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00:00Back in December 2012, a lot of people were freaking out over the idea that the world might end in
00:06some catastrophic event.
00:07And it was all thanks to the famous Maya calendar.
00:11This ancient way of tracking time had been the subject of endless speculation.
00:16But one of its biggest mysteries was definitely an 819-day count found in some versions of the calendar.
00:24No one could explain why it was there or how it worked.
00:27Until recently, when a group of researchers from Cambridge might have finally cracked the code.
00:33First things first, how does the Maya calendar work?
00:37So the system the Maya civilization used to track days was based on something we now call the calendar round.
00:45Think of it like three interlocking gears.
00:48These are three cycles working together.
00:51The first is a 365-day solar year known as HAB.
00:57The second is a cycle of 20 names.
01:00And the third is a cycle of 13 numbers, which forms a 260-day sacred calendar called Solkine.
01:11Just like we'd say something like December 25th, 2025, they named their days based on how these three cycles lined
01:20up.
01:20For example, here we have the day 3 Manic and the 14th of the month Pop.
01:27It takes 52 years for the three cycles to align in the same way again.
01:33After that, the days start repeating.
01:35But this is where things start to get more complicated and mysterious.
01:41On some Mayan monuments, we have also found enigmatic inscriptions pointing to the existence of another cycle,
01:49the 819-day count.
01:52There are about 20 examples of these inscriptions, mostly found in places like Palenque and Yaxchilan in Mexico.
02:00So it didn't seem random at all, and this calendar must have been hiding a big secret.
02:07Early research showed that the 819-day cycle was represented by one of four colors and the cardinal directions associated
02:15with them.
02:16Black was tied to the west, red to the east, white to the north, and yellow to the south.
02:23Researchers also discovered that this period of time could be broken down into three smaller cycles.
02:29One of nine days, one of seven days, and one of 13 days.
02:34Multiply them together, and you'd get 819 days.
02:39Pretty cool, but why did they do that?
02:42This color scheme and the three cycles seemed like a basic level of interpretation,
02:48and experts were pretty sure its real purpose was still hidden from us.
02:54Another thing researchers noticed is that this strange count of days was mostly shown using a Y-glyph,
03:01followed by a number.
03:03But in some cases, they also added a glyph representing Kauil.
03:08This was a powerful Maya deity often associated with creation and lightning.
03:14He was usually symbolized by a torch coming out of his forehead, representing the spark of light.
03:20Wait, that means that the 819 days count could be linked to both planets in some way.
03:27From there, research focused on figuring out what that link might be.
03:33The first conclusion is that this calendar might have helped the Maya track the movements of those planets in some
03:39way.
03:40Then they started noticing something interesting.
03:43These cycles could be specifically tied to the synodic periods of Jupiter and Saturn.
03:48By synodic periods, we mean the time it takes for a celestial body, like a planet,
03:55to return to the same or nearly the same position as seen from Earth.
04:01While this possibility was pretty exciting, something didn't quite add up.
04:06Each planet moves very differently,
04:08and trying to fit multiple planets into an 819-day span just didn't seem to work.
04:14In other words, this four-part, color-coded calendar system was simply too short to align perfectly with the synodic
04:22periods of the visible planets.
04:25So it looks like we're back to square one.
04:29This mystery had people scratching their heads for ages,
04:32until 2023, when specialists realized they might have been looking at it all wrong.
04:38Researchers actually needed to shift their perspective.
04:41Instead of seeing this system as 819 days,
04:45they needed to consider the number as representing timelines.
04:49And this period of time could be just a small part of a much, much bigger calendar.
04:56You see, as we said earlier,
04:59this cycle seemed to track the period when a planet became visible to people on Earth.
05:03To prove that these 819 cycles were timelines, not actual days,
05:09researchers needed a planet that could serve as a starting point to back up their theory.
05:15In this case, it was Mercury.
05:17And there's a pretty simple reason for that.
