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Mysteries of the Sea Vol 2_ Ghost Ships _ Unexplained Maritime Disappearances · truthunedited

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the side of land. Sometimes the sea doesn't kill. It
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takes ships found adrift, completely intact and completely empty, meals
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half eaten on tables, navigation equipment still working, logs that
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stop mid sentence, no signs of struggle, no evidence of evacuation.
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The people are just gone. Some ships disappear and return
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days later, others decades later. Ghost Ships reappear in strange places,
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some right where they started, some one thousand miles off course.
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Speaker 2: You know how to show it.
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Speaker 1: It was December fourth, eighteen seventy two. Captain David Moorhouse
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stood on the deck of his ship, the de Gracia.
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He was halfway between the Azors and Portugal when he
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spotted a vessel acting strange. Morehouse raised the spyglass. The
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ship's sails were set wrong for the wind. It drifted
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erradically like there was nobody at the helm.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like Gary New Jersey driver.
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Speaker 1: Please don't interrupt when I'm setting up a scary scene
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and leave New Jersey alone.
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Speaker 2: Svery sorry, but you have a drive through Fort Lee
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with the GWV backed up. I have that's scary it
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in his story.
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Speaker 1: So Morehouse changed course to investigate. As he got closer,
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he signaled the ship no reply. Morehouse could feel it
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something was very wrong. As the Degracia came alongside. Morehouse
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saw there was nobody on deck. This was a one
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hundred f merchant brigantine, a two hundred and fifty ton
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cargo ship. This is the middle of the day. There
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should be at least six or seven men working, but
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there wasn't a soul in sight. The ship's name was
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painted on her hull, Mary Celeste, an American vessel that
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left New York weeks earlier. Morehouse recognized the name. He
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knew her captain, Benjamin Briggs, our respected sailor with sixteen
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years experience. Briggs was competent and reliable. None of this
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made sense when his first mate asked permission aboard, Morehouse
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took a moment to calculate the right move. He had
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his own crew to protect. Every sailor knows the risks
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when he set sail. Usually you come back safely, but
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sometimes the sea has other plans, add weather, a shallow
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reef pirates. He didn't see any evidence of any of these.
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That made the situation more unsettling. Every instant he had
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told him to leave the Mary Celeste adrift, for there
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was a nagging voice in the back of his mind.
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What if it were you, Morehouse sighed, and said to
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his first mate, permission granteds I hang.
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Speaker 2: Iron, you're saying the mate was a mighty sailing man
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to skip the brave.
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Speaker 1: And Shua you did it again.
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Speaker 2: Go way trying to break the tension, I'm.
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Speaker 1: Trying to create tension. Oh, the boards, they seemed to
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be at an in passe. The boarding party found the
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ship in good condition. Captain Briggs's belongings were in his
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cabin undisturbed, His papers were in order, his pipe was
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by his chair. His pocket watch was there, still ticking.
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Another cabin contained women's clothing neatly folded in drawers, men's
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jackets hung on a coat rack, clean and pressed. A
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book sat on a nightstand with a bookmark wedge between
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dry pages, as if someone was just there quietly reading.
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Another cabin held children's toys, arranged and orderly, as if
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waiting for their owner to return. All the beds were made.
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The ship felt lived in. The boarding part already continued
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their search, but the more they looked, the more uneasy
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they became. The galley showed signs of recent use. A
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meal was still on the table, half eaten. There's plenty
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of food and water aboard, still fresh in the hold,
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they counted over seventeen hundred barrels of industrial alcohol. That
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ruled out pirates. They wouldn't have left the alcohol. Maybe
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why is the gun that cargo was worth more than
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the ship itself? Booty right, Pirates wouldn't have left anything
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but a mess. But there was no sign of a
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struggle or people scrambling to escape. Pirates didn't do this.
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A single lifeboat was missing, as if Bridge just calmly left.
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That didn't make sense to Morehouse. There was some water
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in the bilge, but nothing serious enough to abandon ship.
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The hull was intact. The Mary Celeste was perfectly seaworthy.
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All essential rigging were fine. Most tools were there, but
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the navigation equipment was missing. No chronometer, no second ah.
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Speaker 2: I saw a few, and I was at Coachella a few.
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Speaker 1: What sex hints?
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Speaker 2: I thought about trying one, but Petulia oil makes it
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hard to counter trate in the sand.
