I’ve really neglected to post updates to Tumblr this year, but Halloween is here and what better time to begin again. Our Halloween story this year is “The Ghost Ship”, a rather humorous ghost story that considers what might happen if a ghostly ship weighed anchor in the turnip garden of a quiet countryside village in England.
Click the main picture above to listen to this years story and to find links to other stories by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft!
Exploring your surroundings can be the best way to discover things you don’t know about and uncover the past. But it’s not everyday you come upon a 110-year-old shipwreck chilling in the middle of an Ohio River tributary.
To see the incredible ship and learn more about its past, scroll below:
A kayaker and friends were paddling around when they found a very old shipwreck in the Ohio River.
Another new year, which means another load of LNs for me to read. I didn’t update this much last year, but hopefully I can change that this time around. Got a LOT of books to go through.
May These Leaden Battlegrounds Leave No Trace Vol. 1
Reign of the Seven Spellblades Vol. 1
Sexiled: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out, So I Teamed Up With a Mythical Sorceress! Vol. 2
The Sorcerer King of Destruction and the Golem of the Barbarian Queen Vol. 1
Is It Wrong To Try and Pick Up Girls in A Dungeon: On The Side: Sword Oratoria Vol. 9
Is It Wrong To Try and Pick Up Girls in A Dungeon: On The Side: Sword Oratoria Vol. 10
Roll Over and DIe: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! Vol. 2
Bofuri: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt , So I’ll Max Out My Defense Vol. 1
The Executioner and Her Way of Life Vol. 1
Last Round Arthurs Vol. 3
Roll Over and Die Vol. 3
Is It Wrong to Try and Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Vol. 16
Last Round Arthurs Vol. 4
The Strange Adventure Of A Broke Mercenary Vol. 1
Spy Classroom Vol. 1
A Tale of the Secret Saint Vol. 1
My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s Vol. 1
Eighty-Six Vol. 2
I’m in Love with the Villainess Vol. 1
Planet Of The Orcs Vol. 1
Arifureta: From Commonplace To World’s Strongest Vol. 4
The Sea Bird, a merchant brig owned by Isaac Steel and commanded by Captain John Durham, or Huxham or Husham, who was returning to Newport after a trip to Honduras. On the morning the Sea Bird was due to return, she was driven ashore and landed unharmed on Easton Beach in Rhode Island. Curious as to what was going on, some men went aboard to see. They were greeted happily but quietly by the ship’s cat and dog, but not by the crew of eight. Coffee was boiling on the cooker and a sumptuous breakfast was prepared. The smell of fresh tobacco smoke was in the air. In the captain’s quarters, untouched coinage lay open and his dressing gown hung over a chair. The longboat had disappeared, but nothing more could be found.
The ship was in good condition, the instruments and cargo intact. Captain Durham was an experienced and competent man. His last ship’s entry was “Branton [Brenton] Reef sighted”, which is only a few miles off Newport. A fishing boat that arrived shortly after the Sea Bird reported seeing the ship with the captain on deck less than two hours earlier. But now there was no one there. The cargo was unloaded and the animals taken off the boat. By evening, however, when someone went to check on the Sea Bird again, it had disappeared and the animals were also gone.
Now there were many theories as to what had happened and, above all, which of these was pure legend. The first is that the Sea Bird was swept off the beach in a storm leaving no debris and was never seen again. The second was sold to Henry Collins (1699-1765), renamed Beach Bird then continued making successful voyages. Which, by the way, is also historically verifiable, the only question is whether it is also this Sea Bird. And the third, she was a Spirit Ship and appeared again and again at different ports to search for her crew.
Most likely it is the second variant and the crew was simply paid off and the Sea Bird became Beach Bird. But ghost ships are somehow more exciting and who knows maybe she is still looking for her crew.
