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Titanic Myths: Titanic and The Supernatural

Updated: Nov 8, 2019

One of the world’s largest sea disasters also became one of the world’s largest mysteries. 107 years later the sinking of the RMS Titanic still has people, enthusiasts and historians speculating and theorising what really happened the night the Titanic sank. Unfortunately, there are no more survivors left to tell the tale. The youngest Titanic survivor Milvina Dean died May 31st 2009 exactly 97 years after the Titanic was launched. But there are tales of those who have witnessed the story from supernatural lenses.


1) Futility or The Wreck Of The Titan

Would you believe that somebody predicted the sinking of Titanic 16 years prior to the disaster? Well it’s true. Futility or The Wreck Of The Titan was a novel written in 1896 by Author Morgan Robertson. The book’s plot entails the story of a new ocean liner named the S.S Titan. The liner in the novel has a gross tonnage of 45,000 tonnes and is 800 ft long. The resemblance to Titanic is frighteningly accurate. The real RMS Titanic weighed 45,000 tonnes, just like the fictional S.S Titan and was 882 ft, which was over 800 ft. in the novel the S.S Titan strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean, this sounds very familiar to another famous liner who met her end in the icy North Atlantic waters and resulted in the death of over 1,500 men, women and children. The similarities do not stop there. In Robertson’s book Titan is recorded to have been travelling at 25 knots at the time she enters the ice field. Titanic too was travelling at a very similar speed of 22.5 knots. Titan was carrying 2,500 passengers whilst Titanic carried 2,200 people but both liners had a capacity of up to 3,000 passengers.


1) Portsmouth’s Haunted Titanic Model

This tale starts in Portsmouth, Titanic enthusiast Wyatt Jason Moore had built a nine-foot-long model of the ill-fated RMS Titanic in 2012. After completing his project Moore took a photograph of his museum quality model but what came next was enough to qualify this model as a real-life ghost ship. On closer inspection of the ship Moore had noticed in two of the port holes two Edwardian faces. A lady and gentleman can be seen looking out of the port holes. Moore commented “I couldn’t make it out until I looked at it very carefully and I found it was a bald headed man with a handle bar moustache, and I said to myself, what’s he doing there?” the retired architect reported hearing doors slamming Moore also added “I leave them alone and they leave me alone.” Could these apparitions be lost souls who perished in the early hours of April 15th, 1912?


1) Titanic the Musical sinks in Southampton

This supernatural encounter occurred much more recently. Mary Euston’s Broadway hit Titanic The Musical was revived in the spring of 2018 for a summer tour of the UK. The first port of call for the musical was Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre on April 14th 2018 this date is poignant for anybody looking of the story of Titanic as this was the 105 year anniversary of Titanic hitting the fatal iceberg that left a 300 ft gash in Titanic’s port side. The performance was going as per until the sequence in which Titanic hits the iceberg which occurs just before the interval. According to BBC News “Audience members at the Mayflower Theatre said items began falling shortly after the scene in which the ship hits the iceberg.” Now as someone who has seen the musical the effects used in this scene is jarring to say the least. However, the play’s associate producer Michael Ockwell said, “You couldn’t make it up… the irony is lost on us.” The audience were evacuated after parts of the Mayflower’s ceiling began to fall. More than a year and a half later nobody has been able to pinpoint why the accident happened, but people are still spooked that the production’s only mishap occurred not only on the anniversary of the sinking but in the town, Titanic left from. Roughly 724 on the Titanic were natives to Southampton and only 175 of those residents survived.



The Mayflower Theatre located in the city of Southampton.

1) Titanic’s Ghost Adventures

Another tale from more recent months was the popular tv show ‘Ghost Adventures’. The Titanic themed episode took aired on the 25th November,2017. The crew step on board the popular Titanic museum in Branson, Missouri. The staff working at the museum are highly convinced that the museum is haunted by spirits of victims who’s lives were lost on the Titanic. It should be said about the museum that it holds over 400 artefacts from the wreck site of Titanic which value at $4.5 million. The artefacts Include Madeline Astor’s life jacket, a bible recovered from the debris field, a full scale model of Titanic’s iconic Honour and Glory Crowning time staircase (which had been built using the original blueprints) and the exterior of the museum is a scale model of the first half of the Titanic. It would seem the most appropriate place for any spirts who were lost on the Titanic to live. In the episode they interview staff worker Jamie Terrell who states “He’s (John Jacob Astor) the most common apparition… the reason I think it’s him is because at the top we’ve recreated exactly the bedroom he stayed in.” Another member of staff, Alexis Shetley recalled in the musician’s room “in this room I have seen a child. That’s what I saw.” This wouldn’t be unusual unfortunately out of the 112 children on Titanic 56 lost their lives. 1 child was killed from the first class and 55 were killed from third class. The episode itself is a mixture of both entertaining and spooky considering the Ghost Adventures team are diving into arguably the worst maritime disaster.


As always, I’ll leave a few external links. Just to note there’s much more supernatural events occurring that relate to the Titanic as much as I’d like to cover them all I would like to save some for next year’s Titanic conspiracy month (yes, I’m already planning that 😊) however, feel free to add anything or ask any questions.

Have a titanic Halloween! Millie.


Titanic The Musical sinks in Southampton:

Portsmouth’s Titanic Model:

Titanic’s Ghost Adventures:

The haunted Titanic exhibition in Las Vegas:

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