Talk:Octavius (ship)
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I doubt that this event actually occurred. If anyone has more substantial references please add them. The reference given is to a book aimed at pre-teenagers and leans more towards ghost stories than historical research. Here are the only relevant links that I can find:
- Encyclopedia Titanica suggests that the story is fiction
- Fortean Times an unsourced retelling
- Roots Web another unsourced retelling
The story was also mentioned in A Long Desire ISBN 086547334X by Evan S. Connell, but I do not have a copy to see if any references were given. Griffinity 16:42, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
- I also have doubts about this one; the bit about passengers frozen like statues doing everyday activities reduces what little credibility this tale has. I am not sure what we can do besides sprinkling words like "alleged" and "supposedly" throughout the article. I have not been able to find "A Long Desire" in a nearby (huge) library. Wachholder0 18:04, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
- Vincent Gaddis wrote about the ship in Invisible Horizons: True Mysteries of the Sea, published in 1965. The bibliography references Frank Edwards' book Stranger than Science published in 1959 and the February 1953 issue of Fate (magazine). I don't have access to the latter two references to see where they got the story. The story was recently recycled in John Harding's 2005 book Sailing’s Strangest Moments: Extraordinary but True Tales from over 900 Years of Sailing (ISBN 1861057458) but no references were given. Griffinity 10:58, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
