October 26, 2024 • 13 mins
Legend has it that a ship with flaming sails can be seen off the coast of Ocracoke Island near Cape Hatteras North Carolina. Is it a trick of the light, or is a ship of damn souls seeking revenge. Tonight's tale is of the greedy captain and crew of that ship, and the innocent passengers who suffered at their hands only to return from hell to seek vengeance.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi, folks, this is Jonathan Poenix, the Carolina Storytellers, coming
to you with an important important message. Okay, this is
an adult podcast, so it shouldn't be listened to by children.
And if you're listening to this, I assume that you're
an adult. And if you're not an adult, that's bad
because some of the things that we cover on this
podcast are topics that really younger ages shouldn't be listening to.
(00:25):
There's murder, there's death, there's blood, guts, and core things
that really they don't want to be exposed to. So
as an adult, I'm gonna ask you to keep the
kids away, but I don't think every one of you
is doing it, So I'm gonna have to do something
to curb this behavior. If you don't stop, maybe I'll
tell your kids where sin is real address this, or
maybe I'll tell them where babies come from, or how
(00:47):
to get a hold of the Easter Buddy and the toothberry,
or maybe I'll just tell them why the mailman always
brings them birthday presents and why Daddy is really.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Mad about it.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So remember, keep the kids away from the adult material
and enjoy the show. This is the Carolina storytelling.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
In the dark works with shadows, creep stories rise as
the kim far reads John the voice of haunts, it
thrill with every sale, heat bends off will echoes whispered
to night sassy by the fire light of fierce till lie.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The general lot of.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Storyteller joan through the spekcare of furs in fight, fangels
of darknessing night and rise of the night.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
The lads a frightened dread.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Every heartbeat a path we dread, feed expenses weap.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Imagine you've gone to enjoy the outer Banks of North Carolina,
and you're sitting there and it's the night, and you're
watching as the waves roll in, and suddenly before you
comes a five masted schooner, but instead of sales, it's
(02:21):
moved by flames, like something out of a ghost rider,
coming moving across the ocean at high speed, and then
it fades into nothingness. Now, particularly i'd be looking to
see if what I was drinking was just a little
bit tinted, but this would actually be.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
A normal sight.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
In late September, on okrah Coke Island, just out of
the just off of the Outer Banks of North Carolina,
I'm Jonathan Phoenix, and this is the Carolina Storyteller and
Tonight's story. We're going to be talking about that to
the end of the twenty twenty four Spooky season. It's
(03:05):
been a long ride, but I think this year this
story just perfect for wrapping things up, don't you.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well, maybe you will after I tell you the story.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Now, remember, folks, you can support this podcast by going
to patreon dot com forward slash the Carolina Storyteller or
just google the Carolina Storyteller and you can go to
our Prenophi store and buy some of the merch. Anyway,
let's get into the story. So the whole story goes
back to the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Now,
(03:40):
this is when the religious wars were really ravaging Europe,
and so the idea of moving to the New World
was kind of the best thing people had. People were
packing up their stuff and getting over here as quickly
as possible because literally Protestants and Catholics were just kind
of slaughtering people left and right.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
It was really weird.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
But if you wanted to believe what you wanted to believe,
you couldn't live in Europe.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
At the time.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
If you lived in an area where the Protestants were
in charge, kind of like England and Switzerland and Germany
and what was known as the Palatines. Well, then you
suffered under their rule. You had to believe and worship
as they said. Meanwhile, if you lived closer to Rome
and France and Italy and things, you were under the
(04:36):
Catholic Church's rule. And if you didn't practice your religion
as they said, you were just as likely to lose
your head as you were to be able to go
on with your next day's meal. It was literally one
of the worst times in history for religious freedom. Hence
(04:57):
the draw to America. People were just trying as hard
to get away from this as possible. So a group
led by a Swiss baron named Christoph von Graffenried, now
that's a name pull right there, got permission from the
crown to move all of these refugees to the Carolina Colonies,
(05:19):
and it was going to be an area called Newborn,
just down from the outer Banks.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
This plan, of course, made all of these.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
People that wanted to get out of here delightful because
they were getting away with their lives and were going
to be able to practice religion as they saw fit.