05:20Mercury's synodic period is 117 days,
05:23which fits perfectly into the calendar count.
05:25I mean, if you take 1819 and divide by 117,
05:31you get the number 7.
05:33So, Mercury is the only visible planet
05:36whose synodic cycle fits neatly into this period as whole numbers.
05:42Perfect.
05:43Now they had a solid starting point.
05:45From there, they needed to expand the calendar
05:48by increasing its length to 20 periods of 819 days.
05:53Suddenly, a pattern emerges.
05:56And just like that,
05:57all the synodic cycles of the planets fit perfectly into the system.
06:02For example,
06:04Saturn's synodic period from 378 days
06:07lines up perfectly after 6 819-day cycles.
06:13Venus aligns every 5 cycles.
06:16Jupiter every 19 cycles.
06:19And Mars, which takes the longest,
06:21needs 20 cycles.
06:23In other words,
06:24it takes about 45 years for Mars to align
06:27with the synodic periods of all visible planets.
06:31So, this is how researchers determined
06:34that the ancient civilization wasn't referring to days,
06:37but rather to timelines.
06:39The Maya astronomers came up with this count
06:41as part of a larger calendar system of 20 periods.
06:46But then, a question comes up.
06:48Why was studying the synodic period so important to the Maya?
06:52Well, we don't have super-specific answers
06:55about this mysterious calendar yet.
06:57But what we can say for sure
06:59is that the Maya truly believed
07:01in the powerful influence of the cosmos on daily life.
07:05So maybe,
07:06they wanted to analyze
07:07how the movements of all the visible planets
07:10lined up with their other calendars.
07:14Of course, this system is just one part
07:16of the Maya's amazing
07:18and advanced understanding of astrology.
07:21And it wasn't just about using astrological cycles
07:24for planting and harvesting.
07:25They also had crazy specific knowledge,
07:29like how to predict solar eclipses.
07:33Archaeologists believe the Maya connection to the stars
07:36is reflected in the ruins of their world.
07:39Take the famous pyramid in the ancient city of Chichen Itza,
07:42located in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
07:45If you look closely at the base of its staircase,
07:48you will see a snake's head carved in stone.
07:52But here's the coolest part.
07:53During the spring and fall equinoxes,
07:56when day and night are exactly the same length,
07:59the sun casts sharp triangular shadows on the staircase.
08:03It creates the illusion of a snake
08:05slithering down the steps.
08:08Another example of how they use their knowledge
08:11of astronomy in their temples
08:13is in Tikal, Guatemala.
08:15Built around year one of the Common Era,
08:17this pyramid is considered one of the Maya's
08:20earliest astronomical complexes.
08:23And its alignment and orientation
08:25allowed them to track and calculate solstices
08:28and equinoxes with incredible precision.
08:32The Maya were skilled sky watchers.
08:35Just like we have modern-day high-tech observatories
08:38with round domes,
08:39they had something similar.
08:41Meet El Caracol.
08:43The name means snail in Spanish
08:45and refers to the spiral staircase inside the tower.
08:49Built around 906 Common Era,
08:53it was the perfect place to observe all the changes in the sky
08:56and track the movements of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.
09:01Unlike us today,
09:02with our telescopes, satellites, and advanced tools,
09:05the Maya relied entirely on naked-eye observation.
09:09And that makes their achievements even more incredible.
09:15In 1850, French scientist Auguste Mariette
09:18went to Egypt looking for manuscripts,
09:21but accidentally found a head of a sphinx
09:24sticking out of the dunes.
09:25He cleared the sand and figured out
09:27the sphinx was guiding the entrance
09:29to some underground construction.
09:31Several months later,
09:32he finally entered the Serapium of Saqqara.
09:35Inside, he found an enormous granite sarcophagi
09:38with remnants of 64 bulls.
09:40Scientists are still amazed by the tech
09:43that the ancient Egyptians used
09:45to transport those enormous boxes.
