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USS Lexington

Corpus Christi, Texas

The retired US Naval vessel USS Lexington is most famous for the ghost of the engine room operator who was killed in battle. He has never harmed anyone and only makes his presence known when tourists enter the engine room; he gives guided tours of the room. Sometimes he becomes impatient, however, and slams doors and turns off lights.

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paco says:

August 29, 2008, 12:23 pm

this bull is not true do not listen to what these whinny losers have to say just because they can’t get none

B4 LCL says:

September 3, 2008, 5:22 pm

I hav never bin 2 dis ship or heard of the ship, but i would love 2 go 2 it and check it owt. I have sin a ghost and do believe in them.

Mary says:

September 14, 2008, 4:26 pm

The first time I went to the ship, it was with a friend of mine who actually served on the ship. He only told me that there were stories of ghosts … a kamikaze pilot and the sailor in his dress whites. I didn’t experience anything, but he did. He found it hard to breathe below deck and he wanted to leave.
The second time I went, I was with my family, two years later. I heard a male voice behind me say, “you’ve been here before” but when I turned, I didn’t see anyone. Nothing unusual happened until the end of the tour. I went down below to the ladies room. I looked around the ladies locker room , or “berthing area”, for a couple of minutes, before rejoining my family on the main deck. I was alone down there and the air was still. As I approached the door to leave, I was about 3 steps from it. I lunged for the door, as it was starting to slowly close on its own.
I didn’t know until my next visit the following year, that there was a female entity on board. I heard she was the first female to serve on the Lexington, and she died in an accident, involving a plane, on the landing. I never saw her, or heard her, but I wondered if she was the reason for the door closing just as I went to exit.

jtl says:

September 24, 2008, 4:14 pm

Well, we took a trip to the Lexington I didnt get an eerie feeling on the engine room. Later during the tour i needed to use the ladies room, well i had to go through the nurses quarters and there’s where I started getting real cold and scared. I then heard lots of laughter and talking only to find out I was the only one there.

Bethany says:

October 1, 2008, 10:48 pm

I have been on the ship for a family vacation, and have found many pictures of my findings. I have them posted on yourghoststories.com look up u.s.s. lexington ghost pictures and you will find my story and pictures, tell me what you think, and it seems there is more than one ghost on the ship.. Clearly a mailman is seen in one picture!

alex says:

October 3, 2008, 9:47 pm

I have been to the U.S.S. lexington 2 times. The first i never saw anything. I was there 3 weeks ago and me and 4 of my friends saw 5 ghosts!!! I saw a hand in a blue glove and a man walking in all cacky. 1 of my friends saw a preacher(in the church) and he saw charlie(the most famous ghost) another also saw the hand i saw and she saw a man walk across the hall the last a girl in our group(at the back)and she got pushed she turned around and there was no 1 there!!! I would recommend getting a group of 30 or so and visiting the U.S.S. lexington and staying the night. The trip was amazing!!!

Renee says:

October 26, 2008, 3:11 pm

I used to work on the LEX, and from my own experiences I can definately confirm everyone’s suspicion if the ship is haunted or not. I worked down in the kitchen, a level below the hanger deck. The feeding room for the boy scout’s down their used to be the morgue. My co-worker’s and I always heard people like running around in there and when would go to check, no one was there. Also things in the kitchen itself got pretty weird too. On many occasoin when a rush was going on, I would feel someone bump into the back of me like they were trying to pass by me, but no one was there!! it totally freaked me out and I never stayed down there by myself.