Which was the draw of the American colonies. It was
during one of these voyages that the captain of the
chartered vessel just so happened to be a very unscrupulous
and greedy man, and what he noticed was that his
(05:51):
passengers were carrying a very large amount of gold and
jewels and other well with them. Understand, these families were
grabbing everything they could and bringing it on the boat
with them because they were never coming back. So, you know,
family heirlooms that maybe dated back centuries that had been
(06:12):
passed down from father to son or from mother to
daughter had been just ran through the families. They were
all now on this boat with these people traveling to
the New World in hopes of finding some freedom there
that they didn't have before. And all of this was
loaded down on this ship, and this captain started doing
(06:34):
the maths in his head. He's eyeing all this wealth
and he's wanting it all for himself. So as the
ship started getting closer to the outer banks, the captain
met with his crew and they put a plan into action.
It was really a simple plan. One night, while all
(06:56):
the passengers were asleep, they'd kill him and take the loot,
and it just so happened. On a moonless night in September,
the captain and the crew literally went below decks and
went one by one to every berth and every passenger
and their throat while they slept. They then laboriously loaded
(07:20):
up the longboats with all of the treasure that they
had acquired, everything heirlooms, heirlooms, pictures, paintings, the family jewels,
grandpa's old watch, whatever it was, they took it and
they loaded into a longboat. And they got into the
longboats themselves. Before leaving, they doused the decks of the
(07:43):
ship with as much oil as they could, doused the sails,
and as the last man got onto the longboat to
lower into the water, he tossed a lantern into the oil,
setting the ship ablaze, basically.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Burning up all of the evidence. So he thought.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
They began to roll for Row for new Birth, hoping
to make their way to land, and everyone would assume
that they went down with the ship. They were going
to the pirates hangout. I'm probably going to try and
hook up with the good old Eddie Teach or someone else.
I think they were before Edward Teach, because this was
in the time of Queen Anne, and so they were
(08:25):
just laughing and joking around, rowing their boat, rowing their boat,
and they turned back to look upon their work, only
to see that the ship wasn't sitting dormant in the middle.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Of the sea.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
The ship was in fact moving and turning towards them
at high speed, engulfed in flames fire across the mast,
as if selled by demons.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
The ship was moving.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
At a high cliff across the water, straight at them,
and so they rowed harder.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
They tried to evase some movers.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
They did everything they could, but the ship followed him.
They were rowing and rowing, but the ship stayed on them,
eventually running them down and destroying the longboats, sending the treasure,
the captain, and all but one of his men to
(09:27):
the bottom of the sea. The next day, on the
outer banks, the remains of this burnt ship and the
lone crewmen were found, the crewmen spouting mad, insane stories
about a demonship that followed them and sank the crew.
(09:49):
He admitted to everything, and was of course executed for
piracy for admitting to everything, but he said it was
better to be executed than to be chased by the
souls that damned ship that he and his captain had killed.
Now that's a creepy enough story on its own, but
(10:11):
it just so happens that the story doesn't.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Stop there afterwards.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Not long afterwards, either, on moonless nights in September and October,
it became commonplace to see a ship come on the horizon,
five mass schooner, nothing to it, but as the sun
would go down, the ship's sails would appear to.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Be made out of fire, and the.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Ship would sail across the horizon, as if crued by
some unspeaking force, with flames erupting from it, this fiery
beast of bird and crossing the sea. And it said
that you can even see this ship today. This is
(11:06):
the flaming ghost ship of Okracoke Island. And if you're
on okra Coke Island and look to the waters off
the northeast corner, it says you can see this ship
at night. I always find it interesting when there are
stories about ships at sea, maybe because I grew.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Up on the beach.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I grew up with ghosts like the Patriot, you know,
the ship that vanished carrying Theodosia board. And of course,
my favorite sea bearing ghost story the gray Man, but
a burning ghost ship similar to that of the famed
(11:47):
Flying Dutchman. Just it's exciting to hear about folks. That's
our story for tonight, and I really hope that you
enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I hope that.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
It has encouraged you to check out North Carolina, maybe
go to Cape Hatterast, visit the coast and see if
you can see the ghost ship in September. I also
hope that it's been entertaining and enjoyable for you. We've
got one more episode this month. This is kind of
the second to last one, and then that's it for
(12:20):
this season of The Carolina Storyteller. Now we will still
be starting a live program soon, and of course we
have Valmont that is going to premiere on December first,
wherever you listen to podcasts, but if you're on Patreon,
Patreon dot com forwards Last The Carolina Storyteller, you can
of course get ad free episodes and Valmont is going
(12:41):
to be dropping on the fifteenth of every month before
it hits on the first, so you can have Valmont
fifteen days earlier and be ahead of the game just
by going to Patreon dot com. Fordslast the Carolina Storyteller
and subscribing Hope you enjoyed our show. I'm Jonathan Phoenix,
(13:01):
the Carolina Storyteller. Stay spooky, my friends. We'll see you
next time. M
Hi, folks, this is Jonathan Poenix, the Carolina Storytellers, coming
to you with an important important message. Okay, this is
an adult podcast, so it shouldn't be listened to by children.
