1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Hello, It's Richard mclinsmith here with a huge favor to ask. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: With Unexplained approaching its ten year anniversary, I want to 3 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 1: hear from as many of you as possible about what 4 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: you like about the show and what you don't like. 5 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: More importantly, I want to know what I can do 6 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: to make it better. So I've put a survey together 7 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: and would dearly like you to fill it in for 8 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 1: me if you have the time. 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Muffled metallic clangs and 19 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: hammering sounds had been ringing out all night, but now 20 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: as dawn broke, they finally went quiet. They were coming 21 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: from a small merchant vessel whose crew had been working 22 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 1: tirelessly to try and fix a faulty engine to no avail. 23 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: The ship's captain, a British seafarer named Thomas Dusty Miller, 24 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: looked harassed and frustrated in the gathering light. He told 25 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: his crew that they'd be setting out that morning, regardless 26 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 1: their departure had already been delayed enough as it was. 27 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: Captain Miller had been charted by the Samoan government to 28 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: take cargo and passengers to Tokalau, one of a remote 29 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: group of Polynesian adols. His boat, the Hoyeta, should have 30 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: left port at noon the previous day, halfway between Hawaii 31 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: and New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago 32 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: of Tokalau was around two hundred and seventeen nautical miles 33 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 1: to the north of the Samoan capitol. One of the 34 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: passengers due to travel on the boat was a doctor 35 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: who'd been tasked with performing an amputation on a patient 36 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: out there. Another, a pharmacist with urgently needed medical supplies 37 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: for the island. Along with several other passengers, four tons 38 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: of cargo were also on board. Captain Miller was no 39 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: doubt mindful of the urgent medical situation on Tokalau, and 40 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: with the engine at least functioning, perhaps he reasoned the 41 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: Hoyta's cork lined hull would keep them afloat regardless come 42 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: what may. Having arrived on Samoa seven months earlier, Captain 43 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:57,519 Speaker 1: Miller was known for fine seamanship, but he'd also developed 44 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 1: a reputation for recklessness and head drinking. He was said 45 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: to be in some considerable debt to Recently, however, he'd 46 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: secured a contract to carry copra between Samoa and the Tokelaus. 47 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 1: Copra is the dried white flesh of coconut from which 48 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: coconut oil is extracted and used to make soaps and cosmetics. 49 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: The transportation of this lucrative commercial product, along with the 50 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: carriage of passengers and medical supplies to Tokelau, had given 51 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: the captain a viable business opportunity which he desperately needed 52 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: to ease his financial troubles. At daybreak on Monday third 53 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: of October nineteen fifty five, the Hoyita's sixteen strong crew, 54 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: which included two men from Samoa and nine from Tokelau 55 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: began welcoming the passengers on board. They included a government 56 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: official as well as the doctor, a veteran of the 57 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: Second World War, a copper buyer by the name of 58 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: mister Williams, the pharmacist, and two children, the youngest of 59 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: whom was only three years old. There was nothing immediately 60 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: remarkable about any of them, except for mister Williams, that is, 61 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: who was apparently carrying somewhere in the region of one 62 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: hundred thousand US dollars in cash to buy copper, well 63 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: over a million in to day's money. As the ship 64 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 1: steamed out of port, it was an ordinary enough day, 65 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: hot and clammy, but not yet the rainy season, the 66 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: ocean waves undulating gently, but there was a deep sense 67 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: of unease among some who saw the ship off. The 68 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: wife of mister Williams, the coppera trader, later said that 69 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: as she waived her husband goodbye, she was suddenly reminded 70 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: of a dream she'd had the previous night, or rather 71 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: a nightmare filled with visions of disaster. While on board, 72 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: some of the Samoans traded nervous glances, concerned that Captain 73 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: Miller seemed to be a little worse for wear from drinking, 74 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: and with that the engines fluttered into life, and the 75 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 1: anchor was pulled from the water. Of the captain's orders, 76 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 1: the boat eased out toward the open seas as mister 77 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: Williams's wife waved it off. The Hoyita eased steadily out 78 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 1: at the harbor. Before long it was completely out of 79 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 1: sight and beyond all radio contact. It would not be 80 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: the last sighting of the ship, but it would prove 81 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,119 Speaker 1: to be the last time that any of the crew 82 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: or passengers were ever seen again. You're listening to Unexplained, 83 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:50,679 Speaker 1: and I'm Richard McLean Smith. The Hoyita had not always 84 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 1: been a merchant vessel. It was originally commissioned and built 85 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles in nineteen thirty one for the American 86 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: film director Rowland West, a doyen of early fil noir 87 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,720 Speaker 1: in the silent movie era of the nineteen twenties and thirties. 