November 11, 2025 • 37 mins
This week, Alecia does a disappeared episode and tells us about the nautical mystery of the USS Cyclops in 1918. Why does it always go back to sea monsters? We end the show sharing some personal ghost stories and life updates.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, twisted humans.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Do you find yourself wanting to know more about the
latest murder, conspiracy, cult, or haunting.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Than this is the podcast for you.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm Alicia and I'm Sierra and this is Twisted and Uncorked.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Hello, and welcome to another episode of Twisted and Uncorked,
your favorite podcast. This is episode two seventeen, and I
have a nautical disappearance for you today. Oh before we
get into that, Sierra, do you have a fun fact
for me?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Of course, speacause I'm always prepared.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's like she just realized that she had the perfect
fun fact in real time, is it not.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I actually don't have a fun fact at all. I
just realized, Oh, yeah, we do that.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Oh that's okay. At least you knew what show was.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
True.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I have two sets of truly twisted notes in front
of me and mine. That's just not confusing at all.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I am on a website about fun facts about boats. However,
I'm not sure that I believe a single one of
these facts. Okay, So I'm going to tell you about it,
about it and why? All right? So this fun fact
says Laura Decker is the youngest individual to sail around
(01:24):
the world. She's a fourteen year old who went off
to sail around the world in twenty twelve when she
was sixteen and finished her trip five hundred and eighteen
days later, so she traveled through time as well. She
started when she's sixteen, now she's fourteen.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I really want that to be a true story.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I think they did that wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I think she was.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Started when she was sixteen, fourteen, and now she's sixteen.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
That makes more.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, this says she started when she was sixteen and
now she's fourteen.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So my fun fact is not not a coal related
or a I related, but it is nineteen eighteen related
in that certain things were created. Slush invented in nineteen eighteen,
for example, the pop up toaster. People were tired of
burning their toast, so this convenience helped fave breakfasts everywhere.
(02:22):
Zippers were also invented in nineteen eighteen and incorporated specifically
into military uniforms which we will get to and boots.
So yeah, I thought that was interesting. Nineteen eighteen is
a weird time.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And nineteen eighteen get into it all right, I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
My drink, though, is not a coal related, unlike my
fun fact. In that it is called a Bermuda triangle
in my ho Ocean themed glass. I got ghosties here,
but I basically told Skierra that we were making a
pineapple orange ginger beer because I knew that I was
drinking a mocktail, and I just assume that she was.
(03:01):
Hers is in a copper mug, which is very Moscow
Mulia of her, and I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It also feels nautical to me because like the bells
and things that are when the ships are made of.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's true, that is true. I do really want to
try the dark and stormy Bermuda Triangle cocktail as it
is hint, hint, nudge, nudge everybody, and for that you
will need one and a half ounces of dark rum,
half an ounce of pineapple juice, two to three ounces
of ginger beer, two dashes of orange bitters, and a
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lime wedge cut into a triangle shape.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So it sounds really tasty and refreshing, and I of
course love ginger beer as sira, so we will definitely
have to try that at some point if anybody wants
to make themselves a boozy Bermuda triangle. But we are
drinking the mocktail version because I'm going to a pilates
glass in two hours and it feels responsible to drink
(04:01):
rum and then go work out in a hot room.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, I'm going to do pilate's in front of my
TV in a few hours, So agree to a girl.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
How did you make your ginger beer? Because I know
that I last minute sent you this recipe.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, so usually I have ginger beer on hand, I
did not have ginger beer, so I used club soda
and ginger because I have ginger and club soda, and
I just chopped it up really small and like pressed
it and put it in there, so I have chunks
of ginger floating around. And then I poured in a
little bit of pineapple juice and a little bit of
(04:37):
lime juice. And I did I do have orange bitters.
I you know, did like that with orange bitters.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I'm jealous that you have bitters in your house. A
lot of recipes that I look at and find intriguing
more and more involved bitters. So I feel like I
just need to get a kit or something.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well, I only bought orange bitters or I'm just the
only gonna have. Once upon a time, a long time
ago because my dad used to love alm fashions, not
even specifically old fashions, but bourbon. Bourbon is really popular
in Cincinnati. Well, it's really popular in Kentucky, which is
right next to Cincinnati, and so I wanted to learn
(05:18):
how to like bourbon, and he's like, you gotta put
bitterers in it. So I bought orange bitters specifically for
that reason, and never drink any.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I feel like, if the opportunity ever presents itself, you
and I need to do like a craft cocktail bartending
class for the night. I feel like it would be
so fun. Not that you need any pointers, because you
seem to bust out beautiful and delicious drinks at all times,
but I really need to learn how to blend.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I'm really good at following directions. That's it, I promise, Like,
but you're such a good cook, You're such a good
I'm just really good at following directions. All right, I
will follow them to a teeth.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And speaking of following directions to a t I did
not misunderstand the assignment for my episode today, but we
will get into that after this quick break. Welcome back.
So we have made some Bermuda triangle and some nautical jokes. So,
as you can probably imagine, my disappearance is but related
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and it is about the USS Cyclops. It is the
second most perplexing ship disappearance underneath the Mary Celeste, which
if you are a patron or if you caught the
patron leaked episode version on our main feed, you know
that Sierra did cover that episode, and naturally we are
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going to have some of the same theories as a result.
As always, my favorite is sea monster, but.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I mean also things that are in the sea, although
probably se monstrous either way, are just crazy. Okay, even
if it's not a.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
The ocean is terrifying, triangle is terrified.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Did you say USS Cyclops?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Was that it's given name before this event occurred?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Correct? That is the irony of it, all right?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Didn't they think maybe there's anothership disappearance that I was
looking into that was called the USS Terror And it's like,
what do we think is going to happen to these boats?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
If you keep naming it this shit? Maybe just don't
do that. Yeah, I couldn't tell you why that was
the name that I chose, but it's definitely ironic. So
in January of nineteen eighteen, the Cyclops, under the command
of Lieutenant Commander George W. Worley, was assigned to travel
from Brazil to refuel the US South Atlantic Squadron. That
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doesn't roll off the tongue like Cyclops. I mean, I
guess that that's a bonus there and bring back guineas
or which was a dense mineral essential to producing steel
and ammunitions as a part of the war effort. And
when the war erupted in Europe in nineteen fourteen, the
United States remained neutral for a time, but its navy
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did expand globally, and thus the USS Cyclops became part
of a naval overseas transportation service, basically cauling things that
they would need to get through the war, coal, raw materials, supplies,
that kind of stuff between the US, the Caribbean and
South America. So it was vital during the war, was
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what I gathered, and the US government approved making four
of these ships. They were all dialed and built similarly,
So that makes sense to me in some ways, but
also not, like why not just have like rotating ships
rather than sending one back and forth all the time.
