Ghost Materialises for Communion

 

The Canberra Times reported in 1971 that a ghost appeared during a communion service at an 11th-century village church in Hartley, England. Reverend Roger Williams could only watch in awe as a hooded figure, with its arms crossed on its breast, manifested on a wall, then slowly vanished from sight. The parishioners gasped in awe at the apparition, but the Reverend soon explained the miracle.

He explained that after the 16^th century, English churches broke away from Rome, and many mural paintings of saints and scenery were whitewashed over during the Reformation. The church had recently installed central heating. The church suffered from dampness, and as the central heating kicked in, the heat and damp contributed to exposing a mural that had been whitewashed – thus not a ghost![1]

researched and written by Allen Tiller © 2024

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[1] 'Ghost materialises for Communion', The Canberra Times, (4 January 1971), p. 6.

 Guitar Playing Ghost

 

In 1965 it was reported that the ghost of an Australian Army Lieutenant was haunting the hamlet of Kundiawa in the New Guinea Highlands. It was claimed the ghost had been identified as Lieutenant George Charlton Tuckey.
Tuckey died in 1945 while serving with the Angua Administration of the Kundiawa Territory and was buried in a local cemetery.

A local police corporal known as Arambi reported that he often heard guitar music coming from inside a police inspector's house. There were no signs of life in the home, which was in total darkness. Armabi investigated the grounds and house and could find no source for the music, but as he neared the grave of Tuckey, he noted that the music ceased.
 Arambi later claimed that he saw the ghost. It was wearing a white shirt and shorts. He knew Tuckey, as they had worked together for two years, and identified the ghost as him. Tuckey’s ghost shuffled through the compound, and Arambi followed it into the Kundiawa courthouse…where it disappeared.[1]

researched and written by Allen Tiller © 2024

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[1] 'Guitar-playing ghost now walks about', The Canberra Times, (6 May 1965), p. 22.

The Alkimos - A Cursed Wreck.

The Alkimos 

Lying off the coast of Western Australia, close to Yanchep, is the ruins of a merchant sea vessel that many believe is not only haunted but cursed as well.

The Alkimos was originally named the Viggo Hansteen and was used by the Norwegian Shipping and Trade Mission. It was built during World War 2 and saw active service, often transporting troops and cargo across the Mediterranean, for 18 months.

In August 1944, whilst docked at Naples, Canadian radio operator, Maude Steane was shot, and killed by another crew member, who then went on to commit suicide.

After the war, the ship was sold to a Greek company who then renamed it Alkimos, a Greek God who represents strength.

For the next 20 years, the Alkimos crossed the globe as a cargo vessel. In 1963 the vessel was in Australian waters, leaving Western Australia when it hit a reef off the coast. It was towed back to Fremantle for repairs.

It was then to be towed by an ocean-going tug from Hong Kong, but only a few hours from the port, the tow line snapped, and with the currents, the ship was driven into the shore. It couldn't be floated, so it was filled with water to make sure it didn’t move with the tides, and an on-board caretaker was installed to look after the ship and make sure no-one came to salvage its steel.

In January 1964 the ship was successfully re-floated and was ready to be pulled by tugboat to Manila when local authorities seized the Tugboat! - The Alkimos was left anchored where it sat, eventually the anchor broke and the ship, again held by the current, was moved along the shore, this time onto the Eglinton Rocks near Yanchep.

The damage this time was far too great for the ship to be re-floated, and it was abandoned where it sat. Salvage workers were invited to scrap the vessel, and began to do so – during this time the ship was owned by 8 different people, who it is said suffered a curse from the ship, with almost all dying inexplicably or suffering money problems, or illness – all their problems would seem to be cured or solved as since as the ship was sold on to the next person.

The workers hired to salvage the ship soon left the vessel after hearing ghostly noises and witnessing tools move on their own, some workers even reported tools disappearing before their eyes, only to return at a later time. Almost all the workers would not leave their cabins during the salvage at night, as they claimed ghostly footsteps would follow them down the hallways, there were also claims of seeing a spectre dressed in oilskins, and all crew would report the smell of food cooking in the galley, only to find upon investigation, no-one there.

Rumour also suggests that during the construction of the shipmen working on the hull had been welded inside the vessel and left there to die, only to come back to haunt and curse the ship.

Claims about the ships hauntings and curse do not end with just being on board, it is said horses will not pass the wreck when walking on the beach.

Cray fishermen have reported seeing the oil-skinned clothed ghost standing aboard the ship, and when investigated find no-one there.

Perhaps one of the strangest occurrences is that of Herbert Voight. Voight was a long-distance swimmer who, it is said as part of his training, would tow behind him a plastic baby bath full of Emu Export Beer. Inexplicably during one of his training sessions, he disappeared, thought drowned. Later his skull found, washed up inside the body of the Alkimos.

The ship is often cited as cursed, with many visitors to the wreckage reporting injuries, near-drownings, engines stopping and bad things happening to them after leaving the wreckage, could this be over-active imagination, or is there really something to curse and haunting of the Alkimos?

The Alkimos, after over 40 years of sitting on the Western Australian coastline is now nothing more than a rusted hulk of a ship that often disappears under the high tide, it still sits there, of the coastline of Western Australia, a cursed monument to a decaying ship of death.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkimos_(ship)

http://www.jackwongsue.com/ghost_of_the_alkimos.htm



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www.eidolonparanormal.com.au