Mike
7 September 2000, 17:53
Alan McKean, mentioned below
Wall Street Journal
August 4, 2000
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Aboard USS Hornet, Tourists Touch History, Or Something Far Spookier
By Jim Carlton, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The USS Hornet, America's most decorated World War II aircraft carrier, has apparently been boarded by ghosts.
About 200 suspected sightings, presumably of deceased servicemen who served on the mighty ship, have been reported since the Hornet became a floating museum in 1995. A few weeks ago, a tourist reported feeling a slap on his back while using a restroom on board the ship -- then turned to find he was alone. Days later, a family of three told the staff that a disembodied voice had instructed them to step carefully over obstructions in a hallway.
The museum's curator, Alan McKean, a former Navy SEAL, even has his own ghost story: He saw an officer in a World War II khaki uniform descending the stairs from the admiral's bridge. "At first, we laughed about all this," says Bob Rogers, the Hornet's marketing director, "except that it's kept happening."
Planes hosted by the Hornet shot down 1,410 Japanese aircraft, the World War II record for aircraft carriers. The Hornet also served in Vietnam and scooped the Apollo 11 astronauts out of the sea after they walked on the moon.
Clairvoyant Aann Golemac recently came aboard and patrolled the decks, where hundreds of airmen departed for battle and never returned. The ship is haunted, she says -- possibly because it is still an emotional place for them in the afterlife.
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Wall Street Journal
August 4, 2000
Pg. B1
Aboard USS Hornet, Tourists Touch History, Or Something Far Spookier
By Jim Carlton, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The USS Hornet, America's most decorated World War II aircraft carrier, has apparently been boarded by ghosts.
About 200 suspected sightings, presumably of deceased servicemen who served on the mighty ship, have been reported since the Hornet became a floating museum in 1995. A few weeks ago, a tourist reported feeling a slap on his back while using a restroom on board the ship -- then turned to find he was alone. Days later, a family of three told the staff that a disembodied voice had instructed them to step carefully over obstructions in a hallway.
The museum's curator, Alan McKean, a former Navy SEAL, even has his own ghost story: He saw an officer in a World War II khaki uniform descending the stairs from the admiral's bridge. "At first, we laughed about all this," says Bob Rogers, the Hornet's marketing director, "except that it's kept happening."
Planes hosted by the Hornet shot down 1,410 Japanese aircraft, the World War II record for aircraft carriers. The Hornet also served in Vietnam and scooped the Apollo 11 astronauts out of the sea after they walked on the moon.
Clairvoyant Aann Golemac recently came aboard and patrolled the decks, where hundreds of airmen departed for battle and never returned. The ship is haunted, she says -- possibly because it is still an emotional place for them in the afterlife.
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