[00:00:00] a ship adrift.
[00:00:01] No hands on the wheel, no voices in the wind. Just canvas and timber swaying through the Atlantic like a coffin without a name. The Mary Celeste should have been bustling. 10 souls aboard, bound for Italy. Instead, it was silent. The lifeboat was gone. The crew gone. The captain, his wife, their child all gone.
[00:00:27] No blood. No fire, no storm. The sails hung, like torn shrouds, a half mended dress. They folded in a cabin. The ship's log stopped, mid-sentence time it seems had simply stepped off the deck. They called it a ghost ship, not for the creeks in the hole, but for the emptiness.
[00:00:50] The kind that whispers, the kind that waits. There are theories. There are records, but the truth, . The truth sank beneath the waves long ago, and the Mary Celeste sailed on alone.
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[00:00:00] Jenn: Welcome to the house of six. I'm Jen.
[00:00:02] Jared: I'm Jared. You're excited.
[00:00:04] Jenn: Oh. I got some stuff to talk about. Okay. Doing the voice. I'm gonna stop doing that.
[00:00:11] Um, you wanna talk about our week?
[00:00:16] Jared: Sure.
[00:00:16] Jenn: What are we doing?
[00:00:18] Jared: Being stressed.
[00:00:19] Jenn: Why are we being stressed?
[00:00:20] Jared: Because we're selling our house.
[00:00:22] Jenn: Why are we selling the house?
[00:00:24] Jared: Yeah. So many reasons. Oh, yeah. Nah, just the market's good.
[00:00:28] Jenn: The market's good. Kids are,
[00:00:31] Jared: yeah.
[00:00:31] Jenn: Moving on out of here.
[00:00:34] Jared: Yeah.
[00:00:34] Jenn: They're all adults.
[00:00:36] Jared: I should be, I'm happy.
[00:00:37] I just, I'm stressed as It's
[00:00:38] Jenn: good. I'm out of a job. That's bad news bears. That's why I've talked, been talking about being a trad wife, which I'm not, but I'm doing all the things to do the smooth jazz. The meal cooking.
[00:00:50] Jared: Mm-hmm.
[00:00:51] Jenn: Which I've never cooked before. Mm-hmm. What do you think about my cooking?
[00:00:54] Jared: It's going tell everybody's it's going.
[00:00:56] It's going well.
[00:00:56] Jenn: What? What do you mean?
[00:00:57] Jared: It's going really well.
[00:00:58] Jenn: It's yummy stuff. It is. I'm just, it's not bad.
[00:01:00] Jared: No. I've just always been the cook and that's a known thing, so. Yeah. '
[00:01:04] Jenn: cause you're a really good cook and smoker. Barbecue. I was gonna say, I'm not a smoker at all. I'm not like a smoker, but like, not smoker at all.
[00:01:12] Smoker not, but that's
[00:01:13] Jared: rare. We're talking about just normal meals here.
[00:01:16] Jenn: Yeah, they're good. Yeah, you're good.
[00:01:18] Jared: Yeah,
[00:01:18] Jenn: they're good. But I've been cooking and I've been doing pretty well.
[00:01:21] Jared: You have,
[00:01:21] Jenn: I used, I made a RO the other day. Didn't even know what that was a couple weeks ago.
[00:01:27] Jared: And you're practically starting a second channel
[00:01:29] Jenn: started using cornstarch.
[00:01:30] Just kidding. I still don't know how to use it. Oh no. Not a, no, I'm not doing that. I'm not doing a cooking channel. Everybody would be like, get this bitch outta the kitchen. She doesn't know what the heck she's doing. 'cause I'm like, let's add carrots. I don't know. That's how I cook.
[00:01:45] Jared: Yeah. It's gone well.
[00:01:47] Jenn: You ready for today's case?
[00:01:49] Jared: Sure.
[00:01:49] Jenn: You wanna know what I did?
[00:01:51] Jared: Uh, okay.
[00:01:52] Jenn: There is, , a hardcore mystery for the ages.. It is about the Mary Celeste ring. Any bells? No. Do you know what I'm even talking about?
[00:02:05] No. It's not a person, it's not a woman, it's a ship.
[00:02:09] Jared: Okay, sure. Nope.
[00:02:12] Jenn: Got nothing? No. Okay. What do you know about ships?
[00:02:15] Jared: They float. You don't,
[00:02:20] Jenn: some of them do, some of them don't.
[00:02:22] Jared: Yeah.
[00:02:23] Jenn: They, mm-hmm. We're not talking about the Titanic. This is not sixth grade and you do not have a report to hand in.
[00:02:29] Jared: Yeah, that's good. I don't wanna write a report. I should
[00:02:34] Jenn: make
[00:02:34] Jared: it. Is this a Bermuda Bermuda Triangle thing?
[00:02:37] Jenn: No, the Bermuda Triangle is stupid.
[00:02:39] Jared: That's what I tell him.
[00:02:40] Jenn: No, there is one case I wanna tell you out of the Bermuda Triangle. It's not this case. I will tell you one day, and it's not really, it is a mystery, but it's, the Bermuda Triangle is, there's no mystery.
[00:02:56] It is the ocean. And you know what? The ocean is large. Super large. You know what? The ocean also is scary. Oh, okay. Is a very scary place. It's very big and it's very scary. And there are so many mysteries in the ocean because it's big and scary.
[00:03:14] Yeah.
[00:03:14] Jared: Sorry I brought it up.
[00:03:15] Jenn: I know we Right.
[00:03:17] I figured that you knew that how I felt about the Bermuda
[00:03:20] Jared: Triangle, I was a friendly reminder.
[00:03:24] Jenn: We need a lot of those. Okay. So today we're talking about, I. Ship. It is just a boring, standard 19th century cargo vessel. It's wasn't particularly famous. It wasn't large, not a warship passenger liner.
[00:03:42] It wasn't even the fastest boat in the harbor. , It was a cargo ship that hauled barrels. And that's, that's it. Okay. Wasn't even interesting back in the day. , But somewhere between New York and Italy, something happened and it was found adrift off of the coast of Portugal. And then she earned a nickname.
[00:04:06] The first one of its kind, she became a ghost ship. Okay? But this is not about ghosts. Ghost ships are not ghosts. 'cause we don't talk about ghosts on this podcast. There's no ghost on this podcast, but there are ghost ships. Okay, right.
[00:04:29] I also did a thing for this episode, and it's dumb, so you need to be prepared that I wrote a whole bunch of punts.
