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GHOST OF THE ALKIMOS
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Finally Revealed
The hushed up World War 2 Murder Suicide
"Ghost of the Alkimos will appeal to anyone interested in the wilder shores of local maritime history. But it will also intrigue those who are interested in how legends and folk law develop.
The story of the Alkimos, and its associated tales of haunting and curses, makes rich fodder for the development of a maritime mythology on what is fast becoming an extension of our cluttered suburban coastline."
Rod Moran
Yanchep 2003
Constructed in 10 days, she was just one of the 2751 Congress approved American
express Liberty ships of World War 2.
As part of the American express sea transports, she slid into the cold waters of
Baltimore in 1943 with a name change from George M Shriver to Viggo
Hansteen. She became a jinxed vessel of World War 2.
Her short 18 month service saw many of her ilk as sitting fodder for Nazi U
Boats. But, she was covered in all sorts of mystery. Some claimed welders had
been sealed between hulls during hasty construction – their ghosts left to haunt
the vessel. A mysterious murder suicide fuelled speculation upon the sea going
ghost rider.
After World War 2, the converted freighter was renamed ‘Alkimos’. Many claimed
to have been terrified by an evil ghoul dressed in oilskins.
In 1964, the Alkimos mysteriously foundered on the WA coast near Perth.
Her death notice signalled a new beginning of terror for the uninvited who dared
to venture aboard her.
Boats disappeared, tools and equipment simply vanished. Cooking smells waffled
from empty and powerless galleys. Claims of strange mysterious deaths, sickness
and injury, ghosts and associated exotic ghost stories plagued the wreck of the
ex World War 2 Liberty ship.
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