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Just wanted to say: I never, ever get sick of listening to your stories. You may be a scholar first, but you're also one hell of a storyteller. And, you're adorable! I'm glad you're alive somewhere on this planet with us. Live long, Kaz Rowe. 💜
@@Irisarc1 I'm terrible at like, reading tone lol, so if this is sarcastic, apologies for the reply lol. They mean Ned Fulmer, of recent Try Guys cheating infamy
I find it so amazing that boats are probably one of the oldest things to exist. From Polynesian Voyagers, Ancient Greek/Rome sea battles to medieval times, warships in World War II to now. History is so crazy man.
Hi! Massachusetts native here. It’s not pronounced “pubity” but rather “peebity”. There’s an issue with people from out of state pronouncing the town of Peabody as “pee-body” and emphasizing that letter O which is why we always correct them by letting them know that the pronunciation is actually closer to “peebity”.
This video, when combined with Ask The Mortician’s “The Lake That Never Gives Up Her Dead,” and Jacob Geller’s recent “Fear of Big Things Underwater,” makes for a truly *impeccable* triple feature. 😍 Would HIGHLY recommend the experience! Amazing job as always Kaz! I might be stealing that makeup look to incorporate into my own spooky sea related look later this season, provided you don’t mind of course.
I would like to see Kaz and Caitlyn Doughty do a crossover, but I also fear that, combined, they would be too powerful for mere mortals to safely view.
you're so right, I have watched all three videos as well and they excellent and informative. I learn't so much. I also would highly recommend watching Ask the Mortician's " The Tragedy of the SS Eastland video if you enjoyed these.
this is a story my dad told me. he works on a ship and one misty morning they saw a shadowy ship in the fog that sailed along side them. but eventually they realized it was just the shadow of their own ship.
Kaz nailed it with people in the sea being in the perfect headspace to see ghosts. First there is a slowly growing exhaustion from monotonous work with no days off. Then there is watchkeeping. If it's a cloudy night, the sea and the sky appear similar, two almost identical colours stretching in all directions. And all you listen to are monotonous sounds of waves/radio static of emergency frequency/hum of the engine. It's basically a light form of sense deprivation, along with tiredness it makes you see things
I was thinking the same thing. While reading your post, I kept thinking "it could be hypnotizing." I can imagine it being very hypnotic with seeing nothing but sea, sky, and ship for weeks/months, sometimes even longer, on end and the rolling of the old ships without a motor on a windless day/night. Just the thought of that is starting to put me to sleep.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the art, intelligence, care, respect, and creativity Kaz brings to each video!? I’m a new subscriber and I have to say I ADORE everything about these videos! 🤩💙
Being born and raised in Cape town, I get a strange feeling of pride every time the flying dutchman is mentioned internationally. It's like having someone from your small town high school become famous!
Not from Cape Town, (I’m from Joburg) but I get so excited too! It’s nice to have something like that associated with our country. Have fun in ur strange weather random Cape Town resident! (I love Cape Town I’m just being kinda strange. Not too sure what this comment was lmao but I just get so excited when I see other South Africans)
I went to school on Lake Superior, which is notoriously dangerous to ships. My favorite story is that of the SS Kamloops, which foundered in a blizzard. It turns out that some of the passengers managed to escape in a lifeboat, only to be marooned on Isle Royale without food, fire, or shelter. They sadly froze to death, but not before one of them wrote a message in a bottle and cast it into the lake, where it was eventually found. The Kamloops is still at the bottom of the lake, and one of her crewmembers is still with her: Old Whitey, who's called that because the freezing conditions of the lake have turned his body pure white.
Oh noooo, near freezing conditions. How deep is the water it’s in, I wonder? If the body’s pretty well preserved…. Ugh, now I’m thinking about the adipocere (uhh a kind of… corpse wax that seeps to the top of the skin on well preserved bodies underwater… it coats the areas of the body that are fattier and has a high likelihood of getting enmeshed with their clothing, so they kind of all get stuck together 🫤). Man. Biology is nuts.
@@gaywizard2000 I’m dyslexic so I much prefer it to “adipocere,” because I always think and hear apidocere. 😅 It’s a pretty grizzly topic, and something you can’t really go back from knowing. 😳
My favorite ghost ship is the Octavius! It disappeared in 1762 near Alaska and reappeared in 1775 near Greenland after having been trapped, frozen and unfrozen in sea ice for over a decade. The story goes that the frozen, preserved bodies of the crew were still onboard, having sailed the Northwest Passage posthumously. The Franklin expedition is also very interesting.
@@nights_the_nightingale Dudee, your name is Octavius? U probably know this but you share the name with one of the most psycho and greatest emperors of Rome, I love that guy
My grandfather is a woodcarver and he always says that wood has the spirit of the tree it came from, and it remains no matter what you make with the wood. Also, I’m very into urbex and have always been taken by the notion of people’s lives and everyday activity ruined and gone. If not actual ghosts, there’s absolutely a strong presence of history in those places. It’s fascinating :)
Does that mean than the spirit of trees is split up when you make more than one thing? Almost like horcruxes? So my bushcrafting group all have a spoon inhabited by the same spirit?
My dad liked using the Edmund Fitzgerald as a way to get my siblings and I to be cautious out on the lakes as a kid. Mostly because of the storms and the currents... but the part that scared me the most about the story is the idea that the ship and its crew are *still down there*, preserved by the cold and conditions. I think the ghostliness of the Great Lakes is less in the idea of ghost ships sailing the lakes themselves, and more in the idea of what's lurking below you when you're way out on the water - There's thousands of frozen snapshots in time, mariners still preserved and hovering at their stations - you can imagine them still down there, wandering the decks where no living eyes can see.
LBC native here! I grew up going to the Queen Mary often just to walk around, and there are definitely permanent residents. You can feel a heaviness in the hospital/quarantine ward especially. That aside, I love the way you present the subject matter no matter the subject in your videos. Your writing is eloquent , and the visuals are beautiful, but they don't take away from the topic. Thank you for telling these stories
im also from socal and i stayed at the queen mary for a night and it was very eerie but i didn’t have any supernatural experiences (and i’m honestly glad)
The vastness, unpredictability and isolating nature of the ocean terrifies me. Space is like that too but more extreme. We’ll probably have space ghost ship legends one day if space travel continues to advance
I think the idea of haunted objects is absolutely fascinating; in Japanese folklore there's the tsukumogami which are objects that have taken on a spirit. It's not a super definite idea, as it's folklore, but it's basically the idea that anything old enough (tools, plants, animals, etc) can take on a personality and change form. I've heard it explained before as something taking on a personality (like a stubborn umbrella that won't open on command anymore) but I've also seen it also expressed quite literally in folkloric paintings too showing mundane objects turning into things with human-like forms. The way that it's a cross-cultural phenomenon is so interesting!!
I live in Dallas, which does have a couple of legends, myths and urban stories. Aside from the obvious ones about JFK's assassination, the most well known among the locals are the supernatural stories surrounding White Rock Lake. The Lady of the Lake is said to have been a young woman from the 1920s that drowned in the lake. There are variations on the story, but the consensus is that during night time, she will emerge from the darkness, all wet, and ask an unsuspecting driver to give her a ride back home. By the time the driver arrives at the location (usually somewhere in Oak Cliff) she would disappear, and leave a puddle of water where she had once sat.
You’re an amazing script writer! Your visuals and costumes are always on point as well as your research and sensitivity to the subject matter, but I just want to take a moment to say how much I admire how beautifully and skillfully you create a narrative.
I think people also personalize ships, in particular. They get gendered, they get assigned particular personalities, they can have moods of their own. A ship doesn't have a soul just because it was made by people, but because she's a ship at sea. The "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is the only shipwreck story I grew up with, but the only song I remembered from my childhood choir was about a sailor seeing one on his midnight watch. I always loved it. Now my favorite song is from Sting's musical Last Ship, called "Ballad Of The Great Eastern," about a ship built by Brunell.
You’re such a great storyteller, I could listen to you for hours… and I have 😂 Seriously, thanks for getting me through a couple bad years. When the world’s too outrageous, I put on your videos and go somewhere else. 💕
I'm so glad I decided to watch this at home instead of only listening to it at work, as I usually do. The Noah's Dove ship visualization is a masterpiece.