[00:04:38] Okay. Because I couldn't help myself because. Part of the story is a little bit boring. So I started riding puns.
[00:04:47] Jared: Okay.
[00:04:47] Jenn: Because it's funny.
[00:04:49] Jared: Thanks for the warning.
[00:04:51] Jenn: Yeah.
[00:04:51] I'm gonna have to warn you, because I felt like if I started talking in puns and then all of all of a sudden, 'cause I don't normally talk in puns, it's just not a thing that I do. But if I started talking in puns, you'd be like, are you fucking okay? Like, did you have a stroke? You have a stroke? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
[00:05:05] See, yeah. So I have some puns in here and this story has more holes than a leaky hole
[00:05:15] Jared: off to the races. There's no races. I don't know. It wasn't,
[00:05:19] Jenn: yeah, there's no off to the shipyard. That's not a thing. Yeah, I mean, shipyards are a thing, but that's jokes not. So, yeah, I think I spent like, uh, 45 minutes writing nautical puns,
[00:05:33] Jared: time well spent.
[00:05:34] Jenn: I, I do really, uh, well, I don't have a job, but also I've spent all weekend. That's what I did yesterday. Yesterday. It was Saturday. What day is today?
[00:05:43] Jared: Sunday.
[00:05:44] Jenn: Sunday. Yesterday was Saturday. So 45 minutes. Writing puns on a Saturday is really not that waste of a time. It's all relative.
[00:05:53] Okay. Just wait until I sing my nautical song, my sailor song.
[00:06:01] Jared: Okay. SpongeBob.
[00:06:03] Jenn: I could do it in sponge ball. Voice Anyhow. What do you know about semen?
[00:06:12] Jared: Um,
[00:06:15] Jenn: do you know any semen?
[00:06:17] Jared: No, but seriously, do you know any? No, I do not. Sailors, no.
[00:06:21] Jenn: Can you introduce me?
[00:06:22] Jared: No. Oh, no. I mean, I know one ex or retired navy, but I mean, like
[00:06:28] Jenn: a captain.
[00:06:30] Jared: No, I, I, captain. No,
[00:06:33] Jenn: no. Too far. Yeah. Okay.
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[00:06:42] Jenn: We are in the 19th century. We're, we're going back in time, which I, I spent a lot of time there because I like cases from that period but we are in the 19th century, and the ocean at that point in time was a completely different wilderness than we have today. Uh, very unmapped in places,
[00:07:01] the ocean is always unforgiving. And when a ship left port, it entered a world where storms could appear without warning, compasses could spin for no reason, and a message that got sent from one side of the Atlantic may never make it to the other. Obviously no radios. SOS calls no rescue teams. If a ship vanished, it was gone for, for the most part and the only thing left to tail the tail might be, a shipwreck.
[00:07:35] Enter the Mary Celeste. This was not a Grand Ocean liner. She was a Brigitte, about a hundred feet long. Built in Nova Scotia in 1861. Side note, Nova Scotia is super beautiful. I've actually spent a lot of time there for a previous job and is absolutely fantastic. They're lobster hoagies, delicious, amazing apples.
[00:07:59] Who would've thought? And Peggy's Cove was just absolutely delightful. It's a very, very pretty place You should go. Yeah. Have you been to Nova Scotia? No. You should go. Yeah, we should go. This ship was built for hauling cargo across the Atlantic. It was very practical, tough nothing. Again, nothing special except her reputation.
[00:08:22] The Mary Celeste was about a hundred feet long and 25 feet wide, somewhat small for a ship.
[00:08:28] Tiny compared to what? Uh, I used the HMS victory as an example. This was a first rate Royal Navy ship of the line, which was 220 feet long and carried 850 plus crew members. The Mary Celeste had a crew of seven plus the captain's family, and that's it.
[00:08:47] She was a modest merchant ship, meant to carry cargo, not people, not male, not weapons. No frills, no cannons. Zero luxury. So pretty, pretty bare bones before becoming the Mary Celeste. The ship was originally named the Amazon. That's a terrible name first of all. And from day one, she, she seemed curse.
[00:09:09] Here are multiple captains dying or quitting under strained circumstances. Under the name the Amazon
[00:09:16] the ship was overhauled, sold and renamed Mary Celeste. And again, sailors are super superstitious beans. And this is ba you don't re overhaul and rename a boat. No. That is essentially asking the ocean to ruin your life. Oh wow. Okay. Yeah. So from the get go curse ship.
[00:09:46] Jared: Hmm.
[00:09:48] Jenn: What do you think?
[00:09:49] Jared: Sure.
[00:09:50] Jenn: Do you believe in curse ships?
[00:09:52] Do you believe in curses?
[00:09:55] Jared: Not really.
[00:09:56] Jenn: Why?
[00:09:57] Jared: I don't, I just, that makes no sense.
[00:10:00] Jenn: A curse.
[00:10:01] Jared: Yeah.
[00:10:01] Jenn: Magic.
[00:10:03] Jared: Magic is only sleigh of hand and all that. I mean, that's not, yeah. I didn't
[00:10:06] Jenn: say magic trick. Magic like wcan?
[00:10:11] Jared: No.
[00:10:11] Jenn: Like what's the, what's the boil and bubble and toil and trouble or something like, oh, you like mean just spells and all that.
[00:10:21] So just, yeah. I mean, and N and Toes spawn or whatever.
[00:10:26] Jared: Yeah. Yeah. Nah,
[00:10:28] Jenn: fake. Fake news.
[00:10:29] Jared: Yeah.
[00:10:30] Jenn: Okay.
[00:10:31] Jared: I mean, voodoo dolls have always been kind of. Interesting and freaky.
[00:10:35] Jenn: Hold on so little. So don't believe in magic, but you believe in voodoo? Well,
[00:10:38] Jared: just that Or voodoo? No, just the whole, the whole. That's a curse.
[00:10:42] It is. I didn't say I believed in it. I just think that it's interesting. Looks like we're gonna
[00:10:49] Jenn: have a voodoo case
[00:10:50] Jared: coming up. Yeah. It's, it's borderline. Like that's weird. Some things, but no, overall, no. Gimme a break.
[00:10:55] Jenn: I don't believe in magic or voodoo or curses. I don't believe in any of that. Don't tell a voodoo priestess that I said that just in case. Yeah. All right. the ship was overhauled, sold and renamed the Mary Celeste, and in sailor culture that was essentially throwing a black cat under a ladder situation.
