September 24, 2025 • 48 mins
Embark on a captivating journey into the uncharted depths of the paranormal as Beck and Rachel explore the mysteries of the sea in this To The Spirit podcast episode.
From the haunting legend of ghost ships like the Mary Celeste and SS Ourang Medan to the spine-chilling sounds of the deep such as The Bloop and Upsweep, this episode dives into theunexplainable.
Discover cryptids like the Antarctic Ningen and marvel at eerie phenomena like St. Elmo’s Fire and Will-o’-the-Wisps.
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You're listening to to the Spirit podcast for 40 days or
even more. The light when slack and tight
once more for both. We're lasting only four.
Steal that whale, they go. Soon May.
The weatherman come to bring us sugar and tea and roam.
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One day, when the dungeon is done, we'll take a leave and go
as far as OK, the fight's still under the lights not cut and the
whales not gone. The weatherman makes his regular
cauldron coral captain crew and all.
Soon May. Welcome listeners to To The
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Spirit, the podcast where we dive into the mysterious, the
metaphysical and downright mind bending.
I'm Beck your guide for today's journey and joining me, as
always, is the ever awesome Rachel.
Hey, Rach. Hello.
Hello. How you doing today, Rach?
I'm. Feeling great, how you doing?
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I think I might have to rename Emmett again to Emmy Lou Long
Legs. I think that's his, his spirit
name, his Native American name. Isn't that the name of that
horror movie? Oh yeah, it came out with
Nicolas Cage. Man, maybe I'm going to have to
change it. It was either fluffy Bunny feet
or long legs. You know, everyone talk to you
guys, see long legs, it's so crazy, blah blah blah.
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And that and I see clips of whathe looks like.
What the hell is this? Did you watch it?
No, me neither. I know everyone did say, oh, you
have to go see it. And I felt like I was possessed
when I walked out of there. And I'm like, maybe I don't want
to see that. I don't know.
I thought long legs is going to be some crazy, I don't know,
spider creature or something like daddy long legs.
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I guess that's what I was thinking of.
And then when I just see it's like weird looking Nick Cage.
I'm like. Yeah, I know what you're saying.
Like a spider creature which actually could lead into what
we're going to be talking about today.
Because spiders remind me of crab.
For some reason I feel like crabs are the spiders of the
sea. Yeah, they're bugs.
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Yeah, they're they're water bugs.
Yeah, they're they're kind of gross.
I don't eat crab. They kind of freak me out.
I'm not a fan. It was a prison food.
I think it was that in lobster. Lobster.
Now look at it. It's like $250 for two lobster
rolls. Outrageous.
Rach, if you were a mythical seacreature, what would you be and
why? I would have to be a siren.
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Oh yes, that's good. Singing the Men.
The Sailors drama Would you rather explore the deep ocean or
outer space? The deep ocean.
See, they both scare me. Both don't have oxygen, just
freaks me out. I have this thing with
suffocating drowning. My physical body, I don't think
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I'd want to go to either of them, no.
But if I could explore, yeah, OK, I could figure out how to
astral project down there. If I could astral project, I'd
do both, yeah. What's the creepiest ocean fact
you've ever heard? I think just the fact that so
much of the ocean is unexplored,we have no idea what is going on
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in the oceans and that is why I will never go on a cruise ever.
There's many reasons I won't go on a cruise.
Yeah, oh, yeah, there's a million reasons why I wouldn't
go on a cruise. But people are just like, yeah,
put me out in the middle of the ocean, right?
Who knows what the Hell's livingunderneath me?
Could just swallow me up. Wasn't it amazing, when you
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think about back in the day, howtransportation was before
planes? They had to get on those little
ships, not even these giant monster ships that they build
that are like floating cities. These are like, are we going to
make it to our destination ships?
Yeah. Even like the freaking pilgrims
going over to a different land, they didn't have GPS, they just
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went by the stars on these giantwooden ships and they didn't
even know where they're going. With no technology, that is
terrifying. And you know, half of them would
die through storms and disease. Since we're talking about ships,
let's kick this off with one of the most enduring maritime
stories of all time, the Marry Celeste.
This is the granddaddy of ghost ship legends, and honestly, if
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ships could win an award for being creepy, this one would
take home the bride. The Mary Celeste is very creepy.
Picture this. It's December 5th, 1872.
The British Brig. Oh my gosh, if I can say this.
De Gracia, de Gracia de Gracia. De Gracia.
Yeah, that. It's sailing across the Atlantic
when its crew spots a ship adrift in the open ocean, and
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the ship is identified as the Mary Celeste.
And here's where it gets weird. It's completely abandoned.
No crew, no captain, no sign of life at all.
The Mary Celeste had left New York City just a month earlier,
bound for Genoa, Italy. On board were Captain Benjamin
Briggs, his wife Sarah and theirtwo year old daughter Sophia,
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and a crew of seven experienced sailors.
When the Degracias crew boarded the ship, they found it eerily
intact. There was six months worth of
food and water. Personal belongings were
undisturbed and the cargo, whichwas 17101 barrels of industrial
alcohol, was mostly untouched. The only clues were a few
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unsettling details. The ship's lifeboat was missing,
the ship's log ended abruptly 10days before its discovery, and
some of the ship's sails were damaged and the rigging was
slightly dishevelled, but nothing that screamed emergency.
But here's the real kicker. There were no signs of violence
or piracy. It was as if everybody on board
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simply vanished into thin air. Some think it was a natural
disaster, maybe a water spout orRogue Wave.
Those rogue waves, man, that scared the crew into abandoning
ship. Others speculate about foul
play, but there's no evidence toback it up.
Then of course there's the supernatural explanation.
The alien abductions, sea monsters, or perhaps the crew
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fell victim to a curse. One of my favorite theories, and
by favorite I mean absolutely bonkers, is that the fumes from
the alcohol cargo caused a smallexplosion, leading the crew to
think the ship was about to go up in flames.
In their panic, they might have launched the lifeboat and
drifted away, only to be never seen again.
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To this day, the fate of Mary Celeste remains one of the
Ocean's most haunting mysteries.And honestly, the lack of
definitive answer is what makes it so spine tingling.
What's cool too about Mary Celeste that it inspired
numerous stories and books. It was also the basis for the
movie The Mystery of the Mary Celeste 1935, also called
Phantom Ship, starring Bela Lugosi and Haunting of the Mary
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Celeste in 2000 and The True Story of the Mary Celeste in
2007. Did you see?
I I want to watch the one with Bela Lugosi.
Bela Lugosi, I think. Aliens could have gotten them.
That was one of the theories. Look at all the things that are
coming out of the ocean right now.
The government came right out and said they're living under
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the ocean, so that'd be the perfect place to abduct people.
The fact that this ship was so intact and the booze wasn't gone
right? Where did they go?
That is the question. So this ship is.
More of a spectral ship. I'm sure you've heard of it, The
Flying Dutchman. Yeah.
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Yeah, so it is a legendary ghostship.
Wasn't that in the Pirates of the Caribbean or something like
that? Yes, OK with what's his name,
Johnny Depp, of course Johnny Depp, but the the character.
Davy Jones, David Jones. He was awesome.
Flying Dutchman. That's right.
So according to Wikipedia, the legendary ghost ship allegedly
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never was able to make port, butdoomed to sail the sea forever.
The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from
the 17th century Golden age of Dutch East India Company and the
Dutch Maritime Power. The oldest known extent version
of the legend dates from the late 18th century.
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According to the legend, if hailed by another ship, the crew
of the Flying Dutchman might tryto send messages to land or to
people long dead. Reported sightings in the 19th
and 20th centuries claimed that if the ship glowed with a
ghostly light. In the ocean lore, the sight of
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this phantom ship functions as aportent of doom.
It was commonly believed that the Flying Dutchman was a 17th
century cargo vessel known as the Fleut.
The Fleut Fleut. OK FLUYT.
I like the name. The Flying Dutchman, Yeah.
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I do too. Well, if the Mary Celeste and
the Flying Dutchman were poster children for ghost ships, the s
s Beichimo, it's cold Arctic cousin is up here now.
This ship didn't just vanish once, I kept coming back like a
ghost that refused to stay in its grave.
The S S Beichimo was a steel hulled cargo ship launched in
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1914. Originally built for the
Hudson's Bay Company, it was used to transport goods and furs
along Canada's treacherous northern coastline.
For years it braved the Arctic ice, but in October 1931, it's
luck ran out. The ship became trapped and pack
ice off the coast of Alaska nearBarrow.
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The crew abandoned the vessel temporarily setting up camp
nearby to wait for the ice to release its grip.
When a severe storm had a few days later, the ship broke free
and then just drifted off. The crew eventually recovered
it, but this wasn't the end of the story.
Far from it. The ice trapped the Bechimo
again just weeks later. This time, the crew realized
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they couldn't keep chasing it forever.
They salvage the cargo, abandoned the ship for good, and
assumed it would eventually sink.
But the Bechimo had other plans.Over the next few decades, the
ghostly vessel was drifting aimlessly through the Arctic
waters. Here's where things get eerie.
