This Paranormal Life - Campfire - If You See This Ghost Ship... Run

Episode Date: October 16, 2024

Welcome to the campfire! Every Thursday in October we're dropping a mini-paranormal tale, and this week we're taking you to one of the most paranormal states in America - WYOMING. For hundreds of years, locals have spotted a mysterious ghost ship appearing out of thick fog, warning them about the death of a loved one. But is this ship predicting a tragedy... or causing one?Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTubeJoin our Secret Society Facebook CommunitySupport us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes!Buy Official TPL Merch! - thisparanormallife.com/storeIntro music by www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the campfire, short tales of paranormal mystery that live in the space between our Tuesday cases. Kit, what do you know about ghost ships? What do I not know about ghost ships? Ask me anything about ghost ships. Okay, can you name another, name a ghost ship? Uh, how about my daddy's boat? I was born on a ghost ship. I always forget that your family does actually have a boat, or had a boat. I don't know currently what's the status of the boat.

It burned down. Okay, an almost impressive achievement to burn down a boat. It's usually consumed in a vast amount of water. That's how cursed it was. That's a shame because I remember you had it for a tiny while and I believe one group of friends went out on it maybe once and then friends were banned from the boat shortly after. Well it's a dinghy. There's not an awful lot of real estate for a kind of quinceañera or a sweet 16 believe it or not We have actually talked about ghost ships on the podcast before for example the Flying Dutchman a Ghost ship that crashed into the icy waters and to this day the crew can be seen

Still sailing about the seven seas it's true whether it is the Flying Dutchman whether it is the Philadelphia experiment Which was a supposed US naval craft of which a Philadelphia experiment was conducted The ship disappeared and when it reappeared in the bay Some of the men were fused to the ship. Yeah, I'm kind of horrible hybrid way and on to many others I mean God the Mary Celeste and the list goes on. Well, this ship's nothing like those ships. Oh. So everything you just said is irrelevant

because today we're dealing with a ship that brings a new twist to the world of the paranormal. Just like the horrifying Banshee of Ireland, if you see this certain vessel adrift in the waters, normal, just like the horrifying Banshee of Ireland. If you see this certain vessel adrift in the waters, someone you know is going to die. Our story today kicks off way back in 1862, a time before cameras, so don't ask for any photographic evidence. A young trapper named Leon Webber was strolling along Wyoming's North Platte River

when a thick fog began to roll in from the water. Now sure, this river can get pretty rough and wild, but Leon had never seen a mist like this before. I'd already be turning my head. Mist isn't something I necessarily associate with rivers. More of an ocean thing, right? The fog of the sea. Yeah, I mean, already this story has a lot of the elements, the ingredients for a delicious

paranormal feast. Uh, you know, ships, seafaring, and mist. I don't, I'm not a scientist, I'm not an expert, I don't know how mist is formed, but again, mist is extremely synonymous with the mysterious and paranormal. It's part of the name, Myst. Mysterious. You literally can't spell mysterious without Myst. Yeah, in general though,

I mean, Myst is a problem for visibility, so you don't wanna be kinda ideally, you know, going places in Myst. Yeah, exactly. Myst, Fog of the Sea, they're all dangerous and they're all paranormal. Fun fact actually, when Kit's family got stranded out in the open ocean, mist of the sea is what Kit's dad used to describe the psychotic rage he burst into at one point where he tried

to eat the rest of the family. Like there wasn't a lot of food. He said, sorry, it was mist of the rest of the family. Like there wasn't a lot of food on the dinghy. Sorry, it was mist of the sea in my mind, it got a little foggy for a second. I thought you were a ham sandwich. He went Jack Nicholson mode. You know, that was something that did actually used to happen.

This was the famous story of the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus in the 1800s. Terrible names for boats, by the way. If you want something to go right, there's no way they called it the HMS Terror. I think the idea was it was a naval ship. So the Terror was supposed to be in the faces of the people they're fighting.