The Flying Dutchman was a story I grew up with (South African here woo lol), I was always so fascinated by it. Every time we visited the Cape, I'd sit for ages watching the horizon for a glimpse, luckily I never saw it lol, it brings death after all. Van der Dekken (pronounced in South Africa/Afrikaans/possibly Dutch?: fun deR Dekken [rolled R]) was a Dutch captain, considered a monster of a captain, but yes, generally ships went down often because of the weather. The amount of Shipwrecks that happened there are near countless. The South Easterly wind can hit at crazy speeds and the water is like ice. So the Rocky coast never helped either.
I know that this might sound weird but have you ever considered into looking into the history of the queer community in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It’s quite interesting as for a long time they were one of few groups in NI to bridge the Ethno-political gap (everyone says Catholic and Protestant because it’s Politer than Irish and British).
wow. hearing about the ghost objects and haunted homes gives me a new look on the phrase “home is where the heart is.” like, we really give it a piece of our heart/soul. also, passing on some of the magic to the objects we create/“give life to” is an interesting idea. gotta write that one down
I always love stories of people picking up some beautiful piece of furniture or decorative art at an antique shop or estate sale, and it turns out to be haunted as hell. Really fascinating stuff, I agree.
I've always had a fascination with Davie Jones's Locker. The sheer amount of human dead in there is insane. Thousands upon thousands of sailors for millennia all in the same resting place. Pretty interesting to think about
I think about that a lot too. I also think about how my government asked the navy to push migrent boats back into the ocean. I wonder if there will ever come a time when people will push shipwrecked navy personal back into the ocean and face minimal backlash. RIP little Ahmed and the countless others.
Love this! I’m obsessed with shipwrecks and ghost ships are such an interesting subsection of that. Your videos are so well- researched and I enjoy learning new facts from you. Side note: I live in Salem and Peabody is most definitely not pronounced Pubity, whoever told you that is trolling you. It’s pronounced Peebiddy. Can’t wait to see your video about Salem!
Yeah, I was going to ask if more than one person told her that 😆 I grew up in southern Maine, 50 miles or so north of Salem. One of my first Toothaker ancestors, Roger, was arrested and died in jail during the witch trials
@@nancytoothaker3224 that’s terribly sad for your family but it’s also interesting historically! I’m sorry for your family even though it was so long ago!
Yes, they do believe the Titanic encountered a “coldwater mirage,” the weather was just right for it along with the moonless night. Always enjoyable video Kaz!
The way you made the lighting and wardrobe so on theme gave me a lot of dopamine. Thank you for teaching us such interesting history once again. Also, thank you for still telling people to wear masks, it really means a lot as a disabled person who has lost a lot of trust in folks who have stopped doing so. We're still in a pandemic, and bc of all the people not masking a lot of new variants are here. Stay safe folks.
The 'floating ship' illusion happens pretty often where I used to live on the Isle of Wight - we'd always say it's quite easy to see why they thought they were ghost ships 🚢 (also worth noting the IOW is a VERY haunted island)
Fred D'Aguiar's book Feeding the Ghosts does an excellent job recounting a woman's experience aboard a Middle Passage ship. The idea of thousands of souls, bones, bodies underneath the sea still haunts me today. Such a good book.
The story of the Flying Dutchman that's most widely known in the Netherlands is that it was meant to set sail on Easter, but this being a day of rest and of god it shouldn't. The Captain being stubborn said they would anyway, 'storm or no storm' so they set out and ended up in a horrible storm, supposedly sent by god to punish them.
I'm surprised you didn't mention St. Elmo's fire! It happens in really specific conditions and is actually a kind of electrical phenomenon like lightning, so it happens a lot during storms on the pointy metal ends of the ships masts and rigging and such, which could have been confused for a ship with ghosts lights! It's also been known to happen on things like church steeples (metal rod and all), which would understandably make people think it was a divine happening kind of thing.
Oh I love ghost ship stories! There's something so inherently unknowable and terrifying about the sea, added to the inherent superstitiousness all sea-faring people seem to possess (because you need the rituals of superstition in order to stay sane while repeatedly going back to sea to do your job). My family on my mum's side has a lot of ghost stories; one in particular is about a boat instead of a ship, but it has stayed in my head. My great-grandma grew up on a small island in the Westfjords. The only people on the island were her family, who ran a dairy farm; the rest of the island was moor for the sheep to graze. There were several known ghosts on the island and in the farmhouse, and one of them could be seen sometimes if you went down to the shore early in the morning before sunrise. It was an old man in a fishing boat, who appeared normal until you got closer and saw that his clothes were tattered and the boat was full of holes. If he spotted you he'd call out and ask you to help him lift the boat above the high tide mark; it was imperative that you did not do that. If you ignored him and turned away, he'd vanish. But if you responded to his call, approached him, or stepped out on to the beach below the tide mark, he'd grab you and push the boat back to sea, taking you with him. I'm certain this story was mostly told as part of the grand old tradition of "scaring kids so they don't do stupid stuff alone and die", but I like it. And to be fair, it did work on me when I was a kid; my cousins and I never went near the beach without backup.
This video reminded me of "Tugs," a children's television about the life of tugboats in the 1920s. The show does a spectacular job at depicting the nuances (both good and bad aspects) of a life in the harbor. Night shots in the show are beautiful, eerie and atmospheric all at once. I highly recommend it to anyone that is interested.
"We attribute hauntedness to the house itself." In an interesting instance of parallel thinking Stewart Hicks covers this idea from in his most recent video. To quote Stewart: "The standard unit of haunting _is_ a building, and specifically a house."
I live in Tennessee and my favorite local legend is the bell witch, I have a grandma who has seen her first hand and i have as well. She's the only ghost to have a murderer blamed on her. My family has all agreed to not talk about her out loud and we all keep quite about her.
Oh my God, have you really? I have always been obsessed with the Bell Witch story since I first heard it in high school. Funny enough, it's not a local legend for me, because I grew up in Massachusetts actually - I've been to Salem and done the historical tours Kaz discusses in this video several times. If you don't mind sharing, I'd love to hear any further information on these sightings you and your grandmother have had. I am endlessly fascinated with the legend, and the fact that it's the only known case of a ghost committing murder as you said. The shapeshifting animals involved in the situation are super strange as well. Reminds me of how different paranormal phenomena sometimes occur together or in close succession, Bigfoot and UFO/alien sightings being a common example (a big thing in my neck of the woods these days - I live in Washington state near Mt. St. Helens now).
Kaz Rowe, as I live and breathe, you are both treasure and trove. Your delightful intellect and willingness to ferret out and share such colorful bits of history make me giddy.
I served in the Coast Guard and sailed all over the Pacific. Life on the ocean is . . . WILD! Things I saw (UFOs, ghost ships), things I heard (people crying out, ghost ships), things I learned about (rogue waves, ghost ships), and things I was told to fear (calm before the storm, ghost ships lol).
Also, I love the "ships as our home" theory on why ships can be haunted. I bet it's that as well as the fact that, ask any sailor, ships have souls. I don't know how else to explain it! Personalities, quirks, hiccups, traits, talents! It's really wild, but I could tell what ship I was on just based on how it steered.
Interesting that there isn’t a similar phenomenon in Polynesian sea faring. Also, other natural events like Auroras, bioluminescence, and all kinds of fun light refractions can cause all kinds of optical illusions. And just something as prosaic as passing an unmapped island at night would be enough to freak a drunk crew out. 👻⚓️
Absolutely loved this and didn't expect you to cover slave ships but glad you did. as a descendant and scholar of the Transatlantic slave trade one fact that haunts me is that slave ships could be spotted because they were always trailed by sharks -- the extent of death was so great that it altered the ecosystem around it
Great vid, thanks! (pibbody is a common pronunciation amongst us natives). Probably one of the most known, documented, and mis represented sea voyages is the Mayflower. While in no way a ghost ship, its voyage demonstrates the dangers of sea travel in the early days, with a number of casualties onboard during the journey. Imagine what must have happened to those who hadn't actually paid for a crossing.
You're historical, cultural, and mythological videos are immensely informative and equally entertaining with the one on Sarah Winchester and her not-so-Mystery House being my top favorite at the time of this writing. I'm about to watch this latest one but the subject of ghost ships is most mouthwatering, pun intended.