[00:11:17] I don't know all the different superstitions. I'm just gonna try to, A bad thing, a negative thing. It's, it's bad news bears. Yeah, it's bad news. Bears and sailors take their superstitions very seriously, at least back in the day. I don't know about today. They're, if any sailors are watching, we only have four subscribers right now, but if any sailors are watching, let me know if you still think those.
[00:11:37] I just had to ask. Alright. So by the time that she was renamed Mary Celeste, she was already considered unlucky, but a sturdy ship. She was a good ship. She'd seen storms survived. So when Captain Benjamin Briggs took over her in late 1872, it didn't raise any eyebrows. This is just business as usual.
[00:12:01] Briggs was not a reckless adventurer. He was 37, experienced, very respectable and devoutly religious. By all accounts, he was calm, under pressure, careful with planning, and deeply devoted to both his profession and his family so devoted to his family that he brought them with him, which was not unheard of, but it was still weird.
[00:12:28] It was weird.
[00:12:30] Jared: I, I've got no judgment. I don't know if that was normal or not. I don't know.
[00:12:33] Jenn: No, I'm telling you it wasn't. It was weird.
[00:12:34] Jared: Oh, okay. Okay. Sorry. Yeah.
[00:12:37] Jenn: Uh, well, I mean I think it makes sense because if you are a sea captain at this point in time, you are gone for months at a time, right? Yeah. I mean a trip from New York to Italy was about a month.
[00:12:53] Yeah. One way. Sure. So you're gone at least two months if you leave your family behind. So that's a long time. I get it. But it's also weird. It was like eyeballing kind of weird. Okay. You'd be like, you're bringing your family, sir. Okay. That's what I would say. His wife Sarah, and they're 2-year-old daughter Sophia boarded the Mary Celeste with him.
[00:13:22] One woman. Nine men.
[00:13:24] Jared: Yeah.
[00:13:25] Jenn: Yeah. Two women, eight men actually do the math. Yeah. Also a toddler on a ship.
[00:13:35] Toddlers, just on a playground are rock with peril. I don't like toddlers. That sounds bad. I should cut that out.
[00:13:44] Jared: Yeah. Yeah. I should not say that.
[00:13:47] Jenn: Look, I don't like other people's kids. I liked my kids when they were kids, but other people's kids, no. Get away.
[00:14:00] Briggs hand selected his crew. There were seven men. They were all experienced. Several were from Nova Scotia, like the ship. There were no reported conflicts. Zero criminal history. No reason to worry.
[00:14:15] Everything about this voyage looked ordinary. The Mary Celeste freshly overhauled her last inspection passed. Her sails and rigging were sound. Her provisions were enough for six months at sea only. Even though it was a one month trip, the weather was clear when she departed. Although you never know what's gonna happen, there's no radar at this point in time, right?
[00:14:33] So the most you would know is maybe have a day's advance warning that something might be coming your way if the barometric pressure changed. But eventually, essentially everything looked good, and yet within one month, she would be discovered. Adrift, seaworthy intact, abandoned the public, got hooked on this one and never let go.
[00:15:02] Hooked.
[00:15:04] Jared: Missed that one.
[00:15:06] Jenn: You gotta be ready for 'em. I was thinking
[00:15:07] Jared: about, you know, for fuck's sake, we thought it was what am doing here? Gonna be smooth sailing.
[00:15:12] Jenn: Oh, opportunity missed. Let's write puns together.
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[00:15:24] Jenn: The Mary Celeste set sale from Pier 50 in New York Harbor on November 7th, 1872. She had 10 people aboard Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife Sarah, their 2-year-old daughter, Sophia, and the crew of seven men. I can't list 'em all every time, but they were all experienced sober and they were handpicked. They were bound for Genoa, Italy carrying a cargo of 1,701 barrels of denatured alcohol.
[00:15:55] Do you know what that is? No. It's not for drinking. It is industrial. It's meant for cleaning and fuel, not fun times. Okay. Okay. It's probably not safe to take a whole bunch of sailors and some alcohol if it's drinkable. Yeah, I don't know. These seem like good guys. Maybe not. The voyage was expected to take a little over a month, depending on the weather, a month at sea.
[00:16:21] Can you imagine? Like today, no big, no big thing. 'cause we've got wifi, right? And I can sit inside on the couch with wifi for the rest of my life and I'd be fine. But one month
[00:16:36] Jared: it's a lot. No, I couldn't do it.
[00:16:39] Jenn: No. I'm really scared of being on ships. Like I think about I crew, I've been on day cruises. These don't count 'cause you don't go into the open ocean.
[00:16:49] I've never been like on a big long cruise where you can't see land ever and never have you. Have you. You have? Yes.
[00:16:57] Jared: Yes.
[00:16:58] Jenn: Were you scared you were gonna die? No. Why not?
[00:17:02] Jared: It was on a large ship,
[00:17:04] Jenn: but people, we saw the news the other day with that little girl that was rescued some, first of all, a little girl fell off a cruise ship.
[00:17:11] How did that happen? Nobody knows negligence. And then the guy jumped in after her.
[00:17:18] Jared: Yeah. Report how they both lived. Report reports that that was her father.
[00:17:21] Jenn: Just, oh wait. Oh. Well no matter what, he's a fricking hero. A, but B, there are like 385 people that fall off cruise ships every year and only like 35 are rescued.
[00:17:35] Yeah. They're not safe. Yeah. If we were in a different time period, Amy Bradley, she is a woman that disappeared off of a cruise ship and she's never been seen again, except maybe she was allegedly. But that's one of the scariest things I can think of and all because she went to go smoke by herself one time and then she disappeared forever.
[00:18:00] So first of all, don't smoke. That's very bad for you. If you do, you know what you gotta do, what you gotta do. It's okay too, but you shouldn't smoke. It's very bad for you. But second of all, really going off tangent, don't go smoking by yourself.
[00:18:11] Jared: Yeah.
[00:18:12] Jenn: What
[00:18:12] Jared: I'm really going off on a tangent here.
[00:18:14] Jenn: I'm probably gonna cut this all out because this is gonna be too long.
[00:18:17] If I'm sitting here talking about not smoking, it's don't smoke. Yeah. That's all I gotta say about that. Okay. Also, maybe don't go on cruise ships. And I'm sorry if this hurts the cruise ship industry. It probably won't 'cause nobody's gonna listen to me. Yeah, back to the story. We're on our way sailing to Genoa, Italy.
