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- A very modern ship for its time, the *Iron Mountain*, 60 m long, 10 m wide, carrying 55 passengers plus crew, vanished in the Missouri (United States).
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- The Mary Celeste found abandoned near the Azores, see images/MarieCeleste_300.jpg.
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- **November 24th, 11am:** The
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*Dei Gratia*, a brigantine, cuts through the waters near the
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Azores when it encounters a seemingly helpless ship. The sea is
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calm. It is the British brigantine, the *Mary Celeste*, drifting
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slowly, all sails out. The *Dei Gratia* sends a boat and some
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men, who board the ship. The ship is deserted. An uneasiness
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takes hold of the new arrivals. Laundry is still drying on the
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deck and, in the cabin, teacups are still arranged, ready to be
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drunk. In the cabins, a small harmonium is open, with a sheet of
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music on the music stand. Children's toys are scattered on the
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floor and, in the captain's office, his gold watch is found. On a
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cushion, the imprint of a small child's head can be guessed. As
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no boat is missing, the sailors scan the sea in the hope of
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seeing a body or a head, floating, but in vain. No other ship
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was crossing in the area and yet, all these traces of abandonment
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are recent. Nothing is floating. It seems that the cabins had been
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abandoned in a hurry, the second of the *Dei Gratia*, Oliver
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Deveau, who boarded the *Mary Celeste*, would later declare. The
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crew seems to have acted in panic. The men had indeed left their
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personal possessions, that is to say that their clothes were
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still in their place\... Nothing is missing, not even their pipes,
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one of which is still warm and smoking, so dear to any sailor.<br/><br/>The
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captain was accompanied by his wife and daughter. A half-hemmed
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skirt is still engaged on the table of a sewing machine. Only the
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chronometer, the sextant and the logbooks, including the
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nationality certificate, are missing. Only a cat emits faint
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meows and it is neither hungry nor scared. The cargo --- 1700
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barrels of raw alcohol --- has not been touched. The total value
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of the boat and its cargo is estimated at around 8500 £. Traces
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of boarding with something are found on the *Mary Celeste*:
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grooves from a cutting instrument, *on both sides* and a few feet
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from the bow, about fifty centimeters above the flotation, are
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judged to be very recent, and not due to the action of time. A
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deep cut is also found on the starboard railing. Oliver Deveau
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declared that he had no idea of the origin of this cut. Near this
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cut, brown spots are found on the deck, directly above, seeming
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to have been caused by blood. It is then suspected that Captain
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Moorehouse, of the *Dei Gratia*, and his crew, had massacred the
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crew of the brigantine in order to receive the reward for any
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discovery of a drifting wreck and its contents.<br/><br/>However, the
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report of the doctor who performed an analysis from the blood
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spots remained in a sealed envelope and was not revealed until 14
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years later (which did not prevent the suspects from being
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prosecuted on mere presumptions). The doctor, Doctor Patron,
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declared to have removed with a pair of scissors several brown
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red spots, thick 1 mm and about 1 cm in diameter, on the deck
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and on the railing. After these negative experiments, I feel
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authorized to conclude that, in the current state of our
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scientific knowledge, there is no blood, neither in the spots
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found on the deck of the *Mary Celeste*, nor in those found on
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the blade of the sword I examined. The origin of these brown red
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spots is not revealed. A sword is found, covered with the same
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brown spots. In the bosun's cabin, on his table, there is a
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slate where the temperature, the time, the notes of the dial
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were written: November 24th, 11am, 36° north latitude, 27° west
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longitude, fine weather. A line passed, one can read: Strange,
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my dear wife..
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- **December 7th, 1am:** In King's Sutton, Banbury (Great Britain), an object resembling a haystack flies in an irregular trajectory. Sometimes at high altitude, sometimes very low, it is accompanied by fire and dense smoke. It produces the same effects as a tornado, causing trees and walls to fall, then suddenly disappears. [\[Fort 189\]]{.source}
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