April 15, 2012 marked the 100th anniversary of
the sinking of the RMS Titanic. While
the story of the doomed luxury ship has been in the headlines for the past
century, there are also stories of another kind: Ghost stories. Just in time for Halloween, check out these
spooky stories about the Titanic.
* In the aftermath of the Titanic tragedy, search and
rescue teams recovered 328 Titanic victims and temporarily brought their bodies
to the Snow & Co. Funeral Parlour in Halifax, Nova Scotia. According to Encompass Magazine, the funeral home is now the Five Fisherman Restaurant, and the
original pulley used to hoist the Titanic cadavers to the building's upper
level still hangs in the wine room ceiling. Today, bizarre occurrences such as
glass flying off a shelf and cutlery falling to the floor when no one is near
are common occurrences at the restaurant. Manager Gary MacDonald has said of
the building's ghosts: "You must acknowledge them or they will pull
stunts."
* In 2008, the Atlanta Constitution
Journal published a story about the
Georgia Aquarium after the "Titanic Aquatic" exhibit was featured
there. Several aquarium volunteers reported strange encounters as they worked
on the exhibit, which featured hundreds of Titanic-related artifacts. The
aquarium staff brought in paranormal investigators, who determined that the
Titanic exhibit was indeed a spirit dwelling.
* According to the San Francisco Chronicle, in the 1990s a San Francisco man named Jaime Rodriguez claimed
that he was being haunted by a ghost, before finding that a Titanic survivor
once inhabited his apartment. But former tenant Dr. Henry Washington Dodge was
not considered a Titanic hero. While Dr. Dodge claimed that he called out for
women and children to take a spot in the lifeboat that housed his wife and son
on that fateful night, he inevitably climbed into the boat and endured public
scrutiny for the rest of his life. After undergoing a lawsuit and a financial
beating, Dodge sunk into a depression and committed suicide in his San
Francisco apartment in 1919. His ghost appeared in the apartment every summer
for years, and always in the same spot.
* Legendary socialite Margaret "Molly" Brown
survived the Titanic sinking, but her former Denver home is said to be the site
of some unusual happenings. According to a blog on Mysterious Colorado, paranormal oddities occur regularly at Molly Brown House
Museum in Denver, including furniture disturbances and alleged sightings of the
ghosts of Molly and her husband James Joseph Brown. Sightings of Molly's mother
in an upstairs window have also been reported, as well as mysterious smells
such as Mr. Brown's tobacco and his wife's favorite rose-scented perfume.
* The Daily Mail has revealed the house in England where the
Titanic's captain was born also has a haunting history. It may come as no
surprise that the childhood home of Captain Edward John Smith has been riddled
with mysterious floods and unexplained icy chills, as well as ghostly
sightings.
Ghost Hunters takes a look at the Titanic:
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