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Episode 24

Ghost Ship: The Curse of the Mary Celeste

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On December 4th, 1872, the Mary Celeste, a merchant ship, was found adrift and abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. The last entry in ​the ship’s log had been penned ten days prior. The ship’s cargo was untouched, its provisions, aplenty. The crew’s personal ​belongings lay intact. In fact, nothing seemed largely amiss aboard the ship, which was disheveled but very much still seaworthy. ​That is, apart from one leering fact. Of the ten souls onboard the ship when she set sail from New York nearly a month prior, not a ​single person remained…


Today I am telling you the tale of Ghost Ship: The Curse of the Mary Celeste


Haunted History is produced by SoundBite Studios with host Megan Alda and writer/researcher Chloë Kibbe.


Sources

A N.S. ghost ship is fading from memory – 150 years after its crew disappeared by Vernon Ramesar


Solved: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste by Adrian Lee


Ghost Ship by Brian Hicks


In the Wake of the Mary Celeste by James Franklin Briggs


Giant squid ‘attacks French boat’ by BBC News


Abandoned Ship: The Mary Celeste by Jess Blumberg


The Unsolved Mystery of the ‘Mary Celeste’ by Jason English and Mangesh Hattikudur


What Happened to the Mary Celeste? by Sarah Pruitt


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