. It is harrowing. Yes, art in real life can be so moving but this painting really got me! Love the d’Orsay for sure. 🙋♀️🙏👻
Fantastic Nicola. Thank you for this. Have been looking forward to listening. Fascinating X
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you ever so much 🙏🙋♀️👻
Thank you, i had never heard of Brooklands before. Fascinating.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you ever so much. 🙏🙋♀️
I lived in a house built on the site of the former Vickers factory in the early 2000s, and definitely experienced something ghostly whilst there alone.
I was in the upstairs bathroom and I heard a bang downstairs followed by footsteps coming up stairs. I had the door open behind me and as i looked in the mirror I caught sight of movement which made me turn around.
I thought my husband had come home early and went to find him in the bedroom. No one there. I checked the rest of the house, but also no one.
Eventually i concluded that many had likely died working in the factory, and at least one was still there.
Wow that’s an interesting story. The bombing there was brutal and you may have experienced the energy of a former worker as you rightly say. I wonder? Thank you for sharing 🙋♀️🙏👻
Thanks Nicola, you never disappoint once again great video, would be very interested if you have ever seen a ghost.
Well I think I might have but I will share that in the future for sure 🙏🙋♀️👻
This is brilliant 10/10 effort..Thank you
Much appreciated! Thank you ever so much 🙏🙋♀️👻
Another brilliant show made by you, and having heard many accounts of not just people but machine's witnessed by people including engine sounds too. Not only engined machine's but carigers horse drove have been witnessed lots of times by different people some in the same places. I believe that some sort of energy is amazing to let us see these things.agian thank you for your brilliant stories.
Oh wow thank you so much. I am so glad you are enjoying the videos and Brooklands is a very haunted place, it seems. 👻🙏🙋♀️
I absolutely have to get myself some of those old-style goggles!!!❤❤❤❤
Thank you for an utterly fascinating video, I too love motor sports so this ticked a lot of boxes for me. I vividly remember seeing Ayrton Senna's last race and the utter shock of his death.
Thank you ever so much for this and yes, it was a terrible shock, wasn’t it when Senna went? Tragic. 🙏🙋♀️
Thank you, excellent episode 🌟
You are very welcome, thank you 🙏🙋♀️
I reckon for £17 million today, Surrey County Council could just about build about half a dozen speed humps down an already constructed highway. I have a memento of Brooklands - a very large hand drill- a Wolf WD2 which a friend picked up off the scrap pile at Vickers Brooklands in 1962. He got it working but decided to give it to me- and one day, I will take it back and maybe they can use it - or put it on display! There's a video on YT of someone restoring one of these hand tools in Canada- from memory!
As a motoring and aviation enthusiast, and a ghostie, I thoroughly enjoyed this one 👻
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes it’s like a 3 in 1 venue with cars, planes and ghosts! ✈️👻🙋♀️🙏
Thank you for another brilliant video!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you ever so much 🙏🙋♀️
This was an amazing video, so much detail and history, lots of film and pictures and actual newspaper reports. Driving those race cars with no roll bars or other protection was no doubt more dangerous than flying a plane in the day. Thank you for your diligent research and for the way you make these videos personal by including your own feelings and observations. Well done!
Thank you ever so much and I am so glad you enjoyed the video and all the bits and pieces that go into making it. Yes, I do share that it affects me as I am sure you can imagine but my viewers alway say such kind and supportive things to me. It helps. And I’ll move on to another video now and the bad dreams of bumping around Brooklands will fade away! 🙏🙋♀️👻
All of your videos are good but this is the best I’ve seen so far. I live near Brooklands and adore the place. I could sit on the banking for hours just gazing. Many years ago a friend of mine was night fishing there, illegally, and he told me that in the very early hours of the morning he heard the roar of an engine then the awful sound of a car crashing. He doesn’t believe in ghosts but he packed up his rod and promptly scarpered. He never went back.
Oh brilliant and what a great story. I am so glad you enjoyed the video. It sounds like a very active place right? Sounds like your friend was also spooked by a similar incident in the video for sure. 🙏👻🙋♀️
Fantastic.would love a time machine to go back and watch.i used to dream as child in the 70s racing cars in the 1920s
Thanks for the history lesson. What's more thank you for the personal touch you put into this video. It was a pleasure to watch and a pleasure listening to you.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you ever so much indeed 🙏🙋♀️👻
If I heard this story back in the 60's,70's I wouldn't have believed it, but nowadays cameras have captured countless ghosts/spirits, I totally believe in Percy's ghost now.
I was originally going to make a video just about Percy’s ghost but then I found out all of the other stories and I had to include them too because they were so interesting to me. I wonder if they could capture him on camera one day? 🙏🙋♀️👻
Really quite fascinating video nicol. How scary was that. You wouldn't catch me near the place. Cheers 👍
Glad you enjoyed it and yes it’s a bit of a forgotten gem to be honest! Not sure I’d like to see the headless ghost! 🙏🙋♀️👻
Wow what an amazing video, such history in this place. Thank you so much. 👻👻😱😱
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you 🙏🙋♀️
I can't believe it's been 30 years since Ayrton Senna died 🏎️🥀 I remember watching this at my mother's house. And she went in the kitchen when this happened as I was watching it. Next thing I knew Ayrton wasn't moving and the race was stopped in the meantime. It was an horrific accident that put me off watching F1. Another was an accident resulting the the driver breaking his leg and foot ? When he hit the wall 😲 I think it was Christian Fittipaldi ? How he survived beyond me. I've lost interest in Motorsport over the years. I find F1 boring nowadays 😐 Great video as always Nicola 😊
Thank you for sharing and I agree, it was absolutely awful. I think the commentator alongside Murray said something like ‘that’s a bad smash for Senna’ and of course the outcome was tragic. I can see your point about being put off motorsport and I would miss Murray Walker’s commentary for sure. 🙏🙋♀️👻
@@ghostcasebook1266 Murray Walker touching Nigel Mansell's head 🤣 Christian Fittipaldi also had his car flip up in Monza in 1997.
