And not one of them has ever said anything about any ghosts on the ship. Maybe the ships was simply too crowded and loud when it was in service for anyone to notice, maybe the ghosts waited until she was retired to come out. Maybe it's just somebodies imagination?
Finally, to settle the confusion over the differences between this ship, the first Lexington, and why she doesn't look anything like the pictures from WW2. Yes, this is a separate ship from the one that sank in 1942. The reason it looks so different from what it used to is that it was completely rebuilt in the 50s (when some of my relatives first sailed on her) to handle the big jets of the time. The new deck, new island, no guns, the interior, all completely redone.
The second half of the tale is from the 80s, when my uncle was an aircraft mechanic on her. In 1989, a trainee pilot crashed his jet onto the stern, killing himself and 4 others, injuring many more and setting the aft part of the ship on fire for several minutes. My uncle was in the Navy for nearly 20 years and insists that's the worst thing he's ever seen, worse than similar crashes on the big carriers.
Ok, a bit of a story about the Lex, as my family (all from Texas) has had several members serve on it from the 50s to the 80s before she retired and we make it a point to visit it once a year.
The ship was called the "Grey Ghost" because it was "hit" multiple times and even reported sunk by the Japanese a few times. In reality it was over-eager pilots giving optimistic reports. The Lex was only hit once, by a kamikaze.
I went on this today , my dad and i were alone and i felt this wierd feeling go up my spine and my dad a nam war vet did too . My grandpa served on the lexinton in ww2 .
This is really good video and you cover many interesting things on your channel. Are you involved with the boy scouts here in cc ... we'd like them to take part in the photo/video contest. View teaser on our home channel, thanks...will message you too.
hey! there's some exciting things to do ...check out our channel and The Spirit of Blue Ghost, and start thinking big screen projection and sound system ... underway!
it is soooooooooooooooooooo creepy on this thing :o like its not even funny ESPICALLY when your walking by yourself you just have that feeling that someones there with you
fantastic video. I was there last weekend. alot has changed. Due to the lack of volunteers on the ship now they can't do these tours. Actually i am in this video with you guys. I was one of the guys that saw the shadow in the engine room "hell" as they called it. good times good times.
CV-16 actually DID see action in the pacific in WWII... If you had ever been on board, you probably would have seen records that they have about seamen killed in a Japanese torpedo raid... I've seen them, on a live-aboard trip...
the japanese thought it sunk too because they torpedoed the engine compartment and left because it was smoking and they though it would sink. Then it showed up later at another battle, still smoking. That's why they call it the Blue Ghost.
However, her sister ship, the Saratoga, was sunk during a test to study the effects that a nuclear explosion has on ships. Yes, i'm a bit of a history nut and 1939-1945 is my favorite period.
there where 2 U.S.S.Lexingtons the one you are talking about was sunk at coral sea it was a CV2 its sister ship was the saratoga they were lexington class CVs this U.S.S.Lexington is an essex class cv , so what it comes down to is yes the U.S.S.Lexington that you are talking about did sink but the one in this video is a different U.S.S.Lexington
I've been on the Lexington twice as live aboard with my boy scout troop.
at night we go to the engine room for ghost stories and the guy tells you that if you want to leave then you can... but in almost pitch black claustrophobic hallways the walls will talk to you... i have no reason to doubt it.
damn these r the good times lol i went here when i was in a eight grade and we slept over their lol their was a lot of drama when we were doin the scavenger hunt cuz a lot of girls were crying lol then when we were done doin the scavenger hunt the man told we would of work together (boys and girls) but that man always made us do push cuz we had to tuck in our shirts
went on the ship saw 2 ghosts 1st one was in the engine room waved said hi to me then walked through a wall next day asked if there used to be a passage way were he walked through the guy said yes second was a floor below sick bay he yelled at me get f*** out of here i ran like hell
i remember taking a trip to this ship for one night with jrotc... it was some crazy stuff on that ship... i remember when i was in that room with the blue chairs and there was no one else in that room except for a friend of mine... it was some creepy stuff... especially those hallways...
