History Main / GhostShip

* [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-449670/Three-sailors-vanish-modern-day-Mary-Celeste-riddle.html In 2007]], the catamaran ''Kaz II'' was found deserted with the engines running and all the lifejackets still on board. Like the Mary Celeste, the three crew members were never found.

** Arguably, Red Dwarf itself may be considered a ghost ship - especially with the distress-signal format of Holly's OpeningNarration in early seasons, the [[EverybodysDeadDave demise of the rest of the crew]] and the tendency of creatures to be lurking in the ship itself.

* DoubleSubverted in TheVentureBros when the cast is retrieving a crashed experimental aircraft from the ocean floor, only to be boarded and attacked by ghost pirates. They find out pretty quickly (after Brock kills one) that the ghost pirates are just normal pirates pretending to be ghosts, but then the experimental aircraft actually turns out to be a ghost ship, complete with ghost pilot...who isn't really interested in doing anything other than floating around and screaming.

* There's one in ''MysteryCaseFiles: 13th Skull'', although it only appears briefly during the finale.

** Subverted in the sequel, in which the Derelicts are revealed to be [[spoiler: broken down pieces of PowerArmor used by the [[EldritchAbomination Suul'ka]].

* ''{{Sphere}}''. BigDumbObject [[spoiler:grants uncontrollable psychic powers]]. Monsters.
* ''{{Supernova}}''. BigDumbObject [[spoiler:makes people younger, or something, ... until it blows up]].
* ''{{Pandorum}}'' starts this way but the main characters quickly find out that the ship is filled with murderous creatures with a taste for human flesh. Of course, they're not the worst that's on the ship.

* "[[http://www.sailorsongs.com/yo_ho_ho_and_a_bottle_of_rum.html Derelict]]", more widely known as ''[[TreasureIsland Fifteen men on a deadman's chest]]''. Where the titular derelict turned out to be a ship with ''all'' crew [[MutualKill slaughtered by each other]], over a hold-ful of [[WoodenShipsAndIronMen Spanish]] [[GoldFever gold and silver]]. Most of the song is something between a still-life painting and "[[TropesForDummies English for Coroners]]".

* [[CaptainObvious As is the movie titled]] ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Ghost Ship]]''.

See also SendInTheSearchTeam and LateToTheTragedy. Compare FlyingDutchman. Not related to {{shipping}} two [[GhostShipping dead characters]]. Nor is it to be confused with the [[Film/GhostShip film]].

* The ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' series has had several ghost ships. ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'' and ''DragonQuestMonsters 2'' had ships that still sailed with an undead crew. ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'' had a sunken ship you could explore once you gained the ability to travel underwater.

* ''[[TwoThousandTen 2010]],'' the lesser-known sequel to ''[[TwoThousandOne 2001]].'' Haunting by Bowman. BigDumbObject that turned Bowman into an [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascended being]] in the first film [[spoiler:turns Jupiter into a star in this one]].

* The MSV Worthington from ''MassEffect''. You find a ship adrift in space, with only basic life support functioning. Fusion cells scattered around the ship are rigged to explode if you get too close, and in one room you find a brain-dead man hooked up to a life support machine. By listening to audio logs, you can piece together the story that the man, Jacob, was exposed to vaccuum for too long and died, but his girlfriend Julia slowly went mad from grief, and killed everyone else on board when they tried to take Jacob off life support. Which is when she appears behind you and tries to kill you.

* ''The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward'', a sci-fi CthulhuMythos story by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette. A SapientShip and it's crew have been killed off and its crew 're-animated' by a MadScientist.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' has one. The MVS Estevanico, which crashed on a planet about a hundred years ago. Even though it's a historical relic, it's falling apart and it's also extremely creepy.
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', we have [[spoiler:the dead Reaper]]. Abandoned for what's estimated to be '''37 million years''', and the people who found it quickly went crazy [[spoiler:due to being indoctrinated.]] The level also counts as an almost literal ghost ship, since even though the ship is all but dead, [[spoiler:dead gods still dream.]]

* The first two episodes of ''{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' more or less applied this plot to the entire planet.

* The ''LloydInSpace'' Halloween special. Nothing on the abandoned space station but the four main characters and a demonic hungry alien.
* The ''LooneyTunes'' short "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Phantom Ship]]", starring the forgotten characters Beans the Cat and Ham & Ex.

* The ''Elizabeth Dane'' in ''VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', whose crew was wiped out while carrying the game's central MacGuffin.

** In MassEffect2, we have [[spoiler:the dead Reaper]]. Abandoned for what's estimated to be '''37 million years''', and the people who found it quickly went crazy [[spoiler:due to being indoctrinated.]] The level also counts as an almost literal ghost ship, since even though the ship is all but dead, [[spoiler:dead gods still dream.]]

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2'' has the Harbinger. According to the ship's ApocalypticLog, the Sith vessel the assassins came from, was no different.

* The ''StarshipTitanic'', due to a premature launch (basically had its moorings cut while the crew finishing out the interior was on break), is populated solely by the robot support staff and an obnoxious parrot belonging to one of the decorators. Oh, and a flock of starlings in one of the upper chambers.

* Captain Kunkka in ''DefenseOfTheAncients'' summons a ghost ship that sails across the ground, leaving a trail of rum that protects allies from damage, then crashes and stuns enemies. In the words of his ''[=DotA=] 2'' incarnation: "Now that was a ''failboat''".

* Kunkka in ''{{VideoGame/Dota 2}}'' has an ultimate ability named exactly this. He summons a ghost ship that crashes in the location that was marked, stunning and damaging enemies in range.

* ''SuperMarioBros'':

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'', the direct sequel to ''Wind Waker'', has a literal ghost ship which is ''called'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Ghost Ship]]. It sails around abducting people [[spoiler: and stealing their life force]].
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', Link gets aboard on the fabled "ferry to the other world" in the Shadow Temple, tripulated by Stalfos. Made creepier by the fact that it doesn't sail on water, but on ''air'', and it sinks when it meets the goal line.
** The Sandship in ''SkywardSword'' is ''not'' haunted, but evokes the feel of a ghost ship because of its derelict appearance and absence of any souls aboard, except for a couple of bats and a miniboss. Once he's defeated, the ship can be reverted to an earlier state via a time displacement field, bringing the crew and the monsters back to life.