Right in the enemy. Yeah. Yeah, that's not good. That's like calling your boat the HMS Shipwreck because you're gonna destroy so many enemy vessels We're gonna wreck so many damn ships over there. Welcome on board the HMS. We ain't making it out of the harbor It's like who who captain who isn't our enemies? Obviously, they won't even want to leave our ship is so sick The captain's like right, but the name is printed

on the hull of the ship, so the only people who can read it are the people who aren't on the ship. They're like, well, you got t-shirts made. We're all wearing t-shirts with the name of the ship on it. Yeah, well, I wanted us to feel like a team and have a uniform. But that is, I believe, what really happened was they were packing the ship full of food

for an Arctic exploration Unfortunately, they kind of cheaped out on the food and I think the tin That the tinned food was was made out of kind of was like rusty or something And then they all got lead poisoning from all the tinned beans. They were eating. Oh god, and they all started to go mad From eating tinned beans. This is still in the harbor by the way. They never left. They ate one tin of beans and started fighting each other. Well look, luckily, luckily the ship that we're dealing with today is going to be very different from all of these. Don't worry. As I said, Leon, his curiosity got the

better of him and he decided to approach the water's edge to try and uncover the source of this strange fog. As he entered the limit of the mist, he spotted something in the distance, floating on the water. It was like a huge ball drifting towards him, unable to make out what the object was. Leon did what any man would do in this situation. He threw a rock at it. The rock soared into the fog, clearing a path to reveal a huge ship. Who saw that coming? Its body was old and dilapidated, while its mast and sails look

like they were covered in ice. Jesus. And look, I'm no pirate, all right? But when I see a ship like this drifting towards me, my first thought is, ka-ching. Why? Because there's gonna be a bunch of frozen skeletons on board and a bunch of free shit I can steal. Right, okay.

I'm getting two handfuls of pirate booty. I feel like, okay, don't put it that way. So I think there are two ways it can go though. I feel like you know pirates kind of were notoriously broke That's why they were looking for treasure right so the only way you're gonna intercept a lot of treasure Is if this is a ghost ship that became a ghost ship right on their way back from finding a whole load of treasure and booty Right I mean at the very least you might get some cool piratey weapons, a parrot skeleton, some cutlasses and flintlock pistols. There's gonna be something you can scavenge.

I will say as well, the throwing the rock into the mist, it does seem silly, but that is what we call in the business, the ghost test. When you see something mental, pause, take a breath, grab a rock, and throw it. I will say, just to attach onto that, that only works for ghosts and spirits and that element of the paranormal. If you are out in the woods and you think you see a sleeping Sasquatch, don't throw a rock at it.

Because it either is Sasquatch or it's a bear. And that's not a good way to wake him up. Keen to get a handful of pirate booty for himself, Leon swam out and boarded the ship. To his surprise, when he reached the deck, he wasn't alone. In front of him stood a group of- That shouldn't be surprising.

A ship? The ship? Why would the ship be empty? The ship is clearly sailing No, it's drifting through the mist. It's an old frozen This isn't three thousand miles in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is Donna River Yeah, it came from the ocean drifted downstream. It looks like it's a hundred years old there's no way there's gonna be anyone on board this ship and yet in front of him stood a group of frost-covered sailors. Wow, are they standing statue-like, like frozen, like icicles?

Frozen on the spot. I mean, I've heard of freezing your seamen, but this is ridiculous. Oh my god. This entire story was just a setup for that line. Leon was stuck on the spot, unable to move as the sailors shifted along the deck But they weren't moving towards Leon. They were revealing a coffin He slowly approached the coffin and can you imagine the fear that shot through his body? When he realized he was looking down at the face of his own wife

This is not real. It is. This is categorically. Silence. Fog of the sea. I cast fog of the sea to cover up the plot holes in my story. I play pot of greed.

Why does it sound like you're summoning Yu-Gi-Oh cards? Mist of the sea. Leon left the ship as quick as he could, but it was too late. By the time he arrived home, his wife was dead. I shouldn't laugh. Is that funny to you, you sick bastard? This is just playing out very dramatically, very quickly.

Something funny about dead wives and frozen seamen that makes you giggle. Nothing is funny, but it's just... I'm just gonna venture to guess that maybe in the next scene, he wakes up, he wakes up and this was all a dream. Oh, there is more to this story, Kit. But our next chapter takes place... Why would his wife... Was he a pirate? Was he somehow connected to the sea in some way?

