Aug. 15, 2022
The Mary Celeste began life as the Amazon, a merchant ship seemingly plagued by bad luck from the very start. Captains died, wrecks followed, and by the time the vessel was restored and renamed, its strange reputation was already beginning to form. Then, in December 1872, the Mary Celeste was found drifting in the Atlantic Ocean with no one aboard. Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife Sarah, their young daughter Sophia, and the crew had all vanished without a trace. There were no clear signs of vio...