L8: The Ghost Blimp

Link chain from another waste of time on the internet: The story of L8: The Ghost Blimp. A mystery from 1942 in which a sub-chaser blimp returned to shore, crashed, and the crew was missing. Commonly assumed to be unsolvable although an obsessed fan believes that the aircraft was involved in a radar test and the crew was incapacitated by stray microwave radiation.

Here's a summary of the story, in a page with a nightmare geocitiesesque layout:

http://links.ghostblimp.com/Home_Page.php

The original link that started it, a page with jpgs of the supposed inquest report:

http://links.ghostblimp.com/L8_Inquest_Records.php

Here is the guy's blog. The research story is so perfectly laid out that it seems almost too good. It would be interesting to double check some of the facts presented in this:

http://ghostblimp.blogspot.com/

A cool independent aviation history site's page on the story, with some interesting pictures and the fact that the gondola was reconditioned and used for Goodyear blimps well into the 1960's:

http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/L-8_crash_site.htm