Love this. I did not grow up near the ocean, but I grew up on the coastline of Lake Huron. We have lots of fun shipwreck stories here, and even have pirate and trader re-enactors who perform every fall at the mouth of the river where it connects to the bay. My favorite water horror stories were not the shipwrecks though, it was actually the stories of the people who went over the Niagara Falls in barrels and various devices. One of my favorite memories is going to the museum at the falls which has a bunch of the vessels that went over the falls.
I don't know why the Marie Celeste is such a mystery to everyone. Somebody on the ship saw a spider, yelled "SPIDER," the crew jumped off the ship in panic, only to realize that no one stayed on the ship to kill the spider and let them back on. Badda bing, badda splash.
Kaz is consistently excellent in their work. Not only do you go for facts but you also go for a storytelling and also visuals and details. You put your heart and soul into your work and it is appreciated
here in Chile there’s a famous ghost ship, the Caleuche, that visits Chiloé and near by islands and supposedly takes men that round the streets at night. When i was a little girl we went as a family to Chiloé, and i was so scared not because the extensive mythology of the area, i was specifically scared of that ship. I was so scared that the ship would take my dad. Nothing really happened, but years later, in school, our teacher explained to us that the ship was a common excuse for drunk men to disappear a few days of hangover, and i, as a naive child , feared the ship because i didn’t realized my dad was a drunk BDJFKFKDKFKFKFK
The Ghost Ship that I'm most familiar with from my home town, isn't on the ocean, it's the Tombigbee River, and she's called the Eliza Battle. A steamboat that carried passengers and cargo, caught fire and wrecked, with many of the people burned or drowned. The lore is that if you see her, disaster is sure to follow, and I've known a couple of people who claimed to have seen it. She rolls down the river in flames, and supposedly you can hear people screaming, and then poof, it's gone. While I readily admit to knowing people who've claimed to have seen it, keep in mind, there is 1 stop sign and 4 buildings in the entire town, so telling a yarn on the front porch of the general store, is not uncommon either.
My very first thought when I hear "ghost ships" is Fata Morgana! Optical illusions without scientific explanations would be especially spooky at sea, and I'd probably think there was something weird going on if I saw ships or entire cities floating above the horizon too.
Because you’ve tackled so many amazing and shall I say, ‘niche’ topics, I would be so obliged to hear your take on the lesser known history of Columbus, the Caribbean and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. So very few people know that it was Caribbean Native Americans to first encounter Columbus and experience slavery alongside the Africans imported to the islands. I adore your channel and would be so grateful to hear this untold story from the perspective of someone I admire so.
Speaking of first to America, what about the vikings and portuguese who did trading with the natives there way before Columbus or the english! Oh, and the three japanese fishermen who accidentally ended up on the west coast of america in a storm at sea, durring Japans Isolationist period.
@@chloepainter4064 - yes, that is very true, although it’s worth noting that there was little to no socio-cultural impact with those contacts. They arrived, explored, traded and were pretty much forgotten. I’m referring more to the impact of Columbus and other Spanish and European conquests of the 15th and 16th century which lead to mass slavery of Indigenous and African people in the Caribbean (pre-dating slavery in the USA). I’m always disappointed that mainstream education never mentions that it was the Caribbean Natives who were first contacted by Columbus and his men, not Northern Native Americans. It was also the origin of the Trans Atlantic slave trade (a century before the first slaves were brought to Virginia) and that is never mentioned either.
@@Wildflower687 just recently an Italian manuscript was discovered that was written nearly 2 centuries before Columbus was born and mentions that the people of Northern Europe swore there was another landmass to the east of Greenland. It is starting to look like, at least among sailors, the idea of another landmass spread way further than was originally thought
Isn't it weird that you write a comment about Carribbean Natives encountering Columbus and you get not one but multiple replies about vikings/ other euro contact unrelated to the topic?
@@smrtfasizmu7242there is documented ocean voyage between South America and various islands in the Pacific for a long time before any documented european ocean travel, so that's not as impressive as you might think. People had maps and navigation skills for a long ass time before vikings came along
An interesting and somewhat obscure myth relating to haunted ghost ships is the legend of the Klabautermann! It's described as a water spirit/kobold that helps fisherman and sailors when they fall overboard or sends a warning when danger is to come. But if anyone is to see it, then that ship is doomed to sink. The most famous representation of the myth is in the manga series One Piece, where, in that series, it becomes more a spirit of the ship itself given life thanks to a crew who cares deeply for it, and there's a whole emotional sequence that many cite as the scene that made them sob over a fictional boat. Thought you might like to know that little tidbit! Very cool video btw!! Your vids are always super interesting!!
I'm in Salem, and between Kaz and the ghoul boys, I get so excited to see Salem as a portion of the subject of a video. So cool to see the water I often sit by with friends.
I absolutely love this channel! I found it a month or two ago and wow! I'm a big history nerd so seeing all these videos about different time periods is just so great. I like how Kaz dresses to match the era and cracks jokes at the appropriate times. I've watched nearly all of them while drawing, keep it up Kaz!!
idk how widespread this was in the Great Lakes region, but everyone knew of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I'm pretty sure we had a bit of 4th grade class set aside to listen to this sea shanty about the shipwreck. I don't remember any specific ghost stories, just visiting a bunch of lighthouse museums as a kid, which included the bell recovered from tbe Edmund Fitzgerald wreck
My favourite ride in the Efteling (an amusement park in the Netherlands) is De Vliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman). It's very interesting to learn more about ghost ships.
For anyone who wants a scary ghost story that gets REAL intense, From Below by Darcy Coates is a good read. I listened to the sounds of a scuba dive during parts of it (the narrative goes between the ship’s last voyage and modern day people going to the mysterious wreck, just found a hundred years later) and it upped the spookiness and feeling of claustrophobia. Definitely a recommended read. For a book like that but with a sci fi twist, think Titanic (a luxury ‘ship’ with a lot of celebrities), but in SPACE and it goes off radar and never returns. Just before a deep space crew comes home for the last time, they get a weak distress signal on an old emergency broadcast wavelength and decide to check it out. They aren’t prepared for what they find and it seems SOMETHING on board does not want them to make it out alive. Dead Silence, by S. A. Barnes. They’re both ghost ships in a way, both with really descriptive and creepy set pieces, and I read both of them in a weekend (a weekend each, heh). The imagery really stays with you. It’s been eight months since I read Dead Silence and the mental image of people floating in what was once the pool, now frozen, some encased in water, some in evening gowns, some injured… it’s still very vivid.
I live in California and I visited the Queen Mary in 2019. My tour guide mentioned in the engine room that when he gives tours to children they always ask if someone died down here and it was always by the staircase and there were sightings of a ghost down there by that same staircase...creepy!
I remember an old Ted Ed video about ghost ships. Some "ghost ships" are perfectly real! Sometimes, when a ship is abandoned after a collision and it takes on water, the water only fills until it hits equilibrium. It can keep floating on its own, still buoyant because the water didn't become too heavy. The same abandoned ship can be seen multiple times in different places years apart because of ocean currents. Scientists were able to track some current systems by charting abandoned ships!
I’ve lived in Rhode Island all my life (northern Rhode Island to be a little more specific) and I have literally never heard the history of block island, nor have I ever been to the island because the ferry ride is too expensive. I love when my little home state shows up in random places on the Internet
Like northern RI is really different than Southern!? Is there central too? I'm ribbing. I was wondering what it's like now ,Block Island, do people live there? What are the dimensions of RI in miles?
I moved to Devon because I've been obsessed with smugglers since a child. I've found so many texts from pre 1900 in charity shops and book shops detailing the false lights, and I've explored so many coves that aren't accessible from land. I LOVE where I live and ill struggle to ever move.
hundreds of years from now, people will tell the story of a ghostly visage who continues to post interesting and educational videos to a long-forgotten platform, and a spectral crew of likers and subscribers who continue to support them. spooky
My Uncle Holmes returned home from the 2nd World War on the Queen Mary. After she was sold to the City Of Long Beach I went on board at least twice. We toured many of the rooms and sections of the ship. It was amazing and interesting bringing me closer to the history of a family member who passed in 1962 or '63 when I was 5 or 6.
