Mostly the story of Baychimo, it isn't spooky all that much, but rather funny. Like, Baychimo just got stuck in ice, got out(probably whistled witch translates to "I'M FREEEEEE-"), got stuck again, rinse and repeat, and then disappears for good. And probably in 2031, she appears off of Alaska, and then she's towed to a port in England, but then in the night after being tied to a dock, she disappears and the story repeats-
was that Cornwell or whatever his name was a total bum of a captain? he declares that ship uninhabitable/not seaworthy/about to sink two different times and she went on to sail all those years without him! lol
I think people are thinking about it the other way. The inuits found her, but as soon as she was spotted a storm kicked up and trapped them in the ice with her
GPS trackers are active devices, they need a continuous power source to both receive and compute the GPS signal and then transmit it back out. That's not going to happen on a derelict ship. And then of course there's the small detail of GPS not being in existence until decades after the last sighting of the ship.
Titanic on first voyage, hits a single piece of ice - "It's too much for me, I'll sink now." *Sinks and kills half her passengers and crew, gets Hollywood movie* Baychimo after long fulfilling career circumnavigating the globe gets trapped in ice - "tis just ice, no big deal" *saves ten Inuit from a snow storm, continues sailing for 40 years, gets a 10 minute UA-cam video*
One could personify this ship in two ways: *Haunting music* : _The ship was cursed and guided by supernatural forces_ *1930's swing* : _The ship was so wholesome that she offered shelter to many arctic explorers and inhabitants, even going as far as to closely follow many expeditions to ensure their safety_
Yeah, I don't get why people thik she is cursed when she really was a good ghost. ;) Disclaimer: I don't believe one bit in all that supernatural nonsense and just play along. ^^
So heavily damaged that she managed to survive on her own for 38 years without bilge pumps, maintenance, or a crew keeping her from grounding! Now that's a well built ship!
My great uncle, Leslie Coe was an officer on the Baychimo. I have photos of him on the deck with some sled dogs. He was fortunate to leave the ship before she got trapped in the ice.
@@timmytwodogs you can contact the maritime museum in a town called Saltcoats, Ayrshire Scotland , they have many of his photographs and things connected with her history
I always thought of this ship as a watchful protector. It's like she was asking someone to save her. Showing the world she could not only float but provide safety. You mentioned stories about how she provided shelter from storms. I bet she's gone but she isn't a haunted ship in a bad way.
As far as ghost ships go I think the ultimate conclusion and climax of a story like this would be to find it still floating after a century. That would put fear into any man to see.
What’s interesting about Bachimo when compared to other ghost ship stories, like the Orang Medan, is that it’s all true. A real life ghost ship. What’s even more astonishing is the fact that the ship shouldn’t’ve floated adrift for 4 years, let alone 40. Aside from the fact that she should’ve been destroyed by pack ice or ran aground, drifting without maintenance should’ve caused her already damaged hull to deteriorate to the point that she lost hull integrity. The only conclusion I can come to as to how she miraculously maintained water tight integrity for almost 40 years is the anti-fouling paint wore off (or was scraped off by ice) and led to marine life and other crud building up on the hull beneath the water line to the point that it created an additional layer of hull to maintain the ship’s water tight integrity. That still doesn’t account for the fact that her cargo hold door should’ve disintegrated within 10-15 years in that brutal sea to allow her cargo holds to flood and sink her.
No. It's called jinn controlling the situation according to the Quran & sunnah. Stop using science to justify everything, people I the west are spiritually dead and ignorant people, its unbelievable.
Glad this one had a relatively happy ending, with her crew not only being able to disembark, but to salvage the entire cargo as well before ultimately abandoning ship.
Honestly? off-loading the cargo may have kept the ship from sinking. Perhaps if they hadn't abandoned her they'd have sunk and died? But abandoning her saved both the crew AND the ship?
I don't know if I should be terrified of this ship, or feel heartbroken for her.💀 On one hand she seems to be looking for her crew. On the other hand she is exhibiting strong 1980s invincible slasher energy.
SS Baychimo is possibly the most interesting ghost ship in the last hundred years or so. definitely love hearing stories about her, and she's definitely a rover.
SS Baychimo was obviously just a well-found vessel. Did some excellent work - nothing malevolent about her. Better made than her contemporaries. Rest in peace, old girl.
My wifes uncle William Isaac Collins Jones was on her last voyage. He was one of the 14 crew men that stayed with the vessel. He later returnd home to Holyhead north Wales where he became a ships pilot. Great video, many thanks.