Why would his wife? This is obviously like a symbolic dream or something or a vision No it was a real ship The rock test The ice pirates, the f***ing white walkers from Game of Thrones Got their hands on his wife's body and coffin. And his wife wasn't dead, by the way. When he left the house five minutes ago,

his wife wasn't dead. She was alive. Oh, but she is now. She is now. She is dead now. 100%. And she was, right. And the funeral director's over at the ice pirate

funeral director's home. Look, it's very similar to the Irish banshee. You see it, you hear it scream, and you know that at that moment, someone in your family, someone that you love and care about has passed on. Yeah, but the Banshee doesn't take you on a kind of Muppets Christmas Carol,

Scrooge-esque, trip down memory lane showing you, you know, everything that could have been. The Banshee just screams and that's it. Yeah. That's more realistic. These guys, they're really throwing a lot at the wall. They could just be a ghost. They don't even have to have a pirate ship. What's a pirate ship doing in a river?

This is a whole, that's what I'm saying. I mean, fog of the sea, fog of the sea, don't ask questions. This is a f**king 4D Disneyland experience. There's paid actors. You can get a picture with Goofy at the end. This wasn't the only sighting of the Wyoming Ghost Ship of Impending Death. Crazy long name.

In 1887, one year before cameras were made readily available to the public in 1888. You're a piece of work, you know that because I've said it before, when I'm hosting a story, suddenly cameras have been around. Bro cameras I think Leonardo da Vinci invented cameras bro there's no excuse for not having evidence but when Rory hosts the case suddenly he's a he's a he's a historian of photography technology I just want to make that clear the Kodak 1 picture box was released to the public in 1888, so don't come at me asking for photos at the end of this episode, okay? You're a piece of work.

Photos didn't exist. Not back in 1887. Cool. All right, well I hope we can see birth certificates, names, records of these things happening, hopefully newspaper statements where they provide interviews to the police and people like that. How about a testimony from one Gene Wilson, a Wyoming cattleman who was rounding up his herd down by the riverbank. Great, a cattleman.

The next best thing. His dog suddenly began to bark repeatedly at the water. Gene tied up his horse and walked down to the river's edge to see what all the commotion was about. Here he described a sight that quote, sent shivers down my spine. Slowly drifting towards him through a thick frozen mist was the Wyoming Death Ship. Is Wyoming that cold? I don't think so.

I think the mist and the frost is almost part of the mystery the mystery I guess to be fair. I think it has some pretty wild wild kind of extremes of climate Yeah, I don't think it's consistently cold or hot. Yes, you know, it's probably in between We're talking hot semen cold semen stop talking about that. I'm not trying to talk about that Now of course just like Leon Weber Jean couldn't help himself and swam out to climb aboard the ship What is wrong with these people these guys got nothing on? Gene couldn't help himself and swam out to climb aboard the ship. What is wrong with these people? These guys got nothing on.

I mean, maybe you're underplaying the lure of this ship. Maybe there is, that could be part of it, part of the mystery. I think- It calls to them. I think that's what I'm saying right now. I think there's a siren-esque, I'm calling it, I think there's a siren-esque quality to this. There's an inevitability that if you see this ship,

you are being simply drawn in. You don't have really too much of a choice in the matter. Just like Leon, once aboard, Gene was greeted by a gathering of sailors. I hope he's not married. This time, the crew motioned for a cloth-covered casket. They're changing it up now to be lowered by ropes and as soon as it hit the deck the cloth was pulled away to reveal his wife okay he was married his

dead wife I like that he's like what would you guys have done if I just didn't swim aboard like would you just have been like ah he didn't take the bait right are you killing her yeah what is going on? And what's with the pageantry? You don't really need to do this, guys. Like, maybe if we'd sped up this process, I could've got home and saved her. You guys spent 15 minutes lowering the casket from the sails. It didn't need to be this complicated. Of course, when Wilson ran home, he discovered his house had been destroyed in a fire with

his wife still inside. Jesus, that is terrible. I do think there is an element of truth to what you're saying, that there is a terrible irony in all of this, that it is as if he's being distracted from, you know, like he was probably on the way home being like, I did leave a smoking hot pot of porridge on the hob at home, but so I better get back and turn off the hob. Oh, what's that? There's a, oh cool, a ship.

