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Post by auntym on Jan 31, 2013 13:14:32 GMT -6
www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_22482947/uss-hornets-ghosts-and-spirits-roam-decks-observers USS Hornet's ghosts and spirits roam the decks, observers sayBy Gary Peterson Contra Costa Times Posted: 01/30/2013 ALAMEDA -- Not long after she began working as education manager on the USS Hornet, Heidi Schave found herself alone on the retired aircraft carrier and floating museum. "It was an admin holiday and no one had told me," she said. That was unsettling realization No. 1. Unsettling realization No. 2: She wasn't really alone. Schave was sitting in her office, she said, when "it got really cold. I saw a man in a blue uniform. He was clear as day, like you or I, but he wasn't making any eye contact. He was sort of slow moving. There was a bulkhead there, and he walked right through the bulkhead." Schave is certain she saw one of the spirits that make the Hornet a bucket-list destination for those Dr. Pamela Heath, author and paranormal expert, shuts down lights in an area on the USS Hornet where many have experienced paranormal activity in Alameda, Calif. , on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (Laura A. Oda/Staff) ( Laura A. Oda ) interested in paranormal activity. And, those enthusiasts claim, a post-bucket-list destination for apparitions. The spirits will have company Saturday and Sunday, when a summit of sorts will be held on the Hornet to study and, hopefully, observe the phenomenon. Paracon 2013 will feature guest speakers including Bill Murphy and Paul Bradford from the Syfy Channel, and local paranormal researchers Pamela Heath and Sommer Carter. Ticket proceeds from the event will provide transportation for students to visit the Hornet and experience its STEM (Science, Technology, Education and Math) program, using the ship as a learning resource. There will be flashlight tours of the ship -- including some areas usually off-limits -- and overnight By the way, Heath said skeptics -- and she knows a few -- are not only invited, they're welcome, because they challenge assumptions made by paranormal investigators. "I don't have a problem with skeptics," she said. "They help us design better research. I know people who volunteer on the Hornet and are skeptical. They'll tell you they don't believe ghosts exist. Be curious. That's what I would say. If it's not paranormal, what it is it? Figure it out for yourself." The odds of a visitor, skeptical or not, rubbing elbows with a ghost? "I've done many, many investigations there," said Carter, who had her first paranormal experience at 16 when she saw a vision of a 19th-century woman in a museum. "There hasn't been one time where we didn't get something." The ship's bewildering maze of low-ceilinged corridors and anterooms can make visitors feel as if they're navigating a netherworld trapped somewhere between sea and sky. Rooms stacked floor to ceiling with bunks are eerily quiet. The sick bay, its examination tables covered in fresh linen and shelves lined neatly with medical texts, appears to be in a perpetual state of alert. It seems that around every dark corner are more unexpected curios that add to the surreal: a rotary phone and manual typewriter on a Formica-topped desk, a framed picture of President Richard Nixon, file cabinets with pullout drawers, each with its own combination lock. CONTINUE READING: www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_22482947/uss-hornets-ghosts-and-spirits-roam-decks-observers
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Post by auntym on Jan 23, 2017 15:27:51 GMT -6
www.marineinsight.com/life-at-sea/top-10-mysterious-ghost-ships-and-haunted-stories-of-the-maritime-world/ Top 10 Mysterious Ghost Ships and Haunted Stories of the Maritime WorldBy Soumyajit Dasgupta | In: Life At Sea | www.marineinsight.com/author/soumyajit-dasgupta/ Last Updated on July 21, 2016 Mystery, fear, enigma encompass the seafaring ghost ships’, or phantom ships’ tales that has been passed around throughout centuries by sailors, anglers and others. These mysterious ships are fantasized as spectral phantasms that materialize in the middle of the sea and disappear quickly, which is apparently a bad omen. In addition, abandoned ships, which are found adrift, left desolated under fearsome and cryptic circumstances, are also included in this category. 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 CaleucheIt 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. However, it only stays for a few moments, and then suddenly disappears or submerges itself under the water. Three Chilota ‘water spirits’ – the Sirena Chilota, the Pincoya, and the Picoy – who resemble mermaids, summons the spirits of the drowned. ***************************************** 9. The SS ValenciaIn 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. Since then, many a fisherman has claimed to witness ghost ship sightings with human skeletons even after many decades post sinking. ******************************* 8. The Ourang MedanIn 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. Before further investigation, the abandoned ship caught fire and exploded. The probable reason could be over-exposure of nitroglycerin, which it was carrying illegally. The other mystery revolves around the story of paranormal activities and/or alien invasion. ******************************* 7. The Carroll A. DeeringThis 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. Investigation showed few other ships had also disappeared under mysterious circumstances around the same time, which could be the pirates’ barbarity, crews’ mutiny or extra terrestrial activity around the infamous Bermuda triangle. CONTINUE READING: www.marineinsight.com/life-at-sea/top-10-mysterious-ghost-ships-and-haunted-stories-of-the-maritime-world/
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Post by randy on Jan 29, 2017 0:30:22 GMT -6