But I get it, I don't understand war. But at
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five hundred and forty two feet long. She was huge
but very slow, and her primary mission was to transport
all of these supplies, like I said, to warships stationed
around the world. They were powered by two reciprocating engines
and equipped with multiple holds, so she could carry thousands
of tons of heavy cargo, but because she is long
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and skinny, that cargo needed to be carefully balanced so
as to not capsize the ship. She didn't need to
be fast. She was doing what she needed to do,
just trucking along back and forth help in the war.
But by February sixteenth, the ship was docked in Rio
de Janeiro, her coal was delivered, and the next step
was to bring eleven thousand tons of manganese or to Baltimore, Maryland,
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so that it could be turned into ammunition. Manganese is
far denser and heavier than ore, though, making the stability
of the shit much more precarious. This issue, along with
the Cyclops sailing with a now all broken starboard engine
cylinder with a crack that had cracked weeks earlier in
its trip, engineers had managed to keep it running on
(10:09):
a single engine, but it was even more slow and
thus vulnerable to accliment weather. Witnesses in Rio de Janio
noted that the ship seemed to sit low in the
water even before it was fully loaded, which was not
a great sign.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah it's supposed to float.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah, strike one of nervousness. And still there were or
like still more things that they were going to need
to carry. So on February twenty second, nineteen eighteen, when
she left Rio de Janeiro, they made a brief call
to Salvador for refueling and then headed north to the Caribbean.
(10:46):
After more than a week at sea, the Cyclops arrived
in Bridgetown, Barbados, which is also like the heart of
the well. I can't to think of her name, Amy
Bradley disappearance. That's why that stood out in my brain.
On March third, nineteen eighteen, there more stuff was loaded
(11:08):
onto the ship, and several witnesses reported a little bit
uneasy about the way that the ship was starting to
sink lower and lower into the water. Then in Barbados,
Captain C. H. Phillips recalled that Captain Worley seemed a
little distracted, even agitated, and the ship was heavily overloaded.
(11:30):
Some crew reportedly complained that the vessel was sitting sorry
was tipping slightly as well, but still Captain Morley still
decided not to offload any cargo. On March fourth, with
weather calm and the sky is clear, the Cyclops went
out of Barbados bound for Baltimore, Maryland, its final destination.
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It was a voyage of roughly one thousand, eight hundred
miles and she was expected to arrive at around March thirteenth,
but she never did. Days passed, then weeks. No wireless
messages came in from the USS Cyclopes, no distress call.
Not a single ship in the busy shipping lanes between
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the Caribbean and the US that were also delivering for
the war effort reported seeing it as well. By June one,
nineteen eighteen, after an extensive search along the projected route
that it would have taken by the US Navy, the
USS Cyclopes, along with all three hundred and nine souls
on board, was officially declared lost. There was fifteen officers,
(12:35):
fifty four sailors, and two hundred and thirty passengers. It
was the largest non combat loss of life in the
US Navy history, and it's strange because no wreckage was
ever found, not a single lifeboat, a distress message like nothing,
no piece of clothing, no buckets, no piece of the boat.
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Nothing was ever recovered, and it was as if the
Cyclops had been erased from the sea altogether. And to
this day it remains the second strangest most nautical mystery.
As I said at the beginning, and for decades, investigators
and historians have come up with plausible explanations, and you know,
we do like to speculate wildly, So let's get into that.
(13:19):
The first and most obvious is that the ship was
showing signs of being overloaded. So there's three things that
could have possibly gone wrong with that. So the type
of ship that the USS Cyclops was of the four
that was granted to be commissioned, is called a collier
the way that it's built out of steel and the
shape of it. It was strong but not indestructible, and
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during the war, these four were commissioned to do the
same job. So if overloaded, it possibly made the ship
center of gravity too low. And if there was any
sort of structural crack and the rough seas on its
way back to Baltimore, Maryland, it would have caused ship
to break apart and sink almost instantly, which would explain
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the lack of distress calls and lack of evidence the
ship just sunk. If the ore cargo was not properly
trimmed and leveled in the holes, it would shift in
the stormy weather and capsize the vessel. But then again,
if the vessel had been capsized, then everything sunk, some
sort of remnants of the boat would have been found.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Right, That's what I was thinking until you said the
very first party that you said that it would break apart.
That is it possible that it's literally in pieces, And
most people when they're looking at the surface or looking
for a big chunk, and this is in like multiples possible. Still,
it's been many hue much fucking boat with a bunch
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of huge stuff on.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It, a bunch of huge a bunch of huge and
heavy things.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, it's got a bunch of stuff. You would and
it's like but it's you.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Know, it's strange to me and all. It was so
strange to me why there were so many passengers as well.
It was like it was doing double duty of like
transporting people. But also keep in mind that some of
these people were members of the Navy that were being
brought in and that kind of stuff as well, Like
when you were when I was researching this and I
was going through like old documents, it was like showing
(15:19):
photos of people that were all on the ship that
they could like guarantee had checked in and had some
sort of job on the boat. And it was so sad.
There's like a bunch of like twenty year old guys
and just like yeah, their little sailor uniforms. Oh makes
me sad. Another theory is that maybe there was some
sort of boiler explosion. The boat was already hoofing it
(15:43):
on one engine working, so maybe it caused some sort
of catastrophic engine room failure explosion. But with no debris
ever found, even small pieces, like Sierra pointed out, it
remained speculative and it seems more likely that the ship
sank as one large piece, as noted above. As noted above,
(16:04):
I'm clearly writing a paper, has noted previously, some habits
just don't leave your writing, guys. Another possible theory is
that it was a wartime enemy. There were rumors circulating
that it was a possible German U boat that took
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out the USS cyclops, but no German submarine record matches
that route or time that the boat disappeared. The Imperial
German Navy archives, also studied after the war, contained no
mention of any such attack. It is possible that, you know,
people were feeling a little prejudice during World War two
(16:45):
and wanted to blame the Germans.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
What year did this happen?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Nineteen eighteen? World War two is in nineteen fifties, I know,
And you know, the Germans are always an.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Energy, They're always an enemy. War was in nineteen eighteen one.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
In Spain that the US was helping support. It was
a war in Europe. It was a European war.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
World War one.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Oh there you go. Yeah, well it just kept saying
the European War. So yeah, America was super involved in
World War One, but I mean a little bit, kind
of involved, very large part of history. And like if
this was a multiple choice test, I would have gotten
all all of this question. The research about the boat,
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not the war. I know, just kept referencing a European war,
and I'm like, wow, that's nice in the US stepping
in help. Oh that's why Canada wasn't involved. Another theory
is that maybe something was wrong with Captain Warley himself.
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He became a source of later spec when the ship disappeared.
He was born in Germany as Johann Frederick Wickman, and
he changed his name after immigrating to the US. Some
later suggested disloyalty or perhaps Sabotage. Says that Warley himself
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was eccentric, but a competent officer, perhaps abrasive with a
speculated drinking problem. So people wonder if maybe he was
impaired while sailing the ship and that's what caused her
to possibly go down or go missing, and with already
a precarious load on board, not really room for any
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error there.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Listen, I was suspecting him from the minute you said
that he was grumpy but decided not to unload things anyway.
