Creepiest Ghost Ships Ever Found

On November 7, 1872, the ship went.The Mary Celeste appears on the list of Creepiest Ghost Ships Ever Found.The Mary Celeste left New York for Genoa, Italy. On December 5, 1872, the ship was found abandoned near the coast of Portugal. Everything aboard, cargo, and crew belongings remained untouched. The log book’s last entry dated November 25. Only one lifeboat was missing. Ten people vanished without a trace.

Jure Šterk sailed solo around the world from 1991 to 1994. In 2007, he set out from New Zealand again. At 70, Šterk aimed to be the oldest person to sail around the world without hitting land. In April 2009, his sailboat, theThe Lunatic Piran appears on the list of Creepiest Ghost Ships Ever Found.The Lunatic Piran was found adrift off the coast of Australia. Its sail was torn to shreds.

The log book’s last entry was January 1. Šterk had vanished.

The first half of the Carroll A. Deering appears on the list of Creepiest Ghost Ships Ever Found.The Carroll A. Deering appears on the list of Creepiest Ghost Ships Ever Found.Deering’s last trip went well. The schooner delivered coal cargo to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, without issue. The return trip to North Carolina went wrong.

On January 31, 1921, boats spotted the vessel running aground off Cape Hatteras, NC. The water looked too dangerous to approach. Rescue crews arrived February 4 and found the ship abandoned. Crew belongings, navigation gear, and logs were gone. Both lifeboats were missing.

Five federal departments launched an investigation. No one ever figured out what happened aboard the ship.

The trip from Samoa to Tokelau should take 48 hours. The MVThe MV Joyita appears on the list of Creepiest Ghost Ships Ever Found.The Joyita carried twenty-five people. Over two days, they all disappeared.

Signs showed something was wrong on October 6, 1955. The merchant vessel was due in Tokelau on October 5. It did not arrive. The Royal New Zealand Air Force started a search. By October 12, the ship remained unseen. The rescue mission ended.

Five weeks later, a captain on another ship spotted theThe Joyita appears on the list of Creepiest Ghost Ships Ever Found.off the coast of Fiji. It sat more than 600 miles west of Tokelau. The hull’s cork lining kept it from sinking, but the ship was wrecked. No captain, crew, or passengers appeared. Blood-stained bandages were on the deck. A leak showed the boat had sprung one, but no one knew why everyone left. This remains an unsolved mystery.

In April 2007, a helicopter spotted a 32-foot catamaran off the northwest coast of Australia. The pilot saw the catamaran drifting. No crew was on board. Two days later, search teams boarded theThe Kaz II appears on the list of Creepiest Ghost Ships Ever Found.. No crew showed up.

The Kaz II appears on the list of Creepiest Ghost Ships Ever Found.The Kaz II appears on the list of Creepiest Ghost Ships Ever Found.Left left Queensland, Australia on April 15, 2007. Des Batten, the owner, Peter, and James Turnstead manned the boat. They planned to sail the northern Australian coast back to Perth, western Australia. Rescuers found the empty boat five days later and were puzzled. Everything was right, including the life jackets and the emergency beacon. One sail was shredded. All three men were gone.

Investigations, hearings, and coroner’s reports followed. Eventually, people thought one brother fell into the ocean while fixing a fishing line. The other two fell trying to save him; all three drowned. Authorities never found their bodies, and no one knows what happened aboard the.Kaz II.

TheSSValenciaThe SS Valencia struck a reef while traveling from San Francisco to Seattle in 1906. Over 100 people died as water filled the ship.ValenciaThe Valencia had five life rafts. After the disaster, only four rafts were found.

Twenty-seven years later, the last lifeboat surfaced. It floated, completely whole, in the Barkley Sound, off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. No one was aboard. There was no sign of how it survived at sea for so long. It just appeared, empty, like it came from nowhere. And theValencia? It was left to rot on the reef. Sailors claimed they saw it floating, unmanned, out in the sea for years.

TheJian SengThe Jian Seng, a tanker ship, floated near Queensland, Australia in 2006. There was no crew, and strangely, no registration. A broken tow line was at the bow and could not work. The interior was gutted, so Queensland police guessed it was being towed to a salvage yard.

They never learned anything else about it. They did not know where it came from, where it was going, or how long it had been at sea. All they knew was it was called theJian Sengand it drifted; the rest stayed a mystery.

