{"id":240472,"date":"2023-11-05T16:07:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T16:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=240472"},"modified":"2023-11-05T16:07:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T16:07:51","slug":"the-chilling-mystery-of-the-octavius-ghost-ship-where-all-crew-were-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/lifestyle\/the-chilling-mystery-of-the-octavius-ghost-ship-where-all-crew-were-found-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"The chilling mystery of the Octavius Ghost Ship where all crew were found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

HMS Terror: Divers explore doomed Arctic exploration ship<\/h3>\n

The world is no stranger to the story of the ghost ship: an eerie figure in the distance sailing without a crew, forever searching for its next victim.<\/p>\n

Maritime lore is filled with such tales, almost always tied up in mythology.<\/p>\n

There is one story, however, that continues to chill listeners, for the British Octavius ship was a very real vessel with a very real crew.<\/p>\n

The Octavius left England for the Orient \u2014 India and the east \u2014 in 1761, and successfully arrived at its destination the following year.<\/p>\n

Due to return, the ship’s captain gambled on a route through the treacherous but at the time little-known Northwest Passage, where it became trapped in sea ice just north of Alaska.<\/p>\n

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Fast forward almost 15 years later to October 11, 1775, and a whaler ship called the Herald spotted a mysterious moving outline off the coast of Greenland.<\/p>\n

A five-man party got close enough to outline and realised it was a shop \u2014 the Octavius.<\/p>\n

Boarding the vessel, the men encountered a ship stuck in a time warp, empty of any crew, or so they thought.<\/p>\n

Descending below the deck, they found the entire crew of 28 dead, completely frozen and almost perfectly preserved.<\/p>\n

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