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Americans: You want this ship? Norwegians: Yeah, sure Norwegians: *Starts seeing ghosts* Norwegians: You want this ship? Greeks: Yes

*Part of the ship, part of the crew*

Ship: has electrical issues due to poor wiring Crew: well it must be haunted

I think it was pretty stupid that they left *one* guy alone. For months. On a seemingly haunted ship. They should have left like a team of people there and had them switch with other groups every week. No man should be left alone in such a large (and malfunctioning) ship. When that part came up, I was getting *ALL* the Shining vibes.

Getting welded inside of a ship's hull sounds terrible.

*"yo i got suffocated in a boat, so i have to haunt it"*

"A ship that refuses to die" Tried to ram itself into the coast Hmm

"The ship had hit a mine...unexplainably falling apart." It. Hit. A. MINE.

Given the fact that this ship has gone through numerous unlucky events but still manages to survive attacks during WW2 and stay float this whole time, I'd say that the ship is lucky.

I'm still suprised that the ship was in service for that long.

7:10 - 7:33 animated characters can't be sca- wait, yes, yes they can. That creeped me out so much. Literally put a shiver down my spine

Me: “Oooooh. I like creepy things* Simple History: “This ship was built in Baltimore.” Me: “Ok but I don’t like spooky things built so close to home”

Its not cursed, The Dungeon Master kept rolling Nat 1s for random events for the ship

Person: falls down on ship Also person: has a miscarriage Simple history: Coincidence? I THINK NOT

3:46-3:58 the frequent breakdown of the engine kinda explains the flickering lights. The ship's engine provides primary power to the ship. If the engine is shoddy, the electrical supply is likely going to be unreliable.

"Ship refuses to sink" Navy: let's just use it as a target practice for antiship missiles instead

they put 1 guy in an aging ship all alone for months, OF COURSE HE WENT CRAZY!

..this ship wreck is literally 20 minutes away from my suburb, and i had no idea this ship had such a dark and cursed history. thanks simple history, im never going to step foot near this wreckage

SS Alkimos: Ha! You can’t kill me mortals Anti-Ship Missile: (X) doubt

Boy u scared me with that scary face at 7:09. I'm trying to fall asleep here.

Flying Dutchman: Hold my Davy Jones' locker *Who dares disturb The Flying Dutchman?*

I don't even remotely believe in Ghosts, but that's pretty crazy

“The cursed ship” The William D porter: “hey that’s my thing”

Girl: Have you ever watched titanic? Me: Nah, I'm more of a ss alkimos person Girl: What's its history? Me: You wouldn't get it

Well, you know what they say: Part of the ship, part of the crew. The Dutchman needs a captain.

At first i though “cursed ship” meant it had a ridiculous or laughable design like the Bob Semple

SS alkimos: I’m haunted SS ourang Medan: *laughs in mystery*

I spent a night on board Eskimos with some friends in 1978,she was a most terrifying ship to be on especially at night,we were all convinced we felt the ghost of Henry especially in the galley.

"Cursed ship of WWII" Laughs in World of Warships where my ship always brings my team defeat.

A: the alkimos had thousands of sister ships B: A liberty ships had litteraly had 0 protection to the hull and its not even remotely surprising a mine was able to sink one

Originally the ships were welded together and they were prone to suddenly breaking apart and sinking very rapidly. This was corrected when they went back to the standard practice of using rivets.

"Ship rose from the surface" Alexa, play COD Zombies round change sound.

7:08 Hey! iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiits Johnny!!

"Cursed ship of WWII" *Plays minecraft cave sounds*

"The ship fell appart" - ooooh dear, how? "It was owned by a greek company" ah,no further explanation needed

"Ship hit a mine and mysteriously fell apart."

Truly one of the more eerie legends of the second world war. With all the mishaps and lives lost it's no surprise there's such a sinister aura around it.

I though this was SS Ourang Medan for a second.