I don’t know, taking a shelter on an abandoned ship that literally keeps disappearing and reappearing sounds like the perfect set up for a horror story. And even if it provided shelter, I’m sure it must be been creepy being some of the only people on this abandoned ship.
I'd say only KMS and later USS Prinz Eugan were as remarkably well built. Prinz Eugan survived the entirety of WWII, was gifted to the USA and was literally nuked twice, only to survive with only minor damage. She was only eventually sunk after she was deemed too radioactive, and was scuttled in Bikini Atoll.
The whalesong adds a fantastic extra layer of eerieness to the video, I love it! How startling it must be to come across an unmanned vessel while at sea, especially in a place like the Arctic.
How do you explain this to the Hudson Bay Company's insurance company.... Boss, the ship got caught in an ice jam and is damaged beyond repair. Write it off on insurance. Baychimo floats around the arctic for 40 years unmanned.
I once lived in barrow, it’s a tale that all my friends talked about. We all said that every time a blizzard struck, the baychimo would move with its cruise. My friend once said he saw it and got a photo of it but it was far and blurry. The Inuit in our area tell scary stories about the people who were stuck there, it’s a very cool story and thanks for making it.
Amazing that it lasted so long. It's probably long gone now though. (Go ahead, ship. Prove me wrong) Also, if anything the ship was more of a guardian than it was cursed in my opinion.
This is one of my favorite "ghost ship" stories. Given how her career as an abandoned vessel both began and ended with her being trapped in pack ice, it often seems as if the ship made a devil's deal with Mother Nature, agreeing to be sunk at the proper time in exchange for years for freedom. Indeed, maybe she liked spooking people all those years......
Swedish shipbuilding + labour + steel = QUALITY vessel Damaged & Abandoned for 39 years still afloat. The crew could safely steam her back to London for minor repair.
I remember reading this when I was little in one of the Haunted Canada books. Living in a shipping town I told this to everyone and they were mind boggled by it. Every now and then I ponder where she ended up.
With spooky background sounds you could even make eating breakfast scary. She was light in the water having had her cargo removed and so she was in the hands of the wind and currents who took good care of her.
Maybe the Baychimo became a ghost ship so she could ferry the souls of sailors lost in that arctic sea to the afterlife. It’s a cool idea to think about, at least.
Nothing supernatural about it. The fact that she stayed afloat for so long is a testament to how well built she was. She must have finally succumbed to the ice and has long since been at the bottom of the sea.
The ships that form our usual idea of ice crushing the hull could be based on not so heavy underpowered breaker ships that still needed stability at sea so they had the worst compromising least capable combination of features. If a ship is light enough with the correct shaped hull it could hop up above the ice closing around it. The Blishk lock delayed blowback pistol research was ultimately a waste of time that still provided a lot of interesting friction coefficient results.
@@johnbockelie3899 he slams phone down, looks in his fishtank for maritime comfort, and ay ay ay - at the bottom of the tank, in minature...............
Fantastic stuff man, I'm a big fan of nautical stories and lore and ghost ship stories are where it's at, there are SOOO many other stories you'd do great with, Mary Celeste, Ellen Austin, Cyclops, Flannan Island lighthouse mystery of 1900 etc.
Storm happens. Baychimo: “I am iceberg now.” Crew: “We’ll save you!” Baychimo: “No, I am iceberg now.” Crew tries to stay with ship. Baychimo: “Heheh, iceberg go float.” Crew: ?.?
I've always enjoyed your historical / maritime narration but you narrate a good ghost story too, and the howling sound was a nice touch! Very captivating mystery!
Great content and a very happy new subscriber. Was scrolling and saw 'ghost ship found after 95 years', sending my heart pitter pattering, but noooooooo - it was a sunken ship. Bah humbug.
The shape of her hull allowed the ice to pusher her up and out of danger of being crushed and being trapped safely above the ice it protected the vessel from the damaging waves that would sink her much quicker.i dont think she would survive as long im the much reduced ice of todays arctic
This ship was built before my grandmother on my mom's side was born in the twenties. Then was floating around Alaska abandoned Till after my parents were born and were in school. Heck, the ship stayed floating till the same year people went to the moon.
Maritime history is a history unto itself. You did a great job with the presentation of this ship. Very respectful too. You tell a great story overall.
