JOHN WAYNE'S GHOST
John Wayne owned a boat that he loved dearly, it was called The Wild Goose. John Wayne sold this boat a month before he died, in 1979, to a lawyer called Lynn Hutchins who lived in Santa Monica CA. Lynn gave an interview to The National Enquirer and told how he had seen the spirit of John Wayne on the boat:
'I've seen John Wayne's ghost twice and have felt his spirit nearby many times. I was sleeping in The Duke's stateroom. I remember waking up with a start in the middle of the night. The room was black and the boat was uncannily silent. As my eyes got used to the dark I suddenly became aware of someone standing by the door to the port gangway. I froze because I was alone on the boat. Then I leaped out of bed and the figure vanished into thin air! Later I talked to Bert Minshall a former captain of the boat and he said that the ghost was John Wayne'
There have been other sightings of the ghost of John Wayne on his beloved boat and he was once seen in a mirror behind the bar. The beer glasses are reported to have been rattling at the time of this sighting.
Californian based psychic Pat Hayes investigated the boat and she was convinced that John Wayne's spirit was returning to the boat because he had a deep emotional attachment to it in life.