I'm like, he's stealing all of this shit. I don't
know where he's taking it, along with all of the humans,
but he's stealing.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Along with all of the humans. He's stealing the human stew.
Probably it's Pirus. And finally, my favorite theory, and really
the most likely theory, is that writers linked the USS
Cyclops to the so called Bermuda Triangle, since her route
would have passed right through that region. This explanation lacks
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any factual support. It's only speculative, but we can keep
track of some things that have disappeared o our history people.
The triangle has earned a legend for a reason, but
that legend didn't start until the nineteen fifties, long after
the USS Cyclops sank. But to me, it makes the
most sense other than a sea monster coming up and
swallowing it whole. Also possible. It's noted that more than
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fifty ships and twenty planes are said to have disappeared
within the last one hundred years over the Bermuda Triangle.
That is one way or another. Yeah, two.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Fifty is fucking obvious, Okay, glearly, this place is not okay.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I just don't think that we should be sending boats
or planes through this area ever, ever, ever. But it
gets weirder, of course. The mystery deepened when two of
the USS Cyclops's sister ships, the USS Proteus nineteen forty
one and the USS Narius also in nineteen forty one,
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disappeared in the Atlantic under eerily similar circumstances while carrying
heavy cargoes as well, and neither wreck was ever found
of those ships either So were the ships flawed by
design or is it something more sinister, something attacked, something targeted,
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or is it the sea itself? The sea is the problem.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah, I'm thinking it's the sea itself. And also right
there around the Bermuda triangle, there's something going on. I
saw this thing on Facebook today which is probably a lie,
but it was still interesting thing that under you know. Okay,
so let's talk about the layers of the earth here. Apparently,
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according to some theoretical scientists, there is a secret, even
deeper ocean close to the center of Oh. I don't
know it is. I don't know, but this is clearly
like directly under the Bermuda tranpe. That's where the eels
come from.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Like, it's true, and we still don't know where they're
they're doing there.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
There's probably other aliens down there, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
There's a whole lot of shipwrecks, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Captain what's his space? Like with the fucking aliens, it
was like, I'll bring you all these humans, I'll bring
them right down to you sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
That's horrible, but also a theory, also a solid theory.
The USS Cyclops is oh, and also, I hope they
landlocked the shit out of that fourth ship. They're like
three out of four of them with no trace. How
it's not going out there? All we have left the USS.
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Cyclops's last known coordinates remain totally uncertain, but her presumed
route would have been from the Barbados north would it's
a good thing I'm not a ship captain, to just
a peak bay where it would have crossed deep ocean
trenches where wreckage could float down and be lost forever.
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After all, over eighty percent of the ocean is undiscovered.
So if the boat did sink down there to where
we can never see her again, how do three out
of four of them go missing though with no trace?
Is my question? But anyways, more than one hundred years later,
it remains one of the Navy's most haunting enigmas, and
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for the family of the three hundred and nine people,
the absence of evidence offered no closure to them, only
for the brain to wonder what if. Like the rest
of us, historians generally agree today that the cause was
likely a combination of overloading, structural stress, and bad weather,
compounded by engine trouble. That the boat was already having,
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but until the shipwreck is actually ever found, If it
ever is, her fate will remain a ghost story of
the sea.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah. I don't I don't know. I think that all
of those things, the too much weight, the overworked boat, the.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Like Captain morley By and suspicious as fuck.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Well, I think all of that stuff gives him more
reason to be suspicious. He's like, they got me on
this fucked up ship ship this stuff that's clearly like
he's like, I'm about to sink. No, I'm not, I'm
gonna get the hell out of here or something, you
know what I mean. Like it would cause him to
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go rogue. You know. It's like it's like if you're
an uber driver, all right, like a fast like a
like an uber eats driver, Okay, and they gave you
all of this food that's about to go bad in
a car that's about to break down, and you could
deliver the food and get yelled at by everyone who
delivers it and maybe break down in the middle of nowhere,
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or you could go home and eat all the food
because fuck everybody else. Okay, he went home and ate
all the food.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I think you're right. He could have sold that off
the back of the ship for a lot more. But
I'm sure he was delivering it for that, and maybe
he did sacrifice some souls to the Bermuda Triangle. Maybe,
I mean, he seems eccentric. Maybe he joined a pirate gang.
And it's like bikipedia like website about this man. Just eccentric, eccentric, eccentric?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
What eccentric in nineteen eighty Like eccentric now means you're
you were an emo like fifteen years ago. Eccentric in
nineteen eighteen. What did that mean?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I don't know Kooky's hell, I imagine. Well, you guys
will see photos of him and his curly mustache on
our episode post for this not already, make sure that
you're following us on social media. We love an exotic
mustache on the show, but we do not like human sacrifice.
So I knew there's really a fine line. But let
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us know your thoughts and theories. My personal theory is
seat monster. Yeah, I think the Kraken got the Mary
Celeste and the USS cyclopes.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Nineteen eighteen was World War One? Yes, nineteen forty one
is World War two. Clearly Warley with his German ass
did all of this Okay, gosh dang.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Just to clarify, guys here can say that Kashi is partner.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I'm a German, ask too.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
She's allowed to be mad, you know what, you might
be onto something, dude, gosh dang, I mean, but like
no one's ever seen him again, so like he disappeared too.
I don't know. I just don't like it.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
So did Hitler.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
The ocean terrifies the ship, the ship out of me.
That's fair. I'm not even gonna cut that out. I
need to stop talking about this though, because I'm nervous
and I'm gonna get back on the Black Sea TikTok
train and I don't want to go back.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Don't say it in front of your phone.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
As soon as I said it up, like fuck, So, Sierra,
do you have anything exciting or haunted to tell me about?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
My house is so haunted? Okay. Sissy refuses to go
to the bathroom in my in the master bathroom in
my bedroom because she's like, it's so creepy in there.
And one day she specifically said that, like she was like,
let me use the regular bathroom, you use your bethroom
because your bedroom is cre be I'm like, oh my God,
you're ridiculous. You're dramatic. So I go to my bathroom.
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While I'm in my bathroom, the lights start flickering no,
and I was like, what's happening like? And it wasn't
just like a you know, it was like it went
out for a good like two seconds and then back
on so much so that I thought the power went
out like for a split second. And then I came
out of the bathroom and I looked around it. No
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one had like said anything. Usually when the power goes out,
the kids will be like, oh my god, you know,
just to make loud noise and be crazy. But nobody
said anything or anything. And I was like, she literally
just said that it was creepy in here, and I
now the lights are flickering. So I went to Jesse
and I was like, Babe, I am telling you go
to real all right. And Sissy scared of our bathroom
(27:46):
and he's like she should be. I went into our
bedroom the other day and the lights just started flickering,
and I was like, that just happened to me, but
in our bathroom. He's like, yeah, I don't know what's
going on, and the alias I don't blame her he
didn't even question. But the alias always just start talking,
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like so we have a bunch of ali XA lights
and so we'll tell her, hey, turn on this light,
Hey turn on that light. Sometimes you'll just hear her
go okay and a light turns on, but nobody told
her to.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And one time I think I already here anyway. I
think we need to buy a second voice recorder, even
though I don't think you want to know.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, I talked to I'm pretty sure it's the woman
her the other day in the bathroom because I walked
in Nana, lights started flickering, and I'm like, what is
the issue? Like if you want me to leave? Or
I said, I said, do you want me to leave?