Matt says:

December 22, 2008, 5:54 am

Through Boy Scouts, I had the privilege to spend the night on the “Blue Ghost” several times. Each time, I never directly “experienced” anything overtly paranormal, but I always had this strange and eerie feeling that something was there, that I was being watched, especially in certain areas of the ship (engine room, sick bay, dining room, some of the sleeping quarters). However, the last time I stayed the night on board, me and a friend of mine did experience something VERY WEIRD. Because the ship was understaffed that night, they asked some of the people on board to volunteer for “fire watch”. Fire watch consisted of staying awake all night, watching movies and drinking free cokes in this lounge area, and walking around the ship every hour or two to make sure that nobody was awake and wandering around. So of course I volunteer and get the job because I was one of the older scouts at the time. Well come 1 A.M., my friend and I don’t really feel like sitting around watching “Half-Baked” with the staff, so we go on patrol and get permission to go hang out on the flight deck for awhile when we’re done. They let us go, but instead of doing either of those things we decide to jump a few chain-fences, open a few off-the-path doors, and take a real tour of this ship. This was like my fifth time onboard and I thought I had seen it all, but off the tour path there is so much more! We must have seen every corner of the ship, but the weirdest things happened in one of the engine rooms (there are three more that aren’t part of the museum tour), and the brig. First we found the engine rooms, which are at the very bottom level of the ship. In all of them I got the strangest feeling that there was something else there, but in the last I swear I saw a man squatted down turning a valve. I yelled at my friend to look, but by the time he put his flashlight on him he was gone. We poked around some more, and eventually made our way to the front of the ship, two or three levels below the hanger. Walking down this hallway on the port side of the ship we both smelled what was distinctly bread being baked and heard what sounded like people preparing food in a kitchen, but soon the noise stopped and there was no kitchen around. In fact, the mess hall was two levels up and on the other side of the ship. Close by the “bakery hallway” was what must have been the brig. Behind a very heavy steel door with bars over the windows were about four or five small holding cells. As soon as I walked in I was instinctively certain that something very bad had happened in that room. After seeing all there was to see we left, and as we both walked out into the hallway I heard this really loud, agonizing SCREAM come from the room we were just in. My friend was just as terrified as myself, so we both went into a sprint and clamored up to the flight deck. There is no possible way that anybody on board was just messing with us, because there was only one door into the brig and we were right there the whole time. So we were both pretty freaked and ended up staying above deck until sunrise. Haven’t been back since but I plan on exploring the place again as soon as I get the chance.

Sara H. says:

February 3, 2009, 2:55 am

I visited this carrier last week and as I and a friend were walking up near where there are a lot of ropes used for the anchor area, I saw an apperation of a man dressed in a full Navy blues outfit in a room standing in the doorway that lead to the ropes. But as I got closer he disappeared. Really creeped me out because he looked so real.

travis says:

March 3, 2009, 10:06 am

ok with this one…at first i thought ghost were full of **** but that was before i went overnite on the lexington in corpus christi.the guy has long blond hair,blue eyes and wheres a navy uniform,he’s id say bout 6’4,6’5.how do i know this cause my scout troop did an overnighter there and the guy gave me and the scouts a tour around 10:30 on firewatch on tour #4 down to the engine room.no b.s about any part of this if you want to know go check it out for yourself

Laura Ashleyy says:

March 21, 2009, 2:35 pm

I’ve spent the night on the ship when I was around ten with Girl Scouts. They actually sat us down in the engine room (The girls that wanted to hear the ghost stories) and told us many stories about the supposed ghost on the ship. I remember the story of the trickster on the ship who was a blue eyed blonde hair guy around eighteen or nineteen who died on the ship who likes to play pranks. My friend I and swore we saw him walking back to the bunks where we were supposed to stay. I’ll never forget that experiance it was super creepy but intersting :]

melisa leaming says:

April 15, 2009, 10:22 pm

I have been on the uss lexington, and I have a pic of a ghost that I got on it…i can’t upload a pic on here though so I wish I could share it, it’s awesome :) didn’t know I had it until I downloaded the pics on my computer

Harper says:

June 11, 2009, 9:48 pm

I believe. ButI am about to go on a spend the night thing trip there and the person who is taking us said that a door slammed and a checker chip flew across the room.

