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Read his second post on this topic, “New Facts Concerning Goddard Squadron Photo” (published July 3. CLICK TO ENLARGE. Scanned copy of Bobbie Capel’s squadron photo allegedly including the ghost of Freddy Jackson. I love looking at “ghost photos.” They’ve fascinated me all my life, but at some point I realized they didn’t all have to remain mysteries. The Watertown ghost photo and the Wem Town Hall ghost photo are now known to be hoaxes, for example.

But some still call out for research. One of the famous photos still promoted as a legitimate piece of photographic evidence for ghosts is that now known as the ghost of Goddard’s Squadron, allegedly the spirit of a dead chap named Freddy Jackson. It dates from the end of World War I and shows a group of military personnel standing for a squadron portrait. But according to the tale behind this image there is one extra person in the photo—and he’d been dead for a few days.

At the top of this post is a nearly uncropped scan of the photo in question. In the back row, if you look closely at the fourth sailor from the left, you’ll see that behind his head is a ghostly face. Detail of Goddard’s Squadron photo showing alleged face of Freddy Jackson ghost. An enlargement of the photo shows the “ghostly” image of a capless person’s face. This anomaly is the source of the photo’s popularity in the world of paranormal enthusiasts. Watch Serenity Online Hollywoodreporter.

If you search for “Goddard’s Squadron” on the web you’ll find many web pages listing the photo in their ghost- photo listicles. With the photo will come a short story explaining how the photo was taken just days after Freddy Jackson accidentally walked into a moving propeller—but he wouldn’t miss the squadron photo! Here is an example from paranormal. This intriguing photo, taken in 1.

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Sir Victor Goddard, a retired R. A. F. officer. The photo is a group portrait of Goddard’s squadron, which had served in World War I at the HMS Daedalus training facility. An extra ghostly face appears in the photo.

In back of the airman positioned on the top row, fourth from the left, can clearly be seen the face of another man. It is said to be the face of Freddy Jackson, an air mechanic who had been accidentally killed by an airplane propeller two days earlier. His funeral had taken place on the day this photograph was snapped. Members of the squadron easily recognized the face as Jackson’s. It has been suggested that Jackson, unaware of his death, decided to show up for the group photo. There are scant details in such entries, but enough to start doing some basic investigation. One of the first things I wanted to understand was when and where the photo was taken.

Most of the stories being repeated in the echo- chamber of paranormal- themed Internet pages included the phrase “aboard the HMS Daedalus.”HMS Daedalus. At the time this photo was taken, the name HMS Daedalus was not attached to a ship, but to a training facility. That facility has now been renamed RNAS Lee- on- Solent. It is an airfield in the south of England which has changed hands between the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy Air Service (RNAS) a few times since being established in 1. Many of the stories regarding this photo mention that it was taken at the end of WWI. If the date of the photography is accurate, then the base would have been in RAF control when the photo was taken. The base itself had been turned over to the RAF in April of 1.

November 1. 1, 1. There are a variety of service uniforms accounted for in the photo as well. It’s a bit confusing—as wartime events can be. At any rate, the people in the photo had been involved with seaplane training and activity during the war. They used Bristol Bailey Short 1. You can read more about their equipment and see some interesting photos related to the base here. Sir Victor Goddard.

The photo is called “Goddard’s Squadron.” Some articles refer to the photo as first being published in 1. A little research turned up that Sir Robert Victor Goddard KCB, CBE, published a book that year titled Flight Towards Reality in which the photograph is (to the best of my knowledge) first described in print. I purchased a copy hoping to see the full photo because most of the versions on the web are cropped and enhanced. I was also hoping more information would be detailed. There is more story detail, but there was not a copy of the photo in the book.

Here’s what Goddard has to say about the photograph: I have a photograph in front of me, taken at Cranwell officially by Bassano’s at the time of Armistice after the First World War. It shows a group of airmen, airwomen and officers, some hundreds of them, in various uniforms, RNAS and Army, RFC and RAF, ATS and Women’s Naval Service, all my contemporaries and one my friend. Capel] The photograph is typical of all the chaos of transition from the two old separate Services, into the Royal Air Force, which then was still quite new and unfamiliar. The RAF had not by then been lifted up into its corporate consciousness of entity and destiny. The Squadron, of which the photograph was taken, had no future; it was to be disbanded and almost everyone then photographed was also in transition back to that less authoritarian life which they called “Civvy Street.”But one was otherwise.

When the group photograph was put up on the noticeboard so that those who wanted copies could write their names below, those who scanned the photograph identifying friends then saw—or they were prompted then to see—the face of Freddy Jackson, air mechanic, in the topmost row. Capless and smiling, his face being partly hidden by another, his expression seemed to say, “My goodness me—I nearly failed to make it! They didn’t wait, or leave a place for me, the blighters!”Well, there he was, and no mistake, although a little fainter than the rest. Indeed he looked as though he was not altogether there; not really with the group, for he alone was capless, smiling, all the rest were serious and set and wearing service caps. Most had not long returned from Church Parade and marching in a military funeral.

For Freddy Jackson had, upon that very spot—the Squadron tarmac—three days before, walked heedlessly into the whirling propeller of an aeroplane. He had been killed stone dead instantly. He, evidently, was still quite unaware of it. No, that is not a very rare event. There have been several of such unsought records brought into my experience. What is somewhat unusual, to say the least, is the official photograph, and some two hundred witnesses who knew; also the certainty that there had been no hanky- panky in the dark room. Not only would Bassano’s not have dared to fake it; the negative was scrutinized for faking and was found to be untouched.

Goddard, 9. 1–9. 2)In the text it says “see Capel” but when I went to the book’s index and looked for Capel, it referred me back to page 9. As I mentioned, there is no photo in the edition I was able to obtain, and no indication that any edition of the book had a photo. It is possible that at the same time the book came out in 1.

I have not been able to find them online and unfortunately can’t afford to go to England to do proper library searches there. Although, if anyone wants to fund me for an expensive and likely fruitless jaunt to that green and pleasant land, I’m game.