THE GHOST SHIP

       Somewhere in the middle of the sea, there is an old wooden pirate ship. Many sailors have seen it appearing out of nowhere and then after some short time vanishing again. Nobody has any information about, but many believe it is a ghost ship that must have a tragic story behind it.

        One stormy night A large cruise ship crashes into a sea rock causing the ship to sink, thankfully all the passengers manage to find there way to the lifeboats and manage to escape the sinking ship with them. All passengers but poor John who was alone in his cabin drunken and passed out. The ship sunk with him and he begun to drown.

       It looked like it was the end for him, but then suddenly something graped his arm and started to pulling him back to the surface of the sea. From there the unknown force pulled him far away from the sinking ship all the way to the mysterious pirate ship and then he was pulled on an old wooden pirate ship, where they emptied the water from his lungs and tried to wake him up.

Finally after lots of efforts, John slowly opened his eyes, but what he saw scared him so much that he let out a loud scream.    Everywhere he tried to look he was surrounded by pirates with bodies that were completely rotten, full of holes and missing various body parts. John tried find a place to hide or maybe run away but it was pointless, he was on a ship and there was nowhere he could go. The thought of jumping in the water crossed his mind, but then one of the pirates spoke, he looked like he was the captain of this ship. He told John that they would not harm him and that they would bring him back on land. John despite his fear managed to ask them who were they and what were they.

The captain replied to him by saying that they were ghost pirates that they had died a long long time ago and that the he and the other pirates could not hurt anyone anymore, they could only save people now, while hopping that their sins one day would be forgiven.

        John upon hearing the captain words, felt his fear retreat a little, he was still grossed out by their looks and was not sure if he could trust the captain words, but he was also curious now. So he asked the captain why they could not hurt anyone and what were their sins that they hoped that would be forgiven one day.

The captain of the ship explained to John, that a long time ago, he and his crew were very terribly violent and bloodthirsty pirates, they looted many ships and slew the crew of these ships, without showing any mercy to anyone, not even to women or children. But on one these ships among the crew was an very beautiful woman, nobody could resist this beauty and we did unspeakable things to her and finally we killed her, but before her final breath left her body she spoke and revealed to us that she was a sea nymph daughter of the god Poseidon and she cursed all of us to be turned into ghost pirates roaming the seas for all eternity unless we manage to atone for all our sins. Only then we would be able to die in peace.

     John was amazed by this strange story, he would normally not believe such story as true, but the living ghost pirates in front of his eyes, left no room for denial.

    Several hours later the ship reached land and for John was it time to leave, he thanked them for rescuing him and left. He never saw or heard of ghost pirates again in his life.

THE END.