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Speaker 1: That's that's a little risky. Not a sex tent, a
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sex stint, what I say. The last entry in the
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log book was dated November twenty fifth, eighteen seventy two,
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nine days before more House founder. It noted their position
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near Santa Maria island, but mentioned nothing unusual, no storms,
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no illness, no distress, just routine observations followed by nothing
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Eerie's silence. Ten souls had vanished without explanation. Captain Benjamin Briggs,
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his wife Sarah, their two year old daughter Sophia, and
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seven experienced crewmen all gone without a trace. This story
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repeats over and over again. January thirty first, nineteen twenty one,
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CEE P. Brady was on lookout duty for the Coastguard
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at Cape Patteras Wait, who had aris cape pattern in
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North Carolina, and at makes Mostings, Brady saw a large
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ship that ran aground on diamond shoals. The five masted
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schooners sat on the sandbar, its sails still up. It
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was the Carol A Deering, a commercial ship nearly two
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hundred and sixty feet long, built in nineteen nineteen, practically new.
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A rescue team boarded the Deering, and like the Berry Celeste,
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it was completely abandoned, but the crew's personal belongings and
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navigational equipment were missing. The ship's logs and papers were gone.
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But what's strange was in the galley. A meal for
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the crew of ten was laid out on the table,
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the food untouched. They were never heard from again. Most
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ghost ships are found this way, empty, a meal on
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the table, everything in working order, but no crew. Those
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stories are disturbing, but the really scary ghost ships are
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the ones found with the crew still aboard. February nineteen
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forty eight, the American vessels Silver Star and City of
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Baltimore picked up a troubling message while navigating the Strait
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of Malacca. The radio crackled, All officers, including captain are dead,
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lying in chart room and bridge, possibly whole crew dead.
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Send doctor urgent, and then a long pause. Then the
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message ended with two words, I guy. The transmission came
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from the Dutch freighter Orangmadan. The Silver Star changed course
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toward the coordinates. As they approached, Captain Morrison's spotted the
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Irang Maadan drifting aimlessly. No smoke from the stacks, no
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movement on deck. Through his binoculars, he saw a figure
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slumped over the radio room window, not moving. Morrison called
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through his megaphone, no response. He assembled a boarding party
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with clear instructions. Whatever happened could be contagious. Move slowly,
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don't touch anything on the Ramadan. Everything felt wrong. The
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air smelled of copper, that metallic, sickly sweet odor of death.
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Morrison and his men held handkerchiefs to their mouths. One
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of the younger sailors ran to the edge of the
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deck and threw up over the side. They were not
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prepared for this. Bodies were everywhere starting to decay. Every
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crew member was dead, but they were on their backs,
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arms outstretched and frozen by riomortis. Their eyes were wide open,
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all staring at something. Their mouths were frozen in silent screams,
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their faces twisted into expressions of absolute terror. Marson's first officer,
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Tom Becker, was a World War Two Navy combat bet
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He'd seen death before, He'd seen it up close, but
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nothing like this. They slowly entered the bridge. The captain
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of the Ramadan still sat in his chair, eyes bulging,
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faced contorted in an unnatural scream. One hand was still
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gripping the radio microphone. The engineer was in the engine room,
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the helmsman at the wheel, the navigator by his charts,
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the cook in the galley, everyone at their post, everyone dead,
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all in the same terrified poses. Below deck, they found
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the ship's dog. Its lips were still curled back in
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a final growl. Whatever happened here had been fast. The
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bodies had no wounds, no signs of struggle, no blood,
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no evidence of fire or flooding. In the cargo hold,
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barrels were stacked neatly lining the walls. Becker slowly crossed
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the room to read the labels. Then there was a
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sudden creak from inside the hold. The men froze. The
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creek turned into a groan, the sound of metal bending.
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Then came the smell sharp and bitter chemicals. The air
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burned their lungs. Marson choked out the order to fall back.
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The men's to the deck. Gasping, Marson called for tow cables.
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They had to get this ship to port for investigation. Well.
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As the boarding party worked, they noticed black smoke seeping
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from below decks. Then came a deep rumble. The temperature
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on the rang Madan suddenly rose and something was throwing
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off heat. Morrison ordered immediate evacuation. They barely made it
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back to the Silver Star when the Irangmedon exploded. The
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blast launched it completely out of the water before it
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crashed down and broke apart. Morrison and his crew watched
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as it sank to the bottom of the sea. The
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irang Madon is still one of the most disturbing maritime mysteries.
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The crew's expressions of terror have never been explained.
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Speaker 2: Did they check the deck the capop I scream, I.
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Speaker 1: See the CA pop wasn't invented yet.
