Paranormal record / 1916
May 1916. Three men set out across the unnamed mountains and glaciers of South Georgia. Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley and Tom Crean had already sailed some 800 nautical miles in the James Caird. Now a whaling station lay on the far side of the island. Between them and it stood ice, fog and 36 hours of marching. Nobody saw anything. But Shackleton later wrote that "it seemed to me often that we were four, not three." Worsley had felt it too. Crean, Shackleton said, confessed to the same idea. That unseen companion became the founding case of what is now called the Third Man Factor.
Peggotty Camp. The head of King Haakon Bay, on the uninhabited south coast of South Georgia. May 1916. The James Caird had reached the island on 10 May, after some 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island. Three men too weak to go on would stay behind. Three would walk out. Ernest Shackleton, the leader. Frank Worsley, captain of Endurance. Tom Crean, second officer, from Kerry.