09:48The Serapium was built around the year 3000,
09:52before the Common Era.
09:53It was an underground tomb
09:55built to honor the sacred Apis bulls of ancient Egypt.
09:58It had a long hallway,
10:00almost 500 feet long,
10:01with giant stone rooms on both sides.
10:04Some of the sarcophagi
10:06weighed as much as 50 average cars,
10:08and all of them were made with super precision
10:11with exact 90-degree angles.
10:14These sarcophagi were beautifully decorated
10:16with hieroglyphs and carvings
10:18that told stories about the lives
10:20and importance of the Apis bulls.
10:22Now, there are 24 sarcophagi left.
10:26In ancient Egypt,
10:28Apis bulls were very special animals
10:30connected to the deity Pata.
10:32They thought the bulls carried Pata's spirit and wisdom,
10:36helped the pharaoh,
10:36and protected the Egyptians.
10:38Priests looked for special markings
10:40on young bulls to find Apis bulls.
10:43It could be a white triangle on its forehead,
10:46which symbolized divine light,
10:48a shape on its back like a vulture's wing,
10:50and a scarab shape under its tongue,
10:52which stood for rebirth.
10:54If a bull had these signs,
10:56they believed it was chosen by Pata
10:58and treated it like royalty.
11:00The chosen bulls lived in a special temple in Memphis,
11:03the city where they worshipped Pata.
11:05They received the best care and offerings
11:08from visitors who wanted their blessings.
11:10When an Apis bull passed away,
11:12it was treated with great honor and mummified.
11:16When Mariette entered the Serapium,
11:18he noticed traces of rollers on the gallery's floor
11:21and found two wooden horizontal winches.
11:24Each had eight levers.
11:27Later, other explorers saw double rails.
11:29The burial chambers were lower than the hallway floor.
11:33To get the boxes into place,
11:35workers filled the chambers with sand
11:36so the sarcophagi could be rolled in straight.
11:39Then they slowly removed the sand
11:41to gently lower the boxes
11:42into perfectly cut spaces in the bedrock.
11:45A carved stone sign found in the Serapium
11:48said it took 28 days to move just one sarcophagus
11:52and its lid into its spot
11:54during the time of Ptolemy II.
11:57The extreme precision of the sarcophagi
12:00with 90-degree angles also has an explanation.
12:04Antige Egyptians wrote texts,
12:06or rather, papyrus,
12:08on geometry a long time ago.
12:10It shows that they knew
12:11the approximate number high
12:13and could calculate the volume of a pyramid
12:16with its top cut off.
12:17If they could figure out complicated math
12:20like that back then,
12:21it makes sense that they could also carve
12:24perfectly flat surfaces 500 years later.
12:28All this sounds pretty legit,
12:30but some people think
12:31certain things don't add up here.
12:33The size of boxes is way larger
12:35than the size of bolts,
12:36yet they buried pharaohs in tiny coffins
12:39that barely fit their bodies.
12:41The sarcophagi are made out of granite
12:43with crazy precision,
12:45and they could have just used limestone,
12:47which would have made things way easier.
12:50The transportation of the boxes
12:52seems pretty simple,
12:53but only in theory.
12:55If one person could pull about 440 pounds,
12:59then at least 250 people
13:01would be needed to pull just one box.
13:03The tunnels in the Serapium
13:05are really narrow,
13:06only about two feet wider
13:08than the boxes themselves.
13:10There's no way hundreds of people
13:12could have squeezed into those tight spaces
13:14to pull the boxes.
13:15And even if they did,
13:17how would they turn the box
13:18in the cramped corridor,
13:20lower it into its niche,
13:21and place it perfectly in the middle?
13:24Somehow, they did this 24 times,
13:27and every box is centered perfectly.
13:30Plus, the chambers were dusty,
13:32and there were no signs of soot from lamps.
13:34This means they must have worked
13:36in almost complete darkness.
