The Maritime Mystery Of The Mary Celeste
What happened to the missing crew of the Mary Celeste?
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#Postmortem How have you guys been picking the mysteries you cover this season?
#postmortem can you guys play Phasmophobia together, it's a ghost hunting game
#postmortem have u ever got any of the facts wrong in the videos??
why don’t you guys sit on the lawn chairs in the back?
Important question for the #postmortem Shane, how do you feel knowing that you are classed as an honorary lesbian? Loads of love for both of you guys, absolutely loving this series
The Mary Celeste: gets horribly damaged in multiple shipwrecks, is found completely abandoned Every single new owner: rip to the last owner but I'm different
they just built different 🥶🥶🥶
Sounds like every relationship where you think you’re the girl who’s different and is going to change him 😭😭😭
LMAOOOOOOOO
That’s sus
boat: repaired crew: hired build: different
"The lifeboat was never found" To quote Shane from the Roanoke Colony video: "Did they comb the *entire* ocean?"
They probably got up on a large hill and did this 🧍🏻♀️😳
I think about this all the time when they can’t find things in the ocean
@TK Wallace I'm with you on this one, it could be all the things put together, hallucination, quakes, water level etc.
@TK Wallace I have a doubt. There's this theory that the captain took a miscalculation and abandoned the ship. Was the miscalculation due to wrong readings from the supposed waterspout? Or due to the excess water from the deck(due to storms) to the bottom of the ship?
I have the same saying when people say an animal is extinct did ya look everywhere
No one: Ryan and Shane: *sitting on two uncomfortable looking stools while two perfectly good lawn chairs sit behind them*
For the aesthetic
.... And a fake campfire.
The lawn chairs are for the ghosts
@Ainsley Czajka ah yes, because lawn chairs can’t be moved
@@jackruffner6162 HA-
Captains diaries were one of the benefits of captaining a ship. They were all written in very flowery poetic language with the intent to sell them and the knowledge that people did collect and read them.
That's really cool
I love these tidbits of info, it really helps to put yourself in that time. Makes things make a lot more sense
great retirement plan
Excellent insight! 👍
They where also your "papers of career".
last week: "that's too much church" this week: "that's too much sea"
everything’s just too much
The season of Too Much, and yet there shall never be Too Much Buzzfeed Unsolved
it’s all too much by the beatles typa beat
Nobody gets too much sea anymore..it gets harder to come by. Im waitin in liiiiine🎶
CHURCH! CHURCH CHURCH CHURCH!!
Shane: “For the record I don’t believe in ghosts.” Ryan: “Okay...” Shane: “But I don’t want to live in a house where people were murdered.” Ryan: “Why?” Shane: “Because it’s a fuckin bummer” I SCREAMED
it doesn't pass the vibe check
BWHAHAHAHAH
I cackled.
He was focused too much on keeping in character that he can't say what's on his mind. He probably was thinking that if someone was vulnerable and unsafe enough in a home or location to get murdered then it probably is not the best place to sleep
But imagine the price drop for such houses tho 👀 (just kidding)
after watching this, i now desperately want to write a romance story set in the 19th century with two boat captains who fell in love, then get pulled apart and didn't see each other for years. they finally recognised each other's boats, looked at each other through their telescopes (not spy glasses unfortunately) and then crash into cliff sides
And then a giant octopus officiates their wedding
😂😂😂
1 year already, did you write it?
@@akkico no i completely forgot about this
ngl i would definitely read a story about that😭
"Why not?" "Cuz it's a fuckin bummer??" 😆👌
Mood
dont cuss 😌✋
@@oliviagrace6914 So um yeah, welcome to the Internet
@@TaylorAdams12 LOL
Timestamps or it didn't happen!
Can’t believe Ryan would name his boat “Sea Skimmer” over “The Brig-ara” Edit: #postmortem
What a brilliantly missed opportunity.
Can we get this comment to post Mortem please?!
#postmortem
needz moar upvotes
#postmortem
Imagine being the most popular series Buzzfeed ever had
periodt
@@yourfavbbygirl peridot
Oop.
The only good thing about buzzfeed as they have little involvement in this
2 dudes in a garden. And somehow carrying a company on their back.
