The Ghost Ship of the Everglades of Cursed Pirates

A pirate ship once got lost in the mangroves and swamps of the Everglades in Florida. They were cursed by the crew they made to walk the plank and are now The Ghost Ship of the Everglades are doomed to sail the murky waters forever.

Everglades National Park, with its mysterious labyrinth of bald cypress trees, shadowy hammock forests, and winding rivers, takes on an eerie ambiance after the sun dips below the horizon.

Centuries ago, pirates plagued the seas from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean. They attacked merchant ships to steal the goods and it could be a very lucrative business. The pirates also sometimes ended up on the Florida coastline as well.

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In 1901 one of these stories were printed in the national newspaper, the New York Daily People and the Chicago Tribune, about a 300 year old curse about a pirate ghost ship cursed to sail the narrow rivers in the Everglades forever.

A pirate ship once got lost in the mangroves and swamps of the Everglades in Florida. They were cursed by the crew they made to go the plank and are now The Ghost Ship of the Everglades are doomed to sail the murky waters forever. — **The Ghost Ship of the Everglades:** It is said that a pirate ship was cursed to sail the narrow Everglades for eternity after they made the crew of an entire ship walk the plank.

The Ghost Pirate Ship

The story goes that a merchant vessel was sailing through the waters near Cape Florida in the 1700s, just beyond the bounds of Miami. Pirate lore in Florida are initially from the Florida Key area after Spanish vessels came and many pirates took hold around St. Augustine. But did they ever sail to the swampy waters of the Everglades?

A pirate ship once got lost in the mangroves and swamps of the Everglades in Florida. They were cursed by the crew they made go the plank and are now The Ghost Ship of the Everglades are doomed to sail the murky waters forever. A pirate ship once got lost in the mangroves and swamps of the Everglades in Florida. They were cursed by the crew they made go the plank and are now The Ghost Ship of the Everglades are doomed to sail the murky waters forever. A pirate ship once got lost in the mangroves and swamps of the Everglades in Florida. They were cursed by the crew they made go the plank and are now The Ghost Ship of the Everglades are doomed to sail the murky waters forever. — **The Ghost Ship of the Everglades:** The story of the cursed pirate ships made the news in 1901. Read the full story here.

According to this story, seizing the opportunity for a lucrative plunder, the pirate ship set forth in pursuit. However, the resourceful crew aboard the merchant ship, well-acquainted with the treacherous waters, hatched a plan to elude their pursuers by navigating through the intricate channels of the Everglades.

The pirate ship finally caught up with the merchant ship in the end though and looted the goods of the merchant ship. The pirate captain was furious about how long it took to chase them, that he made the whole crew walk the plank and made the skipper’s wife watch before she herself had to walk the plank and end up in the boggy water.

The wife prayed to God to curse the pirates, and he did and pushed them deep into the Everglades, making them haunt the Everglades for all eternity, a place they would never escape from.

The tidal wave brought the pirates stuck in the swamp, making them die of starvation and fever one by one.

The Ghost Ship of the Everglades of Cursed Pirates

The Ghost Ship of the Everglades has been haunting Florida’s south coast since the days of pirating marauders. The ship’s phantom crew is cursed to sail the seas for all eternity, after giving chase to a merchant ship and getting lost in the twisting channels of the Everglades’ swamp lands.

According to the story in 1901, the Natives that stayed in the wetland as well as hunters spending much time navigating the same rivers, came back, telling stories about having seen the The Ghost Ship of the Everglades with its rotting masts and hill. The crew are now all skeletons, still trying to find their way out of the Everglades.

Was it ever a pirate ship sailing the fresh water sea of the Everglades? Although we don’t have much documentation, we have a long tradition of tales instead. And perhaps, the dim lights of the skeleton crew working ever since the golden age of piracy speaks for itself as it glides through the river of mangroves and alligators.