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Speaker: There are stories everywhere you go, some more horrifying than others. We're here to investigate the stories.
Speaker: This is Ghost Stories in the Unusual Paranormal Podcast.
Speaker: with your host.
Speaker: Joe the Ghost Guy.
Speaker: Last time on.
Speaker: Ghost Stories of the Unusual Paranormal Podcast.
Speaker: Chill the ghost guy.
Speaker: told us about the Roman Coliseum.
Speaker: and the bloody seeds that came from that arena.
Speaker: and the many animals that were killed there, and the echoes of the past that still exist there today. What is he going to talk about next? Tune into this week's episode of...
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Speaker: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, where we are across the country and around the world.
Speaker: You are listening to Gazette.
Speaker: also known as Ghost Stories and the Unusual Paranormal Podcast. I am indeed your favorite neighborhood paranormal investigator.
Speaker: Joe the ghost guy.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Hey, happy hump day.
Speaker: It's almost another week.
Speaker: Hope your country's still in the World Cup.
Speaker: you
Speaker: I know mine isn't anymore, but I'm going for...
Speaker: you know either england or norway i know they play together but
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: you know may the best team win
Speaker: On tonight's story...
Speaker: We're going to be talking about an island.
Speaker: offshore in North Carolina and the Outer Banks.
Speaker: So
Speaker: It's...
Speaker: sit back in our couch
Speaker: snuggle up with their loved ones
Speaker: Grab that bowl of popcorn.
Speaker: Because...
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: as a story
Speaker: Hmm.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Now.
Speaker: There are places.
Speaker: where history never truly dies
Speaker: places
Speaker: or the wind.
Speaker: Seems to whisper forgotten names
Speaker: where every crashing waves
Speaker: carries stories.
Speaker: that refused to stay buried and where
Speaker: After sunset, locals quietly avoid certain roads
Speaker: abandoned cemeteries and lonely stretches of beach.
Speaker: Tonight.
Speaker: We're traveling far.
Speaker: from a busy mainland.
Speaker: to one of america's
Speaker: most mysterious bitter islands
Speaker: you
Speaker: We are heading to the remote.
Speaker: and beautiful.
Speaker: Aqual.
Speaker: uh aqua coke
Speaker: island
Speaker: No.
Speaker: its wild horses and centuries past
Speaker: secluded features
Speaker: pirate legends
Speaker: Civil War history.
Speaker: and generations of hardy fishermen.
Speaker: art article choke is the
Speaker: Paradise.
Speaker: during the day.
Speaker: But when
Speaker: darkness settles over the atlantic many believe
Speaker: the island
Speaker: belongs to someone
Speaker: Or...
Speaker: something now
Speaker: Let's
Speaker: Tonight.
Speaker: will explore the islands.
Speaker: Chili Ghost Stories.
Speaker: The Phantom Pirate.
Speaker: who is still searching for his missing head.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Ghost ships sailing through impossible fog.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Spirits wandering accident.
Speaker: Cemetery
Speaker: spirits wandering ancient cemeteries
Speaker: mysterious lights over the marsh
Speaker: and strange encounters that continue to terrify visitors.
Speaker: to this day
Speaker: So let's turn down the lights.
Speaker: you
Speaker: and listen closely because some say the dead
Speaker: never truly left.
Speaker: Ultra.
Speaker: Cool.
Speaker: Island.
Speaker: ochre croak island
Speaker: lies deep within the outer banks of North Carolina.
Speaker: So.
Speaker: accessible only by ferry.
Speaker: private boat
Speaker: or small aircraft, it has long been isolated from the mainland.
Speaker: you
Speaker: that isolation helped preserve not only the island's unique culture but also its legends
Speaker: for centuries sailors feared
Speaker: It's.
Speaker: fear these waters.
Speaker: you
Speaker: the shifting sandbars surrounding the islands.
Speaker: claimed hundreds of ships
Speaker: you
Speaker: giving the region that scrim nickname
Speaker: The Graveyard.
