Scary Stories

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The cargo ship the SS Baychimo as an abandoned ship found lodged in ice in the Arctic Ocean. The ship eventually broke free of the ice and began floating sans-crew, onto the ocean. Several attempts have been made to board and stop the ship, but to no avail. The last sighting of SS Baychimo, which up until then had been frequent, was in 1969, 38 years after its initial discovery. Though a 2006 investigation was launched to find the ship's whereabouts, these attempts were unsuccessful, and the SS Baychimo presumably still sails the sea to this day. 

"May 4, 1823. No food for 71 days. I am the only one left alive," reads an ominous entry of the Jenny's aptain's logbook. When whaling boat Hope came upon the Jenny 17 years later, said captain and his crew were found aboard, frozen to death."

Legend has it that the Octavius traveled from England to the Orient in 1761, and made it there the following year. However, on the trip back home—while traveling through the Northwest Passage—it became lodged in ice, and its crew members died. The Octavius was found drifting off the coast of Greenland, the crew members still below board, frozen to death, 13 years later.

If the Mary Celeste is the intro to all things ghost ship, then The Flying Dutchman is the holy grail. The ship is doomed to sail the seven seas for all of eternity, and can never make port. 
 Some firsthand encounters of The Flying Dutchman have been around for centuries, while other stories of the ship's crew asking other sailors to deliver messages to their loved ones have also made the rounds. There are also accounts that the ship is manned by the Devil himself. With so many different variations on The Flying Dutchman legend, it's unlikely that we'll ever know the real truth. 

m Bermuda to Portsmouth, the naval ship HMS Eurydice was caught in an unbelievable snow storm off the coast of The Isle of Wight. The ship capsized and sank, killing all but two of the 319 crew members. A young Winston Churchill bore witness to the event. 
Since capsizing, many reports have been made of having seen the ship afloat just where it is said to have sunk. Some of these reports have even been made by reputable sources, like Prince Edward, who claimed to have seen the ship sail off into the mist during a TV interview some 70 years later.

In 1872, after just one month at sea, the Mary Celeste was discovered sailing aimlessly near Portugal. Curious, the discoverers boarded the ship, only to find the lone lifeboat was gone and the crew was nowhere to be found.  
Piracy and mutiny were ruled out—there weren't any signs of violence aboard the ship, and the crew's belongings were left untouched.
Over the years, people have both theorized that the crew abandoned ship, or that the Mary Celeste succumbed to the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Either way, legend has it that every time the ship changed hands, the new owner would sell it after hearing about its history of bad luck. In1887, the boat was purposefully destroyed by its owner.

The MV Joyita was reported missing in October of 1955 and wasn't discovered by rescuers in the Pacific until several weeks later. Curiously, where most ghost ships tend to be found aimlessly sailing the sea, the MV Joyita was discovered almost completely submerged, in horrible conditions, with the crew missing and definite signs of bloodshed. Many people theorize mutiny and piracy had to be involved, while others think it may have been the target of a Soviet submarine.
What most baffled rescuers about finding the sinking ship was that the MV Joyita was reported to be an unsinkable ship, and yet there it was, sinking into the Pacific, without a crew member in sight

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