She heard someone say "hold fast!", and she did... i love when inanimate objects are given human charactaristics, and this ship persisting thru trial after trial of adversity from ice and storms and coastlines, is truly heroic and deserves personification. Shes a wonder of the seas, indeed.
I wonder how far back you could get satellite pics of the region.... it would be fascinating to track her movements over her last few years before she succumbed to the elements. Would probably be able to pinpoint her final resting place too... bet she's well preserved in those frigid temperatures!
Weratedogs: this is Baychimo. Mysteriously appears to help people who get lost in the cold. Will walk you home if you are lost. Just like his humans did for him. 14/10 good splintery boi.
maybe the ship is still out there looking for people to shelter but people are safer now so there are fewer sightings. everyone who built her sure did a fine job didn't they?
I'm sure the ship can be found. Take her last known position, factor in set and drift as it was noted in the area at the time of the last sighting. There should be some weather records somewhere, probably on microfiche by now, or digitized if we're lucky. Start the search pattern from the LKP with those factors in mind, and don't be surprised if she finally foundered after 1969. That ship was obviously damaged, but probably lucked into a set of eddy currents that kept her off the shoals and rocks for almost 40 years. But even the BAYCHIMO can die; the shaft packing around the prop shaft probably gave way and she had to have eventually flooded. She's probably on the bottom somewhere near where she was last sighted.
In german, you compare such a mission with searching for a needle in the hay. It is nearly impossible. Weather observation in pre-satellite-area in such remote places are rare and drifting trajectories become more uncertain, the longer the timespan of the drift is. And we don't know if, and on which time, she maybe sunk. So she could be everywhere.
SS Baychimo, former SS Ångermanelfven....Swedish steel was good already back then! She better not show up here on the Clyde, if she does, I'm moving to the Sahara desert!
Well hey, if we find her again maybe we can actually get her. Since there are barely any ships like her remaining these days from her time, she can become a museum. Just maybe.
Second watching and it STILL gives me chills, especially the part where she's following the research ship. Now I've got visions of a ship possessed by vengeance, searching for the crew that abandoned her, a malevolent and sinsister force bringing doom to all she catches. How many disappearances did her wretched, twisted malice cause? How many were sacrificed to ger infernal engines to fuel her unholy quest?
Check out the book "the Terror" by Dan Simmons as well as the tv series based on it. Jared Harris and Adam Nagiatis are fantastic in it. It is based on the Franklin Expedition and blends historical fiction with horror and Inuit Mythology.
this is one of the coolest ships I've never heard of before today. and if it managed to go all those yrs AFTER WWII, it's still possible it can be spotted today. awww imagine being the one to possibly spot ! 🙏😍🥇😁😊😫
Totally amazing that someone didn't attempt to salvage it. I'm 65 and spent my life on water fronts and they were crawling with characters dreaming of such a opportunity.
@@mtf-epislon9555 my father worked for foss tug and barge for 25 years. They were the biggest tug outfit on the west coast at the time. When I was 13 he bought one of their tugs that they were going to scrap out. It was 65 feet long and was built in 1912 of wood. Steam originally and converted to a slow turning heavy duty diesel. We used it as a yacht for 5 years and made trips to Alaska from tacoma. Then he got mad at foss and turned it back into a tug and got a small barge and we hauled logging equipment around Alaska for a few years. It grew from that to 6 tugs eventually. Went into the oil hauling business then fell on hard times and ended up bankrupt. We did every kind of towing and salvage work you can think of. It's gone and I survive on social security. But I dont regret the experience. Wouldn't trade it for anything.
Perhaps she is a ghost ship but there is no reason to call the Baychimo cursed. No one died on her and she even provided shelter to those tribesmen during a storm.
Sailors are a superstitious lot. She became known as cursed because she refused to sink and the Inuit who entered her were trapped there by a sudden storm.
Thanks for watching! What's your favorite spooky sea story?
So far this one
@@flatgrimace Having OCD and going on a 14 night transatlantic crossing with a friend who turned out to be an epic slob.
I got a book about the most mysterious ship disappearances. You should also make a video on the SS Waratah.
Mostly the story of Baychimo, it isn't spooky all that much, but rather funny. Like, Baychimo just got stuck in ice, got out(probably whistled witch translates to "I'M FREEEEEE-"), got stuck again, rinse and repeat, and then disappears for good. And probably in 2031, she appears off of Alaska, and then she's towed to a port in England, but then in the night after being tied to a dock, she disappears and the story repeats-
@@ukaszwalczak1154 When you put it that way then yeah kinda XD
Just imagine being the guy who, 38 years after abandoning his "sinking" ship, being told "hey, your ship is still out sailing around looking for you"
I'd probably brush it off. But when it would be proven shit would come out. Lol
I'd say that's a well made ship. What, is it gonna chase him down? Lmao.
