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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: The Mary Celeste - Mystery Solved (kinda)
Description: The Atlantic Ocean, 1872. The merchant ship Mary Celeste is sailing towards its place in history — the vessel whose entire crew vanished without a trace. "Third Mate Tan" has joined the fateful voyage to witness what actually happened, because if there's one thing PastMaster is qualified for, it's solving maritime mysteries that have baffled experts for 150 years.
The Mary Celeste was found adrift near the Azores in December 1872: completely intact but entirely abandoned, personal belongings still on board, cargo untouched, lifeboat missing. Everything from mutiny and insurance fraud to giant squid, waterspouts, and alien abduction has been proposed as...