AskReddit Thread: Sailors' Craziest Supernatural Stories

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mattstaff
Nov 8, 2021 11:00 PM EST

It's easy to forget about just how much craziness is occurring out in that big ole ocean. The idea of being far out at sea in the middle of night, and encountering some kind of sound that escapes all explanation is just a little bit unsettling. If anything these accounts from various sailors might inspire you to fully commit to never taking up with a sailing gig. 

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    Font - Posted by u/HijoDelSombreron 1 month ago O 2 36 230 3 52 36 [Serious] Sailors, seamen and overall people who spend a vast amount of time in the ocean. Have you ever witnessed something you would catalog as supernatural or unusual? What was it like? Serious Replies Only
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    Font - ipoopedamuffin 16 days ago My grandfather who was a ship commander told us stories about how they where in the Bermuda triangle during the Vietnam war while looking for soviet submarines and they saw a ghost ship out there. It was a pirate ship from the 1700's or early 1800's. The ship was glowing a yellowish hue and was completely deserted. They actually wrote in the logs that they had to hail the ship (flag it down) as it looked so real. 90 men saw the ship and reported it, so it was de
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    Font - JacobBJones 15 days ago I've been in for a little over 20 years now but as a young seaman I remember going on my 2nd deployment across the pond from Florida. It was my first time going over there and as soon as we hit the Bermuda Triangle the ship lost power. It happened again on the way back which made it even crazier. Buuuut I was on a frigate so it could have just been an old ship doing old ship things.
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    Font - blacksmithtom 12 days ago I was on a carrier and we were in the Bermuda triangle, we had planes in the air, all of a sudden the sky grew gray, the water smooth as glass, even the wake from the ship was gone in a few seconds. Even though we were going fairly fast there was no wind coming from the bow. I had a friend in navigations and he said the instruments went crazy. The radio was static, the planes in the air were gone off radar. You couldn't tell where the horizon was, it was just end
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    Font - peregryn8 15 days ago This was in the late 70's. We were in the South Atlantic near Antarctica on an oceanographic research boat, middle of nowhere and hadn't seen another ship in three weeks. A calm day with fog here and there so we were sounding the foghorn as required. (not a pleasant experience on the bridge as your ears get blasted every 60 seconds) I was on the wheel when the mate said-"Whoa! Look at that!" Out of a fog bank about 500 yards away a two masted topsail schooner suddenl
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    Font - Glamdring155 14 days ago · edited 14 days ago When I was a kid growing up in Slidell, Louisiana, my dad used to take me fishing on Lake Pontchartrain. One day, out of nowhere, a sea serpent went past our small boat. It was doing the whole serpentine thing, and had to be at least fifty or sixty feet long. It had a head like a horse, with some kind of whiskers or tendrils. It looked exactly like every drawing of a sea serpent I had ever seen in books. It had black scales with gold dots the
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    Font - markfineart 15 days ago Probably my experience is common as dirt, but seeing as I rarely spend any time on the water it's unusual to me. In the early 80's I was on a ferry that ran between Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia on Canada's East Coast. The ferry wasn't a huge craft, but large enough for a couple of decks for cars & tractor trailers. The ferry was well away from land when I saw in our path a circular patch of water where there were no waves. The patch was a couple of football
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    Font - Kraig_Kilborne 11 days ago A friend of mine was in the US Navy in the 90's and told me about the time they were doing a man over board drill. Sailor was in the water, they had a ladder down and suddenly this gray "mass" that looked like it could be a part of a whale but definitely was not a whale, appeared below the sailor and lifted him out of the water and up to the ladder. Nothing on radar or sonar or whatever and it disappeared as quickly as it appeared.
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    Font - ZedSteady Once, in the inside passage in south East Alaska I listened and watched orca whales spy hop and make whale noises, and at the same time wolves from shore would call back at them. It probably went on for three or four hours. Just these two apex predators talking back and forth with each other, and me, top of the food chain, scared out of my wits. booksaremybread Freaking. Awesome! Thanks for posting this!
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    Font - TLEToyu 12 days ago I was in the Navy, we were pulling a crazy three day repair job down in the Engine room and I think I was at about hour 30 with maybe an hour nap here or there. I sitting down after fixing the carbon seal on a fuel pump and watching for leaks and I swear this dude in old style dungarees and a dixie cup came up, sat down next to me on the deck plates and said "good job kid". He slapped on the shoulder and walked away. My buddy came up to ask if I saw any leaks and I ask
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    Font - crocushunter 12 days ago edited 12 days ago My sister is a marine archeologist and was working on a research ship with an ROV in the Black Sea about 6 years ago and a large craft followed the ROV back up to the surface!! She said everyone on the ship came out on deck and watched this huge lit craft just under the surface of the water circle around and just sat there. I should get the details. There were many stunned academic'skeptics' on board who were speechless. The technicians and crew
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    Font - AlucardxMaria 12 days ago So this isn't exactly sailor related, but my mom lives on the ocean in a condo and is always looking out her patio windows for manatees and rays and other ocean aninals..well one day (2019) she was looking out and saw what appeared to be a cigar shaped flying craft of sorts go vertically straight down into the ocean.there's no land that's within a visible distance so it 100% had to be the ocean it went into..she called me immediately after to tell me. I've seen U
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    Font - GreenGlowingMonkey 6 days ago This is going to be intentionally vague to avoid saying anything classified. Was on a submarine. Near the end of the underway, I was in the galley helping out, because I was bored (my normal department is engineering). One of the sonar techs comes running down to the galley to show me a piece of раper. One of the sonar instruments gives a visualization of the data it collects (again, intentionally vague). It had drawn a picture of my face. I have no idea how.
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    Font - AltruisticApples 6 days ago My father was a young teen during WW2. He lived in northern Norway and my grandfather had a fishing vessel. Fishing under German occupation was very strict and they often had to work with no additional lights, because of fear of being caught. But once they got far enough out into the ocean, the stars and moon would be more than enough to work by. My father was a very scientific and non- religious man to the very day he died. He saw loads of cool stuff, but was
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    Font - The Lurking_Mister 6 days ago So that UFO that was buzzing around the USS Nimitz off the coast of San Diego in 2004. I was aboard the USS Princeton at that time. I was a fire controlman, meaning I had access and knowledge to the ship's radar systems. The Princeton was the air command/defense platform for the Nimitz strike group. The whole phenomenon was 100% real, and I remember watching the exact same videos you've seen on CNN back then. Weird thing is the video was a regular MP4 video,
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    Font - MisanthropeInLove 6 days ago My grandfather was in the airforce and the most no-nonsense guy I know. He kept telling us it's an open secret to them in the 70s that flying saucers "park" under the ocean.
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    Font - chickencatqueen14 6 days ago I got one for ya! I was in the USN 2010-2014 and deployed twice on two different ships. The first ship I was on the USS Pearl Harbor LSD52 we were deployed doing a west pack. There was a span of time were we were just sailing around in open waters not near any land what so ever. I was one of the topside watch standers meaning that I was responsible for reporting any other sea or air activity (ie other boats or airplanes). The area we were in was so incredibly
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    Font - Matelot67 6 days ago 3 4 3 One of the most magical nights I ever had was when I was serving in a NZ Navy Warship, and we were homeward bound after a long and unpredictable deployment. I was dealing with a bout of insomnia, and decided to go down aft for a breath of fresh air. It was a very dark, moonless night, and as my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I really began to appreciate the phosperesence glowing in our wake, bright green against the dark water. Then I looked closer, to see a pod
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