Why Have So Many People Seen Ghost Ships?
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For thousands of years, people have reported seeing ghost ships. From the Flying Dutchman to the Palatine to the Noah's Dove, sailors and passengers and landlubbers alike have long sworn they've seen something haunted out on the seas. But why? Turns out, there's some real explanations. Come learn with me!
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04:27 Some ghost ship stories
24:18 Why we see ghost ships
33:10 credits
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The White Ships and the Red by Joyce Kilmer
Fata Morgana: The Strange Mirages at Sea by Amber Kanuckel for Farmers’ Almanac www.farmersalmanac.com/fata-m...
The Ghost Ship of Salem - God at Work in America by the New England Historical Society www.newenglandhistoricalsocie...
The Legend of the Ghost Ship Palatine by the New England Historical Society www.newenglandhistoricalsocie...
Ghost Ship - The Mysterious Flying Dutchman Story By Shamseer Mambra www.marineinsight.com/maritim...
Is the Queen Mary Ship Really Haunted? By Shamseer Mambra www.marineinsight.com/maritim...
The Palatine Wreck: The Legend of the New England Ghost Ship By Jill Farinelli
Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew By Brian Hicks
Phantom Bark: The Chronotope of the Ghost Ship in the Atlantic World by Julia Mix Barrington
Ghost ships, gales, and forgotten tales : true adventures of the Great Lakes By Wes Oleszewski
True Ghost Stories: Hauntings at Sea: Real Haunted Ships, Boats, Oceans and Beaches by Zachery Knowles
New Tales of American Phantom Ships by Henry Winfred Splitter
Haunting the Wide, White Page - Ghosts in Antarctica by Johanna Grabow
Haunted Houses, Sinking Ships: Race, Architecture, and Identity in Beloved and Middle Passage by Samira Kawash
California Ghosts by Rosalie Hankey
The Ghosts of New York: An Analytical Study by Louis C. Jones
Mail Order Magic: The Commerical Exploitation of Folk Belief by Loudell F. Snow
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Just wanted to say: I never, ever get sick of listening to your stories. You may be a scholar first, but you're also one hell of a storyteller. And, you're adorable! I'm glad you're alive somewhere on this planet with us. Live long, Kaz Rowe. 💜
@@I_am_Irisarc I'm terrible at like, reading tone lol, so if this is sarcastic, apologies for the reply lol. They mean Ned Fulmer, of recent Try Guys cheating infamy
I live in Nova Scotia so you tend to tell me all the scary stories from my town.
To bad they don't have Blue or Pink Lotus wine ...
I find it so amazing that boats are probably one of the oldest things to exist. From Polynesian Voyagers, Ancient Greek/Rome sea battles to medieval times, warships in World War II to now. History is so crazy man.
The urge to float on the big water is ancient
You forgot Vikings, some of the most important boat builders in history. Their longships could traverse both rivers and oceans.
I miss Minoan Crete. 😥
It goes back way further than that, boats (or something resembling them at least) are even older than homo sapiens.
@@gguy3600 hm im curious, you have any more info on this?
the way kaz always got both the facts And aesthetics on point 😳 one of my fave channels to watch
Kaz always has the best and most appropriate drip imaginable for any situation.
Knowledgeable and highly fashionable. Kaz is absolutely hip.
Here I am, shit-posting my total agreement. Let it be known! I have nothing to add.🧐 But yeah, Kaz is pretty awesome.
Yes, she's become my youtube crush. The little things, like lighting change, makes the story so much more.
Kaz has deffo raised the bar for documentary type content. When was the last time David Attenborough dressed as a fish huh?!?!!
This video, when combined with Ask The Mortician’s “The Lake That Never Gives Up Her Dead,” and Jacob Geller’s recent “Fear of Big Things Underwater,” makes for a truly *impeccable* triple feature. 😍 Would HIGHLY recommend the experience! Amazing job as always Kaz! I might be stealing that makeup look to incorporate into my own spooky sea related look later this season, provided you don’t mind of course.
I would like to see Kaz and Caitlyn Doughty do a crossover, but I also fear that, combined, they would be too powerful for mere mortals to safely view.
ahh yes, i've seen both recently and it's an epic trilogy now
I was just noticing that everyone is suddenly afraid of the water all at once. Seconding the recomendation for anyone that hasn't seen all three yet.
you're so right, I have watched all three videos as well and they excellent and informative. I learn't so much. I also would highly recommend watching Ask the Mortician's " The Tragedy of the SS Eastland video if you enjoyed these.