Reminds me of the movie “Christine”.
was that Cornwell or whatever his name was a total bum of a captain? he declares that ship uninhabitable/not seaworthy/about to sink two different times and she went on to sail all those years without him! lol
That would be creepy as all hell
Don’t know why a ship magically appearing just before a storm and providing 10 days of shelter would make people think it was cursed.
True
Blessed ship
I think people are thinking about it the other way. The inuits found her, but as soon as she was spotted a storm kicked up and trapped them in the ice with her
I was thinking the same thing.
Inuits- the ship is cursed
Ship- I gave you shelter, food and saved your lives and this is how you do me?!
cursed has different meanings
Too bad they couldnt have put a GPS tracker on the ship.
Titanic- sinks on maiden voyage
Baychimo- floats around with no crew for around 4 decades
GPS trackers are active devices, they need a continuous power source to both receive and compute the GPS signal and then transmit it back out.
That's not going to happen on a derelict ship.
And then of course there's the small detail of GPS not being in existence until decades after the last sighting of the ship.
@@jwenting I of course realize why they couldnt put a gps device on it. I was merely observing that it was too bad they couldnt.
Titanic on first voyage, hits a single piece of ice - "It's too much for me, I'll sink now." *Sinks and kills half her passengers and crew, gets Hollywood movie*
Baychimo after long fulfilling career circumnavigating the globe gets trapped in ice - "tis just ice, no big deal" *saves ten Inuit from a snow storm, continues sailing for 40 years, gets a 10 minute UA-cam video*
@@geigertec5921 lifes not fair- even if your not alive
The Littlest Hobo in boat form.
The fact that she survived so long is a testament to her construction and the yard that built her.
Of course it was german engineering
@@gasmaskman1354 She was built in Sweden
@@gasmaskman1354 said she had a German crew originally, but it sounds like it was constructed in Sweeden
Built at Lindholmens Verkstads AB in Gothenburg, Sweden.
@@gasmaskman1354calm down its the same steel they were all made of... now the Queen Mary is the real thug
There is something so hauntingly lonely and scary about the idea of her possibly still floating around out there completely alone
One could personify this ship in two ways:
*Haunting music* : _The ship was cursed and guided by supernatural forces_
*1930's swing* : _The ship was so wholesome that she offered shelter to many arctic explorers and inhabitants, even going as far as to closely follow many expeditions to ensure their safety_
OOOOOR, Baychimo is just a sadist who'd enjoy seeing other ships sink, just for the fun of it-
I love that more wholesome take. It's no less supernatural, but it's far more comforting.
@@ukaszwalczak1154 play the jaws theme in the background
Yeah, I don't get why people thik she is cursed when she really was a good ghost. ;)
Disclaimer: I don't believe one bit in all that supernatural nonsense and just play along. ^^
Yes indeed - it's all about perspective
So heavily damaged that she managed to survive on her own for 38 years without bilge pumps, maintenance, or a crew keeping her from grounding! Now that's a well built ship!
Sounds more blessed than cursed. And, she never had to go through the indignity of scrapping. She escaped that fate.
And also openly mocked nature.
👌👍👌👍
Yeah, she just had to freeze for multiple decades before likely being torn apart by ice and left to rot. Scrapping is totally worse than that.
@@randomlyentertaining8287 I agree.
38 years ! That’s a testament to well she was built !
Assuming the later sightings are true. Which i hope they are. The romantic fool in me wonders if she's still out there.
Good Swedish Steel!
Face it, this ship was HAUNTED!!!.
Surprised she wasn't sunk in World war 2.
@@johnbockelie3899 Such a claim is both unprovable, and false.
Amen to that no British or American ship would last that long abandoned curious if its still out there the question is where
My great uncle, Leslie Coe was an officer on the Baychimo. I have photos of him on the deck with some sled dogs.
He was fortunate to leave the ship before she got trapped in the ice.
You should make a video about that.
My grandfather was the baychimo cook name of Jimmy Ferguson
@@johnbaggus9966 That's so interesting.
@@dangeroustoman I have the photos but they are very fragile and I'm trying to have copies made for future reference.
I'll see what I can do.
