Ghost-Warned of the Ship That Vanished With 500?

The book Real Ghost Stories by W. T. Stead is a quite interesting book that can be read online for free using the link here. On pages 85-87 we have a very interesting story that is told about the ship City of Glasgow that mysteriously vanished:

"Taking him into a private room, I said, ' Angus, Captain Morrison leaves the day after to-morrow. You had better get his things packed at once. And, by the way, what a lucky fellow you are ! If you did so well on the City of Manchester, you will in a year or two make quite a fortune in the City of Glasgow.' To my astonishment Angus replied, ' I am not going in the City of Glasgow — at least, not on this voyage — and I wish you could persuade Captain Morrison — the best and kindest master ever man had — not to go either.' 'Not going? What in the world do you mean, Angus ? ' was my very natural exclamation of surprise. ' Well, sir,' said Angus (the reader will please understand that our talk was in Gaelic). ' Well, sir,' said Angus, 'You must not be angry with me if I tell you that on the last three nights my father, who has been dead nine years, as you know, has appeared to me and warned me not to go on this voyage, for that it will prove disastrous. Whether in dream or waking vision of the night, I cannot say; but I saw him, sir, as distinctly as I now see you ; clothed exactly as I remember him in life ; and he stood by my bedside, and with up lifted hand and warning finger, and with a most solemn and earnest expression of countenance, he said, "Angus, my beloved son, don't go on this voyage. It will not be a prosperous one." On three nights running has my father appeared to me in this form, and with the same words of warning; and although much against my will, I have made up my mind that in the face of such warning, thrice repeated, it would be wrong in me to go on this voyage.' "

We are told that the ship soon sailed without the reluctant Angus: "Early in March of that year, the City of Glasgow, with a valuable cargo and upwards of five hundred passengers on board, sailed under Morrison's command for Philadelphia ; and all that was good and prosperous was confidently predicted of the voyage of so fine a ship under charge of so capable a commander."  The ship never reached Philadelphia. It was never heard from again. No one ever learned what happened to the vanished ship. You can read about its loss in the Wikipedia.org article here. Ironically the first person to publish the above story (W. T. Stead) himself died in an Atlantic crossing, being a passenger on the Titanic. 

For some equally spooky stories involving ships lost at sea, read my account here of a medium seeming to foretell exactly how the steamship Pacific would be lost at sea, and my account here of some very spooky occurrences surrounding the loss of the ship Lady Elgin. 

The vanished ship City of Glasgow

On pate 225 the author laments the lack of study of dreams, saying this:

"A generation which finds itself repaid in the study— close, minute, and elaborate — of the habits of earthworms, and the genealogy of the marine ascidian, may some day discover that Dreamland lies vacant and unexplored. In all the voluminous literature of scientific psychology is there one authentic human document wherein there is due note and observation made of the dreams of a single student for a year, for a month, or for even a week ? "

I am happy to report that such a document does now exist. It is my post here, which I have been updating for years. It now logs three years of my dreams, and it has some very interesting philosophical relevance.