I haven't seen Jacob's vid yet. I also recommend Dark Histories Eilean More mystery video and pretty much anything on the Franklin Expedition.
I went to school on Lake Superior, which is notoriously dangerous to ships. My favorite story is that of the SS Kamloops, which foundered in a blizzard. It turns out that some of the passengers managed to escape in a lifeboat, only to be marooned on Isle Royale without food, fire, or shelter. They sadly froze to death, but not before one of them wrote a message in a bottle and cast it into the lake, where it was eventually found. The Kamloops is still at the bottom of the lake, and one of her crewmembers is still with her: Old Whitey, who's called that because the freezing conditions of the lake have turned his body pure white.
Do kids scare each other with "Ole whitey coming to get you " kinda stuff?
theres a common joke there that the company needs to pay old whitey his overtime since hes still on duty in the engineroom
Oh noooo, near freezing conditions. How deep is the water it’s in, I wonder? If the body’s pretty well preserved…. Ugh, now I’m thinking about the adipocere (uhh a kind of… corpse wax that seeps to the top of the skin on well preserved bodies underwater… it coats the areas of the body that are fattier and has a high likelihood of getting enmeshed with their clothing, so they kind of all get stuck together 🫤). Man. Biology is nuts.
@@AmaraJordanMusic word of the day "corpse wax"
@@gaywizard2000 I’m dyslexic so I much prefer it to “adipocere,” because I always think and hear apidocere. 😅 It’s a pretty grizzly topic, and something you can’t really go back from knowing. 😳
this is a story my dad told me. he works on a ship and one misty morning they saw a shadowy ship in the fog that sailed along side them. but eventually they realized it was just the shadow of their own ship.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the art, intelligence, care, respect, and creativity Kaz brings to each video!? I’m a new subscriber and I have to say I ADORE everything about these videos! 🤩💙
Totally the quality is insane
Idk sounds more like you are in lesbian with her
@@danceyrselfkleen ... 💀 my guy i think you might be too young for the internet
Kaz is absolutely INCREDIBLE! Im so thankful i randomly found her channel 💓
agreed !
Being born and raised in Cape town, I get a strange feeling of pride every time the flying dutchman is mentioned internationally. It's like having someone from your small town high school become famous!
Not from Cape Town, (I’m from Joburg) but I get so excited too! It’s nice to have something like that associated with our country. Have fun in ur strange weather random Cape Town resident! (I love Cape Town I’m just being kinda strange. Not too sure what this comment was lmao but I just get so excited when I see other South Africans)
Not from Cape Town (Bloemfontein) but it's such a pride thing for me anytime I hear mention of it too
As a sailor myself, I can already tell you that every good sailing story deserves a bit of embellishment.
it's only natural since we get so board while underway
My favorite ghost ship is the Octavius! It disappeared in 1762 near Alaska and reappeared in 1775 near Greenland after having been trapped, frozen and unfrozen in sea ice for over a decade. The story goes that the frozen, preserved bodies of the crew were still onboard, having sailed the Northwest Passage posthumously. The Franklin expedition is also very interesting.
...I'm sorry? You saying I accidently named myself after a ghost ship? And here I thought I was just stealing my brother's middle name! XD
One of my favourite folk songs is Martin Carthys version of "Lord Franklin"
@@nights_the_nightingale Dudee, your name is Octavius? U probably know this but you share the name with one of the most psycho and greatest emperors of Rome, I love that guy
And where were you when all this took place! Huh? Huh?
Kaz nailed it with people in the sea being in the perfect headspace to see ghosts. First there is a slowly growing exhaustion from monotonous work with no days off. Then there is watchkeeping. If it's a cloudy night, the sea and the sky appear similar, two almost identical colours stretching in all directions. And all you listen to are monotonous sounds of waves/radio static of emergency frequency/hum of the engine. It's basically a light form of sense deprivation, along with tiredness it makes you see things
I was thinking the same thing. While reading your post, I kept thinking "it could be hypnotizing." I can imagine it being very hypnotic with seeing nothing but sea, sky, and ship for weeks/months, sometimes even longer, on end and the rolling of the old ships without a motor on a windless day/night. Just the thought of that is starting to put me to sleep.