Speaker: of the Atlantic.
Speaker: storms could appear without warning.
Speaker: you
Speaker: dense fog
Speaker: could swallow the entire fleet.
Speaker: entire cruise.
Speaker: vanish underneath the towing the towering waves
Speaker: you
Speaker: every wreck.
Speaker: left behind more than a broken timber
Speaker: you
Speaker: it left
Speaker: unfinished stories.
Speaker: Islanders grew
Speaker: Accustomed to strange sounds carried by the wind.
Speaker: Some spoke of hearing phantom cannon fire.
Speaker: Others claim voices dripped over the water.
Speaker: long after midnight.
Speaker: you
Speaker: mini
Speaker: Dismiss them as tricks of the sea.
Speaker: So,
Speaker: Others may never be so certain.
Speaker: No story.
Speaker: refines
Speaker: or a court or the coke
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: more than its infamous pirate
Speaker: Edward Trench.
Speaker: Edward Teach.
Speaker: also known as
Speaker: Boy.
Speaker: Beard.
Speaker: the pirate.
Speaker: Blackbeard terrorized the Atlantic coast.
Speaker: in the early 1700s
Speaker: commanding ships and early
Speaker: a fearsome reputation.
Speaker: you
Speaker: his towering frame
Speaker: you
Speaker: beer.
Speaker: braided beard.
Speaker: you
Speaker: is so turning
Speaker: A slow burning fuses tucked beneath his hat.
Speaker: created an unforgettable image of terror.
Speaker: for some time.
Speaker: he made
Speaker: Arctic Choke.
Speaker: It's his refuge.
Speaker: The island hymn channels.
Speaker: and swallow waters
Speaker: protect pirate ships from longer
Speaker: uh larger naval vessels
Speaker: you
Speaker: but
Speaker: his reign ended
Speaker: in November.
Speaker: of 1718.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
Speaker: you
Speaker: that attacked an architope inlet.
Speaker: after a brutal hand -to -hand combat
Speaker: Blackbeard was killed.
Speaker: contemporary accounts describe him as suffering numerous sword wounds and gut shots before falling to his death
Speaker: you
Speaker: to prove the pirate was dead his head was severed
Speaker: and home.
Speaker: from Marinard's ship.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Then came the legend.
Speaker: I then...
Speaker: Folk Horse's Blackbeard's headless body was thrown into the ocean.
Speaker: you
Speaker: instead of sinken.
Speaker: It's swim.
Speaker: Not once.
Speaker: Not twice.
Speaker: for several times around the ship
Speaker: before disappearing
Speaker: Underneath the waves.
Speaker: ever since sailors have claimed to see the ghostly lantern drifting across the inlet.
Speaker: Some call it.
Speaker: you
Speaker: teaches light.
Speaker: many believe blackbeard
Speaker: still searches the waters.
Speaker: Looking forever.
Speaker: for his missing head.
Speaker: near artichoke
Speaker: lies a body of water known as Teach's Hole.
Speaker: Fishermen have long reported unusual experiences there.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Engines suddenly fell
Speaker: compasses being without explanation.
Speaker: Dense fog.
Speaker: roams out of its clear skies.
Speaker: Boaters.
Speaker: sometimes described seeing a loan
Speaker: figure standing on the water before vanishing in the mist.
Speaker: others room.
Speaker: port.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: hearing chains
Speaker: dragging across invisible decks.
Speaker: Weather caused by weather.
Speaker: imagination.
Speaker: or something.
Speaker: paranormal
Speaker: near the villages.
Speaker: sits at quiet cemetery.
Speaker: overlooking Silver Lake Harbor.
Speaker: is known as the British Cemetery.
Speaker: The greys belong to the sailors.
Speaker: who died
Speaker: when the HMS
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: Bedfordshire was sunk by the German U -boat.
Speaker: during World War II.
Speaker: Island residents carried their bodies with great respect.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Today, the cemetery remains.
