Ghost stories, legends and history of haunted ships
In 1883, the story goes, a becalmed schooner in Saginaw Bay lost a young sailor to a frayed rope and his dying curse. She sailed back into Lake Huron and was never seen again, except as a dark phantom on the bay. Here’s the legend, what we can and can’t verify, and how to visit.
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On October 28, 1892, the new steel freighter W.H. Gilcher passed through the Straits of Mackinac just as a two-day gale struck, and was never seen again. Here’s the real history of her loss, the theories, and the legend that she still steams out of the fog near Mackinac Island.
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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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