Level 1 · Wilmington, North Carolina
Ghost of the Battleship
The battleship sleeps under a full moon — but four sailors still stand their watch.
The battleship sleeps under a full moon — but four sailors still stand their watch.
The battleship sleeps under a full moon — but four sailors still stand their watch.
Walk the moonlit deck as Mercedes, find each sailor, and hold RELEASE to set him free. The ghosts are gentle, the light is warm, and nobody gets scared — they just finally get to go home.
The sailors you meet are fictional characters, not real crew members.
Tap the ship’s badge on the superstructure and the bridge badge at the far end of the deck to learn their true stories.
‹ › buttons walk Mercedes along the deck. Arrow keys work too.
Walk up to a sailor until he glows, then press and HOLD the purple RELEASE button until the ring fills. He fades into warm light — peaceful, never scary.
Tap the glowing badges in the world to read true history.
Commissioned in 1941, she fought in every major Pacific campaign from Guadalcanal to Tokyo Bay. On September 15, 1942, a Japanese torpedo struck her hull, killing 5 crew members.
Across the whole war she lost only 10 men in action, with 67 wounded — a record her crew was proud of.
She has been moored on the Cape Fear at Wilmington as a museum since 1961. Visitors report her as haunted — a blond sailor near the torpedo-hit washroom, phantom footsteps in empty passageways — and she was featured on Ghost Hunters. Overnight ghost hunts are offered aboard.
A steel vertical-lift bridge carrying US 17, US 76 and US 421 across the Cape Fear River. It opened in October 1969.
It stretches 3,033 feet in total, with a 408-foot lift span that rises to 135 feet so tall ships can pass.
It was built for about $15–16 million — then the largest single state appropriation in North Carolina history.
You released all 4 sailors. The watch is over, the moon is high, and the old ship rests quiet.