The Carroll A. Deering: The Ghost Schooner of Diamond Shoals
About 4 min readOn 31 January 1921, a five-masted schooner ran aground off Cape Hatteras with her sails still set — and not a soul aboard. Her log, her lifeboats and her eleven crewmen were gone. A federal investigation closed in 1922 without an answer, and none has ever come.