13:40The real use of the boxes
13:41could also be different.
13:43A long time ago,
13:44even before the Egyptian pharaohs ruled,
13:46the local people already knew
13:48how to use fermentation.
13:50It happens when tiny organisms
13:52called yeast
13:52eat certain ingredients,
13:54like starch,
13:55and turn them into gas and ethanol.
13:56So, someone in ancient Egypt
13:59probably put food like barley,
14:01bread,
14:01and even meat
14:02inside a giant stone box,
14:04then closed it tight
14:05with a heavy lid.
14:07These stone boxes,
14:09carved from granite,
14:10were so precisely made
14:11that they were almost completely sealed,
14:13so nothing could escape from it.
14:15As the yeast inside the box
14:17started working,
14:18it created more and more CO2 gas.
14:21It built up pressure inside the box.
14:23The granite boxes were incredibly strong.
14:26They could handle more pressure
14:27than a car tire can hold.
14:29When granite was squeezed
14:31under such pressure,
14:32its crystals produced
14:33a tiny electric charge.
14:36This effect was possible
14:37because granite contains quartz,
14:39a material that reacts
14:41to pressure this way.
14:42The process also needed meat
14:44or animal parts,
14:45possibly to help the yeast grow better.
14:47Meat contains something called oleic acid,
14:50which yeast needs to keep growing
14:52and to survive the bad effects
14:54of the ethanol it produces.
14:56As the pressure inside the box
14:58kept growing,
14:59the combination of gases
15:00and electricity
15:01made these boxes
15:02not just ancient fridges,
15:04but powerful energy systems.
15:07Over time,
15:08the pressure inside
15:09got so strong
15:09that it could push the lid open
15:11and the gas would escape
15:12with a pop.
15:13But when people rediscovered
15:15the serapium in 1850,
15:17they found old drawings
15:18that showed piles of stones
15:20stacked on top
15:21of some of the box lids.
15:23So, someone long ago
15:25probably tried to make the lids
15:26even heavier
15:27by adding extra weight
15:28to make it harder
15:29for the gas pressure
15:30to push them open.
15:32This extra weight
15:33also meant the quartz crystals
15:35in the granite
15:36could keep creating
15:37more electricity
15:38under all that pressure.
15:39If someone opened
15:41one of these stone boxes
15:42thousands of years later,
15:43they would only find bones
15:45from bowls
15:45that were placed
15:46in the box.
15:48And that's exactly
15:49what Mariette discovered
15:50in the 1850s.
15:53They opened the serapium
15:54for visitors
15:55soon after the first excavations
15:57in the second half
15:57of the 19th century.
15:59Prince of Wales
16:00even had a luncheon
16:01with his guests
16:02in one of the sarcophagi.
16:04Sands and earthquakes
16:05made the site
16:06inaccessible for a while,
16:07but now you can visit it again
16:09and try to solve
16:10the mystery yourself.
16:12With new tech,
16:13we could have answers
16:14to many other
16:15historical mysteries soon.
16:17A team of scientists
16:18at Chicago's
16:19Field Museum of Natural History
16:20recently used
16:22a special CT scanner
16:23to learn more
16:24about ancient Egyptian mummies
16:26without unwrapping them.
16:28They gently rolled
16:2926 mummies
16:30on custom carts
16:31out to the parking lot
16:32where the scanner was waiting.
16:34It took thousands
16:35of detailed x-ray pictures
16:37of each mummy
16:38and their coffins.
16:39When all the pictures
16:40were put together,
16:42they created 3D images
16:43that showed
16:44what was inside,
16:45the skeletons
16:46and some artifacts.
16:48The scientists hope
16:49these images
16:50will help them understand
16:51ancient Egyptian burial practices
16:53from over 3,000 years ago.
16:55Even though the scanning process
16:57only took four days,
16:58it might take three years
17:00to study all the data.
17:02But scientists were able
17:03to learn some personal details
17:05about the mummies.
