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A GHOSTLY CREW
A stormy day year 1869 the schooner Charles Haskell from Gloucester in Massachusetts found an anchorage for the night, among other ships which were pressed together at Georges Bank, an Atlantic fishing place. When the darkness had fallen the storm made Haskell's anchor to lose its grip and the boat drifted in to another fishing boat which sank so fast with all on board that Haskell's captain and crew didn't found out until later that it had been Andrew Jackson from Salem.
According to the legend, that same week, a sailor were standing guard at midnight on Haskell and he saw a movement on the fore deck. While he looked one shadowy figure after another climbed onboard over the ship's rail in dripping oilskin clothes. It was a phantom crew, probably the men from Jackson, who set invisible sail and hauled in just as invisible fishing net under death silence.
The legend says they returned every night until Haskell returned home. When they came to Gloucester the whole crew refused to sign on again. Haskell were sold to a a man from Nova Scotia after a few months in harbour, and he decided to never sail her to Georges Bang. It is said the phantom fishermen never showed again.
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