The Mary Celeste — A Ship Without a Soul
On December 4, 1872, the crew of the Dei Gratia found the merchant ship Mary Celeste adrift in the Atlantic — seaworthy, food and cargo intact, and completely deserted. Ten people, including a captain, his wife, and their two-year-old daughter, had vanished without a trace.
This episode covers the ship's final voyage, the leading theory involving nine oddly empty alcohol barrels, the conspiracy-driven Gibraltar hearing that accused an innocent crew of murder, and the fiction that turned a real mystery into a legend.
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