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Ghost Ship
Nov. 21st, 2007 10:38 pmWake up. There's a pinging in the hull of the ship.
It's not a thumping. It's a pinging, like something ringing of the steel in a rythymic fashion. As if there was someone with a hammer clanging on one of the bulkheads.
I'm not imagining anything. Last night, while I was in the boiler room, I could hear it very faintly, near the rent. I went down into the steerage storage, down by the works where you can get really close to the hull, and there is was again. It died out slowly, just faded away.
You know the stories we heard on the dock, waiting to get on? That the ship was cursed because while they were building it, one of the shipwrights got sealed up between the hull and the inner wall, and was left to die there without anyone knowing until it was too late? Well that pinging sounded like someone striking the hull was a hammer, like they didn't have a lot of room to swing it.
There's a funny feel to the dining room as well. If you stay really late, around the time that the bar used to close, this vague greenish light comes in, and the sound of a single clarinet for just a second can be heard. See, I heard this member of the ship's band had killed himself around then, after his girlfriend ran off with another man, and he's trapped in his final shift, playing 'Blue Bayou' just before using the gun on himself.
Sure, make that face if you want to, but this ship is haunted. It's like a big city, and all cities have their dark secrets and cracks. Why should this place be any different? Something bad has happened to this place, I tell you.
Yes, other than sinking last May, of course.
It's not a thumping. It's a pinging, like something ringing of the steel in a rythymic fashion. As if there was someone with a hammer clanging on one of the bulkheads.
I'm not imagining anything. Last night, while I was in the boiler room, I could hear it very faintly, near the rent. I went down into the steerage storage, down by the works where you can get really close to the hull, and there is was again. It died out slowly, just faded away.
You know the stories we heard on the dock, waiting to get on? That the ship was cursed because while they were building it, one of the shipwrights got sealed up between the hull and the inner wall, and was left to die there without anyone knowing until it was too late? Well that pinging sounded like someone striking the hull was a hammer, like they didn't have a lot of room to swing it.
There's a funny feel to the dining room as well. If you stay really late, around the time that the bar used to close, this vague greenish light comes in, and the sound of a single clarinet for just a second can be heard. See, I heard this member of the ship's band had killed himself around then, after his girlfriend ran off with another man, and he's trapped in his final shift, playing 'Blue Bayou' just before using the gun on himself.
Sure, make that face if you want to, but this ship is haunted. It's like a big city, and all cities have their dark secrets and cracks. Why should this place be any different? Something bad has happened to this place, I tell you.
Yes, other than sinking last May, of course.
