FogBay: 07/12/05

12.7.05

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Mini Series Day 1 of 6, Stinson Beach
Residents of Stinson Beach have long seen a hazy figure in a maritime uniform roaming the foggy beach late at night. This appartion was so often seen that in 1984 the UPI did a national news story on the appearances. The figure appears to be the ghost of Captain Alfred Easkoot, a local mariner who, in his youth had lost a hand in a fire and replaced it with a hook. The captain died in 1905, unfortunately during his funeral pallbearers lost their grip on Easkoot's coffin, the captain's body tumbled out onto this shore and his hook was lost in the sand causing him to be buried without it. Now nearly every night around 2 a.m. the captain appears at the north end of the beach and searches in the fog for his lost hook.
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