![]() The owners of the ship found a new captain and crew, however within a month, four crew members mutinied and killed their captain. The story of the ship doesn’t finish there. Soon after, the headless corpse of the first mate was discovered in the San Francisco Bay and the Captain and his wife were captured and executed. The murderous couple then tossed the headless corpse into the San Francisco Bay and kept the head in a locker under the Captain’s bunk. In a violent hatred, the Captain and his wife not only murdered the man but hacked off his head. No one knows exactly what happened between these three but sadly this was to be the first mates last voyage. It was said the Captain and first mate got on well, right up to the point when the Captain’s wife came on board. The rest of the crew were found frozen in the beds and a small dog crouched at the bottom of the gang-way stairs.īack in 1890, the Norwegian ship, Squando, docked itself off the Embarcadero in San Francisco. The next cabin held the body of a young woman in the bed and a man on the floor with flint and steel in his hands as if he was still trying to light the fire. The fire went out yesterday, and our master has been trying ever since to kindle it again without success. ![]() “11th November 1762 we have now been enclosed in the ice seventy days. The last words on the unfinished page read: He first came to a cabin and with a tremor running through him, found a man sitting at a desk with green damp mould touching the man’s cheek and forehead, a pen in his hand and a log book before him. Come afternoon the next day, after a violent storm that broke apart the ice, Captain Warrens of the Herald spotted the Octavius and in his excitement climbed on board. On August 1775 at midnight with the winds howling past snow peaked ice bergs, the Octavius aimlessly drifting off the coast of Greenland within two miles of the whaleship the Herald. Hopefully that will leave you with icy fingers crawling up your spine. Hadfield, published in 1937 (RMG ID: PBB4629). These may be real derelict ships found adrift with their crew missing, such as the 19th century HMS Resolute, or fictional and folkloric ones, like the apocryphal Octavius.īelow you can read two extracted from one of our books in the library, “ The Phantom Ship” by R. ![]() This one is probably the best of the ones I know, but could have been even better had they left the deleted scenes in.Ghost ships, sometimes also called phantom ships, are vessels with no living crew aboard. The only other one I can think of is Lifeforce which does have some cool visuals, but mainly takes place on earth. Wanted Nightflyers, but that is not even on DVD. Of course, my biggest question is how the heck did a copy of the film with the extra scenes end up in a Transylvania salt mine? So, I liked this film as I have been trying to watch all the supernatural horror in space I can. I just think it would have been better with more extended peeks into hell, because who wasn't curious to see what the makers of the film came up with? Unfortunately, they got a squeamish test audience who thought it was too much and us horror fans are left to wonder. The.visuals are really good too and the film has a very good atmosphere essentially being a spaceship that is haunted. I knew Sam Neil would be good and so is Lawrence Fishborne. As they explore the ship, stranger and stranger things keep happening and hampering any chance of the rescue team making it out alive! I thought all the actors and actresses did good. Of course, it does this by opening a black hole and we will learn over time that where it leads, no man should go. Weir, who is the man who invented the special engine used to propel the ship forward. A crew is set with the task of going to this vessel and discovering if there is anyone left alive and to salvage the ship if possible. Though, this one is good as I so enjoy the supernatural and then to combine it with science fiction.awesome! The story, a ship, 'Event Horizon' has disappeared and seven years later as reappeared. What we get is good, but the potential is there for it to be way more disturbing, a horror film that is totally fabricated, but still resonates. They pick random people, probably a broad variety, but bland as all get out to help the studio execs gut a director's vision. Ah test audiences, if not for you, we would of had a way more disturbing and horrific movie.
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