This was an exceptional video, so fascinating thank you. It was wonderful to hear you talk about art at the end too and the picture you love. It's so refreshing listening to an intelligent, articulate You Tuber. Thank you xxx
Wow goodness me thank you ever so much. That’s a compliment for sure and I appreciate your kind words, thank you! 🙏🙋♀️
Another awesome video and storytelling that I like very much Nicola. I just love that story behind the ghosts and their appearance and also the history behind every place you cover. 😊 Thanks Nicola for the interesting Brooklands History
Thank you ever so much and I am so glad you enjoyed the stories and the history and, of course, the ghosts! 👻🙏🙋♀️
Great Episode GC! I'm a big Motorsport fan, so it was great to watch this episode. Awesome pics & storytelling. Thanks & see you in the next one! 👻🇦🇺👻
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you ever so much 🙏🙋♀️👻
That is the best presented documentary I’ve ever listed to on TH-cam. And I love your clear, agreeable, accentless voice. Thank you very much.
Wow, thank you! I am so glad you enjoyed the video, thank you kindly. 🙋♀️🙏👻
SUPERB!
Thank you! Cheers! I am glad you like it 🙏🙋♀️👻
Fantastic video ❤ I just love Brooklands been a member for years
Oh fantastic and thank you ever so much 🙏🙋♀️👻
Yet another excellent video
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you so much 🙏🙋♀️👻
I thought, and hoped, that this would be about horseracing.
But this has me on the edge of my seat
I hope you enjoyed it. There are some haunted horse race courses in the UK though 👻🙏🙋♀️
Thank you for these ghost stories I love to listen to them. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! Will do! 🙏🙋♀️👻
Glad I'm not the only one that breaks out in tears when being so close to great art,, Me being a male I have to fight hard and try to swallow down the emotion that totally gives me a sucker punch in my gut,,, I wish there was a word for what happens to me when art does this to me and maybe it's something from a past life? Thank you once again for your channel and sorry I couldn't stay on topic from the video.
Oh thank you so much. Tell me about it. I think it is a combination of detail, colour, style, it just overwhelms me! It really does move me and it sounds like you feel the same too! 👻🙏🙋♀️
A terrific narration, so we'll told. Calmly. Such evocative photos.
Thank you kindly; I appreciate this so much 🙋♀️🙏👻
Hi Nicola, thank you for this very interesting video! ❤💐🙋🇬🇧
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🙋♀️👻
Love all those old racing car's. I did my motorcycle CBT there.
Very cool! It is a bit of an overlooked gem, really! 🙋♀️🙏
GREAT thanks!!!
Thank you! 🙏🙋♀️
Very interesting, thanks for your effort.
Glad you enjoyed it and you’re welcome 🙋♀️🙏
Fascinating, thank you, just subscribed
Thanks and welcome! I hope you’ll find some interesting videos about ghosts here and enjoy browsing through the content 🙏🙋♀️👻
Awesome video n awesome history great work keep up the great work you are doing.
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you every much 🙏🙋♀️👻
An excellent presentation Nicola, thank you for the time and trouble you took to create and share. You're going from strength to strength, long may it continue.
Thank you so much! It was an interesting video to make and thank you for your kind comment 🙏🙋♀️👻
That was fascinating and so well presented.
Thank you ever so much. I am so glad you enjoyed the video. 👻🙏
Nicola, that was a fantastic video. You really brought to life that strange, storeyed world of racing at Brooklands. Your obvious passion for the subject made it that much more appealing. The apparent reckless regard to life of the young participants just makes the era so much more poignant to us in our conscious, present day bubble of "safety".
Like you I adore T de L's work- if ever one artist captured the zeitgeist, it was her. And her images only gather additional power with each passing decade.
Thank you so much and I am really pleased that you enjoyed the video. Yes, they were brave souls living on the edge, I suppose! Thank you kindly 👻🙏🙋♀️
What a fantastic episode Nicola. So interesting to hear the history of Brooklands as well as the spirits who still roam there. Think this is my favourite of all your videos. Thank you for your hard work 🙏😃
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you so much for your kind comment. Wow I am so pleased you liked it so much! 🙏🙋♀️👻
Hi Nicola awesome live ghost stories video I enjoyed it. How are you doing? I'm doing well and so is my cat Benjamin. He's big and happy. We're both enjoying your video. Next video in the future could you do fyvie castle in Scotland. I heard it's cursed and haunted 👻 by a five hundred year old ghost of a woman. Have a great weekend see you next video 😀
Hi Michelle and I am good thanks! Glad you any Benjamin are well. I will look into Fyvie for sure 🙋♀️🙏👻
Great video! Awesome video! Love the content. I'm always going to be up for learning more about automotive racing history. This was very eye-opening and was just a really great thing to listen to while safety wasn't as much of a concern as it is nowadays. There is one thing that's that was much more prevalent than than it is today and that is the excitement. The situation then was much more exciting than it is today. I mean cars were brand new and racing at these higher speeds on a closed race track was something that was all brand new as well. But again, great video. Keep up the great work. Look forward to the next one
Thank you ever so much and I am so glad you enjoyed the video. It was a learning curve for me and I am really pleased you’ve enjoyed the history behind Brooklands. It is a great place but it’s overlooked now, I suppose, as the area has been developed quite a bit. Thank you again and yes, the safety at the time was virtually non existent! 🙋♀️🙏👻