Mary Celeste evidence map: logs vs folklore

A 5-beat faceless video outline for “Mary Celeste evidence map: logs vs folklore” in the Shipwrecks and maritime mysteries niche, derived from caption timing of 2 reference videos.

Angles

• Open on the salvage inventory: cargo, food, water, log slate present — crew gone
• Timeline Gibraltar arrival and the abandoned-brigantine facts before folklore
• Sort confirmed paperwork from ghost-ship myth early — non-gore
• Close on open questions the archives still leave — label uncertainty

Beat-by-beat structure

1. Hook (0:00–0:30): a ship that sails in with nobody at the helm — promise evidence, not horror.
2. Inventory beat (0:30–2:00): what was still aboard vs what was missing.
3. Voyage map (2:00–4:30): route, weather window, and the last log entries.
4. Myth vs file (4:30–6:00): popular theories ranked by what the papers actually support.
5. Open questions card. Original narration only; non-gore.

Reference videos

• Real Life Ghost Story - Mystery of The Mary Celeste Ghost Ship RlFZnKfK5so
• What Really Happened to the Mary Celeste: A Dark History Desk Investigation BWQJk4r5_Ns

Method

yt-dlp VTT captions (manual/uploader only) → timed beat heuristics → editorial topic synthesis (no ASR). Structure only; write original narration.