Despite being battered by the storms and encased an ice year
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after year, the Bechimo refused to sink, became an Arctic
legend, a true phantom ship, appearing out of nowhere and
vanishing just as quickly. And some accounts people even
managed to board the ship, finding eerily preserved but
completely deserted. Others reported seeing it from a
distance, almost like an apparition.
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It became a floating enigma, a ship with no crew, no
destination, carried only by thewhims of the icy currents.
The last confirmed sighting of the Bechima was in 1969, nearly
40 years after it was abandoned.It was spotted frozen in an ice
pack, but no one could get closeenough to investigate.
After that, the ship disappearedinto the Arctic wilderness,
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leaving only behind tales of itsghostly wanderings.
What makes the story of Bechima was so fascinating is that it's
not just the ghost, or it's a testament to the unforgiving
power of nature and the mysteries of the sea.
The ship could still be out there somewhere, hidden beneath
the ice or drifting in the frigid waters.
And honestly, I think that's just the perfect blend of creepy
and cool. It's a ship that refuses to die,
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carrying the whispers of its past through the frozen silence
of the Arctic. That's pretty cool, no pun
intended. Freezing cool.
This is pretty interesting because this is connected to a
dream that I had, and I had no knowledge of this before, so
definitely got a story behind this ship.
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A few years back, I had a dream that I was in line with people
who had to go in to this boat and they had to give their
fingernails and everyone was terrified about it.
What? Yeah.
Fingernails. Yeah.
What do you mean? Like the whole nail or just
clippings? So like you had to get your
fingernails pulled off when you entered the ship?
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This is a really weird dream, OK?
All right. And there was people around that
I knew and everyone was terrified.
And I I just observed it and then I went into the ship and I
wasn't scared. I said, here take my nails.
Oh my Lord, there was this, I don't know, like a tribal elder
that was on the boat. And once he knew that, I wasn't
scared to give him my nails, he just had me look out the window
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and he's like, what do you see? And I'm looking out all of a
sudden, like we're on water. I see a cloud shaped like an
Angel. It was a very interesting
experience. So then I did a little research
on ships and fingernails and I came across the Nagle Far.
The Nagle. Far.
Yeah. So I looked it up and you know,
according to Wikipedia, in Norsemythology the Nagle Far is a
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boat made entirely from fingernails and toenails of the
dead. What?
Yeah, this is Norse. I think Norse mythology during
the events of Ragnarok, Nagle Far is foretold to sail to.
I'm going to butcher this. Just go for it.
I mean, we're butchering all of.Them figuor figuor ferrying
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hordes of monsters that will do battle with the gods.
Nagelfar is attested in the Poetic Edda compiled in the 13th
century from earlier traditionalsources in the Prose Edda also
composed in the 13th century. The boat itself has been
connected by scholars with larger patterns of ritual hair
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and nail disposing among the Indo Europeans stemming from
Proto Indo European custom, and it may be depicted on the
Tolstorp runestone in Scania, Sweden.
You might as well just be speaking another language.
But I had this dream that I'm inline and people are scared to
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give their nails to this man on the ship.
And I'm not scared and it's justcrazy that the ship holds the
nails of the dead. So I had like this whole the
whole story behind it. Well, this comes from something.
Maybe you were tapping into thatrealm.
It was wild. It is wild.
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Yeah, blew my mind. So when I found that out, I was
like, holy shit. Actually, I've never heard of
anything like that before, so thank you for that.
Thanks for educating me in Norsemythology about fingernail boat.
Yeah. Thanks, Wild dreams.
Yeah, take me to different. Routes I wouldn't want those
dreams oh, they're. Cool.
They're fun. I want to dive into one of the
most unsettling ghost ship stories out there, and this was
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one of my favorites. It's the legend of the S S Orang
Medan, and I'm probably butchering that.
The story is so strange, so utterly bizarre, that it feels
like a horror movie. And it actually should be a
horror movie. I don't know why they haven't
done this. The Orang Medan was a Dutch
freighter allegedly sailing through the waters of the Strait
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of Malacca in the 1940's. The ship's exact origin and
purpose remained unclear, but what happened to its crew turned
into one of the most infamous maritime mysteries.
The story goes that a nearby vessel picked up a series of
distress calls. The messages were fragmented,
almost incoherent, but they painted chilling pictures.
All officers, including the captain, are dead, lying in the
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chart room and bridge. Possibly whole crew could dead.
Then came the final transmission.
I die After that silence. When a rescue team eventually
located Orang Medan, they found it adrift with no signs of life.
But here's where things get terrifying.
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The entire crew was dead. Their bodies were sprawled
across the decks in grotesque positions, as though they had
died in agony or sheer terror. Their faces were frozen with
terror on it. Oh my God, some accounts said.
Again, their faces were frozen and expressions of horror.
Their arms were outstretched as if they were trying to ward off
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an unseen force. Even the ship's dog, yes there
was a dog on board, was found dead mid growl, as if trying to
defend itself from something. Now the rescue team decided to
tow the ship to port, but beforethey could, they Orang medan
mysteriously caught fire and exploded, sinking into the
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depths. And yeah, so theories range from
plausible to supernatural. Some speculate that the ship was
smuggling hazardous materials like chemicals or nerve agents,
which leaked out and then poisoned the crew.
Others suggest carbon monoxide poisoning or even piracy, though
there's no evidence really for violence that makes that less
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likely. And then, of course, the
supernatural explanations. Did they encounter something
otherworldly at sea or could it have been some sort of mass
hysteria amplified by isolation and fear pissed off Poseidon.
I'm going to give a plug out to Mr. Balin on YouTube because he
tells his story masterfully and it is so gripping.
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It is one of my favorite stories.
He tells the captain of the boat.
When you get deep into the accounts, he tried to isolate
these guys because some of them would start running and jumping
off the side of the boat. He was like, whoa, I'm losing my
crew here. Like what the hell?
And they were acting insane. Like they were seeing something
screaming horrifically and it got to the point where the
captain was even putting them inquarters and kind of locking
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them off so that it wouldn't jump and die and fly off the
ship. So it was a really good, if you
get a chance to check that out, I would.
That sounds awesome. Well, with all these ships and
the things that they encounter, there's been one that has been
in history for as long as I don't know I can remember, and
it's always on maps. It's the sea serpent.
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I thought you're gonna say the Kraken.
No, but you know those long sea serpents, they draw them a lot
in the maps. Coming like in and out of the
water, Yeah. According to Britannica, the sea
serpent, mythological and legendary marine animal that
traditionally resembles an enormous snake, the belief in
huge creatures that inhabited the deep was widespread
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throughout the ancient world. In the Old Testament, there are
several allusions to primordial combat between God and monstrous
adversary, variously named Leviathan or Rahab.
Although the references to Leviathan usually indicate a
dragon like creature, the name has also been used to denote a
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sea monster. In general.
Analogies to this combat are found throughout the ancient
Middle East. Babylonian literature records a
battle between the God Marduk and the multi headed serpent
dragon Tiamat, and in Hittite myth the weather God victorious
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over the dragon. These names a lunacus, Similarly
a Canaanite poem from Ross Shamar.
Oh, Lord Ross, oh Lord, guys, there's going to be editing.
From Ross Shamra in northern Syria records a battle between
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the God Ball in a monster calledLeviathan.
There's a movie called Leviathan.
Never seen it. It's a good movie.
It's an underwater creature alien thing that basically wipes
out a whole underwater crew pretty good.
I recommend it from the 80s, nineties, late 80s probably.
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Do you think the sea serpents were real, having it go back
from ancient times? I think everything that's a
legend had a root in reality. I do.
I think vampires were real. People just didn't make these
things up. And there's just too many
accounts, there's too many stories that match up.
So yeah, I think it's real. Hey spirit seekers enjoying the
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In the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean, there's a
Cryptid shrouded in mystery. It's called the Ninjin.
The Ninjin. Yeah, the Ninjins.
Encrypted and sighted in the AC waters near Antarctica.
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Descriptions paint a picture of a massive humanoid aquatic
creature. It's a being that's as
fascinating as terrifying. An eyewitnesses account suggests
the Ninjin can reach an astonishing length of 20 to 30
meters. Imagine being so enormous that
it rivals some of the largest marine animals.
Its body is described as smooth and pale white, almost
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resembling human skin. And what really sets it apart
are its humanoid features. Some say it has arm like
appendages that resemble hands, while others describe fin like
structures or even a mermaid style tail.
The facial features, well, they're minimal but eerie.
Reports include mentions of small beady eyes and a slit like
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mouth at the ninja. Legend is tracked back to
Japanese fishermen and researchers, with sightings
reported during expeditions in Antarctic waters.
Stories began circulating in online forums in the early
2000s, particularly on platformsdedicated to cryptozoology and
then the unexplained. These accounts typically
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describe nighttime encounters where the creature is seen
gliding silently beneath the waves or breaking the surface
momentarily. The theories of what it could
be, of course. They think it's a case of
misidentified marine life, perhaps a giant ray or an
undiscovered whale species, or even chunks of ice creating
delusions in the dark, icy waters.
