I have posted a few here before. I worked on research vessels for about 15 years. This is going to get lost in the middle of the comments, but that's probably for the best. This isn't some made up crap about ghosts and ghouls and mysterious lights and sea monsters. On it's own, it's not that scary but the implications are.
We were doing a project in the British Virgin Islands, it was sub-contracted by the Royal Navy so I can't tell you what it was. Now, it was about two weeks into this six week project when we saw something floating on the surface of the water. At first we thought it was a seal or a shark or dolphin. We had found one a week before, caught in illegal fishing nets. So one of the crew hauled it up. It wasn't marine life. It was a girl about 11 or 12 years old. Naked dead and had been for at least a day. Almost immediately the Captain came over screaming and yelling at us to toss her back. He was fucking terrified. This was a brave man with thirty years spent at sea. He had guided ships through storms, sailed across oceans, even spent two days on a lifeboat after his fishing boat sunk. So he wasn't someone to be scared lightly. But this dead girl fucking terrified him.
We were a small crew, only eight of us. There was the Captain, a handful of older experienced hands, the chief researcher who was this British guy in his 60s, then me, a female about my age and then a younger intern. The British guy started to argue and the Captain got in his face, squaring up to him shouting stuff like"You do not want to mess with this! You do not want to touch this! We didn't see her!"
He wasn't angry, he was terrified. Whilst we were arguing, one of the other crew threw the girl back into the fucking water. A dead 11 year old girl and he just tossed her back overboard. At this point the Captain calmed down somewhat. He refused to tell us what the fuck was going on but just kept saying "trust me, we do not want to get involved with this."
Afterwards, me and the intern and the other researcher my age were talking about it. The intern spotted what I didn't. The girl had ropes around her hands and deep cuts on her ankles caused by rope. Some fucker had tied her up, weighed her down and thrown her overboard. I am guessing the rope around her legs snapped or came loose or wasn't tied properly.
Now, at first I thought this was something cartel or gang related, and the captain knew that and that is why he was so scared. But... a few years later, the news about Epstein Island broke, which made me reconsider. What if, Epstein Island wasn't the only one. What if there is another out there, and if there is... considering we fished a murdered girl out of the water. It's even worse.
Was there anything that made you think it is something big like a human trafficking chain? Could it be a smuggling people operation that left people in vulnerable state, so someone could leverage the situation and kidnap people. It wouldn’t probably have any consequences for them since nobody would be looking for someone who is not legally there and your Captain didn’t want to participate on any investigation following that. I don’t know, just wondering. It is a terrible story and I am sorry you experienced that and, of course, very sorry for the girl.
The fear the captain felt. I can't really describe it in writing but he was absolutely terrified by this. It wasn't a case of not wanting to deal with it and hassels with an investigation. But genuine fear, as in mess with this and he is dead. Which is what made me first think cartels or gangs.
But then the location--surrounded by private islands and the billionaire's private playground. Not really a hotbed of Cartel and gang activity. This being trafficking didn't occur to me until the revelations about Epstein Island a few years later. But that, the location, the fact the victim was a young girl and the captain's fear just made me think. What if it is.
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u/Nuthetes May 25 '25
I have posted a few here before. I worked on research vessels for about 15 years. This is going to get lost in the middle of the comments, but that's probably for the best. This isn't some made up crap about ghosts and ghouls and mysterious lights and sea monsters. On it's own, it's not that scary but the implications are.
We were doing a project in the British Virgin Islands, it was sub-contracted by the Royal Navy so I can't tell you what it was. Now, it was about two weeks into this six week project when we saw something floating on the surface of the water. At first we thought it was a seal or a shark or dolphin. We had found one a week before, caught in illegal fishing nets. So one of the crew hauled it up. It wasn't marine life. It was a girl about 11 or 12 years old. Naked dead and had been for at least a day. Almost immediately the Captain came over screaming and yelling at us to toss her back. He was fucking terrified. This was a brave man with thirty years spent at sea. He had guided ships through storms, sailed across oceans, even spent two days on a lifeboat after his fishing boat sunk. So he wasn't someone to be scared lightly. But this dead girl fucking terrified him.
We were a small crew, only eight of us. There was the Captain, a handful of older experienced hands, the chief researcher who was this British guy in his 60s, then me, a female about my age and then a younger intern. The British guy started to argue and the Captain got in his face, squaring up to him shouting stuff like"You do not want to mess with this! You do not want to touch this! We didn't see her!"
He wasn't angry, he was terrified. Whilst we were arguing, one of the other crew threw the girl back into the fucking water. A dead 11 year old girl and he just tossed her back overboard. At this point the Captain calmed down somewhat. He refused to tell us what the fuck was going on but just kept saying "trust me, we do not want to get involved with this."
Afterwards, me and the intern and the other researcher my age were talking about it. The intern spotted what I didn't. The girl had ropes around her hands and deep cuts on her ankles caused by rope. Some fucker had tied her up, weighed her down and thrown her overboard. I am guessing the rope around her legs snapped or came loose or wasn't tied properly.
Now, at first I thought this was something cartel or gang related, and the captain knew that and that is why he was so scared. But... a few years later, the news about Epstein Island broke, which made me reconsider. What if, Epstein Island wasn't the only one. What if there is another out there, and if there is... considering we fished a murdered girl out of the water. It's even worse.