I'm literally writing about a haunted, ghastly fisherman styled ship that appears on a town THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO SO MUCH!!!! Ok so about objects being haunted, i'm guessing there's also some kind of idea of ghosts possesing and manipulating these objects from beyond the grave. Many paranormal experiences involve a ghost manipulating an object they were tied to in live, like a clock or some kind of artifact they liked, or many times, the object that killed them. With ships, they are haunted and ghastly just as much as the people in them maybe because they're the object that lead these people to their deaths. Ships also serve as the place of tragedy, and we've all heard many haunting stories taking place on sacred grounds that are haunted or houses where tragedies happened. So a ship is both this tragic place where a terrible thing happened, as well as the object that made this tragedy able to happen, which is probably why the ghost ship idea is so popular and why the ship is also regarded as a ghost or an aparition.
20:35 Another theory I've read about is that the crew feared their cargo of alcohol was about to explode, so they all got into the lifeboat but kept it tethered to the ship at a safe distance. Then the line connecting the two vessels somehow either broke or was deliberately cut, and the ship just kept on sailing with no one onboard.
The place where my parents live has a fish and chips shop called The Frying Dutchman. So everytime I hear Flying Dutchman I immediately hear that. Between this and Jacob Gellar's video on monsters of the deep, the sea is a truly haunted place.
In wondering how there are ghost ships and trains, I wonder if it is either one of two things. One, that they are farriers of humans in our lives and like how you said about our homes ‘vessels’ for our souls in the afterlife. Or second, that often times, particularly in the instance of ships, they are personified-named, talked about like a mistress, taboos about them must be honored or things go wrong, and so much human energy is put into them and these taboos and beliefs and personifications for many many years, decades or longer. On top of having the energetic tie to crew and passenger in the instance of say a ship wreck that manifests a ‘ghost’ from that collective energy.
my uncle, a severe skeptic, once saw "el caleuche", a Spanish ship wreck said to lurk in the southern Chilean islands. He was driving his colleagues to their apartment complex in a pickup truck down a highway overlooking the ocean, and there in the moonlight they saw it with his crew still partying. At least they know how to have fun on their eternal doom.
I love the subjects Ms. Rowe chooses to cover, each one as fascinating as the rest! The phenomenon of ghostly ship sightings is always compelling in a way hard to explain. Incidentally, I find the creative way she assembles her vintage attire in a delightful combination of masculine and feminine charming. Artfully made videos well done!
what a coincidence that your ghost ship video is recommended to me on the same day after I watch "1899" movie trailer that probably will tell a story of a ship encountering a ghost ship on its voyage to the US 😊😊 I couldn't be any happier than this!
I was a teenager when I went on a cruise for the first time. At night, middle of ocean, when sky and water merged, I whole heartedly wanted to spot a ghost ship.
When I was a kid, my family went on vacation to Cape Hatteras, NC. I live in landlocked Colorado and this trip was what gave me my love for the sea. While we were there, I bought and read tons of books on local ghost stories. My favorite ship-related one was The Flaming Ship of Ocracoke
The Mary Celeste is huge on the east coast of canada. My grandparents camp on the beach where the ship was built, the locals say you can supposedly see her from the shore in the fog/darkness and there’s a lighthouse museum for it there too! The trip is pretty uneventful but cool nonetheless
I saw one once, when I was about six, I was staring out the window due to snow being outside. I looked to a tree and between the branches and I saw a white boat, still within the sky. I remember it so vividly.
ghost ships have been one of my biggest phobias since i was 12 (especially paintings of them) but this video is awesome and has such good info on them..thank you :)
I just absolutely adore this channel~ informative, entertaining, and Kaz is always bringing the best vibes with the sets and costumes. (I hope we will get to see more from Salem, MA in future vids❤️)
there is even a rumor of a ghost U-boat. one of the U-Boats from World War One (some times it is a wolf-pack WW2) still sails under the seas making the lives of sonar operators a nightmare. Most likely the operator is getting his own boat and / or a whale - but some operators have sent their ships to find the ghost U-Boat but never finding it.
I found a book of haunted sea stories based in the Oregon and Washington coast. Some were quite amazing. There was one about a father and her daughter that was particularly impactful. She ended up haunting some lookout on the Oregon coast. The book is called creative I know. I've always loved walking along the shore when it's particularly windy out with maybe decent showers, but just super windy and cloudy is best. It just feels romantic like I'm the wife of a sailor currently at sea. I wait for her on the shore looking out at the white caps, praying for her to come home. Bonus points if I can get a long scarf to blow around with my hair down. I grew up along the Salish Sea in Bellingham. I probably like the wind so much because it's so windy there. The water isn't super wavy because the ocean is kinda far away, and there's the San Juan Islands in the way breaking up any ocean waves. I miss living near the ocean.
I stayed on the Queen Mary and although I didn't "see" anything, when we were touring the swimming pool I had a weird experience. The tour guide told us not to go up the stairs to the balcony and just to walk around pool side. After a time I became aware of a child running and laughing in the balcony and I turned to my friend and rolled my eyes and sighed saying "we weren't supposed to go up there and someone is letting their kid run around!" After I said it that I realised I couldn't hear the kid anymore and I never saw anyone coming down the stairs from the balcony! Make of it what you will. I couldn't sleep in my cabin that night!
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Just wanted to say: I never, ever get sick of listening to your stories. You may be a scholar first, but you're also one hell of a storyteller. And, you're adorable! I'm glad you're alive somewhere on this planet with us. Live long, Kaz Rowe. 💜
@@Irisarc1 I'm terrible at like, reading tone lol, so if this is sarcastic, apologies for the reply lol. They mean Ned Fulmer, of recent Try Guys cheating infamy
I live in Nova Scotia so you tend to tell me all the scary stories from my town.
To bad they don't have Blue or Pink Lotus wine ...
I find it so amazing that boats are probably one of the oldest things to exist. From Polynesian Voyagers, Ancient Greek/Rome sea battles to medieval times, warships in World War II to now. History is so crazy man.
The urge to float on the big water is ancient
You forgot Vikings, some of the most important boat builders in history. Their longships could traverse both rivers and oceans.
I miss Minoan Crete. 😥
It goes back way further than that, boats (or something resembling them at least) are even older than homo sapiens.
@@gguy3600 hm im curious, you have any more info on this?
Hi! Massachusetts native here. It’s not pronounced “pubity” but rather “peebity”. There’s an issue with people from out of state pronouncing the town of Peabody as “pee-body” and emphasizing that letter O which is why we always correct them by letting them know that the pronunciation is actually closer to “peebity”.
the way kaz always got both the facts And aesthetics on point 😳 one of my fave channels to watch
Kaz always has the best and most appropriate drip imaginable for any situation.
Knowledgeable and highly fashionable. Kaz is absolutely hip.
Here I am, shit-posting my total agreement. Let it be known! I have nothing to add.🧐
But yeah, Kaz is pretty awesome.
Yes, she's become my youtube crush. The little things, like lighting change, makes the story so much more.
Kaz has deffo raised the bar for documentary type content. When was the last time David Attenborough dressed as a fish huh?!?!!
This video, when combined with Ask The Mortician’s “The Lake That Never Gives Up Her Dead,” and Jacob Geller’s recent “Fear of Big Things Underwater,” makes for a truly *impeccable* triple feature. 😍 Would HIGHLY recommend the experience! Amazing job as always Kaz! I might be stealing that makeup look to incorporate into my own spooky sea related look later this season, provided you don’t mind of course.
I would like to see Kaz and Caitlyn Doughty do a crossover, but I also fear that, combined, they would be too powerful for mere mortals to safely view.
ahh yes, i've seen both recently and it's an epic trilogy now
I was just noticing that everyone is suddenly afraid of the water all at once. Seconding the recomendation for anyone that hasn't seen all three yet.
you're so right, I have watched all three videos as well and they excellent and informative. I learn't so much. I also would highly recommend watching Ask the Mortician's " The Tragedy of the SS Eastland video if you enjoyed these.
I haven't seen Jacob's vid yet. I also recommend Dark Histories Eilean More mystery video and pretty much anything on the Franklin Expedition.
this is a story my dad told me. he works on a ship and one misty morning they saw a shadowy ship in the fog that sailed along side them.
but eventually they realized it was just the shadow of their own ship.
Kaz nailed it with people in the sea being in the perfect headspace to see ghosts.
First there is a slowly growing exhaustion from monotonous work with no days off.