88 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: The sixty nine foot twin engine pleasure cruiser was considered 89 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 1: the height of luxury for its time, boasting advanced features 90 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 1: such as autopilot and large fuel tanks for maximum usage time, 91 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: but the ship's construction did not go smoothly. One Portuguese 92 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: worker had a fatal fall from scaffolding while helping to 93 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: build it. Some say in response, the man's widow placed 94 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: a curse on the ship. Perhaps this didn't bother West, 95 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: or maybe he never even heard about it. Either way, 96 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: he went through with the purchase. After all, it was 97 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: a beautifully crafted vessel made from two inch thick cedar 98 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: planks over an oak timber frame. He named it Hoyita 99 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: Mexican for Little Jewel, after his wife, the silent screen 100 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: actor Jewel Carmen. At first, the gleaming vessel was everything 101 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 1: West had hoped, and he eagerly took it out whenever 102 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: he got the chance, usually on trips across to California's 103 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: Catalina Islands. The voyages would be lavish affairs, with West 104 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: always keen to share the experience with his many glamorous 105 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: friends from Hollywood. But West and his contemporaries were living 106 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: through the dying days of the silent screen era. Despite 107 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: being a leading light of his time, West's nineteen thirty 108 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: one film Corseir was his last as a director. Perhaps 109 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: looking to mitigate the choppy waters ahead, West and his wife, 110 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: Jewel Carmen, opened a restaurant together with fellow silent film 111 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: star Thelma Todd. Around the same time, West and Tod 112 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: began an affair. In truth, West and his wife jul 113 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: had been estranged for some time, but had remained married 114 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: to avoid the messy publicity that would inevitably come with divorce. 115 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: The three of them lived together in the same complex 116 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 1: alongside the restaurant, with West and Todd sharing apartments situated 117 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: directly above the restaurant, which were separated by a sliding door. 118 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: West and Todd's relationship was said to be a volatile one, 119 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: with West in particular known to be aggressive and controlling 120 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: over Todd. Perhaps it was just coincidence that West's tendency 121 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 1: to anger appeared to worsen almost the moment he brought 122 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: to the Hoyta. After all, the purchase did coincide with 123 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: a stressful downturn in his professional fortunes and in his 124 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: relationship with his wife. But thinking back to the apparent 125 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: curse placed on the vessel, perhaps it wasn't a coincidence 126 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 1: at all. It was one mid December day in nineteen 127 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: thirty five that dule Carmen's maid went down to the 128 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: garage to retrieve a car for her mistress and found 129 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: Thelma Todd dead behind the wheel of her Lincoln Phaeton convertible. 130 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: Though the cause of death was eventually ruled as suicide 131 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: by carbon monoxide poisoning, some believed that Roland West had 132 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: murdered her, and some also say he had in fact 133 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 1: killed her first on the Hoyita before transporting her body 134 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: to the garage. In the wake of Thelma Todd's death, 135 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: Roland West and Duel Carmen finally filed for divorce in 136 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty eight. One of the first assets sold to 137 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:49,199 Speaker 1: finance it was West's much loved Hoyita. Over the next 138 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 1: fourteen years, the ship changed hands a number of times 139 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 1: and was even used as a patrol boat by the U. S. 140 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: Navy in the Second World War. Then, in nineteen fifty two, 141 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: now known as the m V Hoyita, the ship was 142 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:08,719 Speaker 1: acquired by a doctor, Katherine Luamala, an American anthropologist from Hawaii, 143 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: who made the semi permanent loan of the boat to 144 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: her then boyfriend, Captain Thomas Dusty Miller. Miller intended to 145 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,199 Speaker 1: start a fishing business in Samoa, but the m V 146 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: Hoyita was no fishing boat and Miller was no fisherman. Thankfully, 147 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: after a listless seven months living on board the boat, 148 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 1: he managed to secure the contract to take cargo and 149 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: passengers between the capital Apia and the atolls of Tokelau. 