Speaker: british soil by agreement
Speaker: Visitors often describe the unusual stillness.
Speaker: some report.
Speaker: you
Speaker: hearing footsteps behind them.
Speaker: Others hear voices speaking softly even though they find no one nearby.
Speaker: you
Speaker: flowers have ripped
Speaker: reportedly appeared at the graves without anyone witnessing
Speaker: who left them
Speaker: many visitors.
Speaker: have believed.
Speaker: They were not.
Speaker: entirely alone.
Speaker: The water.
Speaker: surrounding the artichoke
Speaker: is swallowed with countless vessels.
Speaker: storms.
Speaker: hurricanes.
Speaker: piracy
Speaker: and war created one of the worlds
Speaker: largest collections are shipwrecks
Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: Local firemen occasionally tell them possible sightings.
Speaker: old selling ships
Speaker: Blowing
Speaker: underneath the moonlight
Speaker: mass emerging from the heavy fog.
Speaker: Silent vessels.
Speaker: that appear as boats.
Speaker: Approach.
Speaker: Some claim to hear bells.
Speaker: bringing it across the empty water.
Speaker: Others have watched
Speaker: Don't say ships.
Speaker: sell directly into the horizon
Speaker: before feeding.
Speaker: into nothingness
Speaker: The sea, just many secrets.
Speaker: Perhaps some crews.
Speaker: realize their voyage.
Speaker: has not ended.
Speaker: across the marshes.
Speaker: surrounding artichoke island
Speaker: Mysterious Lights has puzzled witnesses for generations.
Speaker: Blue lights.
Speaker: white lights
Speaker: Floating lanterns.
Speaker: sometimes
Speaker: they hover only inches above the ground
Speaker: you
Speaker: Sometimes they glide across the water.
Speaker: scientists often
Speaker: point towards swamp gases.
Speaker: and atmosphere
Speaker: effects.
Speaker: you
Speaker: yet
Speaker: Many eyewitnesses disagree.
Speaker: you
Speaker: these slates
Speaker: seem intelligent.
Speaker: These lights.
Speaker: They follow the travelers.
Speaker: they stop
Speaker: when watched.
Speaker: They disappear.
Speaker: when approached
Speaker: Island elders have long warned visitors never change.
Speaker: number.
Speaker: Never chase strange lights after sunset some people
Speaker: Who?
Speaker: tried
Speaker: you
Speaker: They claim they have become hopelessly lost.
Speaker: Only to discover.
Speaker: they had
Speaker: wandered for hours in circles.
Speaker: Small family cemeteries.
Speaker: or scattered across artichoke
Speaker: Mini date.
Speaker: uh they
Speaker: back to the centuries.
Speaker: weathered gravestones
Speaker: Then...
Speaker: beneath the ancient cedar trees.
Speaker: Visitors often describe sudden cold spots.
Speaker: Even during.
Speaker: during humid summer nights.
Speaker: electronic devices occasionally malfunction.
Speaker: Photographers have reported
Speaker: unexplained shadows
Speaker: and glowing figures appearing in their pictures
Speaker: whether it could
Speaker: Cool.
Speaker: coincidence
Speaker: Or...
Speaker: Something much more.
Speaker: these
Speaker: quiet.
Speaker: Burial grounds continue to inspire stories.
Speaker: of lingering spirits
Speaker: The island is...
Speaker: famous for its unusual winds
Speaker: Vocals now.
Speaker: Every whistle.
Speaker: Every shifting current.
Speaker: Which is why.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Some stories remain difficult to explain.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Late at night.
Speaker: People have reported hearing compensations.
Speaker: outside the empty homes
Speaker: Children laughing.
Speaker: on deserted beaches.
Speaker: women singing
Speaker: wherever out over the ocean.
Speaker: women singing somewhere
Speaker: Out over the ocean, doors open.
Speaker: without warning
Speaker: porch swings begin moving
Speaker: on Windless Evenings.
