Browse:Spirit Aboard (Volume 1, entries 93–94)
Spirit Aboard
Volume 1, entries 93–94. Source context: SPIRITS → GHOSTLORE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 93
On the Old Dominion Lines a boy, a room steward, stopped a passenger and told him to go forward, for what reason I don't know and the captain met him on the starboard side and asked him what did he want. And the man that [was] told to go forward said he was looking for a room. The captain sent the boy back with the passenger and he went down to the second deck and opened the room, left the passenger outside, put the baggage in, locked the door and left the key in. The passenger stopped and was talking to someone right near there. When he went to the door the door was locked and the key gone. They never did find that key. They accused the boy of taking it. They sent for the chief engineer to open the door. When they opened the door the baggage was scattered all over the room and the beds unmade and everything upside down. And everything Was all right when the boy left the room. Here's what the boys thought about it. That was the Jamestown under Captain Tapley. She got into a big storm and around Boston Light, before they got to Boston, this Was several trips before this [the present story} happened, and they lost two passengers and they were in this room. And they thought the ghost of those people done it.
Entry 94
If yo' kill a man - he's lookin' yo' in yore eyes an' yo' kill 'im - an' he lookin' at yo' an' dey come back, yore picture will be in his eyes an' dey kin tell who done de deed.