THE MYSTERY OF THE GHOST SHIP MARY CELESTE

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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"The Mystery of the Ghost Ship Mary Celeste"-The ubrupt disappearance of the Mary Celeste's Captain, his wife and two year old daughter, and the remaining crew of seven, in December of 1872 in the North Atlantic, has been the subject of countless books, articles, and speculation for nearly 150 years. The Mary Celeste was discovered adrift with no one aboard. Evidence showed that the occupants on board had left quickly to avoid some sort of impending danger...but what? And why would they give up the safety of a 180 ton brigantine to that of a 20 foot lifeboat? Sources: Begg, Paul (2007). Mary Celeste:The Greatest Mystery of the Sea. Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education Ltd/ Fanthorpe, Lionel, Fanthorp, Patricia (1997) The World's greatest Unsolved Mysteries: Toronto" Hornslow Press. Chase, Sea. the Mystery of Nova Scotia's Infamous Mary Celeste. Article. Smithsonian Mag. Special thanks to Captain David Williams for allowing us permission to use portions of his well-researched re-enactment of the abandoning of the Mary Celeste from his web page www.deafwhale.com/mary-celeste. Also see his article on why whales are beaching themselves. Thanks to the painstaking research of many, and especially experienced sea captain David Williams with his website www.deafwhale.com, we may have the answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:33.4	This one from our Mystery Series is titled,
1:36.4	The Mystery of the Mary Celeste.
1:38.5	And it's a humdinger of a sea mystery
1:40.3	that has gone unsolved for over 135 years.
1:43.0	We're going to tell you this story,
1:45.0	let you sort through the clues, and see if you can come up with the truth of what really happened.
1:50.0	This is your host and storyteller, John Hagadorn, and this is our story.
1:55.4	The Mary Celeste was an American merchant Brigantine that was discovered on December 4,
2:00.4	1872 off the Azores Islands, sailing with no one on board and with her life boat missing.
2:07.6	When found by the Canadian Brigantine, D. A. Gratia, Mary Celeste was in a disheveled but seaworthy condition under partial
2:15.2	sale. The last log entry was 10 days earlier. She had left New York for Genoa a month
2:21.9	previously and was well provisioned.
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