[00:18:36] I had to look up how to say Genoa because I've never said that before. That's dumb. I think I'm dumb. But anyways, it's supposed to take a month. The Mary Celeste left port a few days ahead of another cargo ship the day. E Gia, I'm gonna say it like a normal person. It was also headed to Europe. The two vessels followed similar paths across the Atlantic, though the Mary Celeste had a headstart of about eight days.
[00:19:05] This is important. This other ship, the de e Gya eight days head start, Mary Celeste had. Okay, so fast forward December 4th, 1872. It's been about a month. The de Igra captained by David Morehouse spots a ship drifting off of the coast of the Azores, roughly 400 miles from their destination. The crew watches for signs of life.
[00:19:30] There are none. There's no distress flag. No one at the helm weird. Just this ship gently listing in the wind. The sails are torn, but just a little bit. They're still catching wind. They're not like
[00:19:44] Jared: normal wear and tear.
[00:19:45] Jenn: Norm, well not normal, wear and tear more than that, but not hanging ragged from the mess above
[00:19:51] Jared: average, normal tear
[00:19:52] Jenn: above average.
[00:19:53] Wear and tear. Wear and tear.
[00:19:57] It's very likely that Captain Morehouse knew Captain Bricks personally. Both were experienced merchant captains. And once the crew got close enough to read the nameplate, obviously, and the build, they would've realized, holy shit, that's the Mary Celeste. Something's wrong. , That would've added, seeing that it was the Mary Celeste would've added, , a layer of urgency and, and confusion.
[00:20:21] , She should have been long ahead of them, not floundering in the Azores. We're the Azores
[00:20:28] Jared: out there?
[00:20:30] Jenn: Apparently close to Portugal. Okay.
[00:20:36] I don't know. Geography. Anytime we watch Jeopardy, I nail the history art. If it's Harry Potter, I'm for you. , I know all of those questions. I know some pulp culture. It's about geography. Fucking forget it. Unless it's about Arkansas. 'cause that's where I'm from. That's all I know.
[00:20:56] Jared: Again, there's one person in the house that gets majority of the geography.
[00:20:59] Oh my. Yeah.
[00:21:00] Jenn: One time he answered a question on Jeopardy and I was like, that is not it. And it was fucking it. And I was like, I'm dumb. Yeah.
[00:21:08] Jared: He knows his shit.
[00:21:09] Jenn: He knows his shit. We need to have him on here. And then he's probably gonna take over and be like, that's not true. Yeah. And then I'll be, god dammit.
[00:21:16] Now I can't have him on again. Anyhow, so if you say you're a sailor, would you, if you saw a ship just like me, like would you like be like, oh, we gotta go see what's going on there. Would you board the ship? Would you go look? Yeah. Oh, especially
[00:21:36] Jared: back then.
[00:21:37] Jenn: Really?
[00:21:38] Jared: Yeah.
[00:21:38] Jenn: Oh. I'd be like, fuck it. Nope, nope.
[00:21:40] Jared: No, you gotta go take a look.
[00:21:41] Jenn: Nope. Yeah. Nope. Murder ship,
[00:21:44] Jared: eh? I mean, maybe. But
[00:21:46] Jenn: they all got food. Food poisoning. They're dead.
[00:21:48] Jared: Okay.
[00:21:50] Jenn: I do not wanna see a dead body. I don't think I can take it. Hmm. Anyhow, the De EIAs crew approaches cautiously. They send a boarding party, they confirm it is the Mary Celeste. The scene on board is quiet, too quiet.
[00:22:09] This isn't normal, but there are no signs of violence. There's no blood, no bodies, no fire, no damage. The cargo hold is still full. All but nine of the 1,701 barrels remain sealed. So you're like, Hmm, all but nine. What happened to those nine barrels?
[00:22:31] When the day IGRAs crew. Inspected the Mary Celeste Cargo. They noticed that nine of the, the 1700 barrels of Denatured alcohol were empty, but they weren't removed or stolen. They hadn't exploded. They had leaked. Apparently that's normal. A lot of reports of this story talk about how the nine barrels were missing. They weren't missing, the alcohol in them was missing, but because it had vaporized off, not because of.
[00:23:04] Foul play or anything like that. They, they just, they just leak themselves empty.
[00:23:09] One lifeboat is gone, the ship's chronometer sex, 10 and logbook are missing. And these are all crucial tools for navigation. What is a chronometer?
[00:23:23] Jared: Nope. Okay.
[00:23:26] Jenn: It is a very precise clock. An absurdly precise clock used to determine longitude at sea. Regular clocks didn't work well on a moving ship because of humidity, rocking salt, et cetera.
[00:23:41] So maritime chronometers were specially made to keep exact time over long voyages. If you're on a lifeboat playing hide and seek with the sun, it's good to have a chronometer. I don't have a pun for that. Okay. That's not a pun. Yeah, that's just a dumb joke. What is a Sex 10?
[00:24:04] Jared: Strike two.
[00:24:06] Jenn: Oh, you don't have a joke about sexton jokes.
[00:24:08] You don't have a sexton joke.
[00:24:09] Jared: No, no,
[00:24:10] Jenn: no. Nobody does. It is a tool to measure the angle between the horizon and a celestial body like the sun, moon, or stars. It is used to determine the latitude, which is the north south position, and it helps with precise timekeeping if you know how to use it. Nobody does.
[00:24:28] Yeah. So like when you picture sailors probably looking at the stars they're using. Okay. The sext extent to determine what that is. Got it. Got it. So essentially why this matters is because the sextant and a chronometer with both of those, you could triangulate your position not perfectly, but close enough to not crash into a continent or starve to death on the Bermuda Triangle somewhere.
[00:24:56] Which you wouldn't because nothing happens there. Yeah. Right. At any larger statistical rate than anywhere else. Right. I'm just saying.
[00:25:05] The Mary Celeste was eerily intact. Personal belongings lay undisturbed in cabins. A woman's gown was neatly spread across a, a bunk, a pipe, and a teacup were on a table. There was a sewing machine still threaded beside a child's half mended dress. The ship still had six months worth of food, water.
[00:25:29] There was no fire, no blood, no signs of panic. The lifeboat was missing along with those tools, but otherwise, the ship was just quietly, floating sails had been torn and the rigging was slacked, but this was not anything that couldn't have been fixed. It wouldn't have caused them to be unable to sail.
[00:25:54] The ship's clock has stopped. Which that's obvious. No surprise there. You had to wind clocks back in the day. Okay, that's what I figured. So there was nobody to wind it. Obviously it stopped. But the binnacle protective covering of the compass, the one tool that the captain had to trust above all else was smashed.
