Strange sightings and ethereal events have been happening at the ss Great Britain since the early 1990s, the Bristol Evening Post can reveal. A member of staff 15 years ago came face to face with the figure of a broad-shouldered, middle-aged man in a white-collared shirt – the spitting image of Captain John Gray, who disappeared from the ship one night in 1872. Sonny Graffo, 33, a barber from Stockwood, was studying travel and tourism at St Brendan's College in 1993 when he did a summer placement working in the souvenir shop. Mr Graffo, then 17, took himself on a tour of the ship, which was undergoing maintenance and refurbishment, and came across the apparition that still gives him chills. [ Visit Website ]