A ghost ship is an adrift vessel with no living passengers or crew aboard. Sometimes, we know why the ship was abandoned or what tragedy occurred to the passengers and crew, but other times, we are left to guess what happened aboard the vessel during the last few hours and minutes when the crew inexplicably abandoned the ship or died aboard it. Alaska has many ghostship tales. Here are three of them.

Levi, Steven. The Clara Nevada; Gold, Greed, Murder and Alaska’s Inside Passage. 2011. History Press.

De Abreu, Kristine. “The SS Baychimo, 38 years as a ghost ship.” March 28, 2023. Exploration Mysteries.

Reamer, David. “The mysterious fate of the Baychimo, the ghost ship that haunted the Arctic for decades.” October 29, 2023. Anchorage Daily News.

Snoderly, Joan. “Family searches for memories of a father lost at sea.” August 31, 2017. Kodiak Daily Mirror.

Sullivan, Toby. “The Tragedy of the John and Olaf.” January 14, 2016. Kodiak Maritime Museum.

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Robin Barefield lives in the wilderness on Kodiak Island, where she and her husband own a remote lodge. She has a master’s degree in fish and wildlife biology and is a wildlife-viewing and fishing guide. Robin has published six novels: Big Game, Murder Over Kodiak, The Fisherman’s Daughter, Karluk Bones, Massacre at Bear Creek Lodge, and The Ultimate Hunt. She has also published two non-fiction books: Kodiak Island Wildlife and Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier. She draws on her love and appreciation of the Alaska wilderness as well as her scientific background when writing.

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