.."...something was out there in the diaphanous night." A private sailing yacht...mid-Gulf of Mexico... dead of night...a crew of nonuniformed US Coastguardsmen. What was our mission? How did the rebel Conch Republic, a giant wooden spoon, a re-recruited former Special Agent and a mysterious beautiful redhead all fit in? ..".Yet tonight the hurricane screamed like "La Llorona" aloft in the rigging as the double-reefed sails strained and shuddered with the wind's ceaseless battering. Frothing waves mid-mast high tossed our ship about as if already doomed!" But, first read strange true stories of hard to explain happenings, unbelievable acts of courage; about 'ghosts', murderers and unexpectedly entangled lives. In his forty-year licensed counseling practice, the author worked with many people desperately struggling to survive despite all the above occurrences. Some did. Some did not.