I stashed a bowl in a tiny crevice filled with the best weed available in "81" in P-cola, I was afraid if I was caught leaving the ship with it, I would have been busted and held on Administrative hold, I was on my way off the ship and out of the navy..I wonder if it is still in the same spot? lol...Spent many "stoned" nights on that ship, I lived right below the catapults in the berthing below them. I am sure that the bowl is still there, 28 years later! Lol.Hell I even quit smoking weed .
i served aboard this ship from 79-81, when it was in Pensacola fla, I remeber many accidents where sailors died, One guy jumped overboard when we were out to sea off the coast of Corpus christi, and he never was found. I was on lookout watch, very scary, I stood many watches on this ship and there was some very scary times. I cant wait to come for a visit. Been 28 years since Ive been aboard.!!
this is funny... not much of a private tour.... we stayed there and got to go everywhere all the way down to the bottom two decks where it is filled up with water to keep the ship in place on the sand barge.... we are friends with Kenny, Lieutenant Williams, and JC
I know how you feel. I didv the live aboard, and i expeirienced a ghost. It was the 1 called charlie. I saw him walk into the bathroom near my bunks, with a shaving kit in his hand!!!!
and the room where they tell the scary storys its off limits to go under that room adn my friends and I went under there and we heard yelling in the black hallways like someone was getting tortured, and a locked door had a lock on it that was vibrating
yeah i heard that to the person that worked there as a normal tour guid told me that amercans hated there jap prisoners that they would take them down there and slowly torture them i think he told me they slowly ripped there guts out
when i was there I saw(on the top of the deck at night, where the jetplanes are) I saw a man dressed in white walking around and he went down the side of the ship and I followed him and he dissapeared. Also I saw a big green light floating on the water and it got really close to the ship and then went out
The floor by the couch in 1:08 pops down(falls down) apparently the floor is more than 6inches of steel, the fire in 2001 was equivalant to a giant char- gril grill.... crappy, hot, and dangerous.
ive been to the son of a bitch i went to go take a piss it was like around 11 aclock at night and i like heard someone walking it scared me so i got the camera out and started saying come out motherfucker and i took a pic and the damn thing was right there o boy did i run
yeah they said their was a guy in the bathroom that i can see him sometimes. i stayed there over night for boy scouts and i swear i heard people walking in the halls all night.
we went there a couple days ago......and when we went we saw things/heard things,and we have it on film and something pulled me and i cut myself very deep.
I spend the night on the ship with my Boy Scout Troop. I also did the fire watch with 4 other people from my patrol and other people from a ROTC group. It was awsome and even scary. We went into parts of the ship where nobody else could go to, and there was one random room on the ship. The fire watch group I was in went all the way to the bottom where the water in the ship was at.
I served on the USS Lexington until it was decommissioned. A very sad moment for us all. The memories of this fabulous carrier with all the history behind it will never be forgotten. Thanks for the video.
Hey I was just on the Lex for a one-night "Live Aboard" with my son's Boy Scout troop a couple of weeks ago. We also got to enjoy a boundaries of where the unwashed masses are allowed. Thanks a ton for posting this video! We hope to go back again next year and do the two night gig.
Thanks for the comment. It was really fun but every muscle in my body was in pain the next day from climbing ladders all day and night. I don't know how they did it back in the day.
served aboard the Lexington about 28 years ago-and one of my jobs was a brig guard-where the Captain often handed out 3 days bread and water as punishment-it was a space(the brig ) that belonged to my division(gunnery )-it was actually just a few frames aft of the chapel-and right next to the Lex's print shop-
Very interesting. It must have been an unbelievable experience being on that ship when it was in active duty. The escalator that was added for the pilots was especially interesting as it was just bolted to the outside of the ship then covered with steel plating.
i know....i went there over the summer and i felt like int the engine room, the chapel, and the mess hall that i was being watched very closely...weird feeling
I used to do work on the Lexington. Everything after 3:30 is off limits to the public. They go into the generator room, where all the levers, buttons, and switches are still live, and working. I couldn't really tell where they went after that, camera din't show alot really, but there is a brige (jail) around that area as well.
