Do people still have a soul after death? This is something that people throughout the ages have wanted to explore.
To this day, however, no one has been able to give evidence of this. But the soul is something like this, as long as it cannot prove its existence for a day, we cannot deny its existence for a day, which is like an eternal paradox.
However, this does not prevent people from making all kinds of speculations about the soul.
At sea, the most widely spread legend about souls and ghosts is undoubtedly the ghost ship.
Ghost ships generally refer to those ships that are unknown and missing at sea, or have been malfunctioned and sunk, suddenly appear in front of people's eyes, and there is no one on board, giving people the feeling of a ghost wandering on the sea.
Of course, if that's all there is to it, it's not enough for people to call it a ghost ship.
The most bizarre and terrifying thing about the ghost ship is that someone claims to have seen some supernatural scenes on the ship. This casts a fog over the ghost ship, making people creepy.
Like the queen Mary, a luxury cruise ship moored on Long Beach, California, many travelers are rumored to have heard the groans of the victims aboard the tanker.
Not only that, but they were also able to see a bride dressed in white on the boat, eagerly passing through the wall again and again, as if repeating her path to the red carpet.
There was also a 5-year-old girl named "Jesse" on board, whose voice often echoed in the pool in first class.
What's going on here? A luxury cruise ship has not had an accident like other ships, so how can it be related to the "ghost ship"?
All rumors originated in the 1940s. The Queen Mary is by far the most luxurious cruise ship, faster and larger than the world-famous Titanic.
Its tonnage reached 81,237 tons, with twelve decks and more than a thousand high-end private rooms.
In nearly four decades of its voyage in the last century, it transported countless of the world's most powerful aristocrats across the Atlantic. It is the protector of many travelers on the rough sea, and no matter what happens at sea, it will always be able to return smoothly.
After the start of World War II, the Queen Mary was no longer transported commercially, but was adapted into a troop transport ship.
Due to some accidents, many soldiers died on the ship, and the legend of the Queen Mary began to spread.
Like countless people who died at sea, the soldiers who died at sea would become ghosts and continue to haunt the Queen Mary who carried them.
Some shipwrights claim that their ghosts occasionally wander through the dark corridors in search of their lost legions at sea. After they appeared, the passengers who had died on the Queen Mary also woke up and wandered on the ship.
Three people become tigers, even if it is a rumor, after being spread by countless people, it will become a god.
Decades have passed, and it is difficult to verify the source of these rumors, whether they are made out of thin air or out of thin air.
In 2011, in order to confirm whether the legend was true or false, Yunnan Satellite TV's "Natural Code" program team decided to go to the Queen Mary to find out.
On July 10, 1966, a young auto mechanic named John died inside the watertight gate No. 13 aboard the Queen Mary. There happened to be a fire drill that day, and he was working in the engine room when the exercise started.
When he heard the siren, he hurried out, only to find that the wrench had fallen behind the watertight door that was closing, so he ran back again, and was finally burned inside.
The psychic Erica, who was a tour guide aboard the Queen Mary, said that John's soul remained on the ship after his death and that she was able to communicate with John. But this time, no matter how she called, John still refused to show up.
To confirm John's presence, Erica asks visitors to take a probe stick in each hand, clench their fists, close their eyes, take a few deep breaths, and wait a minute or so.
She said that when the soul responds, the probe rods turn and then cross together. A minute later, the probe rod moved, and Gabe felt something touch his leg, and a chill rose in his back.
In fact, the ghost that Gabu felt, of course, would not be the real John appeared, and there was another mystery in this.
When a person holds the probe rod, it is generally not squeezed very tightly, so that there is enough space for them to rotate.
In other words, the movement of the probe rod and Gabu's feelings are the result of his self-psychological cues, and the real ghost is actually his own subconscious.
The ghost legend on the Queen Mary is the result of people's subconscious, but what about the shipwrecks that appear strangely? Is it also people's subconscious that pretends to be a ghost?
Deep in the Caribbean Sea, a famous cruise ship, the Ron, was buried.
In 1867, the Ron sank after a storm in the British Virgin Islands and broke in two.
In the accident, 124 people died and only 23 were lucky enough to survive. Those who died were sunk with the Ron, buried deep in the ocean floor, and corals and other marine life covered their wreckage.
Later, whenever someone approached the Ron at the bottom of the sea, strange groans were heard, which Kate Brunn had personal experience with, who was originally a diving instructor who led the tour group to the sunken Ron.
One day, as usual, she took three passengers on a diving tour, but something unexpected happened. Kate said: "As we approached the mast part of the ship, there was a sudden sense of foreboding.
Later, when we entered the hatch, a few tourists and I heard a very strange moaning sound, and immediately felt the hair stand upright. The sound lasted for a few seconds, then faded. I thought, there's something out there that doesn't want us to go in.
