The Clara Nevada

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The steamer Clara Nevada foundered in stormy waters off the coast of Alaska in 1898, with no survivors. There were rumours of a fortune in gold aboard. Was this an unfortunate accident--or one of the biggest robberies/murders in US history?

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0:00.0	All right, you salty sea biscuit. We're rolling.
0:04.4	Featuring Joe Sweeney from Thinking Sideways Podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.
0:11.0	This is The Shocking Details.
0:15.2	Hey there, welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details.
0:19.7	I'm Joe, joined as usual by...
0:22.5	Vincent Caldoni.
0:24.2	And this week, we're going to talk about another sea mystery.
0:27.9	So this is actually involving a pretty nasty shipwreck from 1898, which quite a few people died in.
0:34.1	Everyone aboard the ship, actually, the standard issue sea tragedy at first glance,
0:39.8	but there were rumors of skull duggery and murder and a huge fortune in gold, which appears
0:45.9	to have permanently vanished. Some have called this the greatest mass murder in Alaska history.
0:51.8	Ooh, well, yeah, maybe.
0:55.1	We'll see.
0:58.3	So now we got the foreshadowing out of the way.
1:00.0	Let's get down to telling our tale.
1:00.4	Yeah.
1:02.9	It was a dark and stormy night.
1:03.8	Really?
1:04.3	Was it?
1:05.9	Yeah, really it was.
1:09.3	The sailing ship, Clare, it was dark and stormy. Yeah, and the, and the sailing ship, Clara, was steaming southward in the Lynn Canal, which is a 70 mile long inlet in Alaska's inside passing.
1:19.8	The Nevada had left the town of Skagway just hours before on the afternoon of February 5th, 1898.
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