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Goodwin Sands

Off Deal, Kent

The ship-swallower, where a ghost ship returns every 50 years.

The Goodwin Sands is a shifting sandbank off the Kent coast that has wrecked thousands of ships. Legend says the schooner Lady Lovibond was wrecked here on 13 February 1748, and reappears every 50 years on the same night.

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When
Legend
Where
51.2700, 1.5000
Group
Unexplained

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View from Deal or Walmer beach; boat trips run in summer.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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