“At First The Traffickers Were More Human. Then Slowly They Started The Torture.”

Episode 5: Witnesses…

“Someone Is Making Up Lies”

Episode 6: A new source of evidence comes to light—wiretapped phone calls between the people smugglers responsible for the Ghost Boat.

“I Have Never Dreamed About Europe In My Life. But I Could Not Stay In My Country.”

A Witness Statement from a Ghost Boat Family Member

TO THE ANTIMAFIA DISTRICT DIRECTORATE OF THE PROSECUTOR OFFICE OF BOLOGNA, ITALY

Editor’s note: For safety reasons we have redacted the names and personal…

Operation Tokhla

A translated excerpt from the book Mare Monstrum, Mare Nostrum.

November 10: What We Discovered at Columbia

A report from our one-day workshop.

Update: November 2

What you helped us find out about the Italian case.

Update: November 3

This weekend we’re taking the Ghost Boat search to New York.

November 16: ‘What If It’s All Fiction?’

Two new pieces of evidence in the search for the missing.

Reading Community Posts About the Ghost Boat

What the families were sharing in the aftermath of the disappearance.