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Lore 231: Out of Breath

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The Black Ghost of Provincetown, Massachusetts

The year was 1939 and the waters of the Atlantic were losing their summer warmth as they washed over the shores of Cape Cod. The first report came from a group of school kids who were playing near the ocean. More witnesses spotted it out on the dunes alongside the ocean while others ran into it in town. One man, Captain Phineas Blackstrap, told the local paper, I'm damned certain I saw him. We've had the black flash here every fourth year since I was a boy"

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