@@timmytwodogs you can contact the maritime museum in a town called Saltcoats, Ayrshire Scotland , they have many of his photographs and things connected with her history
I always thought of this ship as a watchful protector. It's like she was asking someone to save her. Showing the world she could not only float but provide safety. You mentioned stories about how she provided shelter from storms. I bet she's gone but she isn't a haunted ship in a bad way.
I agree..As she provided Shelter, she is a life saver, potentially in those harsh conditions.
So she's Batman?
@@saibattu7745 Yes.
I hope it right rather then it being a haunted boat floating around killing people lmfao that'd be bad
As far as ghost ships go I think the ultimate conclusion and climax of a story like this would be to find it still floating after a century. That would put fear into any man to see.
If she pops up in sight of me (south east australia) rest assured she will make port. Even if i have to tie a rope round my waist and swim to pull her
I didn't need this fear but now I'm afraid of this. Thanks a lot.
@@Angrynood any time!
What’s interesting about Bachimo when compared to other ghost ship stories, like the Orang Medan, is that it’s all true. A real life ghost ship. What’s even more astonishing is the fact that the ship shouldn’t’ve floated adrift for 4 years, let alone 40. Aside from the fact that she should’ve been destroyed by pack ice or ran aground, drifting without maintenance should’ve caused her already damaged hull to deteriorate to the point that she lost hull integrity. The only conclusion I can come to as to how she miraculously maintained water tight integrity for almost 40 years is the anti-fouling paint wore off (or was scraped off by ice) and led to marine life and other crud building up on the hull beneath the water line to the point that it created an additional layer of hull to maintain the ship’s water tight integrity. That still doesn’t account for the fact that her cargo hold door should’ve disintegrated within 10-15 years in that brutal sea to allow her cargo holds to flood and sink her.
No. It's called jinn controlling the situation according to the Quran & sunnah. Stop using science to justify everything, people I the west are spiritually dead and ignorant people, its unbelievable.
M8, it's a volvo of the sea, look at Astoria(aka Stockholm). The ship was built in 1948, and it's still afloat-
Ice probably built up in all external surfaces protecting it from the weather.
There's no proof that the later sightings were real. Bit of a stretch to think it would go missing for 38 years and then reappear.
German made. Remember the Bismarck.
Glad this one had a relatively happy ending, with her crew not only being able to disembark, but to salvage the entire cargo as well before ultimately abandoning ship.
Honestly? off-loading the cargo may have kept the ship from sinking. Perhaps if they hadn't abandoned her they'd have sunk and died? But abandoning her saved both the crew AND the ship?
Nature: it’s been 38 years can you please sink
SS baychimo: No, no I don’t think I will
I don't know if I should be terrified of this ship, or feel heartbroken for her.💀
On one hand she seems to be looking for her crew. On the other hand she is exhibiting strong 1980s invincible slasher energy.
Feel both 🖤
SS Baychimo is possibly the most interesting ghost ship in the last hundred years or so. definitely love hearing stories about her, and she's definitely a rover.
Tank , read Nunaga by Duncan Pryde. He talks about the ship.
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
SS Baychimo was obviously just a well-found vessel.
Did some excellent work - nothing malevolent about her.
Better made than her contemporaries.
Rest in peace, old girl.
'Rest in peace' pffft, sure, suuureee..
@@ukaszwalczak1154 THE BAYCHIMO IS INHABITED BY RAT MEN AND IS COMING FOR YOUR HAIR!!
My wifes uncle William Isaac Collins Jones was on her last voyage. He was one of the 14 crew men that stayed with the vessel. He later returnd home to Holyhead north Wales where he became a ships pilot. Great video, many thanks.
On top of Naronic, this “Ghost ships” series is amazing.
Thank you! Glad you're enjoying them!!
@@BigOldBoats please do more i love this series
Don't know how it was considered cursed as it saved many lives by giving shelter from winter storms 🤷
A goast savour.
Exactly.. Such "Spooky!" nonsense. If anything it was an angle ship.
Damn straight, that was the first thought that came to my mind too.
I don’t know, taking a shelter on an abandoned ship that literally keeps disappearing and reappearing sounds like the perfect set up for a horror story. And even if it provided shelter, I’m sure it must be been creepy being some of the only people on this abandoned ship.
Thats the first thing I thought! I would have thought it a blessing, compare to being caught out in a ten-day storm and most likely dying… 🤷🏽♀️
Cursed ship? No. I’d say it’s more like a damn fine ship! Just imagine how high quality build she must have been.