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Speaker 2: Eah I missed it be four times.
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Speaker 1: So we have gohost ships where the entire crew vanishes
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and ghost ships where the entire crew is dead. But
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there's another type of ghost ship, even more mysterious, the
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ghost ships that travel through time Every year. Ships completely vanish.
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When they disappear, they fully disappear, They fall off radar
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searches find nothing. Usually this means the ship is sunk,
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but some reappear sometimes weeks, months, or even years later,
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and they're completely intact and seaworthy and empty. The Sspachimo
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got stuck in ice dear Alaska in nineteen thirty one.
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The ice was crushing the hull, so the crew abandoned ship.
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They assumed the ship was doomed. It wasn't. For the
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next thirty eight years, the Bechimo was seen drifting through
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Arctic waters. Sometimes it appeared in impossible locations far from
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where it was last seen. Moving against the current. The
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last confirmed sighting was in nineteen sixty nine, but some
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Inuit hunters claim they've seen it as as recently as
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two thousand and six, seventy five years of sailing with
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no crew. In eighteen eighty one, Captain Griffin of the
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schooner Ellen Austin spotted the ship sailing erratically while crossing
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the Atlantic. It was completely deserted, but in perfect condition.
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Personal belongings were all in place, and plenty of food
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was aboard. Seeing an opportunity to claim salvage, Griffin put
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some of his own crew aboard the empty ship and
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set course for New York.
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Speaker 2: Yeah oh, Captain beamed down the Red Shirts.
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Speaker 1: Well. The two ships got separated in a storm. A
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few days later, Captain Griffin found the ship again adrift. Again,
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the ship was empty, his own crew vanished. A second
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volunteer crew was sent aboard, well the Red Shirts. This
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time the two ships got separated by fog. When the
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fog cleared, the derelict ship was gone and it was
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never seen again.
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Speaker 2: Loved it.
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Speaker 1: This area of the Atlantic didn't have a name then.
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Now we know it as the Triangle. A really weird
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ghost ship story is the Alfousto. This fishing boat disappeared
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in nineteen sixty eight near the Canary Islands. They were
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heading to another island only seven hours away. They never arrived.
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Days passed. The Spanish authorities launched a massive search operation.
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Air and sea units scoured the area. The ship was gone.
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A few days later, a British ship found the Alfausto adrift.
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All four men were alive but exhausted. Their family celebrated
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they were coming home, except they refused to be rescued.
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They insisted there was nothing wrong with their ship. They
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accepted some food and water and said they were heading home.
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They never made it again. A massive search again no
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sign of the boat. On August seventh, the men were
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officially declared lost at sea. Three months later, an Italian
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vessel found the Alfausto drifting near the Tropic of Cancer.
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Everything was in working order, no damage, no signs of struggle.
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Below deck was a single corpse, a man naked and mummified,
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clinging to the radio, his body positioned as if making
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one final desperate call. It was Julio Garcia, one of
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the original crew. Beside him was a notebook. All the
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pages were torn out except one. It was a message
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to his wife, don't ever tell our son what happened
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to me. You know God wanted this fate for me.
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Love you. The Italians tried to tow the Alfausto to Venezuela.
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Two days later, the tow line snapped. The boat suddenly sank.
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Nobody knows why, and nobody knows who tore out the
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pages in the notebook or what they said. Nobody knows
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why the crew refused to be rescued or what happened
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to them. All we have is a corpse and a
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cryptic note. The rest of the evidence is now at
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the bottom of the sea. Ghost Ships aren't just stories
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from the past. They still happened today. The high Am
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six was discovered in two thousand and three drifting in
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Australian waters. The Taiwanese fishing boat was completely seaworthy, engine
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and working condition, plenty of fuel, a full cargo of
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fish in its hold. The crew's personal belongings were untouched,
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but not a single person was aboard. April two thousand
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and seven, the kaz Ii, a thirty foot catamaran, was
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found drifting off the Great Barrier Reef. The engine was
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still running a laptop computer was still on The table
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was set for a meal with food and drinks. The
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GPS and emergency equipment were untouched. The three man crew
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had vanished. Their life jackets were still stowed away. November
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two thousand and eight, the four thousand ton Taiwanese fishing
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vessel tai Chin twenty one vanished off the coast of
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Kiriebody in the Pacific. The weather was perfect, no distress
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signal was sent. The ship, with twenty nine crew members aboard,
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simply disappeared. Three weeks later, searchers found a single life jacket,
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nothing else. Despite satellites, GPS and constant communication, the ocean
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is dangerous, vast, and unpredictable. Ghost Ship stories go back
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centuries but share similar features. Meals left uneaten, personal belongings undisturbed,
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no signs of panic. Crew vanished in an instant, as
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if simply plucked for reality. These patterns span from the
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Mary Celeste in eighteen seventy two to the cashtu in
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two thousand and seven, from sailing vessels to modern motorcraft,
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from the Atlantic to the Pacific. But not all ghost
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ships are found in the ocean. Some are found where
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water doesn't even exist, not all ghost ships are found
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in the ocean. In eighteen seventy, the San Bernardino Guardian
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reported a ship discovered deep in the Mahabi Desert, a
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Spanish galleon at least two hundred and fifty feet long,
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completely intact. The desert winds had stripped away most of
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the rigging, but the wood was still there. The report
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said one third of the vessel was still visible above
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the sand. Charlie Clusker read that article and recognized the
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story immediately. While traveling across the desert, he met the
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Koa tribe who told him a myth about a vast
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sea that once covered the desert. A great bird with
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white wings landed as the waters receded and got stuck
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in the sand. The bird's white wings fell, and all
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they remained was a tall, bare tree. Then sand covered everything.