[00:26:17] The compass still worked reportedly, but it was now exposed to the elements. This couldn't have been weather 'cause it was, you know, being protected.
[00:26:27] Uh, vandalism. Like why would, there was no other obvious damage around it. It was just sat there broken. One other thing is that a pump sat half half repaired on the deck, and it was strange given that the build held just over three feet of water, which was manageable. First of all, what is a bilge? A bilge is the lowest part of a ship's hole.
[00:26:58] That would be the area below floorboards of the deck. Water is gonna naturally collect here from rain. Condensation, a leak, maybe this is normal. , That water drains down into the bilge and then it's removed periodically by a bilge pump.
[00:27:16] Jared: Bilge pump. That's, that's, yeah.
[00:27:18] Jenn: Did you know what a bilge pump is?
[00:27:19] Yes. It's a pump in the bilge. Right. Obviously, yeah. All right. So three feet of water. If we walked into three feet of water in her house, that would be bad. Yeah. But is three feet of water in a bilge bad?
[00:27:38] Jared: I'm gonna still say yes.
[00:27:40] Jenn: So it's not bad. It's not alarming for a ship. This sucks. I'm alarmed. You're alarmed.
[00:27:45] Yeah. Well, you should iby at this point. You should be. Nobody's on the ship. But for a ship like the Mary Celeste, three feet of water in the bilge over the course of days or weeks isn't automatically dangerous. This ship is very deep hold and it's cargo heavy, so she wasn't gonna tip over or sink because of three feet of water.
[00:28:06] In fact, a ship that size could take on way more than that and still be seaworthy. Merchant ships like the Mary Celeste were designed to carry heavy cargo, so low in the hole, and that gave them extra ballast and stability.
[00:28:20] I don't know what the fuck ballast is. Stability. Sure. Whatever. So this sloshing water was not big. Well, not that big of a deal. It would be concerning slightly if the pump was not working.
[00:28:34] The thing about it is that obviously if the, if the pump was dismantled, the, they knew that it was broken, right? So they were trying to fix it because they had this three feet of water, but they were only 400 miles from their destination. That is roughly two to three days of sailing. Five at most. If there is weather, they were really, really close.
[00:28:57] Even if the ship was, something was going on and they had a leak or whatever, it would, you wouldn't freak out over three feet of water
[00:29:06] Jared: could have made it,
[00:29:07] Jenn: you could have made it, it was still seaworthy. But anyways, it was light and it didn't really match the crew's reputation that they would've panicked in this situation.
[00:29:17] They would've been like, oh, there's wireless. Let's fix the bilge pump. And then they would've, you know, briggs was known to be methodical. His crew was handpicked in, experienced a ship under their care would've looked orderly, even if worn out from the voyage of nearly a month.
[00:29:34] It just, it doesn't look like the ship was abandoned in panic and yet nobody was aboard. Nobody would ever be found. Whatever happened, it happened fast or slow. We don't know. It just happened. Mm-hmm. It's weird.
[00:29:53] Side note, there were, there are rumors that there was half eaten meals and on the table and you know, like everybody sat down to breakfast and then it was a banded. That did not happen. The galley was clean, it was stocked, it was ready. There were open containers and cooking tools set a set aside. It looked like meal prep had been interrupted or planning that came to a stop, but you can blame sir Arthur Conan Doyle for that,
[00:30:25] among other things. I'll explain it later. This is where the timeline gets a little bit strange because the last entry in the ship's log book was dated November 25th, nine days before it was discovered. The entry placed the Mary Celeste near the Azores close to where she was ultimately found. So she had been drifting for several days before the day Igra spotted her.
[00:30:49] There were no storms reported in the area at that point in time. No wreckage, no signs of pirate activity in that area. Nothing in the logs to suggest danger. In fact, the final log entry was totally mundane at 8:00 AM past the island of St. Mary bearing east southeast distance. Six miles.
[00:31:10] That's boring. They're nearly to Europe. Everything's fine. And then they disappear midweek on a Monday.
[00:31:23] Jared: Way to start a week.
[00:31:24] Jenn: I am not disappearing. On a Monday, assuming is Saturday. Okay. That's a fun day. Oh, it's not a sad day. Mondays are sad days. Okay. Well, not anymore 'cause I don't have a job.
[00:31:36] Yeah. Every day is like a Monday. Every day is like either a Saturday or a Monday and I don't know which one, but I never, from day to day, I don't know what day it is. You're like, what's today? No, you don't say that. I say that. I'm like, what's today? And you're like, it's fricking Thursday. Go get a job.
[00:31:56] You've never said that to me.
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[00:32:02] Jenn: Captain Morehouse and his crew split up. Some remained aboard the de gratia others took control of the Mary Celeste and they sailed both ships to Gibraltar arriving on December 13th, 1872 to file for salvage. Now you might ask yourself why did they immediately file for salvage?
[00:32:29] Did you ask yourself that?
[00:32:30] Jared: No, but I can.
[00:32:31] Jenn: You should ask yourself that. Why salvage first? Why not report it to the authorities?
[00:32:38] Jared: Try to get rid of it.
[00:32:40] Jenn: No. In the 19th century, salvage was the process. This is what they were supposed to do. If you found an abandoned ship on the high seas and brought it safely to port, you were entitled to a salvage claim.
[00:32:52] Okay? This claim triggered an investigation automatically, usually by the Vice Admir Morality Court to determine why was the ship really abandoned? Was the salvage legitimate? Was there any foul play?
[00:33:05] So Morehouse filing for salvage automatically launched an official inquiry. It was not a bypass. This was how the system worked. And the reason that they went to Gibraltar was because this was a British territory with an active Vice Admir morality court, which had jurisdiction over maritime matters and international shipping lanes, and was the closest qualified legal port for formal salvage hearing.
[00:33:32] That triggered a formal investigation led by a man named Frederick Sully Flood, a prosecutor who, if we're being honest, seemed a little excited about the chance to uncover a conspiracy. He probably fed into this whole ghostship bullshit
[00:33:53] soly flood. He suspected foul play. He believed the crew of the day. I Gratia might have overtaken the Mary Celeste and murdered everybody on board. He went directly to murder, right straight out the gate. That seems strange because this is the high seas. Wouldn't you think that automatically you'd think, oh shit, lifeboat's gone.
[00:34:19] They're on it. We should go look. Sure. No
[00:34:23] Jared: murder. Murder second.
[00:34:25] Jenn: Murder second. He went Murder first.
[00:34:28] Jared: Yeah.