And then he burned about, pun intended, about two hours swimming over to the ship, getting on board, drying himself off. Oh yeah. When he could have been at home saving his misses. So there is a terrible irony in this. It's almost as if they're distracting him, holding him back and then being like,

and she's gone. That is a really good theory because in all the stories we hear, the same day people see the ship is typically when, let's face it, their wife dies. But there is no story that necessarily claims it happens at the exact same time. It's very hard to say.

Only on the same day do they always say. I mean particularly we're talking about the early 1800s. It wasn't like, because I work from home most of the time, I am with my wife almost 24-7. The most we're talking is I go to get some milk from the shop. I'm getting withdrawal symptoms. I'm just not used to being on my own. I start panicking, breathing into a symptoms. I'm just not used to being on my own. I start panicking, breathing into a paper bag. I'm not used to being on my own.

Back in the 1800s, simply to go to work would require leaving your wife for 10 months of the year as you board a shipping vessel to Alaska. Oh yeah. You might, if you were lucky, if you were a rich man in the 1800s, you might see your wife three times a year. Yeah, if even. So even, you know, fair enough. It was

a bit more of an expedition. Yeah. Those old timey explorers, they would kind of arrive just in a new continent they've never been to before. They're talking to the locals and the people there and the locals are like, Hey, you can, you could settle in here. You could, you know, get married and have kids. And they're like, Oh, I have kids. Yeah. They're back in London. Yeah. I should write them. I wonder what they're up to. Yeah. They're real small. Well, actually, I guess not anymore. Yeah. No, I think about it. They're all about 45 years old. Yeah, actually. That's crazy. Yeah. I left on their second birthday

we've been sailing for six years so little men I'd say because we don't live that long right now well the next time this ghost ship was seen was 25 years later when Victor Hebe was down by the river taking a smoke break. The creator of eBay.com. But soon? Richard Hebrae, Hebae? Hebae! Why is that a weird name? Maybe I'm pronouncing it wrong.

Heby? Victor Heby? Hyde? Creator of the Jeebies. How? I don't know why Mr. Hebae is such a funny name. I definitely pronounced it wrong. Hold on, how would you pronounce this second name? I just texted it to you even though you're two feet away from me. I don't know. I don't know

Hebe hi be I just see I was not so easy anymore. Is it's all fun to laugh at Rory when he can't speak We're just gonna go with Victor As I said Victor was down by the river taking a smoke break from chopping firewood But soon the smoke puffing from his pipe would be replaced with a thick fog. Oh, here we go. A thick fog emanating from the nearby river. No one would know if this was happening anymore because everyone's hitting vape pens so hard. Oh yeah.

Like, you don't know if it's the Wyoming ghost ship of impending death, or if it's just 25 Gen Zers hitting lost marys in London Fields Park. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I have to walk through fog of the sea just to get back to my flat in East London. Victor slowly craned his neck to discover that he was now face to face with a huge, icy floating vessel, bloating out fog like a smoke machine.

Unlike the others, before he could move towards the ship, the sailors on board called out to him. Which, I really love they've done this enough times that they've realized they can just shorten the whole process. I'm sure the sailors are like are like captain should we wait for him to come aboard the captain's like no it takes ages Just tell them now your wife's dead. Oh, hey, yo You actually might still have time. We'll we'll do some circles here in the water. You might be able to save her But if she's dead come back here You can see her face one last time so much information to take on as a new experience

Actually this story played out a little bit differently than the others Victor's attention was directed to the body of a man not a coffin but a man Hanging from the ship's gallows. Yeah shouldn't have boarded the ship if there's men hanging the ship's gallows. As he looked up and saw this body hanging, it rotated to face him where he saw the pale sunken face of his best friend, who had just recently been wrongfully accused of murder and escaped from prison. At that moment, the ship disappeared in front of Victor's very eyes. And when he returned to the village, he discovered that his friend had been captured

by the police and executed the very same day. I feel conflicted as to whether I believe, like did the friend write this story? It's like, his friend, who was handsome and tall, and yes, was under arrest, but wrongfully, because he was actually innocent. I mean, let's face it, Victor must be a single dude. On board the ship, they're like,

should we show his wife? Hasn't got a wife. It's like, okay, his boyfriend then. I think he's just not in a relationship. Oh, his situation then. I think he's just not in a relationship. Oh his situationship He doesn't friends with benefits a cheeky link who's his cheeky link He just didn't have anyone for them to show and they're like, well, he's