If you do? Flickered lights whatever, nothing happened, And I'm like,
is it the light itself? Like do you just want
(28:52):
to darken here? If you want me to turn off
the lights? Flickered lights and they flicker and I was like, okay,
I'll turn off the lights a sudden in.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
The dark again if that makes you feel better. It's yeah,
I mean that's creepy that you got intelligent responses. Yeah,
that is creepy. I mean that and like sissy seeing
who she thought was you in her bedroom but not
having anyone.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
In there twice two times.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, no, thank you, And you renovated your house.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, she probably wants me to finish the fucking bathroom.
The bathroom is the only house the only room in
the house that's not finished. And it's just like, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Don't want to like about this place, is hidious?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Right? Yeah, She's like, put my fucking wallpaper back, you bitch.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
There hasn't even been a working toilet in here. Come
on your life together. I mean, yeah, renovations tend to
stir up ghosty activity. I've never renovated in anything in
my house other than painting, so I don't know what
it's deal with me is. But that's fine, And it's
funny that I say that because me and Kevin and
his friends Mikey played Fastmophobia last night for like three hours.
(30:10):
Oh god, no, which is it's not actually three hours?
Actually no, we did play for three hours. Normally I
can't play games for that long because I get dizzy
with like the turning and the walking. It gives me
like vertigo, So normally I can't play for that long.
But Fastmophobia is a lot of fun because you do
(30:30):
paranormal investigations, but it's in a video game and it
can kill you. And these games just come around your
face and then you can't do anything and you're just
like a ghost in the level while they're all playing
around you. Have you played it before?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Have you seen it? I don't think that it is
the game that I'm thinking of, But I used to
play a game where you would go around and take
pictures of ghosts.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Oh that's fun. Yeah, So you use different paranormal investigation gear.
You have to buy it, so you have to like
eat enough levels to get money to and if you eye,
you lose half your money. I mean that seems fair.
But I died fifty percent of the time yesterday. We
played six levels and I died half the time because
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it kept responding to my voice because you can like
talk to it, and I need to walk around with
spirit boxes and like salts and like all of the
here and then depending on what type of spirit it
is is how you like figure it out depending on
how it responds, like if it's freezing cold temperatures, or
if it's like writing in a book, or if it's
like if it jumps out and scares you. So we
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did a camp level yesterday that I had a little
girl ghost named Holly, and she just kept like appearing
behind me, and Kevin's like, right, it's fun, but it's
ironic that we play these that I play this game
when we deal with it in real life, which is yeah,
actually ridiculous. But it's a fun game. So I would
(31:58):
recommend if anybody likes to play video games. It's on
Steam and I'm pretty sure it's like on sale half
the time. So anyways, it's a fun game to play
with your friends. I need Sierra to have a computer
again so that we can play games like this together.
It's less scary when it can't well, I don't know.
I screamed a couple of times, and Kevin's like, I
(32:19):
can't hear you, Like your mic just doesn't pick you
up anymore, because if you were like walking around with
a spirit box, you have like headphones on, so you
can only hear like whatever it picks up. So I
heard crying or like I heard like a lady laughing,
and I was like, oh no, gross, so gross. And
(32:44):
then another random thing that I wanted to tell you
about was a slash that I'm excited about was that
the Jonas brothers have a Christmas movie coming out. Did
you see that?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I did see.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
You feel like a little kid again or a teenager again.
I feel like, oh, it's gonna be the cringiest movie ever.
I already know it. She didn't want to say it,
her face was saying it, and I said it for you.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I'm gonna watch it anyway. But holy fucking shit, what
are they doing?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
I mean, do whatever the fuck you want.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
But also I like that they all feel like so
in the trailers that I've seen, it feels like they're
trying to cater to kids like they used to like
in our era, and adults because they definitely poked fun
at Joe being a slut in the trailer.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah, it's like they're like, this is for our fans
who visited us when they were in high school and
their daughters like thank you. I think I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Know pretty much. Yeah, if you and Sissy end up
watching it together, put me on an iPad next to you.
But it was I'm very excited for it. I think
that comes out on the eighteenth and the nineteenth, and
then I bought myself a present.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Oh is that blanket a present? Because it's beautiful. It
was my birthday present. That's the softest blanket ever. It
looks like cozy.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
It is so cozy. She was forty percent off nice,
so I had to. It was one hundred and thirty
dollars with shipping. It was necessary.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
When you open those books up, you cannot read the
Throne of Glass first. You have to read Assassin's Blass Blade.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
It's in that order, so it won't is it. Yeah, okay,
it won't even look good, So there you go. But
I did write it down when you told me that
a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Yeah, because everyone said to read a third or third
or fourth or something. They said, that's what Sara Jay
Mass recommends. But I tried to read them Thrown of
Glass first, and I read the first chapter and I
was like, this book sucks. I don't want to read this.
And then I read Assassin's Blade and I was like, okay, wait,
I need to know what happens in Throne of Glass.
So it just for me, I needed to know the
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character before I jumped right into her story.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
That's fair. It's kind of like how we needed a
court of Thorns and Roses to give us all of
favorous little isms and world building right to write with
the rest of the books. Yeah, sometimes it's necessary, but yeah,
I'm very excited hopefully put out good energy for my
next Saturday shift, guys, because apparently that's all I'm getting
(35:39):
and it no. I left that shift and I definitely
laughed and I was like, I bet you that was
a little bit of Sierra, a little Serra magic in
the universe. Well, because the most amount of money I've
ever made serving in one shift was three hundred and
sixty dollars and that so that's insane. Good, let's hope,
(36:03):
because life's expensive and I would really like to come
see Cierras, so if you would like to help support that.
But if you want more of us, you can come
listen to us on Patreon. We do monthly Urban Legends
and Bitch and Wine segments for you can get more
nonsense like you get at the end of the episodes.
