It happens that ships are encountered at sea without a crew on board. Maybe it was torn from its berth by a storm. However, this phenomenon has become overgrown with legends like snow fodder. Everyone knows the legend about the Flying Dutchman - a ghost ship. All these legends have different plots: one talks about the murder of a girl on board a ship, another Arabic plot talks about a traveler whom the captain undertook to take to the island and help find a treasure for 1/3 of the treasure, but then he wanted to appropriate all the gold and killed his passenger. There are other stories about the ghost ship. There are even serious scientific works to explain this phenomenon, why the crew left the ship, letting it float freely. I offer my version of the origin of this phenomenon, funny and in some way instructive. And which one you like, choose for yourself. The cover image was made using the Wombo.Art neural network.