Star of India
During the Star of India’s maiden voyage (at that time she bore the name Euterpe) , she experienced a collision and a mutiny. During her long and eventful service, the ship went aground in Hawaii, was trapped in ice in Alaska, and sailed around the world twenty-one times, with some of her voyages lasting up to a year. Through historical ships records, P.O.S.T was able to identify at least 25 deaths of passengers, crew members, and officers aboard the Star of India, including her first captain, Captain William Story who was buried at sea.
In April of 2011, P.O.S.T. was proud to perform an investigation of this beautiful and historic ship. During the day, a walk-through of the ship was provided by San Diego Maritime Museum Events General Manager Jim Davis, where he gave us a history of the ship and showed us the locations of reported paranormal activity. That evening, the museum security staff locked us aboard the Star of India and we proceeded to setup our equipment for the night’s investigation.
In the Captain’s Quarters/Galley where the majority of the activity has been reported, we setup a full-spectrum camera with IR/UV floodlight, a high definition audio recorder, an EMF data-logger, and two PIR motion detectors. We covered the entire tween deck using two IR cameras with audio microphones, and the third deck was equipped with another full-spectrum camera/UV illuminator along with a laser-grid located near the bow end of the ship, and a another IR camera located at the aft end of the ship in the workshop area. In addition to the statically placed equipment, we carried with us a variety of equipment while we investigated the ship including, two full-spectrum camcorders, two Sony night-vision camcorders, two high definition Sony audio recorders, two full-spectrum digital still cameras, Trifield and Mel EMF meters, a digital thermometer, and various IR and UV illuminators.
During the investigation, two of our investigators had a personal experience, at two separate times. They both witnessed a light that appear to travel down the center of the tween deck. The light did not appear to be a reflection on any surface, but appeared to travel in free space down the center of the deck. Unfortunately, these two personal experiences were not captured by any of our equipment.
But upon review of the data collected during our investigation, we did capture some interesting and compelling evidence of possible paranormal activity aboard the Star of India.
During an EVP session in the Captain’s Quarters/Galley area, one of the investigators asks the question, “What is your name?” which is followed immediately by a class “B” EVP of a male voice that says “Matthew”. Upon further research of the Star of India’s historical records, it was found that there were at least six people with a first or last name of “Matthew” that spent time aboard the Star of India either as passengers or crew members.
But by far the most interesting evidence we collected during our investigation was an event that occurred in the Captain’s Quarters/Galley area that was captured and observed by three separate and different types of investigative equipment, a full-spectrum camera, a PIR motion detector, and a high definition audio recorder. In the video clip (located on our "video's" page) you will see a light “form” near the wall and next to the door of the Captain’s Quarters, this is followed approximately 12 seconds later with the motion detector alarm triggering, which is followed a few seconds later with a class “B” EVP that appears to say “Not Their Time”.
There were several other EVPs that we captured during the investigation that were thrown out because they were either class “C” EVPs or we could not eliminate the possibility of outside audio contamination.
We would like to thank the San Diego Maritime Museum and all of its crew for their generosity and hospitality. P.O.S.T. is planning a return trip to the Star of India. This was truly an awesome site & if you are ever in the area we recommend a visit to the San Diego Maritime Museum and all of their beautiful and historic maritime ships and displays.
This is a very beautiful ship! I'm an amateur in it, but it's very beautiful!
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That is a very scary experience. But if you'll ask me if I want to experience that kind of sensation, I would rather say no!
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Nice post! I will drop by in the future again to read more of your posts.
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This is a real star of India.
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