Ep. 67 - The Plague Island

The Conspirators Podcast

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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There are thousands of islands scattered across the globe, and many of those islands contain dark and terrifying stories of their own. In this episode we tell you some of these stories, including the tale of an island tomb where the coffins seem to move around on their own, of an island off the coast of Australia that was the location of one of the worst mass murders in history, and of a tiny island near Italy that some people claim is the most haunted place on earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.2	today. Beacon Island is a tiny patch of land that's part of a chain of 122 small islands and coral reefs strung along Australia's western coast.
0:47.0	But Beacon Island is particularly noteworthy because of a tragic event that occurred there back in 1692.
0:56.8	An event that is given the island its unofficial nickname, Carter Island.
1:04.4	The Batavia was a newly commissioned vessel owned by the Dutch East India Company that set sail from the Netherlands
1:10.2	in 1628. With a cargo that included a vast amount of gold, silver, and jewels.
1:17.0	The ship was commanded by Senior Merchant Francisco Palerte.
1:22.0	His second in command was the skipper, Ariane Jacobs. I know it's kind of an unusual
1:28.7	arrangement, but back in those days, it was actually the company's money guy who got to give the orders on the ship, rather than its captain.
1:40.0	Another member of the crew was a junior merchant named Geronimus Cornelius, a bankrupt pharmacist who was fleeing the Netherlands because of his heretical beliefs.
1:51.0	It was an uneasy voyage marked by constant squabbling among the men, and in 1629,
1:59.0	Cornelius and Jacobs hatched a plan to stage a mutiny, and seize the ship for themselves.
2:07.0	On June 4, 1629, Cornelius, Jacobs, and his fellow mutineers managed to steer the ship away from the rest of the fleet,
2:16.6	only to smash into a reef near Beacon Island.
2:20.8	Most of the 341 passengers and crew managed to swim for shore, but 40 of them weren't so lucky and drowned.
2:29.0	Or perhaps they were the lucky ones, considering the terrible things that happened next.
2:36.1	When they finally reached shore, the survivors made a grim assessment of their situation.
2:41.1	There was no fresh water source to be found and almost no food either.
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