Season 2, Episode 12: The Mary Celeste - mystery solved (kinda) [1872CE]

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The PastMaster team joins the fateful final voyage of the Mary Celeste, the merchant ship whose crew vanished without a trace in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872.

Determined to find out the truth behind one of the world’s great unsolved mysteries, ‘Third Mate Tan’ joins the crew and bears witness to the events leading up to the abandonment of the ship.

Everything from mutiny and insurance fraud to a giant squid, calm or stormy weather and even aliens has been proposed as a possible cause of the ship’s abandonment. But what truth will GameMaster reveal?

And will Tan, as he stands mute with his hands in his pockets, unwittingly influence the fate of the ship and its passengers?

Ten theories for what could have happened to the Mary Celeste

1. Mutiny by frustrated and desperate sailors aboard the vessel.

2. Alcohol vapour explosion caused crew to hastily abandon ship.

3. A rogue wave or sudden severe storm forcing emergency evacuation.

4. A pirate attack resulting in the crew's forced removal or murder.

5. Paranormal event or supernatural intervention displacing entire ship's complement.

6. Navigation error leading crew to mistakenly abandon their seemingly unsafe vessel.

7. Toxic fumes from the cargo of industrial alcohol causing mass evacuation.

8. Sea monster or underwater creature causing terrified crew to abandon the ship.

9. A celestial event or magnetic anomaly inducing a collective crew hallucination.

10. Complex maritime conspiracy involving insurance fraud and deliberate disappearance.

Worse things happen at sea

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