Tue, Oct 12, 2021
The mysterious ghost ship the Mary Celeste was found near the Azores in 1872 with all sails set and the crew having abandoned the vessel in a small lifeboat, never to be seen again. Another brigantine found her and brought the vessel into Gibralter where a British maritime court considered leveling charges of piracy, murder and insurance fraud against the finders despite finding almost no evidence to support the crimes. So what did happen to the crew of the Mary Celeste? Where they abducted by aliens, eaten by a Kraken, spooked by a seaquake or waterspout or did explosions of the cargo of denatured alcohol force the captain to abandon ship? Simon Whistler analyzes all of the above and offers his conclusions.