Episode 104: Anchored (ad-free) (Patreon)

The ocean is very good at taking things from us, but we are equally skilled at not forgetting. Still, no matter how many stories we tell about lost ships and vanished loved ones, it will never bring them back. At least, that’s what most people believe.

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Further Reading

1. "Italians Viewing Antique Emperor Caligula's Nemi Ships, 1932,” Rare Historical Photos, July 2016, https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/caligula-nemi-ships-1932
2. “1820-1850 A New State & Prosperity,” Maine Historical Society: Maine History Online, 2010, www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/901/page/1312/display?page=3.
3. “A Brief History of Freeport, Maine,” Freeport Historical Society Freeport Maine, 2018, freeporthistoricalsociety.org/freeport-history.
4. “This Ghost Ship Hunted U-Boats in Portland Harbor…Maybe,” The Bangor Daily News , 12 Sept 2017, portland.bangordailynews.com/2017/09/11/history/this-ghost-ship-hunted-u-boats-in-portland-harbor-maybe
5. Collections of the Maine Historical Society ( Heritage, 1995).
6. “Legendary Ship Found by Sonar,” The Washington Post, August 2002, www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/08/30/legendary-ship-found-by-sonar/4c22498f-2cb1-466d-9676-cfa99e494e1d/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.cd6f50994b63.
7. “The Final Voyage of the Portland,” National Archives and Records Administration, date unknown, www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/winter/portland.html.
8. Diana Ross McCain, Mysteries and Legends of New England: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained (Globe Pequot, 2009).
9. Kate McCarty, Distilled in Maine: a History of Libations, Temperance & Craft Spirits (American Palate, 2015).
10. “Portland,” Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, stellwagen.noaa.gov/maritime/portland.html.
11. “The Sea Gives up One of Its Ghosts.” CNN, August 2002, edition.cnn.com/2002/US/08/29/historic.shipwreck.
12. Charles A. Stansfield, Haunted Maine: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Pine Tree State (Stackpole Books, 2007) pp. 31–33.
13. “Remembering the Portland Gale,” South Coast Today, January 2011, www.southcoasttoday.com/article/19981129/News/311299992.
14. “The Story of the Dash,” Freeport Historical Society Freeport Maine, freeporthistoricalsociety.org/the-story-of-dash.