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But believers point out to the humanoid features, which are
hard to explain away. Could it be an aquatic species,
a relic of prehistoric times, orextraterrestrials?
When I'm thinking and what are you thinking?
Some kind of prehistoric? Shit.
Oh you think it's prehistoric? I feel like it's ET but who
knows. I know one thing, the Southern
Ocean is one of the least explored regions on earth.
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It's frigid. The location makes it look
perfect. Hiding spot for something
unusual and people with their curiosity about the ninja and we
might see more efforts to uncover really what that is.
One popular sea creature that's been talked about for years and
years is the mermaid. Yeah, mermaids aren't supposed
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to be good, are they? They're kind of supposed to be
like evil, like the Sirens. I guess depending on.
The mermaid. I mean, what am I talking?
Like under the sea mermaid, I feel like they're kind of creepy
creatures. Yeah, and there's obviously no
real evidence that mermaids exist.
I've seen some pretty convincingYouTube videos.
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I've seen some documentaries that look pretty damn
convincing. But there are some notable
mermaid sightings in history. Back in 1943, Christopher
Columbus claimed to have seen 3 mermaids off the coast of
Hispaniola. However, it was more likely that
he saw manatees, which, OK, I'veheard a lot that people, you
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know, manatees resemble mermaids.
Yeah, but you never know. Henry Hudson in 16 O Eight
members of Hudson's crew claimedto see a mermaid in the Arctic
Ocean. David Daniel In 1652, Daniel
claimed to see a mermaid with flowing hair in Greenland.
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Japanese Soldiers During World War 2 Japanese soldiers in
Indonesia claimed to have strange encounters with
mermaids. I wonder what that means?
I know, I was hoping you'd elaborate a little bit on this.
Strange encounters meaning what exactly?
In 1998, Leisure claimed to haveseen a nude woman swimming with
dolphins off the coast of Kawaii.
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But how do we know that wasn't just a nude woman swimming with
dolphins? Right.
Maybe it was so deep in the ocean that it didn't make sense.
I'll give them that. And then in Curate Yam, Israel
2009, locals claimed to see a mermaid off the shore at sunset.
And then in Benguela, Scotland in 1830, a woman claimed to see
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a child with a salmon like tail splashing around in the sea.
A baby. A baby mermaid.
A little baby mermaid. This is in Scotland, so a wee
little lad. A little lad of a fish lad.
It's a little burn fish. Yeah.
I'm not good at Scottish, actually.
Me neither. I think I did English.
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I apologize. Scottish is hard.
But what about the guy on TikTok?
He has been kind of documenting.He works on a ship.
The footage he has is really compelling.
He's got screams from them. There's something following on
the side of the ship and it seems to be for him, like when
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he goes out onto the deck. Have you seen this at all?
I. Don't think so.
It's. Pretty awesome, I feel like he
even got a hold of some artifactand brought it into a museum and
it's not identifiable as like anything like a whalebone.
Do you think mermaids are real? Oh, for sure.
I do too. I think they're real.
I just think there's a lack of compelling evidence, although
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like I said, TikTok. Christopher Columbus really saw
the mermaids. I don't know.
I feel like that could have beena manatee.
I don't know. Who's to say?
A lot of things are eyewitness accounts.
And it's not like they had videocameras or, you know, cell
phones and stuff was. So unexplored, Yeah, back then,
so, you know, you'd be a mermaidchilling.
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This ship just goes by and you're like.
That would be the perfect time to be a mermaid and go, hey,
what's that? Yeah.
Let's dive in now into the one of the most agnatic.
Here we go. Once it once a show I got to do
it. Hey, at least you're not drunk.
Yeah, that's true. But I might as well be the way I
talk sometimes. Let's dive into one of the most
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craziest sounds I've recorded from the depths of the ocean, a
sound so strange it's been namedthe Bloop.
If you're imagining like some giant sea creature with a voice
of a foghorn, you're not too faroff the mark.
Or at least that's what some people believe.
I'm going to play a sound of thebloop here.
These are underwater recordings from NOAA, which is the National
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Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.
I'm going to play it and then I'll give you the setup.
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It's 1997, and the NOAA is conducting acoustic monitoring
off the Pacific Ocean. They've got hydrophones,
basically underwater microphones, set up to detect
the sounds of underwater seismicactivity, like icebergs and
other ocean noises. Then it happens.
The hydrophones pick up a sound unlike anything they've ever
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recorded. It's loud, low frequency and it
travels thousands of miles through the water.
Scientists nickname it the Bloop, which you could kind of
bloop you could hear. It it was a bloop.
And it and it became an instant sensation.
And here's what's fascinating. To produce a sound of that
magnitude, the source would haveto be enormous, bigger than any
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known marine animal. We're talking about something
potentially larger than a blue whale.
The largest creature on earth isthe blue whale.
So it's got to be bigger than that.
Of course, this sparks wild speculation.
Was it a prehistoric sea monster?
A giant squid? Or maybe it was just Cthulhu
itself. Oh, not Cthulhu.
The exact characteristics of theBloop added to its mystery.
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It rose rapidly in frequency, which is a trait typically
associated with living creatures.
But here's a twist. No creature that massive has
ever been discovered, let alone one that's capable of making a
sound so powerful enough to be heard across the Pacific.
Over time, though, scientists began leaning towards a less
monstrous explanation. The most widely accepted theory
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today is that the bloop was caused by an ice quake,
essentially the sound of an enormous iceberg that's cracking
and breaking apart in the water.It's a plausible explanation,
but it hasn't stopped people from dreaming of something more
fantastical lurking in the Ocean's depths.
Think about it. We've explored more of the
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surface of the moon than we havethe bottom of our own oceans.
Like you said earlier, O there could be creatures down there
that just defy everything we think.
It's wild how much of Mars now is explored and we know what
Mars looks like more than what the bottom of the ocean looks
like. What do you think the bloop was?
Did it sound like ice breaking apart to you?
I know that was a short little sample I played, but did it
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sound like ice breaking? It didn't to me, but.
No, it again, it would have to be bigger than a blue whale.
So was that ice breaking actually bigger than a blue
whale? I.
Don't know. Just to have that kind of sound.
I know. It sound like something just ate
right. Or something sinking that was
large. Well, let's turn our ears to
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another oceanic enigma. This one's been puzzling
scientists for decades. It's called the Up Sweep, and
that doesn't have that Hollywoodlevel name like the Bloop.
But this sound is just as strange and just as enduring.
So here's the background on this.
In the early 1990's, the NOAA, the same folks who recorded the
Bloop, detected a mysterious sound coming from somewhere in
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the Pacific Ocean. I don't know if you've ever been
to the Pacific Rage, but I'm nota big fan of the Pacific Ocean.
Unlike the Bloop, which is a onetime recorded event, Upsweep is
a reoccurring phenomenon. So it's been happening for years
and it's been heard consistentlyduring certain times of the
year. I'll describe it and then I'll
play it. So it's a long, drawn out sound
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that rises in frequency and that's where they get the name
Upsweep. It's not the sound of whales or
any known marine life, and it's not tied to human activity like
submarines or ships. It's entirely natural, but
nobody knows exactly what's causing it.
It's not going to be very dramatic, but I'm going to just
play it for you. It's a little eerie.
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One of the most intriguing aspects of Upsweep is its
seasonality. The sound seems to peak in the
spring and fall, and then it quiets down for the rest of the
year. This regular pattern has LED
scientists to theorize that it might be related to volcanic
activity on the sea floor. The idea is that undersea
volcanoes or hydrothermal vents could be releasing gas or molten
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material, creating vibrations that produce that sound.
But here's the thing. While volcanic activity is a
solid theory, it's not confirmed, and the exact
location of the sound source is a little tricky to pin down.
It seems to come from somewhere in the Pacific's volcanic
regions, but the ocean is so vast, and the sound has a way of
carrying over incredible distances.
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Of course, this is where the speculation comes in.
Could it be something of an unknown geological phenomenon?
Or maybe something alive? Something massive, something
we've never seen before? If we're being honest, the ocean
is basically Earth's version of outer space.
It's dark, it's unexplored, and it's full of things we can't
begin to understand. And then there's one more twist
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to this mystery. While this sound is less intense
now than it was when it was first discovered, it hasn't
disappeared. It's still out there.
It's rising and falling, kind oflike an eerie underwater siren
song. And kind of like the bloop, it's
humbling reminder of how much westill don't know about our
planet. To me, it sounded kind of like
sirens going off under there, like, like a warning, warning,
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warning, you know, going off. Yeah.
My last sound. This one to me is the haunting
one. It's earned the simple but
ominous nickname Julia. The story begins March 1st,
1999, when the NOAA is underwater monitoring system
picked up a peculiar sound in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean.
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Again in the Pacific. Unlike some of the other strange
noises from the deep, Julia was a short event only lasting 15
seconds, but its impact has resonated for years.
Here's how it sounded and then I'm going to play it for you.