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Charlie understood now the white wings were at wings, They
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were sails. The tree was a mast. The bird was
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a ship, a Spanish treasure galleon loaded with gold and
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black pearls, miles from any ocean. Charlie gathered supplies and
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headed into the harsh Mohave Desert to find the treasure ship.
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It was one hundred and twenty five degrees during the day,
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it was freezing at night. Water was scarce. Snakes and
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scorpions could be waiting under any rock, behind any cactus.
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Charlie didn't care. He made three trips to the desert.
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On the second one, delirious from thirst, he spotted it
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through his telescope, the mast of a massive galleon. Then
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he collapsed. The local newspaper reported Charlie's discovery. Words spread
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across the country. The New York Times, the Cincinnati Press,
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the New Orleans Times, picaun They all ran the story.
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Charlie Klusker became famous. An editor joined his third expedition.
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This time they had one hundred and eight gallons of water,
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enough food for two months, a full crew. They never
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found the ship. Six weeks in the desert and nothing.
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The newspaper men left after twenty days. Charlie kept searching.
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He returned empty handed. The newspapers lost interest, and Charlie
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gave up and moved on, but the story didn't die.
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In eighteen ninety two, another explorer claimed to find the ship.
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In nineteen oh seven, another in nineteen forty nine, Myrtle
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Bots was hiking in the desert and stumbled across an
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ancient ship. She returned with her husband days later, but
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there had been an earthquake, the sand shifted, the ship
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was gone, buried again. The ship in the Mahave has
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always described the same way, always just barely visible, always
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loaded with treasure, always vanishing when people return with proper equipment.
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But the location of the ship varies, as if it's
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somehow sailing the sands of the desert. Today, treasure hunters
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still search the desert near the salt and sea. Modern
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technology hasn't helped. Ground penetrating radar, metal detectors GPS. No
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sign of the ghost ship that so many claimed to
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have seen with their own eyes. The desert is vast
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and dangerous, two hundred thousand square miles of sand and rock.
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The ship could be anywhere or nowhere, buried Spanish galleon
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load of treasure. That legend will never go away, that
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is until someone finds it. Ghost Ships, missing crews, vessels
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in impossible places. These mysteries go back hundreds of years,
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and the mysteries will continue. We still know very little
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about the ocean. Ocean is a dangerous place for seeming
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it is. Sometimes they get swallowed. Okay, Andy, sometimes seeman
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gets spit back out. That's enough.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm talking about seaman and the ocean.
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Speaker 1: Just stop saying that word ocean, seamen. Okay. We covered
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a lot of stories, which ones are real and which
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ones are just legends. Well, the Mary's List was real.
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It was found abandoned in eighteen seventy two. The crew's
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disappearance is still unsolved. The most likely explanation is the
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cargo industrial alcohol. There were a few empty barrels. Alcohol
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might have leaked into the bilge, fumes rising, and the
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crew could smell it. Industrial alcohol is highly flammable. One
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small spark and boom, seventeen hundred barrels explode. There'd be
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nothing left of the ship but splinters. Captain Briggs knew this,
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so he ordered everyone into the lifeboat. The plan was
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to follow the ship from a safe distance using a line.