[00:34:29] Jenn: Straight to murder. And he believed this because obviously they could claim salvage rights. This was a thing. This was, this was not a small time claim. This was a big time claim. It really was. Here's the problem though, again, going back, no blood, no violence.
[00:34:44] There's no motive for them to do that. And the cargo, which could have been looted or sold was completely intact except for the nine barrel. What are you gonna do with nine barrels of industrial alcohol? Oh, out on the ocean, right? You're gonna set it on fire, I guess. For what? Fun.
[00:35:03] Jared: Sure.
[00:35:03] Jenn: Yeah. Fire's fun.
[00:35:05] Don't play with fire, but also fire's fun. Do you know one time my sister, when we were kids and we lived in this house that had an unfinished basement, and I went into the basement with her and I was probably nine, eight, so this would make her 13 or 14, and she took a can of hairspray and a lighter on the walls and I watched her do it and it was fascinating.
[00:35:37] It was very fun. Also, she probably could have killed us. We probably could have burned down with that house, but also fun. Don't play with fire anyways. Fact of the matter is solidly flood had nothing. But that did not stop him from dragging this to trial for full three months. To be fair, suspicion is not misplaced.
[00:36:01] A seaworthy ship abandoned mid ocean with no storm, no bodies no clear cause. I mean, anybody would suspect foul play. True. I mean, people, people are crooked. The people who are crooked. But he did not stop at suspicion. He built an entire conspiracy and straight up accused the crew of the day. I gratia of murder, theft and staging a scene.
[00:36:26] He didn't insinuate it, he said it, and there was no evidence to support it, and the facts didn't fit. And so what does he do? He kept, he went harder. He just kept going. Yeah, calm the fuck down, dude. Get a hobby. Take a knitting. Dating's fun. I don't know. I don't knit. I'm sure it's fun, but the Salvager, were not trying to hide anything.
[00:36:55] They were doing everything the proper way and there was obviously no evidence of a stage scene, but the Mary Celeste and her cargo were insured for about $46,000 in 1872. Money. Yeah, that's a lot. How much do you think that is?
[00:37:12] Jared: A couple million.
[00:37:13] Jenn: $1 million today. Yeah. That's still, yeah. That's a good payday.
[00:37:19] So when the crew of the day Gratia filed for salvage, they were not chasing some spooky story. They were. That's a solid payday right there. The salvage payout came in at 1700 pounds. That's decent, but that's nowhere near what the day gratia crew had expected. Today. That's almost $300,000 total. It would've been split between the crew based on their rank and role in the salvage.
[00:37:50] For example, the captain probably would've received around 425 pounds, which is roughly $70,000 in today's US dollar. It's not nothing. No, but that's not exactly murder. 10 people and fake an ocean mystery kind of thing. Yeah,
[00:38:09] Jared: sure. Pirates did it for less.
[00:38:12] Jenn: Hmm. The court admitted there was no proof of wrongdoing, but still slash the reward because quote, suspicion lingered.
[00:38:22] Basically. I don't think you did it, but we don't like how this looks.
[00:38:27] That's weird. So. There was no charges, but they gave him this little piss poor reward. Yeah. It was almost like a slap on the wrist, like, here's some money, go away. Okay. But also, this looks bad. Get lost, right? Yeah. It's worth 46,000. They got 1700.
[00:38:54] Jared: Yeah, that's D. Yeah. It doesn't add up. Well, clearly it doesn't add up
[00:38:58] Jenn: math.
[00:39:00] Yeah, yeah, yeah. The mystery made headlines. It captured imaginations from the very beginning because the facts didn't add up. Had a good captain, a trusted crew, a safe ship, calm, seizes, reportedly, and then. Nothing, no message, no survivors, no trace, lifeboat's gone. That's weird. There was not a clue whether they jumped, fled, taken, murdered, any of those things.
[00:39:27] So I think that's the part that really sticks, is that the Mary Celeste didn't sink. If she had sunk, we wouldn't be talking about her. Yeah. Sinking ships are not boring, right? Sinking ships loose lips lead to sinking ships. Is that the same?
[00:39:43] Jared: I don't know it is now. You know what I'm saying?
[00:39:46] Jenn: I think that's a thing.
[00:39:50] Anyhow, she was perfectly capable of reaching poor, and in fact she did. So it's, it, it was the people who vanished. There were 10 of them without a word. Theories came later, some reasonable, some completely batshit, but when the Mary Celeste sound, there was no answers. Just questions. The facts don't hold water, but the ship did.
[00:40:17] Right? Did. Mm-hmm. See what you did there?
[00:40:20] Now people really went overboard with the theories. Do not
[00:40:26] Jared: keep 'em coming.
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[00:40:32] Jenn: All right, so here's the question that won't die. Why would 10 people abandon a perfectly seaworthy ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and never be seen again?
[00:40:43] Theory number one, alcohol fumes explosion. We have 1700 barrels of deed natured alcohol. This is the most widely accepted modern theory. Mostly because it's the least absurd of everything that we're about to talk about, but they were carrying the alcohol. It's highly flammable, but it's not explosive in liquid form.
[00:41:07] If some of the barrels leak, the fumes could have built up in the hold, combine that with the spark or a lantern or friction. And you know, kaboom. Industrial alcohol doesn't burn like whiskey, but its vapors are jumpy. Other ships carrying similar cargo had reported sudden burst of pressurized fumes.
[00:41:30] Just a oop.
[00:41:31] Jared: Yep.
[00:41:32] Jenn: Right.
[00:41:33] Jared: Flash flower.
[00:41:33] Jenn: Not an explosion, but a,
[00:41:35] Jared: yeah.
[00:41:36] Jenn: Maybe a loud whoosh.
[00:41:38] Jared: Sure.
[00:41:38] Jenn: I'll work on that. It, it would've caused some panic and concern. It that, that, that's a concern. A big whoosh. But I don't think they would've feared that the entire cargo was about to ignite necessarily.
[00:41:52] Can you just imagine like that, like who,
[00:41:55] Jared: it would be over really quick. I mean, not your life, but just the It would've, it maybe
[00:41:59] Jenn: both.
[00:42:00] Jared: Yeah, it could, but it would happen in a literal flash. Yeah.
[00:42:03] Jenn: I found that strangely odd is that it wouldn't necessarily like catch fire to anything. Mm-hmm. It would just like, and then it's done
[00:42:11] the idea behind this theory is that the crew thinking that the ship was about to explode 'cause of this abandoned it and temporarily in the lifeboat, and they may have tried to maybe tow behind the Mary Celeste planning to return and something went wrong, the cable snapped, or they had drifted too far or too fast, they couldn't catch up.