And uh yeah, maybe some stuff in the future of
(36:24):
which we always talk about ideas something, yeah, something we
keep asking us about book Club. We might have to
bring back book Club eventually when we both have more
time because Let's face it, we love to read.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
We do.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Yeah. Anyways, we love you guys lots. If you like
this episode, rate and review, let us know your theories
as to what happened. It's definitely a same monster, but
I want to know. And in the meantime, we'll see
you next week for sears I.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Don't know just yet, And in the meantime, keep it twisted.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
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Hello, twisted humans.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Do you find yourself wanting to know more about the
latest murder, conspiracy, cult, or haunting.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Than this is the podcast for you.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm Alicia and I'm Sierra and this is Twisted and Uncorked.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Hello, and welcome to another episode of Twisted and Uncorked,
your favorite podcast. This is episode two seventeen, and I
have a nautical disappearance for you today. Oh before we
get into that, Sierra, do you have a fun fact
for me?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Of course, speacause I'm always prepared.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's like she just realized that she had the perfect
fun fact in real time, is it not.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I actually don't have a fun fact at all. I
just realized, Oh, yeah, we do that.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Oh that's okay. At least you knew what show was.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
True.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I have two sets of truly twisted notes in front
of me and mine. That's just not confusing at all.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I am on a website about fun facts about boats. However,
I'm not sure that I believe a single one of
these facts. Okay, So I'm going to tell you about it,
about it and why? All right? So this fun fact
says Laura Decker is the youngest individual to sail around
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the world. She's a fourteen year old who went off
to sail around the world in twenty twelve when she
was sixteen and finished her trip five hundred and eighteen
days later, so she traveled through time as well. She
started when she's sixteen, now she's fourteen.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I really want that to be a true story.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I think they did that wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I think she was.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Started when she was sixteen, fourteen, and now she's sixteen.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
That makes more.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, this says she started when she was sixteen and
now she's fourteen.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So my fun fact is not not a coal related
or a I related, but it is nineteen eighteen related
in that certain things were created. Slush invented in nineteen eighteen,
for example, the pop up toaster. People were tired of
burning their toast, so this convenience helped fave breakfasts everywhere.
(02:22):
Zippers were also invented in nineteen eighteen and incorporated specifically
into military uniforms which we will get to and boots.
So yeah, I thought that was interesting. Nineteen eighteen is
a weird time.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And nineteen eighteen get into it all right, I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
My drink, though, is not a coal related, unlike my
fun fact. In that it is called a Bermuda triangle
in my ho Ocean themed glass. I got ghosties here,
but I basically told Skierra that we were making a
pineapple orange ginger beer because I knew that I was
drinking a mocktail, and I just assume that she was.
(03:01):
Hers is in a copper mug, which is very Moscow
Mulia of her, and I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It also feels nautical to me because like the bells
and things that are when the ships are made of.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's true, that is true. I do really want to
try the dark and stormy Bermuda Triangle cocktail as it
is hint, hint, nudge, nudge everybody, and for that you
will need one and a half ounces of dark rum,
half an ounce of pineapple juice, two to three ounces
of ginger beer, two dashes of orange bitters, and a
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lime wedge cut into a triangle shape.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So it sounds really tasty and refreshing, and I of
course love ginger beer as sira, so we will definitely
have to try that at some point if anybody wants
to make themselves a boozy Bermuda triangle. But we are
drinking the mocktail version because I'm going to a pilates
glass in two hours and it feels responsible to drink
(04:01):
rum and then go work out in a hot room.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, I'm going to do pilate's in front of my
TV in a few hours, So agree to a girl.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
How did you make your ginger beer? Because I know
that I last minute sent you this recipe.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, so usually I have ginger beer on hand, I
did not have ginger beer, so I used club soda
and ginger because I have ginger and club soda, and
I just chopped it up really small and like pressed
it and put it in there, so I have chunks
of ginger floating around. And then I poured in a
little bit of pineapple juice and a little bit of
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lime juice. And I did I do have orange bitters.
I you know, did like that with orange bitters.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I'm jealous that you have bitters in your house. A
lot of recipes that I look at and find intriguing
more and more involved bitters. So I feel like I
just need to get a kit or something.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well, I only bought orange bitters or I'm just the
only gonna have. Once upon a time, a long time
ago because my dad used to love alm fashions, not
even specifically old fashions, but bourbon. Bourbon is really popular
in Cincinnati. Well, it's really popular in Kentucky, which is
right next to Cincinnati, and so I wanted to learn
(05:18):
how to like bourbon, and he's like, you gotta put
bitterers in it. So I bought orange bitters specifically for
that reason, and never drink any.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I feel like, if the opportunity ever presents itself, you
and I need to do like a craft cocktail bartending
class for the night. I feel like it would be
so fun. Not that you need any pointers, because you
seem to bust out beautiful and delicious drinks at all times,
but I really need to learn how to blend.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I'm really good at following directions. That's it, I promise, Like,
but you're such a good cook, You're such a good
I'm just really good at following directions. All right, I
will follow them to a teeth.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And speaking of following directions to a t I did
not misunderstand the assignment for my episode today, but we
will get into that after this quick break. Welcome back.
So we have made some Bermuda triangle and some nautical jokes. So,
as you can probably imagine, my disappearance is but related
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and it is about the USS Cyclops. It is the
second most perplexing ship disappearance underneath the Mary Celeste, which
if you are a patron or if you caught the
patron leaked episode version on our main feed, you know
that Sierra did cover that episode, and naturally we are
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going to have some of the same theories as a result.
As always, my favorite is sea monster, but.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I mean also things that are in the sea, although
probably se monstrous either way, are just crazy. Okay, even
if it's not a.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
The ocean is terrifying, triangle is terrified.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Did you say USS Cyclops?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Was that it's given name before this event occurred?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Correct? That is the irony of it, all right?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Didn't they think maybe there's anothership disappearance that I was
looking into that was called the USS Terror And it's like,
what do we think is going to happen to these boats?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
If you keep naming it this shit? Maybe just don't
do that. Yeah, I couldn't tell you why that was
the name that I chose, but it's definitely ironic. So
in January of nineteen eighteen, the Cyclops, under the command
of Lieutenant Commander George W. Worley, was assigned to travel
from Brazil to refuel the US South Atlantic Squadron. That
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doesn't roll off the tongue like Cyclops. I mean, I
guess that that's a bonus there and bring back guineas
or which was a dense mineral essential to producing steel
and ammunitions as a part of the war effort. And
when the war erupted in Europe in nineteen fourteen, the
United States remained neutral for a time, but its navy
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did expand globally, and thus the USS Cyclops became part
of a naval overseas transportation service, basically cauling things that
they would need to get through the war, coal, raw materials, supplies,
that kind of stuff between the US, the Caribbean and
South America. So it was vital during the war, was
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what I gathered, and the US government approved making four
of these ships. They were all dialed and built similarly,
So that makes sense to me in some ways, but
also not, like why not just have like rotating ships
rather than sending one back and forth all the time.
But I get it, I don't understand war. But at
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five hundred and forty two feet long. She was huge
but very slow, and her primary mission was to transport
all of these supplies, like I said, to warships stationed
around the world. They were powered by two reciprocating engines
and equipped with multiple holds, so she could carry thousands
of tons of heavy cargo, but because she is long
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and skinny, that cargo needed to be carefully balanced so
as to not capsize the ship. She didn't need to
be fast. She was doing what she needed to do,
just trucking along back and forth help in the war.