It's like a low, almost moaning tone that rises in intensity
before fading out. It's so loud that it was
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detected across the entire Pacific basin.
So to put that into perspective,this means that whatever caused
the sound was extraordinarily powerful and Oregon
extraordinarily massive. And I'm going to play that for
you now. That gave me chills.
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Did it sound like Julie under their humming or trying to talk
underwater? Yes.
How deep was this? This was extensive and massive,
very powerful and very large across the entire Pacific basin.
So the scientists theorized thatJulia might have been caused by,
again, an iceberg running around, possibly near
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Antarctica. And, and this makes sense if you
consider the characteristics of the sound, that maybe the
iceberg was grinding against thesea.
Floor. That sounded like a voice.
That to me it did too, and it doesn't sit well with others
either. The scale of the sound that
leads it to Wilder speculations.Could it be the call of an
undiscovered deep sea creature? Or perhaps something the size of
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a mythical leviathan? Or maybe something even more
alien, a relic of the ancient oceanic past?
There's lots of conspiracy theories.
Some have suggested that Julia could be the evidence of
underwater extraterrestrial activity or signal from a secret
deep sea base. There's no evidence, of course.
That adds the intriguing layer to the mystery.
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Unlike reoccurring sounds like the upsweep, this was only a one
time event, so that left us withno opportunity to study it
further. It's like an unsolved Riddle
left behind by the ocean itself.A tantalizing hint of something
extraordinary that we will neverreally fully understand.
And here's a fun thought to leave you with.
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If Julia was an iceberg, as mostscientists believe, it would
have had to been massive, like one of the largest to ever break
free in the region. But if it wasn't, well, that
means there was something enormous down there, watching
us, as curious about us as we are about it.
It makes me think too, what if it was like a soul of somebody
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who drowned in the ocean and it was just that's what I.
That's the feel I had. A very famous ship that sank and
has a lot of theories and history to it is the Titanic.
Listeners who don't know much about the Titanic.
It was a British passenger ship that sank in the North Atlantic
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Ocean in 1912 after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
Who doesn't know about the Titanic?
You must be living under a rock if you haven't even seen the
1997 movie with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Every night in my dreams. I'm sorry.
Go ahead. So a little history of the ship.
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The Titanic was the largest and most luxurious passenger ship of
its time. It was built in Belfast, Ireland
by Harlan and Wolf and cost 7.5 million to build.
The ship was 882.5 feet long andhad a beam of 92.5 feet and the
depth of 59.5 feet. It had three propellers, with
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the outer propellers being the largest.
And on April 14th, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg at
11:40 PM while traveling from Southampton, England to New York
City. The ship sank at 2:20 AM on
April 15th, 1912, taking the lives of more than 1500 people.
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The wreck of the Titanic was located in 1985 by a French and
American team in 12,500 feet of water about 350 miles southeast
of Newfoundland, Canada. So with that being said.
All the facts. Yeah, there are curses connected
to the Titanic as to why that ship sank.
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Now I know that there's conspiracy theories on that too,
like they really didn't hit an iceberg and that I think
Rockefeller or one of those big elitist had something to do with
it. JP Morgan one of them, because
they wanted insurance money. It was like an insurance fraud
thing. That's something I'll have to
look into. Yeah, I never heard about that.
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Maybe for another episode. Right.
Some of the events that are associated with the curse of the
Titanic is that it's said that there was an unlucky mummy, a
legend that the Titanic was carrying a cursed mummy from the
British Museum to New York. The mummy was supposedly a
sarcophagus of a priestess of Amun Ray.
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There was construction accidents, fires broke out in
the coal bunkers during construction in Belfast and then
the number of the ship, The ship's number was 390904 was
said to resemble the letters No Pope N0P 0PE OK, a sectarian
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slogan used by Protestants in Northern Ireland.
But what does that? What does that mean?
No Pope? That there wasn't a Pope at the
time or. Yeah, like something anti
Catholic because then then otherone is the Heartland and Wolf
Company. The company built the ship was
said to be anti Catholic and theship sinking was blamed on this.
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So it's a lot of like anti Catholicism.
Interesting. And, you know, there's a lot of
superstition when it comes to Catholicism.
Wow. Well, those are fascinating
curses I never even heard about or knew.
Of and I still think the ship itself is cursed.
Look at that. Was it that millionaire that
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tried to take that submarine down?
And I think people who try to, you know, I'd have to look more
into it, but it's not successfulreally when you're going to try
to look at that ship. I think it has a lot of bad
energy, a lot of tragedy around it.
Good point. 1500 people and you know the way that they died.
He watched the movie too. Like they just froze drown.
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The Titanic is very fascinating.You're right.
Adding to the fact that the people that try to get down
there and take a look at, although James Cameron did get
down there, he managed to get down there and go around it, but
that's James Cameron probably had the best equipment and you
know, wasn't going down with. The footage of it, I mean,
looking at it now, it's really cool just seeing that ship.
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I couldn't imagine just being onthat ship.
No, I don't think I'd want to beon that ship.
If you were on that ship, would you like in the movie, would you
be scrambling to get to the verytop of it as it was sinking,
holding on to the railing? I don't know.
I think I would out of pure fearand fuel adrenaline.
I'd be trying to get up there. Yeah.
I mean, yeah, adrenaline. I'd be doing anything I possibly
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could. Let's take a dive now into one
of the Seas most fascinating andalmost almost supernatural
phenomena, Saint Elmo's Fire. Picture this.
You're out on the open ocean. A storm bruise overhead, and
suddenly an eerie blue Violet glow begins flickering along the
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mast of your ship. It's almost like the sea in the
sky have conspired to put on a ghostly light show.
But what it is, is Saint Elmo's Fire, and it's captivated
sailors for centuries. St.
Elmo's Fire is a weather phenomenon caused by the
ionization of air. It's when the atmosphere becomes
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highly charged, usually during thunderstorms, and the strong
electric field around sharp or pointed objects caused the
surrounding air molecules to become excited, and this results
in a glowing discharge of plasma.
It's not fire at all, but it looks like fire dances.
It glows tendrils of light that almost seem alive.
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That's cool. Sailors throughout history
witnessed this phenomenon on ship masts and even their
rigging. It wasn't even limited to the
seas, either. Pilots have seen it flicker
across their aircraft wings, andlandlubbers have spotted it on
church steeples and mountain tops.
Wherever there's sharp points and a charged atmosphere, the
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Saint almost fire makes its ghostly appearance.
But the lore that surrounds it, named after St. you and I, with
these Erasmus, named after St. Erasmus, the patron St. of
sailors. Many believe the glow was a sign
of divine protection during storms, a beacon of hope to
guide them through treacherous seas.
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To others, it was ominous, warning of danger to come.
Imagine being a sailor in the age of wooden ships and
superstitions, seeing this ethereal glow while lightning
crashes and waves turn around you.
It's an image that lingers even today.
Now let's wander into the marshlands in the forest to
explore another mysterious phenomenon that has fascinated
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and frightened people for centuries.
Willow the Wisps. Willow the wisps These ghostly
lights, described as faintly glowing orbs, just hover over
the ground. They've inspired countless
legends, but what are they and why do they seem to lure
travelers astray? Willow the Wisp, sometimes
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caught. By the way, there's a firework I
think called that, just so you know, you and your fireworks.
I know it's sometimes called Ignis Faddis or foolish Fire,
and it appears as small flickering lights and swamps,
bogs and other damp remote areas.
Reports describe them as faint bluish glows that dance and
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float in the air. And I'm only adding this because
it, and I know it's around swamps and swamps are wet.
I know it's not the sea. I just had to add it in here,
you know? It just fit, felt right.
The eerie part of the will of the wisps is that when you try
to follow them, they move further away and they lead you
deeper into the wild. This has been recorded in
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folklore worldwide. In Europe, these lights were
often thought to be mischievous spirits or souls of the dead,
leading travelers to danger. In English and Celtic lore, they
were associated with fatties or malevolent entities playing
tricks on unweary Wanderers. So they've ranged from
scientific to supernatural as far as theories go, and one
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comes from chemistry. They think the lights might be
caused by combustion gases like methane and it forms organic
matter, decays and the swamps and then the gases ignite on
contact with oxygen. These they always have to debunk
it with science. Buzzkill.
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But where it gets intriguing is the sightings always occur in
places without the right conditions for these chemical
reactions. I don't know if it could be
bioluminescent organisms or maybe something else entirely.
That's something really beyond everyone's understanding.
I think it's the Fay. Well, in Scandinavian folklore,
they've tied these to the spirits of unbaptized children.
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And in South America, right? And in some parts of South
America, they're linked to treasure guardians, enticing
people to dig in the wrong spots.
And in Asia, the lights are considered harbingers of
spiritual activity. Well, Rach, it's clear the
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natural world holds mysteries that continue to spark our
curiosity, maybe even send a little chill down our spines.
A few of them. The sea, the sky, the land, they
all hold secrets. Waiting for those bold enough to
look closer. Thank you for joining us today.
