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I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64

Date of account: Late nineteenth-century compilation
Source: The Ghost World
Reference: The Ghost World · selected passage 138
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Among Maine fishermen there are similar stories of the ghost of the drowned being seen

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Among Maine fishermen there are similar stories of the ghost of the drowned being seen. Mr. W. H. Bishop, in 'Harper's Magazine' (Sept. 1880) tells us 'there was particularly the story of the Hascall. She broke loose from her moorings during a gale on George's banks, and ran into and sank the Andrew Johnson, and all on board. For years afterwards the spectres of the drowned men were reported to come on board the Hascall at midnight, and go through the dumb show of fishing over the side, so that no one in Gloucester could be got to sail her, and she would not have brought sixpence in the market.' A Block Island tradition affirms that the ghosts of certain refugees, drowned in the surf during the revolution, are often seen struggling to reach the shore, and occasionally their cries are distinctly heard.[200]

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