"Consider yourself blessed that ye never had dealings with him who collects the souls of sailors and binds them to service before his ship. I was a 'guest' aboard his ship—maybe you've heard of it?"
The Flying Dutchman was an infamous supernatural ghost ship. Originally, the Dutchman held the sacred task of collecting all the poor souls who died at sea and ferrying them to the afterlife. During the Golden Age of Piracy, the Dutchman would become a ship feared by many across the seven seas.