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FOLK TALE

ACCORDING TO THE PEOPLE IN GUYSBORO, NOVA SCOTIA, THIS IS A TRUE
STORY. IT SEEMS THAT TWO SAILING VESSELS COLLIDED ON THE OCEAN
IN THIS PART OF NOVA SCOTIA. ONE BOAT WAS SINKING SO THE CREW
FROM THE SINKING SHIP CLIMBED ABOARD THE BOAT THAT WAS STILL
STANDING. WHEN THE PEOPLE ON THE BOAT AWOKE THE NEXT MORNING
ALL THE MEN THAT HAD CLIMBED ABOARD WERE MISSING. THEY WERE NEVER
FOUND AND TO THIS DAY, WHENEVER A SHIP PASSES BY THE SAME SPOT WHERE
THE MEN DISAPPEARED, YOU CAN SEE THE GHOSTS OF THESE MEN CLIMB
ABOARD THE SHIP.

Submitter comment: MR. MANTHORNE FIRST HEARD THIS TALE FROM HIS GRANDFATHER
AROUND FIFTY YEARS AGO IN GUYSBORO, NOVA SCOTIA.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal

Date learned: 01-12-1964

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