Ghosts

- The Ghostly Crew Of

SS Watertown -

The Poor Souls

In December 1924 the American tanker SS Watertown was heading down the Californian coast to New Orleans when two sailors, Courtney and Meehan, were asphyxiated by oil fumes and were buried at sea off the Mexican coast.
The next day before dusk, the first mate saw the two faces in the waves off the portside (left side of the ship).
He recognised that as the two dead sailors.
Larger than living heads, the spectres stayed for about 10 seconds, faded and appeared.
On arrival at New Orleans, Captain Tracy purchased a camera before the return voyage.
When the apparition appeared once again, the Captain photographed the faces, then locked the camera and film in his safe.
Later a commercial developer in New York found nothing unusual on five of the six exposures, but one showed the faces quite distinctly (which is the photo on the right).
A detective agency was asked to examine the negative but found no trace of fraud.
After the ship's crew was changed, there was no more report on the sightings.
However, people believed that the apparition was an optical effect.
But, the photograph, if it was genuine, is not easy to explain away.

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