Quite apart from spirits associated with people and places, is the maritime phenomenon of the phantom ship. While ghostly vessels are often found a omens of disaster in European folktales in New Brunswick they usually portend nothing worse than a coming storm.
In Stuart Trueman's collection, Ghosts, Pirates and Treasure Trove: Phantoms that Haunt New Brunswick, he quotes more than a dozen eye-witness sightings in modern times, from St. Martins to Shippagan.
By far the most famous spectral vessel is the phantom ship of the Baie des Chaleurs. For over a hundred years, everyone from a locomotive fireman to an entire Sunday school class with clergy have sighted the flaming vessel floating offshore. "Smoke was billowing up through the rigging. Figures were rushing to and fro on her decks. I called the engineer and he said 'Hell, that's just the Burning Ship,' “reported Richard Jefferson of Grand Anse, in 1892
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I tell ya.. people like to believe it..even if it is just for a bit of a scare for the occasional tourist.. not you of course!!! The painting on the sidebar on my blog down a bit is John's rendition of the Burning Ship that supposedly haunts the Bay of Fundy......
That is a lovely shot of the Caves.. is it a sunrise or delicate sunset reflected back around?
Welcome my dear friend, oh yes I stepped over to check your blog after updating mine - imagine my surprise when I saw John's painting! I like it, I knew it as soon as I saw it.
This is a pix of sunset - I was so fortunate to have gotten it and a few others that I just love.
I love sunrise/sunsets by the sea and can't wait to get back!
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