Crucial vacations are meant to be a time for relaxation, to sail away on the open sea

and soak up the sunshine.

It's a time when you can help yourself to the all-you-can-eat buffets, watch a Broadway

show, or even dance the maid away.

Sounds like fun, right?

Well, it was not fun for the victims on today's countdown.

When they booked their vacation, they probably didn't think they'd be going home in a bodybag

or not at all.

By the time we get to number one, you'll probably only want to take land-based vacations in the

future.

Hey, all you weirdos!

Welcome to Crime Countdown, a Spotify original from Parkcast, I'm Ash, and I'm Alena.

Three weeks will highlight ten fascinating stories of history's most engaging and unsettling

crimes all picked by the Parkcast Research Gods.

This episode we're counting down the top ten cruise ship horrors.

I have been on exactly one cruise in my life, and I'm not positive it's the vacation

for me, because one, I am very terrified of the deep ocean.

So it really kind of just places me right in the middle of my greatest nightmare.

Yeah, I remember when you told me you were going on a cruise and I was like, you know

it's on water the whole time, right?

You were like a cruise on land.

What is this like?

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