My grandfather is a woodcarver and he always says that wood has the spirit of the tree it came from, and it remains no matter what you make with the wood. Also, I’m very into urbex and have always been taken by the notion of people’s lives and everyday activity ruined and gone. If not actual ghosts, there’s absolutely a strong presence of history in those places. It’s fascinating :)
Does that mean than the spirit of trees is split up when you make more than one thing? Almost like horcruxes? So my bushcrafting group all have a spoon inhabited by the same spirit?
@@marlyd this really intrigued me, thanks for the late night pondering! 🧐
@@marlyd you u cannot split uo " the spirit ..you can drvide one, but their Eternal nature makes them be like deviding up the Zero ...
You can make of it what you will.
Toilet paper comes from wood pulp... *"The toilet paper is haunted"*
The vastness, unpredictability and isolating nature of the ocean terrifies me. Space is like that too but more extreme. We’ll probably have space ghost ship legends one day if space travel continues to advance
One real story in space is of Krikalev who was left on the space station MIR when the Soviet Union fell and came home a lot later than planned
My dad liked using the Edmund Fitzgerald as a way to get my siblings and I to be cautious out on the lakes as a kid. Mostly because of the storms and the currents... but the part that scared me the most about the story is the idea that the ship and its crew are *still down there*, preserved by the cold and conditions. I think the ghostliness of the Great Lakes is less in the idea of ghost ships sailing the lakes themselves, and more in the idea of what's lurking below you when you're way out on the water - There's thousands of frozen snapshots in time, mariners still preserved and hovering at their stations - you can imagine them still down there, wandering the decks where no living eyes can see.
"The crew and the captain well seasoned..." a funny but true line from the song!
“Nuke Lake Michigan!” Robert Evans
I think the idea of haunted objects is absolutely fascinating; in Japanese folklore there's the tsukumogami which are objects that have taken on a spirit. It's not a super definite idea, as it's folklore, but it's basically the idea that anything old enough (tools, plants, animals, etc) can take on a personality and change form. I've heard it explained before as something taking on a personality (like a stubborn umbrella that won't open on command anymore) but I've also seen it also expressed quite literally in folkloric paintings too showing mundane objects turning into things with human-like forms. The way that it's a cross-cultural phenomenon is so interesting!!
I absolutely love how artistic each set is! like no other channel matches the vibes you have
Hi! Massachusetts native here. It’s not pronounced “pubity” but rather “peebity”. There’s an issue with people from out of state pronouncing the town of Peabody as “pee-body” and emphasizing that letter O which is why we always correct them by letting them know that the pronunciation is actually closer to “peebity”.
I live in Dallas, which does have a couple of legends, myths and urban stories. Aside from the obvious ones about JFK's assassination, the most well known among the locals are the supernatural stories surrounding White Rock Lake. The Lady of the Lake is said to have been a young woman from the 1920s that drowned in the lake. There are variations on the story, but the consensus is that during night time, she will emerge from the darkness, all wet, and ask an unsuspecting driver to give her a ride back home. By the time the driver arrives at the location (usually somewhere in Oak Cliff) she would disappear, and leave a puddle of water where she had once sat.
I gee up and have lived in Dallas my whole life and I love those types of ghost stories where "a lady needs a ride home and shit"
I grew up in San Antonio and Corpus, but I have a lot of family in DFW and I’ve heard that story. I love those “young lady needs a ride home” stories.
I think people also personalize ships, in particular. They get gendered, they get assigned particular personalities, they can have moods of their own. A ship doesn't have a soul just because it was made by people, but because she's a ship at sea. The "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is the only shipwreck story I grew up with, but the only song I remembered from my childhood choir was about a sailor seeing one on his midnight watch. I always loved it. Now my favorite song is from Sting's musical Last Ship, called "Ballad Of The Great Eastern," about a ship built by Brunell.
LBC native here! I grew up going to the Queen Mary often just to walk around, and there are definitely permanent residents. You can feel a heaviness in the hospital/quarantine ward especially. That aside, I love the way you present the subject matter no matter the subject in your videos. Your writing is eloquent , and the visuals are beautiful, but they don't take away from the topic. Thank you for telling these stories
I’ve always wanted to visit the Queen Mary! I’ve had a few experiences in various places and always wondered how the Queen Mary would feel.
im also from socal and i stayed at the queen mary for a night and it was very eerie but i didn’t have any supernatural experiences (and i’m honestly glad)
You’re an amazing script writer! Your visuals and costumes are always on point as well as your research and sensitivity to the subject matter, but I just want to take a moment to say how much I admire how beautifully and skillfully you create a narrative.
