Mystery of the Mary Celeste

Mystery of The Mary Celeste
This is not a person, this is not even a ghost, this is a sailing vessel that left with ten people and came back with none back in 1872. Over one hundred years later the vanishings it is still a mystery, but the story is still one to be revisited again and again as if it's a dark fairy tale.

I love a good story about shipwrecks, I have no idea how many documentaries I've seen on the Titanic. Perhaps I've read hundreds of articles and seen hundreds of documentaries, but I don't get bored of it. There's just something about a shipwreck that grabs my attention and I have no idea since I'm not fond of swimming or even being in the ocean, but it interests me like a good ghost story. Only thing is the Mary Celeste didn't struck an iceberg or was hit by a torpedo. The mystery within this vessel lies within the story.

The story goes that the Mary Celeste was a New York registered ship built by a Canadian. The vessel was relatively small, only 100 feet from bow to stern and 282 tons. James Winchester, one of the registered owners of the ship, appointed Benjamin Spooner Briggs as the captain. Spooner was well known to be tough and would not leave the ship unless to save his own life. But on December 5th 1872, in the early morning, a Captain Morehouse saw the vessel from a distance between Azores and the Portuguese coast. He knew something was wrong and after two hours of watching the vessel going out of control, he boarded a small ship and went to see what was wrong. There was nothing wrong, the ship was in perfect condition, but everyone was gone. The seven man crew, the honorable Captain Briggs, his loving wife, their two year old daughter...perished and never seen again.

To this day, well over one hundred years later, the demise of the Mary Celeste crew still remains a haunting mystery. What happen all those years ago?

Until next time this has been another Scared Sheetless. If I don't see you before then, have a Happy and filling Thanksgiving.

Resources:

maryceleste.net - great website full of info.

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