GHOSTS FROM THE DEPTHS
Early one morning a long time ago, according to the tradition, a ship sailed in to land at Īle-de-Batz at Bretagne. The crews on the local fishing-boats looked up from their nets and recognised it as a familiar boat. They heard voices from it who gave orders and calls in towards land. Then, to their surprise, the boat disappeared. It was gone as fog in strong sunlight. Later they heard the boat had sunk several miles away just as that moment it had showed itself at the harbour.
Sailors have told legends about such ghostships ever since man started to sail the seas. Some of these phantom ships - the most famous being The Flying Dutchman - is said to have been seen several times. Such ships can haunt a stormy part of the oceans and can be seen in the waters where the accident struck them. Or maybe they show up just about anywhere as a sign of a forecoming danger. Others - as the one at Batz - just show one time and that is at the moment as the ship is sinking with the crew and everything. Sometimes a ship can be haunted and be known to accommodate ghosts.
Sceptics come with explanations. They say a normal ship can look as a phantom ship when it is exposed to a light phenomenon which is called St. Elmo's fire. And changes of the temperature can create refractions which makes it seem as a ship is very close, when it in reality are beyond the horizon. And sailors are known to be superstitious, since they live a dangerous life. But some stories about hauntings at sea, like the ones to be told here, can't be explained in a scientific way.
