A ship sets sail for a certain location. Some how the ship is found years later only to discover that the ship is sailing by itself, thus there is no one on board. The people just vanished, without a trace.

That is what the term ghost ship means. It all sounds too unrealistic? No… it’s true. Ghost ships do exist.

There have been many discoveries of ghost ships ever since ships were invented. But one of them stands out by itself.

The Mary Celeste

The Mary Celeste launched in 1860 under the name Amazon spent 10 years before it became: A Ghost Ship. During the incident, there were 11 people on board. After the incident, there were none.

The 11 people on board consisted of the following.

Captain: Benjamin Briggs

Wife: Benjamin Briggs’ wife

Child: A young daughter

Crew: A crew of eight

Total: 11 people

The Mary Celeste was found abandoned in the middle of the sea.

Food was found left out on the table ready to be eaten. There were plates set up on the tables. But nobody was there. The 11 people had vanished.

Research teams have boarded it but found no sign of aggressive violence. That rules out the possibility that it was taken over by pirates.

At that time, The Mary Celeste was carrying nine empty barrels. A lot of people think that barrels were used to carry rum, but they could also be carrying spirit (not the wine, but a flammable material). Experts think that the spirit might of leaked out of the barrels, forcing everyone to abandon the ship. They crew left on a small boat and starved to death. Meanwhile the ship was left floating in the middle of the sea.

But then again that is just a prediction. No one knows what happened during the incident. But one ting was certain.

It was a ghost ship.