Speaker: many residents shrugged
Speaker: And it's just artichoke.
Speaker: There are places in the world where the sea seems to remember.
Speaker: Not just storms.
Speaker: Not just shipwrecks.
Speaker: But every secret.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Every betrayal.
Speaker: in every soul.
Speaker: you
Speaker: claimed by the water
Speaker: Long live.
Speaker: North Carolina's Outer Banks.
Speaker: That is a narrow stretch.
Speaker: shifting sands
Speaker: that sailors have feared.
Speaker: for centuries.
Speaker: It is a place.
Speaker: where fog could appear without warning.
Speaker: Where...
Speaker: Currents twist.
Speaker: unrepeatedly
Speaker: and there are hundreds upon hundreds
Speaker: of ships have vanished underneath the lantern
Speaker: They call it the coastline.
Speaker: of the graveyard of the atlantic for a good reason
Speaker: more than 2 ,000 vessels
Speaker: are believed to have won.
Speaker: to believe have been lost.
Speaker: here over the centuries
Speaker: Pirates.
Speaker: stock these waters
Speaker: Merchant ships disappear without explanations.
Speaker: hurricane erased entire fleets in a single night
Speaker: you
Speaker: but
Speaker: among all legends
Speaker: whispering along these shores
Speaker: none is more haunting than the story
Speaker: of the flaming ship.
Speaker: of orchid show
Speaker: you
Speaker: Every year.
Speaker: on the first night of the september's new moon
Speaker: according to local tradition
Speaker: a ghostly ship.
Speaker: you
Speaker: and is said to emerge from the darkness.
Speaker: its sails are unfurled
Speaker: to the towering flames.
Speaker: It's Dick.
Speaker: flows within furnace
Speaker: It glows like a furnace.
Speaker: Yet, no smoke rises into the night sky.
Speaker: No burning timbers.
Speaker: far into the sea
Speaker: the fire
Speaker: never consumes the ship.
Speaker: instead.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: this slightly
Speaker: cells across the horizon.
Speaker: you
Speaker: and then
Speaker: It just disappears.
Speaker: tonight.
Speaker: we are going to explore the world's largest
Speaker: Maritime Ghost Legends, a story of greed.
Speaker: Betrayal
Speaker: Murder.
Speaker: divine justice, and course.
Speaker: that some believe still burns across the Atlantic.
Speaker: more than 300 years later.
Speaker: So here we go.
Speaker: Keep the lights down.
Speaker: Rock the doors.
Speaker: and listen closely.
Speaker: Because somewhere...
Speaker: Beyond the...
Speaker: Breakers.
Speaker: the sea.
Speaker: may still be burning.
Speaker: long before tourists
Speaker: discovered that the beaches of artichoke
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: The island was one of the loneliest places in America, separated from the mainland.
Speaker: by miles of water.
Speaker: shifting shawls
Speaker: And...
Speaker: unpredictable weather.
Speaker: It exists in neither...
Speaker: existed in near isolation.
Speaker: generations of fishermen.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Lighthouse Keepers.
Speaker: Sailors.
Speaker: And...
Speaker: Pilots.
Speaker: called The Island Home.
Speaker: life here dependent upon the sea
Speaker: The same C
Speaker: that has fed families.
Speaker: that could destroy them overnight.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Every child grew up hearing stories.
Speaker: of the ships that never reached
Speaker: port.
Speaker: Every family.
Speaker: There's someone.
Speaker: We have been lost at sea.
Speaker: even storms.
Speaker: Rolled.
Speaker: across the Atlantic.
Speaker: islanders you often
Speaker: Watch the hopelessly form.
Speaker: Hopelessly from shore as vessels.
Speaker: Five impossible waves.
Speaker: Sometimes they survived.
Speaker: Many times.
Speaker: They didn't.
Speaker: after sunrise broken mass
Speaker: barrels of cargo and pieces of shattered hulls.
Speaker: washed on shore.
