, 1900-05-11
IN THE d TIMES.
Story of the Appearance of Spooks in
Boston Harbor and the Sequel.

Exactly sixteen days after the blow
ing up Of Captain Chaddock's Inflated
ship and crew, says the Boston Globe,
and just at "the w%itching hour of mid
night as Shakespeare calls it, when
churchyards yawn and hell itself
breathes forth contagion to the air."
three men in a boat coming toward
Boston-strange hour for reputable
puritans to be SO far from home-saw
two bright lights rise out of the water,
at the place where the vessel had been
blown up, just off the present North
ferry slip.
They made the still more inexpli-
cable assertion that the two lights as
sumed the form of a man, and sailed
~leisurely off over the water to the
south, keeping but a short distance
from the shore, till it reached the point
now occupied by Rowe's wharf, at the
foot of Franklin street, where it van
ished as suddenly as it had appeared
just fifteen minutes before. The story
was told and retold about the town for
lation had reached a mental condition
that made them capable Of seeing the
ghosts of C~haddock's Buccaneers if Civ
en- any kind of a chance.
A week after the event just describ-
ed, the old records say, 'the twin lights
were seen again and again by many"
but this time they arose off Castle ISL
and, and after travelling through the
air just twelve minutes, vanished at
the spot where the remains of the
ship were resting. The restless spirits
of the deep continued to make things
satisfactorily terrifying for theose who
were "out late O. night along the
water front.
On one occasion, the story was, that
at S o'clock a light resembling the moon
rose from thewater at the wreck, sailed
through the air till it was over the
highest point of Notifies island" now
East Boston-but then uninhabited,
and an ideal place for ghostly gambols
and there it was met by its twin
light, the two suddenly merging into
one, then parting. and thus continu-
ing uniting and separating, as If in
playful mood, many times, all the while
Shooting out sometimes flames and
sometimes sparkles." Finally, uniting
permanently, the big Illuminated disc
Aoated off behind the hill on Notifies
island" disappearing from sight OF
the wondering eyes of Bostonians.
Later returns from different quar-
tiers showed that while the %northend-
ers were watching the ~pyrotechnic
display the people along the shore
from the north ferry to Fort hill were
being treated to a different sort OF hair
raising demonstration. n voice having
been heard on the water, toward South
Boston-then also uninhabited-cry-
ing out in a most dreadful manner.
Boy. boy! Come away! come
away!'" the voice frequently shifting
its location. in the most whimsical
manner, from point to point, separated
by a great distance. 1t was declared
that the voice was heard about twenty
times "by divers cody persons"
Three weeks after the %perturbed
spirits first began their perigrinations
they went finally to rest, as far as our
local annals testify, and on their last
appearance the agonizing voice had
been transferred to the scene of the
wreck, off the north end.
The public discussion stimulated by
the phenomena brought out the fact
that the man who snapped the pistol
that ignited the powder that blew up
the ship that released the ghost had
professed to be a necromancer and
was known to have done many won
derful things during his last voyage,
and was also suspected Of having mu,
dered his master some time oeIore in
Virginia, though unfortunately these
important facts had not been impart-
ed to the local authorities until the
necromancer had done his worst.
1t was considered a matter of espec-
ial significance that all the bodies Of
the crew, save only his, had been re-
covered before the spiritualistic mani
festations began, and, as 1t was COM
sidered one of the cardinal principles
OF ghostly etiquette not to walk-or
even to iy-by night, after ones
earthly tabernacle" had been given
la reputable interment, 1t was reason-
ably clear Thai the cause of the psychic
disturbance must have been the failure
to recover the body of the missing sal
Tor. Yet, for aught the early records of
the town can show, the excavation for
the new East Boston tunnel may yet
bring to light the bones of the name
iess necromancer, who was once the
most talked about man in Boston.
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