The ghosts of the schooner "Charles Haskell"

Sailors are quite superstitious. According to them, ships, like people, have their own character: calm or anxious, constructive or destructive. And these characters are not in any way depend on their "parents" — engineers and builders. Sailors believe that ships can also "born in a shirt", but can with the time they were laid at the shipyard every day to prove that they are marked by bad luck or even evil rock.

When in 1869 on the ladder you just descended from the stocks of the schooner "Charles Haskell" worker slipped and broke his cervical vertebrae, many have come to believe that the ship is a curse. However, captain Curtis took command of the ship and even managed to recruit a crew.

A year later, "Charles Haskell" led fishing together with other fishing vessels in the Grand banks of Newfoundland, when suddenly there came a strong storm. In a stormy sea, lost control of the "Charles Haskell" rammed the schooner "Andrew Johnson", destroying it and sinking the whole team himself, despite the heavy damage, managed to return to port.

After a full renovation, "Haskell" again headed for the island of Newfoundland. Five days fishermen calmly engaged in fishing and on the sixth, something happened. It was night. Two of watches at midnight witnessed a horrible sight: on Board the schooner climbed twenty-six ghosts with empty eye sockets, rotting clothes and rubber boots. Ghosts was thrown into the sea, and twenty minutes later began to pull it back!

Having done this strange work, they silently and not paying attention on sailors, left the ship. Frightened duty immediately reported the incident to the captain. He at first did not believe, however, when he saw on the deck of the wet network, which fluttered a few fishes, was horrified that he gave the order to immediately turn back. But when the "Charles Haskell" was approaching the coast, the silent ghosts again appeared on the ship, re-scored and pulled from the sea network, and then went together to the Salem port.

For fishermen, captain Curtis and the owners of the schooner that was enough, "Charles Haskell" never went to sea. Subsequently, the competent Commission it was found that during the construction of the vessel was used items, taken from the schooner "St. Anna", the crew of which died at sea under mysterious circumstances. Probably ghosts, twice visited "Charles Haskell", took it for "Saint Anna".

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