On to the spirit. If you enjoyed this episode,
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If you've got a theory, a story or suggestion for our next deep
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Absolutely. Until next time, keep your mind
open, your heart curious, and your spirit ready for adventure.
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Steal that whale, they go. Soon May.
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One day, when the dungeon is done, we'll take a leave and go
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Spirit, the podcast where we dive into the mysterious, the
metaphysical and downright mind bending.
I'm Beck your guide for today's journey and joining me, as
always, is the ever awesome Rachel.
Hey, Rach. Hello.
Hello. How you doing today, Rach?
I'm. Feeling great, how you doing?
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I think I might have to rename Emmett again to Emmy Lou Long
Legs. I think that's his, his spirit
name, his Native American name. Isn't that the name of that
horror movie? Oh yeah, it came out with
Nicolas Cage. Man, maybe I'm going to have to
change it. It was either fluffy Bunny feet
or long legs. You know, everyone talk to you
guys, see long legs, it's so crazy, blah blah blah.
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And that and I see clips of whathe looks like.
What the hell is this? Did you watch it?
No, me neither. I know everyone did say, oh, you
have to go see it. And I felt like I was possessed
when I walked out of there. And I'm like, maybe I don't want
to see that. I don't know.
I thought long legs is going to be some crazy, I don't know,
spider creature or something like daddy long legs.
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I guess that's what I was thinking of.
And then when I just see it's like weird looking Nick Cage.
I'm like. Yeah, I know what you're saying.
Like a spider creature which actually could lead into what
we're going to be talking about today.
Because spiders remind me of crab.
For some reason I feel like crabs are the spiders of the
sea. Yeah, they're bugs.
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Yeah, they're they're water bugs.
Yeah, they're they're kind of gross.
I don't eat crab. They kind of freak me out.
I'm not a fan. It was a prison food.
I think it was that in lobster. Lobster.
Now look at it. It's like $250 for two lobster
rolls. Outrageous.
Rach, if you were a mythical seacreature, what would you be and
why? I would have to be a siren.
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Oh yes, that's good. Singing the Men.
The Sailors drama Would you rather explore the deep ocean or
outer space? The deep ocean.
See, they both scare me. Both don't have oxygen, just
freaks me out. I have this thing with
suffocating drowning. My physical body, I don't think
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I'd want to go to either of them, no.
But if I could explore, yeah, OK, I could figure out how to
astral project down there. If I could astral project, I'd
do both, yeah. What's the creepiest ocean fact
you've ever heard? I think just the fact that so
much of the ocean is unexplored,we have no idea what is going on
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in the oceans and that is why I will never go on a cruise ever.
There's many reasons I won't go on a cruise.
Yeah, oh, yeah, there's a million reasons why I wouldn't
go on a cruise. But people are just like, yeah,
put me out in the middle of the ocean, right?
Who knows what the Hell's livingunderneath me?
Could just swallow me up. Wasn't it amazing, when you
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think about back in the day, howtransportation was before
planes? They had to get on those little
ships, not even these giant monster ships that they build
that are like floating cities. These are like, are we going to
make it to our destination ships?
Yeah. Even like the freaking pilgrims
going over to a different land, they didn't have GPS, they just
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went by the stars on these giantwooden ships and they didn't
even know where they're going. With no technology, that is
terrifying. And you know, half of them would
die through storms and disease. Since we're talking about ships,
let's kick this off with one of the most enduring maritime
stories of all time, the Marry Celeste.
This is the granddaddy of ghost ship legends, and honestly, if
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ships could win an award for being creepy, this one would
take home the bride. The Mary Celeste is very creepy.
Picture this. It's December 5th, 1872.
The British Brig. Oh my gosh, if I can say this.
De Gracia, de Gracia de Gracia. De Gracia.
Yeah, that. It's sailing across the Atlantic
when its crew spots a ship adrift in the open ocean, and
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the ship is identified as the Mary Celeste.
And here's where it gets weird. It's completely abandoned.
No crew, no captain, no sign of life at all.
The Mary Celeste had left New York City just a month earlier,
bound for Genoa, Italy. On board were Captain Benjamin
Briggs, his wife Sarah and theirtwo year old daughter Sophia,
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and a crew of seven experienced sailors.
When the Degracias crew boarded the ship, they found it eerily
intact. There was six months worth of
food and water. Personal belongings were
undisturbed and the cargo, whichwas 17101 barrels of industrial
alcohol, was mostly untouched. The only clues were a few
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unsettling details. The ship's lifeboat was missing,
the ship's log ended abruptly 10days before its discovery, and
some of the ship's sails were damaged and the rigging was
slightly dishevelled, but nothing that screamed emergency.
But here's the real kicker. There were no signs of violence
or piracy. It was as if everybody on board
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simply vanished into thin air. Some think it was a natural
disaster, maybe a water spout orRogue Wave.
Those rogue waves, man, that scared the crew into abandoning
ship. Others speculate about foul
play, but there's no evidence toback it up.
Then of course there's the supernatural explanation.
The alien abductions, sea monsters, or perhaps the crew
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fell victim to a curse. One of my favorite theories, and
by favorite I mean absolutely bonkers, is that the fumes from
the alcohol cargo caused a smallexplosion, leading the crew to
think the ship was about to go up in flames.
In their panic, they might have launched the lifeboat and
drifted away, only to be never seen again.
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To this day, the fate of Mary Celeste remains one of the
Ocean's most haunting mysteries.And honestly, the lack of
definitive answer is what makes it so spine tingling.
What's cool too about Mary Celeste that it inspired
numerous stories and books. It was also the basis for the
movie The Mystery of the Mary Celeste 1935, also called
Phantom Ship, starring Bela Lugosi and Haunting of the Mary
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Celeste in 2000 and The True Story of the Mary Celeste in
2007. Did you see?
I I want to watch the one with Bela Lugosi.
Bela Lugosi, I think. Aliens could have gotten them.
That was one of the theories. Look at all the things that are
coming out of the ocean right now.
The government came right out and said they're living under
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the ocean, so that'd be the perfect place to abduct people.
The fact that this ship was so intact and the booze wasn't gone
right? Where did they go?
That is the question. So this ship is.
More of a spectral ship. I'm sure you've heard of it, The
Flying Dutchman. Yeah.
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Yeah, so it is a legendary ghostship.
Wasn't that in the Pirates of the Caribbean or something like
that? Yes, OK with what's his name,
Johnny Depp, of course Johnny Depp, but the the character.
Davy Jones, David Jones. He was awesome.
Flying Dutchman. That's right.
So according to Wikipedia, the legendary ghost ship allegedly
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never was able to make port, butdoomed to sail the sea forever.
The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from
the 17th century Golden age of Dutch East India Company and the
Dutch Maritime Power. The oldest known extent version
of the legend dates from the late 18th century.
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According to the legend, if hailed by another ship, the crew
of the Flying Dutchman might tryto send messages to land or to
people long dead. Reported sightings in the 19th
and 20th centuries claimed that if the ship glowed with a
ghostly light. In the ocean lore, the sight of
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this phantom ship functions as aportent of doom.
It was commonly believed that the Flying Dutchman was a 17th
century cargo vessel known as the Fleut.
The Fleut Fleut. OK FLUYT.
I like the name. The Flying Dutchman, Yeah.
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I do too. Well, if the Mary Celeste and
the Flying Dutchman were poster children for ghost ships, the s
s Beichimo, it's cold Arctic cousin is up here now.
This ship didn't just vanish once, I kept coming back like a
ghost that refused to stay in its grave.
The S S Beichimo was a steel hulled cargo ship launched in
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1914. Originally built for the
Hudson's Bay Company, it was used to transport goods and furs
along Canada's treacherous northern coastline.
For years it braved the Arctic ice, but in October 1931, it's
luck ran out. The ship became trapped and pack
ice off the coast of Alaska nearBarrow.
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The crew abandoned the vessel temporarily setting up camp
nearby to wait for the ice to release its grip.
When a severe storm had a few days later, the ship broke free
and then just drifted off. The crew eventually recovered
it, but this wasn't the end of the story.
Far from it. The ice trapped the Bechimo
again just weeks later. This time, the crew realized
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they couldn't keep chasing it forever.
They salvage the cargo, abandoned the ship for good, and
assumed it would eventually sink.
But the Bechimo had other plans.Over the next few decades, the
ghostly vessel was drifting aimlessly through the Arctic
waters. Here's where things get eerie.
Despite being battered by the storms and encased an ice year
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after year, the Bechimo refused to sink, became an Arctic
legend, a true phantom ship, appearing out of nowhere and
vanishing just as quickly. And some accounts people even
managed to board the ship, finding eerily preserved but
completely deserted. Others reported seeing it from a
distance, almost like an apparition.
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It became a floating enigma, a ship with no crew, no
destination, carried only by thewhims of the icy currents.
The last confirmed sighting of the Bechima was in 1969, nearly
40 years after it was abandoned.It was spotted frozen in an ice
pack, but no one could get closeenough to investigate.