The captain overreacted/misinterpreted something that caused him to believe he needed to abandon ship. They got on the lifeboat. They soon realized the ship was actually still fine, but the sea had moved the lifeboat away from the boat and they weren’t able to row back, sadly condemning them to death at sea. I’ve also seen a theory that they tried to get to / did get to a nearby outcrop / Island, but that they either crashed attempting to reach the rocky shore, or died there from lack of food and water. :(
I believe it was the leaking alcohol barrels... alcohol fumes on board a ship where you're using lanterns and candles for light is not a good thing, so they quickly abandoned ship to the lifeboat in order to let the ship air out, and in doing so somehow they couldn't get back to the ship, probably due to wind blowing the ship faster than they could row the lifeboat.
Makes sense, especially since the crew have to obey the captain so he's pretty much on his own in the decision making process.
@@dx1450 ya but a seasoned crew would have the life boat tied to the ship just in case
@@dominickjustave3558 Maybe they did, but for some reason the rope broke or else they didn't tie the knot well and it came loose.
But again, things would have not been as "neat" as they were, the crew must have taken food or water for the ride, Or They must've left in an unpolished matter, which they didnt.
Ryan: And there could be scientific explanations... Shane: Oooh :) Ryan: And then there could be other explanation. Shane: Oooh :(
The strongest theory for this was not mentioned: the ship was carrying alcohol which as you mentioned leaks fumes which can easily spontaneously combust. They go through some bad weather and have to seal the decks so the ship doesn’t flood but without ventilation too much alcohol vapour builds up so then once they are able to open the hatch they realise how bad it got and that they were essentially sitting on a bomb. So they open all the doors, grab only the navigational essentials and get into the lifeboat, attached by a rope to the rear of the ship. They didn’t take any other personal belongings or supplies like food because they didn’t expect to be in the lifeboat for more than an hour or so. They just needed to air out the dangerous fumes and get off the ship ASAP incase of an explosion so that they could return later. But somehow, likely because the rope was tied in a hurry, the lifeboat got detached from the Marie Celeste and unable to row fast enough to keep up with the ship which still had its sails up (having not had time to lower them in the panic) they were cast adrift and marooned at sea and never seen again. #postmortem
That's quite a good theory
I bet you you're right too
Yeh that’s the best one
I was looking for this theory too. I'm very surprised they didn't mention it since I think it's the most widely accepted theory
I heard that theory before , I think it's the most likely. But , we never will know what really happened.
“Need beer. Drink emotion.” Should be on a t-shirt.
New merch when??😅
ok millennial
@@siba81332 ok…human who doesn’t like t-shirts???
@@siba81332 no u
@@nesultimate3854 factually no😁
“need beer, drink emotion” is kinda poetic
6:20 yep poems
Hey, Ryan, thought I'd share a theory that might help put your mind at ease at it seemed very plausible when I heard it. With the 9 barrels of alcohol that were emptied, I heard the theory that the fumes were noticeable on deck. Worried of a combustion, the captain ordered everyone aboard the lifeboat with the intention of returning to the ship after it was safe which would explain no struggle and no personal items taken as they did intend to come back. A line was used to secure the lifeboat to the ship, but proved unworthy as it detached and they were unable to get back to the ship. Not a very happy ending thinking about their final days, but definitely seems to check most of the boxes of this mystery. Great show! Hope to see more.
This .. the 9 barrels of Alcohol are key to this mystery. This seems the most plausible and likely.
There would be evidence of the line being secured to the ship tho.
@@WowPlusWow You really think a single rope tied to the ship would be suspicious enough to comment on? Even if it was dangling in the water, they'd just assume it slid off in the 10 days in which no one was on board.
I LITERALLY JUST WROTE A PAPER ON THIS & LOOKED TO SEE IF THERE WAS A BUZZFEED UNSOLVED ON IT ARE U KIDDING ME
And what did u conclude in the paper
Can we read it?
omg could we read it?
They made it just for you 💚
drop tha essay pleaseee
Ryan: "Rubber ducky was not there; it was actually a hot tub." Shane: "oh fHuCk."
Lol. You even got the H sound in there. 😆
Rubber duckyyy🤣
@@TravelerVolkriin s red a zz
19:06 🤣 🌊
Hot tub time machine
Ryan:”well then what happened to them?” Shane “...monke”
Ryan: *plausible pirate hypothesis* Shane: "OR, it's a ZOO boat, and the monkeys got out!" Ryan, going down with the "anything's possible" ship he built himself: "... or it's a zoo boat and the monkeys got out..."