Speaker: Sometimes...
Speaker: Bodies come on shore too.
Speaker: The constant tragedy shaped the folklore of Orga Coke.
Speaker: People believed it's restless spirits.
Speaker: linger near the water
Speaker: Some claimed...
Speaker: ghostly voices.
Speaker: Wrote upon the wind.
Speaker: you
Speaker: others.
Speaker: consist in mysterious lights
Speaker: drifted across the ways before storms arrived
Speaker: The ocean.
Speaker: wasn't simply dangerous.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: was alive.
Speaker: And it remembers.
Speaker: Everything.
Speaker: The legend begins.
Speaker: in the early years.
Speaker: 18th century.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Europe was changing rapidly.
Speaker: religious persecution.
Speaker: poverty
Speaker: and more.
Speaker: forced thousands of families to leave everything behind.
Speaker: Many dreamed.
Speaker: I...
Speaker: beginning again in the American colonies.
Speaker: one such group aboard a merchant's sales ship thistle.
Speaker: you
Speaker: bound for north carolina
Speaker: Families carried everything their own.
Speaker: gold coins
Speaker: silver
Speaker: family heirlooms.
Speaker: Wedding Rings.
Speaker: religious books
Speaker: Precious keepsakes headed down.
Speaker: through generations and generations.
Speaker: Every trunk.
Speaker: represented hope.
Speaker: Every chest.
Speaker: Hell dreams of a better life.
Speaker: you
Speaker: They believed.
Speaker: they were selling towards freedom
Speaker: Instead.
Speaker: they were selling towards.
Speaker: Let's.
Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: The captain appeared.
Speaker: respectable
Speaker: Experienced.
Speaker: Confident.
Speaker: trusted.
Speaker: But according to the legend,
Speaker: He carried a terrible secret.
Speaker: you
Speaker: before becoming a merchant captain.
Speaker: He was once sailed with pirates.
Speaker: though officially pardoned.
Speaker: Greed to still rule.
Speaker: still
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Although officially pardoned, Reed still ruled his heart.
Speaker: as the voyage continued he learned exactly
Speaker: how much wealth the passengers carried, enough to carry every sailor aboard rich.
Speaker: Temptations spread among the crew.
Speaker: night after night
Speaker: They whisper below deck.
Speaker: They counted.
Speaker: imaginary fortunes.
Speaker: They dreamed of disappearing forever.
Speaker: with stolen treasure.
Speaker: you
Speaker: One.
Speaker: by one.
Speaker: Every crew member agreed.
Speaker: No witnesses.
Speaker: No survivors.
Speaker: The attack
Speaker: became After Midnight.
Speaker: Most passengers.
Speaker: passengers were asleep.
Speaker: you
Speaker: The sea was calm.
Speaker: you
Speaker: The stars were hidden behind clouds.
Speaker: crew members descended quietly into the pastor's quarters
Speaker: the first screams shattered the silence
Speaker: Doors.
Speaker: burst it open
Speaker: pete parents trade
Speaker: Rrr.
Speaker: desperately to protect their children.
Speaker: Some passengers fought with...
Speaker: kitchen knives, and walking sticks.
Speaker: Others.
Speaker: fed towards the deck
Speaker: There was nowhere.
Speaker: to run
Speaker: Families were thrown overboard in the Black Atlantic.
Speaker: Those who resisted.
Speaker: were cut down where they stood
Speaker: the sea swallowed every cry
Speaker: by Don.
Speaker: The ship belongs only to the murderers.
Speaker: So or so.
Speaker: they believed
Speaker: The Pirates.
Speaker: celebrated
Speaker: Rum.
Speaker: and wine flowed freely.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Gold spilling out across the tables.
Speaker: Drury
Speaker: glittered underneath the lantern light.
Speaker: They laughed.
Speaker: they toasted their fortune
Speaker: you
Speaker: Then.
Speaker: The weather changed.
Speaker: clouds rolled overhead
Speaker: Lightning flash across the horizon.
