Four mysterious ‘ghost ships’ that were found sailing without any humans – including one carrying ‘a mummy’

TALES of ghost ships have been frightening people for centuries.

The U.S. Sun has rounded up four of the most mysterious "ghost ship" stories.

Ghost stories have been around as long as humans haveCredit: Getty

Octavius

In 1762, an 18th-century schooner named Octavius set out to London from China, per History.

But she wasn't seen again until thirteen years later while sailing off the coast of Greenland.

The ship was spotted by the crew of a nearby whaling ship, who boarded and discovered Octavius's crew frozen.

What's more, the captain was frozen while sitting upright at his desk with his wife and son next to him. 

The final entry in the captain's log placed the ship 250 miles north of Barrow, Alaska, a few months after it had departed.

After the whaling ship's crew gathered the logbook, they left the ship and it was reportedly never seen again, per History.

SS Baychimo

In 1931, a Swedish vessel named SS Baychimo became trapped in ice and the crew abandoned the ship.

Eventually, the Baychimo broke free from the ice and drifted out to sea before being tracked down 72 miles away.

Over the next few decades, the ship was spotted on a regular basis, albeit with no humans onboard, according to History.

She was last seen sailing in March 1962 and then seven years later was spotted trapped back in ice.

Mummy on board

In more recent years, the body of a man named Manfred Fritz Bajorat was found on his drifting yacht off the coast of the Philippines.

A fisherman named Christopher Rivas found the yacht with its mast broken and most of its cabin underwater, per Men's Journal.

What's more, Bajorat was found in a mummified state, sitting near the radiotelephone.

"There are various ways that natural mummification can occur. Basically, in most cases, it is a dehydration of tissue, which causes a shrinkage of the cells," Professor Frank Ruhli, Director of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, told the Daily Mail.

It was unclear what led to Bajorat's cause of death.

The Irish ghost ship

In 2013, Matt Rutherford and his colleague from the Ocean Research Project found an abandoned yacht "somewhere in the Atlantic," per Irish Central.

Shortly after, the two went on board to explore the empty ship.

They found clothes and personal items all over the yacht's cabin.

In a video, the researchers could be heard saying: "This is absolutely crazy, by the way."

"Here I am, 800 miles from Bermuda, 1,500 miles from the US, standing on a very nice Swan 48, in the middle of the ocean."

They designated the yacht the "Irish ghost ship."