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In December 1872, a ship was found drifting silently in the Atlantic Ocean. No crew. No passengers. No bodies. Just an empty vessel — food still on the table, valuables untouched, cargo mostly intact. Ten people had vanished without a trace. This is the Mary Celeste. And over 150 years later, nobody knows what happened. The Mary Celeste left New York Harbor on November 7th, 1872, bound for Genoa, Italy. Onboard were 1,701 barrels of industrial alcohol, seven crew members, and Captain Benjamin Br