I'd say only KMS and later USS Prinz Eugan were as remarkably well built.
Prinz Eugan survived the entirety of WWII, was gifted to the USA and was literally nuked twice, only to survive with only minor damage. She was only eventually sunk after she was deemed too radioactive, and was scuttled in Bikini Atoll.
@@OtterTreySSArmy Wow, what an interesting read!
@@OtterTreySSArmy Prinz Eugen is resting at Kwajalein Atoll. She wasn't scuttled
The whalesong adds a fantastic extra layer of eerieness to the video, I love it! How startling it must be to come across an unmanned vessel while at sea, especially in a place like the Arctic.
Indeed. The ocean's a mysterious place and no one seems to convey it better than our cetacean friends. :)
How do you explain this to the Hudson Bay Company's insurance company.... Boss, the ship got caught in an ice jam and is damaged beyond repair. Write it off on insurance. Baychimo floats around the arctic for 40 years unmanned.
I was thinking the same thing!!
I once lived in barrow, it’s a tale that all my friends talked about. We all said that every time a blizzard struck, the baychimo would move with its cruise. My friend once said he saw it and got a photo of it but it was far and blurry. The Inuit in our area tell scary stories about the people who were stuck there, it’s a very cool story and thanks for making it.
Please share some of these stories.
What year did your friend see it?
You have the best soundtracks of anybody with this historical stuff... gives me chills, and I love 'em.
Amazing that it lasted so long. It's probably long gone now though. (Go ahead, ship. Prove me wrong)
Also, if anything the ship was more of a guardian than it was cursed in my opinion.
Indeed more a guardian than a curse and a guardian that escaped the cutter's torch
I lived, bitch 🖤
Declaring her »not seaworthy« miffed her something awful…
This is one of my favorite "ghost ship" stories. Given how her career as an abandoned vessel both began and ended with her being trapped in pack ice, it often seems as if the ship made a devil's deal with Mother Nature, agreeing to be sunk at the proper time in exchange for years for freedom. Indeed, maybe she liked spooking people all those years......
Swedish shipbuilding + labour + steel = QUALITY vessel
Damaged & Abandoned for 39 years still afloat.
The crew could safely steam her back to London for minor repair.
My grandfather was an officer in the merchant navy. I'm enjoying these videos. Thanks for sharing with us, keep up the good work! 👍
I remember reading this when I was little in one of the Haunted Canada books. Living in a shipping town I told this to everyone and they were mind boggled by it. Every now and then I ponder where she ended up.
With spooky background sounds you could even make eating breakfast scary. She was light in the water having had her cargo removed and so she was in the hands of the wind and currents who took good care of her.
I also wanted to add that this is the best story I've seen on this ship ever, great job buddy
Maybe the Baychimo became a ghost ship so she could ferry the souls of sailors lost in that arctic sea to the afterlife. It’s a cool idea to think about, at least.
That is one stubborn ship. I love it. This channel is so fascinating!
I wouldn’t call that a cursed ship, I’d call that a lucky ship
So if you were forced to wander the Arctic for decades, feeling all the pain of the cold but unable to die, you'd feel lucky?
@@randomlyentertaining8287 Baychimo is Swedish
Swedes have a resistance to the cold temperatures
I’m so cold. I’m so alone. I should have died, but I refused. My limbs are black, frozen solid. My skin is light blue. My eyes are milky and dead.
Imagine if she really still there floating, that is insane, or if she is stucked on rocks somewere. If someone find her today that would be so scary
BOO ! Ha ha ha ha !
This is insane. The sound effects you added made it more intense. Great job
Amazing story and great video! Especially love the haunting "music" 👍👍
Love the spooky ship tales, there’s just something about them.
BRO, MY DAD WAS JUST TELLING ME ABOUT THIS SHIP ON A WALK TODAY.
He is this channel, he warned you that he was uploading about this ship, hehe joking but wow what a coincidence
Ivan Genov lol
@Jay Leno lol what?
Fascinating "ghost" story. Great presentation.
Great creepy music. Not sure I should be listening to this before bed😨
I love the bit of personality around 7:00
Great vid! Thanks for sharing
Nothing supernatural about it. The fact that she stayed afloat for so long is a testament to how well built she was. She must have finally succumbed to the ice and has long since been at the bottom of the sea.