Where did he go? Just before WWII we proved that we made subs that dive deep when a US sub on its trial run dove deep and stayed there Due to a faulty valve half the ship flooded killing the men in the flooded compartments and trapping the rest far below the ships crush depth. Up to this time this was death sentence for the trapped men but due to a navy man named Munson they were saved by a diving bell he hade made out of an old pickle barrel. he was tired of seeing men die trapped in sunken subs and on his own had made diving bell out of navy surplus in this case a pickle barrel. it worked and the survivors were rescued. Munson also invented the munson lung out a surplus truck tire inner tube complete with red patch on it. It also worked and was supplied to US navy subs as an escape lung for men to use to get to the surface. for all of this Munson was badly treated by the navy for showing up superior officers in his designing equipment out of junk literally since they would not supply him money The sunken sub was raised and refitted for the war. The dead men were removed and guess what one man known to be on the sub when it went to sea was missing. he was not among the rescued and not among the bodies later recoverd from the sub his fate is still listed as unknown. Where did he go? Among the rescue fleet assembled for the rescue of the survivors was the USS Sacramento just back from China waters. The ship was a coal burners and had sails to save fuel The sails were on the design of those used on Chinese junks. this floating museum piece was sent out to impress Japan with our military might thus WWII. During a sea battle the bridge officers of a ship I do not recall the name of assembled in the battle bridge which is an armor plated box with narrow view slots to provide protection for the bridge crew. A man known to have been in this vault like device at the start of the battle was found to be missing No one had gone out in the battle and the only other way our was the narrow vision slots far too small for some one wiggle out of Yet he was gone and never seen again his fate is listed as unknown.
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Post by auntym on Aug 13, 2017 13:09:56 GMT -6
www.disclose.tv/news/sailors_found_mysterious_ghost_ship__what_they_discovered_next_was_shocking/139987Sailors found mysterious GHOST SHIP - What they discovered next was shocking!Explanations abound as to what caused the crew to die in a most ghastly-seeming way, and then caused the ship to explode suddenly and unexpectedly when rescuers attempted to tow her to port. Two American ships sailed across the Strait of Malacca when they received a Morse code rescue request from a Dutch ship called Ourang Medan. It is not known precisely when this happened, but it was probably between June 1947 and February 1948. The message was scary and said, "All the officers, including the captain, are dead, lying in the map room and on the bridge, and probably all of the crew is dead." Then some words were uttered, but only two could be accurately heard: "I" and "dying." One of the United States merchant ships that received the notification was the Silver Star. As he was the nearest of Ourang Medan, he immediately departed to rescue the crew and also to know in what might be useful. When the ship's crew boarded it, it took a frightful scare they would rather not have witnessed. www.disclose.tv/news/sailors_found_mysterious_ghost_ship__what_they_discovered_next_was_shocking/139987
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Post by jcurio on Aug 13, 2017 20:42:20 GMT -6
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Post by BLACK DOG on Aug 15, 2017 22:17:39 GMT -6
Can't validate this as it never happened when I was there but witnesses are reliable, generally. Ship, Battleship USS NORTH CAROLINA, docked Wilmington, N.C. Museum to ship and the men who sailed, fought, lived, and died on her. 1941-1945. Supposedly, sounds of various "something" walking, locations vary over entire ship. Locked bulkhead doors, unlocked, opened, even when doors were locked with padlocks. Planes parked on deck, showed images of "something" inside of planes, images vague, Still trying to figure out how a couple of planes, on deck, started, without any fuel for years, "ghost lights" all over ship. Voices, some muffled, other clear singing "DIXIE" and the "Star Spangled Banner"
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Post by jcurio on Aug 17, 2017 8:35:39 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Jul 24, 2019 11:49:13 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/07/the-bizarre-tale-of-a-cursed-russian-ghost-ship/ The Bizarre Tale of a Cursed Russian Ghost Shipby Brent Swancer / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/brentswancer/July 24, 2019 The Russian ship called the Ivan Vassili began its life in St. Petersburg in 1897, where it was built as a civilian steam freighter for the purpose of hauling freight across the Baltic Sea from Russia to the Gulf of Finland. Built of thick iron plates over a wooden hull, and equipped with a top of the line steam engine that had a range of 2500 miles at a speed of 8 knots, it was a relatively sturdy, fast, and reliable vessel, and did its job with a perfect record until the year of 1903 and the coming of tensions between the Russian Empire and Japan that were threatening to boil over into all out war. It was during this tumultuous time of brewing bloodshed that the Ivan Vassili would take a turn into the weird and paranormal. As war lurched towards them, the Ivan Vassili was re-purposed and its role changed to that of a military supply ship for the Russian Navy. To this end, the vessel was tasked with making a long and treacherous journey towards Port Arthur, Manchuria and Vladivostok to deliver supplies to the ships stationed there. It was over 3,000 miles away around the tip of Africa, and they made a stop at Cape Town, South Africa along the way in order to resupply their coal reserves for the last leg of their harrowing voyage. It was then that something about the ship changed, and an inexplicable force began to make itself known. It started rather innocuously enough, with the crew constantly feeling as if they were being watched and of hearing footsteps when no one was there, as well as experiencing