Then there is watchkeeping. If it's a cloudy night, the sea and the sky appear similar, two almost identical colours stretching in all directions. And all you listen to are monotonous sounds of waves/radio static of emergency frequency/hum of the engine.
It's basically a light form of sense deprivation, along with tiredness it makes you see things
I was thinking the same thing. While reading your post, I kept thinking "it could be hypnotizing." I can imagine it being very hypnotic with seeing nothing but sea, sky, and ship for weeks/months, sometimes even longer, on end and the rolling of the old ships without a motor on a windless day/night. Just the thought of that is starting to put me to sleep.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the art, intelligence, care, respect, and creativity Kaz brings to each video!? I’m a new subscriber and I have to say I ADORE everything about these videos! 🤩💙
Totally the quality is insane
Idk sounds more like you are in lesbian with her
@@danceyrselfkleen ... 💀 my guy i think you might be too young for the internet
Kaz is absolutely INCREDIBLE! Im so thankful i randomly found her channel 💓
agreed !
Being born and raised in Cape town, I get a strange feeling of pride every time the flying dutchman is mentioned internationally. It's like having someone from your small town high school become famous!
Not from Cape Town, (I’m from Joburg) but I get so excited too! It’s nice to have something like that associated with our country. Have fun in ur strange weather random Cape Town resident! (I love Cape Town I’m just being kinda strange. Not too sure what this comment was lmao but I just get so excited when I see other South Africans)
Not from Cape Town (Bloemfontein) but it's such a pride thing for me anytime I hear mention of it too
I went to school on Lake Superior, which is notoriously dangerous to ships. My favorite story is that of the SS Kamloops, which foundered in a blizzard. It turns out that some of the passengers managed to escape in a lifeboat, only to be marooned on Isle Royale without food, fire, or shelter. They sadly froze to death, but not before one of them wrote a message in a bottle and cast it into the lake, where it was eventually found.
The Kamloops is still at the bottom of the lake, and one of her crewmembers is still with her: Old Whitey, who's called that because the freezing conditions of the lake have turned his body pure white.
Do kids scare each other with "Ole whitey coming to get you " kinda stuff?
theres a common joke there that the company needs to pay old whitey his overtime since hes still on duty in the engineroom
Oh noooo, near freezing conditions. How deep is the water it’s in, I wonder? If the body’s pretty well preserved…. Ugh, now I’m thinking about the adipocere (uhh a kind of… corpse wax that seeps to the top of the skin on well preserved bodies underwater… it coats the areas of the body that are fattier and has a high likelihood of getting enmeshed with their clothing, so they kind of all get stuck together 🫤). Man. Biology is nuts.
@@AmaraJordanMusic word of the day "corpse wax"
@@gaywizard2000 I’m dyslexic so I much prefer it to “adipocere,” because I always think and hear apidocere. 😅 It’s a pretty grizzly topic, and something you can’t really go back from knowing. 😳
My favorite ghost ship is the Octavius! It disappeared in 1762 near Alaska and reappeared in 1775 near Greenland after having been trapped, frozen and unfrozen in sea ice for over a decade. The story goes that the frozen, preserved bodies of the crew were still onboard, having sailed the Northwest Passage posthumously. The Franklin expedition is also very interesting.
...I'm sorry? You saying I accidently named myself after a ghost ship?
And here I thought I was just stealing my brother's middle name! XD
One of my favourite folk songs is Martin Carthys version of "Lord Franklin"
@@nights_the_nightingale Dudee, your name is Octavius? U probably know this but you share the name with one of the most psycho and greatest emperors of Rome, I love that guy
And where were you when all this took place! Huh? Huh?
My grandfather is a woodcarver and he always says that wood has the spirit of the tree it came from, and it remains no matter what you make with the wood. Also, I’m very into urbex and have always been taken by the notion of people’s lives and everyday activity ruined and gone. If not actual ghosts, there’s absolutely a strong presence of history in those places. It’s fascinating :)
Does that mean than the spirit of trees is split up when you make more than one thing? Almost like horcruxes? So my bushcrafting group all have a spoon inhabited by the same spirit?
@@marlyd this really intrigued me, thanks for the late night pondering! 🧐
@@marlyd you u cannot split uo " the spirit ..you can drvide one, but their Eternal nature makes them be like deviding up the Zero ...
You can make of it what you will.
Toilet paper comes from wood pulp...
*"The toilet paper is haunted"*
I absolutely love how artistic each set is! like no other channel matches the vibes you have
My dad liked using the Edmund Fitzgerald as a way to get my siblings and I to be cautious out on the lakes as a kid. Mostly because of the storms and the currents... but the part that scared me the most about the story is the idea that the ship and its crew are *still down there*, preserved by the cold and conditions.
I think the ghostliness of the Great Lakes is less in the idea of ghost ships sailing the lakes themselves, and more in the idea of what's lurking below you when you're way out on the water - There's thousands of frozen snapshots in time, mariners still preserved and hovering at their stations - you can imagine them still down there, wandering the decks where no living eyes can see.
"The crew and the captain well seasoned..." a funny but true line from the song!
“Nuke Lake Michigan!” Robert Evans
LBC native here! I grew up going to the Queen Mary often just to walk around, and there are definitely permanent residents. You can feel a heaviness in the hospital/quarantine ward especially.
That aside, I love the way you present the subject matter no matter the subject in your videos. Your writing is eloquent , and the visuals are beautiful, but they don't take away from the topic. Thank you for telling these stories
I’ve always wanted to visit the Queen Mary! I’ve had a few experiences in various places and always wondered how the Queen Mary would feel.
im also from socal and i stayed at the queen mary for a night and it was very eerie but i didn’t have any supernatural experiences (and i’m honestly glad)
The vastness, unpredictability and isolating nature of the ocean terrifies me. Space is like that too but more extreme. We’ll probably have space ghost ship legends one day if space travel continues to advance
One real story in space is of Krikalev who was left on the space station MIR when the Soviet Union fell and came home a lot later than planned
I think the idea of haunted objects is absolutely fascinating; in Japanese folklore there's the tsukumogami which are objects that have taken on a spirit. It's not a super definite idea, as it's folklore, but it's basically the idea that anything old enough (tools, plants, animals, etc) can take on a personality and change form. I've heard it explained before as something taking on a personality (like a stubborn umbrella that won't open on command anymore) but I've also seen it also expressed quite literally in folkloric paintings too showing mundane objects turning into things with human-like forms. The way that it's a cross-cultural phenomenon is so interesting!!
Oooh, shades of "The Velveteen Rabbit." An inanimate object that is used and loved long enough grows a soul.
As a sailor myself, I can already tell you that every good sailing story deserves a bit of embellishment.
it's only natural since we get so board while underway
I live in Dallas, which does have a couple of legends, myths and urban stories. Aside from the obvious ones about JFK's assassination, the most well known among the locals are the supernatural stories surrounding White Rock Lake. The Lady of the Lake is said to have been a young woman from the 1920s that drowned in the lake. There are variations on the story, but the consensus is that during night time, she will emerge from the darkness, all wet, and ask an unsuspecting driver to give her a ride back home. By the time the driver arrives at the location (usually somewhere in Oak Cliff) she would disappear, and leave a puddle of water where she had once sat.
I gee up and have lived in Dallas my whole life and I love those types of ghost stories where "a lady needs a ride home and shit"
I grew up in San Antonio and Corpus, but I have a lot of family in DFW and I’ve heard that story. I love those “young lady needs a ride home” stories.
You’re an amazing script writer! Your visuals and costumes are always on point as well as your research and sensitivity to the subject matter, but I just want to take a moment to say how much I admire how beautifully and skillfully you create a narrative.
I think people also personalize ships, in particular. They get gendered, they get assigned particular personalities, they can have moods of their own. A ship doesn't have a soul just because it was made by people, but because she's a ship at sea.
The "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is the only shipwreck story I grew up with, but the only song I remembered from my childhood choir was about a sailor seeing one on his midnight watch. I always loved it. Now my favorite song is from Sting's musical Last Ship, called "Ballad Of The Great Eastern," about a ship built by Brunell.
You’re such a great storyteller, I could listen to you for hours… and I have 😂 Seriously, thanks for getting me through a couple bad years. When the world’s too outrageous, I put on your videos and go somewhere else. 💕
I'm so glad I decided to watch this at home instead of only listening to it at work, as I usually do. The Noah's Dove ship visualization is a masterpiece.
