SLIPPING BELOW THE SURFACE: REAL GHOSTS OF THE TITANIC

In the beginning, the Titanic was a state of the art luxury liner, deemed unsinkable. Striking an iceberg off the eastern coast of Canada, it succumbed to its’ grave at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, claiming the lives of 1,503 passengers and crew.

A haunting image sitting upright on the sea floor in two pieces, 1,970 feet apart, it remains surrounded by an eerie darkness at a depth of 12,500 feet.

Nova Scotia Connection

 

If you have ever seen an actual deck chair salvaged from the disaster in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, then you are familiar with the morbid fascination of such items. 

· A Halifax ship loaded with coffins, body bags and embalming fluid set sail to collect the dead, which were unloaded on the Halifax waterfront upon its’ return. As sombre bells rang throughout the city, the coffins were placed in horse-drawn carriage hearses and taken to makeshift morgues. One of these was Snow’s Funeral Home, now the home of The Five Fisherman restaurant. (reportedly haunted, too) 

· Hotels and boarding houses in Halifax frantically filled up with undertakers, reporters and relatives of the victims.

· Three Halifax cemeteries became the final resting place for some of the victims, a quarter of which remain unidentified. The most infamous is the Fairview Lawn cemetery, where The White Star Line erected plain granite blocks for headstones.

· The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax has a vast display of authentic Titanic relics, including a lone shoe later determined to belong to a 19 month old English boy; china dishes, furniture items and mortuary bags that were used to collect personal effects.

The Band

As the Titanic began to sink into the frigid water, the eight musicians on board were instructed to assemble and play in the hopes to calm terrified passengers. “Nearer My God to Thee” was the last song they performed as they bravely went down with the ship. (Incidentally, the violinist’s instrument was recovered after ten days and is on display in a museum).

Although the hymn may have been the last composition played by the musicians, this was not actually the last time anyone heard them play. Recently my mother informed me that some years ago she heard of a fisherman who was aboard his boat not very far from the sunken Titanic site, when out of nowhere soft orchestral music could be heard. All had been quiet on board prior to the haunting hymn rising up through the salt air.

There have been several other incidents over the years of others experiencing the same thing when near this spot on the ocean. 

Titanic band members

When you take into account the enormity of the tragedy and the countless experiences of many people who have heard ghostly music in many haunted locations, it is not much of a stretch to understand that perhaps this band does indeed, play on.

Ghostly Interference

Also at the sight of the sinking, other ships have admitted to seeing glowing lights in and above the water for which no logical explanation could be found. Panicked voices shouting for help, unusual radio interference on boats and submarines and phantom SOS signals have also come from this specific area.

Do the victims’ spirits drift around this broken, rusted vessel at its’ resting site? One can only imagine. 

However, there is evidence the captain’s ghost has resurfaced. 

An officer on the S.S. Winterhaven was giving a guided tour around his ship to an unusual man with a deep nautical interest. He felt the passenger was odd somehow but couldn’t place his finger on exactly why. After the tour, he did not see the passenger again. Years later, he saw a picture of the Titanic’s captain, Edward John Smith and was aghast to learn he was the very man he gave the tour to. 

The captain has been also been seen on other ships near the Titanic wreck site from time to time, and it is reported by past tenants of his childhood home in England that he has frequented his former house since his death.

These are not the only spectres to rise out of the unsinkable ship. Many artifacts that have been salvaged (even some replicas) seem to have spirits attached to them. Reports of this are mostly out of Las Vegas and Georgia where items on exhibit move around on their own (video evidence captured) and museum employees have experienced weirdness around the items, such as being pushed and touched. Many reports have surfaced of seeing an apparition of a lady with her hair in a bun. EVP recordings (voices) have been captured in these locales also.

It is a well-known fact in paranormal circles that sites where tragedy has occurred seem to be impacted more by spiritual imprints of the victims, which can surface later.

The ocean floor is not exempt from this as water is noted as a great conductor necessary for the manifestation of spiritual energy.

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