150 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: That trip that he and his twenty four passengers and 151 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: crew set out for on that fateful journey of October third, 152 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty five, should have taken no more than forty 153 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 1: eight hours, having been expected to arrive by mid morning 154 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: on Wednesday the fifth, when the sun sunk toward the 155 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 1: horizon later that evening, there was still no sign of 156 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: Mislaer or the Hoyita. The weather on route had been 157 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: relatively calm, and no passing ships or coastal stations in 158 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: the region had received a distress call, suggesting the vessel 159 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: was likely fine but had just been held up somehow. 160 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,679 Speaker 1: On Thursday sixth, however, with still no sign or word 161 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 1: from the boat, officials based in Fakara Foe, another atoll 162 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: in tokal Out, reluctantly sent out a message to the 163 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: wider world that the Hoita was overdue. An immediate search 164 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,560 Speaker 1: and rescue effort was launched by the Royal New Zealand 165 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 1: Air Force, searching an area of more than one hundred 166 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 1: thousand square miles, but they found nothing. The Envy Hoyita 167 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 1: had vanished off the face of the ocean. Tapula Tavita 168 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 1: lived in Arpia and was editor of Samoa's only weekly newspaper, 169 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: the Samoa Bulletin. Several months earlier, he'd enjoyed a day's 170 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: fishing trip on the Hoyita and had subsequently got to 171 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: know Captain Miller quite well. Tavita was also acquainted with 172 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: some of the passengers, including the doctor whom he'd played 173 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 1: golf with and who had even delivered one of his children. 174 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: In the days after the Hoyita was reported missing, Tavita 175 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: spent long hours with a friend at the Arpia radio station. Together, 176 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: the two men sat anxiously maintaining a constant radio watch 177 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: with the dial tuned to twenty one eighty two killer hertz, 178 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: the international distress frequency, but no distress calls ever came. 179 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: During those early days of the search and rescue operation, 180 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 1: no one was especially worried. Most shared the view that 181 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:53,439 Speaker 1: with the Hoyita's wooden construction, cork insulated holds, and cargo, 182 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 1: including many empty but sealed oil drums, the vessel had 183 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 1: more than enough buoyancy to keep it aflowt There were 184 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: also plenty of supplies on board for the passengers and 185 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: crew should they have ended up adrift somewhere. Aside from that, 186 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: it was just a case of waiting. But as the 187 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: days passed, the rainy season well and truly arrived. People 188 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: on both Apia and Tokalau, along with the authorities, became 189 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 1: frantically worried for their friends and loved ones safety. Days 190 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: turned to weeks, and then a month. After thirty six days, 191 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 1: the search was called off. It was just after dawn 192 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: on the tenth of November when Captain Gerald Douglas of 193 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: the merchant ship Tuvalu, en route from Fiji to Tuvalu Island, 194 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 1: spotted a dark shape bobbing listlessly in the distance. The 195 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 1: idea that it could possibly be the missing Hoyita couldn't 196 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: have been further from the captain's mind at the time. 197 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: His ship was near Udo Point, on the easternmost tip 198 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: of Fiji, one thousand meters off the course the Hoyita 199 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: would have taken to Tokalau. As Douglas guided his vessel 200 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: toward the strange object, he brought his binoculars to his eyes. 201 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: He saw then that the shape was in fact a 202 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: small boat, and something was clearly very wrong with it. 203 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: The vessel appeared to be derelict and was listing heavily, 204 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 1: with its port side railings bobbing just below the waves. 205 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: There was no sign of anyone on board. Then the 206 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: name on the hull came into focus, m V Hoyita. Anxiously, 207 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: Douglas maneuvered his ship alongside it, and a small party 208 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: hastily jumped out and boarded the vessel. What they found 209 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: was a ghost ship. Everyone on board was gone. The 210 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: boats dinghy and three lifeboats were also missing. But why 211 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: exactly this was the case was a deep and trouble mystery. 