But by February sixteenth, the ship was docked in Rio
de Janeiro, her coal was delivered, and the next step
was to bring eleven thousand tons of manganese or to Baltimore, Maryland,
(09:46):
so that it could be turned into ammunition. Manganese is
far denser and heavier than ore, though, making the stability
of the shit much more precarious. This issue, along with
the Cyclops sailing with a now all broken starboard engine
cylinder with a crack that had cracked weeks earlier in
its trip, engineers had managed to keep it running on
(10:09):
a single engine, but it was even more slow and
thus vulnerable to accliment weather. Witnesses in Rio de Janio
noted that the ship seemed to sit low in the
water even before it was fully loaded, which was not
a great sign.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah it's supposed to float.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah, strike one of nervousness. And still there were or
like still more things that they were going to need
to carry. So on February twenty second, nineteen eighteen, when
she left Rio de Janeiro, they made a brief call
to Salvador for refueling and then headed north to the Caribbean.
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After more than a week at sea, the Cyclops arrived
in Bridgetown, Barbados, which is also like the heart of
the well. I can't to think of her name, Amy
Bradley disappearance. That's why that stood out in my brain.
On March third, nineteen eighteen, there more stuff was loaded
(11:08):
onto the ship, and several witnesses reported a little bit
uneasy about the way that the ship was starting to
sink lower and lower into the water. Then in Barbados,
Captain C. H. Phillips recalled that Captain Worley seemed a
little distracted, even agitated, and the ship was heavily overloaded.
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Some crew reportedly complained that the vessel was sitting sorry
was tipping slightly as well, but still Captain Morley still
decided not to offload any cargo. On March fourth, with
weather calm and the sky is clear, the Cyclops went
out of Barbados bound for Baltimore, Maryland, its final destination.
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It was a voyage of roughly one thousand, eight hundred
miles and she was expected to arrive at around March thirteenth,
but she never did. Days passed, then weeks. No wireless
messages came in from the USS Cyclopes, no distress call.
Not a single ship in the busy shipping lanes between
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the Caribbean and the US that were also delivering for
the war effort reported seeing it as well. By June one,
nineteen eighteen, after an extensive search along the projected route
that it would have taken by the US Navy, the
USS Cyclopes, along with all three hundred and nine souls
on board, was officially declared lost. There was fifteen officers,
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fifty four sailors, and two hundred and thirty passengers. It
was the largest non combat loss of life in the
US Navy history, and it's strange because no wreckage was
ever found, not a single lifeboat, a distress message like nothing,
no piece of clothing, no buckets, no piece of the boat.
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Nothing was ever recovered, and it was as if the
Cyclops had been erased from the sea altogether. And to
this day it remains the second strangest most nautical mystery.
As I said at the beginning, and for decades, investigators
and historians have come up with plausible explanations, and you know,
we do like to speculate wildly, So let's get into that.
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The first and most obvious is that the ship was
showing signs of being overloaded. So there's three things that
could have possibly gone wrong with that. So the type
of ship that the USS Cyclops was of the four
that was granted to be commissioned, is called a collier
the way that it's built out of steel and the
shape of it. It was strong but not indestructible, and
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during the war, these four were commissioned to do the
same job. So if overloaded, it possibly made the ship
center of gravity too low. And if there was any
sort of structural crack and the rough seas on its
way back to Baltimore, Maryland, it would have caused ship
to break apart and sink almost instantly, which would explain
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the lack of distress calls and lack of evidence the
ship just sunk. If the ore cargo was not properly
trimmed and leveled in the holes, it would shift in
the stormy weather and capsize the vessel. But then again,
if the vessel had been capsized, then everything sunk, some
sort of remnants of the boat would have been found.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Right, That's what I was thinking until you said the
very first party that you said that it would break apart.
That is it possible that it's literally in pieces, And
most people when they're looking at the surface or looking
for a big chunk, and this is in like multiples possible. Still,
it's been many hue much fucking boat with a bunch
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of huge stuff on.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It, a bunch of huge a bunch of huge and
heavy things.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, it's got a bunch of stuff. You would and
it's like but it's you.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Know, it's strange to me and all. It was so
strange to me why there were so many passengers as well.
It was like it was doing double duty of like
transporting people. But also keep in mind that some of
these people were members of the Navy that were being
brought in and that kind of stuff as well, Like
when you were when I was researching this and I
was going through like old documents, it was like showing
(15:19):
photos of people that were all on the ship that
they could like guarantee had checked in and had some
sort of job on the boat. And it was so sad.
There's like a bunch of like twenty year old guys
and just like yeah, their little sailor uniforms. Oh makes
me sad. Another theory is that maybe there was some
sort of boiler explosion. The boat was already hoofing it
(15:43):
on one engine working, so maybe it caused some sort
of catastrophic engine room failure explosion. But with no debris
ever found, even small pieces, like Sierra pointed out, it
remained speculative and it seems more likely that the ship
sank as one large piece, as noted above. As noted above,
(16:04):
I'm clearly writing a paper, has noted previously, some habits
just don't leave your writing, guys. Another possible theory is
that it was a wartime enemy. There were rumors circulating
that it was a possible German U boat that took
(16:25):
out the USS cyclops, but no German submarine record matches
that route or time that the boat disappeared. The Imperial
German Navy archives, also studied after the war, contained no
mention of any such attack. It is possible that, you know,
people were feeling a little prejudice during World War two
(16:45):
and wanted to blame the Germans.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
What year did this happen?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Nineteen eighteen? World War two is in nineteen fifties, I know,
And you know, the Germans are always an.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Energy, They're always an enemy. War was in nineteen eighteen one.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
In Spain that the US was helping support. It was
a war in Europe. It was a European war.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
World War one.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Oh there you go. Yeah, well it just kept saying
the European War. So yeah, America was super involved in
World War One, but I mean a little bit, kind
of involved, very large part of history. And like if
this was a multiple choice test, I would have gotten
all all of this question. The research about the boat,
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not the war. I know, just kept referencing a European war,
and I'm like, wow, that's nice in the US stepping
in help. Oh that's why Canada wasn't involved. Another theory
is that maybe something was wrong with Captain Warley himself.
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He became a source of later spec when the ship disappeared.
He was born in Germany as Johann Frederick Wickman, and
he changed his name after immigrating to the US. Some
later suggested disloyalty or perhaps Sabotage. Says that Warley himself
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was eccentric, but a competent officer, perhaps abrasive with a
speculated drinking problem. So people wonder if maybe he was
impaired while sailing the ship and that's what caused her
to possibly go down or go missing, and with already
a precarious load on board, not really room for any
(18:39):
error there.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Listen, I was suspecting him from the minute you said
that he was grumpy but decided not to unload things anyway.
