Picture yourself standing on a beach in Perth, Australia.

Grassy sand dunes behind you and infinite turquoise water in front.

Waves break in the far distance, but so far out that the water near the shore remains relatively still.

Most of the ripples that make it to your toes come from the small boats jetting around.

It's quite lovely. You look out into the distance to watch the waves break when you see something in the water.

A chunk of metal sticking out, covered in birds.

It's about 400 meters away and small, it's hard to even see its features.

Is it an old buoy?

Is it some trash that washed out to see?

That's when you hear some children giggling behind you. I can see it! The ghost ship!

They whisper, pushing each other reluctantly closer to the ocean. Ghost ship. You look back out at the hunk of metal. About

one and a half meters of it is above the water and it looks like it's three meters

long. If you squint you can see that it's a bunch of different metal pieces all fitted together, kind of steampunk looking.

You can kind of see how the kids think that this is the top of a ship.

But what you may not know is that the kids are more right than even they think. Beneath the ripples of this Western Australian beach is a ship.

The S.S. Alkamos and one that gained notoriety for being haunted.

The story starts in 1943 when the SS alchemos first set sail.

Legend says that before it ever took off, two mechanics were

accidentally sealed inside the ship's hull. Their ghosts forever haunting the

boat. The ship started in Baltimore, Maryland where it was built

and then made it over to the Mediterranean for the next 18 months where it was in the

midst of the worst part of World War II, constantly being attacked by German

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