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The Unusual Experiences of Sir Robert Victor Goddard

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An officer’s dream predicts Victor’s plane will ice over and crash near mountains in Japan.

1. Mums Mysteries & Murder focuses on the unusual experiences of Air Marshal Sir Robert Victor Goddard. 2. Marty and Effie host the conversation, and they frame Goddard as a figure they had never heard of before. 3. The episode asks whether Goddard’s accounts are premonitions, time slips, or something else. 4. Victor Goddard was born in Wembley on 6 February 1897, and the hosts say he was the son of Dr. Charles Goddard. 5. He attended St. George's School in Harpenden before training at the Royal Navy and serving as a midshipman. 6. At 17, he worked in the Royal Naval Air Services attacking enemy ships, submarines, ports, and German Zeppelins. 7. In 1916, at 19, he commanded airship reconnaissance flights over the Somme battlefield. 8. After the First World War, he studied engineering at Cambridge and Imperial College London, served in Iraq, and became chief instructor of engineering officers. 9. In 1935, the episode says he was appointed deputy director of intelligence. 10. One story centres on air mechanic Freddie Jackson, who died after walking into a rotating propeller at a training school. 11. The hosts say a group photo taken on Freddie’s funeral day appears to show him standing behind the crew. 12. They note that one source says the photo was taken where Freddie actually died. 13. The main account comes from Drem in East Lothian, where an airfield used in the First World War had been vacated by 1919. 14. Goddard says that in 1935 he flew over Drem and saw an overgrown field with sheep grazing on the grass. 15. On the return flight, he says the weather changed from torrential rain to bright sunshine and the airfield looked repaired and busy. 16. He reports yellow aircraft, blue-overalled mechanics, and a yellow monoplane, which he says did not match 1935 norms. 17. The hosts then compare his account with the later 1939 reopening of RAF Drem, when the site became operational again and blue uniforms and yellow aircraft were introduced. 18. The episode’s tone is conversational and questioning, with Marty and Effie interrupting each other, laughing, and checking details as they go. 19. People who like wartime aviation stories and Scottish mystery cases would likely enjoy this. 20. People wanting a tightly argued debunking should probably skip it.

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