In July 1975, Dutch performance artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Cape Cod, MA, in a twelve-foot boat. He aimed to set a record for the smallest boat crossing the Atlantic from west to east solo. After three weeks, radio contact with Ader stopped. Ten months later, his boat was found adrift off the coast of Ireland. Ader was missing.Bas Jan AderHe set sail from Cape Cod, MA, in a twelve-foot boat. His goal was to set a record for the smallest boat to cross the Atlantic from west to east on a solo trip. Three weeks passed. Radio contact with Ader stopped. Ten months later, his ship appeared near the coast of Ireland. Ader vanished.

Some people guess his trip was his final show. They think he planned suicide after setting sail. Others believe he fell overboard, a fair guess for an inexperienced sailor. Still, whether intentional or not, the work he left behind made Ader a folk legend.

Lyuobov OrlovaLyuobov OrlovaThe Lyuobov Orlova was a ship impounded in Newfoundland, Canada, in 2010. Its owner faced major debt, and the crew lacked pay for months. In 2012, the ship was set to be scrapped after towing it to the Dominican Republic. During the tow, the line snapped, leaving the Orlova adrift.OrlovaThe Canadian government sent another tow ship. This ship successfully regained control of the Orlova.OrlovaThe government dragged the Orlova into international waters instead of returning it to Newfoundland.

In 2014, people feared the ship would crash on the coast of Ireland. A satellite detected a large mass in the ocean near Scotland, but search crews found nothing. UK press ran stories suggesting the ship’s landfall was near and it held cannibalistic rats. The ship never appeared; people assume it sank.Cannibalistic rats infested the Orlova.The ship never appeared; people assume it sank.

SSThe SS Baychimo sank. Later that week, a local hunter reported seeing it floating forty-five miles away. The crew tracked the ship, but they chose not to sail because it was too damaged. They salvaged some cargo and left the ship permanently. For twenty-three years, sailors saw the Baychimo.The SS Baychimo got stuck in ice off Vancouver, Canada in 1931. The crew left the ship to find safety in a nearby town, hoping to return after the ice melted. Two days later, the crew returned to find the ship free of the ice and floating. A storm hit, preventing them from boarding, and they lost sight of it.

They figured the ship had sunk. Later that week, a local hunter told them he saw it floating forty-five miles away. The crew tracked the ship, but they decided it was too damaged to sail. They salvaged some cargo and abandoned the ship forever. Sailors reported seeing the Orlova for twenty-three years.BaychimoThe Baychimo floated in the Arctic. It was last seen in 1969. People still argue if it sank or if it floats in the far north.

In 1917, the Zebrina appeared.The ZebrinaThe Zebrina left England for France in 1917. Two days later, the ship appeared off the northern coast of France. It ran aground, and the captain and crew were missing. The boat was whole, leading some to guess the crew was held hostage by a German U-boat that sank.

There is no proof for that theory. A ghost ship from World War I looks very suspicious.

Australia has bad luck with ghost ships. In January 2003, theHigh Aim 6The High Aim 6 an Indonesian fishing boat was found floating off Australia's coast. The captain, chief engineer, and all ten crew members were gone. The captain hadn't spoken to anyone since December. Phone records showed the engineer's cell phone made many calls after the ship surfaced.

Police tracked down a crew member. He stated a mutiny occurred. The captain and engineer died. The crew left for home. Murder and fleeing happened daily. The crew member could not explain the deaths. No charges ever filed. Police never found the rest of the crew.

The 1947.The Ourang Medan.The Ourang Medan left China for Puerto Rico. In June of that year, several ships in the Strait of Malacca, Indonesia, got an S.O.S. from the Ourang Medan.Ourang MedanThe crew boarded the Ourang Medan. They found every crew member dead, showing fear. They planned to tow the boat back to shore. But the Ourang Medan exploded and sank before they could.

The crew of another ship boarded the Ourang Medan., they found all of its crew dead, with terrified looks on their faces. They planned to tow the boat back to land. But the Ourang Medan exploded and sank before they could.They found all of its crew dead, with terrified looks on their faces. They decided to tow the boat back to land. Before they could tow it, the Ourang Medan exploded and sank.The Ourang Medan exploded and sank. Its wreckage remains unfound.The Ourang Medan exploded and sank. No one has ever found its wreckage.

Some speculate the ship held toxic chemicals. Others claim it carried biological weapons. Many people believe the Ourang Medan was real.Some say the Ourang Medan is just a myth. They argue it never existed. Perhaps it is just sailor's lore, but the story is good. This is a myth. It never existed. Perhaps it is just sailor's lore. This story is good; does it matter?