Jess says:

June 22, 2009, 11:07 pm

My husband and I were in the Forcastle deck, leaving the Pearl Harbor Exhibit. I clumbsily made my way through the plastic flaps in the doorway and dropped my new keychains. I bent down to pick them up and I heard a man deep, harsh whisper say, “Get Ooout!”I got up in disbelieve begging my husband to tell me what or if he heard anything. He swore he didn’t and was bothered by my terrified expression. Only now am I reading up on the hauntings that I knew nothing prior to my experience. I still get goosebumps. Does anyone know what happened in the Forecastle deck?

Sherry Jones says:

June 25, 2009, 3:47 pm

I toured the USS Lexington last Saturday, June 20, 2009, with my husband & parents (who live on north Padre Island). I took the tour of the first level down alone and only saw other tourists for the first few minutes. I continued the rest of the level by myself. As reported by others, around the medical area & kitchen I felt the presence of sailors. In the locker room there was a locker open with a Navy uniform, shoes & some personal effects. I had difficulty breathing, felt an urgency to leave the area quickly, and the skin on my arms tingled. The sailors began to laugh. I believe they were reassuring me that they meant no harm. I felt compelled to laugh with them & did not feel I was in any danger; however, I know I walked quickly the rest of the way. They followed me for quite some time through the rest of the tour; in fact, they left when I finally met up with a teenage boy at the end of the tour. There was a lot of activity in the sleeping quarters on that tour; particularly around the berth that still had an old black & white mattress. One of the spirits was a handsome young man with dark hair; one of the other spirits was blonde with blue eyes; I believe they were in their late teens or early 20′s. The laughter seemed to come from more than two men; more like a room full.

chastity says:

July 22, 2009, 5:47 pm

er im supposed to stay there next weekend 0.0 im scared

dagenhart says:

August 27, 2009, 3:39 am

i went and stayed on the lex with my rotc company and i use to not be a big beliver untill i had a few experiances on the ship i was in sick bay and i saw a man in a white coat with a red cross on the back and under neath it he wore a uniform he asked me if i was lost i said no he then asked if there was anything wanted to know about and i asked him a few questions and he told me the answers well i thought that he worked there until i brought it up to the mp on the ship and he told me the story how he accidently died on the ship but no worrys he is very frendly if u see him say hi for me.

hillayjune says:

September 28, 2009, 7:44 pm

thats nice were going there on a field trip i hope someone pee there pants(:

Daniel says:

October 6, 2009, 6:45 pm

We just got back from a trip with our NJROTC group and i took a tour to the engine room with my group. i saw a light move as though it were running across the hall way. But what really scared me was that everyone in my group saw a sailor with a rifle in his hands doing drill movements. we left and came back and asked him a question (are you a sailor ?) and he ran away.

Greg says:

November 19, 2009, 7:37 pm

I have spent the night on the USS Lexington four times now. What many of you do not know, is that only 25% is open to the public. I have probably ventured in over 75%. I have a picture of me holding a picture of a flashlight in the brig:
http://i46.tinypic.com/ngzp15.jpg
Just look for yourselves. The picture just showed up like that, and my light wasn’t facing the camera. Those cells held over 40 people a piece. They were small then than 4×10, which means it was over one person per square foot. They said they had to close the bar doors with their feet. This is the only proof I have, I have MANY more stories (Yes, I have been in the battle dressing room where there are still axe marks and fingernail scratches on the bench and the corners and edges floor tiles are still stained with blood. This is where they would amputate something, to make a clean cut. The frames of the door were raised to keep the blood from leaking out of the room).
http://i48.tinypic.com/2igf9yu.jpg
I can tell you that Charlie, the ghost who haunts the engine room, is far from the only ghost aboard this enormous aircraft carrier. I have personally talked to many of the employees (most are volunteers) and I could go on and on about this. Basically, what you should know, is that it is definitely the most haunted place in Texas, and probably one of the most in the world. If you are looking to see something paranormal, this is the place to hunt. Leave your questions in comments, and I will personally tell you where to go on the ship and wait, and I can almost guarantee that you will see something (The Mini Boss room).

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