A thunder storm grips Port Hardy as wind and rain strike steel and timber through the night.

But this storm opens more than weather.

In the quiet after midnight, a presence crosses the fragile line between worlds. A young man appears unchanged by time, unaware that his life has already ended. Lost between sea and shore, he does not know he has passed.

Truth must be spoken plainly.

The Light does not arrive harsh or sudden. It waits. A door forms where kin remain. A brother stands beyond it.

And when understanding finally comes, Heaven’s Gate opens.

Some storms damage hulls.
Some storms open portals.
Some harbors join the living and the lost once — then let both go.

Haunted Harbor Havoc continues.

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What you forget, Raven remembers.
Through fire and embers, Raven remembers.
Nevermore. Nevermore. Nevermore.

This episode features a true maritime supernatural encounter set during a thunder storm in Port Hardy, Pacific Northwest waters. Themes include storm portal phenomena, lost soul crossing over, Heaven’s Gate symbolism, spiritual awakening at sea, paranormal harbor encounters, poetic gothic narration inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, raven symbolism, haunted harbor storytelling, and real sea ghost accounts from working vessels.

🔎This episode features a true maritime supernatural encounter set during a thunder storm in Port Hardy, Pacific Northwest waters. Themes include storm portal phenomena, lost soul crossing over, Heaven’s Gate symbolism, spiritual awakening at sea, paranormal harbor encounters, poetic gothic narration inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, raven symbolism, haunted harbor storytelling, and real sea ghost accounts from working vessels.

When a vessel drops anchor, it does not always find rest.

In winter fog off Nootka Sound, a working ship holds position above a shoreline where villages once stood — places erased quickly, without ceremony, without farewell. The dead were never taught how to leave.

Raven watches as stillness invites memory.

This episode tells of spirits who mistake steel for village ground, of warmth and light taken as welcome, and of how grief does not touch all souls the same. Some feel only pressure. Others open themselves without knowing it.

Stanley carried old wars inside him.
Alcohol loosened what should have remained sealed.
Through him, something waiting found voice and hands.

This is not a story of monsters.
It is a story of surrender.

Haunted Harbor Havoc is an Ask Raven series documenting moments when ships anchor over places that still remember.

Narration: Raven
Series: Haunted Harbor Havoc
Episode: 01
Location: Nootka Sound, West Coast of Vancouver Island
Format: Poetic maritime narration / true sea memory

🎨 Original art and visual logs related to this episode can be found at AskRavenNativeArt on Etsy.

📡 Listener transmissions: ghostboatadventures@gmail.com
All stories are read. Not all are answered. Some are simply remembered.

When ships grow still, memory wakes.

Poetry · Storytelling · Supernatural · Maritime · Indigenous Memory · Spoken Word · Myth & Folklore

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Some ships are lost to storms.
Others are lost long before the sea arrives.

In this final chapter of the Spooky Sub Chaser Stories Trilogy, Raven circles the Quatsino and recounts three warnings the ship could not outrun:

A dockside sinking at Steveston, heavy with salmon and pride.
A near-capsize in the whirlpool waters of Kelsey Bay.
A fogbound run up the Fraser River that dragged a fisherman’s boat behind her.

These are not ghost stories.
They are records of drift — when speed replaces judgment, and denial outpaces repair.

Through poetry and memory, Raven tells how fear can live in steel, how fatigue can pass from hull to crew, and how debts ignored are eventually collected.

What you forget, Raven remembers.
Through fire and embers, Raven remembers.
Nevermore. Nevermore. Nevermore.