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Ghostly ships filled with dead bodies arrive on Japan’s shores
CNN Wire ^ | November 30, 2015 | CNN

Posted on 12/01/2015 1:18:16 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

An unsettling mystery has washed up on Japan’s shores.

Over the past two months, at least eight wooden boats have been found in the Sea of Japan on or near the coast, carrying a chilling cargo — the decaying bodies of 20 people, Japan’s coast guard told CNN.

ll of the bodies were badly decomposed and “partially skeletonized” — two were found without heads — and one boat contained six skulls, the coast guard said. The first boat was found in October, then a series of boats in late November.

Coast guard officials are now trying to unravel the riddle of where these ghostly boats came from and what happened to those on board.

(Excerpt) Read more at q13fox.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: adrift; boats; bodies; corpses; defectors; desperation; flotsam; ghostboats; ghostships; japan; jetsam; maritimesecurity; mystery; nkorea; norks; northkorea; refugees; seaofjapan; skeletons; skulls
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To: Fai Mao

The East Sea is further south and west according to the Vietnamese whose name for that body of water is probably at least as old as the Chinese name for it.


21 posted on 12/01/2015 4:56:14 AM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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To: tflabo

My thoughts exactly...


22 posted on 12/01/2015 5:04:33 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

23 posted on 12/01/2015 7:08:58 AM PST by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

From the article it appears they are North Korean. We should be praying for these poor people unfortunate enough to be born there. American’s should be grateful, just by being born in the US we’ve automatically won the birth lottery by being in the top 10% income wise.


24 posted on 12/01/2015 7:24:22 AM PST by ozarkgirl
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Global Warming?


25 posted on 12/01/2015 10:10:31 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Godzilla!


26 posted on 12/01/2015 12:28:56 PM PST by ealgeone
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