WE'RE THRILLED TO WELCOME
SHAWN PAUL WITH SPOOKINESS TO
TELL US ABOUT TODAY.
HI.
HOW ARE YOU?
GOOD MORNING.
I HAD PLANNED ON DOING SOMETHING
DIFFERENT TODAY BUT THEN NEWS
STORIES COME UP AND I FOUND ONE
AND IT JUST -- I WENT DOWN THE
RABBIT OR THE PORT HOLE.
I LOVE IT.
AND I FOUND A -- LET ME ASK
YOU THIS.
CAPTAIN JEREMY, YOU'RE THE
CAPTAIN OF THE U.S. OZARK FOX
A.M. YACHT AND WE'RE ALL AT SEA
AND WE SEE A SHIP ON THE HORIZON
AND YOU TRY TO GET THEM TO THE
RADIO.
NO RESPONSE.
IT GETS CLOSER, NO RESPONSE.
KELLY TAKES A LOOK.
NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF LIFE ON THE
SHIP.
HOW WOULD YOU PROCEED, CAPTAIN?
I WOULD SAY, FINDER KEEPERS,
LOSERS WEEPERS.
IT'S MY SHIP NOW.
HE WOULD SAY, KELLY, GET OFF
ON THE SHIP AND SEE IF THERE'S
ANYTHING THERE.
YOU WOULD SEND SOMEBODY ELSE
TO GO EXPLORING.
YOUR INITIAL REACTION IS WHAT
SAILORS THINK.
THAT'S THEIR MENTALITY.
THEY HAVE SALVAGE RIGHTS.
IF THEY ENCOUNTER A GHOST SHIP,
NOW, I HAVE FIVE DIFFERENT
STORIES HERE AND THEY'RE ALL
VERY DIFFERENT BUT THEY ALL HAVE
THE SAME OUTCOME AND IT'S A
FLOATING, , LIFELESS DER
ELECTRICITY -- DERELICT.
THERE'S A FLEET OF GHOST SHIPS.
HOW IS THAT FOR BAITING THEM?
YEAH.
RIGHT?
ALL RIGHT.
SO THE VERY -- ONE OF THE MOST
FAMOUS GHOST SHIPS OF ALL TIME
WAS THE MERRY CELESTE.
SHE COMES OUT OF 1872 C.
THIS HAS BEEN IN THE X FILES AND
OTHER SHOWS.
VERY FAMOUS ONE.
BASICALLY IT'S A SHIP THAT WAS
TAKING A SHIPMENT OF
DENATURALIZED ALCOHOL, BIG
SHIPMENTS, RIGHT?
AND CANADIAN CAPTAIN LIKE YOU
JUST SAID, FOUND IT ADRIFT IN
THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.
NO SIGN OF THE CAPTAIN, WIFE,
BABY OR CREW.
NONE OF THEM WERE THERE.
YET THE CARGO WAS STILL ALL
INTACT.
IT'S NOT LIKE THE SHIP WAS
LOOTED.
THE CREW AND CAPTAIN AND THE
FAMILY, THEY ALL JUST VANISHED.
CAP FIN -- CAPTAIN'S PERSONAL
BELONGS WERE THERE.
THE FIRST THEORY IS
DENATURALIZED ALCOHOL, THERE
WERE FUMES AND THEY WANTED TO
GET AWAY FROM IT.
WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO IS
GET THEMSELVES IN THE LIFE BOATS
AND JUST TRAIL BEHIND IT UNTIL
THE FUMES CLEARED AND THEN THEY
WERE GOING TO GET BACK ON.
AND THEN THE ROPE BROKE.
CAN YOU IMAGINE?
JUST WATCH YOUR SHIP SAILING
AWAY AND THERE YOU ARE.
THAT'S KIND OF --
VERY PLAUSIBLE, THOUGH.
YES.
ANOTHER ONE WOULD BE A WATER
SPOUT.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THESE ARE?
THEY'RE LIKE OCEAN TORNADOS AND
SHOOT UP OUT OF THE WATER.
THAT'S THE THEORY IS THAT IT
BLASTED EVERYONE OFF THE SHIP.
THAT'S NOT AS PLAUSIBLE AND THE
LAST ONE WOULD BE, NEXT SLIDE,
ALIENS.
WHAT?
I WASN'T EXPECTING THAT ONE.
YOU WERE NOT EXPECTING THAT.
NOT FROM ME.
NOT FROM YOU.
NO JOURNAL SEGMENT IS
COMPLETE WITHOUT A REFERENCE TO
ALIENS.
I'M KIDDING.
I DON'T BUY THAT.
I THINK THE LIFE BOAT IS
PROBABLY THE ROPE BREAKING THE
MOST PLAUSIBLE THEORY.
I WOULD THINK SO, TOO.
THAT'S THE FIFTH ONE.
NUMBER FOUR, NEXT ONE, CAUSE
NUMBER TWO, THIS IS A YACHT.
THIS WOULD BE WHAT I WOULD SEE
YOU COMMANDEERING.
YES.
I WOULD TAKE THIS ONE.
THAT'S JEREMY MATERIAL THERE.
OFF THE COAST OF AUSTRALIA,
FAIRLY RECENTLY IN APRIL OF
2007.
THREE MEN WERE ON BOARD.
HELICOPTER CAME BY AND SAW NO
VISIBLE SIGNS OF LIFE SO THEY
WENT DOWN AND CHECKED IT OUT.
FOOD WAS ON THE TABLE,
EVERYTHING WAS STILL IN PLACE.
