00:00But what's not widely known is that the industry also has a very dubious record of mysterious
00:06disappearances. Welcome to WatchMojo and today we're looking at 10 people who disappeared while
00:10traveling on cruise ships. I just can't believe that the international community are letting this
00:16go on really. John Halford. Luxury cruising is supposed to be the ultimate getaway where you
00:23leave all your cares behind. 63 year old John Halford was going through marriage problems so
00:28he decided to embark on an Egyptian cruise. The Thompson ship was approaching Egypt on the night
00:33of April 6th 2011 and was due to arrive in Sharm el-Sheikh the following morning. That evening
00:38Halford packed his suitcase with gifts for his family and left it outside the door of his cabin.
00:43He then went down to the bar and was seen drinking cocktails around 11.45 that evening. He was never
00:48seen again. Halford was gone when the ship reached port the following morning but his suitcase was
00:52still sitting outside his door. Halford was never found and his body was never recovered leading
00:57many to question what exactly had occurred. While the cruise industry has followed some guidelines
01:02such as installing peepholes in cabin doors, few ships have upgraded their video systems or installed
01:10man overboard alarm systems and passengers continue to disappear. Kevin McGrath. What happened to Kevin
01:17McGrath on that Carnival cruise ship remains a mystery. After an extensive search including hundreds of square
01:23miles of open water the coast guard is suspending its role in the case and now police are asking for
01:30the public's help. Florida native Kevin McGrath embarked on a Bahamas cruise with his family to
01:34celebrate his father's 60th birthday. The ship returned to Miami on September 4th 2023 and McGrath had
01:40vanished. He was seen on the night of September 3rd and it was discovered that the key card to his room
01:44was used at 3 30 a.m. on the morning of the fort. His family thought it was suspicious when he didn't show up
01:49for breakfast, but panic really set in when everyone was disembarking and McGrath was still
01:53nowhere to be found. We have no answers. My family and I have no answers. No one just vanishes into
01:59thin air. Where's my brother? McGrath was not seen going overboard on any of the ship's surveillance
02:04cameras and the sensors that indicate a passenger falling off the ship never went off. It's still
02:08unclear what happened. Do you think he's still alive? In my heart, I feel like he is. I don't feel like
02:15he is like dead or anything. I don't want to think of it like that. But then again, you have to also
02:21have that thought like I told you know everybody else before like you have to have that you know, what if
02:26you know, but I don't feel in my heart that he's dead at all. Annette Meisner 37 year old Wisconsin woman
02:31Annette Meisner embarked on a carnival cruise to the Mexican Riviera with her parents and daughter. December 4th
02:372004 was the last day of the excursion and Meisner was last seen at 9 15 pm when the ship was off the
02:43coast of Ensenada. Meisner's daughter Danielle later noticed that her mother was missing and the crew
02:47launched a room-by-room search of the ship. The only trace of Meisner was her purse which was found
02:52near a railing on the lower deck. The US Coast Guard combed over 800 square miles of ocean and the FBI
02:58even got involved to help find the missing woman. Alas, the multiple searches came up empty and Meisner is
03:03presumed dead. Fariba Amani
03:05Tonight, a mystery disappearance on a cruise ship reveals a tumultuous relationship filled
03:11with secrets. 47 year old mother of two Fariba Amani disappeared overnight between the Bahamas
03:18and Florida while on a cruise with her boyfriend. Her family is scrambling for answers.
03:23Vancouver's Fariba Amani embarked on a celebration cruise with her boyfriend of eight months,
03:28Ramis Ghoshalni. Ghoshalni left Amani at the gift shop around 1 am on the morning of February 29,
03:332012. Amani wasn't in the room when he woke up later that morning and she still hadn't arrived
03:38when it came time for everyone to disembark. She was never found and has remained missing ever since.
03:43Sometime between 1 am and 8 am, investigators say a female passenger in her 40s went missing.
03:49Amani's family believes that Ghoshalni knows more than he's letting on, saying that he and Amani had a
03:54fractured relationship and that Amani was thinking of leaving him. However,
03:58Ghoshalni has continued to proclaim his innocence and was not considered a suspect by the FBI.
04:03Cops question Ghoshalni but say he is not a suspect. However, the family isn't buying it.
04:08Marion Carver
04:09But when Carver called the cruise line, he received some shocking news. Officials confirmed that Marion
04:15got on the cruise. They just weren't sure if she had gotten off.
04:2040-year-old Marion Carver boarded the Celebrity Mercury cruise on August 27, 2004, and she went
04:25missing the very next day. But what makes this story so disturbing is the cruise line's bewildering
04:30response. Carver's steward reported her missing to his supervisor, but he was told to just do your
04:35job and forget it. At the end of the cruise, Marion's things were in the room where they'd been for five
04:41days. He asked his boss, should we report this? And the boss says, no. He says, I'll take care of it.
04:46The ship also continued along its planned course, stopping at various places around Alaska.
04:51Carver never disembarked at any of these places, and they continued to ignore her disappearance.
04:56The ship later gave her belongings to charity. Some people believe that the line is hiding something
05:01malicious, while others believe they were simply ignoring a problem for the sake of normalcy and
05:05routine. What do you think?
