Coast Guard Cutter MORGENTHAU Investigation PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION REPORT -------------------------------

Case No. N/A Date: 10-02-1983 to 01-30-1984 While Stationed on U.S.C.G. MORGENTHAU

Equipment: 35 mm Camera loaded with 400 speed film,

Investigator: Mac

Location:

Results from investigation: Cold Spots, Misting, Moaning / Whispering.

------------------------------ History of the location:Coast Guard Cutter MORGENTHAU is named for Henry Morgenthau, Jr, Secretary of the Treasury from 1934 to 1945 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Henry Morgenthau was born in New York City in 1891, the son of a German immigrant. Named by President Roosevelt to serve as Acting Secretary of the Treasury in 1933, Mr. Morgenthau was appointed Secretary one year later. As head of the Treasury Department, he supervised the financing of both President Roosevelt’s New Deal and the United States’ participation in World War II. During his eleven-year tenure he was responsible for spending more than three times as much as his fifty predecessors combined. He resigned his post following President Roosevelt’s death in 1945. He died in 1967. USCGC MORGENTHAU (WHEC 722), commissioned on March 10, 1969, was the eighth of twelve 378-foot “Hamilton” class High Endurance Cutters (WHECs) built by Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans, Louisiana. First homeported at Governors Island, New York, MORGENTHAU was active in the Vietnam War, conducting underway replenishment, naval gunfire support, and patrol duties off the coast of Vietnam until relieved by a 311' cutter in 1971. In 1977, MORGENTHAU became the first cutter to have women permanently assigned, followed shortly thereafter by USCGC GALLATIN. Currently homeported at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, California, her Pacific coast activities have included drug interdiction and seizures, foreign and domestic fisheries enforcement, search and rescue, and alien migrant interdiction. In 1989, MORGENTHAU was decommissioned to undergo a major mid-life renovation to upgrade berthing and living spaces, rejuvenate engineering systems, and modernize her major weapons and sensors. Upon recommissioning in 1991, MORGENTHAU resumed her missions in the Pacific Ocean. In the fall of 1996.

The stairway between the CIC (combat information center) and pilot house has been known to be haunted by a SN (Seaman ) that had falled during rough seas and had died as a result of neck trauma. During rough seas and allways after 3am this investigator has seen and heard this happen on many occasions while stationed aboard the Coast Guard Cutter MORGENTHAU in the early 80's

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