Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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8,885 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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But the sum total of them all is that something uncanny has been flitting round the ship all night.

And that Sandy MacDonald of Peterhead and Lang Peter Williamson of Shetland saw it, as also did Mr.

Milne on the bridge.

So, having three witnesses, they can make a better case of it than the second mate did.

I spoke to Milne after breakfast and told him that he should be above such nonsense.

And that as an officer he ought to set the men a better example.

He shook his weather beaten head ominously, but answered with characteristic caution

Maybe I and maybe nah, doctor, he said,

I didn't call it a ghost.

I can't say I preened my faith in sea bogels, and the like.

Though there's a many as claim to have seen

And that and war.

I'm no easy feared.

And maybe you ain't blind

But would run a bit cold, Mom, if instead of spearing about in the daylight, I

Ye were with me last night, and seed an awful like shape.

White and gruesome.

Whiles here and whiles there.

and its greeting and calling into darkness like a bit lammy that has lost its mother.

You would nay be say ready to put it down to old wives claver, then I'm thinking.

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