Abandoned RAF Base INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY at RAF Aird Uig

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  • Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
  • In this video, I discover something pretty amazing at a spooky abandoned RAF base. RAF Aird Uig, Scotland.
    Earlier this year, during one of my many visits to the Outer Hebrides, I took time out to explore the spooky remains of an old RAF base on the Isle of Lewis. Nothing could have prepared me for what I found.
    Whilst this sounds a little clickbaity, it isn't. I really did discover something quite extraordinary. I decided not to release the video before today for a very good reason. I don't want to spoil the surprise but it's important to read the disclaimer in the video.
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    I have created a blog that goes into a lot of the history associated with the ex-military base. I have included many fun facts too
    Plus you can take a closer look at the many images I captured.
    I hope you enjoy the video and feel free to leave a comment.
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Комментарии • 81

  • @GaryGough
    @GaryGough  Год назад +16

    Backpack Giveaway. - I'll announce the winner during Sunday's Video. Apologies for the delay.

  • @randyschwager2515
    @randyschwager2515 Год назад +3

    Very interesting! Thanks for taking me along!

  • @paulcomptonpdphotography
    @paulcomptonpdphotography Год назад

    Gary i am on Harris and Lewis in two weeks time, i am goiing to have to go and take a look now... thats AMAZING...

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад

      You’ll love it 👍👍

  • @christianpatton1852
    @christianpatton1852 Год назад +2

    Very exciting and eerie video you are a brave man Gary to walk around in that place all alone and to climb down the stairs that looked really scary!! but it is also good fun to visit such places and try to sense the history of the place.

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад +1

      Cheers Christian 👍👍

  • @susanfirth2279
    @susanfirth2279 Год назад +1

    You find the coolest abandoned buildings. That was pretty cool Gary and what a find.

  • @Dougsterxplor
    @Dougsterxplor Год назад +1

    Wow, super video and blog. Thanks for that Gary!!

  • @JohnHPettigrewFujishooter67
    @JohnHPettigrewFujishooter67 Год назад +1

    Pretty cool Gary thanks for sharing.

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад

      Glad you enjoyed it 👍👍

  • @robbieallcock
    @robbieallcock Год назад +1

    Superb Gary! Watched in the dark with headphones on and could feel the wind and creepiness! 👻👀

  • @claudineigonzaga2966
    @claudineigonzaga2966 Год назад +1

    This video was very good, very scary walking inside the abandoned building and seeing the door opening and closing by itself.

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад

      👻👻👻 It was a cool place though 😁

  • @markpiercephotography
    @markpiercephotography Год назад +1

    Fantastic video, my type of vlog. What a wonderful place to visit & you managed it just in time.👍

  • @Swaggerlot
    @Swaggerlot Год назад +2

    It also packed a Type 80 long range radar with extra motors to cope with the howling gales.

  • @WelshPhotographer
    @WelshPhotographer Год назад

    12.35 Those curtains! I remember them!

  • @harry4323
    @harry4323 Год назад +1

    An Alladins cave so good to see stuff that jogs the old memory.

  • @happymystic9800
    @happymystic9800 Год назад +2

    I would hardly visit such a place on my own, let alone descending ladders into the dark. My mind would play all kinds of tricks on me. But really an interesting video which I appreciate to watch from a distance 😊😅 … cheers.

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад

      LOL I know what you mean 😁😁

  • @Brenda-xc7sq
    @Brenda-xc7sq Год назад +1

    Well I was scared for you and glad when you left that first building. Lets get back to the safety of long exposures 🙂.

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад

      In a couple of weeks Brenda 😁😁 Nice to have a change now and again

  • @jefffiles9209
    @jefffiles9209 9 месяцев назад +1

    The curtains 😅😂 ... yup we had those 🤦🏻‍♂️

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  9 месяцев назад +1

      :) I can still see them 😁😁

    • @jefffiles9209
      @jefffiles9209 9 месяцев назад

      @GaryGough If buildings could tell stories. It must have been amazing looking around, and guess evoked a few memories. Great video Gary, cheers

  • @vk4vsp
    @vk4vsp Год назад +1

    Imagine wandering around in there, turning round and there's someone standing behind you. They wouldn't even get a chance to say hello and I'd be out one of those windows, screaming like a little girl, a huge cloud of dust behind me. 🤣

  • @tintin69rr
    @tintin69rr Год назад +1

    That’s awesome crazy to see all the guitars left like that such a shame

  • @daveturner5305
    @daveturner5305 Год назад

    Just occasionally they get it better! Welcome to the T shirt.

  • @composedlight6850
    @composedlight6850 Год назад

    Drove past that place in 1979 -- then a lot of signes Keep Out :)

  • @markpursglovephotography
    @markpursglovephotography Год назад +1

    There's a nice cafe' just a bit further on from where you were. 😊

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад +1

      I had my breakfast there. Cracking little spot 👍👍

  • @SomeonewithaSony
    @SomeonewithaSony Год назад +1

    Love you, Gary, top bloke…haha was just going to make a comment about the place being looted since being posted on RUclips. Then saw the disclaimer. I knew you were smarter than that….I knew it!

