Posted on 07/17/2015 9:32:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I never found the tale again about the 2 priests, each in a different situation. Someone on here years ago wanted me to notify him if I ever came across it again.
I forget details fast but I had several favorites. One was about a descendant of a man who took all his money out of the bank and I think he left a curious will. A generation or two wondered about the money until it was down to one survivor, a woman who lived in the house, was getting up in years and faced with poverty.
She either had a dream or apparition, but a man came to her and pointed to a brick in the fireplace. She hired some workers and they removed the bricks, it took several, but down in the hole was all the money.
One of my most favorites was about the Ghost ship of New Haven since this is about ships. You can google it and I doubt you'll find Edward Rowe Snow's account but there are other pages on the web.
I’m originally from Saskatchewan so anyone at least in the Atlantic provinces have heard of Mary Celeste. Heck, the Titanic is more popular there as the survivors landed there first.
I just was vacationing this year in Nova Scotia and went near where she was built. Quite a story.
You did? Forget the Bay of Fundy nonsense.;) You did go to Alexander keith brewery, right?
Never in my lifetime did I imagine they would find and photograph the wreckage. I think they had to use robots to bring up some relics, not sure. It was fascinating about the dna test when they dug up several graves and found no remains but one child. IIRC the child's dna proved who she was not; they thought she was from one mom and a sibling I think.
Saskatchewan would be a neat place to grow up. Never been there, just Ontario on a short drive.
“Saskatchewan would be a neat place to grow up.”
Sure. If you love snowstorms, blizzards, 10 feet of snow average and winters which last 8 months. The best part is crossing into the US border, waving hi to the border guy by walking through 2 wheat fields.
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I guess that sounds too harsh even for when I was younger. So I guess the Canadians don’t care about people leaving? I’ll bet they care more about illegal border crossers heading north.
“Then she appeared, as the giggling crew of Marie Celeste...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkCeN4PLR10
I’d always heard it called the Marie Celeste.
“In Search Of: The Ghost Ship Mary Celeste” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVW5zJLBQsw
Thanks nickcarraway. Good idea for the weekly Digest ping as well.
Mary Celeste Was Abandoned During A Seaquake!
by Capt. David Williams
http://deafwhale.com/mary-celeste/
Abandoned Ship: The Mary Celeste
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abandoned-ship-the-mary-celeste-174488104/?all
http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.com//filer/phenom-abandonship-main-631.jpg__800x600_q85_crop.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste
That would be Halifax and shhhhh! We like to keep it all to ourselves.
I was in Halifax for few days in the early 90s. For some reason it reminded me a little of Charlotte in the way things were laid out.
This and the “Lady Be Good” story always was spooky. Lady Be Good was a B24 Liberator that got lost and crashed landed in the Lybian desert. It was found like 20 years later and all but one of bodies were found. The USAF salvaged the plane for whatever parts they could use for other planes. Every plane that got a part started having problems, including a Armrest from the plane. The USAF decided to gather all the parts and got rid of them. I guess you might say the plane was jinxed.
Writers began calling the ghost ship Mary Celeste the “Marie Celeste” to add to its air of mystery.
One theory had it that there were unstable explosives in the cargo & the captain put everyone & himself in the longboat & tied it to the stern of the ship which was rigged to proceed under sail. The line snapped, the longboat was cut adrift & disappeared, and the Mary Celeste continued to proceed until discovered & boarded.
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