Wondering on Wednesday: Are there ghosts at the bottom of the ocean?

Talking to a friend the other day and we started to get a little hypothetical, many encounters you see on YouTube and TV where an apparent ghost is being communicated with, the spirit says you stay where you died until such time as you are able to move on. Depending on which side of the spirit/soul/energy debate you fall on, you may have a different idea and believe in the concept of choice when it comes to haunting.

But for arguments sake, let’s take it at face value, that where you die, you remain; until such time as you are willing/able to move on.

Is the same true for those who perish at sea? Could there be ghosts wandering the seabed of the Atlantic, around the Titanic wreck, the Bermuda triangle or in the Pacific around any of the naval arenas of WWII?

If we take the statement at face value, yes, there could be ghosts and Ghouls lurking around the coves, bays and even rock pools of the world’s seas and oceans. But when we consider longstanding folklore which surrounds Davy Jones and the Flying Dutchman (though not at the same time, unless you’re watching a Disney film) we have to consider the idea that souls of those lost at sea are recovered by the Dutchman or at least a similarly eerie but unknown vessel.

There are numerous sightings of “the Dutchman” throughout the last couple of hundred years and sightings of it shortly after the demise of ships and those aboard. A ship enshrouded by fog and mist, with sails as thin as cobwebs, propelled when there isn’t a breath of wind in the air.

As for Davy Jones, there are many trains of thought given to the etymology of both him and his infamous locker, but again, the term can be found way back in the 18th Century, first found in The Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts, by Daniel Defoe, published in 1726 the term is used in a negative context, later in the century “safe in Davy Jones’ locker” was used in a foreign affairs segment of the Chester Chronicle in 1791, conveying that a person had been lost at sea.

Is Davy Jones’ locker a state of purgatory for mariners, seafarers and passengers alike? Or is it something completely different entirely?

Does this mean there are ghosts at the bottom of the ocean? Or are the lost souls carried into the beyond by Captain Jones, the Flying Dutchman or another ghost ship?

What do you think?