Case file · High strangeness
SS Baychimo, the Arctic ghost ship
A Hudson's Bay Company cargo steamer abandoned in the ice off Alaska in 1931, which kept being sighted drifting until 1969.
1931 CE · 71.29, -156.79 · status: account
The account
Her crew sheltered in Barrow (now Utqiagvik) while she was icebound; when they returned she had broken free. Inuit last reported her in 1969, 38 years later.
The sceptical view
A sturdy hull drifting with Arctic ice can survive for years; the case is strange but not supernatural.
Connections in the atlas
- ? Why did the Franklin expedition die?
- Carroll A. Deering
- Mary Celeste