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The Kaz II: Australia's Modern Ghost Ship Mystery

On April 20, 2007, Australian rescue crews boarded a catamaran drifting off the Great Barrier Reef and found her engine still running, a laptop still powered on, and a table set with food and utensils ready for a meal that was never eaten — but not …

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The SS Baychimo: The Ghost Ship That Drifted for 38 Years

On November 24, 1931, a blizzard swallowed a stranded Arctic cargo ship whole — her own crew, watching from a nearby ice camp, assumed she had been crushed and lost. Days later, an Inuit seal hunter spotted her drifting 45 miles away, completely int…

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The SS Ourang Medan: A Ghost Ship With No Paper Trail

Sometime in the late 1940s, according to the story, a garbled radio transmission crackled out from a Dutch freighter crossing the Strait of Malacca: "All officers including captain dead, lying in chartroom and on bridge, probably whole crew dea…

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The Mary Celeste: The Ghost Ship That Started It All

On December 5, 1872, sailors boarding an abandoned ship in the middle of the Atlantic found her sails still set, her cargo largely intact, six months of food and water still stocked below deck, and the crew's pipes left sitting exactly where the…

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The Jersey Devil: The Legend That Needed No Evidence

During the week of January 16 to 23, 1909, strange hoofprints began appearing overnight in the snow across the Delaware Valley — crossing over and under fences, through backyards, and even, according to multiple accounts, straight across the rooftop…

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Chupacabra: The Cryptid Traced to a 1995 Sci-Fi Film

In March 1995, farmers near Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, found eight sheep dead, each with three small puncture wounds and apparently drained of blood — and by the end of that same year, more than a thousand animal deaths across the island had been blame…

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