The Mystery Vanishing of Peter Gibbs

Unexplained : True Tales of Unexplained Mysteries with Bestselling Author Steph Young

Steph Young

History, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.3 • 613 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The Mystery Vanishing of Peter Gibbs, one dark night on the tiny Isle of Mull is an unexplained mystery that no-one has been able to solve…. it’s a baffling tale . It’s a mystery that has puzzled, perplexed and baffled both experts and amateur sleuths combined, ever since it happened. A man’s body is found up on a hill, four months after he disappeared on the Isle of Mull. He was last seen getting into his private plane. His body was found with only a tiny scratch, but his body hadn’t been where it was found when all the search parties had looked for him, multiple times. Then his body was found in the exact spot where searchers had looked, many, many times. When his body was found, it had only a tiny scratch; What happened to Peter Gibbs? And how did his body get to where he was found?

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0:00.0	It's an unexplained mystery that no one has been able to solve, that has puzzled, perplexed and baffled, both experts and amateur sleuths combined,
0:24.5	ever since it happened.
0:27.4	A man's body is found up on a hill,
0:30.5	four months after he disappeared,
0:32.9	on the Isle of Mull.
0:35.2	He was last seen getting into his private plane.
0:40.1	His body was found with only a tiny scratch.
0:44.5	But it hadn't been where it was found
0:46.9	when all the search parties had looked for him,
0:50.8	repeatedly.
0:52.4	Then it was found in the exact spot where searchers had looked many, many times.
0:59.6	What on earth happened to Peter Gibbs, and how did he get to where he was found?
1:07.9	The man in question was Norman Peter Gibbs, known as Peter.
1:13.6	He was a talented violinist in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and he'd been head of BBC Northern Ireland's Symphony Orchestra as well as BBC Scotland's orchestra leader.
1:30.7	He'd been a fighter pilot in World War II with 41 squadron of the RAF, from 1944 to 1945.
1:42.3	It was said that after the war, he had his Tiger Moth plane modified so that he could fit his
1:49.4	violin into the baggage compartment. His comrades in the RAF called him a daredevil and a man
1:59.4	who was plain talking, while those who knew him from the orchestra
2:03.9	described him as a practical joker. Such as the time he once flew over a live orchestra
2:11.1	performance and bombed them all with bags of flour. While playing for the Philharmonic Orchestra in Washington, D.C.,
2:20.9	he stood up to chastise the German conductor, who it was believed, had joined the Nazi party during the war,
2:28.1	although no doubt he had no choice in this matter.
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