The tale dates back to 1775, when it is said that a whaling ship called the Herald stumbled across the Octavius floating aimlessly off the coast of Greenland.
There was no sign of a struggle, and the personal belongings of the crew and cargo of over 1500 barrels of alcohol were untouched, seemingly ruling out piracy as a possible explanation. Often, the crew’s disappearance is mysterious. They hit as low as 20-30 fathoms before the Captain tried to change course, by then it was too late. A WRITER BY THE NAME OF DR ARTUR CONAN DOYLE(RING A BELL) INVENTED A CHARACTER IN THE ENGLISH HISTORY THAT YOU WILL RECOGNIZE SHERLOCK HOLMES. The Silver Star decided to send a rescue team to board the crew and they were met with a nightmare scene. They are empty vessels that have been found abandoned at sea. WELL BACK IN 1884 HE WROTE A STORY ABOUT THIS SHIP AND REACHED THE ATTENSION OF MANY PEOPLE.
While it often describes a ship that was found abandoned with no living crew aboard or ships commissioned for scrap but escaped the tow line and are left to aimlessly drift, the term also describes mysterious phantom ships that are rooted in folklore seen by sailors and land dwellers alike but are little more than illusions that do not exist. The term is sometimes used for ships that have been decommissioned but not yet scrapped, as well as drifting boats that have been found after breaking loose of their ropes and becoming carried away by the wind or the waves. 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.Since then it could be seen every fifty years sailing around Kent.
The Caleuche. The Caleuche is strikingly beautiful, bright and gay as always surrounded by party music sounds and laughter.However, it only stays for a few moments, and then suddenly disappears or submerges itself under the water. Witnesses describe seeing a firey ship floating in Mahone Bay.In the city of Bathurst, New Brunswick, a reported “Scientists believe that the apparition is caused by an electricity phenomenon called St. Elmo’s Fire. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.Perhaps the most famous ghost ship of the Eastern Seaboard is the Carroll A. Deering, a schooner that ran aground near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1921. As the story goes, the Lady Lovibond’s captain, Simon Peel, had just gotten married, and decided to take his ship out on a cruise to celebrate.
As the legend goes, ever since the wreck the Lady Lovibond can be seen sailing the waters around Kent every 50 years. Most notably, the crew found the ship’s captain still sitting at his desk, midway through finishing a log entry from 1762, which meant the Octavius had been adrift for 13 years. Albeit, there was not any confirmed spotting in 1998, this famous ghost ship continues to be a legend.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. Ghost ships, or phantom ships, make up a big part of the seafaring lore that has been passed down by sailors and fisherman throughout the years.
If everyone aboard died, how do we know?
The horror unfolds aboard a fictional cruise liner in the 1960s and immediately pitches the audience into the present, where a marine salvage ship finds the cruise liner aimlessly drifting on the water. She was found drifting with nobody aboard in November 1872, and is the source of many maritime “ghost ship” legends.Undoubtedly the most famous of all the real-life ghost ships, the Mary Celeste was a merchant ship that was found derelict and adrift in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872. According to lore, the three-masted schooner was found west of Greenland by the whaler Herald on 11 October 1775.
The explanations of Mary Caleste is so strange but I guess It's quite scientific. I have heard of but a couple of these. The ghost investigator reported that after a few slaps, Sarah began to get used to the investigator’s presence and eventually got used to him probing the pool area. The ship had just returned from a commercial voyage to deliver coal in South America, and had last been spotted just south of Hatteras by a lightship near Cape Lookout. Ghost Ship: Directed by Steve Beck, this 2002-cult classic starts out quite ordinarily before gripping the audience in a powerfully “cinematographed” plot. Inside the boats fishing nets, lures and life jackets can be found.When the ship was boarded searches came across a dog and cat, both happy and healthy.
Theories from mutiny to pirates have been thrown about, but no one really knows what happened.Authorities undertook an extensive investigation and concluded that one of the men must have fallen overboard, and the two remaining men who attempted to rescue him all were unable to return to the boat. The messages became jumbled and bizarre before trailing off and ending with the words: “I die.” The ships quickly raced to the scene to help.
The Baychimo was last sighted in 1969, again frozen in the ice off of Alaska, but it has since disappeared.