Unfortunately, I filmed in 1080 and when I rendered to fit youtube, alot of detail was lost. Also, most of the areas were pitch dark. We did go all the way down to "shaft alley", where the shafts exit the rear of the ship and many sailors had died.
Ya, nobody can get to the very bottom now, as they filled the last coupe of levels of treated water, so that the ship will stay in place for events, such as hurricanes, etc.
Good Video tho.
Did you see any ghostly actions while you guys were down there?
I agree, if you are going to go looking on a ship dont be a WUSS, those arn't near as good spots as others there. Cry me a river and dont be scared of the dark.
I appreciate your comment sir. We were actually going to go through more of the ship that evening but many areas were so dark (as seen in this footage) and the flooring being so weak, we decided to quit for the evening (3:00 am)
I enjoyed this walk back in time....I was stationed on her June 1966-1968. Brought back a lot of memories. I kept waiting for you to go to the aft and up the stairs to the supply dept. Right under the arresting cables.
i just got back from the ship today
thelonegunman2 1 month ago
@thelonegunman2 u live in corpus?
StupidCookie66 1 month ago
@StupidCookie66 no, went there for boy scouts
thelonegunman2 1 month ago
I really enjoyed staying over night a few times on the Blue Ghost while in scouts.
CountryHombre 4 months ago
And not one of them has ever said anything about any ghosts on the ship. Maybe the ships was simply too crowded and loud when it was in service for anyone to notice, maybe the ghosts waited until she was retired to come out. Maybe it's just somebodies imagination?
educatedcockroach 5 months ago
Finally, to settle the confusion over the differences between this ship, the first Lexington, and why she doesn't look anything like the pictures from WW2. Yes, this is a separate ship from the one that sank in 1942. The reason it looks so different from what it used to is that it was completely rebuilt in the 50s (when some of my relatives first sailed on her) to handle the big jets of the time. The new deck, new island, no guns, the interior, all completely redone.
educatedcockroach 5 months ago
The second half of the tale is from the 80s, when my uncle was an aircraft mechanic on her. In 1989, a trainee pilot crashed his jet onto the stern, killing himself and 4 others, injuring many more and setting the aft part of the ship on fire for several minutes. My uncle was in the Navy for nearly 20 years and insists that's the worst thing he's ever seen, worse than similar crashes on the big carriers.
educatedcockroach 5 months ago
Ok, a bit of a story about the Lex, as my family (all from Texas) has had several members serve on it from the 50s to the 80s before she retired and we make it a point to visit it once a year.
The ship was called the "Grey Ghost" because it was "hit" multiple times and even reported sunk by the Japanese a few times. In reality it was over-eager pilots giving optimistic reports. The Lex was only hit once, by a kamikaze.
educatedcockroach 5 months ago
I went on this tour with my ROTC unit. Theres more to this tour than you think. Prettt scary stuff.
IsmaelDominguez1994 5 months ago
I went on this today , my dad and i were alone and i felt this wierd feeling go up my spine and my dad a nam war vet did too . My grandpa served on the lexinton in ww2 .
crazyhorse1369 5 months ago
This is really good video and you cover many interesting things on your channel. Are you involved with the boy scouts here in cc ... we'd like them to take part in the photo/video contest. View teaser on our home channel, thanks...will message you too.
ccskatepark 7 months ago
hey! there's some exciting things to do ...check out our channel and The Spirit of Blue Ghost, and start thinking big screen projection and sound system ... underway!
ccskatepark 7 months ago
did u find any ghosts????
they say that the most haunted spots are the engine room, the sick bay, and the contol room. i woulda gone ghost hunting :D
the staff calls one of the ghosts charlie.
crazitaco 7 months ago
it is soooooooooooooooooooo creepy on this thing :o like its not even funny ESPICALLY when your walking by yourself you just have that feeling that someones there with you
XxTHExBURRITOxX 10 months ago
This is the perfect set-up for a horror movie.