Ryan: "No signs of a struggle" Also Ryan: *Proceeds to theorize that a giant octopus attacked the ship* Never change Ryan. Never change.
Ryan: "there was minimal damage, not enough to worry about" Most kraken stories: "The beast gripped the ship in its tentacles and cracked the hull in half"
I guess Ryan hasn't seen pirates of the Caribbean 2
Ryan: "I think there were squatters in the Old City Jail." Also Ryan: is convinced the person walking by the camera is a FBA Never change.
I think ryan put it on theory cause many believed on that, but like ryan said he dont even believed on supernatural theory in this casr
Return of the Obra Dinn vibes
Ryan’s ship should be called “The Iceberg” and no one can tell me otherwise
The icebergara
@@spiraldoodles4793 (wheeze)
sounds like some foreshadowing😂😂😂
bergara brigade
Or just "The Berg"
“It ain’t no devil and possessing a boat, too hard” He’s speaking from experience
as a german, i can say that shane's impression of a german pirate at 13:10 was stunningly accurate
🤣🤣🤣
He did said he studied german
They traveled to Roanoke, met up with the colony there, then they all traveled to The Flannan Isles and got the lighthouse keepers to join them...and then they were all abducted by aliens.
😂🤣😂
After picking up D.B. Cooper and Judge Crater
@@davidrothberg1112 d b cooper prbbly fell onto the boat
after meeting up with malaysia flight 370 of course
The gangs all here
As soon as Ryan said “from inside the ship” I immediately thought ‘pirates hiding inside the 9 empty alcohol barrels’
I was looking for this comment !!!
Yeah, but they didn't take anything, so why pirate their way in there anyways?
Like hobbits?
„Who ordered the uh... pickles?“
@@andemaiar you mean dwarves from the hobbit?
This channel has helped me a lot these past few weeks since I lost my best friend .so glad I found this channel. My insomnia ain't so bad anymore.
Hope you feel better ❤️
hope ur doing okay lovely 💗💗💗
“Our next theory, of course, is a sea quake.” Me, a seasoned landlubber: “Pfft, of course; naturally, the ole sea quake.”
We need to start the UCU: The Unsolved Cinematic Universe, starring DB Cooper, CC Tinsley, Ricky Goldsworth, The Goatman, and the Mothman
Dont forget the almighty watcher
Yes please
The axeman too
CC Tinsley? Again?
Dr. Fear and Aussie Shane as well pls
I love how Shane always makes Ryan laugh so hard. It’s adorable
Ryan: “whaddya think happened to them” Shane: “monke”
“Who writes like that in a journal?” People in the 1870s
They didn’t have a lot else to do back then lol
Yea, they write the way they talk.. starting to think Ryan is not the brightest crayon.
Yea lol did they ever hear of darwin
As a trying hard writer/poet wannabe, ME!
Everyone secretly wanted to be poets.
For #postmortem: I’m surprised “mermaids” wasn’t one of the theories at least by that century’s standards. They make seamen “willingly” throw themselves into the sea by promising they’d give them their greatest desires. That would explain the absence of struggle and the abandoning of the supplies.
or siren omg
This is a theory I can get behind lol
#postmortem
Yes mermaids/sirens
uuummmm no.
The crew of alleged "pirates" could have threatened to kill the crew if they didn't sail away on the liteboats. Explaining lack of struggle and absense of lifeboat
I love that the alien theory always begins and ends with "wOuLdN't tHat bE cRaZy!?". Never change Ryan.
Oh yes the alien theories are back, thanks Ryan, very cool
Aliens are back for real :)
I was so proud of him when he did not add an alien theory to the previous one lol
Ghost trick avatar. Nice
@@kipechawolfeortiz8791 Vault boy avatar. Nice
Yomiel pfp! Good tastes!
13:09 Shane missed a great opportunity to say “Guten tARGHHH”
#postmortem !
Fact: At least 80% of those likes are from Germans
This deserves more likes.
#postmortem
I AGREE
Shane's German pirate impression is just *chef's kiss* perfection
One of these days someone needs to make a compilation of all those moments where Ryan just looks at Shane in disappointment 8:00
And the other way around too!