I know that this might sound weird but have you ever considered into looking into the history of the queer community in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It’s quite interesting as for a long time they were one of few groups in NI to bridge the Ethno-political gap (everyone says Catholic and Protestant because it’s Politer than Irish and British).
You’re such a great storyteller, I could listen to you for hours… and I have 😂 Seriously, thanks for getting me through a couple bad years. When the world’s too outrageous, I put on your videos and go somewhere else. 💕
Oh I love ghost ship stories! There's something so inherently unknowable and terrifying about the sea, added to the inherent superstitiousness all sea-faring people seem to possess (because you need the rituals of superstition in order to stay sane while repeatedly going back to sea to do your job). My family on my mum's side has a lot of ghost stories; one in particular is about a boat instead of a ship, but it has stayed in my head. My great-grandma grew up on a small island in the Westfjords. The only people on the island were her family, who ran a dairy farm; the rest of the island was moor for the sheep to graze. There were several known ghosts on the island and in the farmhouse, and one of them could be seen sometimes if you went down to the shore early in the morning before sunrise. It was an old man in a fishing boat, who appeared normal until you got closer and saw that his clothes were tattered and the boat was full of holes. If he spotted you he'd call out and ask you to help him lift the boat above the high tide mark; it was imperative that you did not do that. If you ignored him and turned away, he'd vanish. But if you responded to his call, approached him, or stepped out on to the beach below the tide mark, he'd grab you and push the boat back to sea, taking you with him. I'm certain this story was mostly told as part of the grand old tradition of "scaring kids so they don't do stupid stuff alone and die", but I like it. And to be fair, it did work on me when I was a kid; my cousins and I never went near the beach without backup.
Yes, they do believe the Titanic encountered a “coldwater mirage,” the weather was just right for it along with the moonless night. Always enjoyable video Kaz!
The Flying Dutchman was a story I grew up with (South African here woo lol), I was always so fascinated by it. Every time we visited the Cape, I'd sit for ages watching the horizon for a glimpse, luckily I never saw it lol, it brings death after all. Van der Dekken (pronounced in South Africa/Afrikaans/possibly Dutch?: fun deR Dekken [rolled R]) was a Dutch captain, considered a monster of a captain, but yes, generally ships went down often because of the weather. The amount of Shipwrecks that happened there are near countless. The South Easterly wind can hit at crazy speeds and the water is like ice. So the Rocky coast never helped either.
Fred D'Aguiar's book Feeding the Ghosts does an excellent job recounting a woman's experience aboard a Middle Passage ship. The idea of thousands of souls, bones, bodies underneath the sea still haunts me today. Such a good book.
I'm so glad I decided to watch this at home instead of only listening to it at work, as I usually do. The Noah's Dove ship visualization is a masterpiece.
Love this! I’m obsessed with shipwrecks and ghost ships are such an interesting subsection of that. Your videos are so well- researched and I enjoy learning new facts from you. Side note: I live in Salem and Peabody is most definitely not pronounced Pubity, whoever told you that is trolling you. It’s pronounced Peebiddy. Can’t wait to see your video about Salem!
Yeah, I was going to ask if more than one person told her that 😆 I grew up in southern Maine, 50 miles or so north of Salem. One of my first Toothaker ancestors, Roger, was arrested and died in jail during the witch trials
@@nancytoothaker3224 Oh, I hand an ancestor who was accused of being a witch too! Mine just left town and lived a long non witchy life.
@@nancytoothaker3224 that’s terribly sad for your family but it’s also interesting historically! I’m sorry for your family even though it was so long ago!
The story of the Flying Dutchman that's most widely known in the Netherlands is that it was meant to set sail on Easter, but this being a day of rest and of god it shouldn't. The Captain being stubborn said they would anyway, 'storm or no storm' so they set out and ended up in a horrible storm, supposedly sent by god to punish them.
The 'floating ship' illusion happens pretty often where I used to live on the Isle of Wight - we'd always say it's quite easy to see why they thought they were ghost ships 🚢 (also worth noting the IOW is a VERY haunted island)
Because you’ve tackled so many amazing and shall I say, ‘niche’ topics, I would be so obliged to hear your take on the lesser known history of Columbus, the Caribbean and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. So very few people know that it was Caribbean Native Americans to first encounter Columbus and experience slavery alongside the Africans imported to the islands. I adore your channel and would be so grateful to hear this untold story from the perspective of someone I admire so.
