In a foreshadowing of things to come, in early March 1918, it was reported by the Navy that Willie J. Nettles, coxswain on the U.S.S. Cyclops was drowned on February 10, when he was swept overboard. His body was never recovered from the waters off Brazil.
Willie Nettles joined the Navy in 1913, when he was 16 years old. In July, 1915, his parents died within two weeks of each other, leaving only his married sister Maude as a relative. None would have suspected that his shipmates would soon share his fate.
Over 100 years after it was commissioned as a war ship, what's left of the Sapona sits on the edge of the Bermuda Triangle, a silent witness to many eerie occurrences.
The S.S. Sapona (originally named the Old North State) was one of four ships manufactured for use in WWI by the United States. Their names were Sapona, Cape Fear, Faith and The Americas. There was a steel shortage, and the ships were made of concrete by the Emergency Fleet Corporation at Wilmington, however the war ended before they could be used as troop transport ships.
A discovery of "ancient beeswax" found on the Oregonian coast at Nehalem was reported in the newspapers throughout the years. It was assumed it came from a wrecked vessel, that foundered on its way to a Catholic monastery in California. The wax was etched with Latin words.
During the 1800s, there were different theories where chunks of beeswax washing onshore were coming from. First it was assumed it might have come from the ship Peacock wrecked on the Nehalem Bay sandpit. It carried beeswax among its cargo, which was strewn along the beach. However William Savage a pioneer in the area during the 1840s, said the brig-of-war Peacock was wrecked at the mouth of Columbia River in 1842.
Poyang Lake is a large 1400 square mile body of water in China's Jiangxi Province. The lake was formed around 400 A.D. when the Gan River backed up, and the flood swallowed the countryside sending people fleeing for their lives. Was this ravenous hunger from the newly formed lake a foreshadowing of a hunger that is never satisfied?
There are places on earth, which like a magnet to steel draws in things and people to a doomed ending. Sometimes there are no clues left in order to answer the question of what exactly happened.
Despite our ignorance about the vast oceans that cover the majority of our planet's surface, many find it difficult to believe that gargantuan, humanoid-type animals have been seen in different parts of the Pacific Ocean.
Ningen translates as human in Japanese, and it was given this name by the fisherman who saw it in the 1990s. They were shocked by its large size, albino appearance and humanoid profile. It's considered an Unidentified Mysterious Animal (UMA).
The Great Lakes has served as passage to the Atlantic Ocean for hundreds of years. There is an area between Manitowoc, Wisconsin to Ludington, Michigan and south to Benton Harbor that has its history of mysterious disappearances comparable to the Bermuda Triangle.
The first known ship to go missing on Lake Michigan was Le Griffon which disappeared in 1679 while on her maiden voyage. It's estimated 1,500 ships have wrecked in Lake Michigan, but only 300 have been found.
Amelia Earhart disappeared July 2, 1937, on the last leg of a trans-world flight. Two years after their disappearance, Earhart and her navigator were declared dead. For all this time her fate has remained a mystery. Every few years someone claims to have found Amelia or her plane, but definitive proof has never been provided.
In 1938, a lighthouse on Howland Island was named for the aviatrix. This was the place where she was supposed to refuel before ending her travels after leaving Lae, New Guinea, however even though her radio transmission was heard by those on the island, she and her navigator Fred Noonan never arrived. The message heard was: "We must be on you but cannot see you — but gas is running low — have been unable to reach you by radio — we are flying at 1,000 feet."
The Endurance was found four miles from where her captain, Frank Worsely reported her going down in 1915. It wasn't only the loss of the ship which made this endeavor so famous, but the tribulations the crew had to endure in order to reach safety.
To cross Antarctica from the Weddel Sea via the South Pole to the Ross Seal; this was Sir Ernest Shackleton's dream.
This is a horror novel by English writer William Hope Hodgson published in 1907. It is presented as a true account, with the following opening passage: "Being an account of their Adventures in the Strange places of the Earth, after the foundering of the good ship Glen Carrig through striking upon a hidden rock in the unknown seas to the Southward. As told by John Winterstraw, Gent., to his Son James Winterstraw, in the year 1757, and by him committed very properly and legibly to manuscript."
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Author - William Hope Hodgson (1877 – 1918) was an English author, who produced a large body of work, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction. Hodgson was killed by the direct impact of an artillery shell at the Fourth Battle of Ypres in April 1918. His widow, described how Hodgson led a group of NCOs to safety under heavy fire.
One of the greatest mysteries of the Great Lakes' region is the fate of the ghost ship Le Griffon, which disappeared in 1679, while on its maiden voyage.
The vessel was built by Rene-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle (1643-1687), a French explorer who hoped to find a route through the Great Lakes in order to reach Asia. Built on the Niagara River, she was a ship of 60 tons burden, and fitted with two masts.
In 1913, a telegram was sent from New Zealand to London, which solved a 23-year-old mystery.
The Marlborough sailed from Lyttleton, New Zealand with several passengers and a crew of 33 under the command of Captain W. Hird in January, 1890. She was a vessel of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's fleet, measuring 228 feet long, 35 feet broad and 21 feet deep with 1124 tons. The ship carried a cargo of frozen mutton and wool.
On October 22, 1927, the lumber schooner Coos Bay went wrecked outside Golden Gate off Mile Rock, while a thick fog covered the area. It had a crew of 30 and no passengers, but it seemed in the coming days that there was a 31st person on the ship.
The ship started as the collier Vulcan owned by the Pacific States Lumber Company. In it last incarnation it was named the S.S. Coos Bay. She was captained by B.W. Olsen.
In 1939, reports came in that a sea serpent had washed up on Point Grey Beach in Vancouver. However sightings of these creatures off the North Atlantic coast go back more a hundred years.
On January 14, 1939, Johnnie Davies was fishing on Williams Lake, British Columbia when he hooked something that not only pulled ferociously, but which he could see was a huge, dark shape beneath the ice. He tried to hold on but ended up letting go. According to him he thought it was the famed Ogopogo usually seen at Okanagan Lake. Fishermen in the area said he had probably hooked a land-locked sturgeon.
It seems that January was a busy month for unusual finds. In the cornfields of C.B. Campbell, who lived near Lynch, Nebraska a dust storm exposed the fossil of a monster that later was dubbed a "sea serpent".
The Alkimos was a merchant ship, one of many that wrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1963. What sets it apart are the persistent stories that it's a cursed ship.
Built in a Baltimore shipyard, misfortune seemed to have visited early
on when it was said a welder was unintentionally riveted up inside the
hull, and found a day later, after he had suffocated. There is another
version, where it was several workers who were sealed inside its walls.
Supposedly this occurred due to the tight deadline and hurried
construction of the ship, which was one of over 2,500 being produced for
the war effort.
