History Main / GhostShip

* "VideoGame/Destiny2": During the Presage mission, you board the Glykon, a Cabal spaceship that had disappeared alongside Mars and then reappeared in the Tangled Shore. The whole ship is infested with plant-like spores and filled with Scorn.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' has ''dozens'' of ghost ships, ghost planes, ghost cars, even ghost ''tanks'' that run the gamut from unambiguously good to pure evil. Some of the most notable, although there are many more:
** The old dreadnought battleship USS ''Texas'' was energized with magic when the rifts came. She initially served as a shelter for people fleeing the rift storms, and not only carried them through, but ''actively protected them'' with a will of her own. She is a benevolent protector whose magically-augmented guns and armor can stand toe-to-toe against cruise missiles and lasers.
** USS ''Constitution'' and HMS ''Victory'' often appear out of a sudden fog to [[GunshipRescue save people]] from pirates, demons, sea monsters, and any of several [[ANaziByAnyOtherName not-so-nice governments]]. Both ships are manned by heroic apparitions of their former crews.
** HIMS ''[[UsefulNotes/KatanasOfTheRisingSun Yamato]]'' will appear out of nowhere to come to the aid of Japanese ships in need. It's believed that she would probably attack any American or British vessel.
** USS ''Arizona'' sometimes appears in ghostly form when ships (usually American, but not always) are in danger in the Pacific. She appears to be crewed by the ghosts of the sailors and marines who died aboard the battleship on December 7th, 1941, and the ghost of Rear Admiral Isaac Kidd frequently walks around the flag bridge looking for his Annapolis class ring. Though the ship and crew are benevolent, they are marked by the trauma of their death, and any living soul who boards ''Arizona'' will have vivid nightmares and eventually go insane if they stay too long.
** A haunted F-4 Phantom will carry its pilot and RIO through any dogfight, with the voices of men who flew it in the Vietnam War giving advice in emergencies. The catch is that the pilot and RIO will occasionally have vivid nightmares about air combat in Vietnam.
** A ghostly 1974 Plymouth Fury police cruiser patrols the western USA, often teaming up with lawmen. It will occasionally chase a ghostly red 1965 Ford Mustang that also haunts the highways. The two ghost cars will [[TeethClenchedTeamwork join forces]] to protect people from a malevolent 1969 Cadillac hearse that feeds on the blood of its victims.
** A phantom Soviet ''November''-class submarine with a severe radiation leak will attack any vessel it encounters.
** ''U-2666'' was a German Type-XXI U-boat launched in April, 1945. The boat was given to the ''Waffen''-SS, commanded by a fanatical Nazi with occult hobbies and his hand-picked crew, and disappeared after Hitler ate his pistol. The U-boat has reappeared since the Rifts came, and is quite possibly the most evil force in the world. It glows a sickly green, it leaks ''blood'' when damaged, it smells like rotting flesh, the crew are intelligent zombies, and it's best not to think about what happens to the handful of unlucky bastards who've been dragged inside while still alive. Every navy on Earth, [[EvenEvilHasStandards including the Coalition]], have standing orders to shoot on sight.

* ''Literature/Overlord2012'': The Katze Plains have been a designated battleground for centuries, to the point where undead spawn constantly there. There's even a flying ghost ship that is said to appear [[spoiler:and later shows up having been enthralled by Ainz offscreen.]]
* The ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' episode "A Shipful of Shivers" features a rather literal "ghost ship" -- a formerly sunken ship whose only inhabitants are the Ghost Pokémon who raised it from the sea floor.

* In ''Literature/TheOregonFiles'' book ''Plague Ship'', the crew of the ''Oregon'' come across an derelict cruise ship. The passengers and crew have been infected with a [[TheVirus highly contagious hemorrhagic virus]] [[BodyHorror that stops just short of liquefying its victims]], which kills everyone save one survivor.
* In the short story ''Out of the Storm'' by Rick Kennett, a bomb-damaged minesweeper is found adrift during [=WW2=] and is towed back to base by a salvage team, who experience various spooky events. [[spoiler:At the end of the story the protagonist witnesses the minesweeper in a dry dock after the war, awaiting being broken up for scrap. Arrayed on the prow are ghosts of the minesweeper's crew, grimly facing off with a harridan who's shrieking madly at them...]]

* In 1969, the ''Teignmouth Electron'', one of the competitors in a solo nonstop around-the-world yacht race, was found adrift and deserted. Subsequent investigation found that sole crew member Donald Crowhurst had apparently suffered a mental breakdown during his eight months at sea and faking his voyage. He's presumed to have committed suicide, but his body has never been found.
* In 2016, the ''Sayo'' (spelled ''Sajo'' in some sources) was found adrift. There was a crew member, Manfred Fritz Bajorat, on board, but he had died about a week ago, with his body being mummified by the salty air and the dry conditions of the inside of the yacht. As his still-seated body was slumped next to a radio and the yacht's logbook, no foul play was suspected; this was confirmed at autopsy, which found that he had died from a heart attack.

** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor: Cortez the GhostPirate, resides in his dilapidated ship. After re-obtaining his red stone, his ship rises from the waters.