I'm like, he's stealing all of this shit. I don't
know where he's taking it, along with all of the humans,
but he's stealing.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Along with all of the humans. He's stealing the human stew.
Probably it's Pirus. And finally, my favorite theory, and really
the most likely theory, is that writers linked the USS
Cyclops to the so called Bermuda Triangle, since her route
would have passed right through that region. This explanation lacks
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any factual support. It's only speculative, but we can keep
track of some things that have disappeared o our history people.
The triangle has earned a legend for a reason, but
that legend didn't start until the nineteen fifties, long after
the USS Cyclops sank. But to me, it makes the
most sense other than a sea monster coming up and
swallowing it whole. Also possible. It's noted that more than
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fifty ships and twenty planes are said to have disappeared
within the last one hundred years over the Bermuda Triangle.
That is one way or another. Yeah, two.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Fifty is fucking obvious, Okay, glearly, this place is not okay.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I just don't think that we should be sending boats
or planes through this area ever, ever, ever. But it
gets weirder, of course. The mystery deepened when two of
the USS Cyclops's sister ships, the USS Proteus nineteen forty
one and the USS Narius also in nineteen forty one,
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disappeared in the Atlantic under eerily similar circumstances while carrying
heavy cargoes as well, and neither wreck was ever found
of those ships either So were the ships flawed by
design or is it something more sinister, something attacked, something targeted,
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or is it the sea itself? The sea is the problem.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah, I'm thinking it's the sea itself. And also right
there around the Bermuda triangle, there's something going on. I
saw this thing on Facebook today which is probably a lie,
but it was still interesting thing that under you know. Okay,
so let's talk about the layers of the earth here. Apparently,
(21:13):
according to some theoretical scientists, there is a secret, even
deeper ocean close to the center of Oh. I don't
know it is. I don't know, but this is clearly
like directly under the Bermuda tranpe. That's where the eels
come from.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Like, it's true, and we still don't know where they're
they're doing there.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
There's probably other aliens down there, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
There's a whole lot of shipwrecks, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Captain what's his space? Like with the fucking aliens, it
was like, I'll bring you all these humans, I'll bring
them right down to you sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
That's horrible, but also a theory, also a solid theory.
The USS Cyclops is oh, and also, I hope they
landlocked the shit out of that fourth ship. They're like
three out of four of them with no trace. How
it's not going out there? All we have left the USS.
(22:15):
Cyclops's last known coordinates remain totally uncertain, but her presumed
route would have been from the Barbados north would it's
a good thing I'm not a ship captain, to just
a peak bay where it would have crossed deep ocean
trenches where wreckage could float down and be lost forever.
(22:38):
After all, over eighty percent of the ocean is undiscovered.
So if the boat did sink down there to where
we can never see her again, how do three out
of four of them go missing though with no trace?
Is my question? But anyways, more than one hundred years later,
it remains one of the Navy's most haunting enigmas, and
(22:59):
for the family of the three hundred and nine people,
the absence of evidence offered no closure to them, only
for the brain to wonder what if. Like the rest
of us, historians generally agree today that the cause was
likely a combination of overloading, structural stress, and bad weather,
compounded by engine trouble. That the boat was already having,
(23:20):
but until the shipwreck is actually ever found, If it
ever is, her fate will remain a ghost story of
the sea.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah. I don't I don't know. I think that all
of those things, the too much weight, the overworked boat, the.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Like Captain morley By and suspicious as fuck.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Well, I think all of that stuff gives him more
reason to be suspicious. He's like, they got me on
this fucked up ship ship this stuff that's clearly like
he's like, I'm about to sink. No, I'm not, I'm
gonna get the hell out of here or something, you
know what I mean. Like it would cause him to
(24:04):
go rogue. You know. It's like it's like if you're
an uber driver, all right, like a fast like a
like an uber eats driver, Okay, and they gave you
all of this food that's about to go bad in
a car that's about to break down, and you could
deliver the food and get yelled at by everyone who
delivers it and maybe break down in the middle of nowhere,
(24:26):
or you could go home and eat all the food
because fuck everybody else. Okay, he went home and ate
all the food.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I think you're right. He could have sold that off
the back of the ship for a lot more. But
I'm sure he was delivering it for that, and maybe
he did sacrifice some souls to the Bermuda Triangle. Maybe,
I mean, he seems eccentric. Maybe he joined a pirate gang.
And it's like bikipedia like website about this man. Just eccentric, eccentric, eccentric?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
What eccentric in nineteen eighty Like eccentric now means you're
you were an emo like fifteen years ago. Eccentric in
nineteen eighteen. What did that mean?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I don't know Kooky's hell, I imagine. Well, you guys
will see photos of him and his curly mustache on
our episode post for this not already, make sure that
you're following us on social media. We love an exotic
mustache on the show, but we do not like human sacrifice.
So I knew there's really a fine line. But let
(25:31):
us know your thoughts and theories. My personal theory is
seat monster. Yeah, I think the Kraken got the Mary
Celeste and the USS cyclopes.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Nineteen eighteen was World War One? Yes, nineteen forty one
is World War two. Clearly Warley with his German ass
did all of this Okay, gosh dang.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Just to clarify, guys here can say that Kashi is partner.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I'm a German, ask too.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
She's allowed to be mad, you know what, you might
be onto something, dude, gosh dang, I mean, but like
no one's ever seen him again, so like he disappeared too.
I don't know. I just don't like it.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
So did Hitler.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
The ocean terrifies the ship, the ship out of me.
That's fair. I'm not even gonna cut that out. I
need to stop talking about this though, because I'm nervous
and I'm gonna get back on the Black Sea TikTok
train and I don't want to go back.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Don't say it in front of your phone.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
As soon as I said it up, like fuck, So, Sierra,
do you have anything exciting or haunted to tell me about?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
My house is so haunted? Okay. Sissy refuses to go
to the bathroom in my in the master bathroom in
my bedroom because she's like, it's so creepy in there.
And one day she specifically said that, like she was like,
let me use the regular bathroom, you use your bethroom
because your bedroom is cre be I'm like, oh my God,
you're ridiculous. You're dramatic. So I go to my bathroom.
(27:04):
While I'm in my bathroom, the lights start flickering no,
and I was like, what's happening like? And it wasn't
just like a you know, it was like it went
out for a good like two seconds and then back
on so much so that I thought the power went
out like for a split second. And then I came
out of the bathroom and I looked around it. No
(27:25):
one had like said anything. Usually when the power goes out,
the kids will be like, oh my god, you know,
just to make loud noise and be crazy. But nobody
said anything or anything. And I was like, she literally
just said that it was creepy in here, and I
now the lights are flickering. So I went to Jesse
and I was like, Babe, I am telling you go
to real all right. And Sissy scared of our bathroom
(27:46):
and he's like she should be. I went into our
bedroom the other day and the lights just started flickering,
and I was like, that just happened to me, but
in our bathroom. He's like, yeah, I don't know what's
going on, and the alias I don't blame her he
didn't even question. But the alias always just start talking,
(28:08):
like so we have a bunch of ali XA lights
and so we'll tell her, hey, turn on this light,
Hey turn on that light. Sometimes you'll just hear her
go okay and a light turns on, but nobody told
her to.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And one time I think I already here anyway. I
think we need to buy a second voice recorder, even
though I don't think you want to know.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, I talked to I'm pretty sure it's the woman
her the other day in the bathroom because I walked
in Nana, lights started flickering, and I'm like, what is
the issue? Like if you want me to leave? Or
I said, I said, do you want me to leave?