As one of the ghosts from this ship, I'm glad someone has managed to finally tell my story.

Anything: goes near alkimos Alkimos: hippity hoppity your now my property

“Random person by the wreckage” SS Alkimos: “part of the ship, part of the crew”

Ok, like 5 people can’t be first, but how are you doing Simple History? And I hope you have a great Halloween!

6:23 it took six weeks to make the ship. two months for repairing it

Liberty Ships took ten days to build, The Alkimos took an unusually long 6 weeks due to mishaps in construction. I have the book on the Alkimos. Yes, crew did talk about eerie phenomena. When she was taken out of Fremantle harbour it’s was actually an insurance job, not a curse. The first caretaker was Wayne Morgan. He didn’t stay for months, he stayed on board 6 NIGHTS and kept a journal. He did leave and booked into a psychiatric hospital. The plane did crash yes. John Voight was training between Fremantle and Rottnest island and that is where he disappeared from which is no where near the wreck of the Alkimos, yes, his skull was found near the Alkimos. A number of things in this video are not correct.

*Ourang Medan:* "finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!"

The captain said "we need take this supplies to england even we ghost"

"damn it cj all you had to do was weild the damn ship cj" *pieces of previously wielded ship floats by them *

I think if your hastily built war-surplus freighter hits a mine designed to destroy warships, it's not really inexplicable that it would break up afterwards.

7:08 Lowkey startled me when that randomly popped up

the fires could be two things (even both together): 1. sabotage 2. electrical systems problem. The fact that lights were always going on and of and all the static picked up by the radio makes a strong point for the second

I grew up looking at this wreck on weekends and being warned against going near it. After watching this video I'm glad I listened and kept my explorations to abandoned buildings.

So the Alkamos now is still saying to the world "Even in death i still serve!"

I'm a simple man. I see simple history video uploaded, I watch

Cursed ships: *exist* Satan: Interesting

This ship is so angry that even in death its still trying to kill everyine

You guys should totally do a video on the *MV Alta* A ship that was Apparently lost in the Bermuda before mysteriously running aground in Ireland earlier this year in February!

Nothing: happens SS Alkimos: catches fire

SS Alkimos:*refuses to die* SS Baychimo:Finally a worthy opponent our battle will be legendary.

This is probably the best history channel on KZfaq, I mean like he teaches you EVERYTHING about something in like 10 minutes when at a school, it takes like two weeks.

This is actually really terrifying.

The caretaker looks like Jack Torrence. Simple History, you a Kubrick fan?

My father served in merchant navy in the 1950's. One of his first ships was an old liberty ship. It was dilapidated but just about seaworthy. It's owners spent no money on it though.

I really like the guy who narrates these. He has a dignified caring vibe to him... Sort of like the father I always wish I had... :(

3:54 Lol he just yeeted that mug

The Creepiest Simple History Episode Ever.

The strange idea popped into my head that it was the frantic banging on the hull of the ship by the trapped ship builders that infested the entire ship with fear and horror. People have an energy field around them which affects the molecular structure of everything within range. This is more than likely why 'ghosts' are seen. It is a similar phenomenon to a phonograph record. If the trapped men believed that they had been heard, but ignored, this field would have been very malicious.

Chris Kane has the best movie voice but you learn something. 13/10 channel!

SCP: 4217: Contain The Bismark (the octopus bismark lol)

I think the ship is haunted I'm actually shaking because of this Somebody Call Ghost Adventures

Me at 1:22 : It's got eyes! IT'S GOT EYES! Congrats on 3M Subs Simple History! Happy Halloween!

I remember hearing a worker was caught up in the hulls of the Queen Mary and another ship from the 1860s, so either this happened all the time or else it was just a story that floated around. Oddly for a ship to be cursed the curse didn't seem to arise until after WWII when it could have easily have been torpedoed or hit by a mine. Stories do have a chance to be exaggerated and considering how this ship survived it's shelf-life it was amazing it lasted as long as it did.