I feel like "my rod's telling me things but we can't trust my rod" should be how teenage boys are taught to deal with their hormones
Omg so true
😂 lmao
the way i thought about the same thing pls 😭
true lol
As the mother of four sons, I concur.
He was unable to pay his loans *SCARY MUSIC*
Throw me in the gulag daddy
Ha same. Relatable.
@@michaelburns1945 bro what
@@tonytheking6737 ukr. Wtf
understandable
Sea madness! Did anyone check whether they had good drinking water or alcohol left? Because though it IS odd sometimes people experience madness being out at sea for a long time, and can convince themselves abandoning ship is a good idea. AND if they drank sea water it would exacerbate the effect.
"It's time to *dive* into theories..." I see what you did there, Ryan.
For the postmortem: For Shane: how cheap would a house have to be for you to buy it, despite its previous owners being murdered gruesomely?
#postmortem
Yeah but sailors are very suspicious it would be like Ryan buying the Sallie house
#postmortem
#postmortem
"I cant imagine a german pirate" Klaus Störtebeker who literally has the coolest execution ever because he walked 12 meters without his head to save his crewmates: Sounds fake but okay
#postmortem
WITHOUT HIS WHAT
He and his crew were captured and sentenced to death for piracy. The legend is that right before Störtebeker was executed he asked the mayor to release any crew mates that Störtebeker could walk past after being beheaded. The mayor agreed, Störtebeker was beheaded and then his body arose from the ground and walked past 11 of his crew mates before he was deliberately tripped by the executioner. Regardless of this, the 11 men he passed were still executed. It just keeps going though.... Sources vary on how many crew mates there were - some say around 30, some go up to 70 - but after the last man was killed the executioner was asked by the senate if he was was tired, and he replied that he was not and could easily execute the whole senate as well. Because of this he was actually sentenced to death and was beheaded by the youngest member of the senate. It was wild.
He walked 12 meters: without his hand to save his crewmantes
Sounds fake but okay
Ryan: "welcome back to Buzzfeed Unsolved" Also Ryan: confused that he couldn't solve the case Love the dedication to the craft
Someone smells the explosive fumes, immediately gets everyone off the ship to a boat attached to the back. The boat isn't attached properly. RIP
for postmortem: for the “sinking” ship theory, it could be possible that they fled the ship thinking it was going down even though it didn’t appear to be sinking. the titanic did take like 3 hours to sink, maybe the same applies here so they never returned to the ship. (also my dad said “shane looks like a crazed james mcavoy with that haircut” so do what you will with that statement.)
#postmortem
#postmortem (i like that idea!)
Zoo boat
i thought this too but also it could be possible that the lifeboat then sank due to the waterspout ryan said could've caused the misreading. that would explain the lifeboat and crew never being found.
I think it’s possible they were pirated, either by the Dei or another ship. The pirates could’ve opened the caskets, became dissatisfied with the industrial wine (probably not a hot item) and then maybe sold the crew and family into slavery
“the devil ain’t possessing no boat, it’s too hard” hmmm so, how do you known that shane...
demon king shane
And everything he says after that like, sir, have you tired? Why are you so aware of the difficullties?
Shane has tried it before
9:40 The Ghost Files theme music is just instantly recognizable now
I experienced a quake at sea when holidaying in the Greek Islands in 1994. The sea went from quite choppy to proper choppy with some big ol waves crashing against the boats sides. As the vessel rocked violently from side to side We were all ushered below deck and I must admit it was a somewhat harrowing experience, one that I do not wish to repeat again!! ☠
Must have been the mer-people, probably kickin it with Aqua Man in Atlantis.
They were running low on men. Granted the mother and daughter fins as a consolation prize.
