Ghost Ship of the Arctic, 1931-????
reprint of an article originally published in the December 1931 issue of The Beaver. (https://www.paper-dragon.com/fistsand45s/ghost-ship-of-the-arctic-1931/)
(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.
(https://www.papershipwright.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ps29-ss-baychimo-pic3.jpg)
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 (http://gawker.com/abandoned-cruise-ship-full-of-starving-rats-headed-for-1507439976).
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?
I'm familiar with that story, it is incredibly creepy and perfect material for a lovecraftian sort of horror situation.
Another one great for an adventure is the mysterious disappearance of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse Keepers in 1900
And one that deserves more attention, the vanishing of the entire population of a remote Canadian village of Lake Anijikuni in 1930. Apparently a land based Mary Celeste with everyone gone and nothing of value or survival taken with.
And one from Brazil on a smaller scale also in the 1920s was the discovery of the town of Hoer Verde with again the population gone and food and valuables left behind.
The complete vanishing of a train and all passengers in China in the 1940s is another weird one.
Fascinating stuff. How the hell does an entire train just vanish?
This thread inspired me to look up a book of strange tales I had as a kid.
I found it, Strangely Enough. For the whopping fee of $9.99 Amazon now has a copy speeding its way to me. As an added bonus I found a copy printed the year I was born (the book was in and out print from 1940 into the mid 1970s so it wasn't too hard to find one that shares my birth year). Soon I will be enjoying 80 tales of ghost ships, haunted sentry boxes and dognapping whistles.
The connection to this thread is the tale of the Octavius, which I am pretty sure was one of the stories included in the book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavius_(ship)
History is, as always, a better source of awesomeness (or creepiness) than fiction.