362 | Short Story: The Captain of the Nordvinden (Intermediate English Story)

Title: The Captain of the Nordvinden

Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)

Description

Every sailor along the Norwegian coast knows the stories about the Nordvinden — an old cargo ship said to carry the ghost of her first captain, a man lost at sea more than a century ago. Eighteen-year-old Magnus doesn't believe a word of it, right up until his first real storm, when a cold hand catches his wrist at the edge of the deck and pulls him back from the black water below.

What follows is a search through an abandoned lo...