And if you're listening to this, I assume that you're
an adult. And if you're not an adult, that's bad
because some of the things that we cover on this
podcast are topics that really younger ages shouldn't be listening to.
(00:25):
There's murder, there's death, there's blood, guts, and core things
that really they don't want to be exposed to. So
as an adult, I'm gonna ask you to keep the
kids away, but I don't think every one of you
is doing it, So I'm gonna have to do something
to curb this behavior. If you don't stop, maybe I'll
tell your kids where sin is real address this, or
maybe I'll tell them where babies come from, or how
(00:47):
to get a hold of the Easter Buddy and the toothberry,
or maybe I'll just tell them why the mailman always
brings them birthday presents and why Daddy is really.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Mad about it.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So remember, keep the kids away from the adult material
and enjoy the show. This is the Carolina storytelling.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
In the dark works with shadows, creep stories rise as
the kim far reads John the voice of haunts, it
thrill with every sale, heat bends off will echoes whispered
to night sassy by the fire light of fierce till lie.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The general lot of.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Storyteller joan through the spekcare of furs in fight, fangels
of darknessing night and rise of the night.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
The lads a frightened dread.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Every heartbeat a path we dread, feed expenses weap.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Imagine you've gone to enjoy the outer Banks of North Carolina,
and you're sitting there and it's the night, and you're
watching as the waves roll in, and suddenly before you
comes a five masted schooner, but instead of sales, it's
(02:21):
moved by flames, like something out of a ghost rider,
coming moving across the ocean at high speed, and then
it fades into nothingness. Now, particularly i'd be looking to
see if what I was drinking was just a little
bit tinted, but this would actually be.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
A normal sight.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
In late September, on okrah Coke Island, just out of
the just off of the Outer Banks of North Carolina,
I'm Jonathan Phoenix, and this is the Carolina Storyteller and
Tonight's story. We're going to be talking about that to
the end of the twenty twenty four Spooky season. It's
(03:05):
been a long ride, but I think this year this
story just perfect for wrapping things up, don't you.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well, maybe you will after I tell you the story.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Now, remember, folks, you can support this podcast by going
to patreon dot com forward slash the Carolina Storyteller or
just google the Carolina Storyteller and you can go to
our Prenophi store and buy some of the merch. Anyway,
let's get into the story. So the whole story goes
back to the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Now,
(03:40):
this is when the religious wars were really ravaging Europe,
and so the idea of moving to the New World
was kind of the best thing people had. People were
packing up their stuff and getting over here as quickly
as possible because literally Protestants and Catholics were just kind
of slaughtering people left and right.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
It was really weird.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
But if you wanted to believe what you wanted to believe,
you couldn't live in Europe.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
At the time.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
If you lived in an area where the Protestants were
in charge, kind of like England and Switzerland and Germany
and what was known as the Palatines. Well, then you
suffered under their rule. You had to believe and worship
as they said. Meanwhile, if you lived closer to Rome
and France and Italy and things, you were under the
(04:36):
Catholic Church's rule. And if you didn't practice your religion
as they said, you were just as likely to lose
your head as you were to be able to go
on with your next day's meal. It was literally one
of the worst times in history for religious freedom. Hence
(04:57):
the draw to America. People were just trying as hard
to get away from this as possible. So a group
led by a Swiss baron named Christoph von Graffenried, now
that's a name pull right there, got permission from the
crown to move all of these refugees to the Carolina Colonies,
(05:19):
and it was going to be an area called Newborn,
just down from the outer Banks.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
This plan, of course, made all of these.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
People that wanted to get out of here delightful because
they were getting away with their lives and were going
to be able to practice religion as they saw fit.
Which was the draw of the American colonies. It was
during one of these voyages that the captain of the
chartered vessel just so happened to be a very unscrupulous
and greedy man, and what he noticed was that his
(05:51):
passengers were carrying a very large amount of gold and
jewels and other well with them. Understand, these families were
grabbing everything they could and bringing it on the boat
with them because they were never coming back. So, you know,
family heirlooms that maybe dated back centuries that had been
(06:12):
passed down from father to son or from mother to
daughter had been just ran through the families. They were
all now on this boat with these people traveling to
the New World in hopes of finding some freedom there
that they didn't have before. And all of this was
loaded down on this ship, and this captain started doing
(06:34):
the maths in his head. He's eyeing all this wealth
and he's wanting it all for himself. So as the
ship started getting closer to the outer banks, the captain
met with his crew and they put a plan into action.