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад

      That's why I didn't release the video straight away 👍👍

  • @garymullen4056
    @garymullen4056 Год назад +1

    Hey Up Gary, Very interesting video. What a find. Glad you enjoyed it while you could. I'm no expert but those guitars particularly the Stagg ones are some of the least expensive on the market, generally aimed at beginners. A Hoard none the less. Just think of the amount of servicemen/women stationed there who never appreciated the beauty we all can see. As Ever, Thank You.

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад

      Cheers Gary. I wouldn't know a cheap one fom a decent one 😁😁

  • @MarkSayersTech
    @MarkSayersTech 2 месяца назад

    I once had engineering responsibility for Aird Uig, part of 81 SU.

  • @paulhargreaves1497
    @paulhargreaves1497 Год назад

    Was hoping for a QRA F-4K still plugged in.............oh well lol

  • @stephentait8734
    @stephentait8734 Год назад +1

    looks like someone has rob a music shop and stored it there lol

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад

      I know it's mental 👍👍

  • @paulrichards3989
    @paulrichards3989 Год назад

    Gary was you scared to go down the stairs 🤭

  • @timrosenburgh8597
    @timrosenburgh8597 Год назад +1

    Wow what a fantastic place.
    It must have brought a lot of memories back when you were in the RAF.
    All the guitar's,drum kit etc must have been worth a lot of money.
    It makes you wonder why anyone would leave all that.
    Look forward to the next one.

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад

      Memories indeed. Cheers Tim 👍👍

  • @seafieldroad1
    @seafieldroad1 5 месяцев назад +1

    Hi Gary. I thought you should know that your 'incredible discovery' here is a private house that someone broke into shortly before this film was made. I've emailed you about this and the man who showed you around, who is not a resident of Aird Uig and is no longer in the village. I'm not going to say anything more about that here other than that the police are investigating the break in as well as two other thefts in Aird Uig that may be related. Your disclaimer is not true. The house is very much still there and the owner has been informed about the break in (it is now locked again, as it was before someone kicked the door in). The building featured in the first half of the video is also closed to the public. It's owned by Gallan Head Community Trust who have been working hard for years to make the former RAF base safe for visitors. The 'graffiti' you criticised is a set of drawings from a community art festival that took place five years ago while the building was temporarily open. I think everyone here would appreciate it if you take this video down. It's misleading on numerous levels.

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  5 месяцев назад

      I replied to your email 👍

  • @daztyrestyrestyres
    @daztyrestyrestyres Год назад

    were is the second one

  • @Itsnotsafeandeffective
    @Itsnotsafeandeffective Год назад +1

    i hope whover got the tools off the shaddow board left tags for them 😅

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад

      lol Great memories indeed :)

  • @bluepatthecat
    @bluepatthecat Год назад +2

    Wish I hadn’t watched this straight before going to bed 🫣🫣

  • @johneast7987
    @johneast7987 Год назад +1

    I have the same First Aid Box 10:24, It was given to me by a GPO Engineer/ Amateur Radio friend. Must be std Government issue!

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад +1

      It definitley is John 😁😁

  • @markbaker7240
    @markbaker7240 Год назад +1

    We had those same curtains in our married quarters in Germany. (Army) lol

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад

      We did too :) I was at Gutersloh 😀😀

  • @steffore1
    @steffore1 Год назад +2

    Great to see places like that as when we was kids there was a lot of old forts that we could get into and it was fabulous looking around them.

  • @AlanWatson
    @AlanWatson 9 месяцев назад

    Hi Gary, the curtains you mentioned were exactly the same in the Army, I was posted to Gutersloh (West Germany in 1976) and the RAF camp was the other side of the town and we visited quite often as you guys had a bigger and better NAAFI than us!
    Really enjoyed watching the video Gary, keep up the good work :-)

  • @arkansastraveler7698
    @arkansastraveler7698 Год назад +1

    New one for me, I was stationed at RAF High Wycombe 1983-86 as liason between USAF and RAF

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад

      It was to me too :) Cheers 👍👍

  • @bobarty
    @bobarty Год назад +1

    Enjoyed that have visited Lewis in the past did not know of this place I,m ex RAF you seemed to have joined as I left in 79 the nearest I ever got to this sort of Camp was Bishops Court Cheers

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад

      Showing your age now :) Cheers 😀😀

  • @desgardner7169
    @desgardner7169 Год назад +1

    There is something strange going on here if that was R.A.F stuff in a airbase, we paid for that lot and when you mentioned a Paul Gibson guitar wow! say no more...

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад

      Mental stuff huh? 😁😁

  • @British_airways_747
    @British_airways_747 Год назад +1

    15:18 as I person who lives in a city a laughed when I saw this chicken

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад +1

      lol They were everywhere. Way more than I showed :)

  • @frankhobbs7695
    @frankhobbs7695 Год назад +1

    Battle ship grey for me. Makes a nice shave now!

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад

      😁😁 Cheers Frank 👍👍

  • @Jason-io5bu
    @Jason-io5bu Год назад +1

    In my time in the Mob (British Army) every think was paint egg shell lol

    • @GaryGough
      @GaryGough  Год назад +1

      lol Must have bought a huge job lot :)

    • @Jason-io5bu
      @Jason-io5bu Год назад

      @@GaryGough very cheap

  • @iandcrutchley3921
    @iandcrutchley3921 Год назад

    Yet again, another awesome video. Love these out of the way locations..good job