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WRECK is loosely based on the sinking of the Titanic...
From my archived posts, updated:
WRECK is loosely based on the sinking of the Titanic...
From my archived posts, updated:
I’ve always been fascinated by that disaster, to the point of
writing an award winning science fiction novel loosely based on it (WRECK OF
THE NEBULA DREAM) . I’m going to share a few chilling, true paranormal stories
about Titanic today.
As with any great disaster involving a large loss of life,
there were many psychic and paranormal dreams, warnings, foreshadowings
reports. Some were probably hoaxes. Some, on the other hand, are very well
documented and generally accepted to be inexplicable but true.
This one gives me chills every time: W. Rex Sowden was a
Salvation Army officer and a doctor in Scotland in 1912. In the late evening of
April 14, 1912, he was summoned to the bedside of a dying child at the
orphanage, as she had no one else to sit with her. At 11:00 PM exactly, she sat up and asked Mr.
Sowden to hold her hand, saying, “I’m so afraid. Can’t you see that big ship
sinking in the water?”
The doctor thought she was perhaps a bit delirious, being so
ill, and told her she was only having a bad dream. She refused to accept that, answering that
the ship was sinking, many people were drowning and “Someone called Wally is
playing the fiddle.”
Feeling uneasy, he looked around the room but saw nothing.
The girl lapsed back into a coma and everything was peaceful for a few hours.
Suddenly the latch on the bedroom door lifted and Mr. Sowden felt someone brush
past him, although no one was there. The little girl opened her eyes, telling
him her mother had come to take her back to Heaven. She died a few moments
later.
In the morning Mr. Sowden heard about the sinking of the Titanic and learned that his boyhood
friend Wally Hartley, leader of the
ship’s musicians and a violinist, had drowned after playing as the ship sank. The
little girl’s vision occurred three hours before the ship actually struck the
iceberg and Mr. Sowden had never
mentioned his friend to her. Indeed, he was quoted as stating he hadn’t thought
about Wally in years.
Another well known psychic event occurred as Titanic was sailing. A Mr. and Mrs.
Marshall on the Isle of Wight were having a party on the flat roof of their
home, to watch the ship head out to sea on April 10th. Suddenly Mrs.
Marshall had a vision, exclaiming the ship was going to sink. Her embarrassed
family tried to quiet her, but she said insisted she saw “hundreds of people
struggling in the icy water”. The party ended immediately of course and no one
mentioned Titanic to her for the next
five days because she would become so upset.
Then on April 15th, word came that her vision had
been true.
Years later, this same Mrs. Marshall refused to sail on the Lusitania on the voyage of May 1st,
forcing her husband to exchange their tickets for much worse accommodations on
an earlier sailing. She told her family they’d be safe going on Lusitania on the earlier voyage,
but that it was going to be torpedoed with huge loss of life on the May 1st
trip, which indeed it was. I think I would have listened to her, for sure!
If you were about to board a ship to cross the Atlantic
Ocean and you saw the ship’s cat carrying her new born kittens off the vessel, one by one down
the gangplank, might you think twice about embarking yourself? I think I would!
Yet when this happened in Southampton right before Titanic sailed, only one Irish sailor took heed of the omen and
jumped ship himself. What did Jenny the Cat “know” that most of the passengers
didn’t? (And the same thing happened with the Lusitania a few years later - the ship's cat left before they sailed!)
So what would you do if you had a premonition of disaster on
a trip? Would you go anyway, as so many did on Titanic? Or would you find an alternate way to travel?
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The
story:
Traveling
unexpectedly aboard the luxury liner Nebula Dream on its maiden voyage across
the galaxy, Sectors Special Forces Captain Nick Jameson is ready for ten
relaxing days, and hoping to forget his last disastrous mission behind enemy
lines. He figures he’ll gamble at the casino, take in the shows, maybe even
have a shipboard fling with Mara Lyrae, the beautiful but reserved
businesswoman he meets.
All his plans vaporize
when the ship suffers a wreck of Titanic proportions. Captain and crew abandon
ship, leaving the 8000 passengers stranded without enough lifeboats and
drifting unarmed in enemy territory. Aided by Mara, Nick must find a way off
the doomed ship for himself and several other innocent people before deadly
enemy forces reach them or the ship’s malfunctioning engines finish ticking
down to self destruction.
But
can Nick conquer the demons from his past that tell him he’ll fail these
innocent people just as he failed to save his Special Forces team? Will he
outpace his own doubts to win this vital race against time?
We went to a traveling Titanic exhibit last week, mostly a bunch of artifacts recovered from the ocean floor. A man's shoe, a pair of socks, a beautifully patterned plate from someone's personal china, a makeup compact with the powder turned to a solid, a tiny cup and saucer believed to be part of a child's play tea set, and a lot more. When you entered you were given a boarding pass with the name of a real Titanic passenger and at the end of the exhibit you could check the wall of names to see if you survived. My husband got a first class name, I got someone in second class - neither survived. The whole experience was a lot more affecting than I anticipated.
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