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The line broke, a storm hit, the lifeboat gets destroyed,
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and all ten people are lost at sea. This is
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the most likely theory, but it remains a mystery because
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not a single trace of evidence has ever been found.
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The Ramadan is different. Many historians doubt it existed. No
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official records confirm this Dutch freighter, but there is a
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rumor that the ship was carrying chemicals used in warfare,
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so it was sailing under a different name. The story
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first appeared in the nineteen forties in various publications. If
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it happened, chemical cargo explains both the deaths and the explosion,
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and bad chemical storage releases toxic gases that cause facial
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contortions exactly like those described. The Carol A deering definitely existed.
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They ran aground to Cape Hatteras in nineteen twenty one.
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Mutiny is the most likely answer. Witnesses reported hearing the
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crew shouting about overthrowing the captain days before the ship
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was found. The crew probably fled after running aground to
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avoid punishment, but again that's a theory. If it was mutiny,
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why abandon a perfectly good ship with full provisions. And
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it was pirates, why leave the cargo? If it was weather,
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why no distress call. Despite extensive investigations by the US Navy, FBI,
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and State Department, no trace of the captain, officers, or
25:44
crew was ever found. This is still one of the
25:46
most famous maritime disappearances in American history. The Alfasto disappearances
25:52
are true. The most logical theory is that they were
25:55
drug traffickers or involved in something illegal. This explains their
25:59
strange beat behavior and refusal to be rescued. The tornopook
26:03
pages might have contained dangerous information. Julio's cryptic message suggests
26:08
he knew he was in danger, but couldn't reveal why.
26:11
The Ssbachimos decades long ghost voyage is well documented. After
26:16
being abandoned in nineteen thirty one, it was spotted numerous
26:19
times over decades. Nothing supernatural here, strong Arctic currents, changing
26:25
ice conditions. The ship's reinforced hull kept it afloat. It
26:29
eventually disappeared, probably sinking in rough seas or becoming trapped
26:33
in ice. But I hope it's still out there somewhere now.
26:37
The Desert Ship is more legend than reality, but it's
26:40
not impossible. The salt and basin has changed dramatically over centuries.
26:46
It was once Lake Korea, an ancient inland sea about
26:49
six times larger than the current. Salt and sea water
26:52
levels rose and fell with seasonal flooding and drought. The
26:55
Colorado River sometimes filled the basin into capacity, other times
26:59
it was dry. In the early sixteen hundreds, Spanish explorer
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Wandhia Turbe led an expedition up the Gulf of California.
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He was hunting black pearls. His ship, loaded with treasure,
27:11
ventured too far up the Colorado River during flood season.
27:14
As waters receded, the ship became stranded a turve, and
27:18
the crew abandoned, taking what pearls they could carry, but
27:21
leaving most behind. Over the years, the ship sank deeper
27:24
as the lake dried completely, and geological evidence confirms the
27:28
basins water did fluctuate, and Spanish records document pearl hunting
27:32
expeditions in this region. So while treasure hunters may have
27:36
embellished the story, it's plausible a Spanish galleon really could
27:40
have sailed inland during high water, got stuck, and then
27:44
buried by sand in time, It's one of my favorite
27:47
all time stories. I kind of think it's out there somewhere.
27:51
Modern ghost ships usually have a straightforward explanation. Video evidence
27:55
showed a CAS two crew member falling overboard while others
27:58
tried to help. High six engineer killed the captain and fled.
28:02
The TI Ching twenty one probably encountered pirates who removed
28:05
all evidence of their attack. What makes these stories compelling
28:10
isn't just mystery, it's what they reveal about our relationship
28:13
with the sea. Despite our technology and understanding, the ocean
28:17
is still vast, unpredictable, and sometimes deadly. The sea has
28:21
claimed thousands of vessels throughout history. Most disappear without witnesses,
28:25
without a trace.
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Speaker 2: Steady ocean is basically a very moist grade.
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Speaker 1: Yet with really good seafood you' sicksty We build better ships,
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install better safety systems, track vessels by satellite, but ships
28:41
still disappear. Crews vanish without a trace. We've conquered a
28:46
lot of nature, bent it to our will, but not
28:48
the ocean. It takes our ships as if to remind
28:51
us some things are beyond human control. Maybe that's why
28:54
goos ship stories endure, not because they frighten us, but
28:59
because they humble up. The stories remind us we're not
29:04
masters of the earth. We're just temporary visitors, just a
29:07
small part of something much bigger, something we're not meant
29:10
to understand. And if we venture too far, the universe
29:13
is there to put us right back in our place.
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