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Story 1: The Ghost Ship of Phillip Greene
It was a cool, foggy evening in July, 1981 when the fishing trawler Balasco came upon a peculiar sight about 150 miles off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Through the swirling fog, the crew of the Balasco saw the running lights of another ship. They hailed it, but there was no reply. As they approached it, they saw that it was a small yacht, and was apparently adrift. Two crew members boarded the yacht and found that it was deserted. A pot of warm coffee sat upon the ship's stove and two half-eaten dinners were on the galley table. There was no sign of anything amiss, and it looked as though the ship had suddenly been abandoned. No rough weather could account for the mystery.
The captain of the Balasco radioed in the yacht's identification from which he learned that it belonged to Phillip Greene, the best-selling novelist. He had taken the yacht out for a day's excursion six days earlier with a female companion. The Balasco prepared to tow the yacht back to shore, but the tow line was broken and the yacht was lost in the thickening fog.
But that was not the last Phillip Greene's yacht was seen. Two weeks later, the yacht somehow drifted on its own to Nantucket island -- Greene's home port! -- and ran ashore just three miles from Greene's summer home. Greene's disappearance has never been explained.
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