Category: Ghost Ships

The Haunted Submarine was a German U-Boat called “UB65” built in 1916. Only a week after its launch, mysterious events began to happen. There was an unusually high number of fatal accidents on the sub.

The Second Officer was loading torpedos when one dropped and exploded, killing him instantly and damaging the UB65.
A malfunction in the […]

Remember the ghost ships you’ve seen in movies like Pirates of the Caribbean? Well here are some real ghost ship legends and true stories about haunted boats.

Queen Mary

USS Lexington

Watertown

USS North Carolina

USS Hornet

Great Eastern

Star Of India

Flying Dutchman

Mary Celeste

Haunted Submarine

Shipwreck

The legendary ghost ship, the Mary Celeste, is one of the great maritime mysteries. Over 125 years ago, it was found floating, crewless, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in perfect condition. The fate of the crew and passengers has never been explained.

Back in November 1872, the Mary Celeste was sailing to Europe […]

The USS Lexington is also known as The Blue Ghost and is now haunted by the ghosts of its dead crew who were killed during World War II. The ship is now a museum on the bay.
One of the carrier’s first casualties was a pilot whose plane developed a serious oil leak while airborne. […]

The shipwreck of the SS Kamloops in Lake Superior is shrouded in mystery. It was thought that there were no survivors, but six months later bodies were found on a nearby island. Apparently, survivors of the shipwreck had starved to death waiting for rescue even though nobody was looking for them.
Divers tell stories of a […]

The Flying Dutchman is a legendary cursed ship that was doomed to travel around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa for all eternity. It was made famous in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean.

The legend of The Flying Dutchman started in 1641 when a Dutch ship sank off the coast of the Cape […]

On the SS Watertown, crew members James Courtney and Michael Meehan were cleaning a cargo tank of the oil tanker as it sailed toward the Panama Canal from New York City in December of 1924.
Through a freak accident, the two men were overcome by gas fumes and killed. As was the custom of the […]

The USS North Carolina is a haunted battleship that lost 10 men in battle during World War 2. Five men died when the ship was torpedoed September 1942. Another three were killed by friendly fire in April 1945. The remaining two died in separate incidents.
At least two of the dead sailors still walk the ship […]

The USS Hornet, also called the Grey Ghost, is a haunted aircraft carrier. Spirits of dead sailors and officers wander the narrow passageways of the giant vessel. Doors open and close on their own, objects move across floors and fall off of shelves, and sounds from the past echo through the stairwells.
Men in naval […]

The Great Eastern was a haunted ship that was launched in 1858 and was said to be cursed. It dogged by misfortune from the beginning. Construction men fell to their death while working at deadly heights. Other gruesome accidents took the lives of other workers.

Construction of such a massive ship involved millions of hand-driven […]

The destroyer USS The Sullivans was named for five brothers from Waterloo, Iowa - George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert Sullivan - who had enlisted in the Navy and served together during World War 2.
In 1942, the cruiser was sunk by a torpedo from a Japanese submarine, killing most of the sailors on board. George […]

The Star of India is the world’s oldest active ship. It’s also one of the world’s most haunted ships. It was built in 1863 in the Isle of Man and like many ships, the Star of India has had her share of misfortunes. Ghosts of several unfortunate sailors and passengers still haunt the decks and […]