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

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

Episode 1: How do you find a boat that vanished without a trace?

Eric ReidyOct 6, 2015

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

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

Episode 2: Life jackets that kill. Ships that are never meant to make it. Could the Ghost Boat have really reached European shores?

Eric ReidyOct 14, 2015

The Secret Mass Graves of the Refugee Crisis

The Secret Mass Graves of the Refugee Crisis

Episode 3: Looking for refugees who vanished in the Mediterranean, we found the shocking truth of what happens to those who perish at sea.

Eric ReidyOct 21, 2015

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

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

Episode 4: At the heart of the Ghost Boat mystery is a strange phone call. Nobody had tracked down the person who made it. Until now.

Eric ReidyOct 28, 2015

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

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

Episode 5: Witnesses suggest our attempt to find 243 missing refugees is hitting the limit. Perhaps it’s time to take a different approach.

Eric ReidyNov 4, 2015

“Someone Is Making Up Lies”

“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.

Eric ReidyNov 11, 2015

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

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

Episode 7: Refugees face violence, kidnappings, even ISIS. But their biggest test could be the messy politics of the West.

Eric ReidyNov 18, 2015

“The Fact Is Lives Don’t Matter Equally”

“The Fact Is Lives Don’t Matter Equally”

Episode 8: How the politics of attention are failing thousands of refugees—including the 243 missing people we’re searching for.

Eric ReidyDec 10, 2015

“We have never come across a boat and said ‘let them be’”

“We have never come across a boat and said ‘let them be’”

Martin Xuereb is the director of MOAS, an NGO based in Malta that operates life-saving services for refugee boats.

Ghost BoatFeb 1

“On each gravestone we write the person’s name, the place where their body was found, and the…

Abdulrazak Ramadan is the director of the morgue of Tripoli Central Hospital.

Ghost BoatJan 27

“In 2014 we sent more than 4,000 refugees to these detention centers”

Mohamed Albggar is the Associate Director of the Deportation Office in the Libyan Directorate for Combatting Illegal Migration

Ghost BoatJan 26

A Partial Translation of the Libyan Red Crescent Annual Report From 2014

A Partial Translation of the Libyan Red Crescent Annual Report From 2014

This post is a piece of evidence in our open investigation into the disappearance of a group of at least 243 refugees in 2014.

Ghost BoatJan 20

“They also found a boat, lost at sea with no survivors on board”

Interviewing a Libyan Coast Guard official.

Ghost BoatJan 20

Interviewing Officials in the Libyan Coast Guard

Colonel Mohamed Younis, director of the investigations for the Libyan Coast Guard in Tripoli.

Ghost BoatJan 19

Examining a Report on 2014 Operations by the Libyan Red Crescent

This 328 page document in Arabic describes the work of the local Red Crescent during the time span of the Ghost Boat.

Ghost BoatJan 19

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The Boat That Washed Up In Libya

The Boat That Washed Up In Libya

How the Red Crescent documented a salvage operation that maybe — just maybe — related to the Ghost Boat’s disappearance.

Magda MughrabiFeb 11

You’re Taking on the Best Reporters in the World

You’re Taking on the Best Reporters in the World

Ghost Boat and its readers get some heavyweight recognition. Plus: Major progress in our quest to interview smugglers.

Ghost BoatFeb 3

First Time For Everything

First Time For Everything

An important (although slightly unexpected) moment in the story of Ghost Boat came along today. What you’re witnessing below is a scene…

Ghost BoatFeb 1

Eric ReidyFeb 264 min read

A Tragedy in Italy

How the terrible case of Lucia Annibali had an unexpected impact on our…

Ghost BoatJan 295 min read

This is the Man Responsible for the Ghost Boat

Looking at the smuggler at the heart of the mystery we…

Ghost BoatJan 273 min read

What If We Can’t Trace The Evidence Back?

Understanding what happens to the bodies of refugees who wash ashore in the Mediterranean is crucial in our search.

Ghost BoatJan 264 min read

We’re Starting To Narrow Down The Ghost Boat Search Area

Bit by bit, the area we’re looking at is getting smaller.

Our most recent update outlined how we might use satellite photography to try to find what happened to the…

Bobbie JohnsonJan 254 min read

What Genghis Khan Could Teach Us About The Ghost Boat

Using satellite imagery to find the unfindable.

Ghost BoatJan 214 min read

“No One Has Tried So Hard”

Eric Reidy on speaking to the families of the Ghost Boat.

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An open investigation into the disappearance of 243 men, women and children. Where are they? And why does nobody know?

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