[00:42:33] Who knows? This makes sense because the navigation tools were missing. Yeah. Is plausible. Yeah. But it has holes. There was no visible fire damage. There were no scorch marks. Zero. And even if there had been a blast of fumes, this captain was a veteran sailor. Like why would you abandon the most seaworthy vessel around?
[00:43:00] Yes, for a rickety old lifeboat. That doesn't seem like something that this captain would do
[00:43:07] Jared: and probably had. Hauled this type of cargo before.
[00:43:11] Jenn: Ah, interesting. Uh, no, he had not, this is the first time he'd ever hauled this type of cargo. Okay. So he had no experience with it. He may not have known its volatility.
[00:43:28] Yeah. In activity, who knows. Right. But he, he had not done it before.
[00:43:32] Here's the deal though. This is not his first time at sea. He wasn't prone to panic and most importantly, he had his wife and daughter with him. Mm-hmm. You would, you would, I don't think you would load your toddler onto a lifeboat so I think you would stay with the brigadier
[00:43:47] theory two, sea quake water spout, or rogue wave. This is the dramatic one, right? There's a violent tremor or wall of water, or cyclone of water, whatever. It wouldn't necessarily need to sink the ship. It would just need to cause enough terror and confusion to force an evacuation. This would explain the water that flooded the bulge.
[00:44:15] , The pump was found dismantled, possibly 'cause they were trying to fix it during a chaotic moment. But even if there was a panic, is panic the time to fix machinery.
[00:44:27] Jared: Also, why am I gonna go from a, if there's a storm and a rogue wave or whatever, why am I gonna get in the tiny boat versus my
[00:44:33] Jenn: big boat, tiny boat instead of a big boat.
[00:44:34] Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I mean, in this version of events, they basically either get in the tiny boat or they, so say they jump ship and then the right lifeboat gets washed out or something. This theory anchors itself in reality. Barely. There is no evidence of any violence or trauma, even of the weather kind. Also, I had to look up if rogue waves were real, because it sounds fake as shit. They are, it's not science. Peru rogue waves are real in the nineties. Yeah. So they have been documented, observed, survived, modeled.
[00:45:17] They were thought to be sailor folklore until science caught up in the nineties. They're real. In fact, one struck an oil platform in the North Sea in 1995. There was a towering wall of water. 84 feet high.
[00:45:34] Jared: Yeah, that's crazy. That's
[00:45:35] Jenn: high. Uh, the North Sea is no joke.
[00:45:37] Have you ever been on North Sea TikTok?
[00:45:39] Jared: No.
[00:45:41] Jenn: It's the scariest thing you've ever seen. If you're scared of the ocean, I'm scared of the ocean. There are things down there that not just in the North Sea, in every single ocean, there are things in the ocean that we should not be a part of. And I'm not talking about aliens, although there may be aliens in the ocean.
[00:45:55] There's not, because there's no aliens on earth. But there are some scary ass things in the ocean. Those angler fish and the lighty up in invisible things, not invisible, transparent things. Yeah, there's some scary things in there. Also. Sharks. Sharks are scary. I'm a scared of sharks. I don't wanna get eaten by one anyways.
[00:46:19] Scary things in the ocean. Road waves.
[00:46:22] Jared: Mm-hmm. Add to the list.
[00:46:24] Jenn: Add it to the list of reasons not to go in the ocean. Check
[00:46:29] theory three, piracy or foul play. So this is classic, probably unlikely. , The cargo was untouched. Valuables still on board. No signs of violence struggle. Blood pirates tend to leave a mess. You've seen the movies. Captain Cook was a scary motherfucker. Black beard. Yep. Ringing a bell. Sure. Scary. There is no known pirate activity reported in that part of the Atlantic.
[00:47:02] During that time, the Atlantic, especially near the Azores, was heavily patrolled and commercially important. Steamships and naval power had made high seas piracy extremely rare in the area. However, the compass was smashed, the compass glass, it was smashed.
[00:47:23] Sort of violence. Yeah. That's a little tiny violence. Mm-hmm. No other violence around it. Or like somebody could have just tripped. I like, oh right. And like fallen into the thing. Like, I know that would've made blood. Well, they're carrying a cup and they tripped and it smashes a glass. And Captain Briggs is like, what the fuck?
[00:47:48] Jared: Right. That's all I got.
[00:47:49] Jenn: But anyways, the compass was smashed, so that's weird. Some version of this theory tried to point the finger. At the day, gratia the crew who found the Mary Celeste and claimed salvage, maybe they staged it, maybe they intercepted. The Mary Celeste killed the crew and made it look like abandonment.
[00:48:09] This was a valuable ship with cargo. , Leaving it adrift would've been a waste and a hazard.
[00:48:17] Yeah. All that alcohol. The problem with this theory is that they had anything to do with it, is that the Mary Celeste left port a full eight days ahead of the day, gratia. Both ships were roughly the same size and speed. This could not have been a, a chase scene.
[00:48:35] It was all about wind and weather. There was no way they could have caught up with them. There's
[00:48:44] that theory sinks under its own weight. Yeah. Thank you. Despite getting shorted on the salvage the day Igra crew, they didn't appeal, they didn't protest. They took the money even though it was a third of what they expected and they, they noted right out of there, they had to wait three months to get it in the first place.
[00:49:03] They had to stay there three months through this entire investigation of the soly flood that was making up all these stories about them. They're just like, just gimme my money. I gotta fucking go. Yeah, yeah. I was late to dinner three months ago. God, some theories, they set cell with confidence, but then they just think I wasn't the best one.
[00:49:30] Theory four, mutiny simple. The crew turns on the captain. Maybe harsh conditions. Maybe he's a little too devoutly religious, if you know what I mean. They don't wanna go to Bible study anymore. Maybe they're all hopped up on alcohol fumes. They're panicked, they're superstitious as fuck. Like, so they kill briggs, they take the lifeboat, and they escape and disappear forever.
[00:50:00] Eves. Mm-hmm. There's still no sign of violence or blood or panic or anything like that. The crew were all upstanding sailors. They had no discipline issues, conflict in their background. In fact, Briggs hand selected them. The chances of them mutiny in, , no sense. I I. And furthermore, you'd leave signs behind of like, why would they mutiny and then clean up after themselves.
[00:50:29] They're not gonna be on the first 48. Okay. There's no DNA. Why would they clean up? There's no reason. Why are you doing that anyways?
