ships o' the desert - photographic proof

[dang]

After listening to the Lost Ship of the Desert episode (Skeptoid #209) I thought back to the day I spotted a mighty seafarin' galleon deep in the dusty desert. It was 2003, mateys, when I spotted this monster in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Yaaaaarrh. Ye can't deny the evidence afore yer very eyes. She moved through plumes 'o dust as if she were a ghost, as if she were on wheels. I'm a believer now, lads.

[Safe-Keeper]

Photoshop!

[dang]

Nope. Guess again. The clue is "Black Rock Desert."

[Harpyja]

A mountaineer, storm-stained and brown
from farthest desert touched the town
And, striding through the town held, up
Above his head a jewell'd cup.
He put two fingers to his lip,
He whispere'd wild, he stood a-tip,
And lean'd the while with lifted hand,
And said, "a ship lies yonder dead,"
And said, "Doubloons lie sown in sand
along yon desert dead and brown,

[Fnord]

Yar, matey! She be a fine-lookin set o'sails ... and not one burnin' man to be seen no whars ... ;)

[dang]

That's wonderful. Why didn't Brian read this old poem on the show?

[dang]

Ye got me drift, Fnord. She was a fine vessel. Tall and real as they come. Far out on the playa she rolled.

[Beanbag]

Hopefully it was registered with the DMV (Department of Mutant Vehicles).

Beanbag

[dang]

It was called La Contessa, and she used to get in trouble for speeding and reckless driving. Came to sad end, though.
http://laughingsquid.com/la-contessa-has-been-destroyed-in-a-fire/

[dudalb]

Maybe a production still from the Third POTC film . They shot the "Davy Jones Locker" sequence (in one of the few clever bits in that bloated mess Davy Jones Locker is protrayed as a ship stranded in a huge desert) in Nevada.
But, yeah, the folklore about a Spanish Galleon loaded with Gold being stranded somewhere in the Southwest is a classic bit of American Folklore.

[dang]

dudalb - Ye are hereby sentenced to swab the deck for eternity.

I took that photo. The monster ship cruised the desert, huntin' whales and runnin' down ravers. Twas quite a spectacle at night, ya unbelievin' scallywag. Deep in the desert are things the likes of you couldn't fathom--like the livin' tornado of fire!

[Accidental Martyr]

Yar, matey! She be a fine-lookin set o'sails ... and not one burnin' man to be seen no whars ... ;)

;)

[Safe-Keeper]

Nope. Guess again. The clue is "Black Rock Desert.":reads rest of thread, visits links:

Wow. I was being sarcastic, I thought it was a screencap from Pirates of the Caribbean (Black Pearl grounded in that fantasy world of Jack Sparrow's):D.

Pity she burned up.

[Tomtomkent]

First thread i read here, and those images are awsome!

[Aepervius]

Nope. Guess again. The clue is "Black Rock Desert."

"The Black Rock Desert is an arid region in northern Nevada with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan."

Soooo..... The ship was sailing on that lake during late Pleistocene, and then got stranded there when it dried up ?

[Safe-Keeper]

Nope. Guess again. The clue is "school bus".

:p