1559, Ghosts

  
There are three sorts of people, those who are alive,
                                                         [those who are dead, and those who are at sea,
this saying from the 6th century BC, was heard by my 12 year old nephew,
                   [and he asked me if it's true, last night while I was drinking my tea,
and he continued without interruption with a second question,
      [also uncle, I heard that over the centuries, a large number of ships and boats
have been reported to have mysteriously disappeared in haunted locations,
  [and in cursed seas have seen ghost ships, ghost sailboats and ghost steamboats.

My answer was that many sailors claim to have seen in such places ships
  [that seemed to be sailing without sailors, possibly a mystery needing to be untangled.

The facts are quite far from what has been generally perpetuated by the books
        [for example, scientists have debunked any mystery behind the Bermuda Triangle.

In my sea career lasting 30 years, I heard many stories that scared me,
                                     [but I personally did not notice anything tangible that was scary,
I never saw ships with crews of haunted sailors as on TV series
          [and also never saw a vampire, a zombie, and in ports, a dragon, not even a fairy.

Modern ship crews, like older sailing crews, could call a scary area
                                        [the Gulf of Mexico due to incidents in the past and the present.

For example, on September 19, 1559, just weeks after arrival at Pensacola,
              [the Spanish missionary colony was decimated by a hurricane, a dramatic event.

We, the crews of the hazardous tanker ships, after the largest oil spill in history,
                                                           [consider the Gulf of Mexico as an area of terror,
and the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig,
           [is a traumatic memory to every sailor who goes to the Gulf, to every seafarer..
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to be continued 

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''IT COULD BE OTHERWISE in verse''
Texts and Narration: Odysseus Heavilayias - ROTTERDAM //
Language adjustments and text adaptation: Kellene G Safis -CHICAGO//
Digital adaptation and text editing: Cathy Rapakoulia Mataraga - PIRAEUS
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