212 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: Captain Douglas's crew spread out across the eerily quiet vessel 213 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: and began to investigate. Most alarmingly, there was significant damage 214 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: to the main structure, the flying bridge, a raised open 215 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: air deck had been ripped away. The windows on the 216 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: main wheelhouse had also been broken, while a makeshift canvas 217 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: awning had been rigged up behind it. They also discovered 218 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: barnacles on the port side, high above the normal waterline, 219 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: suggesting the Hoyita had been listing heavily for some time 220 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: before they found it moving. Inside the vessel, they found that, strangely, 221 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: the starboard engine had been covered by mattresses, while the 222 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: port engine was still in the partially disassembled state from 223 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: the day it had left Arpia. An auxiliary pump was 224 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 1: also found nearby, suggesting the crew and passengers were still 225 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: on board when the boat started taking on water, though 226 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: any effort to bail it out had clearly been in vain, 227 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: and yet when Captain Douglas later ordered a diver to 228 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: inspect the hull, they found no sign of damage or 229 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 1: anything else to explain how the boat had been so 230 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: severely flooded, and the discoveries just got grimmer. The ship's 231 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: radio was tuned to twenty one eighty two killer hertz, 232 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: the international distress frequency, but on closer inspection a break 233 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: was found in the cable between the set and the aerial, 234 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: which seemed to have been painted over to obscure the damage, 235 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: had someone sabotaged it to prevent a distress call from 236 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 1: being made. Then Captain Douglas noticed something else unsettling. All 237 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: the clocks on board that were wired into the vessel's 238 00:16:55,560 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: generator had stopped at ten twenty five, with the switch 239 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: for the cabin lighting and navigation lights all found to 240 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 1: be in the on position. It seemed that the generators 241 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 1: and all light had shut off in the middle of 242 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: the night. The ship's log book and navigational equipment, as 243 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: well as the firearms the Hoyta's captain was known to 244 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:22,639 Speaker 1: keep on board, were all missing. The starter motor for 245 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: one of the engines was also missing. One of Douglas's 246 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: crew called out for the captain to come and look 247 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: at something. The man had found a leather bag on deck, 248 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: inside which was a stethoscope, a scalpel, and a whole 249 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:43,360 Speaker 1: heap of bloodied bandageses. Captain Douglas took it all in, 250 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: then looked about at the stricken vessel. None of it 251 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: made any sense. Having seen enough, Captain Douglas ordered his 252 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: crew to pump the vessel out in preparation for taking 253 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: it back to land. Once the water had been removed, 254 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: it slowly righted itself and proceeded to float stably on 255 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 1: an even keel. It was a relatively easy task to 256 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: tow it into the nearest harbour on Fiji. Once there, 257 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,880 Speaker 1: a more thorough inspection revealed that a pipe forming part 258 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:25,479 Speaker 1: of the boat's cooling system had become so corroded it 259 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 1: had breached, flooding the boat from the inside. It seemed 260 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: very likely that the Hoyita's crew would not have realized 261 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: the boat was taking on water until it began rising 262 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: above the engine room floor, at which point it would 263 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: have been almost impossible to locate the source. Also, the 264 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 1: bilge pumps that had not been fitted with strainers to 265 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,919 Speaker 1: keep out debris were found to be completely clogged and 266 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 1: barely functioning. Judging by the Hoyita's fuel levels, the vessel 267 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: had likely gone around two hundred and forty miles before 268 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:03,360 Speaker 1: it was abandoned. Tragically, this was probably no more than 269 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: fifty miles from her intended destination. Hopes of finding survivors 270 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,439 Speaker 1: persisted for weeks, with loved ones clinging on to the 271 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: slim possibility that maybe all or at least some of 272 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 1: them had made it to a remote island where they 273 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: might still be waiting to be rescued. However, if all 274 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: twenty five people had abandoned ship, each of the available 275 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: lifeboats would have been crowded to capacity, and the Hoyita 276 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 1: had not been equipped with enough life jackets for everyone 277 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 1: on board. In any case, a prolonged search found no one. 278 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 1: The international media ran the story under headlines that referred 279 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,679 Speaker 1: to the Hoyita as the Marry Celeste of the South Pacific. 280 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 1: As explored in Unexplained, Season four episode six, The Silence 281 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: of the Sea, the Marry Celeste was a merchant ship 282 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:00,439 Speaker 1: discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean close to 283 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: the assaults in December eighteen seventy two. It had been 284 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 1: sailing from New York to Genoa, and, like the Hoyita, 285 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: was found in a disheveled but seaworthy condition, with its 286 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:17,199 Speaker 1: lifeboats missing. Unlike the Hoyeta, however, the Marry Celeste was 287 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: still amply provisioned when found, cargo intact and the captains 288 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 1: and crew's personal belongings undisturbed. It was as if everyone 289 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: had simply got up and left for no apparent reason. 