My ghost ship painting "Thor's Quest" I am and always have been utterly fascinated by ghost ships. This post hopefully will bring your sense of adventure and horror together on the sea for several minutes of reading fascination.... In the Phillipines, a yacht was found adrift. It's not super rare to find a boat unattended at sea, but this was guarded by the mummified body of its captain. The man, Manfred Barjorat, was asea since 2009 by latest dates and was just found in February 2016. For seven years, his body traversed the globe to unknown places. Of course, there is no telling at what point in his voyage he died, but his body was nicely mummified due to the warmer clime. Flying Dutchman Ship The Flying Dutchman ship has been spotted many times in the last two centuries, with the late King George V of England writing a detailed account of his own sighting in 1880 off the coast of Australia: "At 4 a.m. the Flying Dutchman crossed our bows. A strange red light ...