Ghost stories, legends and history of haunted ships
In April 1717 a nor’easter drove Black Sam Bellamy’s pirate ship Whydah onto the sandbars off Wellfleet. Here’s the real history of the wreck and its treasure, and the Cape Cod legend of Maria “Goody” Hallett, the Witch of Wellfleet.
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On the waterfront at North Beach in Corpus Christi, an aircraft carrier sits in the shallow water of the bay,[…]
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Across the Cape Fear River from downtown Wilmington, a grey battleship sits in a quiet basin, her nine 16-inch guns[…]
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If the USS Constellation in Baltimore is the ship people mix up most often, this is the one they’re usually[…]
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Walk along the brick promenade of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and, among the glass towers and the paddle boats, you’ll find[…]
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Drive the causeway across the top of Mobile Bay and you can’t miss her: a grey wall of steel, 680[…]
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Some boats are haunted by tragedy. The Delta Queen, I think, is haunted by love. She is a grand old[…]
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On the coldest, windiest nights of late winter, people along the Tombigbee River in west Alabama say you might see[…]
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Alabama’s rivers have no shortage of sad stories, but few are as strange as that of the James T. Staples.[…]
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On 4 December 1872, between the Azores and the coast of Portugal, the crew of a small Canadian ship spotted[…]
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