Speaking of first to America, what about the vikings and portuguese who did trading with the natives there way before Columbus or the english! Oh, and the three japanese fishermen who accidentally ended up on the west coast of america in a storm at sea, durring Japans Isolationist period.
@@chloepainter4064 - yes, that is very true, although it’s worth noting that there was little to no socio-cultural impact with those contacts. They arrived, explored, traded and were pretty much forgotten. I’m referring more to the impact of Columbus and other Spanish and European conquests of the 15th and 16th century which lead to mass slavery of Indigenous and African people in the Caribbean (pre-dating slavery in the USA). I’m always disappointed that mainstream education never mentions that it was the Caribbean Natives who were first contacted by Columbus and his men, not Northern Native Americans. It was also the origin of the Trans Atlantic slave trade (a century before the first slaves were brought to Virginia) and that is never mentioned either.
@@Wildflower687 just recently an Italian manuscript was discovered that was written nearly 2 centuries before Columbus was born and mentions that the people of Northern Europe swore there was another landmass to the east of Greenland. It is starting to look like, at least among sailors, the idea of another landmass spread way further than was originally thought
Isn't it weird that you write a comment about Carribbean Natives encountering Columbus and you get not one but multiple replies about vikings/ other euro contact unrelated to the topic?
@@smrtfasizmu7242there is documented ocean voyage between South America and various islands in the Pacific for a long time before any documented european ocean travel, so that's not as impressive as you might think. People had maps and navigation skills for a long ass time before vikings came along
I'm surprised you didn't mention St. Elmo's fire! It happens in really specific conditions and is actually a kind of electrical phenomenon like lightning, so it happens a lot during storms on the pointy metal ends of the ships masts and rigging and such, which could have been confused for a ship with ghosts lights! It's also been known to happen on things like church steeples (metal rod and all), which would understandably make people think it was a divine happening kind of thing.
The way you made the lighting and wardrobe so on theme gave me a lot of dopamine. Thank you for teaching us such interesting history once again. Also, thank you for still telling people to wear masks, it really means a lot as a disabled person who has lost a lot of trust in folks who have stopped doing so. We're still in a pandemic, and bc of all the people not masking a lot of new variants are here. Stay safe folks.
Interesting that there isn’t a similar phenomenon in Polynesian sea faring. Also, other natural events like Auroras, bioluminescence, and all kinds of fun light refractions can cause all kinds of optical illusions. And just something as prosaic as passing an unmapped island at night would be enough to freak a drunk crew out. 👻⚓️
I've always had a fascination with Davie Jones's Locker. The sheer amount of human dead in there is insane. Thousands upon thousands of sailors for millennia all in the same resting place. Pretty interesting to think about
I think about that a lot too. I also think about how my government asked the navy to push migrent boats back into the ocean. I wonder if there will ever come a time when people will push shipwrecked navy personal back into the ocean and face minimal backlash. RIP little Ahmed and the countless others.
I stayed on the Queen Mary on a school field trip and it was one of the scariest hotel experiences any of us had ever had.
wow. hearing about the ghost objects and haunted homes gives me a new look on the phrase “home is where the heart is.” like, we really give it a piece of our heart/soul. also, passing on some of the magic to the objects we create/“give life to” is an interesting idea. gotta write that one down
I always love stories of people picking up some beautiful piece of furniture or decorative art at an antique shop or estate sale, and it turns out to be haunted as hell. Really fascinating stuff, I agree.
LIVED IN MASSACHUSETTS MY WHOLE LIFE NOONE SAYS PEABODY LIKE THAT THEY WERE 1000% MESSING WITH YOU LOLOL
seconded lol. either they straight up lied or they were trying to explain it as kind of rhyming with puberty but yeah no that's not it lol.
Was coming here to say the same thing!😂 Definitely only heard it said Peabody like pea body or pea-bah-d they were def messing with someone that doesn't know how to say mass names😂
The Ghost Ship that I'm most familiar with from my home town, isn't on the ocean, it's the Tombigbee River, and she's called the Eliza Battle. A steamboat that carried passengers and cargo, caught fire and wrecked, with many of the people burned or drowned. The lore is that if you see her, disaster is sure to follow, and I've known a couple of people who claimed to have seen it. She rolls down the river in flames, and supposedly you can hear people screaming, and then poof, it's gone. While I readily admit to knowing people who've claimed to have seen it, keep in mind, there is 1 stop sign and 4 buildings in the entire town, so telling a yarn on the front porch of the general store, is not uncommon either.
