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The haunted seamen's bethel
Many years ago there was this tale of a ghostly visitation at a seamen's bethel, a place of worship which also was a boarding house. This house on St. Thomas Street had once been supported by the Presbyterians.
Two youthful, grief-stricken sailors appeared as apparitions haunting the building. Many sailors had seen these visions and quickly became frightened. One sailor stepped forward finally to confront the spirits. He saw that they looked sad and asked the two ghosts what they wanted. The apparitions replied that they wanted their mother.
As the story goes, the ghosts were brothers died at sea many years before the hauntings. They had once lived in this building with their parents. Over the years they visited the house as apparitions attempting to speak with their living mother, but their ghostly appearance and mysterious voices just drove her away. She did not realize the ghosts were her sons. No contact was ever established between the mother and the children.
But, after the bold sailor had contacted the boys that one time, the ghosts never appeared again.
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