After that, the ship disappearedinto the Arctic wilderness,
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leaving only behind tales of itsghostly wanderings.
What makes the story of Bechima was so fascinating is that it's
not just the ghost, or it's a testament to the unforgiving
power of nature and the mysteries of the sea.
The ship could still be out there somewhere, hidden beneath
the ice or drifting in the frigid waters.
And honestly, I think that's just the perfect blend of creepy
and cool. It's a ship that refuses to die,
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carrying the whispers of its past through the frozen silence
of the Arctic. That's pretty cool, no pun
intended. Freezing cool.
This is pretty interesting because this is connected to a
dream that I had, and I had no knowledge of this before, so
definitely got a story behind this ship.
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A few years back, I had a dream that I was in line with people
who had to go in to this boat and they had to give their
fingernails and everyone was terrified about it.
What? Yeah.
Fingernails. Yeah.
What do you mean? Like the whole nail or just
clippings? So like you had to get your
fingernails pulled off when you entered the ship?
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This is a really weird dream, OK?
All right. And there was people around that
I knew and everyone was terrified.
And I I just observed it and then I went into the ship and I
wasn't scared. I said, here take my nails.
Oh my Lord, there was this, I don't know, like a tribal elder
that was on the boat. And once he knew that, I wasn't
scared to give him my nails, he just had me look out the window
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and he's like, what do you see? And I'm looking out all of a
sudden, like we're on water. I see a cloud shaped like an
Angel. It was a very interesting
experience. So then I did a little research
on ships and fingernails and I came across the Nagle Far.
The Nagle. Far.
Yeah. So I looked it up and you know,
according to Wikipedia, in Norsemythology the Nagle Far is a
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boat made entirely from fingernails and toenails of the
dead. What?
Yeah, this is Norse. I think Norse mythology during
the events of Ragnarok, Nagle Far is foretold to sail to.
I'm going to butcher this. Just go for it.
I mean, we're butchering all of.Them figuor figuor ferrying
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hordes of monsters that will do battle with the gods.
Nagelfar is attested in the Poetic Edda compiled in the 13th
century from earlier traditionalsources in the Prose Edda also
composed in the 13th century. The boat itself has been
connected by scholars with larger patterns of ritual hair
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and nail disposing among the Indo Europeans stemming from
Proto Indo European custom, and it may be depicted on the
Tolstorp runestone in Scania, Sweden.
You might as well just be speaking another language.
But I had this dream that I'm inline and people are scared to
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give their nails to this man on the ship.
And I'm not scared and it's justcrazy that the ship holds the
nails of the dead. So I had like this whole the
whole story behind it. Well, this comes from something.
Maybe you were tapping into thatrealm.
It was wild. It is wild.
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Yeah, blew my mind. So when I found that out, I was
like, holy shit. Actually, I've never heard of
anything like that before, so thank you for that.
Thanks for educating me in Norsemythology about fingernail boat.
Yeah. Thanks, Wild dreams.
Yeah, take me to different. Routes I wouldn't want those
dreams oh, they're. Cool.
They're fun. I want to dive into one of the
most unsettling ghost ship stories out there, and this was
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one of my favorites. It's the legend of the S S Orang
Medan, and I'm probably butchering that.
The story is so strange, so utterly bizarre, that it feels
like a horror movie. And it actually should be a
horror movie. I don't know why they haven't
done this. The Orang Medan was a Dutch
freighter allegedly sailing through the waters of the Strait
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of Malacca in the 1940's. The ship's exact origin and
purpose remained unclear, but what happened to its crew turned
into one of the most infamous maritime mysteries.
The story goes that a nearby vessel picked up a series of
distress calls. The messages were fragmented,
almost incoherent, but they painted chilling pictures.
All officers, including the captain, are dead, lying in the
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chart room and bridge. Possibly whole crew could dead.
Then came the final transmission.
I die After that silence. When a rescue team eventually
located Orang Medan, they found it adrift with no signs of life.
But here's where things get terrifying.
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The entire crew was dead. Their bodies were sprawled
across the decks in grotesque positions, as though they had
died in agony or sheer terror. Their faces were frozen with
terror on it. Oh my God, some accounts said.
Again, their faces were frozen and expressions of horror.
Their arms were outstretched as if they were trying to ward off
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an unseen force. Even the ship's dog, yes there
was a dog on board, was found dead mid growl, as if trying to
defend itself from something. Now the rescue team decided to
tow the ship to port, but beforethey could, they Orang medan
mysteriously caught fire and exploded, sinking into the
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depths. And yeah, so theories range from
plausible to supernatural. Some speculate that the ship was
smuggling hazardous materials like chemicals or nerve agents,
which leaked out and then poisoned the crew.
Others suggest carbon monoxide poisoning or even piracy, though
there's no evidence really for violence that makes that less
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likely. And then, of course, the
supernatural explanations. Did they encounter something
otherworldly at sea or could it have been some sort of mass
hysteria amplified by isolation and fear pissed off Poseidon.
I'm going to give a plug out to Mr. Balin on YouTube because he
tells his story masterfully and it is so gripping.
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It is one of my favorite stories.
He tells the captain of the boat.
When you get deep into the accounts, he tried to isolate
these guys because some of them would start running and jumping
off the side of the boat. He was like, whoa, I'm losing my
crew here. Like what the hell?
And they were acting insane. Like they were seeing something
screaming horrifically and it got to the point where the
captain was even putting them inquarters and kind of locking
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them off so that it wouldn't jump and die and fly off the
ship. So it was a really good, if you
get a chance to check that out, I would.
That sounds awesome. Well, with all these ships and
the things that they encounter, there's been one that has been
in history for as long as I don't know I can remember, and
it's always on maps. It's the sea serpent.
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I thought you're gonna say the Kraken.
No, but you know those long sea serpents, they draw them a lot
in the maps. Coming like in and out of the
water, Yeah. According to Britannica, the sea
serpent, mythological and legendary marine animal that
traditionally resembles an enormous snake, the belief in
huge creatures that inhabited the deep was widespread
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throughout the ancient world. In the Old Testament, there are
several allusions to primordial combat between God and monstrous
adversary, variously named Leviathan or Rahab.
Although the references to Leviathan usually indicate a
dragon like creature, the name has also been used to denote a
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sea monster. In general.
Analogies to this combat are found throughout the ancient
Middle East. Babylonian literature records a
battle between the God Marduk and the multi headed serpent
dragon Tiamat, and in Hittite myth the weather God victorious
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over the dragon. These names a lunacus, Similarly
a Canaanite poem from Ross Shamar.
Oh, Lord Ross, oh Lord, guys, there's going to be editing.
From Ross Shamra in northern Syria records a battle between
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the God Ball in a monster calledLeviathan.
There's a movie called Leviathan.
Never seen it. It's a good movie.
It's an underwater creature alien thing that basically wipes
out a whole underwater crew pretty good.
I recommend it from the 80s, nineties, late 80s probably.
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Do you think the sea serpents were real, having it go back
from ancient times? I think everything that's a
legend had a root in reality. I do.
I think vampires were real. People just didn't make these
things up. And there's just too many
accounts, there's too many stories that match up.
So yeah, I think it's real. Hey spirit seekers enjoying the
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In the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean, there's a
Cryptid shrouded in mystery. It's called the Ninjin.
The Ninjin. Yeah, the Ninjins.
Encrypted and sighted in the AC waters near Antarctica.
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Descriptions paint a picture of a massive humanoid aquatic
creature. It's a being that's as
fascinating as terrifying. An eyewitnesses account suggests
the Ninjin can reach an astonishing length of 20 to 30
meters. Imagine being so enormous that
it rivals some of the largest marine animals.
Its body is described as smooth and pale white, almost
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resembling human skin. And what really sets it apart
are its humanoid features. Some say it has arm like
appendages that resemble hands, while others describe fin like
structures or even a mermaid style tail.
The facial features, well, they're minimal but eerie.
Reports include mentions of small beady eyes and a slit like
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mouth at the ninja. Legend is tracked back to
Japanese fishermen and researchers, with sightings
reported during expeditions in Antarctic waters.
Stories began circulating in online forums in the early
2000s, particularly on platformsdedicated to cryptozoology and
then the unexplained. These accounts typically
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describe nighttime encounters where the creature is seen
gliding silently beneath the waves or breaking the surface
momentarily. The theories of what it could
be, of course. They think it's a case of
misidentified marine life, perhaps a giant ray or an
undiscovered whale species, or even chunks of ice creating
delusions in the dark, icy waters.
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But believers point out to the humanoid features, which are
hard to explain away. Could it be an aquatic species,
a relic of prehistoric times, orextraterrestrials?
When I'm thinking and what are you thinking?
Some kind of prehistoric? Shit.
Oh you think it's prehistoric? I feel like it's ET but who
knows. I know one thing, the Southern
Ocean is one of the least explored regions on earth.
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It's frigid. The location makes it look
perfect. Hiding spot for something
unusual and people with their curiosity about the ninja and we
might see more efforts to uncover really what that is.