The Flying Dutchman was a story I grew up with (South African here woo lol), I was always so fascinated by it. Every time we visited the Cape, I'd sit for ages watching the horizon for a glimpse, luckily I never saw it lol, it brings death after all. Van der Dekken (pronounced in South Africa/Afrikaans/possibly Dutch?: fun deR Dekken [rolled R]) was a Dutch captain, considered a monster of a captain, but yes, generally ships went down often because of the weather. The amount of Shipwrecks that happened there are near countless. The South Easterly wind can hit at crazy speeds and the water is like ice. So the Rocky coast never helped either.
I know that this might sound weird but have you ever considered into looking into the history of the queer community in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It’s quite interesting as for a long time they were one of few groups in NI to bridge the Ethno-political gap (everyone says Catholic and Protestant because it’s Politer than Irish and British).
wow. hearing about the ghost objects and haunted homes gives me a new look on the phrase “home is where the heart is.” like, we really give it a piece of our heart/soul. also, passing on some of the magic to the objects we create/“give life to” is an interesting idea. gotta write that one down
I always love stories of people picking up some beautiful piece of furniture or decorative art at an antique shop or estate sale, and it turns out to be haunted as hell. Really fascinating stuff, I agree.
I've always had a fascination with Davie Jones's Locker. The sheer amount of human dead in there is insane. Thousands upon thousands of sailors for millennia all in the same resting place. Pretty interesting to think about
I think about that a lot too. I also think about how my government asked the navy to push migrent boats back into the ocean. I wonder if there will ever come a time when people will push shipwrecked navy personal back into the ocean and face minimal backlash. RIP little Ahmed and the countless others.
Love this! I’m obsessed with shipwrecks and ghost ships are such an interesting subsection of that. Your videos are so well- researched and I enjoy learning new facts from you.
Side note: I live in Salem and Peabody is most definitely not pronounced Pubity, whoever told you that is trolling you. It’s pronounced Peebiddy. Can’t wait to see your video about Salem!
Yeah, I was going to ask if more than one person told her that 😆
I grew up in southern Maine, 50 miles or so north of Salem. One of my first Toothaker ancestors, Roger, was arrested and died in jail during the witch trials
@@nancytoothaker3224 Oh, I hand an ancestor who was accused of being a witch too! Mine just left town and lived a long non witchy life.
@@nancytoothaker3224 that’s terribly sad for your family but it’s also interesting historically! I’m sorry for your family even though it was so long ago!
Yes, they do believe the Titanic encountered a “coldwater mirage,” the weather was just right for it along with the moonless night. Always enjoyable video Kaz!
The way you made the lighting and wardrobe so on theme gave me a lot of dopamine. Thank you for teaching us such interesting history once again.
Also, thank you for still telling people to wear masks, it really means a lot as a disabled person who has lost a lot of trust in folks who have stopped doing so. We're still in a pandemic, and bc of all the people not masking a lot of new variants are here. Stay safe folks.
The 'floating ship' illusion happens pretty often where I used to live on the Isle of Wight - we'd always say it's quite easy to see why they thought they were ghost ships 🚢 (also worth noting the IOW is a VERY haunted island)
Fred D'Aguiar's book Feeding the Ghosts does an excellent job recounting a woman's experience aboard a Middle Passage ship.
The idea of thousands of souls, bones, bodies underneath the sea still haunts me today. Such a good book.
The story of the Flying Dutchman that's most widely known in the Netherlands is that it was meant to set sail on Easter, but this being a day of rest and of god it shouldn't. The Captain being stubborn said they would anyway, 'storm or no storm' so they set out and ended up in a horrible storm, supposedly sent by god to punish them.
I'm surprised you didn't mention St. Elmo's fire! It happens in really specific conditions and is actually a kind of electrical phenomenon like lightning, so it happens a lot during storms on the pointy metal ends of the ships masts and rigging and such, which could have been confused for a ship with ghosts lights!
It's also been known to happen on things like church steeples (metal rod and all), which would understandably make people think it was a divine happening kind of thing.
I stayed on the Queen Mary on a school field trip and it was one of the scariest hotel experiences any of us had ever had.
Oh I love ghost ship stories! There's something so inherently unknowable and terrifying about the sea, added to the inherent superstitiousness all sea-faring people seem to possess (because you need the rituals of superstition in order to stay sane while repeatedly going back to sea to do your job). My family on my mum's side has a lot of ghost stories; one in particular is about a boat instead of a ship, but it has stayed in my head.
My great-grandma grew up on a small island in the Westfjords. The only people on the island were her family, who ran a dairy farm; the rest of the island was moor for the sheep to graze. There were several known ghosts on the island and in the farmhouse, and one of them could be seen sometimes if you went down to the shore early in the morning before sunrise. It was an old man in a fishing boat, who appeared normal until you got closer and saw that his clothes were tattered and the boat was full of holes. If he spotted you he'd call out and ask you to help him lift the boat above the high tide mark; it was imperative that you did not do that. If you ignored him and turned away, he'd vanish. But if you responded to his call, approached him, or stepped out on to the beach below the tide mark, he'd grab you and push the boat back to sea, taking you with him.
I'm certain this story was mostly told as part of the grand old tradition of "scaring kids so they don't do stupid stuff alone and die", but I like it. And to be fair, it did work on me when I was a kid; my cousins and I never went near the beach without backup.
This video reminded me of "Tugs," a children's television about the life of tugboats in the 1920s. The show does a spectacular job at depicting the nuances (both good and bad aspects) of a life in the harbor. Night shots in the show are beautiful, eerie and atmospheric all at once. I highly recommend it to anyone that is interested.
There is one from the 80's? I watched that when I was a little one. Your comment just fired up memories I have not thought about for a long time.
"We attribute hauntedness to the house itself." In an interesting instance of parallel thinking Stewart Hicks covers this idea from in his most recent video. To quote Stewart: "The standard unit of haunting _is_ a building, and specifically a house."
I live in Tennessee and my favorite local legend is the bell witch, I have a grandma who has seen her first hand and i have as well. She's the only ghost to have a murderer blamed on her. My family has all agreed to not talk about her out loud and we all keep quite about her.
Oh my God, have you really? I have always been obsessed with the Bell Witch story since I first heard it in high school. Funny enough, it's not a local legend for me, because I grew up in Massachusetts actually - I've been to Salem and done the historical tours Kaz discusses in this video several times.
If you don't mind sharing, I'd love to hear any further information on these sightings you and your grandmother have had. I am endlessly fascinated with the legend, and the fact that it's the only known case of a ghost committing murder as you said. The shapeshifting animals involved in the situation are super strange as well. Reminds me of how different paranormal phenomena sometimes occur together or in close succession, Bigfoot and UFO/alien sightings being a common example (a big thing in my neck of the woods these days - I live in Washington state near Mt. St. Helens now).
Kaz Rowe, as I live and breathe, you are both treasure and trove. Your delightful intellect and willingness to ferret out and share such colorful bits of history make me giddy.
THE CALLOUT TO NED FULMER IS REALL I SCREAMED. that was Smooth, Very smooth I love your videos lmao
I served in the Coast Guard and sailed all over the Pacific. Life on the ocean is . . . WILD! Things I saw (UFOs, ghost ships), things I heard (people crying out, ghost ships), things I learned about (rogue waves, ghost ships), and things I was told to fear (calm before the storm, ghost ships lol).
Also, I love the "ships as our home" theory on why ships can be haunted. I bet it's that as well as the fact that, ask any sailor, ships have souls. I don't know how else to explain it! Personalities, quirks, hiccups, traits, talents! It's really wild, but I could tell what ship I was on just based on how it steered.