290 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 1: But just like the Hoyita, none of those who had 291 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:47,679 Speaker 1: been on board were ever seen again. As with the 292 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: Marry Celeste, the question on everyone's lips was why had 293 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: the Hoytas passengers and crew left the ship. Captain Miller 294 00:20:56,080 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 1: knew that, even partly flooded, his vessel was effectively unsinkable. 295 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 1: Why would he have taken the dangerous decision to get 296 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 1: into crowded lifeboats and risk everyone's lives on the open ocean. 297 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 1: One suggestion was that of freak water spout, which develops 298 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: when cool air passes over warm water, sucking up water 299 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: to produce a spout effect like an ocean tornado. Fair 300 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: weather water spouts typically last only a few minutes before 301 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: petering out, but winds inside them can be incredibly strong, 302 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: over sixty miles per hour, rotating rapidly, and have been 303 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 1: known to tear rigging and even masts off sailing ships 304 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:42,120 Speaker 1: even capsize them. In August twenty twenty four, the luxury 305 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: super yacht the Baysian, belonging to billionaires Mike Lynch and 306 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:50,359 Speaker 1: his wife Angelo Bacariz, was anchored off the scenic fishing 307 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: village of Porticello in Sicily. The yacht was fitted with 308 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 1: a two hundred and forty six foot mast, the world's 309 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: second tallest at the time. Mike and Angela were asleep 310 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: on board the boat, along with their daughter and a 311 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,959 Speaker 1: number of friends, when the yacht was hit by a sudden, 312 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:12,919 Speaker 1: violent storm, which generated water spouts. It's thought the force 313 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 1: of the strong wind was enough to push the yacht 314 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: over sideways and force the mast below the water line. 315 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: It took just sixteen minutes for the souper yacht to sink. 316 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:29,160 Speaker 1: Seven of the twenty two people on board died, including 317 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: Mike Lynch and his eighteen year old daughter Hannah. Perhaps 318 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: the Hoyita suffered something equally terrifying that was enough to 319 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:42,120 Speaker 1: scare the passengers and crew into abandoning the boat. Either way, 320 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 1: a formal inquiry confirmed only why the vessel had become 321 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: flooded and how the single engine that wasn't faulty would 322 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,719 Speaker 1: not have been able to generate enough power to steer it. 323 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: As a result, much of the responsibility for this chain 324 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 1: of events was placed on Captain Miller, who'd wrecked the 325 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:04,360 Speaker 1: set out with only one working engine and numerous other faults. 326 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: It was also discovered that the Hoyita's license to carry 327 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: fair paying passengers had expired some time before the trip. 328 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 1: In the end, the fate of the passengers and crew 329 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:20,159 Speaker 1: of the Hoyta was determined to be inexplicable on the 330 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: evidence submitted. No mention was made of the bloody bandages 331 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,400 Speaker 1: found on board, or why the Hoyta was abandoned while 332 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:39,640 Speaker 1: still afloat, or where all its cargo had gone. Numerous 333 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 1: theories have been put forward to explain the Hoyita mystery. 334 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: One is that Captain Miller had died or become incapacitated 335 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 1: on board for some reason, and that without his experience, 336 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 1: the remaining crew panicked and took to the lifeboats. Author 337 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: David Wright, who researched the mystery extensively, spoke with two 338 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: of Miller's former crew. They described him as a negligent 339 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 1: and reckless man who behaved uncaringly and dismissively toward his crew. 340 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: Did simmering hostility among the Hoyita's crew boil over in 341 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: the rapidly deteriorating conditions. Others spoke of tension between Miller 342 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:24,399 Speaker 1: and his American first mate, Chuck Simpson. Did Miller and 343 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: Simpson come to blows resulting in one or both of 344 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:31,920 Speaker 1: them becoming seriously injured? Perhaps that would explain the bloody 345 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: bandages at The remaining crew and passengers then abandoned the Hoyita, 346 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: whose cargo was then raided by the crew of a 347 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 1: later passing ship. Another theory comes heavily laced with anti 348 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: Japanese sentiment, which was still strong in parts of the 349 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: Pacific at the time of the incident, especially in Fiji, 350 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,639 Speaker 1: where locals were resentful of the Japanese for being allowed 351 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,639 Speaker 1: to operate fishing fleets in their waters. The Fiji Times 352 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:04,440 Speaker 1: and asserted that an allegedly impeccable source had informed them 353 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: that the Hoyita had passed through a fleet of Japanese 354 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: fishing boats during its trip, and those on board had 355 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 1: seen something the Japanese crews did not want them to see, 356 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 1: although it was never specified what that might have been exactly. 