Albeit these all being marine legends and sometimes lacking authenticity, some of these haunted ships continue to provoke speculation and fearful anticipation. We present you with ten such mysterious ghost ships of the maritime world that would surely give you an eerie feeling and goose bumps.
10. The Caleuche
It is a legend of the Chilota mythology, where it is described as a ghost ship, which comes into being every night near the island of Chiloe. It says the ship carries the spirits of all the people who have drowned at sea. The Caleuche is strikingly beautiful, bright and gay as always surrounded by party music sounds and laughter.
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9. The SS Valencia
In 1906, the SS Valencia sank off the coast of Vancouver, British Columbia after encountering bad weather near Cape Mendocino and thereafter became a subject of mysterious ghost stories. Eventually 37 of merely 108 people were saved using lifeboats, among which one simply disappeared.
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8. The Ourang Medan
In 1947, two American ships, while passing through the Strait of Malacca, went off to a rescue mission after receiving a distress call from Ourang Medan. The caller claimed to be a crewmember and conveyed the message of death of everyone else on-board. His words weirdly ended with "I die". The rescuers found the ship unharmed but the entire crew, including the dog, dead with terrified faces and expressions.
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7. The Carroll A. Deering
This ship ran aground in the notorious Diamond Shoals near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1921, where it was stuck for several days before any rescue team could arrive. Later, the Coast Guard found that the equipment, logbook and two lifeboats were missing from the abandoned ship, otherwise undamaged.
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6. The Baychimo
Built in the early 1920s this is one of the real-life ghost ship which was, in 1931, became trapped in the pack-ice near Alaska, leaving no hopes for the owner Hudson Bay Company but to abandon it. However, amazingly it remained adrift for the next 38 years and was frequently sighted floating aimlessly in the waters off Alaska.
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5. The Octavius
The Octavius became more than just a legend back in 1775, when a whaling ship named the Herald found it aimlessly drifting off the coast of Greenland with all of its crew frozen dead by the arctic cold. To add to the spooky environment, the ship's captain was found sitting at his desk, with a logbook in front him, and finishing a log entry from 1762.
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4. The Joyita
In 1955 this fishing and charter boat was found abandoned in the South Pacific, five weeks after it had been reported overdue. The air-search mission could not trace it, until a merchant ship found it drifting almost 600 miles off its original source with no sign of crew and cargo.
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3. The Lady Lovibond
An interesting story of love, jealousy and rage complements the tale of this haunted ship. In 1748, the day before the Valentine's Day, it was set assail as a celebration of the ship's captain's wedding. Nevertheless, his friend, who was too in love with her, out of vengeance, steered the ship into the notorious Goodwind Sands, sinking it and killing all on-board.
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2. The Mary Celeste
Probably the most famous real-life ghost ships story embraces the Mary Celeste, found adrift in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872 in a completely unharmed condition with all its sails still up, the crew's personal belongings intact and a cargo hold of over 1500 alcohol barrels untouched. The only things missing were the lifeboat, the captain's logbook and most importantly, the entire crew. Since pirate's attack could not be held responsible for such a phenomenon, theories of crew mutiny, waterspout killing, and consumption of poisonous food leading to madness came into being.
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1. The Flying Dutchman
In maritime folklore, this ghost ship has left the maximum impact like no other by inspiring numerous paintings, films, books, opera, etc. Van der Decken, the captain, on its way towards East Indies, with sheer determination tried to steer his ship through the adverse weather condition of the Cape of Good Hope but failed miserably even after vowing to drift until the doomsday. Legend says that since then they have been cursed to sail the oceans for eternity.
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This article has poor construction, Grammar and is so amateurish it should be a note on facebook.
No research: at least two of these ships are fiction : easily confirmed with a wikisearch.
Other details of these infamous ships and legends are incorrect: also easily discovered with a simple search.
No "cointelpro" coverup: they are just ghost stories, told to thrill. there need be no truth to a good story told for thrills and chills. If your counting fictional ships, i think you missed a few.
for the record :
as·sailVerb/əˈsāl/
1. Make a concerted or violent attack on.
2. (of an unpleasant feeling or physical sensation) Come upon (someone) suddenly and strongly: "she was assailed by doubts and regrets".
changes the entire tone, when i think you meant "set sail".
the author's grasp on the language is tentative at best, and it certainly not up to the same standards as the usual fare on sott.net.
I may not agree with the articles, but i cannot argue the usual standards of the articles. This is not sott material, should not be here, and is not at all informative or even very interesting as a result of its poor quality.