The Unexplained Disappearance of the Patanela | Australian Mystery
In November of 1988, a steel-hulled schooner called the Patanela made three radio calls from ten miles off Botany Bay and disappeared.
No wreckage. No bodies. No distress signal. No explanation that holds together under examination.
Just an experienced skipper asking for directions to a town he'd already passed, a silence where a voice used to be, and one barnacled lifebuoy that turned up six months later and raised more questions than it answered.
Four people were aboard.
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