357 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: Without much evidence, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph chimed 358 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: in by suggesting that some Japanese forces were still active 359 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,120 Speaker 1: from World War II and might have attacked the Hoyita 360 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,239 Speaker 1: from a secret island base, perhaps drawing on tales of 361 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: isolated combatants who had yet to learn the war was over. 362 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:45,119 Speaker 1: Men clearing the salvaged Hoyita reportedly found knives on board 363 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:49,160 Speaker 1: stamped with made in Japan. However, the knives turned out 364 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: to be old and broken, quite possibly just relics from 365 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 1: when the Hoyita was used briefly as a fishing boat. 366 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,719 Speaker 1: Another theory was that the Hoyita might actually have been 367 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:03,359 Speaker 1: at hacked by pirates, who, having killed the passengers and crew, 368 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,360 Speaker 1: simply cast their bodies into the ocean before making off 369 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: with the missing four tons of cargo and the one 370 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars in cash. In the summer of nineteen 371 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 1: fifty six, the salvaged Hoyita was auctioned off to a 372 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: Fijian islander who refitted the vessel and once more put 373 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: it out to sea, but the ship assisted in living 374 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: up to its cursed existence. After running aground twice in 375 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty nine, it was eventually stripped of all useful 376 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 1: equipment and put up for sale once again. One british 377 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 1: Man author, Robert morm became so obsessed with finding out 378 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: the truth about what had happened to the Hoyita and 379 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: all those on board back during that ill fated voyage 380 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: of nineteen fifty five, he decided to buy the vessel. 381 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: After several years investigating the incident, he published his findings 382 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 1: in his nineteen sixty two book The Hoyita Mystery. He 383 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: concurred with the official conclusion that events started with the 384 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 1: flooding from the broken cooling pipe and the failed effort 385 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 1: to pump out the water. He theorized that the mattresses 386 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: found covering the starboard engine were either an attempt to 387 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: stem the leak or to protect the electrical switchboard from 388 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,439 Speaker 1: spray being kicked up by the engine's flywheel as the 389 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 1: water level rose. Marm went on to speculate that once 390 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 1: the ship became impossible to steer, Captain Miller argued violently 391 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 1: with his first mate and possibly some of the other crew, 392 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: who demanded that he turned back. When Miller refused, the 393 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:52,160 Speaker 1: crew mutinied, and Miller was incapacitated in a subsequent fight. 394 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 1: Morm then argued that in the worsening weather and with 395 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,640 Speaker 1: the engine room flooded, it would have been Simpson who 396 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 1: warded everyone to abandon the ship, taking the navigational equipment, 397 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 1: log book and supplies, as well as the injured Miller 398 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: with them. He suggested that perhaps the crew had seen 399 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: a nearby island or reef which they thought they could 400 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 1: reach in lifeboats. Perhaps that turned out to merely be 401 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,359 Speaker 1: a raised sandbank exposed by low tide, and in the 402 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: end everyone has simply been carried out to the open ocean, 403 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: where they eventually capsized and drowned. In nineteen sixty six, 404 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: the Hoyita was sold to a major, Kaslin Cottle, who 405 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: ran a tourist and publicity bureau in a port town 406 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 1: in Fiji. Kaslin Cottle intended to turn the ship into 407 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 1: a museum and tea room, but the plans were eventually abandoned. 408 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: Over the next few years, little by little, the hulk 409 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: of the once beautiful Hoyita disintegrated into oblivion. Decades on, 410 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: only six of the twenty five passengers from the hoyitas 411 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 1: fate for nineteen fifty five voyage have been officially declared dead. 412 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: None of the Pacific Islander crew who afforded the dignity 413 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 1: of final closure, despite numerous efforts by relatives in nineteen 414 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 1: fifty five Tokelau and Western Samoa were both under New 415 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 1: Zealand administration, and since the New Zealand government has so 416 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 1: far refused to issue formal death certificates, nineteen of the 417 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: victims are still officially classified as missing. Just what exactly 418 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: happened to them all remains to this day unexplained. 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