Skeptoid #563: Grounding the Ghost of Flight 401

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, History, Urban Legends, Science, Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The unexpected facts behind this famous ghost story from the 1970s.

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0:00.0	Some of you might be old enough to remember the scary TV movie back in the 1970s about
0:08.8	a plane that crashed in the Everglades.
0:11.7	When some of its parts were salvaged and built into newer aircraft, the ghost of the pilot
0:17.4	came right along with them, and now suddenly we had a whole fleet of Lockheed L1011's
0:23.4	that were flying haunted.
0:25.5	That's the story anyway.
0:27.3	How does it match up with reality?
0:29.2	The ghost of flight 401 is today on Skeptoid.
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1:32.9	Grounding the ghost of flight 401.
1:36.4	It was one of the great ghost stories of the 1970s.
1:40.8	One of the world's newest and flashiest airliners, a Lockheed L1011 TriStar, was making one
1:46.9	of its first flights for Eastern Airlines on December 29th, 1972.
1:53.2	It infamously crashed in Florida's Everglades swamp just before midnight, killing 101 of
1:59.7	the 176 people on board.
2:02.8	The story goes that parts from it were salvaged and installed in other L1011's, and almost
2:07.9	immediately, the ghost stories began.
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