THERE WAS A LAPTOP STILL POWERED
UP.
GAS IN THE ENGINES.
IT WAS JUST GOING ALONG, NOBODY
THERE.
THERE'S A LOT OF SHARKS IN
AUSTRALIA.
MAYBE THEY WENT FOR A SWIM.
AND THEY WERE CLOSE TO THE
GREAT BARRIER REEF.
I'M JUST SAYING.
SHARKS CAME ON BOARD.
THEY WENT FOR A SWIM.
ALL OF THEM?
I THINK YOU JUST SOLVED THE
CASE.
I THINK I MAY.
I HAD PIRATES AND THE OTHER
THEORY WAS ONE MAN FELL OVER AND
THE OTHER TWO TRIED TO SAVE HIM.
LIFE JACKETS WERE THERE AND
THERE WAS STILL A SMALL BOAT.
THEN THE SHARKS GOT ALL OF
THEM.
OR OCTOPUS.
CASE CLOSED.
YOU SHOULD HAVE CALLED ME.
WHAT WAS THE NEXT ONE?
I HAVE TO BLAST TO THIS.
NEXT ONE, THIS IS THE CREW THAT
DISAPPEARED.
I'M SO SORRY.
WE HAVE TO MOVE ON.
THIS IS AN ALASKAN LEGEND.
GOT LOCKED UP IN THE ICE.
WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE WHEN IT
GETS TRAPPED IN THE ICE?
THE CAPTAINS JUST CRAWL YOD TO
THE ICE AND MADE A BASE CAMP AND
THEN THERE WAS A BLIZZARD.
WHEN THEY CAME BACK, THE BOAT
HAD BROKEN FREE AND DISLODGED
ITSELF AND WAS GONE.
THEY THOUGHT IT HAD SANK.
BUT THE ESKIMOS SAID THEY SAW
IT, REPORTED SEEING IT OVER A
COURSE OF 30 YEARS.
BECAME THIS ALASKAN LEGEND.
SOME PEOPLE CAUGHT UP WITH IT
AND BOARDED IT BUT THEY DIDN'T
-- THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO SALVAGE
IT.
THAT'S AN ALASKAN LEGEND.
I WANTED TO SET THIS UP BY THE
VIDEO.
DO WE HAVE THE VIDEO READY?
WHEN I CAME ACROSS THE --
CONGRATULATIONS.
YOU FOUND A BOAT IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE OCEAN.
WHAT DO YOU THINK A SHIP LIKE
THIS COULD BE WORTH?
SOMETIMES ON IF WE HAVE THE
RIGHT TO SALVAGE IT.
I DO KNOW ONE THING.
THE SEA GIVES YOU AN OPPORTUNITY
TO TAKE IT.
I THINK YOU SHOULD GET UP
HERE.
NO PASSENGERS.
NO CREW.
NO CAPTAIN.
NO MENTION OF ANYTHING.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT?
A GHOST SHIP.
IS THIS BASED ON A TRUE
STORY?
NO.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT?
THAT MOVIE WAS MADE A YEAR
BEFORE THIS SHIP WAS BUILT.
IT WAS FROM INDONESIA.
AND AFTER NINE YEARS OF SAILING
AROUND THE OCEAN, JUST
DISAPPEARED.
IT WASN'T SEEN FOR NINE YEARS.
AND WHEN THEY FINALLY FOUND IT,
IT JUST LAST YEAR DRIFTED ASHORE
IN MYAMIR.
THEY FOUND A COUPLE OF TOW
LINES.
SOMEBODY TRIED TO TOW IT TO
SHORE AND TAKE IT TO A SALVAGE
YARD.
THE FLEET.
LET'S GO TO THE LAST ONE.
WE'VE GOT ANOTHER SLIDE TO GO
THROUGH BUT WE WANT TO SEE NORTH
KOREAN FISHING BOATS.
THIS IS THE STORY THAT ACTUALLY
INSPIRED ME TO DO THIS.
EVERY YEAR DOZENS OF POOR BOATS
ARE WASHING ASHORE IN JAPAN.
THEY LOOK SCARY.
THERE ARE PEOPLE ON BOARD BUT
THEY'RE DEAD.
THE POOR NORTH KOREANS.
THEY'VE BEEN ON THERE SO LONG,
IT'S THE SKELETAL REMAINS.
TWO DIFFERENT SCENARIOS.
ONE IS THAT THE PEOPLE ARE
DEFECTING AND JUST TRYING TO GET
OUT BUT THEN THE OTHER ONE,
LET'S SEE THE VILLAIN BEHIND
THIS.
THE ONE THAT'S PUSHING THE
FISHERMEN TO OVERFISH THE
WATERS.
IS THAT KIM JONG UN?
THERE'S THE VILLAIN RIGHT
THERE.
THERE'S MUCH MORE PRESSURE ON
THE FISHERMEN TO GO FURTHER OUT
DEEPER TO GET THE SHIP.
THEY'RE OVERFISHING THE WATERS.
IT'S BECOMING MORE AND MORE
DIFFICULT TO PLEASE THIS GUY AND
THERE YOU HAVE IT.
DOESN'T LOOK LIKE HE'S
RUNNING OUT OF FOOD.
AND IT'S DANGEROUS OUT THERE.
YOU HAD FISH TODAY.
I DID.
IT'S ALL FULL CIRCLE.
THAT WAS FUN.
AND I'M SCARED.
WE'LL BE BACK TO WRAP THINGS UP
AFTER THIS.
I'M SCARED NOW.
I AM, TOO.