Sea Chanty
The Charles W. Morgan sits in the Mystic Seaport, one of the tall ships for schoolchildren to explore. Built in 1841, it has been a floating museum since 1921, showing generations of children of the hardships of whaling life. A few times a year, tourists witness a ghost, usually by a low moaning sound. EVP investigators (electronic voice phenomena) have set up microphones and cameras overnight, to catch the ghost in action. The cameras never capture anything, but a peculiar groan is heard on certain sections of the audiotape. No words can be immediately distinguished, which the audio technician says in standard procedure for EVP. He changes frequencies and modulations of the tape, and isolates the various portions that hold the most promise. After a week of scouring every inch of the audiotape, the technician gives up. There were probably lots of languages spoken on board this ship over the years, but nothing he heard came remotely close to a human voice. The technician would have had a lot more luck, however, had he been listening not for human voices but for whale songs.
