In 1890 the sailing ship Mallboro, loaded with frozen lamb and wool, sailed from New Zealand to the English port of Glasgow. On board the vessel were twenty-three crew members and several passengers, including one woman. After several weeks of sailing, the ship disappeared in the Cape Horn area. An investigation by the maritime authorities has yielded no results.
The commission came to the conclusion that the cause of the death of the sailboat was the violent storms that rage in these places three hundred days a year. The sailboat was considered missing.
But twenty-three years later, "Mallboro" appeared off the coast of Tierra del Fuego. Long years of wandering did not change him at all, the ship was sailing again under full sails, as if it had just left the stocks. Everything was in its place. Only instead of people, its skeletons in decayed rags were inhabited. No one could say what happened to the ship and its crew - the logbook was covered with moss and mold. The captain of the ship, who discovered the Mallboro, ordered his sailors to count the skeletons. It turned out that there were ten fewer of them than was listed in the crew list. Where did the rest go? Died during a storm, or died from an epidemic or poisoning?
Unfortunately, bad weather did not allow to take the ghost ship in tow and deliver it to the port. But everything that was stated in the report of the captain, who discovered the Mallboro, was confirmed under oath by witnesses of this mysterious story. Eyewitness statements were recorded by the British Admiralty. There were various rumors about the reasons for the death of the team. Some believed that the crew members perpetrated a riot on the ship, killed the captain and his assistants, and then left the sailboat in fear of what they had done - such cases were not uncommon. Others argued that the presence of a woman on board was to blame.
Since then, “Mallboro” has never been met again, and no one has been able to verify the reliability of the information provided by the captain.
