Wikipedia - "Nothing could do away the idea of this phenomenon on the minds of the sailors [...] the story spread like wild-fire, and the supposed phantom was called the Flying Dutchman." –
![St. Elmo's fire, a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by an electrical discharge caused by the ionization of a fluid surrounding a conductor carrying a high voltage. : r/interestingasfuck St. Elmo's fire, a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by an electrical discharge caused by the ionization of a fluid surrounding a conductor carrying a high voltage. : r/interestingasfuck](https://preview.redd.it/st-elmos-fire-a-weather-phenomenon-in-which-luminous-plasma-v0-2zshsyhxg1w91.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=362b026ebc2e8bcf6b64a4ba72cf1a2bd3a45968)
St. Elmo's fire, a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by an electrical discharge caused by the ionization of a fluid surrounding a conductor carrying a high voltage. : r/interestingasfuck
![St. Elmo's fire (not the movie, or the song) is a weather phenomenon often witnessed at sea : r/wikipedia St. Elmo's fire (not the movie, or the song) is a weather phenomenon often witnessed at sea : r/wikipedia](http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/141/6/2/st_elmo__s_fire_colored_by_saraquael-d50m6dn.jpg)