i don't like ghosts in my opinion after you die you should
really go away there's no reason to stay around and
scare people it's just weird ghost ships are much better also
known as phantom vessels a ghost ship is any kind of boat found
without a living crew whether by abandonment or their crew
dying at sea countless ghost ships have been discovered
perhaps the most notorious was the Mary Celeste
an American vessel discovered on the other side of the Atlantic
in 1872 she was found drifting aimlessly in the ocean
there was no sign of any crew member but their cargo and personal belongings were
still there it was as if they vanished into thin air
the crew were never seen again and still now their fate remains a
mystery all kinds of theories were put forward to explain the disappearance
ranging from a giant squid attack to alien abduction
most likely they simply abandoned ship and died before reaching land
but there was no obvious reason for them to do so with no lack of supplies or
damage to the ship and soviet Mary Celeste would go down as
history's most well-known ghost ship
but ghost ships are not just a historical occurrence
across the world they occasionally wash up on shores
with certain areas known as hot spots one of them is the sea of Japan
every year more than a hundred ghost ships wash up on the Japanese coast
all of which from North Korea often small and with Korean writing on its
side their appearance have long confused
those who discover them they are clearly small fishing boats
which would be ill-suited to a long voyage but North Korea is over
a thousand kilometers from Japan to many in Japan it's a sign something
much stranger is going on perhaps the boats are used by spies
surveilling the Japanese coast or maybe they are used by defectors
hoping to flee North Korea either way the boats are usually found
without anyone on board though some contain dead bodies one boat
was recently found with two decapitated heads inside
and no one knows why the generally accepted theory is that they are fishing
boats who operate in the waters of Korea but somehow going too far out are
stranded at sea and washed all the way to Japan
they are found without GPS radios or electric motors
speaking to the poverty of North Korean fishing villages
in recent years the number of ghost ships has increased rapidly
some claim North Korean waters have been overfished by starving locals
forcing fishermen to venture increasingly far into the ocean
therein making them more likely to get lost at sea
with North Korea being so poor it's unlikely their coast guard give
any attention to civilian crafts so any fishermen who do get lost at sea are in
big trouble but still some do not believe this
explanation one theory is that an illegal fleet of
Chinese ships are fishing in north Korean waters
desperate to not be caught in the act they murder anyone to encounter them
this would explain why so many of the North Koreans are found dead
especially the two that were beheaded but like so many other theories there is
no evidence for it some believe a Bermuda-like mystery triangle
exists in the sea of Japan pulling those aboard boats into a
parallel universe bizarrely the waters south of Japan have
long been said to house a mystery triangle of its own
known as the devil's sea it stretches almost all the way to Indonesia
since the 1950s ships have been documented as disappearing here
with hundreds of crew vanishing with them could it be Japan is surrounded on
either side by magical oceans? probably not because there's no such
thing as magic but still there is such a thing as North Korea
in 2017 a group of North Koreans were
found alive in Japanese waters somehow surviving the journey having
been blown off course they actually requested to be sent back
home believing Japan was a land of anarchy and chaos
as is taught by North Korean propaganda investigating them and all the other
ghost ships is very expensive to the Japanese government
especially when it comes to repatriating corpses
as the two countries are not best friends
ghost ships have also been found in Russian territory
people tend to forget Russia shares a border with North Korea
with fishing becoming an ever more important part of North Korea's economy
both nations are expecting this to become a major problem
maybe this will soon lead to the mystery being solved
or maybe it never will be the moral of this story is to not be a North Korean
fisherman I've been saying that for a while but they never listen