It makes sense a culture filled with superstition and lore has a treasure trove of ghost stories. For as long as mankind has been on the ocean there have been disappearances at sea. For those back onshore the agony of waiting, wishing, and hoping for an answer to where their loved ones were and if they would ever return haunted their every thought. A desperate mind starts to dream up reasons for things unknown. Why have they not returned? Why would they die? Why is there no word? Am I being punished? Maybe they’re still out there. 

But what happens when we do see something totally unexplainable? Something that even though our brain is fully aware of what it is, we can still find it entirely incomprehensible. Most people would probably try and find some logical reason to suit their experience. But what if you gave up and finally accepted the unaccepted. What if enough people saw something so strange and so phenomenal it couldn’t be written off? That is when it becomes something of folklore and this is how ghost ships are born.

Show Notes:

[00:01] HMS Resolute’s connection to the White House

[02:30] A Famous Ghost Ship: The Flying Dutchman

[05:09] 3 Types of Ghost Ships

[05:39] The French Ship: Navire Libera Nos

[06:13] La Belle Rosalie

[07:29] Eliza Battle

[08:58] The Marie Celeste, an abandoned ship

[10:33] Captain Parker Takes over the Marie Celeste

[10:58] The abandoned SS Baychimo

 

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