05:14Christopher Caldwell
05:18In July of 2004, Christopher Caldwell embarked on a Mexican cruise with his fiancee. On the final
05:23night of the cruise, they hit various nightclubs and went gambling in the casino. When Caldwell's
05:27fiancee said she was going to bed, Caldwell said that he would be in shortly, but that he wanted to do a
05:32bit more gambling. She woke up at 6.30 the next morning and Caldwell was not there. Following an
05:37investigation, it was discovered that Caldwell left the casino at 2.17am and went to the promenade
05:42where a bartender saw him and reported him as being very drunk. It's presumed that Caldwell fell
05:46overboard, but this was never confirmed, and his search of the surrounding ocean brought up nothing.
05:51Huay Pham and Hugh Tran
05:53Huay Pham and Hugh Tran disappeared from the Carnival cruise ship Destiny, somewhere between Barbados
05:59and Aruba. Their family says that four hours elapsed between reports of the couple's disappearance
06:06and a call to the Coast Guard. It's not often that couples go missing on cruise ships, but it does happen,
06:11as in the case of Huay Pham and Hugh Tran. The married couple of 49 years were aboard the Carnival
06:16Destiny traveling with their daughter and granddaughter, but they both disappeared on May 12,
06:202005 when the ship was traveling between Barbados and Aruba. Later that day, a ship employee found
06:25various items belonging to the couple, including their passports, driver's licenses, medication,
06:30and wallets, their credit card still inside. A search and rescue effort was launched to look
06:34for the missing passengers, but it was called off less than 13 hours later, with the couple being presumed dead.
06:39They were both in good health, in good spirits. Most of those stories, a month later or two months later,
06:47everybody would forget. But because Michael was one of the, son Michael was one of the founding members
06:54of International Cruise Victim, that story is out there today and is continuing to be read.
06:59George Allen Smith IV. It is the most Agatha Christie-like of any of the big cases.
07:0626-year-old store manager George Smith had gotten married just 11 days before he disappeared.
07:11Smith and his new wife Jennifer Hagel were aboard a Mediterranean cruise to celebrate their honeymoon,
07:16but tragedy struck on July 5, 2005. Unlike other entries on this list, foul play was implied.
07:22Witnesses reported hearing a scuffle in Smith's room and blood was later found in his cabin and on the
07:26side of the ship, suggesting that he may have been attacked and thrown overboard.
07:29It sounded to me like there was furniture or something being thrown around the room.
07:34After about eight minutes of this, it was totally quiet.
07:37Homicide was immediately suspected, and the leading theory is that Smith was the
07:40target of a robbery that turned violent. However, Jennifer Hagel disagrees, suggesting that her
07:45husband accidentally hurt himself and fell overboard following a night of heavy drinking.
07:49My wife and I were awakened by yelling coming from the Smith cabin.
07:54This yelling sounded what I would liken to a drinking game, where individuals are encouraging somebody to
08:01take shots or chug beers.
08:03Rebecca Coriam
08:04Tell us a little bit about what you know and have been able to piece together about what happened to Rebecca.
08:10The story of Rebecca Coriam is an interesting one, as she was actually an employee of the cruise ship
08:14Disney Wonder. Early on March 21, 2011, Coriam was captured on CCTV in the crew lounge, having what
08:21appeared to be a distressing phone call. Another employee can be seen passing her and asking if she's alright,
08:26to which Coriam seemingly replies, yeah, fine. That was the last anyone saw of her.
08:30I thought they must have it wrong or something. Something wasn't right.
08:34They just said that she was missing at sea.
08:36The official explanation is that Coriam was washed overboard by a rogue wave while visiting the
08:41crew pool, but this report has been heavily criticized and security footage of the event is
08:45non-existent. Further research showed that sea conditions were normal at the time, suggesting that a
08:50rogue wave was highly unlikely. Whatever happened to Rebecca on the Disney Wonder remains a mystery.
08:57Whether she slipped and fell, jumped or was pushed into the ocean wasn't properly investigated and the truth
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09:21Amy Lynn Bradley.
09:22An all-American girl vanishes from a Caribbean cruise liner.
09:26Somebody saw her, somebody wanted her, and somebody took her.
09:30Back in 1998, Amy Lynn Bradley was vacationing with her family on a Royal Caribbean cruise to Curaçao.
09:36Bradley and her brother partied in the ship's nightclub on the night of March 23rd,
09:39with Bradley drinking and dancing with band member Alistair Douglas.
09:43The siblings returned to their cabin around 3.30 the next morning and talked on the balcony.
09:47Bradley's father woke around 5.15 and saw her sleeping on the balcony,
09:50but when he looked again 30 minutes later, she was gone.
09:53Knowing that she was comfortable, I just decided to lay my head back down
09:56because I knew in about 20 minutes we were going to get up and go off on the aisle and have breakfast.
10:01But when Ron wakes up again 20 minutes later, Amy is nowhere in sight.
10:07Witnesses later reported seeing Bradley with Alistair Douglas early that morning,
10:11although he was cleared by the FBI. There have been multiple alleged sightings of Bradley over
10:15the years, with many suspecting that she had fallen into a human trafficking circle.
10:19He comes up to me and the first thing he said was,
10:21he said, hey man, I'm sorry to hear about your sister.
10:26Alistair Douglas' statement triggers alarm bells with the Bradleys,
10:31because at that time, the only people that knew Amy was missing were the captain and his security team.
10:36What do you think happened to these people? Let us know in the comments below.
10:39The place to get away with the crime is on a cruise ship.
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