I’ve lived in Rhode Island all my life (northern Rhode Island to be a little more specific) and I have literally never heard the history of block island, nor have I ever been to the island because the ferry ride is too expensive. I love when my little home state shows up in random places on the Internet
SAME AND SAME. I get so excited when someone mentions Rhode Island.
Like northern RI is really different than Southern!? Is there central too? I'm ribbing. I was wondering what it's like now ,Block Island, do people live there? What are the dimensions of RI in miles?
An interesting and somewhat obscure myth relating to haunted ghost ships is the legend of the Klabautermann! It's described as a water spirit/kobold that helps fisherman and sailors when they fall overboard or sends a warning when danger is to come. But if anyone is to see it, then that ship is doomed to sink. The most famous representation of the myth is in the manga series One Piece, where, in that series, it becomes more a spirit of the ship itself given life thanks to a crew who cares deeply for it, and there's a whole emotional sequence that many cite as the scene that made them sob over a fictional boat. Thought you might like to know that little tidbit! Very cool video btw!! Your vids are always super interesting!!
omg I was gonna mention that too!! and yes I did cry about a fictional boat
Okay but I loved the dramatic reenactment of the Salem ghost ship 😂😭 **chef's kiss**
For anyone who wants a scary ghost story that gets REAL intense, From Below by Darcy Coates is a good read. I listened to the sounds of a scuba dive during parts of it (the narrative goes between the ship’s last voyage and modern day people going to the mysterious wreck, just found a hundred years later) and it upped the spookiness and feeling of claustrophobia. Definitely a recommended read. For a book like that but with a sci fi twist, think Titanic (a luxury ‘ship’ with a lot of celebrities), but in SPACE and it goes off radar and never returns. Just before a deep space crew comes home for the last time, they get a weak distress signal on an old emergency broadcast wavelength and decide to check it out. They aren’t prepared for what they find and it seems SOMETHING on board does not want them to make it out alive. Dead Silence, by S. A. Barnes. They’re both ghost ships in a way, both with really descriptive and creepy set pieces, and I read both of them in a weekend (a weekend each, heh). The imagery really stays with you. It’s been eight months since I read Dead Silence and the mental image of people floating in what was once the pool, now frozen, some encased in water, some in evening gowns, some injured… it’s still very vivid.
I remember an old Ted Ed video about ghost ships. Some "ghost ships" are perfectly real! Sometimes, when a ship is abandoned after a collision and it takes on water, the water only fills until it hits equilibrium. It can keep floating on its own, still buoyant because the water didn't become too heavy. The same abandoned ship can be seen multiple times in different places years apart because of ocean currents. Scientists were able to track some current systems by charting abandoned ships!
You're historical, cultural, and mythological videos are immensely informative and equally entertaining with the one on Sarah Winchester and her not-so-Mystery House being my top favorite at the time of this writing. I'm about to watch this latest one but the subject of ghost ships is most mouthwatering, pun intended.
THE CALLOUT TO NED FULMER IS REALL I SCREAMED. that was Smooth, Very smooth I love your videos lmao
Kaz is consistently excellent in their work. Not only do you go for facts but you also go for a storytelling and also visuals and details. You put your heart and soul into your work and it is appreciated
No single person can be referred to as "they"; that is always and exclusively plural.
@@madmonkee6757 I'm respecting their pronouns. It's right in the description of their channel. Don't grammar Nazi me buddy.
@@madmonkee6757 they're using "them" right tho, it can be both plural and singular babe 😋
@@madmonkee6757 how would you refer to a single person if you were unsure of their gender?
@@madmonkee6757 except it isn’t because as far as I know “they” as a singular pronoun was used a while ago
i’m so mad that i’ve managed to go this long without knowing about your channel because i’m obsessed !!! keep up the amazing work
You’re the full package, Kaz!! Another great video. The drowned sailor vibes were immaculate.
I appreciate how you put so much effort into the aesthetic of your videos: the lighting, the costumes, the graphics and music…wonderful
Really enjoyed this one! How has no one else mentioned the amazing CGI ship yet? Legendary skills. 😝
Truly top tier. 😂
I adore how much work you put into the vibes of this one. Lovely!
My very first thought when I hear "ghost ships" is Fata Morgana! Optical illusions without scientific explanations would be especially spooky at sea, and I'd probably think there was something weird going on if I saw ships or entire cities floating above the horizon too.
