4 Eerie Tales from the Sea: Ghost Ships, Strange Signals & Paranormal Glimpses

Set sail into the dark unknown with four creepy maritime mysteries and spine-tingling events that defy logic. From a phantom schooner with warm coffee still on board, to a mysterious ship spotted during a covert Caribbean mission, these true tales blur the line between reality and the supernatural. Plus: an impossible TV signal hijack from across the ocean, and a terrifying ability to glimpse the future before it occurs.

Dive into these real sea-bound horrors—if you dare.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Probably all of us, at one time or other have
encountered something that was hard to explain. It might be
the feeling of being followed or watched, or the hearing
of mysterious sounds in the night. It might be a
vision of something that wasn't there at all. This is

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a story of a something which apparently wasn't there, even
though more than one person was sure that it was.
The time was some years ago, the place the Caribbean,
where I was on a patrol cruiser trying to apprehend

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some smugglers. The little cruiser was hidden in a tiny
palm ringed cove one night, awaiting the appearance of a
certain small schooner known to be in operation in the area.
The only light came from the stars and a blinker
buoy at sea beyond the entrance to the cove. The

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moon was down, but by the light of the stars
we could distinguish between sea and sky and shoreline. We watched,
and we waited. An hour or so past midnight, one
of the crew spotted the dark shape of a small

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sailboat appearing above the beach by the cove entrance. Soon,
the silhouette of a little boat, silent and dark passed
in front of us, blotted out the blinking light from
the buoy and disappeared behind the point of land to
the right of the cove. It might be our core worry.

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We pulled up the anchor, started the engines, and moved
silently out of the cove, turning south along the coast
and keeping close to shore ahead of us. Also close
to shore, we could faintly see the outline of the
schooner beating along under a stiff on shore breeze. As

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we gained upon the boat ahead, we prepared for what
might be more than just routine checking of a vessel
without legal lights. A belt of ammunition was fed into
the machine gun on our bow side, arms and rifles
were passed up from the gunlockers below, and the spray

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cover was removed from the big searchlight atop the cabin roof.
Our procedure in such a contact was to snap on
the powerful beam and then close in for whay whatever
action was required, depending upon what the glare of the
searchlight revealed. A small schooner without running lights beating close

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to shore late at night could mean most anything. A
careless skipper with a fine disregard for regulations, a forgetful
crew coming home from a celebration in one of the
small villages, or it could be the schooner that we
were after. We drew close to the silhouetted schooner, swung

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to windward of it so that our boat would cut
the wind and slow the boat ahead, and snapped on
our big beam. There was absolutely nothing there. We swung
our huge beam of light around the area, even up
and down, but our quarry had vanished. What had we seen,

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or what had we thought we had seen? Perhaps you
have experienced strange previews of future events. These premonitions, or coincidences,

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as some prefer, are often startling and very realistic. One
such alarming glimpse into the future was experienced by the
wife of a Swedish industrialist one night in nineteen thirty nine.
Missus Axel wenner Grenn started up the stairs on her

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way to bed. It was past midnight and most of
the lights had been extinguished. Only at the landing at
the top of the ste was it still bright. Suddenly
a figure appeared before her on the top of the stair.
It was a man drenched to the skin, as though

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he had been swimming in his arms he held the
body of a child. Across the child's forehead was a
deep cut which was bleeding. Missus wenner Grenn screamed and
the figures vanished. Upset and shaken, she described the apparition

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to her husband. He decided that she was suffering from
nerves and suggested that they go off on a trip
on their yacht, the Southern Cross. Shortly afterward, on the
night of September third, the yacht went to the aid

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of the Athenia, one of the first ships to be
torpedoed in World War Two. The very first person to
come aboard the yacht was a drenched man, holding out
before him the body of a dying child with a
deep gash across the forehead, the exact same figures the

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woman had seen before at the head of her stairs
at home. Did you ever wonder what becomes of old
radio and TV programs that are sent out into space

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twenty four hours a day. Do they just fade out
and vanish? Or do they keep traveling through space forever,
perhaps to be picked up by creatures on other planets.
Possibly some of the weird sounds that we hear are
really programs or commercials from other planets. Scientific listening posts

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have put some mighty odd sounds from space on tape,
which might be from some sort of intelligence somewhere. Some
make no sense at all. Perhaps those are the commercials.
In the early days of television, some sets retained a

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picture long after the program was over. Even today, words
from a commercial linger after the advertisement has left the screen,
and occasionally another channel's picture will appear for a few seconds.
But what about the pictures that mysteriously appear long after

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the program has finished. In September nineteen fifty three, many
television screens in England suddenly carried the identification card and
call letters of TV station kl EE in Houston, Texas,

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thousands of miles across the Atlantic. The image stayed on
the screen long enough for several viewers to take pictures
of the remarkable occurrence. Even years later, TV signals would
often fade out after about one hundred fifty miles unless

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helped along with electronic devices and relay stations, But in
nineteen fifty three that wouldn't have been possible. What really
startled the TV world was the fact that when the
British broadcasting engineers contacted KLEE in Houston, to tell them

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of the unusual event. They learned that the station had
been off the air for three years. Phantom ships and
vanished crews have always added to the mystery of the

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Seven Seas. On a strip of land near Newport, Rhode Island,
there was a little settlement known as Easton's Beach. Only
a few farmers and some fishermen and their families made
their homes there. One day in eighteen eighty, a fisherman

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working on his boat near shore suddenly sighted a full
rigged ship of good size heading straight for land. He
thought it very odd that such a large ship under
full sail should make no attempt to turn away or
head along the co but it was coming steadily and

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directly for shore in the onshore breeze. He called to
the other fishermen nearby and ran to the settlement above
the beach to tell the rest of the people about
the approaching vessel. Soon everyone was on the beach, watching
in helpless silence as the strange ship came on as

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though determined to wreck itself, its canvas straining and flags
snapping at their mast heads. With horror, the spectators heard
the grating of the hull upon the bottom as it struck.
Yet the ship still bore down, keeping straight on course

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as it cut a keel groove in the sandy ocean bottom.
When it finally came to rest, it was still on
an even keel, with the bowsprit almost above their heads.
That's when they recognized the ship. It was the Sea Bird,

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under the able command of Captain John Husham. Not a
sound came from below the decks at once. The crowd
went on board to explain the mystery, but it only deepened.
Coffee still boiled on the galley stove, food for breakfast

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was on the table. All navigation instruments and charts were
in order. Yet there was no trace of the crew,
nor any indication of when, why, or where they had gone.
The only living thing aboard the Sea Bird was a

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mongrel dog shivering on the deck. The sea had been calm,
the breeze fine, and the Sea Bird had been almost
exactly uncourse for Newport. The crew must have left only
shortly before the ship appeared on the horizon. But why

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should they have left the ship when they were so
close to home and their families. Only heaven and a
mongrel dog knew what had happened aboard the Sea Bird
that sunny morning