We've done a little scuba-spirit hunting of our own. Something about water, about drowning, makes for angry spirits. There's the Chinese nisigui, or water ghost-we like to call 'em scapeghosts. In Chinese tradition, people who have drowned can't be reincarnated. So what do they do? Get someone else to drown, which frees them to move on. A scapeghost. There was a series of scapeghost drownings in Boston's Fort Point Channel a few years back. And Japanese folklore is full of ghosts with long, wet hair.
But just as often, a water spirit is just a spirit whose body died in water. It hangs around for the same reasons spirits always do: to be avenged, or because it just can't stand to go. Couple years back, we ran into one in Lake Manitoc, Wisconsin. Over thirty-five years or so, it killed more than a half-dozen people, and when we got to the bottom of it, we found a scared kid. His two older friends were bullying him one day, and it got out of hand and he drowned. So he kept coming back, and he stripped his two friends of all the people they loved, until the second friend-who happened to be the sheriff of the town, so you can imagine how tricky it was to get all this figured out-sacrificed himself to save his grandson. That was one of the tough ones.
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