Ghosts (or at least their stories) ride the river

[Ivan Seeking]

It was a woman's voice that woke first mate Mike Williams when he thought himself alone on the famous steamboat Delta Queen. The sound of a slamming door led Williams to the engine room, where a broken intake pipe for the boilers would have spelled disaster were it not for his visitor.

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/10/12/tallstacks/tem_tallstacks12ghoststory.html