TheLetterU 1 year ago
cant wait me and my rotc class are going this saturday to spend the night and have a tour :D
TheEvilSquishyBunny 1 year ago
fantastic video. I was there last weekend. alot has changed. Due to the lack of volunteers on the ship now they can't do these tours. Actually i am in this video with you guys. I was one of the guys that saw the shadow in the engine room "hell" as they called it. good times good times.
roadster1948 1 year ago
Too much mooving of the camera! Learn it by Hitchcock!
HR5308 1 year ago
my old ship! I was 17! mid 61-62 cruise then around south america
vipergurn 1 year ago
@vipergurn what you served on this ship
knox457 1 year ago
Its funny that i live in Corpus Christi but ive never been there. going there with my NJROTC unit now.
MGOEliteFrager 1 year ago
@monkeyseawater
CV-16 actually DID see action in the pacific in WWII... If you had ever been on board, you probably would have seen records that they have about seamen killed in a Japanese torpedo raid... I've seen them, on a live-aboard trip...
DavidKing2012 2 years ago
@FuturePilotGrrl
My afjrotc group goes every year(TX-935)
We have a lot of fun, and I miss it, too... I still have two years before the senior tour, tho...
DavidKing2012 2 years ago
I spent the night there for a boy scouts trip. It was spooky.
invaderzim451 2 years ago
I went there.... Man it was creepy!
thewabbitofthenation 2 years ago
I'm going to camp out at the USS Lexington tommorow with scouts!
thewabbitofthenation 2 years ago
This can't be the original WW2 1942 Coral Sea U.S.S. Lexington. Her flight deck was virtually destroyed and I thought the ship was sunk.
nc69th 2 years ago
the japanese thought it sunk too because they torpedoed the engine compartment and left because it was smoking and they though it would sink. Then it showed up later at another battle, still smoking. That's why they call it the Blue Ghost.
FlushieJohnson 2 years ago
However, her sister ship, the Saratoga, was sunk during a test to study the effects that a nuclear explosion has on ships. Yes, i'm a bit of a history nut and 1939-1945 is my favorite period.
FlushieJohnson 2 years ago
dude they modernized the shit out of the boat like 8 times until 1991
v1ct0rR1v3r4 2 years ago
@nc69th You are right. This isn't the Lexington(CV-2) that sunk at Coral Sea. This is the new Lexington (CV-16).
DeciusCorvinus 2 years ago
@nc69th well ur wrong, and yes it was basically destroyed but never sunk
garbagepailkid100 2 years ago
parts of the ship had to be rebuilt after it had been bombed before it became a floating museum so thats probably not the original flight deck
videofan080 2 years ago
there where 2 U.S.S.Lexingtons the one you are talking about was sunk at coral sea it was a CV2 its sister ship was the saratoga they were lexington class CVs this U.S.S.Lexington is an essex class cv , so what it comes down to is yes the U.S.S.Lexington that you are talking about did sink but the one in this video is a different U.S.S.Lexington
jrcobb1994 2 years ago
omgomgomg just yesterday, my AFJROTC TX-911 group slept over and i just came back yesterday! i miss the ship!!
FuturePilotGrrrl 2 years ago
when i went on the trip with the civil air patrol i had fire watch by my self and it was from 3;00 am to 6:30 am it was pretty freaky
johnathan003 2 years ago
C314 L my quarters aboard
USSLEXCVA16 2 years ago
Lex, my home on the Pacific in the 50's
USSLEXCVA16 2 years ago
I've been on the Lexington twice as live aboard with my boy scout troop.
at night we go to the engine room for ghost stories and the guy tells you that if you want to leave then you can... but in almost pitch black claustrophobic hallways the walls will talk to you... i have no reason to doubt it.
killmajaro1 2 years ago
I spent the night at the lexington! I was part of a program called Upward Bound, it was a fun experience.