Kate and the visitors heard the sound, so it wasn't that everyone was hallucinating.
In fact, Kate and several tourists did really hear some strange sounds, but this was not the sound of the spirit they imagined. For this reason, underwater acoustics experts use audio mixing equipment to simulate the underwater sound pattern.
As a result, they heard a child's voice, which was very similar to what Kate heard underwater. Therefore, when Kate hears the sound, it is actually likely that the two natural phenomena of whale water and sea earthquake are superimposed.
Plus the Ron itself carries some unfortunate legends. It is also quite normal for Kate and the tourists to use this sound as a cry of a whining spirit under great psychological cues.
Although the world is full of legends of ghost ships, many have been confirmed to be just a "hoax".
Even ghost ships that are not defined as "hoaxes," such as the Ron, can be explained by scientific knowledge.
But there is such a ghost ship in the world, and no one has been able to demystify it so far, and it is as mysterious as the legend of the Bermuda Triangle and the Loch Ness Monster. Countless people want to explore its secrets, but so far no one has been able to prove what really happened to it, which is the famous Mary Shelesta.
In 1872, the brig schooner God Grace was sailing a few hundred miles off the coast of Gibraltar, when Captain Morhols noticed that about 5 miles away, an object rose and fell with the fluctuations of the sea.
The captain approached the ship and found that the object turned out to be the Mary Celesta. Tattered sails hung down, helmsks swirled loosely, and there was a worn-out nautical chart with a line drawn all the way to the Azores.
Curiously, the ship, which was only about three hundred miles away from Ashur, was now heading in the exact opposite direction. The crew was gone, and the hundreds of barrels of wine on board appeared to be intact, with only one barrel of wine as if it had been opened and a third less alcohol.
The raincoats and personal belongings of the crew remained in place, but the ship was empty. Freshly cooked meals were laid out in the kitchen, and the tea in the cup was still steaming.
There were indications that the people on the ship should have left voluntarily and had no intention of leaving for long.
It seems that they should have left the cruise ship temporarily due to some unexpected circumstances.
As for how they left, Morholth thought they might have left in a lifeboat on deck. Because the lifeboat on board is gone.
After some thought, Morjos took the Mary Celesta to the nearest port, Gibraltar.
There, news of Morhols' discovery of the ghost ship spread rapidly.
In the face of this situation, people have different opinions. Some people say that this must be the ghosts of the sea monsters, and some people say that they may have been robbed by pirates.
The local government quickly organized a commission of inquiry, but more than a month later, they still found no traces.
The crew of the Mary "did not see anyone alive, dead and dead", and their speculations about what happened to the ship were overturned one by one.
It was not a crew riot, nor was it a pirate robbery, because there were no traces of fighting on board and no belongings were lost.
So, did they have some kind of shipwreck? After all, natural disasters at sea are very common.
But what exactly is it that can make all the people on board disappear and the items on board be intact?
The aforementioned Ron also broke in two by the hurricane's tearing.
If the Mary had suffered a storm, there was no need for the people on board to abandon the ship and escape, because staying on board at this time was the safest option.
No one knows what happened to the Mary, and what happened to the ship is speculative. It is precisely because it is impossible to explain, so people believe in the legend of the ghost ship.
But is the Mary really incapable of being explained by materialism?
Someone once made a more reasonable inference about the Mary.
In the Gibraltar investigation, a detail was mentioned: there were four or five empty barrels in the cargo hold. The crux of the matter, they say, is in the empty barrels and one that is one-third less alcohol. Most of the mary's cargo was loaded in an industrial area on Hunter Island, so the barrels actually contained toxic industrial alcohol.
As mary approached the Ashures, it was hit by a storm. Under the violent shaking of the hull, the barrels containing industrial alcohol leaked, and toxic industrial gases leaked onto the ship, causing panic among the crew.
When the storm was small, they planned to sit on the lifeboat and wait until the toxic gases on board had cleared before returning to the ship.
The men on board jumped into the lifeboat, but forgot to roll up the sails, and as the wind blew heavier, the Mary began to move, and faster and faster.
The overweight lifeboat could not keep up with Mary's movements, and the tow rope connecting the cruise ship and the lifeboat broke after reaching its limit.
Eventually, mary encountered Morjos's ship, whose crew had long since been buried at sea.
This is the most plausible explanation in many years, but there is still no direct evidence that this is the case.
Are there ghost ships in the world? Some people believe, some people don't believe. As advocates of materialism, we often do not believe in these words that disappear out of thin air.
But it is undeniable that behind every ghost ship there is an unfortunate story.
Even if they are not manipulated by ghosts, those buried in the sea should look forward to the way home at the last moment of their lives. Perhaps, we can use the ghost ship as a guide. The meaning of its existence is to lead those souls who have passed away, from the sea back to the land, back to their homeland...
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