[00:50:39] it's possible. But this theory doesn't float. Yeah. All right. So theory six, what do you think this one is?
[00:50:50] Jared: Uh, sea monster boom. Yeah, I've been waiting for the sea monster.
[00:50:53] Jenn: Paranormal. Yeah. Yeah. It is called a ghost ship. So you knew this was coming. Um, curse ship, sea monsters, aliens, portals, spirits.
[00:51:07] They removed the crew without a trace, but I mean, really why? That's dumb. Okay. The ocean is a scary place. There are scary, scary things there, but I don't think krakens are real.
[00:51:20] Everyone's just fishing for answers at this point.
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[00:51:27] Jared: Gotta find you something else to do on a Saturday.
[00:51:31] Jenn: Let's try to navigate to the truth.
[00:51:34] Jared: Okay.
[00:51:36] Jenn: What do you think happened?
[00:51:38] Jared: They left that boat. They left in the, in the life raft. Why? Right. I don't have a good reason.
[00:51:45] Jenn: Bizarre, right?
[00:51:46] Jared: Yeah. I don't have a good reason. There's
[00:51:48] Jenn: no good reason. Yeah. There even, even if the, whew, the, the flu of the, the vapor explosion. Why would you leave the boat? Like I know you'd panic, you'd hear the noise and you'd panic.
[00:52:02] You would panic. I would. I would scream. I scream. Just, you walk in the room, you're like, Hey. And I'm like, ah. But I, that aside, why would you leave the boat? You'd panic. But then you'd look around and you'd be like, ah, she's still fucking floating.
[00:52:18] Jared: Right.
[00:52:18] Jenn: Don't fucking go. No. Right.
[00:52:22] Jared: Yeah. You would think, why did they leave the boat?
[00:52:28] Jenn: We'll never know. We will never, ever, never, never know. That poor baby at sea, that's some sad shit. She's a little baby.
[00:52:39] She's only two.
[00:52:40] Jared: Yep.
[00:52:41] Jenn: What are you looking at me like that
[00:52:42] Jared: I'm not.
[00:52:43] Jenn: Yes you are.
[00:52:46] Jared: I'm not a huge fan of unsolved mysteries at all times, but you know,
[00:52:51] Jenn: so what does that mean?
[00:52:52] Jared: We'll never know. So therefore you just don't know.
[00:52:56] Jenn: Some mysteries are fun.
[00:52:57] They can be, yes. A ghost ship is fun. Not well, 10 people. I'm sorry. 10 people disappeared and that's super, I mean, I have to assume that the 10 people died right at sea. Right. That's horrible. It's horrifying. Yeah.
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[00:53:20] Jenn: The Mary Es was not supposed to be famous.
[00:53:22] She didn't even sink. And yet she has become one of the most enduring legends of the sea. At the time, the story made headlines across Europe and America, partly because it was just so bizarre. , but also because nobody could really agree on what actually happened, right?
[00:53:40] And that ambiguity created a vacuum, , one that was filled with rumor fiction and fear. Enter Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle.
[00:53:51] Jared: Ah,
[00:53:52] Jenn: ah, who is that?
[00:53:53] Jared: Sherlock Holmes. It's
[00:53:55] Jenn: Sherlock Holmes. All right. So in 1884, he published a short story called Jay Habakkuk. Jefferson's statement. This was a fictionalized account that turned the Mary Celeste into a murder mystery, because of course it did. Like dude.
[00:54:15] Anyways, he changed the ship's name to the Marie Celeste. It was a mistake that stuck and added a homicidal sailor, a coverup, and a whole shit ton of drama. It was
[00:54:29] Jared: out to make a buck.
[00:54:31] Jenn: That guy, it was actually well written because it, it's Doyle. This case was already really weird, but Doyle really rocked the boat with it.
[00:54:43] Yeah. Anyways, so essentially he fanfic the Mary Celeste, and after that, the Mary Celeste became shorthand for Mystery Etsy. She has appeared in novels, radio plays, documentaries, sci-fi shows, horror movies, because of course she was even on the episode over the X-Files. Hmm, huh. And now the house is syx, obviously.
[00:55:07] After all of this. The Mary Celeste limped through a dozen forgettable cargo runs passed from owner to owner in 1885. She was bought by a man named Gilman Parker, who did what any enterprising crook would do. He packed up the ship with junk, insured it for a fricking fortune, and then ran her aground off the coast of Haiti, and one of has to be the Clumsiest insurance scams.
[00:55:42] In maritime history. He was charged with fraud, not convicted. He died a few months later in poverty and completely disgraced. Hmm, what a dick. So today, the Mary lust is remembered, not because of what we know, but because of what we don't.
[00:56:00] When you strip it all down the, you remove the poetry, ignore the theories, toss out the ghost stories. What are you left with? The truth is the Mary Celeste wasn't famous when she was found. It was just another abandon ship in an ocean full of wrecks already. The crew likely fled for a perfectly logical reason, though clearly mistaken and tragic.
[00:56:23] They probably died quietly, somewhere out there in the water. There was no monsters, no madness, just. Terrible misjudgment.
[00:56:30] Jared: You hope?
[00:56:33] Jenn: What does that mean?
[00:56:34] Jared: You hope they died quietly?
[00:56:37] Jenn: Oh, I mean, any, you never, yeah, there's some stories definitely. Yet this ship became the ghost ship, which became a blueprint for a thousand stories.
[00:56:48] And I have to assume it's because people just crave mysteries. It's strange and it's weird. , I don't think we elevated this story because of the facts. We elevated it because of space in between It was ordinary right up until the moment that wasn't,
[00:57:09] Jared: it wasn't right.
[00:57:10] Jenn: Right.
[00:57:11] Jared: All I know is I gotta get busy with booking our cruise.
[00:57:15] Jenn: I think you're gonna be going on a cruise by yourself. Nope. So that's it for this voyage. The sails are down, the sea is calm, and whatever truth was hiding out there, it's keeping its secrets for now. It's nice. Yeah. Well done.
[00:57:32] Jared: Well done.
[00:57:33] Jenn: Thanks for drifting through this mystery with us. Totally.
[00:57:36] Jared: Keep on coming.
[00:57:37] Jenn: We'll be back next week with another strange story from the dark corners of history.
[00:57:43] Jared: Awesome,
[00:57:44] Jenn: awesome. And the C, it never forgets. Bye bye.
[00:57:55] All right. Safe troubles, sailor.
[00:58:01] Jared: Am I going now? Yeah.
[00:58:02] Jenn: Get out here.
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