Lost at Sea reassesses classic maritime mysteries, focussing on strange tales surrounding the tragic losses of ships both famous and obscure.
Michael Goss and George Behe examine accounts of the paranormal at sea, including warning dreams, visions, extrasensory experiences of the doomed and the saved, the ghost-seers and mediums who believed they were gifted with paranormal contacts. Goss and Behe also delve into nautical legends based in both fact and fiction. Examining shipboard materials, from historical documents, log books, committee reports, contemporary printed records, narratives and some fictional accounts, Goss and Behe focus their scientific approach on some fascinating examples of folklore. They discuss the evolution of the stories surrounding the Flying Dutchman, the local legends of the Goodwin's ghost ship and the New England tradition of "fire-ships," and folktales of the "Haunted U-Boat" as well as reassess the cases surrounding the Waratah, Titanic, and the Lusitania and some lesser-known episodes that continue to suggest to believers that despite the folklore, strange things do indeed happen at sea.
Michael Goss (Essex, England) is an English teacher and has a special interest in contemporary myths. George Behe (Mt. Clemens. MI) is a maritime historian who has published two books on the Titanic.
385 pages (Photo insert) Publication date 30th March, 1995
ISBN 0-87975-913-5
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