Hello again, Story Club members. I'm Ivy, your ghostly host with the most and keeper of the

strangest, spookiest tales on earth. Today is another Ivy's chilling tale. This haunted

high seas tale story club members might make you set sail for calmer waters.

It's one I call beware of Bolin Baker.

Jennifer Gunn had heard the stories of Bolin Baker, but she didn't believe them.

Her friend Frankie Holland did, though.

In fact, he was the one who told her about Bowlin Baker in the first place.

They were sailing on Frankie's father's boat, high hopes. He'd bought the sailboat, restored the wreck, and this was its maiden voyage.

Frankie told Jennifer that an old man on the pier had told him the sailboat used to belong to Bolin Baker.

Named Albert David Baker, he was a sailor who used to work on commercial fishing boats

75 years ago.

But his mean temper, anti-social nature, and drunken behavior often led him to being fired.

He was nicknamed Bolin Baker after the well-known nautical knot.

UpsS.-Ulland-B Baker bought a sailboat, High Hopes,

with the idea to find calm and peace on the ocean by himself.

Fet up with society, he planned to sail the seas and go wherever the current took him,

leaving from Point Hope, Alaska.

However, a few months after he'd gone to sea,

Baker's radio transmission stopped.

It was assumed that he'd been lost at sea, and he was.

Then on August 5, 1957, a science vessel found the lone sailboat in the Arctic archipelago.

Apparently, it'd been drifting through the frosty islands for years.

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