Interesting that there isn’t a similar phenomenon in Polynesian sea faring. Also, other natural events like Auroras, bioluminescence, and all kinds of fun light refractions can cause all kinds of optical illusions. And just something as prosaic as passing an unmapped island at night would be enough to freak a drunk crew out. 👻⚓️
Okay but I loved the dramatic reenactment of the Salem ghost ship 😂😭 **chef's kiss**
I appreciate how you put so much effort into the aesthetic of your videos: the lighting, the costumes, the graphics and music…wonderful
Absolutely loved this and didn't expect you to cover slave ships but glad you did. as a descendant and scholar of the Transatlantic slave trade one fact that haunts me is that slave ships could be spotted because they were always trailed by sharks -- the extent of death was so great that it altered the ecosystem around it
i’m so mad that i’ve managed to go this long without knowing about your channel because i’m obsessed !!! keep up the amazing work
Great vid, thanks! (pibbody is a common pronunciation amongst us natives). Probably one of the most known, documented, and mis represented sea voyages is the Mayflower. While in no way a ghost ship, its voyage demonstrates the dangers of sea travel in the early days, with a number of casualties onboard during the journey. Imagine what must have happened to those who hadn't actually paid for a crossing.
You're historical, cultural, and mythological videos are immensely informative and equally entertaining with the one on Sarah Winchester and her not-so-Mystery House being my top favorite at the time of this writing. I'm about to watch this latest one but the subject of ghost ships is most mouthwatering, pun intended.
Love this. I did not grow up near the ocean, but I grew up on the coastline of Lake Huron. We have lots of fun shipwreck stories here, and even have pirate and trader re-enactors who perform every fall at the mouth of the river where it connects to the bay. My favorite water horror stories were not the shipwrecks though, it was actually the stories of the people who went over the Niagara Falls in barrels and various devices. One of my favorite memories is going to the museum at the falls which has a bunch of the vessels that went over the falls.
I don't know why the Marie Celeste is such a mystery to everyone. Somebody on the ship saw a spider, yelled "SPIDER," the crew jumped off the ship in panic, only to realize that no one stayed on the ship to kill the spider and let them back on. Badda bing, badda splash.
Canon!
Thank you for highlighting Mr. Burroughs. I'm an relative of his on my moms side. It is interesting to hear about his story through you. ❤️
Thank you for including your sources, that description box is damn THOROUGH. Amazingly researched video as always
Kaz is consistently excellent in their work. Not only do you go for facts but you also go for a storytelling and also visuals and details. You put your heart and soul into your work and it is appreciated
No single person can be referred to as "they"; that is always and exclusively plural.
@@madmonkee6757 I'm respecting their pronouns. It's right in the description of their channel. Don't grammar Nazi me buddy.
@@madmonkee6757 they're using "them" right tho, it can be both plural and singular babe 😋
@@madmonkee6757 how would you refer to a single person if you were unsure of their gender?
@@madmonkee6757 except it isn’t because as far as I know “they” as a singular pronoun was used a while ago
here in Chile there’s a famous ghost ship, the Caleuche, that visits Chiloé and near by islands and supposedly takes men that round the streets at night.
When i was a little girl we went as a family to Chiloé, and i was so scared not because the extensive mythology of the area, i was specifically scared of that ship. I was so scared that the ship would take my dad. Nothing really happened, but years later, in school, our teacher explained to us that the ship was a common excuse for drunk men to disappear a few days of hangover, and i, as a naive child , feared the ship because i didn’t realized my dad was a drunk BDJFKFKDKFKFKFK
The Ghost Ship that I'm most familiar with from my home town, isn't on the ocean, it's the Tombigbee River, and she's called the Eliza Battle. A steamboat that carried passengers and cargo, caught fire and wrecked, with many of the people burned or drowned.
The lore is that if you see her, disaster is sure to follow, and I've known a couple of people who claimed to have seen it. She rolls down the river in flames, and supposedly you can hear people screaming, and then poof, it's gone.
While I readily admit to knowing people who've claimed to have seen it, keep in mind, there is 1 stop sign and 4 buildings in the entire town, so telling a yarn on the front porch of the general store, is not uncommon either.
My very first thought when I hear "ghost ships" is Fata Morgana! Optical illusions without scientific explanations would be especially spooky at sea, and I'd probably think there was something weird going on if I saw ships or entire cities floating above the horizon too.
Really enjoyed this one! How has no one else mentioned the amazing CGI ship yet? Legendary skills. 😝
Truly top tier. 😂
You’re the full package, Kaz!! Another great video. The drowned sailor vibes were immaculate.
Because you’ve tackled so many amazing and shall I say, ‘niche’ topics, I would be so obliged to hear your take on the lesser known history of Columbus, the Caribbean and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. So very few people know that it was Caribbean Native Americans to first encounter Columbus and experience slavery alongside the Africans imported to the islands. I adore your channel and would be so grateful to hear this untold story from the perspective of someone I admire so.
Speaking of first to America, what about the vikings and portuguese who did trading with the natives there way before Columbus or the english! Oh, and the three japanese fishermen who accidentally ended up on the west coast of america in a storm at sea, durring Japans Isolationist period.
@@chloepainter4064 - yes, that is very true, although it’s worth noting that there was little to no socio-cultural impact with those contacts. They arrived, explored, traded and were pretty much forgotten.
I’m referring more to the impact of Columbus and other Spanish and European conquests of the 15th and 16th century which lead to mass slavery of Indigenous and African people in the Caribbean (pre-dating slavery in the USA).
I’m always disappointed that mainstream education never mentions that it was the Caribbean Natives who were first contacted by Columbus and his men, not Northern Native Americans. It was also the origin of the Trans Atlantic slave trade (a century before the first slaves were brought to Virginia) and that is never mentioned either.
@@Wildflower687 just recently an Italian manuscript was discovered that was written nearly 2 centuries before Columbus was born and mentions that the people of Northern Europe swore there was another landmass to the east of Greenland. It is starting to look like, at least among sailors, the idea of another landmass spread way further than was originally thought
Isn't it weird that you write a comment about Carribbean Natives encountering Columbus and you get not one but multiple replies about vikings/ other euro contact unrelated to the topic?
@@smrtfasizmu7242there is documented ocean voyage between South America and various islands in the Pacific for a long time before any documented european ocean travel, so that's not as impressive as you might think. People had maps and navigation skills for a long ass time before vikings came along
I adore how much work you put into the vibes of this one. Lovely!
An interesting and somewhat obscure myth relating to haunted ghost ships is the legend of the Klabautermann! It's described as a water spirit/kobold that helps fisherman and sailors when they fall overboard or sends a warning when danger is to come. But if anyone is to see it, then that ship is doomed to sink.
The most famous representation of the myth is in the manga series One Piece, where, in that series, it becomes more a spirit of the ship itself given life thanks to a crew who cares deeply for it, and there's a whole emotional sequence that many cite as the scene that made them sob over a fictional boat.
Thought you might like to know that little tidbit!
Very cool video btw!! Your vids are always super interesting!!
omg I was gonna mention that too!! and yes I did cry about a fictional boat
I'm in Salem, and between Kaz and the ghoul boys, I get so excited to see Salem as a portion of the subject of a video. So cool to see the water I often sit by with friends.
I absolutely love this channel! I found it a month or two ago and wow! I'm a big history nerd so seeing all these videos about different time periods is just so great. I like how Kaz dresses to match the era and cracks jokes at the appropriate times. I've watched nearly all of them while drawing, keep it up Kaz!!
I am a seafarer myself, and I can say that this video is up to the point, especially about our job’s loneliness
idk how widespread this was in the Great Lakes region, but everyone knew of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I'm pretty sure we had a bit of 4th grade class set aside to listen to this sea shanty about the shipwreck. I don't remember any specific ghost stories, just visiting a bunch of lighthouse museums as a kid, which included the bell recovered from tbe Edmund Fitzgerald wreck
My favourite ride in the Efteling (an amusement park in the Netherlands) is De Vliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman).
It's very interesting to learn more about ghost ships.
For anyone who wants a scary ghost story that gets REAL intense, From Below by Darcy Coates is a good read. I listened to the sounds of a scuba dive during parts of it (the narrative goes between the ship’s last voyage and modern day people going to the mysterious wreck, just found a hundred years later) and it upped the spookiness and feeling of claustrophobia. Definitely a recommended read.
For a book like that but with a sci fi twist, think Titanic (a luxury ‘ship’ with a lot of celebrities), but in SPACE and it goes off radar and never returns. Just before a deep space crew comes home for the last time, they get a weak distress signal on an old emergency broadcast wavelength and decide to check it out. They aren’t prepared for what they find and it seems SOMETHING on board does not want them to make it out alive. Dead Silence, by S. A. Barnes.
