13 Spooky Boating Ports
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13 Spooky Boating Ports
Door County, Wisconsin Translated into English as Door of the Dead, This channel lies between Green Bay and Lake Michigan is the centuries old site of a mass drowning when the canoes of battling Potowatomi and Winnebago tribes were caught in a squall and sunk or dashed against the rocky cliffs. NOAA
13 Spooky Boating Ports
Diamond Shoals, North Carolina Thousands of vessels and untold sailors have met Davy Jones when squalls arose. Adding to the blood-curdle is the ghostship Carrol A. Deering. This schooner left Bath, Maine in April 1919 and was found washed ashore—but fully intact—near Diamond Shoals almost two years later! No sign of her crew has ever been found. Boating Magazine
13 Spooky Boating Ports
Australia Originally a penal settlement is today a World Heritage Site. It is home to the Port Arthur Penitentiary, where, since the prison’s abandonment in 1877, there have been over 2,000 accounts of ghost sightings and hauntings throughout the vicinity. Boating Magazine
13 Spooky Boating Ports
13 Spooky Boating Ports
13 Spooky Boating Ports
Queens, New York Site of Execution Light in Long Island Sound today, legend holds that during the 1600’s and 1700’s settlers chained criminals to the rocks at low tide. When the tide rose, the captives drowned. Chilling! Boating Magazine
13 Spooky Boating Ports
Branson, Missouri Today part of Big Cedar Lodge, Osage tribe legend holds that the pool’s spring is bottomless and so is a direct route to the Devil himself. Would you dare to boat there? Boating Magazine
13 Spooky Boating Ports
Santa Cruz Island, CA According to our West Coast Editor, Jim Hendricks, this is one of the spookiest places you can go with a boat. “You can get in, but you may not be able to come out….!” Boating Magazine
13 Spooky Boating Ports
13 Spooky Boating Ports
Nova Scotia The Oak Island, Nova Scotia treasure pit has cost the lives of six-treasure hunters over the centuries…that we know of! Riddled with booby traps, some say the spirits of blood thirsty pirates are the real threat. Boo knows Boating Magazine
13 Spooky Boating Ports
Oregon, Washington to Vancouver, Canada The Graveyard of the Pacific is a nickname for a stretch from Oregon northward to Cape Scott on Vancouver Island. Heavy and unpredictable weather year round combined with the rugged coastline causes sea conditions which, since the 15th century, have wrecked thousands of vessels. Boating Magazine
13 Spooky Boating Ports
13 Spooky Boating Ports
Ontario, Canada This oldest lighthouse in Canada is also the scene of a grisly murder. The first keeper of this light, JP Radan Mueller, was murdered in 1814: Deranged men chopped him to pieces. Mueller, it is said can still be seen wandering the grounds and building to this day. Want to boat with sea monsters? Check out: Three Lakes With Sea Monsters. Boating Magazine
