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A genuine ghost ship for your Horror/Pulp game

Started by NYTFLYR, October 02, 2018, 08:44:07 AM

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October 15, 2018, 02:59:57 AM
I'm familiar with that story, it is incredibly creepy and perfect material for a lovecraftian sort of horror situation.
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October 15, 2018, 10:43:55 PM
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.

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October 18, 2018, 08:26:18 AM
Fascinating stuff.  How the hell does an entire train just vanish?
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October 18, 2018, 05:29:58 PM Last Edit: October 18, 2018, 05:34:18 PM by Toadmaster
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)

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October 23, 2018, 03:35:09 AM
History is, as always, a better source of awesomeness (or creepiness) than fiction.
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