I’ve heard this story in snippets 100 times, thanks for actually cataloging it all into a story for me brah =]
Who could dislike this video … amazing .. loved it .. thanks
The ships that form our usual idea of ice crushing the hull could be based on not so heavy underpowered breaker ships that still needed stability at sea so they had the worst compromising least capable combination of features. If a ship is light enough with the correct shaped hull it could hop up above the ice closing around it. The Blishk lock delayed blowback pistol research was ultimately a waste of time that still provided a lot of interesting friction coefficient results.
The wind and weather is carrying her the SS Baychimo along. She's free. The elements have now taken hold of her.🎉
I want to believe she’s still out there somewhere. Great video and creepy music
I love the background music.
Edit: The music makes the video really scary.
Agreed
It got worse when years later, the Captain got a phone call from this ship.
@@johnbockelie3899 the captain then proceeds to shit his pants. Lol
@@johnbockelie3899 he slams phone down, looks in his fishtank for maritime comfort, and ay ay ay - at the bottom of the tank, in minature...............
@@rottsandspots " Oooh Popeye, who was that on the phone?."
" Nuttin, Olive, just da Ghosk ship , dat' s all." That ship had a charmed life.
Fantastic stuff man, I'm a big fan of nautical stories and lore and ghost ship stories are where it's at, there are SOOO many other stories you'd do great with, Mary Celeste, Ellen Austin, Cyclops, Flannan Island lighthouse mystery of 1900 etc.
Storm happens.
Baychimo: “I am iceberg now.”
Crew: “We’ll save you!”
Baychimo: “No, I am iceberg now.”
Crew tries to stay with ship.
Baychimo: “Heheh, iceberg go float.”
Crew: ?.?
lol please leave me i am ice berg lol
New theory, Baychimo sunk titanic
@@ThatRocknRollFan04 ss titanic life jacket found wedged in Baychimo's Tiller...lol
Such a funny comment, wow, did you think of that all by yourself?
@@montinaladine3264 No it was in a joke book ...LOL
Definitely the best video I seen on baychimo nice job
Thank you!
I love your channel! Great storytelling style too!
Baychimo was like "FaThEr I cRaVE FReEdOm"
Oh yeah! A new one, I love ghost ship stories.
Me as Ads start playing 'This guy has earned a few more of my seconds.'
This ship has a great story. Well narrated mate!
I've always enjoyed your historical / maritime narration but you narrate a good ghost story too, and the howling sound was a nice touch! Very captivating mystery!
Sounds like an exceptionally blessed ship. Not a ghost ship.
4 decades floating without crew around ice. Titanic couldnt make it 4 hours around ice with an expert crew.
I always said the Newfies towed an iceberg in front of her...hoping to pick up some salvage LOL!
Great content and a very happy new subscriber. Was scrolling and saw 'ghost ship found after 95 years', sending my heart pitter pattering, but noooooooo - it was a sunken ship. Bah humbug.
The shape of her hull allowed the ice to pusher her up and out of danger of being crushed and being trapped safely above the ice it protected the vessel from the damaging waves that would sink her much quicker.i dont think she would survive as long im the much reduced ice of todays arctic
I don’t think she’s cursed, it’s benevolent if anything. Providing shelter and “escorting” that schooner safety away
poor old gal, she just needed someone to love her!!!
This ship was built before my grandmother on my mom's side was born in the twenties. Then was floating around Alaska abandoned Till after my parents were born and were in school. Heck, the ship stayed floating till the same year people went to the moon.
Maritime history is a history unto itself. You did a great job with the presentation of this ship. Very respectful too. You tell a great story overall.
BEST intro! Great video as a whole!
how this thing stayed afloat without someone maintaining her is beyond me.
She heard someone say "hold fast!", and she did... i love when inanimate objects are given human charactaristics, and this ship persisting thru trial after trial of adversity from ice and storms and coastlines, is truly heroic and deserves personification. Shes a wonder of the seas, indeed.
I love these unknown gems of history.
Thank you for sharing!
I love these kind of creepy stories, especially those involving ships at sea. new sub.
I wonder how far back you could get satellite pics of the region.... it would be fascinating to track her movements over her last few years before she succumbed to the elements. Would probably be able to pinpoint her final resting place too... bet she's well preserved in those frigid temperatures!
I hope you have a video this creepy and atmospheric for Halloween!
Hey, sometimes mother nature decides "I like this boat, I'm gonna keep it" and she does ❤️
Weratedogs: this is Baychimo. Mysteriously appears to help people who get lost in the cold. Will walk you home if you are lost. Just like his humans did for him. 14/10 good splintery boi.