We did a scavenger hunt before the private tour, and I got to go to Hell XD.
Awesome, our vid should be on soon. who gave you the tour?
FCGeneration 2 years ago
i live in portland tx and i see that ship every day and night the tour is ok nothing to brag about
greengun7877 2 years ago
damn these r the good times lol i went here when i was in a eight grade and we slept over their lol their was a lot of drama when we were doin the scavenger hunt cuz a lot of girls were crying lol then when we were done doin the scavenger hunt the man told we would of work together (boys and girls) but that man always made us do push cuz we had to tuck in our shirts
good times
pete321254 2 years ago
been here slept there for field trip slept in the dead huys bed kinda scary so all of us slept on the ground food there was nasty =[
yurbleeding 2 years ago
Oh! We're going there on Wednesday!Scared of teh ghosts! But I look forward to it!
NightShadow115 2 years ago
you can go to these places now...
Or atleast we do =)
asdfghjkl10531 2 years ago
went on the ship saw 2 ghosts 1st one was in the engine room waved said hi to me then walked through a wall next day asked if there used to be a passage way were he walked through the guy said yes second was a floor below sick bay he yelled at me get f*** out of here i ran like hell
ssgkillsuall 2 years ago
i remember taking a trip to this ship for one night with jrotc... it was some crazy stuff on that ship... i remember when i was in that room with the blue chairs and there was no one else in that room except for a friend of mine... it was some creepy stuff... especially those hallways...
kjdub33 2 years ago
I stashed a bowl in a tiny crevice filled with the best weed available in "81" in P-cola, I was afraid if I was caught leaving the ship with it, I would have been busted and held on Administrative hold, I was on my way off the ship and out of the navy..I wonder if it is still in the same spot? lol...Spent many "stoned" nights on that ship, I lived right below the catapults in the berthing below them. I am sure that the bowl is still there, 28 years later! Lol.Hell I even quit smoking weed .
daviezee 2 years ago
I toured this boat in 1995 and was sensational
classickc 2 years ago
i've stayed on the boat a total of three nights with rotc it's so creepy its fun but i refuse to go in to the sick bay
kyokaXkiba 2 years ago
hahahahahahahaha that was scary as shit
Mrfluffy122 2 years ago
i was on this on a bsa trip and our troop was told to watch the ship at night and check for fires it was awesome
Mrfluffy122 2 years ago
that is scary
Misawaj11 2 years ago
i served aboard this ship from 79-81, when it was in Pensacola fla, I remeber many accidents where sailors died, One guy jumped overboard when we were out to sea off the coast of Corpus christi, and he never was found. I was on lookout watch, very scary, I stood many watches on this ship and there was some very scary times. I cant wait to come for a visit. Been 28 years since Ive been aboard.!!
daviezee 2 years ago
i think that is so cool!!!!!
Misawaj11 2 years ago
Holy Shit. Do you know a guy named Tony Chandler? He was on the lexington around that time frame.
AmericanGi370 2 years ago
man the name sounds too familiar! What division was he in , and what was his rating/job? I was in the first division deck dept. A true swabbie! Lol!
daviezee 2 years ago
this is funny... not much of a private tour.... we stayed there and got to go everywhere all the way down to the bottom two decks where it is filled up with water to keep the ship in place on the sand barge.... we are friends with Kenny, Lieutenant Williams, and JC
thejakew 2 years ago
i got lost on that thing.... it was only for like 10 min but i started freaking out!!!! lol....
msloverock 2 years ago
I know how you feel. I didv the live aboard, and i expeirienced a ghost. It was the 1 called charlie. I saw him walk into the bathroom near my bunks, with a shaving kit in his hand!!!!