Just like Roanoke 👀👀👀
Best theory lol
@@christinewalsh3043 is ok hnj ok out by
HEHEHE merpeople theory: yo look those guys sing nicely, let's grab the life boat to say hello
“And 2 year old daughter Sophia” Me, Sophia, who actually almost drowned with both my parents (and brother) during a boat-wreck when I was 2 years old: *slow down now, cowboy*
👀
now hol' own
Woah
They tried to kill you again
Lmao imagine that
I HONESTLY THINK I'VE SOLVED THIS! There is ONE clue in this story that is profoundly important and has far reaching implications: The Red Barrels. Sure, Red Oak is more porous than White Oak, but EVERY red barrel was missing ALL of it's content. Furthermore, there was NO DAMAGE OR LEAKAGE to the white oak barrels. Think about that for a moment.... If the red barrels were emptied, "naturally," via a storm or any other process, you can be ALMOST CERTAIN that at least a COUPLE barrels would have retained some portion of their content. Yet, every last one was completely empty? Consequently, this means you can be ALMOST CERTAIN that those barrels were INTENTIONALLY SELECTED and DELIBERATELY emptied. But why? Well, I'd suggest the red barrels never actually contained alcohol. Rather, those 9 barrels were filled with something else. Something extremely expensive, and probably extremely illegal. (Or, they actually did contain alcohol, and something was sealed & hidden inside the liquid.) The person/company (who hired the captain) packaged the stolen/illicit goods in red barrels (as opposed to having all white oak barrels) so the people on the receiving end could easily distinguish them. However, this was their big mistake. Almost the entire crew had spent countless years "barrel jockeying," so I'm sure they were familiar with red oak being slightly porous. Hence, this gave them a "green light" to drink some alcohol, as it would be very easy to blame it on the "inferior containment" of red oak. Well, late one night they open up one of the red barrels, and they find immense wealth. At this point, only two things left to do: 1.) Recruit enough people to easily overpower the captain and anyone else not-in on the "coup." (To be fair, there might have already been enough of them upon the initial discovery.) 2.) Throw them overboard when you're close enough to an island that you can row there with the lifeboat. And, this is EXACTLY when it happened according to the captains logs. In short, the barrels and the timing tell you everything you need to know.
damn I like this one
@@Engardian Thanks :P
Pretty damn good theory
@@longthornhenderson331 Thank you :)
Ryan: So here's a couple plausible theories for the disappearance of the crew and personnel Shane: *Monke*
Lmfaaaaaaooooooo
those damn seamonkeys 💀
ok but consider: they were lured by sirens into the sea
I like this theory. Best one so far
yeah that’s pretty good.
hol up- yes. Plausible
Hey, if aliens can be on the table, this should be as well
But what about his wife and daughter? Legend says it only effects men.
"I don't wanna buy a house someone was murdered in... Cuz it's a bummer." I've said this same thing, lol
They turn into literal children when they're in the same room together, I love it.
I love it when Ryan says “Another theory is aliens” and then Shane is like “Fine tell me the theory” but that’s it, the whole theory is just Aliens
Note about pirates: generally, there wouldn't be a struggle. It would be more like a hold-up. If you're the captain of a boat containing your wife, your toddler, and seven non-combatant sailors, you're not going to try to fight the pirates off. You're going to do as they say and try not to get killed. So the pirate theory could be plausible if the pirates set everyone aboard adrift on the lifeboat, and then decided that the cargo wasn't worth taking.
Maybe, but its not like pirates to target a ship and then take nothing. No belongings, no cargo, not even the ship itself? Weird
@@katierasburn9571 Yeah, that was my thought. With no struggle and nothing really taken that would mean the boat was hijacked by pirates who then forced everyone on the ship to get on a lifeboat, shoved them off to sea (or, I suppose, just made them walk overboard and stole/released the lifeboat for some reason?), and then went back to their own ship and left. I'm by no means a pirate expert but that doesn't really strike me as their modus operandi.
Wtf is the reason you became a pirate then?
They would have taken the entire ship though, even if they set the passengers adrift.
I also believe pirates took the ship but I highly doubt they would just leave that precious cargo without a reason so my theory is they boarded the ship and came into contact with a Countries military ship that would kill the pirates on sight, so maybe they abandoned ship before the military ship could catch them since the merchant ship the pirates are on is defenseless, and just for some reason maybe the military ship didn’t spot them or stop to check the ship and it was just left that way until it was found.
As a Nova Scotian I love hearing local stories be covered
Eyyyyy same!
Ryan deserves credit for that poetically alliterative phrase “respectable, responsible, and … religious.”
the last theory is always just “they were abducted by aliens” and then that’s it, nothing more than this one sentence
“I don’t trust my rod” “Seasoned seamen” “Good woods” Shane was a gd riot this episode😂
"I've never been in her before"
thanks. now my mind is tainted
😂😂😂😂😂💀
Thanknyou so much for this episode. I'm from Nova Scotia and it is always so amazing to see these big stories told from home. I miss your show!