17:07One of the most popular
17:08mummified individuals
17:09at the museum,
17:11Lady Chaneta,
17:12was a woman
17:12who lived in ancient Egypt
17:14about 3,000 years ago.
17:16It looks like she passed away
17:17in her late 30s
17:18or early 40s.
17:20To make sure her body
17:21looked complete
17:22for the afterlife,
17:23embalmers put stuffing
17:24in her neck
17:25to keep it from collapsing.
17:26They also placed
17:27artificial eyes
17:28in her sockets
17:29so she would have eyes
17:31in the next world.
17:32She was wrapped
17:33in fancy linen
17:34and placed
17:34in a beautifully
17:35decorated coffin.
17:37The scans revealed
17:38that it had been
17:39carefully crafted
17:39with a slit at the back,
17:41which embalmers used
17:42to fit the body.
17:43There were also
17:44some artistic details
17:46on the surface,
17:46like markings
17:47for her knees.
17:48It looks like her burial
17:50was on the scale
17:50of a high-end luxury car.
17:53Many scary things
17:55are hiding in the dark.
17:56When you stand
17:57on the ship deck
17:58in the middle
17:59of the boundless ocean
18:00and stare
18:01into the night distance,
18:02your imagination
18:03begins to draw
18:04terrible pictures.
18:06But it's much worse
18:07when the horror
18:08isn't hidden
18:09and fear appears
18:10in the light
18:11under the rays
18:12of the bright sun.
18:13When endless snowplanes
18:15and giant icebergs
18:16start driving you mad.
18:18Such a horror
18:19happened more than
18:20170 years ago
18:21to the crew members
18:22of two large ships,
18:24Erebus and Terror.
18:27On May 19, 1845,
18:30these two vessels
18:31went on a great voyage
18:32through Arctic waters
18:33to open the Northwest Passage,
18:35a route between the Atlantic
18:37and the Pacific Ocean,
18:38passing through
18:39several icy bays of Canada.
18:41By then,
18:42both ships had gained fame
18:43after several successful expeditions
18:46in the Arctic region.
18:47Erebus and Terror
18:48were equipped
18:49with strong hulls
18:50that could withstand
18:51the pressure
18:52of polar icebergs.
18:53These were the first vessels
18:55of the British Royal Navy
18:56equipped with steam engines.
18:58Before their last expedition,
19:00engineers covered the boats
19:02with an extra iron layer
19:03to make them
19:04more ice-resistant.
19:05A lot of food,
19:06books,
19:07and coal
19:07were loaded
19:08into the cargo hull.
19:09The central stove
19:11and the sailors' cabins
19:12were connected
19:13by special air vents.
19:14Everyone was sure
19:16that an iceberg
19:16wouldn't run the ship through.
19:18Fuel and food supplies
19:20guaranteed
19:20that nobody would be hungry.
19:22In every way,
19:24those were the most equipped ships
19:25of that time
19:26for such expeditions.
19:28Erebus and Terror
19:29sailed from the English village
19:30of Greenhift
19:31with 128 crew members.
19:34The lead of the whole expedition
19:35was Sir John Franklin.
19:37Three months later,
19:38the ships were spotted
19:39in Baffin Bay,
19:41east of the entrance
19:42to the passage.
19:43And this was the last time
19:44Europeans saw them.
19:45Three years later,
19:47in 1848,
19:49Captain Franklin's wife,
19:50Jane Franklin,
19:51and other caring people
19:53demanded to start
19:54an expedition
19:55to find the two vessels.
19:56The search continued
19:58for several years
19:59and didn't lead to anything
20:00that would reveal
20:01the secret
20:01of this terrible expedition.
20:03They didn't find the ships,
20:04but found strange clues
20:06that caused more questions
20:08than answers.
20:09So the first strange thing
20:10was the three graves
20:12found on Beachy Island,
20:13located in the Canadian
20:15Arctic Archipelago.
