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Hey sailors did your ship have any spooky ghost stories attached to it? Please share?
Any branch can share their stories! When I was in I was told that the ghost of a little girl haunted the fantail at night. I was a new BM so I was scared as hell to stand the balls to 4 watch out there alone, eventually I had to do it but I never saw her
The other tale was of a chief who loved the Navy so much that he slept on ships for 20+ years although he had a house out in town. They claim the one and only day he went home to sleep in house was the day he died in his sleep. His ghost was seen walking around his last ship at nights (the ship I was on). Fortunately I never saw him either
What stories does your ship have attached to it?
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
I worked on the shipyard in Kittery, Maine/ Portsmouth NH; it's the oldest working shipyard in the US, and where the USS Constitution is maintained. There are buildings on that shipyard that date from all eras. We got the chance to tour the Castle, the old abandoned military prison there...that place is definitely haunted. That place is the creepiest place I've ever been. I didn't personally see anything but one of the guys we were with saw something that scared him so bad he started stuttering and refused to go on further..he would not tell us what he saw but he was as white as a sheet and completely freaked out...this guy is not a young guy, either. He's in his 30s and he's not exactly a big chicken. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Naval_Pris...
Also, years ago I went to school (army) at Fort Devens Mass. Part of our school was in the basement of the old Hale Hall there, and the Halls were former German POW barracks from WWII. You could go up in the attic and there was actually an old pistol range up there (had thick concrete walls with bullets still embedded in the walls.) The rumor was that a German POW killed himself there, but never saw him the year I was there. But the toilets would flush by themselves in the first floor latrines, and the faucets in the third floor latrine would start running by themselves. And the lights would turn off by themselves at night...just weird stuff. We would call the "ghost" George. We even brought the ghost with us when our school closed down during BRAC and moved to Fort Huachuca.
**Oh, I came back because I thought of one more.
On Fort Huachuca, there's a lot of old calvary buildings dating back to the mid-1800's when the fort was a Buffalo Soldier outpost. One building there on the old part of post is called the "hanging building" because one end of it is really high and they actually hung two soldiers there. Rumor was, on two seperate occassions an enlisted soldier raped an officer's wife (two seperate events), was tried and hung in that building. It's said to be haunted...it's used for storage now and no one goes near it, but the MPs have their dogs nearby (and the old vet clinic used to be next door) and occassionally the dogs will all start howling for no reason....just start howling. I found a link to it: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2733733/p... (in the link, the building is listed as the EEO building, but it's not anymore, so take this article and what I say with a grain of salt. Ghost stories seem to get a little mixed up.)
Also on Ft. Huachuca, the hospital commander's house is the old post hospital. I've heard stories of the VIPs that stay there seeing stuff fly off the shelves and a disembodied nurses cap floating around...Thought that was kind of weird.
- John S. MccueLv 58 years ago
It's not a Navy tale BUT...
There is a legend that a workman was sealed in between Titanic's two hulls and for years the workmen at Harland-Wolff's shipyard swore they heard hammering from some undiscoverable location---the trapped workman's ghost wanting rescue.