“Need beer, drink emotion.” I HAVE NEVER RELATED MORE..
the mary celeste was a Brigantine, so "schooner for spooner" doesn't work but "brig for briggs" does
A brig isn't a brigantine though
Imagine the giant octopus picked them up gently and carefully not to damage the ship... isnt that adorable?
then the giant octopus crushed them to death and swallowed them and drank their red blood.
I’d like to be Under the sea In an octopuses’s garden..
19:50 Shane: “Wait are you actually going to do this?” *laughing and wheezing* “What are you doing?” Ryan: “I’m citing the theory..” Shane: “The floor is yours.” Ryan: “Ah that was the end of the theory but I mean like wouldn’t it be crazy if they got abducted by Aliens, OR LIKE A SEA MONSTER! Like a Big Octopus took it’s like.” *waves arms motioning it taking down the boat* “and grabbed them off. Ya’know?” Shane: *staring in either excitement or shock*
I saw this story many years ago when covered by Unsolved Mysteries. I believe they pointed out that the hatches were open, which normally would not be on open sea, adding more credence to the theory that there was concern about the alcohol exploding. Of course we only have the crew's word for it that found the vessel. So, either the recovering ship came on them, dispatched everyone, set the scene and brought it in for the finder's fee, or they got into the lifeboat for fear of an explosion, got disconnected from the main ship and lost at sea.
Dude it totally was Sophia. Two year olds are wild. She just dipped to the Azores. #postmortem
I'm laughing over the mental image of a two year old setting an entire ship into such a state of panic that they completely abandoned an entire ship.
@@Quackervoltz but i mean, is she wrong? two year olds do some crazy things... lol
That sounds like something Joe Rogan would say
1200 likes 3 comments hell yeah
"Cause it's a f*cking bummer" - Shane 2020
I can’t with Shane with his German impression of a pirate😂😂😂😂😂
So, I came up with another theory while rewatching this. Ryan mentioned the captain being paranoid and what if he literally did lose it; one day he just lost sanity, grabbed a fire arm , threatening to shoot anyone who didn't get into the life boat immediately, including his wife and child. Wild theory, but it came to mind.
#postmortem Here's a theory you might want to look into: The nine barrels that were made of a different type of oak likely leaked the alcohol, which can cause a flash point explosion when enough alcohol vaporizes. This won't scorch anything, but it will create a loud explosion or series of explosions. If the captain heard this, he would have ordered everyone into the lifeboat with all the tools needed for sailing, and attached the lifeboat to the ship in case nothing happened to the ship. Something you didn't mention is that one of the ropes was missing, the peak halyard, which was attached to the back of the ship but completely frayed, and trailing in the water behind it. It's likely they attached the lifeboat to the ship with this rope in case the ship didn't sink so they could pull themselves back in. But clearly the rope snapped, and they were lost at sea while the ship kept on sailing away from them.
I think its make sense if they lost at sea
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This is the theory I'm most inclined to believe! I really hope they mention the rope in the post mortem
The last boat entry was saying they were only 6 miles off the coast of the Islands. Couldn’t they have made it safely to the islands in that case ?
yes! it also explains why their belongings were still on the ship. they probably expected to get back on the ship after the problem was solved.
Here's a theory: what if the red wood barrels were never filled with alcohol to begin with but was a hiding place for pirates who then broke out when it was time to heist. Love from The Netherlands
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#postmortem this is actually a really good question
Damn... Thats good
I'm 5:30 in and the energy of these two is so infectious and positive, truly a joy to watch these two.
My theory: Maybe the people aboard the other ship wanted to make it seem like a disappearance. The people aboard the Mary Celeste could have just wanted to talk to the people aboard the other ship and so they boarded the Mary Celeste. After taking for a bit (or whatever they did) they killed them without making too much of anything. Could have strangled them etc. is a mess did happen they could have tidied it up. After that, the people on the other ship threw the lifeboat and the other things needed and then brought it too the shore. The alchohol id a bit confusing but may have just been what they said in the video with it leeking.
