They Found a Ship But All People Vanished Into Air

[Music] the story of Mary Celeste is one of the greatest si mysteries of all time can everyone on board a ship simply vanish into thin air there are plenty of theories but no answers to this day perhaps she was doomed from the start by not talking about that mysterious day on December 4th 1872 when she was found floating adrift in the Atlantic know her sorrows go way back to another life that was equally filled with unlucky circumstance she didn't always go by Mary Celeste she was originally called Amazon hmm made in Canada in 1861 the vessel was about 100 feet long and 25 feet wide not the biggest or greatest ship of her time but her modest size wasn't the reason why she had problems finding an owner from her maiden voyage on May 18th 1861 the Amazon already started getting a bad reputation for possibly being a cursed ship she suffered nasty hull damage after going through a fishing Dam when she was docked in a shipyard for repairs that shipyard caught fire and almost burned to the ground Amazon however remained untouched and continued to serve as a merchant ship a lot of her future owners would go bankrupt each of them selling the vessel to repay their debts she also lost her first captain to illness during Amazon's first journey across the Atlantic Ocean the ship crashed into another vessel sending the ladder to the bottom of the English Channel after that the unlucky ship ran aground on her way back to Canada she was left there abandoned and damaged beyond repair but alas she was taken and sold to an American mariner Amazon was completely renovated and dubbed Mary Celeste she bounced from owner to owner once again finally falling into the hands of her new and final Captain Benjamin Spooner bricks according to people who knew him Briggs was a good captain and a master mariner he always hand-picked his crew and was very mindful of the people under his command many even say he was pretty harsh to those who dared violate the discipline but he put together the best crew and those seven men along with her captain and his family set out on that fateful transatlantic trip from New York to Genoa Italy on November 7th 1872 along with the 10 people on board the ship was also carrying 1700 barrels of denatured alcohol this industrial liquid is highly flammable if not contained properly but captain Briggs was a careful man in fact the trip was supposed to begin two days prior on November 5th but Briggs had decided to wait for a minor storm to blow through so even with tons of flammable cargo I imagine the captain knew what he was doing for reasons unknown to this very day Mary Celeste never did make it to Genoa at some point in her journey something terrible happened but this is where it gets totally bizarre on December 4th 1872 about 400 miles off the coast of Portugal the crew of another ship a Canadian Brigantine called de gracia noticed a vessel sailing erratically and heading right towards them the captain sent a signal but there was no response as the dye gracia got closer and closer it became apparent that there was nobody on deck so the captain pulled up and sent a few men over to investigate what they found or rather didn't find would make the hair stand on the back of your neck there wasn't a single soul on the ship ok well perhaps they had to abandon but here's the thing all of their belongings and food were still there the precious cargo was also untouched and there were no signs of some sort of struggle or trouble it was if all the people on board had simply vanished into thin air the only things that were missing were a lifeboat a rope the ship's papers and the captain's navigational equipment captain Briggs had a habit of keeping very detailed and thorough notes in his journal the last entry had been made on November 25th it mentioned bad weather but nothing more nothing that would be enough to force Briggs his wife and daughter and the crew to leave Mary Celeste in such a hurry the coordinates given put the ship about 800 miles away from the coast had she been unmanned and drifting aimlessly for 400 miles over the past nine days what on earth happened to the Mary Celeste or more specifically to her crew and passengers the crew of the de gracia soon became prime suspects in the case according to this first official theory the men of digression got rid of everyone on Mary Celeste made up a barely believable story about finding her abandoned and sailed her to the shore for a salvage reward seems like a reasonable theory I mean if I just so happened to find a wallet that had been reported stolen I imagine the police would question me first but after a thorough investigation that theory didn't hold up although the crew of the de Gracia never did get the full payment for salvaging Mary Celeste but hey at least they weren't being blamed any more since then investigators have been left with nothing but theories all of them with certain facts contradicting others and making a mess of the whole thing so what's the first thing that comes to your mind when you imagine why a crew would abandon ship probably a storm right especially knowing that captain Briggs had mentioned foul weather in his last journal entry some other facts point to such a possibility but it's still unclear for example the pump on Mary Celeste was apparently malfunctioning and undergoing some kind of maintenance when this bad weather rolled in perhaps the captain didn't think the ship would survive the storm given that it might easily flood with a broken pump the only problem is that there were no storms reported in that area at that time when Mary Celeste was found her lower area was under about four feet of water but that wasn't too scary for a ship her size everything inside the ship was dry and undamaged besides if there was bad weather do you really think they'd switched their ship with a slightly malfunctioning pump for a tiny little lifeboat thinking they'd have better chances at weathering the storm captain Briggs was smarter than that one theory suggests that pirates could have attacked the ship but that theory doesn't hold since all the personal belongings food and valuable cargo were left untouched not to mention the course Mary Celeste was on ran directly through waters heavily guarded by the British Navy no pirate would ever risk sailing there just to attack a small Brigantine what if the crew mutinied against their captain Briggs was known to be pretty strict with discipline not to mention the only belongings they didn't find on the ship were those of two of the crew members had there been some horrific scene did they take everyone out grab their things jump in the lifeboat and flee to avoid getting caught again it's highly unlikely and pretty much disproven first of all what chances do two men have against six others also there were no signs of a struggle or fight when the ship was examined and finally further investigations showed that those two were German sailors that had been tricked on their previous journey and left with no belongings at all they hadn't even brought anything with them in the first place the final and most probable theory comes down to the nine alcohol barrels found empty on the ship those nine barrels were the only ones out of the total 1701 that weren't properly suitable for transporting alcohol they were made from a kind of porous timber that couldn't stop alcohol from evaporating okay that explains why they were empty but what about the missing people well you see when alcohol evaporates it creates a really dangerous zone around the source of the leakage by releasing highly flammable fumes that can lead to an explosion captain Briggs might have noticed that some barrels were empty and ordered everybody to get off the ship as soon as possible before the hull explodes this sense of emergency explains the food and belongings being left and I doubt the captain had time to jot all this down in his journal before evacuating everyone to safety so everyone probably rushed into the lifeboat the captain likely grabbed his navigational instruments and the ship's papers in case she blew up and they needed to continue their journey in the lifeboat as for the long rope that was missing they probably used it to tie the lifeboat to Mary Celeste wait for as long as possible for the flammable fumes to wear out and then return to the ship at some point the rope could have snapped and set the lifeboat with ten people on it adrift in the Atlantic with no way of returning to the ship and little chances of survival out in the open ocean with no food or water and still even this theory has its flaws why was there no smell of alcohol on board when Mary Celeste was found if nine whole barrels had leaked completely dry you'd think the crew of guy gracia would have noticed it immediately maybe they did and they just assumed well the ship was carrying alcohol hence the smell I guess we'll never know and the story of Mary Celeste shall remain a mystery so what do you think happened to the Mary Celeste and her crew let me know your theories down in the comments if you learned something new today then give this video a like and share it with a friend but hey don't go anywhere just yet we have over 2,000 cool videos for you to check out all you have to do is pick the left or right video click on it and enjoy stay on the bright side of life

Channel: BRIGHT SIDE

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Keywords: Mary Celeste, abandoned ship, ghost ship, mysterious disappearance, true story of the Mary Celeste, true stories, misterious stories, unsolved mysteries, mary celeste theories, mary celeste facts, greatest sea mysteries, the Atlantic, Benjamin Spooner Briggs, ships, sea travel

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Length: 10min 48sec (648 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 13 2019