Mary Celeste - Theories

There have been many theories. Ranging from attacking monsters from the deep sea, piracy and mutiny, and aliens kidnapping to natures wrath. No one has ever found any evidence of either one of these theories. Also if the ship had been abandoned soon after the entry, the ship had drifted unmanned and unstirred for a whole week and a half. But this could have nit been. The Mary Celeste was found with it's sails set to catch the wind. The Mary Celeste was sailing on the starboard tack. The Dei Gratia was following a similar path just behind the Mary Celeste. Throughout the 400 miles, the Dei Gratia had been set to sail the port tack. But it seems impossible, the Mary Celeste could have reached the spot whewre it was found with it's yards and sails set to starboard. Somebody must have been working in the ship for at least several days after the final log entry.
But there is one theory that has evidence for what really could have happened. It could be the so-called Fosdyk papers.
According to an article, a educated and traveledemploueeof the captain named Abel Fosdyk. He had left some notes and papers after his death which explained that not only the fate of the crew but also the cut marks that were found in the bows of the Mary Celeste. He claimed that he was a secret passenger on the ships last trip and also the one and only survivor of the tragedy that had happened. Fosdyk had convinced the captain to give him secret passage for some reason which wasn't said. The captain had his carpenter to build a deck for his daughter in the bow. So fosdyk had hid in the bow while ther were passengers on the ship. In his papers he had said that one day the captain had a argument with one of his shipmate about how good a man can swim with his clothes on. The captain jumped into the water and started swimming around the boat toprove his point. Some of his men followed him and the rest watched from the deck. While they were swimming a crew mate which was around the bow yelled of agony. Quickly everyone, including the captains family, gathered onto the newly built deck which under everyones weight had collapsed. They fell into the sea, which I am guessing that they were eaten by sharks. Fosdyk was lucky that he fell o top of a shattered decking, Fosdyk held on to it as the Mary Celeste sailed away. He had floated for days without water and food. He washed up half dead on the northwest coast of Africa.
These papers have an interesting story it could have been this but no one really knows for sure. But there still isn't any solution to the mystery of how the ship got to the spot where it was found. Also why would anyone go swimming around a ship ? What do you think that really happened ?


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