Zaphodmax2 3 years ago
I saw him shaving in the head. He told me to hurry up, I had next shift for fire-watch.
acdcgreat 2 years ago
and the room where they tell the scary storys its off limits to go under that room adn my friends and I went under there and we heard yelling in the black hallways like someone was getting tortured, and a locked door had a lock on it that was vibrating
asdfghjkl10531 3 years ago
yeah i heard that to the person that worked there as a normal tour guid told me that amercans hated there jap prisoners that they would take them down there and slowly torture them i think he told me they slowly ripped there guts out
ssgkillsuall 2 years ago
this Lex never saw WW2 action ,the original Lex did though
monkeyseawater 2 years ago
actually the lex refused to go down completly learn your history
ssgkillsuall 2 years ago
i know the Lex,served aboard her for many years,the Lex, ( CV2) was sunk in WW2-
monkeyseawater 2 years ago
no u didnt ur just a kid trying to onvince people that ur smart grow up
ssgkillsuall 2 years ago
If you are 57, you couldnt have served on the Lex for many years.... I did serve on the lex
USSLEXCVA16 2 years ago
there were two U.S.S.Lexintons CV2 and CV16 so it depends on which one you are talking about
jrcobb1994 2 years ago
when i was there I saw(on the top of the deck at night, where the jetplanes are) I saw a man dressed in white walking around and he went down the side of the ship and I followed him and he dissapeared. Also I saw a big green light floating on the water and it got really close to the ship and then went out
asdfghjkl10531 3 years ago
most of this is open to the public now, i just went last weekend.
NOPIEQJJ 3 years ago
it haunted right?
paultorres 3 years ago
The floor by the couch in 1:08 pops down(falls down) apparently the floor is more than 6inches of steel, the fire in 2001 was equivalant to a giant char- gril grill.... crappy, hot, and dangerous.
azxsdcvfgb77 3 years ago
been there, done that
crystalquetepoppop 3 years ago
My Dad was on this ship when he was in the navy ;)
I bet he would love to stay the night on there just one more time :D
troxr4kids 3 years ago
just got back home from staying the weekend at the ship. the trip was AWESOME and quite scary. GO WYLIE AFJROTC TX 200010!!!!
Richyrich8486 3 years ago
I spent the night on that ship twice when i was in AFJROTC. one time just as i closed my eyes i felt something tug at my arm.
grooveclubhouse 3 years ago
i went there on vacation and i could have sworn that something touched my ankle
saspurs672 3 years ago
ive been to the son of a bitch i went to go take a piss it was like around 11 aclock at night and i like heard someone walking it scared me so i got the camera out and started saying come out motherfucker and i took a pic and the damn thing was right there o boy did i run
jlbroich 3 years ago
yeah they said their was a guy in the bathroom that i can see him sometimes. i stayed there over night for boy scouts and i swear i heard people walking in the halls all night.
DeutschKompanie1944 3 years ago
if u r lost it can take 7 days to find u
dark4rce01 3 years ago
no it can't I went on the ship myself in every crack and most crannys, it took hours
azxsdcvfgb77 3 years ago
i spent the night there many times before 3 or 4 times for the lexington camp and we did that
dark4rce01 3 years ago
lol I did sleep on this just last lastnight!
numantunak 3 years ago
i just went there today and guest what i saw a ghost and it said hi to and went into the wall
bearyboo09 3 years ago
the ghost that haunts the place is supposely located in the machinery room, he wears a old navy uniform (i think)
lex0014 3 years ago
we went there a couple days ago......and when we went we saw things/heard things,and we have it on film and something pulled me and i cut myself very deep.
VinceEmoRocker 3 years ago
sind the film to my email
use send it to get upto 100MB
burster8boostar 3 years ago
okay.
VinceEmoRocker 3 years ago
I spend the night on the ship with my Boy Scout Troop. I also did the fire watch with 4 other people from my patrol and other people from a ROTC group. It was awsome and even scary. We went into parts of the ship where nobody else could go to, and there was one random room on the ship. The fire watch group I was in went all the way to the bottom where the water in the ship was at.
jtgaslin61 3 years ago
i totally went there saturday
URMOM0504 3 years ago
i havnt been on the midnight tour though, they wont let me.