If Shane’s “I’m beautiful, I’m sTuNnInG, glimmering,” doesnt become a self positivity meme I might cry
Ryan: Who writes like that in their journal? Me: *Definitely writes like that in my journal*
Right?! I felt called put lmao glad I'm not the only one
y'all set voyage to Ralph's recently??
if you're gonna bother writing in a journal at all, might as well make it interesting.
I want people to find it and not be able to figure out the time period.
who uses a journal?
This isn't an unsolved case, we all KNOW that Benjamin Spooner Briggs went on to become the king of limbo
What more can a poor boy do? Woooaaahhh wa whooooo.
"Need beer. Drink emotion." Too real, Ryan. Too real.
Shane's impression of a German pirate "huLO" and saying "seamen" with a straight face made my day
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“Well then what happened to it?” “Monkeh”
*pervy monkeh*
in all likelihood the captain just made an error causing him to think abandoning the ship was the only option to save them, before it became clear on the lifeboats that abandoning the ship would be what actually kills them, as they may have been unable to make it back
i love this channel so much it isnt just some people reading a script theres humor and life to it
I don't think that giant octopus would have left the ship in such a nice condition 😂
Fair point. The version of the theory I've heard was that the ship did have some tearing in the rigging that might have been from a giant squid (like the actual animal) that surfaced and latched onto the ship, looking for food. Probably still would have made a mess if it was rooting around for people, though. If they got in the lifeboat quickly enough, maybe that drew its attention before it went to town, IDK. If nothing else, it makes for a gruesome story that they could have played up for the final theory. Then again, an octopus would probably be considerate enough to put everything back the way it found them after rampaging.
Yeah, I often found the Giant Octopus version of this theory very ludicrous, due to the overall scientific consensus of there being no Octopods in the Azores or anywhere else in the world growing to monstrous sizes. You only have the Giant Pacific Octopus relegated to the Pacific Northwest and Southern Alaska but even they are considerably small, (the largest we have on record being 26 feet long) to threaten any Ship of Sail. However, having the Giant Squid placed into the Theory adds a bit of more believability. Giant Squids as we know them have the size capabilities of harming ships. They can grow upwards of 14 to 16 meters long (30 to 40ish feet). And there are even modern accounts of attacks on ships by these creatures, take for example in 2003, the trimaran Geromino was slowed to a halt by 20 foot Giant Squid surprisingly 1500 kilometers away of the vicinity where the Mary Celeste was found drifting. So taken this information given it is not exactly a stretch or wacked out when it comes in terms of theories.
The octopus was very polite with its food. Its parents told it never to play with the plate so it raised its tentacles to delicately pick up each human
hey hey, the octopus had manners, it was a gentleman :)
If the ship is getting attacked by a giant squid why tf would they get in the lifeboat?? Just hide below deck don’t get on a flimsy little boat right next to the sea monster
*For Post Mortem:* Here's my theory: Vampires. That's it. That's the theory. Like what happened in dracula.
Oh, that's what it reminded me of!
Were the empty barrels once full of grave dirt, perhaps?
I KNEW IT SOUNDED FAMILIAR
That’s also what i thought
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Everytime this plays in the background I hear sounding rod and I'm like, ' have the comments caught on to this yet?'
Howdy from 3yrs in the future. Best I can tell, no, and I'm gobsmacked 😂
At 10:19 you can hear the ghost files intro a little bit and I assume that’s a coincidence but either way so cool
Whoa, good ear!!! 👂
I heard it too and was totally looking to see if someone else heard it as well 😅
Someone needs to make a compilation of Shane's reaction to every "Aliens" theory.. It's such an underrated part of the show.. hahah
#postmortem Hey guys, I’m surprised you didn’t mention the theory about the flash point of alcohol. Essential, this theory goes that the empty red oak barrels had been leaking the ethanol, creating an environment where it could flash, meaning no ash or signs of an explosion. At this point, the experienced captain would evacuate the ship in a hurry, fearing an explosion and taking with him all the tools needed to navigate. He would also have utilised main rope, the peak Halyard (found trailing behind the ship,) to return if needed. However, for whatever reason they were disconnected, leaving the Mary Celeste almost entirely intact.
