{"id":3586,"date":"2025-04-06T19:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T23:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelloreeast.com\/wordpress\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:40:13","slug":"nyc-ghost-ship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/travelloreeast.com\/wordpress\/nyc-ghost-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Nautical"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Almost every state on the East Coast touches the Atlantic Ocean. Not to mention the bays, inlets, and rivers. Because of the unpredictable weather and sometimes dangerous coastline, there are books dedicated to nothing other than the ship wrecks of the East Coast. There’s a deep and dark history under the water that some feel has not completely gone away.\u00a0<\/p>

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Nautical:<\/b> of or concerning sailors or navigation; maritime – Oxford<\/p>

Maritime lore\/Sea lore\/legends<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Like most lore, ghost ships of the Hudson seem to have more than one meaning and origin. The accounts all claim that there seems to be a need for mist or fog in order to see the ship slowly gliding towards shore. In some reports there is a crew of pale, almost translucent, sailors working on board. In others, there is no crew at all. Overall it seems anyone who has reported seeing the ship claim that there is a sense of foreboding. With the countless boat accidents that have occurred in the Hudson over the centuries, who is to say how many unsettled souls may be lingering in the waters.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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As an island of watermen, many tales of sea lore circle around the Chincoteague<\/a> Island’s past. One is of the old fisherman Elisha Bloxom. Story goes he was helping to retrieve a beached ship when the yawl capsized and hit him on the head, causing him to drown. He was buried in the seashore and apparently did not want to spend eternity in the place he died. Mysterious sounds near the shoreline and in the house nearby. An immigrant family (who supposedly knew nothing of the story of Elisha) moved from the property as soon as their lease was finished due to strange noises and happenings throughout the halls.\u00a0<\/p>

There were about 16 of them with the Jersey being one of the most well known. According to author Robert P. Watson (his book is one of the only text on this brutal topic) there was an estimated 11,500 men who died aboard the Jersey in Wallabout Bay. The testimonies of the men aboard are nothing if not grotesque when referring to the food, lack of room to sit, let alone lay, for days on end, and the overflowing waste buckets. Not to mention the ever popular diseases and other old ship nuisances like lice. I think one of the worst parts of being a prisoner on these ghost ships was the claim that sometimes it took days for the guards to come and remove those who had died in the night. Meaning, their bodies just stayed right where they were.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

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Nautical and Waterways Almost every state on the East Coast touches the Atlantic Ocean. Not to mention the bays, inlets, and rivers. Because of the unpredictable weather and sometimes dangerous coastline, there are books dedicated to nothing other than the ship wrecks of the East Coast. There’s a deep and dark history under the water […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3586","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelloreeast.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelloreeast.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelloreeast.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelloreeast.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelloreeast.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/travelloreeast.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"https:\/\/travelloreeast.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3586\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelloreeast.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}