He cut his cousin his friends with a guy who? Definitely killed a dude and is about to be executed put him up hang him from the gallows yeah I love that they're just like grasping absolute straws it's like boys what have you got Jesus not not a lot to go on captain I mean he's kissed a woman once and she stubbed her toe today is that something no it No, it's nothing really. It'd be really embarrassing if they, you know, flip this body that's hanging and then they're like Behold! And Victor's like I don't... who is... is that me? It's like no it's not you! Michael, your friend, you met him two years ago while you were backpacking. He is now

dead. It's like oh yeah so that's him? No that's not him. He backpacking. He is now dead. Oh Yeah, so that's him. No, that's not him. He's died. He's been somewhere. This is a good world ghosts Sorry, let me start over we're ghosts. You should go to him. You need you need to run go to him now I don't even know where he lives. I haven't talked to him in years. We don't really stay in touch. He's still alive No, he's he's dead now I thought this was an interesting one to include, because it's different. It's not always just romantic partners. It can be anyone you know, or even if it's not, even if you don't know them very well. Hey, it's worth talking about because we should talk about the logistics of a omen,

or a kind of omen bearer, the likes of the banshee and so on, because there usually are rules to omens. Because it's not usually just as random as anyone might die. I think I've mentioned before that in my family there is supposedly a family omen of I believe on a number of occasions, on my dad's side of the family, a frog, seems strange but a frog has been spotted

inside the family home on the night that someone in the family has died or will die. Did you, have you told that story already? Yes, I have. I don't remember that. And in the case of the Banshee, this idea of a family omen kind of continues because the Banshee, people often know

that the Banshee screams, cries into the night, on the night that someone has died. Less commonly known is the fact that the Banshee, I believe in the original folklore and mythology, only recognize something like the original five great families of Ireland. That's true, yeah. Of which I can never really remember them,

but you know, some pretty stereotypical names in there, like say the Murphys. Yes. Or the Cavanaas. Or the O'Conners or something like that. Things like that. Yeah, so I don't really know what the rules are around this ship.

Does it only affect people who are near the Wyoming River? Yeah. I mean, what happens if you're passing by this river and no one in your life is scheduled to die, do you not see the ship? Does it only appear when this perfect match-up happens, when someone's about to die in your family and you're by the river? And to make things even more confusing in this mystery today, Kit,

have you noticed something strange about these sightings? They're not real? Each... no. Each one is exactly 25 years apart. Oh, no. Apparently this ship only appears every 25 years to warn someone that their loved one is going to die. Geez, talk about a part-time operation. What are they doing for the other 24 years? I have no idea because I haven't seen this ship appearing anywhere else in any stories. This specific type of ghost ship. So I have no idea what these guys are getting up to.

But that only makes it more confusing because now I'm supposed to believe the ship shows up once every 25 years and only to people whose loved ones are about to die and only when that person is near the Wyoming Platte River. That is a very specific criteria to try and hit every quarter of a century. As ridiculous as that is, these guys still keep more understandable hours than my local hipster coffee shop.

Once every 25 years. It's like, oh, this new coffee place looks great. And they do tacos on weekends. Like, yeah, well, we're actually open once every 25 years, usually under a blue moon when Larry is free from his tattooing job at the weekends. We open for 45 minutes between happy hour and midnight. If the people who ran your hipster coffee shop ran this ship as well, after they showed

you the face of your dead wife, they would say, all right, now I'm just going to turn around the tablet. There's going to be a little question there on the screen and you just hit whatever number you're comfortable with. I'm not going to tip you for this. Motherf**kers. So the options are 80%, 90%, and 200%. That's insane.

The options are, my son, my daughter, or my next wife. Are you picking who dies next? This isn't a tip! This is f**ked! Um, yeah. Yeah. This is a weird little twist to add to the story. Um, I did the math. I like it. I will say. How do you like this?