20:17The crew set up
20:18a winter camp
20:18on the island shore,
20:20and for some reason,
20:21three out of 129 people
20:23passed away.
20:24Then the ship
20:25set off again
20:26and got in the trap.
20:28Probably Erebus and Terror
20:30got stuck in the ice
20:31near King William Island.
20:33In the middle
20:34of a snowy plain,
20:35surrounded by cold winds
20:36and ice,
20:37the crew began
20:38to experience
20:39serious problems.
20:40According to one theory,
20:42canned food
20:43contained a lot of lead.
20:44The sailors
20:45could get poisoned by that.
20:47And another view
20:48says that they got
20:49severely sick.
20:50Apparently,
20:51when the food supplies
20:52ran out,
20:53the crews went on foot
20:54to look for help,
20:55but got lost
20:56among the snowy plains.
20:59Another strange thing
21:00was a note
21:01on the shore
21:02of King William Island
21:03in the pocket
21:04of one of the crew members.
21:06Even now,
21:07no one can understand
21:08the contents
21:08of this paper.
21:09The letter
21:10had weird words
21:11and incoherent sentences
21:13like,
21:14All my art, Tom,
21:15for I don't think for,
21:17or
21:17Shall want some grog
21:19to wet our whistle.
21:20Many words
21:21were written backward,
21:22and some were smeared.
21:24Perhaps the note
21:25reveals a secret
21:26about the loss
21:27of the crew,
21:27but it's almost impossible
21:29to decipher it.
21:31Also,
21:31the search team
21:32found another note
21:33with more
21:34understandable records.
21:35One of them
21:36is dated May 1847.
21:38It said everything
21:40was fine
21:40and the expedition
21:41was going according
21:43to plan.
21:44Another record
21:45was made almost
21:45a year later,
21:46in April 1848.
21:48It said the ships
21:49got stuck in the ice
21:50and the crew
21:51left them.
21:52The sailors planned
21:54to go to the Back River,
21:55the Canadian River
21:56in the Northwest Territories.
21:58It was their last
21:59attempt to survive,
22:00which, unfortunately,
22:02ended up in failure.
22:05For more than 150 years,
22:07the fate of both ships
22:08remained a mystery.
22:09But then,
22:10in 2014,
22:12a search team
22:13found Erebus.
22:14The ship's record
22:15was on the island
22:16a few feet
22:17from the water.
22:18Two years later,
22:19another expedition
22:20discovered terror
22:21on the seabed
22:22northwest of Erebus.
22:25However,
22:26these discoveries
22:27didn't help solve
22:28the mystery
22:29of the expedition,
22:30but added even
22:31more questions instead.
22:33Terror was located
22:3460 miles south
22:35of the place
22:36where,
22:37according to the note,
22:38the ships were abandoned.
22:40Erebus was also
22:41in the wrong place.
22:42It's possible
22:43that the crew members
22:44left the vessel,
22:46wrote about it in a note,
22:47but then returned
22:48and sailed on.
22:49Another version
22:50says that the moving ice
22:52could move the boats.
22:53In any case,
22:54we won't know
22:55what happened
22:56to the expedition.
22:57Some associate
22:58this tragedy
22:59with mystical forces.
23:00You can see
23:01this version
23:02in TV series
23:03based on these
23:03tragic events,
23:05but most likely,
23:06the crew members
23:07found themselves
23:08in an ice trap
23:09they couldn't escape.
23:13Another famous case
23:14of the vanishing
23:15of sailors
23:15happened to the ship
23:17Mary Celeste.
23:18It was built
23:19in Canada in 1861
23:21and named Amazon.
23:22It gained notoriety
23:24right from the very
23:25first voyages
23:26of the ship.
23:27The ship changed
23:28several captains
23:28and crashed
23:29into the rocks.
23:30The broken vessel
23:31was resold
23:32a few times
23:33before receiving
23:34repairs.
