The Ghost Hunters visit Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio for an episode to air for the first time in April 2008.

There are three buildings on the base that are reported to be haunted. Building 219 has an apparition of a boy. There is an apparition of an older woman in Building 70. Both buildings have unexplainable footsteps and voices. In a supply room in building 70, a worker reported hearing boxes being moved when she knew no one was in the room.

The third building is the home known as the Arnold House. Named such because Henry H. Arnold, the only person to have worn the five-star rank of General of the Air Force lived in it for a time. In 1911 he spent two months of flight training with the Wright brothers in Dayton. Arnold returned to Dayton in June 1929 as commander of the Fairfield Air Depot (located in what is now Area C of Wright-Patterson AFB) and Executive Officer to the Chief of the Material Division at Wright Field (now Area B). The house was originally built in the 1840s and was near where The Wright Brothers perfected their design and eventually opened a flight school.

It’s fairly surprising that the Air Force allowed the Ghost Hunters access to the buildings to do their investigation. We’re sure approval for the event must have gone to at least the commander level of the base because in this post-911 era, these things are just not routinely done.

Our hats are off to the Ghost Hunters and the USAF for making the effort involved so the show could be done. Perhaps they captured some good evidence along the way.