I like a, I am a sucker for a, I am a sucker for a paranormal time limit or like a reoccurring thing once every 30 years. Okay. Like for example, we saw that kind of similarly with High Brassil. Don't actually remember, sorry,

I'll knock it ahead of myself. That is the mythical lost island that is out in the kind of Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland, High Brassil. I don't remember how often it was, but it was something like once a year, for one day a year, it was invisible from the coast. I was just gonna look this up to see if I could find it,

because we talked about it recently on a podcast. Wow, once every seven years, allegedly. Yeah, I mean, which is pretty infrequent, again, which I think makes actually a lot of sense, because seven in Irish folklore can be a pretty significant number. Let's say someone who was born with magical healing properties

is said to be the seventh son of a seventh son. Right. Things like that. Yeah, I don't know what relevance 25 has in the Wyoming community, but this one, yeah, this is a rare phenomenon. Based off some of those original sightings, I pumped the years into the date to try and figure out

where we are currently. Oh, we're in the cycle. Yeah, so it's interesting to note that the most recent year where we should have had a hit was actually 2012. Oh, shit. Guys, I am putting on my tinfoil hat. You're telling me that the last time the ghost ship was spotted was supposed to be 2012,

the end of the Mayan calendar and the supposed end of the world itself? Pretty crazy stuff. I mean, nothing happened, which isn't a good sign for whether or not this case is actually real. I mean, did it or, hey, hold on. What? Wait.

Okay, I just, I had a blank about how we've found out about it. Okay, so if you're telling me this is happening every 25 years, I need up to date testimonies. Yeah, I assumed you might say this. Because that means we need one in the late 80s? Is that what that is? Well, shit, yeah, we need one. 1983.

Yeah, all the way through the 1900s. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah look That's just when the ship shows up if someone who's by the river is about to lose a loved one Maybe loved ones don't die that much anymore. I don't think that's true Even in Wyoming, I know I understand it's sparsely populated, but people die in Wyoming. They really do I'm just saying maybe this thing is waiting around But if no one shows up with a partner or a loved one who's about to pass away the ship does not appear so I think 2037 we knew you I need to go

there I think I need to go there okay walk along the river by me I'm the one who's got a damn wife don't send me over there well yeah but see you this is the problem you're my loved one so you need to be you need to be in a warehouse with a gun pointed to your head and So you're about to die and then I'll walk along the river and if I see the mist or anything like that I'll say I'll say don't shoot don't shoot because we've like tricked them into summoning the ship You know, does this make sense? This is like the worst horror movie ever. It's so complicated, it's like so hard to follow, almost. Uh, it is very complicated. It's a weird story, it's a wonderful story,

but the best part is about these little mini mysteries is we don't have to come down on a conclusion. We don't have to decide whether it's real or not. We can just enjoy the ghost story that we heard today. So I hope you all enjoyed hearing a little bit more about the Wyoming ghost ship of impending death. Yeah, I came up with that name myself, so I didn't appreciate when Kit kind of razzed it on the podcast a little because I spent a lot of time last night coming up with a cool flashy name

and it was cooler than V1. All right. Ghost boat. V1 actually has a little bit of a ring to it, so it's kind of fast, I kind of like that. Hey, I love it, I'm glad that we are getting to kind of top this up, add it to the great pyramid of ghost ships. It's a pretty illustrious list, so to have the Wyoming Ghost Ship of Impending Death on there, I mean, actually I'm coming around to the name. It actually sounds a little bit more badass than

The Philadelphia experiment sounds pretty cool If you enjoyed this check out some of the other haunted ships that we've talked about before the Philadelphia experiment the Flying Dutchman the man of Medan The Queen Mary there's so many that we've covered on the podcast before. Check them all out. We got new episodes coming out every Tuesday. And for those episodes, we do come down on a conclusion. If you enjoyed this episode and the main episodes, but you still want more, there's only one place to go and it ain't Wyoming, brother.

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No, no, no, no, no, it's mostly docked. It's been docked for a lot of years. It's sea unfaring, because it's unfair to put that thing in water. But, but. Cruel. You could put on an eye patch and drink some ale on it. So, is it a boat?

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