One popular sea creature that's been talked about for years and
years is the mermaid. Yeah, mermaids aren't supposed
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to be good, are they? They're kind of supposed to be
like evil, like the Sirens. I guess depending on.
The mermaid. I mean, what am I talking?
Like under the sea mermaid, I feel like they're kind of creepy
creatures. Yeah, and there's obviously no
real evidence that mermaids exist.
I've seen some pretty convincingYouTube videos.
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I've seen some documentaries that look pretty damn
convincing. But there are some notable
mermaid sightings in history. Back in 1943, Christopher
Columbus claimed to have seen 3 mermaids off the coast of
Hispaniola. However, it was more likely that
he saw manatees, which, OK, I'veheard a lot that people, you
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know, manatees resemble mermaids.
Yeah, but you never know. Henry Hudson in 16 O Eight
members of Hudson's crew claimedto see a mermaid in the Arctic
Ocean. David Daniel In 1652, Daniel
claimed to see a mermaid with flowing hair in Greenland.
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Japanese Soldiers During World War 2 Japanese soldiers in
Indonesia claimed to have strange encounters with
mermaids. I wonder what that means?
I know, I was hoping you'd elaborate a little bit on this.
Strange encounters meaning what exactly?
In 1998, Leisure claimed to haveseen a nude woman swimming with
dolphins off the coast of Kawaii.
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But how do we know that wasn't just a nude woman swimming with
dolphins? Right.
Maybe it was so deep in the ocean that it didn't make sense.
I'll give them that. And then in Curate Yam, Israel
2009, locals claimed to see a mermaid off the shore at sunset.
And then in Benguela, Scotland in 1830, a woman claimed to see
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a child with a salmon like tail splashing around in the sea.
A baby. A baby mermaid.
A little baby mermaid. This is in Scotland, so a wee
little lad. A little lad of a fish lad.
It's a little burn fish. Yeah.
I'm not good at Scottish, actually.
Me neither. I think I did English.
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I apologize. Scottish is hard.
But what about the guy on TikTok?
He has been kind of documenting.He works on a ship.
The footage he has is really compelling.
He's got screams from them. There's something following on
the side of the ship and it seems to be for him, like when
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he goes out onto the deck. Have you seen this at all?
I. Don't think so.
It's. Pretty awesome, I feel like he
even got a hold of some artifactand brought it into a museum and
it's not identifiable as like anything like a whalebone.
Do you think mermaids are real? Oh, for sure.
I do too. I think they're real.
I just think there's a lack of compelling evidence, although
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like I said, TikTok. Christopher Columbus really saw
the mermaids. I don't know.
I feel like that could have beena manatee.
I don't know. Who's to say?
A lot of things are eyewitness accounts.
And it's not like they had videocameras or, you know, cell
phones and stuff was. So unexplored, Yeah, back then,
so, you know, you'd be a mermaidchilling.
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This ship just goes by and you're like.
That would be the perfect time to be a mermaid and go, hey,
what's that? Yeah.
Let's dive in now into the one of the most agnatic.
Here we go. Once it once a show I got to do
it. Hey, at least you're not drunk.
Yeah, that's true. But I might as well be the way I
talk sometimes. Let's dive into one of the most
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craziest sounds I've recorded from the depths of the ocean, a
sound so strange it's been namedthe Bloop.
If you're imagining like some giant sea creature with a voice
of a foghorn, you're not too faroff the mark.
Or at least that's what some people believe.
I'm going to play a sound of thebloop here.
These are underwater recordings from NOAA, which is the National
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Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.
I'm going to play it and then I'll give you the setup.
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It's 1997, and the NOAA is conducting acoustic monitoring
off the Pacific Ocean. They've got hydrophones,
basically underwater microphones, set up to detect
the sounds of underwater seismicactivity, like icebergs and
other ocean noises. Then it happens.
The hydrophones pick up a sound unlike anything they've ever
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recorded. It's loud, low frequency and it
travels thousands of miles through the water.
Scientists nickname it the Bloop, which you could kind of
bloop you could hear. It it was a bloop.
And it and it became an instant sensation.
And here's what's fascinating. To produce a sound of that
magnitude, the source would haveto be enormous, bigger than any
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known marine animal. We're talking about something
potentially larger than a blue whale.
The largest creature on earth isthe blue whale.
So it's got to be bigger than that.
Of course, this sparks wild speculation.
Was it a prehistoric sea monster?
A giant squid? Or maybe it was just Cthulhu
itself. Oh, not Cthulhu.
The exact characteristics of theBloop added to its mystery.
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It rose rapidly in frequency, which is a trait typically
associated with living creatures.
But here's a twist. No creature that massive has
ever been discovered, let alone one that's capable of making a
sound so powerful enough to be heard across the Pacific.
Over time, though, scientists began leaning towards a less
monstrous explanation. The most widely accepted theory
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today is that the bloop was caused by an ice quake,
essentially the sound of an enormous iceberg that's cracking
and breaking apart in the water.It's a plausible explanation,
but it hasn't stopped people from dreaming of something more
fantastical lurking in the Ocean's depths.
Think about it. We've explored more of the
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surface of the moon than we havethe bottom of our own oceans.
Like you said earlier, O there could be creatures down there
that just defy everything we think.
It's wild how much of Mars now is explored and we know what
Mars looks like more than what the bottom of the ocean looks
like. What do you think the bloop was?
Did it sound like ice breaking apart to you?
I know that was a short little sample I played, but did it
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sound like ice breaking? It didn't to me, but.
No, it again, it would have to be bigger than a blue whale.
So was that ice breaking actually bigger than a blue
whale? I.
Don't know. Just to have that kind of sound.
I know. It sound like something just ate
right. Or something sinking that was
large. Well, let's turn our ears to
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another oceanic enigma. This one's been puzzling
scientists for decades. It's called the Up Sweep, and
that doesn't have that Hollywoodlevel name like the Bloop.
But this sound is just as strange and just as enduring.
So here's the background on this.
In the early 1990's, the NOAA, the same folks who recorded the
Bloop, detected a mysterious sound coming from somewhere in
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the Pacific Ocean. I don't know if you've ever been
to the Pacific Rage, but I'm nota big fan of the Pacific Ocean.
Unlike the Bloop, which is a onetime recorded event, Upsweep is
a reoccurring phenomenon. So it's been happening for years
and it's been heard consistentlyduring certain times of the
year. I'll describe it and then I'll
play it. So it's a long, drawn out sound
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that rises in frequency and that's where they get the name
Upsweep. It's not the sound of whales or
any known marine life, and it's not tied to human activity like
submarines or ships. It's entirely natural, but
nobody knows exactly what's causing it.
It's not going to be very dramatic, but I'm going to just
play it for you. It's a little eerie.
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One of the most intriguing aspects of Upsweep is its
seasonality. The sound seems to peak in the
spring and fall, and then it quiets down for the rest of the
year. This regular pattern has LED
scientists to theorize that it might be related to volcanic
activity on the sea floor. The idea is that undersea
volcanoes or hydrothermal vents could be releasing gas or molten
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material, creating vibrations that produce that sound.
But here's the thing. While volcanic activity is a
solid theory, it's not confirmed, and the exact
location of the sound source is a little tricky to pin down.
It seems to come from somewhere in the Pacific's volcanic
regions, but the ocean is so vast, and the sound has a way of
carrying over incredible distances.
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Of course, this is where the speculation comes in.
Could it be something of an unknown geological phenomenon?
Or maybe something alive? Something massive, something
we've never seen before? If we're being honest, the ocean
is basically Earth's version of outer space.
It's dark, it's unexplored, and it's full of things we can't
begin to understand. And then there's one more twist
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to this mystery. While this sound is less intense
now than it was when it was first discovered, it hasn't
disappeared. It's still out there.
It's rising and falling, kind oflike an eerie underwater siren
song. And kind of like the bloop, it's
humbling reminder of how much westill don't know about our
planet. To me, it sounded kind of like
sirens going off under there, like, like a warning, warning,
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warning, you know, going off. Yeah.
My last sound. This one to me is the haunting
one. It's earned the simple but
ominous nickname Julia. The story begins March 1st,
1999, when the NOAA is underwater monitoring system
picked up a peculiar sound in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean.
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Again in the Pacific. Unlike some of the other strange
noises from the deep, Julia was a short event only lasting 15
seconds, but its impact has resonated for years.
Here's how it sounded and then I'm going to play it for you.
It's like a low, almost moaning tone that rises in intensity
before fading out. It's so loud that it was
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detected across the entire Pacific basin.
So to put that into perspective,this means that whatever caused
the sound was extraordinarily powerful and Oregon
extraordinarily massive. And I'm going to play that for
you now. That gave me chills.
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Did it sound like Julie under their humming or trying to talk
underwater? Yes.
How deep was this? This was extensive and massive,
very powerful and very large across the entire Pacific basin.
So the scientists theorized thatJulia might have been caused by,
again, an iceberg running around, possibly near
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Antarctica. And, and this makes sense if you
consider the characteristics of the sound, that maybe the
iceberg was grinding against thesea.
