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> Various authorities had become aware of its aimless drift around the world. It was last spotted in September 2019 by a British Royal Navy ship. I wonder if t
by _bxg1 7y ago
> Various authorities had become aware of its aimless drift around the world. It was last spotted in September 2019 by a British Royal Navy ship.
I wonder if the mythological archetype of the "ghost ship" originated from cases like this: unidentified, unmanned ships roaming the seas on their own, in a time before there was a global record of abandoned ships. Doesn't take a huge leap of the imagination to assume they're crewed by ghosts.