How about IJN Yukikaze "snow wind" it was known she was lucky and cursed at the same time, she was infamous for survivng many hits that would be her fate however whoever was around her also were unlucky, IJN Jintsu sank after a torpedo aimed toward yukikaze but missed, IJN Shinano escorted by yukikaze sank from USS Archerfish, IJN Hatsushimo sank after she struck a navalmine that was japanese along with yukikaze strucking 1 of them too however yukikaze got away, she also participated operation "Ten-go" along with yamato another was that when yukikaze was about to be scrapped, the man who appointed the scrapping of her a day later got hit by a bus and died in the hospital, another curse event was when a bomb was located in yukikaze but it was found out that it was a dud and as soon that they took the bomb out of yukikaze it exploded and kill the people near the bomb but yukikaze was unharmed, its known that any sailor that didnt survived yukikaze were unlucky and it was also very frequent where her job was to rescue sailor and not fight in the battle 10 sailors from yukikaze died and all the captain live up to old age before death. A month after they enshrined yukikaze in the naval academy, japan suffered the worst economical crash in there history

I misread the title as "The Cursed Simp of WWII"

The part where the man sat alone in the ship got me spooked

The animation starting at 5:21 has the ship sailing stern first. Liberty ships had a 3 in 50 cal on the bow, then three holds, the bridge, the engine room, then two holds, and finally two 20 mm and a 5 in 38 cal on the stern.

Okay this is great, my dad used to talk about a ship called the Alkimos when I was a kid and how they tried to assign him to clean the boiler tubes. He said it creeped him out and refused. I never took the time to research it but as soon as I heard you say it's name a spark rekindled. He worked with other Liberty ships and sailed a few times across the Atlantic and Pacifi but remembered the stories of the Alkimos. He said that these omens (and the beautiful woman from Brownsville Texas) was why he came to America.

I like how the radio operator wears the headset religiously, like she doesn't take it off when she's not near the radio.

The cursed ship of wwII: late War German submariners: Am I a joke to you?

I woke up after I drifted off watching this video and got the crazy caretaker's face 3 inches from my eyes.

"Cursed ship" damn i wish i could take photo to put in cursed image

"ALKIMOS" a good name for a horror movie, first quarter of the movie about the ships history and disapearances and deads, of people in the distant past, then about the lone caretaker and the second half about a bunch of teens that enter the wreck for fun (yeah i know that she sank, but we need to take some creative liberties with this liberty

"Cursed Ship of WW2" *SCP-4217: "Are you Challenging me?"*

As an old sailor, l'm telling you, weird things happen at sea and on ships. Ghosts? Somehow, once a ship is considered to be cursed, that reputation followers her to the ship breakers.

The SS Ourang Medan: *Am I a joke to you?*

09:00 *"Part of the ship, part of the crew"*

I'll put this in watch later. it's 12am here lol, I'll watch it later morning.

"I Do That Quite A Lot Yet People Are Always Surprised"- Uss Alkimos

"Leave her Johnny leave her"

Perfect for the spooky season.

So this is basically a ship version of the Overlook Hotel

Captain Keyway aboard the Jackdaw in Assassins Creed: Black Flag: One of the crew members: Looks like a ghost ship! It’s coming from the grave to get us!

It’s crazy how not that long ago they just said “see those 2 boats” “Yea” “I have a idea but hear me out “

Sherman: I'm a death trap.... Liberty Ship: Thats cute honey

This narrator for SH has the PERFECT voice for these types of videos.

07:30 is it just me, or does he look like jack Nicholson from the shining.

Great video! I live about 20 miles from the wreck of the Alkimos. The wreck is indeed famous locally for its sinister reputation.

Do the Soviet two headed dog experiment. The real life Frankenstein.

I never expected anyone making such an in depth documentary about this unknown ship.

Congrats on 3 mil man I watched a lot of ur vids