The Terror on The Parrier and Ivan Vassili, Russian Ghost Ship

06/08/21 • 14 min

On April 21st, 1907 the Chicago Tribune published a story of a Russian steamer called The Parrier docked off the coast of Santa Monica, California. The crew aboard the ship had been attacked by some unseen force driving them mad forcing them to take their own lives or that of their crewmates.
Several decades later the same thing happened aboard the Ivan Vassili forcing the ship to be docked and unused. The story appearing in The Minneapolis Star on April 14th, 1940. But did any of this actually happen? And if not why are two ships reported in newspapers as having succumbed to the same invisible terror?
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Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters - The Terror on The Parrier and Ivan Vassili, Russian Ghost Ship

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Ep. 33 - The Terror on The Parrier and Ivan Vasilli, Russian Ghost Ship

On April 21st, 1907 the Chicago Tribune published a story of a Russian steamer called The Parrier docked off the coast of Santa Monica, California. Built in 1897 in Germany and owned by a Russian company the steamer was considered an excellent ship but just 10 years later it sat in port, empty and lifeless.

Except for something that stayed on board, a thing with no know