Welcome class, to another edition of History with Haggis. In today’s lecture, we’ll take a look at a rather mysterious subject: ghost ships. Now, that may sound scary, and perhaps it actually is. Or perhaps not, but more on that later. Let’s first take a look at the connection with Monkey Island, because this is, after all, a Monkey Island site. Read the rest of this entry »

Imagine being on a wooden ship for days, no… weeks on end. Packed with other dirty, greasy men. No shower, no bathroom, no toothbrush. And when you finally reach land, you can’t go into a hotel to finally shower, no, you’re still dirty as can be. What a vacation that would be.
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As you may know, mermaids were deemed too fantastical to even appear in the credits of The Curse of Monkey Island. And yet, here we are with Tales of Monkey Island, where the second chapter is simply teeming with mermaid-like creatures. Bah, they don’t belong in pirate mythology at all!

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