spots of frigid cold out of nowhere. In addition to this, it was reported that there was a sense of extreme negativity and an almost palpable cloud of menace permeating the air, to the point that arguments began to break out among crew members for no reason at all. This could have been attributed to nerves and the rigors of being out at sea for so long, but things would get more bizarre still. The Ivan Vassili One evening, a breathless and very scared crewman came running to the Captain with quite the tale to tell. The rattled man explained that he has been on lookout duty when a ghostly figure enveloped in a glowing mist and with distorted features strode across the deck and disappeared behind a light boat. The man also said that it had been disorienting to even set eyes upon it, and that it had seemed to exude an overwhelming sense of dread in him. Along with the other unusual activity that had kept the men on edge this turned out to be quite a terrifying revelation, and it got even scarier still when the following evening the men suddenly and without warning flew into a wild brawl during which one of the men would throw himself overboard to his death. There was no explanation for why the fight had broken out, and everyone said it was as if a malevolent force had suddenly overcome them. This would not be an end to this bizarre phenomenon, as just a couple of nights later the same thing happened again, with the men frightened for no reason and overcome with an anomalous compulsion to viciously fight each other. Once again a man jumped over the side to plunge to a watery grave, and once again the crew calmed down immediately after and none of them could figure out what had possessed them to fly into such an agitated state. Rumors began to be whispered among them that an evil force had taken up residence on the ship, and that it wanted to harm or kill them. This was frightening enough that when they reached Vladivostok over a dozen men fled to abandon the ship, some of them so panicked that they jumped from the ship to swim to shore. The deserters were detained and placed under armed guard, and they would be forced to continue their journey on that cursed vessel when the Ivan Vassili left port on its way to Hong Kong. Along the way there would be another inexplicable brawl, another man would plummet to his death from the deck, one other crewman would allegedly drop dead from fright, and upon reaching Hong Kong Captain Sven Andrist would promptly commit suicide as well by climbing up onto the edge of the deck without a word and dropping off to the water below. Now convinced that the Ivan Vassili was truly *bleep*, the wild-eyed, terrified crew fled yet again, and this time they would evade being rounded up, leaving the vessel an empty husk that was possibly infused with supernatural forces. While the men may have been convinced that there were evil forces possessing the Ivan Vassili, to the Russian government it was just a perfectly good ship, so a new crew and Captain were brought in and it was sent on its way to Sydney, Australia to pick up a shipment of wool. The vessel made it to their destination without incident, but as they pulled into port the new Captain allegedly suddenly lifted his pistol to his head and shot himself dead for no apparent reason at all. The new crew, who had heard the stories of the previous incidents and the tales of the ship being cursed and haunted, were spooked enough by this sudden violent suicide that they refused to continue, and yet another crew had to be found. This was easier said than done, the word was out on the Ivan Vassili and its sinister reputation, and it purportedly took months before a crew could be gathered again. The doomed Ivan Vassili then set out once again, this time over the horizon towards San Francisco, California. However, whatever madness had gripped the previous men came for this crew as well, and before they were even halfway to their destination two men had died, others had gone insane and been locked away in their quarters, and the Captain had killed himself with a bullet to the head. The men panicked and changed course, heading back towards Russia, where the Ivan Vassili was permanently put out of service and eventually burned. According to the lore, as the flames consumed it there was an unearthly shriek that rose up from the charred, smoking vessel, and this howl of anguish continued until the ship was no more, the smoldering hulk slipping beneath the murky waves along with whatever demonic entity dwelled within it. Was any of it was real? If this ever really happened in any true sense what would we be dealing with? Is this a ghostly presence, something demonic, or just one of those things we could never possibly hope to understand? Why would it want to kill those men or drive them to insanity? Why would it only take effect when the ship passed South Africa? If any of it is real, it poses many questions that we cannot answer at this time, and we probably never will. It is all quite the scary tale, indeed, but unfortunately there is not much to corroborate these events or prove they ever really happened as described. Actual documentation on the Ivan Vassili or its various crews is scant to nonexistent, and most of the information on this story seems to originate from the now out of print 1965 book on the unexplained called Landmark Invisible Horizons, by Vincent Gaddis. This means that there is the very good possibility that the whole thing is made up, an imaginative tale that has been picked up as being real, which wouldn’t be the first time this has happened in the paranormal world. It could also be that this is lore that originated with the tale of the novel Dracula, which was released the same year that the Ivan Vassili was supposedly built and which also features a ship carrying Dracula which experiences its crew dying one by one. Whatever the case may be with the mysterious Ivan Vassili, it sure is a spooky tale and fascinating lost historical oddity. mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/07/the-bizarre-tale-of-a-cursed-russian-ghost-ship/
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