Ghost Ship of the Arctic, 1931-?

reprint of an article originally published in the December 1931 issue of The Beaver.

(last one, dont want to flood this forum)

Ahh the good ol' SS Baychimo. I used that ghost ship for a BTS adventure back in the late 80s. Pretty interesting history to it and amazing it survived unmanned for years just puttering around out there.

Cool.

The ship was last sighted in the late 60s.

There is a papercraft model that might make for an interesting minis diorama if scaled up.

Wow that's awesome.  Thanks!

Nice one! Ta' for sharing.

Thank you! This is very cool.

Fantastic! Great site, btw!

Quote from: MKoth;1059143Fantastic! Great site, btw!

Thanks! Its a labor of luv Hopefully some people are getting use out of it

Great site! Next time I need inspiration, I'll simply pull up a random page from your site and then it's off to adventure!

Quote from: MattyHelms;1059150I'll simply pull up a random page from your site and then it's off to adventure!

and because of that... Ive added a "random post from the past" widget

I've found Fists and .45s! to be a source of inspiration and very useful. Keep up the good work!

This article somehow evokes to mind the excellent recent miniseries The Horror.

Theres alot of odd stories out there and some mysteries that would make for good Call of Cthulhu style trouble.

One came across last year was the Dyatlov Pass incident where some winter hikers in Russia all mysteriously died.
Lemmino has a pretty good documentary on it.

[video=youtube;Y8RigxxiilI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RigxxiilI[/youtube]

I didn't know about the Baychimo, thanks for that.  For sheer tabloid headline goodness I still like Abandoned Cruise Ship Full of Starving Rats Headed For Land.

Quote from: Omega;1059855One came across last year was the Dyatlov Pass incident where some winter hikers in Russia all mysteriously died.

My first thought was simple hypothermia; once you're in it you can paradoxically start feeling hot and undress, and then you're really in trouble.  But it could be Lemmino's scenario instead, or in addition.

Which is not helpful for gaming scenarios I guess, but fortunately you've got a couple of ways to go there.  For CoC you'd want Dead Mountain to be hiding some horrific being that lead the natives to give it that name, or for the rumors of UFOs to be correct.  Or... was it the expedition leader all along, already corrupt and leading people to a sacrifice?