Staten Island Ferry Octopus Disaster Memorial Museum

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Staten Island Ferry Octopus Disaster Memorial Museum

Honoring those who lost their lives in one of the most mysterious maritime disasters in New York City history. Kolff vanished without a trace.

It was close to 4am on the quiet morning of November 22, 1963 when the Steam Ferry Cornelius G. On its way with nearly 400 hundred people, mostly on their way to work, the disappearance of the Kolff remains both one of New York’s most horrific maritime tragedies and perhaps its most intriguing mystery. Eye witness accounts describe “large tentacles” which “pulled” the ferry beneath the surface onl

y a short distance from its destination at Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan. Nobody on board survived and only small pieces of wreckage have been found…strangely with large “suction cup-shaped” marks on them. The only logical conclusion scientists and officials could point to was that the boat had been attacked by a massive octopus, roughly half the size of the ship. Adding to the tragedy, is that this disaster went almost completely unnoticed by the public as later that day another, more “newsworthy” tragedy would befall the nation when beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated. The Staten Island Ferry Disaster Museum hopes to correct this oversight by preserving the memory of those lost in this tragedy and educating the public about the truth behind the only known giant octopus-ferry attack in the tri-state area.

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The Staten Island Ferry Octopus Disaster Monument is currently on display at Hypno-tronic Comics located at 156 Stuyvesant Place in Staten Island, NY every day through New Year's Day ! Just a 2 minute walk from the Staten Island Ferry Terminal! Come on by, buy a t-shirt and pay your respects!

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http://sioctopusdisaster.com/

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