Phantom Voices

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 24, 28 December 1928, Page 4

Phantom Voices

Uncanny Experiments Mystify Golfers —

OLFERS on the South Lodge and Mitcham (Surrey) courses heard a phantom voice coming from the mist hundreds and sometimes thousands of feet overhead. It was some time before they realised that the voice was that of the pilot of an aeroplane which flew over the area for half an hour. Every now and then the pilot cut out his engine, and then came the ghostly voice from the clouds. In this talk he glided across South Todge golf course at a héight of. about 1000 feet, and it was an uncanny experience for golfers to see the ‘plane emerge from the mist, then disappear into it again, while all the time the ghostly voice talked in deliberate, heavy, but muffled tones, — After half an hour the aeroplane, flying low, went off towards Croydon aerodrome, leaving a mystified crowd gazing vacantly skyward. It was ascertained later that tests were being carried out between the aeroplane and a ground staff to estimate the possibility of "broadcasting" megaphoned speech from the air.