I clicked on the hashtag and saw something I really didn’t want to see before my midnight snack :(
This theory sounds rly boring which means you’re probably right lmao
I remember seeing it on a documentary and I've looked it up and they've done simulating tests as well. This theory had been dismissed as not burn marks were found - but when tested they found that even with paper there would be no scorch marks at all. This was done for a documentary but by scientists at UCL - so seems pretty legit. Even if this wasn't the case the idea of abandoning ship isn't as crazy as it might seem. The lifeboat was tied up and would have been essentially trailing behind the ship- so if something seemed off you could get people to a safe distance- but also easily return to the ship if things sorted themselves out. The real tragedy seems to be that this rope was somehow broken- either by strain, or rough winds or maybe someone cutting it in panic.
Just wrote a comment about this before I saw your one, but you explained more elegantly than me haha. Yeah I thought they would of spoken about that one, as it's considered the most likely cause of the mystery.
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Theirs a piece of evidence I've seen in other sources where the rope tied to the emergency life boat was cut or ripped, maybe even popped by force. In this time period rope on a ship was a commodity and would be reused for months if not years, so to cut the life boat free instead of untying it implies a high sense of panic in the crew. Alternatively it could be a combination of factors like stated they could have sat in the life boat that was tied to the ship while waiting for the fumes to air out, and then strong waves could have caused the rope to pop and lose them, as stated they reused old ropes quite often as opposed to buying new rope. And if you've been on a boat before you know time+the elements can often turn even strong ropes into bristles that peel away at a meer touch. Just food for thought.
This mystery always interested me; there’s something so eerie about having found an abandoned ship
"There were no signs of a struggle" reports the rescuing captain after his men spent ages cleaning up after the struggle
Yeah they kinda sus
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I feel like Shane is more upbeat and easily cooperating to Ryan's points since their comeback in quarantine cause he misses him and
They've been doing tons of content together on Watcher during the lockdown so
@@luthientinuviel3883 just let us appreciate their adorable friendship
It’s just the booze
@@irisrose6992 we do! I highly recommend their Weird and/or Wonderful World Series on Watcher. It’s just them going on friend dates. I think the Soda Pop Shop episode is my favorite
Weither or not Shane's more cooperative nature was because of covid will remain.../unsolved/
I really enjoy these boat related unsolved mysteries, I work in a commercial fishing boat for a living based out of ventura california so I love these ones.😊
I have an important question. was the ship carrying pigs or bananas as a part of it's cargo? Both were considered bad luck on ships. Pigs tended to carry diseases transmissible to humans so if the crew started getting sick they might have abandoned ship. Bananas are bad luck because they tend to harbor black widow spiders that would go unnoticed until they had multiplied to infestation levels and killed most of the crew causing the survivors to abandone ship. Just a couple of theories
Black widows don't attack humans completely unprovoked. Black widows are completely harmless if you know how to handle them properly, they're very sedentary spiders and it would be highly unlikely they would be able to reproduce at a fast rate in an area with very little prey, such as the inside of an alcohol-filled boat in the middle of the sea. I think you might be thinking of the Brazilian wandering spider because those are most commonly found with bananas, but there are various other spiders that go with bananas who are harmless to humans. Regardless, while the wandering spider is a large spider and has a very painful bite, they again aren't dangerous if you don't aggravate them. I hold tons of various species of spiders and I've never been bitten, just because I look at their body language and make sure they don't feel threatened. Now, wouldn't a devout, religious man from that century be ignorant of spider cognition? Most definitely, but the spiders still wouldn't be running after humans and attacking them.
@@manslaughter3180 I think you might be right, Brazilian wandering spider sounds like what I was thinking of.
From my understanding, people in that era KNEW that there was a possibility of others reading their journals/diaries after they died. That might explain why Briggs opted for such flowery language- on the off chance that someone else would come along and read it, he might have wanted to make a good impression through his writing
That's another reason why I thought it was insurance fraud. The log would have been read by many people in the court proceedings. How ever, I also thought that they meant to sink the ship when they abandoned it, so that kinda messes with my own theory as had they succeeded no one would have ever been able to read it at the bottom of the ocean..
I immediately thought that captain was writing a letter, not a journal
@@vsratoslava it was a letter, to his mother - not his journal.
@@fthurman I’m happy I’m so smart 👌🏻✨
@@fthurman I must have misunderstood them. I was half asleep when watching this 😅