Alphecca: This is Spooky

April 24, 2006

This is Spooky

A five-member team from the Rhode Island Paranormal Research group visited Mystic Seaport on Friday night to spend time on the Charles W. Morgan, a wooden whaling ship where several visitors have reported seeing the apparition.

The 165-year-old craft made 37 ocean voyages in search of whales during the 60 years it was in use. About 1,000 men worked on the Morgan over those decades.

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The Rhode Island Paranormal Research Group became interested in the Morgan after receiving reports from three different groups of people about the apparition.

The visitors said that while touring the ship last summer, they saw a man in what appeared to be 19th-century clothing working below deck. They said the man, who had a pipe in his mouth, nodded at them but did not speak.

When they went returned to the main deck and asked a museum interpreter what the man was doing, they were told that no one was down below and that no one was assigned to be on the boat that day.

"I automatically questioned it, but they insisted they saw something down there," Andrew Laird, founder of the paranormal research group, told The Day of New London.

He said that when he asked the three groups for more details, they responded with the same accounts. The three groups were from Massachusetts, Arizona and New York and did not know each other.

Scoff if you want but I have had a few paranormal experiences myself in the past so when three seperate groups report seeing the same thing, I believe there is something to it.

I'll give you just one instance: About 12 years ago I was night auditor for a 100-year-old lakeside resort here in town. It was about 2AM in the morning, all quiet, only a few guests in the place. I was looking out the front glass doors into the dark when I saw the reflection of a young woman wearing a white slip showed in the glass, "gliding" quickly across the back of the lobby. I turned and there was no one there.

In the morning I mentioned it to the manager and she told me that many people have -- over the years -- reported seeing the same thing and that some guests have woken to see her in their rooms. The story goes that in the 1940's she was staying in one of the cottages farther down the shore and drowned one night while taking a midnight swim with friends.

I might have shrugged the whole thing off except that a woman guest approached the front desk a few minutes later that morning and, not complaining exactly but, said she had woken in the middle of the night -- at about 2AM as a matter of fact -- by what felt like the touch of a cold woman's hand gently brushing her cheek. She was, of course, alone in the room. That's when I felt a chill!

I've already reported at my other blog about the strange experience I had regarding my deceased cat.

Think what you will...

Posted by Jeff Soyer at April 24, 2006 06:21 AM

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FYI - something changed recently in your blog definition and TTLB (and the community page) can no longer link to your post pages correctly. The permalinks are wrong.

Don't know if this is on your end or TTLB...

Posted by: Zendo Deb at April 24, 2006 08:05 AM

I haven't changed anything here -- I wouldn't dare mess with Movable Type...

Posted by: Jeff Soyer at April 24, 2006 09:46 AM

Had a ghost at my summer home in NH for years. It was an area of foul smell that would move from room to room. I determined that it was 6 ft tall and as wide as a person. Put a fan on it and it would not move. It left for good when my wife yelled at it and told it to get the hell out. Everyone thought we were nuts till I showed it to them. Anyone else have a smelly ghost? Jack

Posted by: Jack Lorenz at April 24, 2006 09:54 AM

Our house is known far and wide as "the haunted house". Although we have never seen any appariations ourselves, others, (many others), have reported them, and we always had a vague, hard to explain sense of "something".

Posted by: Marianne at April 24, 2006 11:19 AM

Yeah, Jack, you are not alone in experiencing the phenomenon you describe. It is called simply a "stagnant fart" by the experts, which means that either your wife laid down a massive gas passage, and you did not do her the courtesy of taking credit for it, or the noxious substance came out of your own ass. It must have been so viscous that the ceiling fan could not dissipate it.

The solution to this scary phenomenon is not so obvious as one might think, i.e., calling up an excorcist out of the yellow pages, or paging the ghostbusters. The only tried and true fix is to lay off the damn jalepeno-flavored pork rinds that you've been eating prior to bedtime.

Posted by: Dave Lincoln at April 24, 2006 11:33 PM

Another damn would-be South Park writer!! We've got enough writers to do the show for the next 20 years, so lay off, Dave.

Posted by: Mike Judge at April 24, 2006 11:34 PM

This freaks me out, mainly because I was in Mystic on Friday night. I think I'm glad I didn't know about this until after I left. Not that I believe in this sort of thing, because that would just be silly. But I'm glad I didn't know about it while I was there. Even though, like all rational people, I don't believe in the supernatural. Still, I'm glad I didn't know about this until after I left.

Posted by: The Cranky Insomniac at April 25, 2006 12:35 AM

Thanks for the kind comment, Dave, but my story about the smelly ghost is a true one. In the 3 yrs. that the smell was there,I was able to prove to myself and many others that this was not natural. The smell, which was the size of a person, could not be moved or removed by us and would just wait for us to show up for the weekend. It would be in one of the 3 bedrooms when we arrived. Hard to believe. Jack

Posted by: Jack Lorenz at April 25, 2006 08:54 AM

I've spent about a months worth of days photographing at Shiprock, New Mexico, and that place is crawling with poltergeists, spooks, apparitions, strange travelling noises...the works. You finally just learn to ignore them or they will coax you out on a ledge, into the desert, or away into deep ravines.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2006 06:49 PM

There are truly some wierd things out there in the universe.

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April 24, 2006

This is Spooky

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