Speaker: Thunder shook the ship.
Speaker: Without warning.
Speaker: a single
Speaker: bolt
Speaker: struck its main mast.
Speaker: The rigging exploded into flames.
Speaker: tar -coated ropes
Speaker: burn instantly.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Canvas cells became towering walls of fire.
Speaker: the wind.
Speaker: Spread the breeze.
Speaker: spread the blaze faster than anyone can escape.
Speaker: some sailors jumped into the sea
Speaker: the waves claimed them
Speaker: Others remain on board. The burning shift.
Speaker: drifted into the darkness
Speaker: No one.
Speaker: survived.
Speaker: Years past.
Speaker: than decades.
Speaker: fisherman began
Speaker: began telling
Speaker: Strange stories.
Speaker: Late one night a ship.
Speaker: appeared offshore.
Speaker: you
Speaker: His sails burn brighter than any bonfire.
Speaker: He had the vessel.
Speaker: showed no signs of being consumed.
Speaker: No smoke.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: falling debris.
Speaker: no cries except those cared faintly
Speaker: by the wind
Speaker: The ghost ship.
Speaker: Cross the horizon.
Speaker: you
Speaker: three times before it faded into darkness.
Speaker: The next September.
Speaker: It returned.
Speaker: And again.
Speaker: And again.
Speaker: Eventually, the saints became...
Speaker: tradition.
Speaker: islanders
Speaker: warn newcomers not to laugh at the legend because some who mock
Speaker: The story later claimed they had seen it from themselves.
Speaker: you
Speaker: over generations and generations.
Speaker: different witnesses.
Speaker: describe remarkably similar details
Speaker: The ship blowed with an orange crimson fire.
Speaker: The flames reflected strangely across the water.
Speaker: Some heard church bells.
Speaker: others heard desperate screams
Speaker: you
Speaker: if you
Speaker: claim to have seen shadowy figures run across the...
Speaker: burning deck.
Speaker: One fisherman.
Speaker: insisted.
Speaker: the flame's loop.
Speaker: illuminated the faces.
Speaker: staring silently toward shore
Speaker: none waved
Speaker: No.
Speaker: None cried for help.
Speaker: They simply watched.
Speaker: as it trapped
Speaker: forever between life.
Speaker: and death.
Speaker: Modern Science offers several...
Speaker: possibilities
Speaker: Temperature.
Speaker: innovations
Speaker: over the Atlantic.
Speaker: to be...
Speaker: Blamed.
Speaker: the right
Speaker: creating extraordinary...
Speaker: emrages known as
Speaker: What...
Speaker: Madonna.
Speaker: distant ships.
Speaker: may appear suddenly in the sky.
Speaker: Lights can stretch into the impossible shapes.
Speaker: combined with fog.
Speaker: Moonlight.
Speaker: and imagination.
Speaker: these illuminations
Speaker: can become unforgettable.
Speaker: the outer banks
Speaker: are also home of countless stories
Speaker: of wrecks
Speaker: Pirate lore.
Speaker: you
Speaker: and unexplained lights
Speaker: Perhaps.
Speaker: The flaming ship is simply another tale.
Speaker: shaped by centuries of tragedy.
Speaker: or
Speaker: Perhaps.
Speaker: Oops.
Speaker: some legends
Speaker: refuse to die
Speaker: because someone
Speaker: Keep seeing them.
Speaker: The flaming ship isn't the only mystery surrounding
Speaker: order coke
Speaker: Stories around its phantom lanterns.
Speaker: drifting across marshes.
Speaker: Go see Slaylers.
Speaker: wandering
Speaker: deserted beaches
Speaker: Headless pirates searching for buried treasure.
Speaker: Many content or many can.
Speaker: connect
Speaker: These tills.
Speaker: into the infamous pirate blackbeard who met his death nearly
Speaker: at his end near article
Speaker: in seventeen eighteen
Speaker: Whether it affect the folklore, the island has become one of America's richest.