Rasinx 3 years ago
iv been to the lexington twice with scouts. once when i was 5 and ontother when i was 10
Rasinx 3 years ago
i work at the lex
JordanBMR 3 years ago
I served on the USS Lexington until it was decommissioned. A very sad moment for us all. The memories of this fabulous carrier with all the history behind it will never be forgotten. Thanks for the video.
BFFmagicjohnson 3 years ago
Hey I was just on the Lex for a one-night "Live Aboard" with my son's Boy Scout troop a couple of weeks ago. We also got to enjoy a boundaries of where the unwashed masses are allowed. Thanks a ton for posting this video! We hope to go back again next year and do the two night gig.
dcs0582 3 years ago
Thanks for the comment. It was really fun but every muscle in my body was in pain the next day from climbing ladders all day and night. I don't know how they did it back in the day.
robertluthi 3 years ago
served aboard the Lexington about 28 years ago-and one of my jobs was a brig guard-where the Captain often handed out 3 days bread and water as punishment-it was a space(the brig ) that belonged to my division(gunnery )-it was actually just a few frames aft of the chapel-and right next to the Lex's print shop-
monkeyseawater 3 years ago
Very interesting. It must have been an unbelievable experience being on that ship when it was in active duty. The escalator that was added for the pilots was especially interesting as it was just bolted to the outside of the ship then covered with steel plating.
robertluthi 3 years ago
i actually was a Boatswains mate, Drove the ship on Bridge watch, it was amazing..!
daviezee 2 years ago
ya might have gave me raisen bread and bug juice, I was on the Lex 79- aug 81...They called me "Z" (Dave Zobrist) How Bout you?
daviezee 2 years ago
COOL! im going with AFJORTC at my school, in about a few weeks.
raiderz111 4 years ago
cool ive went to the lexington for the texas state auquriam for texas diver education =D
its awesome there!
Swordfish199 4 years ago
the sick bay and the engine rooms are really cool and scary! So is the chapel!
celticguardian951 4 years ago
i know....i went there over the summer and i felt like int the engine room, the chapel, and the mess hall that i was being watched very closely...weird feeling
thatbandguy 4 years ago
jk i dont
JordanBMR 3 years ago
I used to do work on the Lexington. Everything after 3:30 is off limits to the public. They go into the generator room, where all the levers, buttons, and switches are still live, and working. I couldn't really tell where they went after that, camera din't show alot really, but there is a brige (jail) around that area as well.
Croaker90 4 years ago
Unfortunately, I filmed in 1080 and when I rendered to fit youtube, alot of detail was lost. Also, most of the areas were pitch dark. We did go all the way down to "shaft alley", where the shafts exit the rear of the ship and many sailors had died.
robertluthi 4 years ago
Ya, nobody can get to the very bottom now, as they filled the last coupe of levels of treated water, so that the ship will stay in place for events, such as hurricanes, etc.
Good Video tho.
Did you see any ghostly actions while you guys were down there?
Croaker90 4 years ago
I hope you people were accompanied by a crewmember.
seagraver 4 years ago
We were accompanied by a couple volunteer workers. They were still hung up on the visit from the Ghost Hunter show.
robertluthi 4 years ago
I agree, if you are going to go looking on a ship dont be a WUSS, those arn't near as good spots as others there. Cry me a river and dont be scared of the dark.
lsVTECboost 4 years ago
There are better off limit areas to go to than those.
PoisonTheWhales 4 years ago
I know. They wanted to take us to other places but most of us were dead tired and had to be up with the scouts in a few hours.
robertluthi 4 years ago
actually the better off limit areas the floor is a little dangerous and they are working on it.
thegamefreak97 3 years ago
I appreciate your comment sir. We were actually going to go through more of the ship that evening but many areas were so dark (as seen in this footage) and the flooring being so weak, we decided to quit for the evening (3:00 am)
robertluthi 4 years ago
I enjoyed this walk back in time....I was stationed on her June 1966-1968. Brought back a lot of memories. I kept waiting for you to go to the aft and up the stairs to the supply dept. Right under the arresting cables.
glr0661 4 years ago