It's like the "Littlest Hobo" of the sea!
I'm starting to get hooked on your videos. Thank you for your work!
maybe the ship is still out there looking for people to shelter but people are safer now so there are fewer sightings. everyone who built her sure did a fine job didn't they?
Well produced video. The b&w footage added to the story. 👍
I'm sure the ship can be found. Take her last known position, factor in set and drift as it was noted in the area at the time of the last sighting. There should be some weather records somewhere, probably on microfiche by now, or digitized if we're lucky. Start the search pattern from the LKP with those factors in mind, and don't be surprised if she finally foundered after 1969. That ship was obviously damaged, but probably lucked into a set of eddy currents that kept her off the shoals and rocks for almost 40 years. But even the BAYCHIMO can die; the shaft packing around the prop shaft probably gave way and she had to have eventually flooded. She's probably on the bottom somewhere near where she was last sighted.
In german, you compare such a mission with searching for a needle in the hay. It is nearly impossible. Weather observation in pre-satellite-area in such remote places are rare and drifting trajectories become more uncertain, the longer the timespan of the drift is. And we don't know if, and on which time, she maybe sunk. So she could be everywhere.
@@jakobthoboll2759 needle in the haystack. Yes we use that expression in English too :)
With your enthusiasm we should have found flight 19 decades ago
Great story and film document please keep up your great work.
...WOW...great stuff...i am going to be a new fan of this channel...
One of my worst fears would be to walk down the corridors or passageways on a mysteriously abandoned ship.
SS Baychimo, former SS Ångermanelfven....Swedish steel was good already back then!
She better not show up here on the Clyde, if she does, I'm moving to the Sahara desert!
Well hey, if we find her again maybe we can actually get her. Since there are barely any ships like her remaining these days from her time, she can become a museum. Just maybe.
Second watching and it STILL gives me chills, especially the part where she's following the research ship. Now I've got visions of a ship possessed by vengeance, searching for the crew that abandoned her, a malevolent and sinsister force bringing doom to all she catches. How many disappearances did her wretched, twisted malice cause? How many were sacrificed to ger infernal engines to fuel her unholy quest?
Poor lonely ship, forever looking for her crew.
I'd love to see an Inuit language horror survival film based on this!
Check out the book "the Terror" by Dan Simmons as well as the tv series based on it. Jared Harris and Adam Nagiatis are fantastic in it.
It is based on the Franklin Expedition and blends historical fiction with horror and Inuit Mythology.
@@surstromming8065 Thanks for the recc!
I actually got shivers watching this
Great video big old boats!
She just decided to go on her own adventures. Good for her
this is one of the coolest ships I've never heard of before today. and if it managed to go all those yrs AFTER WWII, it's still possible it can be spotted today. awww imagine being the one to possibly spot ! 🙏😍🥇😁😊😫
I remember reading about the Baychimo in one of my grandma's Catholic magazines. Fascinating story.
I think this ghost ship is one of my favorites. Several confirmed sightings, not just local legend. And over so many decades!
Totally amazing that someone didn't attempt to salvage it. I'm 65 and spent my life on water fronts and they were crawling with characters dreaming of such a opportunity.
Man you need to post some of your experiences here on the platform, I love hearing stories from sailors and other sea dogs
@@mtf-epislon9555 my father worked for foss tug and barge for 25 years. They were the biggest tug outfit on the west coast at the time. When I was 13 he bought one of their tugs that they were going to scrap out. It was 65 feet long and was built in 1912 of wood. Steam originally and converted to a slow turning heavy duty diesel. We used it as a yacht for 5 years and made trips to Alaska from tacoma. Then he got mad at foss and turned it back into a tug and got a small barge and we hauled logging equipment around Alaska for a few years. It grew from that to 6 tugs eventually. Went into the oil hauling business then fell on hard times and ended up bankrupt. We did every kind of towing and salvage work you can think of. It's gone and I survive on social security. But I dont regret the experience. Wouldn't trade it for anything.
@@johnwright291 Lemme guess.. Wallace foss? Or what was the other one called..
Their is one thing that must be done to find the SS Baychimo, sonar and radar, search the ocean floor, and look for the wreck.
Perhaps she is a ghost ship but there is no reason to call the Baychimo cursed. No one died on her and she even provided shelter to those tribesmen during a storm.
Sailors are a superstitious lot. She became known as cursed because she refused to sink and the Inuit who entered her were trapped there by a sudden storm.
This video creates such a spooky atmosphere good job