Floor. That sounded like a voice.
That to me it did too, and it doesn't sit well with others
either. The scale of the sound that
leads it to Wilder speculations.Could it be the call of an
undiscovered deep sea creature? Or perhaps something the size of
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a mythical leviathan? Or maybe something even more
alien, a relic of the ancient oceanic past?
There's lots of conspiracy theories.
Some have suggested that Julia could be the evidence of
underwater extraterrestrial activity or signal from a secret
deep sea base. There's no evidence, of course.
That adds the intriguing layer to the mystery.
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Unlike reoccurring sounds like the upsweep, this was only a one
time event, so that left us withno opportunity to study it
further. It's like an unsolved Riddle
left behind by the ocean itself.A tantalizing hint of something
extraordinary that we will neverreally fully understand.
And here's a fun thought to leave you with.
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If Julia was an iceberg, as mostscientists believe, it would
have had to been massive, like one of the largest to ever break
free in the region. But if it wasn't, well, that
means there was something enormous down there, watching
us, as curious about us as we are about it.
It makes me think too, what if it was like a soul of somebody
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who drowned in the ocean and it was just that's what I.
That's the feel I had. A very famous ship that sank and
has a lot of theories and history to it is the Titanic.
Listeners who don't know much about the Titanic.
It was a British passenger ship that sank in the North Atlantic
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Ocean in 1912 after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
Who doesn't know about the Titanic?
You must be living under a rock if you haven't even seen the
1997 movie with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Every night in my dreams. I'm sorry.
Go ahead. So a little history of the ship.
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The Titanic was the largest and most luxurious passenger ship of
its time. It was built in Belfast, Ireland
by Harlan and Wolf and cost 7.5 million to build.
The ship was 882.5 feet long andhad a beam of 92.5 feet and the
depth of 59.5 feet. It had three propellers, with
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the outer propellers being the largest.
And on April 14th, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg at
11:40 PM while traveling from Southampton, England to New York
City. The ship sank at 2:20 AM on
April 15th, 1912, taking the lives of more than 1500 people.
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The wreck of the Titanic was located in 1985 by a French and
American team in 12,500 feet of water about 350 miles southeast
of Newfoundland, Canada. So with that being said.
All the facts. Yeah, there are curses connected
to the Titanic as to why that ship sank.
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Now I know that there's conspiracy theories on that too,
like they really didn't hit an iceberg and that I think
Rockefeller or one of those big elitist had something to do with
it. JP Morgan one of them, because
they wanted insurance money. It was like an insurance fraud
thing. That's something I'll have to
look into. Yeah, I never heard about that.
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Maybe for another episode. Right.
Some of the events that are associated with the curse of the
Titanic is that it's said that there was an unlucky mummy, a
legend that the Titanic was carrying a cursed mummy from the
British Museum to New York. The mummy was supposedly a
sarcophagus of a priestess of Amun Ray.
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There was construction accidents, fires broke out in
the coal bunkers during construction in Belfast and then
the number of the ship, The ship's number was 390904 was
said to resemble the letters No Pope N0P 0PE OK, a sectarian
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slogan used by Protestants in Northern Ireland.
But what does that? What does that mean?
No Pope? That there wasn't a Pope at the
time or. Yeah, like something anti
Catholic because then then otherone is the Heartland and Wolf
Company. The company built the ship was
said to be anti Catholic and theship sinking was blamed on this.
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So it's a lot of like anti Catholicism.
Interesting. And, you know, there's a lot of
superstition when it comes to Catholicism.
Wow. Well, those are fascinating
curses I never even heard about or knew.
Of and I still think the ship itself is cursed.
Look at that. Was it that millionaire that
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tried to take that submarine down?
And I think people who try to, you know, I'd have to look more
into it, but it's not successfulreally when you're going to try
to look at that ship. I think it has a lot of bad
energy, a lot of tragedy around it.
Good point. 1500 people and you know the way that they died.
He watched the movie too. Like they just froze drown.
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The Titanic is very fascinating.You're right.
Adding to the fact that the people that try to get down
there and take a look at, although James Cameron did get
down there, he managed to get down there and go around it, but
that's James Cameron probably had the best equipment and you
know, wasn't going down with. The footage of it, I mean,
looking at it now, it's really cool just seeing that ship.
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I couldn't imagine just being onthat ship.
No, I don't think I'd want to beon that ship.
If you were on that ship, would you like in the movie, would you
be scrambling to get to the verytop of it as it was sinking,
holding on to the railing? I don't know.
I think I would out of pure fearand fuel adrenaline.
I'd be trying to get up there. Yeah.
I mean, yeah, adrenaline. I'd be doing anything I possibly
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could. Let's take a dive now into one
of the Seas most fascinating andalmost almost supernatural
phenomena, Saint Elmo's Fire. Picture this.
You're out on the open ocean. A storm bruise overhead, and
suddenly an eerie blue Violet glow begins flickering along the
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mast of your ship. It's almost like the sea in the
sky have conspired to put on a ghostly light show.
But what it is, is Saint Elmo's Fire, and it's captivated
sailors for centuries. St.
Elmo's Fire is a weather phenomenon caused by the
ionization of air. It's when the atmosphere becomes
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highly charged, usually during thunderstorms, and the strong
electric field around sharp or pointed objects caused the
surrounding air molecules to become excited, and this results
in a glowing discharge of plasma.
It's not fire at all, but it looks like fire dances.
It glows tendrils of light that almost seem alive.
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That's cool. Sailors throughout history
witnessed this phenomenon on ship masts and even their
rigging. It wasn't even limited to the
seas, either. Pilots have seen it flicker
across their aircraft wings, andlandlubbers have spotted it on
church steeples and mountain tops.
Wherever there's sharp points and a charged atmosphere, the
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Saint almost fire makes its ghostly appearance.
But the lore that surrounds it, named after St. you and I, with
these Erasmus, named after St. Erasmus, the patron St. of
sailors. Many believe the glow was a sign
of divine protection during storms, a beacon of hope to
guide them through treacherous seas.
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To others, it was ominous, warning of danger to come.
Imagine being a sailor in the age of wooden ships and
superstitions, seeing this ethereal glow while lightning
crashes and waves turn around you.
It's an image that lingers even today.
Now let's wander into the marshlands in the forest to
explore another mysterious phenomenon that has fascinated
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and frightened people for centuries.
Willow the Wisps. Willow the wisps These ghostly
lights, described as faintly glowing orbs, just hover over
the ground. They've inspired countless
legends, but what are they and why do they seem to lure
travelers astray? Willow the Wisp, sometimes
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caught. By the way, there's a firework I
think called that, just so you know, you and your fireworks.
I know it's sometimes called Ignis Faddis or foolish Fire,
and it appears as small flickering lights and swamps,
bogs and other damp remote areas.
Reports describe them as faint bluish glows that dance and
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float in the air. And I'm only adding this because
it, and I know it's around swamps and swamps are wet.
I know it's not the sea. I just had to add it in here,
you know? It just fit, felt right.
The eerie part of the will of the wisps is that when you try
to follow them, they move further away and they lead you
deeper into the wild. This has been recorded in
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folklore worldwide. In Europe, these lights were
often thought to be mischievous spirits or souls of the dead,
leading travelers to danger. In English and Celtic lore, they
were associated with fatties or malevolent entities playing
tricks on unweary Wanderers. So they've ranged from
scientific to supernatural as far as theories go, and one
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comes from chemistry. They think the lights might be
caused by combustion gases like methane and it forms organic
matter, decays and the swamps and then the gases ignite on
contact with oxygen. These they always have to debunk
it with science. Buzzkill.
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But where it gets intriguing is the sightings always occur in
places without the right conditions for these chemical
reactions. I don't know if it could be
bioluminescent organisms or maybe something else entirely.
That's something really beyond everyone's understanding.
I think it's the Fay. Well, in Scandinavian folklore,
they've tied these to the spirits of unbaptized children.
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And in South America, right? And in some parts of South
America, they're linked to treasure guardians, enticing
people to dig in the wrong spots.
And in Asia, the lights are considered harbingers of
spiritual activity. Well, Rach, it's clear the
(46:58):
natural world holds mysteries that continue to spark our
curiosity, maybe even send a little chill down our spines.
A few of them. The sea, the sky, the land, they
all hold secrets. Waiting for those bold enough to
look closer. Thank you for joining us today.
On to the spirit. If you enjoyed this episode,
(47:19):
don't forget to subscribe, leavea review and share it with your
fellow seekers of the strange and unexplained.
If you've got a theory, a story or suggestion for our next deep
dive, reach out. We would love to hear from you.
Absolutely. Until next time, keep your mind
open, your heart curious, and your spirit ready for adventure.
(47:40):
This is Beck and Rachel signing off.
Stay safe and stay in the light.To the Spirit podcast
Supernatural Science. I'm Ghost.
Ghost, ghost. Ghost Psyche.
Mystic. Spirit, Divine Source in.
Heaven, it's. Magic magic magic magic, magic
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magic.
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