I absolutely love this channel! I found it a month or two ago and wow! I'm a big history nerd so seeing all these videos about different time periods is just so great. I like how Kaz dresses to match the era and cracks jokes at the appropriate times. I've watched nearly all of them while drawing, keep it up Kaz!!
Thank you for including your sources, that description box is damn THOROUGH. Amazingly researched video as always
I really appreciate how much heart,soul and research Kaz puts into their content.Absolutely adore these videos💞
I just absolutely adore this channel~ informative, entertaining, and Kaz is always bringing the best vibes with the sets and costumes. (I hope we will get to see more from Salem, MA in future vids❤️)
I have always been so fascinated by this. You covered the topic so well, tho im no expert lol. I love your videos so much you are so respectful with every topic you do and i love how you site your sources keep up the amazing work 💖slay
You are such a talented storyteller! Absolutely love your channel, Kaz.
This video reminded me of "Tugs," a children's television about the life of tugboats in the 1920s. The show does a spectacular job at depicting the nuances (both good and bad aspects) of a life in the harbor. Night shots in the show are beautiful, eerie and atmospheric all at once. I highly recommend it to anyone that is interested.
There is one from the 80's? I watched that when I was a little one. Your comment just fired up memories I have not thought about for a long time.
Great vid, thanks! (pibbody is a common pronunciation amongst us natives). Probably one of the most known, documented, and mis represented sea voyages is the Mayflower. While in no way a ghost ship, its voyage demonstrates the dangers of sea travel in the early days, with a number of casualties onboard during the journey. Imagine what must have happened to those who hadn't actually paid for a crossing.
Love this. I did not grow up near the ocean, but I grew up on the coastline of Lake Huron. We have lots of fun shipwreck stories here, and even have pirate and trader re-enactors who perform every fall at the mouth of the river where it connects to the bay. My favorite water horror stories were not the shipwrecks though, it was actually the stories of the people who went over the Niagara Falls in barrels and various devices. One of my favorite memories is going to the museum at the falls which has a bunch of the vessels that went over the falls.
the lighting and makeup got me FERAL it's so good!!
Kaz you’ve been blessing my feed so regularly latelyyyyyy ❤❤❤❤
Speaking of the Queen Mary, for a long time they had a Halloween event called Dark Harbor where the characters were based off the actual ghost sightings. It closed when QM did/for covid…and now I don’t know when/if it’s coming back, because rn the dock has been taken over by…wait for it…Shaqtoberfest. Which is exactly what it sounds like. I heard of it at the Midsummer Scream con panel and wanted to go SO bad…BUT ALAS
Shaqtoberfest sounds like I'm trying to get hammered at a beer tent while a bunch of wanna be thug teens wing basketballs around blasting sh.tty music and I'm about to lose it!
Shaqtoberfest sounds like a Shaq themed temporary museum that displays the dude's every single known detail, even the shaq fu game is playable there
Shaqtoberfest sounds like a beergarden where I can sample a variety of good German beers while schmoozing with Shaq himself and listening to him regale us with his tales of love and life and straight ballin'.
Thank you for highlighting Mr. Burroughs. I'm an relative of his on my moms side. It is interesting to hear about his story through you. ❤️
Awesome video, Kaz! Thanks for uploading.
i always get so excited when you have a new video coming out, thankyou so much for all your hard work! im excited to read about Claude Cahun as well xx
I'm literally writing about a haunted, ghastly fisherman styled ship that appears on a town THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO SO MUCH!!!! Ok so about objects being haunted, i'm guessing there's also some kind of idea of ghosts possesing and manipulating these objects from beyond the grave. Many paranormal experiences involve a ghost manipulating an object they were tied to in live, like a clock or some kind of artifact they liked, or many times, the object that killed them. With ships, they are haunted and ghastly just as much as the people in them maybe because they're the object that lead these people to their deaths. Ships also serve as the place of tragedy, and we've all heard many haunting stories taking place on sacred grounds that are haunted or houses where tragedies happened. So a ship is both this tragic place where a terrible thing happened, as well as the object that made this tragedy able to happen, which is probably why the ghost ship idea is so popular and why the ship is also regarded as a ghost or an aparition.
hundreds of years from now, people will tell the story of a ghostly visage who continues to post interesting and educational videos to a long-forgotten platform, and a spectral crew of likers and subscribers who continue to support them. spooky
Great video for the spooky season! Also, loving the blue lights, perfectly fitting for the subject. Great work!
Love what you did with the lighting and makeup on this video. Well done Kaz!
