Episode 521: The Tragedy of the Essex Part II - A Belly Full of Blood
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Cannibalism - I'm Looking His Eyes.
In 1710, a British trading vessel wrecked on a tiny outcropping of rock off the coast of Maine called Boone Island. The crew begged the captain to butcher the shipmate for them. They used their fellow sailors as bait to catch sharks and survived 191 days at sea without eating each other.
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