'No food for 71 days': Alleged last note from mythical 1823 ship found with frozen crew spooks Internet
The Internet has shared the last note from the tale of the ghost ship Jenny and its frozen crew. A user named u/bamamabuam shared the post on the Reddit group 'r/Dammthatsintrestingroup around' seven days ago. The post has garnered around 454 comments from Redditors.
While it is unverified if Jenny was an actual ship, many Redditors shared their take on the legend and the alleged last note. The original post read, "The ghost ship Jenny was found with the crew frozen solid. The caption is chilling and says, "May 4, 1823. No food for 71 days. I am the only one left alive.""
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'Captain was probably the fattest'
Another user commented in the thread about how the Captain survived and wrote, "My first thought was some good ole cannibalism but it doesn't seem to be the case. The must have had water and died extremely skinny and malnourished. The Captain was probably the fattest of them to last the longest/a**hole had tons of food stashed away."
A third user commented, "If you're slowly freezing to death then your body works much more slowly, so you don't need as much energy to function. 71 days does seem a bit fantastical, but I'm sure it's possible. So long as you're drinking something, your body will function even if you're not eating. Which is why drinking is so important when you have an infection and have no appetite."
Jenny: History or myth?
According to unverified rumors, Jenny was an English schooner. As per legend, the ship became trapped in an ice barrier of the Drake Passage in 1823, only to be recovered by a whaling ship in 1840, with the bodies on board still intact thanks to the icy conditions of Antarctica. The ship left port in 1822, but it vanished in 1823. The whaling ship Hope, according to Polar Record, made a new discovery of it in 1840. The ship had been covered in ice for nearly seven years when it was found. While the most widely accepted timeframe is 1840, some stories place the discovery in 1860. Regardless of the timing, the crew's frozen bodies were covered in ice for a minimum of 7 years and a maximum of 27 years, as reported by Puzzlehorrorbox.
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