"This "person" is standing there waving at me. I walk over to the console grab my radio and try calling him. No response. He just kept waiving, following me with his eyes."
I received the following account:
"This happened to me, at age 25, when I was working as a second officer on board a heavy-lifting vessel about 1 year ago during my watch.
The scariest thing I have encountered was during a routine night shift while passing the Atlantic Ocean. I was doing lapses around the bridge console to get some exercise while on the watch (Second Officer from 0000 to 0400) and to relax a little bit.
While passing the bridge windows I saw someone walking from aft to forward on the starboard side, which, was not unusual, just the time at 0130 was surprising. The crew was allowed to go outside whenever they wanted, so I didn't mind it at first. When I passed by the window again after doing full laps, I noticed he was standing between the cargo hold no.1 and the windbreaker, with his back, turned to me (looking forward ). I stopped to see what he was doing and suddenly he turned around, looking straight at me and he started to waive with his hand while standing perfectly still.
This made me uneasy because at this time I started to notice some weird things. For example, he was wearing a white overall, which is normal for officers but at our company, all overalls for officers and ratings are red with silver reflective strips on the shoulders. Also, he was wearing an orange helmet, which could have been possible, we have some but all crew has white helmets. Also, it should have been impossible to see me from forward, all lights on the bridge were off and the deck lights were in, so reflecting when watching from below.
So while this "person" is standing there waving at me I walk over to the console grab my radio and try calling him. No response. He just kept waiving, following me while walking around the bridge with his head (I saw him on the starboard side bridge and the radio was on the portside bridge, near the cart table) After calling him again and only receiving static noises, I went back to the light console to turn on the bridge spotlights, which flooded the deck with light. I looked up from the console and he was gone. So I think to myself ok he might be hiding in the stairway to the paint store or he is inside the passage to the forward station inside the windbreaker and I wait with the lights on. After 30 minutes or so I decided to turn off the lights but kept watching for some time but didn't see him again.
So the next morning I asked around if anyone was on deck during my watch but everyone confirmed that they were sleeping during that time, which made sense to me and it seemed like they were telling the truth. Also, no one owns a white overall, because again, our overalls are all red. Why would anyone walk around on deck at 0130 hrs, we have no safety round and usually no additional lookout who is awake at this time, usually, it's only me during my watch.
Some guys thought it was a prank but no one knew anything about anyone planning or doing anything like this, not even when I asked them to tell me the truth. I believed them because why would they lie about this, I mean I wouldn't be mad about it, not gonna lie they would have gotten me good, so I would have laughed together with the prankster, but none said anything like it or admitted to it, even months later. What really freaked me out about this was the stiff movement of the "person" and the sudden staring while standing still. I can't explain what I saw and I have no reasonable explanation to this day because no one admitted to pranking me or going on deck at this time. Also, the sudden disappearance when turning on the floodlights is still unexplained. I also checked the spot where I saw the "person" and there was no evidence of them hiding anywhere, the paint store stairway and the entrance to the bosun store were locked every evening and it was still locked when I checked it the next morning.
So yeah, this was the only weird experience I had while working at sea for the last 5 years. I still cannot explain what I saw, I don't believe it was some hallucination, because I saw him for at least 5 minutes, from walking forward and standing in forward looking at me and I turned away a few times to grab the radio or walk to the console, he only disappeared when I turned on the floodlights. But this was the only time I saw anything like it." I
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