“243 People Disappeared. Young People. Women. Children. And No One Cares”

Episode 1: How do you find a…

“Hello Father, The Boat is Sinking, So I Will Die.”

Episode 2: Life jackets that kill. Ships that are…

The Secret Mass Graves of the Refugee Crisis

Episode 3: Looking for refugees who vanished in the…

“Now I Have Learned That There’s a Worse Thing Than Death”

Episode 4: At the heart of the Ghost Boat…

Meet the Ghost Boat Team

Say hello to the core group of contributors to the project.

This project is being led by Medium, the site you are reading this on, and the team at Matter, its flagship publication. Our core group of contributors includes…

How to… Investigate Online

Some useful tips on joining the search, courtesy of First Draft.

Hunting the Jackals

What do we know about the human traffickers sending refugees from Libya to Italy?

At the heart of the Ghost Boat mystery are the people smugglers: the traffickers who are helping thousands upon thousands of people…

Building a Timeline of Ghost Boat

An updating list of important moments in the investigation.

We are trying to find the Ghost Boat that was supposed to leave Zuwarah in northwestern Libya on June 28th or June 29th, 2014. Nobody is exactly…

Update: October 26

If you’re trying to understand the motivations of refugees, take a look at their…