The Mysterious Disappearances Aboard the ‘Ghost Blimp’

The pilots of a U.S. Navy blimp go missing while patrolling the California coast during WWII.

Nicole Henley
Of Misdeeds and Mysteries
7 min readMar 1, 2019

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People often go missing under mysterious circumstances. Wandering away after car accidents after getting amnesia, or while out at sea during trips, or by plane, but what about vanishing on board a blimp?

That is what happened, one morning during WWII when both pilots of the U.S. Navy’s L-B blimp, Flight 101, mysteriously vanished while patrolling the…

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Nicole Henley
Of Misdeeds and Mysteries

Writer of true crime, unsolved mysteries, and marvels of history. Lover of movies, books, cats, and anime.