Reports of paranormal activity at the Buddy Holly crash site memorial near Clear Lake, Iowa, center on visitors hearing disembodied music or seeing mysterious shadowy figures in the cornfields. The crash site, where Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, and pilot Roger Peterson died in 1959, is known as "The Day the Music Died". Some visitors have claimed to hear music playing softly in the distance while walking along the path to the monument. The source of the music cannot be found, and it reportedly disappears as visitors get closer. Another common report is the sighting of dark or ghostly shapes moving in the cornfields that surround the crash site. Many visitors describe a heavy and somber mood at the crash site, an atmosphere that they find profoundly eerie and unsettling. This feeling is often tied to the tragedy that occurred there and the loss of the three musical legends.