This video was the perfect mix of research and open mindedness. I love it sm!!!
Your sets just keep getting cooler and cooler I love it ❤❤❤ thank you for always putting out such interesting, engaging videos :)
love your voice! its very relaxing :) and you tell stories so well
hey Kaz, your videos are amazing. I’ve been binge watching them all day at work. Thank you. Keep up the great content. Also your set/background and outfits are amazing
In wondering how there are ghost ships and trains, I wonder if it is either one of two things. One, that they are farriers of humans in our lives and like how you said about our homes ‘vessels’ for our souls in the afterlife. Or second, that often times, particularly in the instance of ships, they are personified-named, talked about like a mistress, taboos about them must be honored or things go wrong, and so much human energy is put into them and these taboos and beliefs and personifications for many many years, decades or longer. On top of having the energetic tie to crew and passenger in the instance of say a ship wreck that manifests a ‘ghost’ from that collective energy.
Oh I love this. Always always love a good spooky seaboat. Lighting here is damn awesome.
amazing video as always! super excited for the next one
Such a good vid! You're such a captivating writer I was hooked the entire time
Congrats. The “Bed Bulmer” bit made me spit out my coffee all over my embroidery.
YEEEEAH KAZ ROWE UPLOAD
ive seen the tiktoks teasing this vid and i LOVED them i think its the best way to promote new content i cant wait to see the result of the work uve done to research this!! + u always talk abt new subjects to my knowledge/ones that are adjacent to my studies its really great
I'm absolutely in love with your videos! Thank you for such high-quality content, it's precious
I love your videos Kaz! There’s something really special and beautiful about how you talk about history.
Absolutely LOVED this ahhh! Also the aesthetic+set is immaculate ✨
also I’m screaming at the Ned part ksnfksjdd
I recently stumbled upon this channel and I am hooked. The presentation, your voice and on point fashion drew me in but you're such a great spinner of yarns I keep coming back. Thank you for just being you
impeccably done as always, thank you so much for the content!! I could watch your videos for hours (and have recently lol)
I always forget just how horrific the Witch Trials were until I hear some messed up detail about them again.
Same every time I hear a witch story or shit wit witches. I forget how actually terrible it was
Kaz is such a great story teller, and so careful to check facts. Love their work xx
First video I've seen from this channel and I'm already so invested with the outfits, lighting, mood, visuals and beautiful poetry
Not sure why this came up on my feed but I enjoyed this! Looking forward to watch your other content. Thanks!
awesome video Kaz!!!! Have you seen the new Interview with the Vampire/thought of doing a video on Vampires this October? I feel like you’d love it ❤
idk how widespread this was in the Great Lakes region, but everyone knew of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I'm pretty sure we had a bit of 4th grade class set aside to listen to this sea shanty about the shipwreck. I don't remember any specific ghost stories, just visiting a bunch of lighthouse museums as a kid, which included the bell recovered from tbe Edmund Fitzgerald wreck
Love your vids, Kaz!!
This was really well done love a good ghost ship story, much love to you Kaz
Oh GREAT now I gotta add "drowned sailor" to the list of aesthetics I'm attracted to 😪
Just got here from the "Ask a Mortician" video on the wreck of the SS Eastland (which youtube in it's infinite wisdom is trying to bury) and yeah, there is something uniquely sad but fascinating about shipwrecks that makes me (and other people I guess) want to believe in haunted vessels. Great video, the local story to my area is the very real Isles of Scilly mass wreck of 1707, which was such a disaster for the Royal navy it directly lead to the invention of modern mechanical watches, as the navy pumped a fortune into trying to find a reliable way to calculate longitude. The ships were sailing with dead reckoning, and when a number of common sailors smelt people burning Kelp (for alkali ash used in glass manufacture) when they were supposed to be far from shore, they questioned if the officer calculations for longitude were correct, the admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell had them hanged for questioning his authority. local legend is that after the wreck the commander Sir Cloudesley Shovell was punished for his hubris by washing up still alive only to have a local peasant woman strangle him for his gold rings. The Isles of Scilly are drenched in this sort of stuff, with legends of ghost ships and wreckers: the church on the isle of Tresco is built largely of the timber salvaged from wrecks, is called “The wreckers church” by the tourist board, and has a stained glass with the motto “Lord god, we pray that you do not wreck ships, but if thou must, please wreck them here.”
your videos are a highlight of my month!!! spooky vibes, pretty aesthetics, and cool history to learn - three of my favourite things!!!