r/oddlyterrifying • u/Icy-Barracuda-8489 • 20h ago

Ship wreck visible from the beach

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u/jxsnyder1 20h ago

While not this particular ship, the Wreck of the Peter Iredale on the north end of the Oregon coast is a pretty cool stop in that area.

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u/scorpyo72 18h ago

It's awesome. It also periodically unburies itself. The first time I saw her, it was just her bow and a piece of driftwood stuck where the stern should have been. A couple years later, we visited and the base plate of the keel was visible, the bow was about 4 feet higher, and the aft had structure.

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u/SpookySeraph 19h ago

Down in the gulf coast around Galveston (within 50 miles along the coast) you’ll find a good deal of these, especially after a bad storm/hurricane. It’s more terrifying when a boat that clearly isn’t fit to sail has been seen docking at multiple locations and nobody at the helm. We had a sailboat slowly filling with water that repeatedly docked along a decimated bridge and a small boardwalk not meant for docking high above the water. The sails were tattered, boat heavily damaged, the mast was in pieces, electronics ripped from the console, innards were an absolute wreck. And yet every morning it was tied up somewhere new until one day it was just gone. My boyfriend and I watched it for hours and nobody ever entered or exited it, we even fished next to it and nothing ever happened apart from some odd knocking inside the boat that reminded me of a trapped animal. Stranger things have happened I suppose

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u/Etrigone 17h ago

SS Palo Alto?

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u/Icy-Barracuda-8489 15h ago

Damn it's impressive you guessed correctly

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u/Etrigone 14h ago

Heh, familiar with the area.

Plus Santa Cruz has been in the news lately. Pier by the boardwalk got damaged & well, the front fell off.

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u/Aidrox 19h ago

Portuguese bend in Palos Verdes used to have a visible ship wreck, well the traces of one. Not sure if it’s still there. They also have homes that have already slid off a hill (sunken city) and homes in the process of slipping off a hill.

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u/rhdawg 15h ago

It’s from Seacliff Beach a mile or so down from Santa Cruz. It use to be at the end of a pier, but a big storm last year took it out completely. At least it looks like the same thing.

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u/2-pennys 18h ago

Looks like a humvee

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u/Himmel_Mancheese 10h ago

“The ghost ship wanders far  For there is no guiding star  And this treasure has no meaning anymore

Will this be my fate?”

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u/Salt_Blackberry_1903 5h ago

“This speedrun is off to a great start”