23:35After the upgrade,
23:36it got a new name,
23:38Mary Celeste,
23:39and a new captain,
23:40Benjamin Briggs.
23:41He was a brave,
23:43experienced sailor
23:44with a kind heart
23:45and high moral qualities.
23:47In November 1872,
23:49with 10 people on board,
23:51Mary Celeste
23:52sailed from New York
23:53to Italy
23:54with a valuable cargo
23:55on board.
23:56A few days later,
23:58another ship,
23:59De Gratia,
24:00followed it along
24:01the same route
24:02from the port
24:02in New York.
24:03Somewhere between
24:04the Azores,
24:05the captain of the
24:06De Gratia,
24:07David Morehouse,
24:08noticed a ship
24:09six miles away
24:10that was sailing
24:11too strangely.
24:13It swayed
24:14from the side
24:15like no one
24:15was holding
24:16the steering wheel.
24:17David came closer
24:19and tried to contact
24:20the people on board,
24:21but there was
24:22no response.
24:23At that moment,
24:24the captain realized
24:25that it was
24:26Mary Celeste.
24:27Together with the
24:28crew members,
24:29they climbed aboard
24:30and found that
24:31its sails
24:31were slightly torn.
24:33There was water
24:34in the hold,
24:34but it could easily
24:35be pumped out.
24:37The crew's belongings
24:38were in the cabins
24:39and the cargo
24:39was untouched.
24:41Only one lifeboat
24:42and a chronometer,
24:43which is a navigation
24:44device,
24:45were missing.
24:46The last record
24:47in the logbook
24:48said the voyage
24:49was going
24:49according to plan.
24:51Apart from
24:52the slightly damaged
24:53sails,
24:53the vessel
24:54was in perfect
24:55condition.
24:56But something
24:57forced all
24:57the crew members
24:58to leave it.
24:59Several members
25:00of the De Gratia
25:01crew remained
25:02on board
25:02the Mary Celeste
25:03to deliver it
25:04to the nearest
25:05seaport.
25:06One of the versions
25:07said that the
25:08water pump
25:08in the hold
25:09could be filled
25:10with coal.
25:11Before the last
25:12trip,
25:12Mary Celeste
25:13transported a large
25:14amount of this
25:15material,
25:15and some of it
25:16could have stuck
25:17inside the pump.
25:18When the ship
25:19got into a storm,
25:20the hold
25:21flooded a little,
25:22and Captain Briggs
25:23couldn't understand
25:24how critical
25:25the situation
25:26was.
25:26There were
25:27too many barrels,
25:28so he couldn't
25:29determine the
25:30water level.
25:30It was dangerous
25:32to stay on board
25:33since the ship
25:33could sink.
25:34Therefore,
25:35the captain
25:36decided to
25:36evacuate by
25:37lifeboat.
25:38Perhaps they
25:39were close to
25:40land,
25:41and Briggs
25:41decided to
25:42sail in that
25:42direction.
25:43But the storm
25:44got stronger
25:45and sank
25:46the boat.
25:47Another version
25:48says that
25:49De Gratia
25:49attacked Mary
25:50Celeste
25:51and got rid
25:52of its crew
25:52to get the
25:53cargo.
25:53The court
25:54couldn't prove
25:55this,
25:55but the reputation
25:56of Captain
25:57David Morehouse
25:58was damaged,
25:58and he had
25:59difficulty finding
26:00a job after
26:01that.
26:02The story of
26:03Mary Celeste
26:04became world
26:05famous,
26:05so people
26:06created many
26:07different versions.
26:08Of course,
26:09someone claimed
26:10that something
26:10mystical had
26:11happened to
26:11the ship,
26:12but such
26:13theories have
26:14no evidence.
26:15There are
26:15so many
26:16records and
26:16documents on
26:17the internet
26:18about this
26:18case,
26:19so anyone
26:19can try to
26:20sort out the
26:21truth from
26:22the fiction.
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