They’re both ghost ships in a way, both with really descriptive and creepy set pieces, and I read both of them in a weekend (a weekend each, heh). The imagery really stays with you. It’s been eight months since I read Dead Silence and the mental image of people floating in what was once the pool, now frozen, some encased in water, some in evening gowns, some injured… it’s still very vivid.
I live in California and I visited the Queen Mary in 2019. My tour guide mentioned in the engine room that when he gives tours to children they always ask if someone died down here and it was always by the staircase and there were sightings of a ghost down there by that same staircase...creepy!
I remember an old Ted Ed video about ghost ships. Some "ghost ships" are perfectly real! Sometimes, when a ship is abandoned after a collision and it takes on water, the water only fills until it hits equilibrium. It can keep floating on its own, still buoyant because the water didn't become too heavy. The same abandoned ship can be seen multiple times in different places years apart because of ocean currents. Scientists were able to track some current systems by charting abandoned ships!
God the fit and the effects in this video are insanely cool
I’ve lived in Rhode Island all my life (northern Rhode Island to be a little more specific) and I have literally never heard the history of block island, nor have I ever been to the island because the ferry ride is too expensive. I love when my little home state shows up in random places on the Internet
SAME AND SAME. I get so excited when someone mentions Rhode Island.
Like northern RI is really different than Southern!? Is there central too? I'm ribbing. I was wondering what it's like now ,Block Island, do people live there? What are the dimensions of RI in miles?
I moved to Devon because I've been obsessed with smugglers since a child. I've found so many texts from pre 1900 in charity shops and book shops detailing the false lights, and I've explored so many coves that aren't accessible from land. I LOVE where I live and ill struggle to ever move.
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hundreds of years from now, people will tell the story of a ghostly visage who continues to post interesting and educational videos to a long-forgotten platform, and a spectral crew of likers and subscribers who continue to support them. spooky
My Uncle Holmes returned home from the 2nd World War on the Queen Mary. After she was sold to the City Of Long Beach I went on board at least twice. We toured many of the rooms and sections of the ship. It was amazing and interesting bringing me closer to the history of a family member who passed in 1962 or '63 when I was 5 or 6.
I'm literally writing about a haunted, ghastly fisherman styled ship that appears on a town THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO SO MUCH!!!!
Ok so about objects being haunted, i'm guessing there's also some kind of idea of ghosts possesing and manipulating these objects from beyond the grave. Many paranormal experiences involve a ghost manipulating an object they were tied to in live, like a clock or some kind of artifact they liked, or many times, the object that killed them. With ships, they are haunted and ghastly just as much as the people in them maybe because they're the object that lead these people to their deaths. Ships also serve as the place of tragedy, and we've all heard many haunting stories taking place on sacred grounds that are haunted or houses where tragedies happened. So a ship is both this tragic place where a terrible thing happened, as well as the object that made this tragedy able to happen, which is probably why the ghost ship idea is so popular and why the ship is also regarded as a ghost or an aparition.
My first Kaz Rowe video, it's pun-errific to say I'm going on a deep dive binge starting with their 'ghost ship' video!
Oh I love this. Always always love a good spooky seaboat.
Lighting here is damn awesome.
20:35 Another theory I've read about is that the crew feared their cargo of alcohol was about to explode, so they all got into the lifeboat but kept it tethered to the ship at a safe distance. Then the line connecting the two vessels somehow either broke or was deliberately cut, and the ship just kept on sailing with no one onboard.
The place where my parents live has a fish and chips shop called The Frying Dutchman. So everytime I hear Flying Dutchman I immediately hear that. Between this and Jacob Gellar's video on monsters of the deep, the sea is a truly haunted place.
In wondering how there are ghost ships and trains, I wonder if it is either one of two things. One, that they are farriers of humans in our lives and like how you said about our homes ‘vessels’ for our souls in the afterlife. Or second, that often times, particularly in the instance of ships, they are personified-named, talked about like a mistress, taboos about them must be honored or things go wrong, and so much human energy is put into them and these taboos and beliefs and personifications for many many years, decades or longer. On top of having the energetic tie to crew and passenger in the instance of say a ship wreck that manifests a ‘ghost’ from that collective energy.
my uncle, a severe skeptic, once saw "el caleuche", a Spanish ship wreck said to lurk in the southern Chilean islands. He was driving his colleagues to their apartment complex in a pickup truck down a highway overlooking the ocean, and there in the moonlight they saw it with his crew still partying. At least they know how to have fun on their eternal doom.
You are such a talented storyteller! Absolutely love your channel, Kaz.
The part about vessels for our souls was such an interesting and poetic way of putting it.
I love the subjects Ms. Rowe chooses to cover, each one as fascinating as the rest! The phenomenon of ghostly ship sightings is always compelling in a way hard to explain. Incidentally, I find the creative way she assembles her vintage attire in a delightful combination of masculine and feminine charming. Artfully made videos well done!
Rowe goes by They/Them btw
I thought of that after I posted… apologies 😬
Mx. sorry had to look it up. Forgive an old woman 🫢
@@alaenamcdonald1877 it's okay!!
what a coincidence that your ghost ship video is recommended to me on the same day after I watch "1899" movie trailer that probably will tell a story of a ship encountering a ghost ship on its voyage to the US 😊😊 I couldn't be any happier than this!
This video was the perfect mix of research and open mindedness. I love it sm!!!
I was a teenager when I went on a cruise for the first time. At night, middle of ocean, when sky and water merged, I whole heartedly wanted to spot a ghost ship.
I love your videos Kaz! There’s something really special and beautiful about how you talk about history.
When I was a kid, my family went on vacation to Cape Hatteras, NC. I live in landlocked Colorado and this trip was what gave me my love for the sea. While we were there, I bought and read tons of books on local ghost stories. My favorite ship-related one was The Flaming Ship of Ocracoke
The Mary Celeste is huge on the east coast of canada. My grandparents camp on the beach where the ship was built, the locals say you can supposedly see her from the shore in the fog/darkness and there’s a lighthouse museum for it there too! The trip is pretty uneventful but cool nonetheless
I saw one once, when I was about six, I was staring out the window due to snow being outside. I looked to a tree and between the branches and I saw a white boat, still within the sky. I remember it so vividly.
Absolutely LOVED this ahhh! Also the aesthetic+set is immaculate ✨
also I’m screaming at the Ned part ksnfksjdd
ghost ships have been one of my biggest phobias since i was 12 (especially paintings of them) but this video is awesome and has such good info on them..thank you :)
I really appreciate how much heart,soul and research Kaz puts into their content.Absolutely adore these videos💞
Kaz's scenery and outfit are just so perfectly fitted for the theme!!
I just absolutely adore this channel~ informative, entertaining, and Kaz is always bringing the best vibes with the sets and costumes. (I hope we will get to see more from Salem, MA in future vids❤️)
there is even a rumor of a ghost U-boat. one of the U-Boats from World War One (some times it is a wolf-pack WW2) still sails under the seas making the lives of sonar operators a nightmare. Most likely the operator is getting his own boat and / or a whale - but some operators have sent their ships to find the ghost U-Boat but never finding it.
I found a book of haunted sea stories based in the Oregon and Washington coast. Some were quite amazing. There was one about a father and her daughter that was particularly impactful. She ended up haunting some lookout on the Oregon coast. The book is called creative I know.
I've always loved walking along the shore when it's particularly windy out with maybe decent showers, but just super windy and cloudy is best. It just feels romantic like I'm the wife of a sailor currently at sea. I wait for her on the shore looking out at the white caps, praying for her to come home. Bonus points if I can get a long scarf to blow around with my hair down. I grew up along the Salish Sea in Bellingham. I probably like the wind so much because it's so windy there. The water isn't super wavy because the ocean is kinda far away, and there's the San Juan Islands in the way breaking up any ocean waves. I miss living near the ocean.
I stayed on the Queen Mary and although I didn't "see" anything, when we were touring the swimming pool I had a weird experience. The tour guide told us not to go up the stairs to the balcony and just to walk around pool side. After a time I became aware of a child running and laughing in the balcony and I turned to my friend and rolled my eyes and sighed saying "we weren't supposed to go up there and someone is letting their kid run around!" After I said it that I realised I couldn't hear the kid anymore and I never saw anyone coming down the stairs from the balcony! Make of it what you will. I couldn't sleep in my cabin that night!