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Date of account: Late nineteenth-century compilation
Source: The Ghost World
Reference: The Ghost World · selected passage 190
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Occasionally a spectre ship is seen at Cap d'Espoir, in the Gulf of St

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Occasionally a spectre ship is seen at Cap d'Espoir, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which is commonly reported to be the ghost of the flagship of a fleet sent to reduce the French forts by Queen Anne, and which was wrecked here, and all hands. On this phantom ship, which is crowded with soldiers, lights are seen, and on the bowsprit stands an officer, pointing to the shore with one hand, while a woman is on the other side. The lights suddenly go out, a scream is heard, and the ill-fated vessel sinks. Under one form or another, the phantom ship has long been a world-wide piece of folk-lore, and even in an Ojibway tale, when a maiden is on the eve of being sacrificed to the spirit of the falls, a spectral canoe, with a fairy in it, takes her place as a sacrifice.

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