It was really a simple plan. One night, while all
(06:56):
the passengers were asleep, they'd kill him and take the loot,
and it just so happened. On a moonless night in September,
the captain and the crew literally went below decks and
went one by one to every berth and every passenger
and their throat while they slept. They then laboriously loaded
(07:20):
up the longboats with all of the treasure that they
had acquired, everything heirlooms, heirlooms, pictures, paintings, the family jewels,
grandpa's old watch, whatever it was, they took it and
they loaded into a longboat. And they got into the
longboats themselves. Before leaving, they doused the decks of the
(07:43):
ship with as much oil as they could, doused the sails,
and as the last man got onto the longboat to
lower into the water, he tossed a lantern into the oil,
setting the ship ablaze, basically.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Burning up all of the evidence. So he thought.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
They began to roll for Row for new Birth, hoping
to make their way to land, and everyone would assume
that they went down with the ship. They were going
to the pirates hangout. I'm probably going to try and
hook up with the good old Eddie Teach or someone else.
I think they were before Edward Teach, because this was
in the time of Queen Anne, and so they were
(08:25):
just laughing and joking around, rowing their boat, rowing their boat,
and they turned back to look upon their work, only
to see that the ship wasn't sitting dormant in the middle.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Of the sea.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
The ship was in fact moving and turning towards them
at high speed, engulfed in flames fire across the mast,
as if selled by demons.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
The ship was moving.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
At a high cliff across the water, straight at them,
and so they rowed harder.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
They tried to evase some movers.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
They did everything they could, but the ship followed him.
They were rowing and rowing, but the ship stayed on them,
eventually running them down and destroying the longboats, sending the treasure,
the captain, and all but one of his men to
(09:27):
the bottom of the sea. The next day, on the
outer banks, the remains of this burnt ship and the
lone crewmen were found, the crewmen spouting mad, insane stories
about a demonship that followed them and sank the crew.
(09:49):
He admitted to everything, and was of course executed for
piracy for admitting to everything, but he said it was
better to be executed than to be chased by the
souls that damned ship that he and his captain had killed.
Now that's a creepy enough story on its own, but
(10:11):
it just so happens that the story doesn't.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Stop there afterwards.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Not long afterwards, either, on moonless nights in September and October,
it became commonplace to see a ship come on the horizon,
five mass schooner, nothing to it, but as the sun
would go down, the ship's sails would appear to.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Be made out of fire, and the.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Ship would sail across the horizon, as if crued by
some unspeaking force, with flames erupting from it, this fiery
beast of bird and crossing the sea. And it said
that you can even see this ship today. This is
(11:06):
the flaming ghost ship of Okracoke Island. And if you're
on okra Coke Island and look to the waters off
the northeast corner, it says you can see this ship
at night. I always find it interesting when there are
stories about ships at sea, maybe because I grew.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Up on the beach.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I grew up with ghosts like the Patriot, you know,
the ship that vanished carrying Theodosia board. And of course,
my favorite sea bearing ghost story the gray Man, but
a burning ghost ship similar to that of the famed
(11:47):
Flying Dutchman. Just it's exciting to hear about folks. That's
our story for tonight, and I really hope that you
enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I hope that.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
It has encouraged you to check out North Carolina, maybe
go to Cape Hatterast, visit the coast and see if
you can see the ghost ship in September. I also
hope that it's been entertaining and enjoyable for you. We've
got one more episode this month. This is kind of
the second to last one, and then that's it for
(12:20):
this season of The Carolina Storyteller. Now we will still
be starting a live program soon, and of course we
have Valmont that is going to premiere on December first,
wherever you listen to podcasts, but if you're on Patreon,
Patreon dot com forwards Last The Carolina Storyteller, you can
of course get ad free episodes and Valmont is going
(12:41):
to be dropping on the fifteenth of every month before
it hits on the first, so you can have Valmont
fifteen days earlier and be ahead of the game just
by going to Patreon dot com. Fordslast the Carolina Storyteller
and subscribing Hope you enjoyed our show. I'm Jonathan Phoenix,
(13:01):
the Carolina Storyteller. Stay spooky, my friends. We'll see you
next time. M
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