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Speaker 1: Hello, This is Richard mcclinsmith here unexplained. Season seven has

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Speaker 1: now finished, but we'll be back on Friday, September sixth

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Speaker 1: to begin season eight. In the meantime, I'm replaying some

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Speaker 1: of my favorite episodes from the archives. On December fourth,

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Speaker 1: eighteen seventy two, the crew of the cargo ship Dei

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Speaker 1: of the Azores. The fate of the vessel and its

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Speaker 1: mystery of all time. The ship's name Mary Celeste. This

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Speaker 1: is unexplained, Season four, episode six, The Silence of the Sea.

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Speaker 1: It was some time in the eighteen fifties when Joshua Jewis,

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Speaker 1: a young aspiring shipbuilder, made his way from the small

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Speaker 1: him in his venture. He purchased a thousand acres close

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Speaker 1: then to the local spruce and pine. They continued crafting

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Speaker 1: ready to launch. The company's very first ship, and its

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Speaker 1: name was Amazon. The purpose of vessels like Amazon was

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Speaker 1: to generate money for their owners. As cargo ships transporting

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Speaker 1: goods from one place to another. Generally, the further the

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Speaker 1: A few days later, he died. The maiden voyage was

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Speaker 1: inexplicably collided with another vessel, which was instantly sunk. As

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Speaker 1: then captain, William Thompson, and made the decision to have

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Speaker 1: As Joshua Jwis's son would lay note, it was as

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Speaker 1: The following year, having heard about the abandoned vessel, a

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