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Default A Weird Blue Glow

I like the name, ''Young Teazer''.

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"Capt.Mooron" wrote in message
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Oh Yeah.... check this one out!

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"Joe" wrote in message
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*A Weird Blue Glow*

Late one night in October, 1864, a Confederate blockade

runner, under
the cover of fog, slipped by some Union gunboats at the

entrance to
Galveston Bay in Texas and made it safely to port with its

cargo of
food and other necessities.

Louis Billings, the master of the small vessel, was getting

ready to
weigh anchor when he was startled by a shriek from one of the

crew.

"A strange, old-fashioned schooner with a big black flag was

rushing
down at us," Billings said later. "She was afire with a sort

of weird,
pale-blue light that lighted up every nook and cranny of her.

"The crew was pulling at the ropes and doing other work, and

they paid
us no attention, didn't even glance our way. They all had

ghastly
bleeding wounds, but their faces and eyes were those of dead

men.

"The man who had shrieked had fallen to his knees, his teeth

chattering
as he gasped out a prayer. Over coming my own terror, that

was chilling
the very marrow of my bones, I rushed forward, shouting to

the others
as I ran. Suddenly the schooner vanished before my eyes."

Some say that it was the ghost of Jean Lafitte's pirate ship,

the
Pride, that sank off the Galveston Island in 1821 or 1822.

She was seen
again in 1892 in the same waters with the same crew.

Joe