Speaker: landscapes
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: of the ghost stories
Speaker: Every crashing wave.
Speaker: seems to carry another legend ashore
Speaker: paranormal investigators.
Speaker: Have visited Art of Coke.
Speaker: for...
Speaker: for decades.
Speaker: some report
Speaker: unexplained electronic voice phenomena
Speaker: also known as EVPs.
Speaker: faint whispers captured on
Speaker: quarters
Speaker: when no one was speaking.
Speaker: Others describe showy figures.
Speaker: were in between
Speaker: weathered.
Speaker: our buildings.
Speaker: Visitors.
Speaker: staying in historic cottages, sometimes a week.
Speaker: awaken to footsteps of empty rooms.
Speaker: or the sensation
Speaker: that someone's standing beside their bed
Speaker: Not every experience can be verified, and many have...
Speaker: ordinary
Speaker: explanations
Speaker: still
Speaker: consistently of...
Speaker: certain stories over the generations has kept the island's reputation
Speaker: Alive.
Speaker: imagine standing alone on the empty beach
Speaker: No city lights.
Speaker: No traffic.
Speaker: Only the sounds of the lamp tick rolling, empty note.
Speaker: endlessly against the shore
Speaker: The moon is hidden.
Speaker: the stars disappeared the clouds
Speaker: Far beyond the breakers, a faint orange glow appears.
Speaker: At first it seems like an ordinary ship.
Speaker: but then grows brighter
Speaker: the cells ignite
Speaker: the mass
Speaker: become pillars of fire, yet the vessel sells on.
Speaker: Silent.
Speaker: Untouch the flames.
Speaker: I consume it.
Speaker: Do you believe your eyes?
Speaker: Do you convince yourself it's a mirage?
Speaker: Or would you remember the old island legend?
Speaker: That's somewhere off Arctic Coke.
Speaker: a crew member's
Speaker: is
Speaker: A crew.
Speaker: of murderers.
Speaker: is never revealing the final moments
Speaker: of their dune voyage
Speaker: Perhaps.
Speaker: every September.
Speaker: The ocean opens a small window to the past.
Speaker: Perhaps.
Speaker: some of the
Speaker: sins.
Speaker: can never be washed away
Speaker: Or perhaps...
Speaker: the sea
Speaker: enjoys storytelling.
Speaker: to those who are patient enough to listen.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Thank you for
Speaker: joining me on this journey.
Speaker: and to one of America's most enduring.
Speaker: Ghost Legends.
Speaker: If you enjoyed this lesson,
Speaker: Be sure to follow the podcast.
Speaker: and more
Speaker: tales of haunted places
Speaker: forgotten history
Speaker: mysterious
Speaker: just
Speaker: disappearances.
Speaker: and legends that refuse to
Speaker: fade away with time.
Speaker: Until next time.
Speaker: you
Speaker: Keep looking over your shoulder.
Speaker: Keep listening to the wind.
Speaker: If you ever find yourself walking to the beaches of Articoke on the moonless September night.
Speaker: Don't stare.
Speaker: don't
Speaker: stare too long at the horizon you may
Speaker: Maybe seeing something burning
Speaker: perhaps arcticoke's greatest mystery is not whether the ghosts exist it is why so many people
Speaker: separated by decades
Speaker: with no connection to one another.
Speaker: describe remarkably similar encounters it is a powerful suggestion the weight of the symmetry
Speaker: the weight of the centuries of maritime tragedy
Speaker: or something that's still
Speaker: Walks on the beaches.
Speaker: after the last ferry has gone
Speaker: If you ever visit.
Speaker: arctic coke
Speaker: spin a day exploring its wind -swept shores
Speaker: enrich history
Speaker: But if he decided to linger after sunset.
Speaker: Listen carefully.
Speaker: The surf.
Speaker: may not be the only voice carries on the tide. If you...
Speaker: see a lone manor drifting across the inlet.
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