Show MEET GHOSTS IN OCEAN DEPTHS apparitions that have appeared to divers while exploring beneath the seas WHEN HIS BREA 14 CAME TRUE diver has desperate struggle for life when companion suddenly goes insane tapped on shoulder by double L london don considering the number of people ali who haie hae found a last resting place nt at tile the bottom of the sea it Is not surprising that divers should occasionally casio caslo nally come across what are popularly known as ghosts A liver diver while employed one day in bringing up various articles from the wreck ot of the royal george which went down off Spi thead on august 2 28 g being seized with a sudden fit ot of drowsiness fell asleep he dreamed three times in succession that just as he was about to pick up a curiously wrought silver dish from among a mass of debris a very tall figure dressed in a diving suit sult sprang at hl him and tried to cut the lifeline As at this time the other two men he was working with were both of short stature not in the least degree like the figure in his dream he soon forgot it but great was his trepidation one morning when on turning up at his mork ork lie he found one of his mates absent and a new newcomer conier a very tall nan in his place indeed so alarmed was lie he that mat on descending lie he took with him a stout cudgel and warned those in charge of the communication muni cation rope to be on the alert for a signal however slight on arriving fit at tile the bottom lie he was soon at work on the wreck and amid a pile of loose spars he came upon a dish exactly like the one he had seen in his dreams when divers dream came true lie ile was staring at it in a kind ot of lazed dazed fashion when ilien suddenly he saw ills companion the new diver coming toward him just as lie he had seen the figure in his dreams and the next nest moment he was engaged in the most desperate struggle for his life ile he succeeded in administering such a severe blow on the land hand of his assailant with his bis stick that the latter dropped the knife with which he had bad been armed and before lie he could pick it up again our friend the dreamer had pulled the communication cord and was drawn up out of danger it subsequently transpired that the new aher hid had gone raving mad another curious case occurred not so many years ago off the coast of galway some ahers were employed in looking for the remains of spanish treasures when one of their party wandering a little apart from the rest saw a dim light in the distance advancing toward it he be discovered that it proceeded from the porthole of a wreck of very ancient date approaching the ship not without trepidation he peeped in and saw to ids his amazement an old man with a very long beard kneeling down examining an iron clasped oaken chest by and by he raised the lid and dipping his hands in drew them out full of golden coins which he played with like a child plays with some new toy 1 tapped on shoulder by double the diver happening at this juncture to make a noise the idd man turned round revealing a face of tho the most ghastly pallor which so terrified the diver that he turned talland tall and fled back to his mates with far more haste than dignity pooh po his story they went back with him and there sure enough in the vety very spot he be had described was the ship and ahat hat was even een more wonderful the chest of gold lastly there is the case of the diver who was repairing one of the london brid bridges brides es he had made his descent into the water a te rand and was kneeling down examining the masonry when he felt something tapping him on the shoulder he looked round when to his utmost terror he saw standing at his shoulder peering down at him an exact counterpart of himself the following day against the advice of his wife who was a scot and very superstitious he again went down la in the same place and a piece of loose masonry falling on en him he was waa killed |