Case file · Anomaly hotspot
The empty Teignmouth Electron
On 10 July 1969 the mail ship Picardy found the trimaran Teignmouth Electron drifting empty in the Atlantic; her sailor, Donald Crowhurst, had been competing in the Golden Globe round-the-world race.
1969 CE · 33.18, -40.43 · status: explained
The account
His logbooks showed he had never left the Atlantic and had been faking his positions, and they ended in pages of mystical writing. He is thought to have stepped overboard on about 1 July.