The Titanic exhibit at the Volo Museum, formerly the Volo Auto Museum, mysteriously flooded during a rain storm on the anniversary of the sinking of the ship.
The museum’s marketing director, Jim Wojdila, said, "The irony of any Titanic exhibit flooding is strange enough," but the fact that this happened on the anniversary "is more than ironic.”
A post on the museum’s Facebook page reads, “You can’t even make this up, this is not staged.”
The museum shared video showing the flood water. “The entire Titanic museum is flooded,” Wojdila said in the video.
“Now, we’ve had this open for three years. Right when it first opened it flooded mysteriously. There’s no cracks in the foundation, no drainage pipes burst or anything like that.”
At that time, he said, water came up from under a 1912 Renault concept car. It is one of just two that were made. The other one was on the ship.
“The only car that was on the Titanic was a 1912 Renault that went down with the Titanic. We have the only other one in the world, so it’s this really cool piece,” he said, that was featured in the film Titanic.
“When Jack and Rose are running around in the bottom of the ship and they make out in the car, that’s the car.”
Wojdila said the building has been there for 40 years and it only flooded on those two occasions.
What does he make of it, we asked. "I don't know, I can't say that ghosts did it but that's the only spot that flooded."
He said he may park the car from the film Ghostbusters in the exhibit.
There were storms during both flooding events. Where the water got in, Wojdila says, is a mystery.
