A Misfit Ghost

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​‌​​‌‌⁠Every boy with a knowledge of adventurous literature, otherwise “novels of action,” knows of the “phantom ship,” the spook of the high seas.

But it has not been known that ships themselves are haunted, and that in the service of the United States Coast Survey there is a vessel now in commission that is by her own officers supposed to be haunted.

Yet the Eagre, a 140-foot schooner of the coast survey