A GHOST'S THIRST.
THE "WOMAN IN WHITE."
Seafarers are not generally so superstitious as they were prone to ;be in the good old days. Several of the vessels berthed at Patea the other' night were the subjects of a strange visitation (says the Wanganui Herald). The captain of,' a Wellington steamer was. awakened by his engineer ordering a woman out of his cabin. The skipper thought his friend was " talking 'in his sleep, but when he looked out of his cabin he saw a female figure, clad in white, moving noiselessly about. This was too much for his nerves, so he scuttled back to his bunk. Later he heard a crash outside. The 'master, mate, and engineer ; made -a prolonged search, but could see nothing unusual. Eventually they found a woman on the floor ;of the forecastle, where she had fallen, and had lain for some time. She was clad only in her nightgown and had a shawl over her head. The men in the forecastle did not like to get out of their bunks to examine the "ghost," who turned out to be a. woman with an abnormal thirst |in quest of a drink. She was sent ashore, and later scared the wits out of the captain of another vessel by grabbing him through the porthole. ''
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14322, 18 March 1910, Page 3
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