You're listening to unexplained Season 4 Episode 13, Lost in Stormy Visions Part 3.

The rigging tapped lazily against the ship's masts as the vessel rocked gently back and forth.

While strewn all across the top deck, the bodies of its crew lay stretched out and

unmoving, under the gray formless clouds above.

Down below, an exhausted John White, the contours of his bones clearly visible through his

clothes, stirred in his bunk.

His desiccated tongue probing feebly at his cracked and bleeding lips as he drifted in and

out of consciousness.

Only six weeks before, Governor White had clambered aboard Edward Spicer's flyboat, hoping

for a swift journey to England, before heading back to Roanoke Island, but the omens had

not been good.

Within minutes of boarding the vessel, twelve of the fifteen strong crew were badly injured

due to a malfunctioning anchor mechanism that snapped back on them as they tried to bring

it up.

Eventually they were forced to cut the anchor loose entirely.

With only half the crew able to function properly, the ship had just made it pass the

Azores when the wind completely ceased to blow.

For days they drifted until finally Storm clouds began to amass on the horizon.

Unfortunately, the ensuing gale only succeeded in beating them back to where they had just

come from.

It would be almost a week before they were able to continue on their way, only for the

wind to once again desert them.

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