If you do? Flickered lights whatever, nothing happened, And I'm like,
is it the light itself? Like do you just want
(28:52):
to darken here? If you want me to turn off
the lights? Flickered lights and they flicker and I was like, okay,
I'll turn off the lights a sudden in.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
The dark again if that makes you feel better. It's yeah,
I mean that's creepy that you got intelligent responses. Yeah,
that is creepy. I mean that and like sissy seeing
who she thought was you in her bedroom but not
having anyone.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
In there twice two times.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, no, thank you, And you renovated your house.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, she probably wants me to finish the fucking bathroom.
The bathroom is the only house the only room in
the house that's not finished. And it's just like, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Don't want to like about this place, is hidious?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Right? Yeah, She's like, put my fucking wallpaper back, you bitch.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
There hasn't even been a working toilet in here. Come
on your life together. I mean, yeah, renovations tend to
stir up ghosty activity. I've never renovated in anything in
my house other than painting, so I don't know what
it's deal with me is. But that's fine, And it's
funny that I say that because me and Kevin and
his friends Mikey played Fastmophobia last night for like three hours.
(30:10):
Oh god, no, which is it's not actually three hours?
Actually no, we did play for three hours. Normally I
can't play games for that long because I get dizzy
with like the turning and the walking. It gives me
like vertigo, So normally I can't play for that long.
But Fastmophobia is a lot of fun because you do
(30:30):
paranormal investigations, but it's in a video game and it
can kill you. And these games just come around your
face and then you can't do anything and you're just
like a ghost in the level while they're all playing
around you. Have you played it before?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Have you seen it? I don't think that it is
the game that I'm thinking of, But I used to
play a game where you would go around and take
pictures of ghosts.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Oh that's fun. Yeah, So you use different paranormal investigation gear.
You have to buy it, so you have to like
eat enough levels to get money to and if you eye,
you lose half your money. I mean that seems fair.
But I died fifty percent of the time yesterday. We
played six levels and I died half the time because
(31:14):
it kept responding to my voice because you can like
talk to it, and I need to walk around with
spirit boxes and like salts and like all of the
here and then depending on what type of spirit it
is is how you like figure it out depending on
how it responds, like if it's freezing cold temperatures, or
if it's like writing in a book, or if it's
like if it jumps out and scares you. So we
(31:37):
did a camp level yesterday that I had a little
girl ghost named Holly, and she just kept like appearing
behind me, and Kevin's like, right, it's fun, but it's
ironic that we play these that I play this game
when we deal with it in real life, which is yeah,
actually ridiculous. But it's a fun game. So I would
(31:58):
recommend if anybody likes to play video games. It's on
Steam and I'm pretty sure it's like on sale half
the time. So anyways, it's a fun game to play
with your friends. I need Sierra to have a computer
again so that we can play games like this together.
It's less scary when it can't well, I don't know.
I screamed a couple of times, and Kevin's like, I
(32:19):
can't hear you, Like your mic just doesn't pick you
up anymore, because if you were like walking around with
a spirit box, you have like headphones on, so you
can only hear like whatever it picks up. So I
heard crying or like I heard like a lady laughing,
and I was like, oh no, gross, so gross. And
(32:44):
then another random thing that I wanted to tell you
about was a slash that I'm excited about was that
the Jonas brothers have a Christmas movie coming out. Did
you see that?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I did see.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
You feel like a little kid again or a teenager again.
I feel like, oh, it's gonna be the cringiest movie ever.
I already know it. She didn't want to say it,
her face was saying it, and I said it for you.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I'm gonna watch it anyway. But holy fucking shit, what
are they doing?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
I mean, do whatever the fuck you want.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
But also I like that they all feel like so
in the trailers that I've seen, it feels like they're
trying to cater to kids like they used to like
in our era, and adults because they definitely poked fun
at Joe being a slut in the trailer.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah, it's like they're like, this is for our fans
who visited us when they were in high school and
their daughters like thank you. I think I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Know pretty much. Yeah, if you and Sissy end up
watching it together, put me on an iPad next to you.
But it was I'm very excited for it. I think
that comes out on the eighteenth and the nineteenth, and
then I bought myself a present.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Oh is that blanket a present? Because it's beautiful. It
was my birthday present. That's the softest blanket ever. It
looks like cozy.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
It is so cozy. She was forty percent off nice,
so I had to. It was one hundred and thirty
dollars with shipping. It was necessary.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
When you open those books up, you cannot read the
Throne of Glass first. You have to read Assassin's Blass Blade.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
It's in that order, so it won't is it. Yeah, okay,
it won't even look good, So there you go. But
I did write it down when you told me that
a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Yeah, because everyone said to read a third or third
or fourth or something. They said, that's what Sara Jay
Mass recommends. But I tried to read them Thrown of
Glass first, and I read the first chapter and I
was like, this book sucks. I don't want to read this.
And then I read Assassin's Blade and I was like, okay, wait,
I need to know what happens in Throne of Glass.
So it just for me, I needed to know the
(35:13):
character before I jumped right into her story.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
That's fair. It's kind of like how we needed a
court of Thorns and Roses to give us all of
favorous little isms and world building right to write with
the rest of the books. Yeah, sometimes it's necessary, but yeah,
I'm very excited hopefully put out good energy for my
next Saturday shift, guys, because apparently that's all I'm getting
(35:39):
and it no. I left that shift and I definitely
laughed and I was like, I bet you that was
a little bit of Sierra, a little Serra magic in
the universe. Well, because the most amount of money I've
ever made serving in one shift was three hundred and
sixty dollars and that so that's insane. Good, let's hope,
(36:03):
because life's expensive and I would really like to come
see Cierras, so if you would like to help support that.
But if you want more of us, you can come
listen to us on Patreon. We do monthly Urban Legends
and Bitch and Wine segments for you can get more
nonsense like you get at the end of the episodes.
And uh yeah, maybe some stuff in the future of
(36:24):
which we always talk about ideas something, yeah, something we
keep asking us about book Club. We might have to
bring back book Club eventually when we both have more
time because Let's face it, we love to read.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
We do.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Yeah. Anyways, we love you guys lots. If you like
this episode, rate and review, let us know your theories
as to what happened. It's definitely a same monster, but
I want to know. And in the meantime, we'll see
you next week for sears I.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Don't know just yet, And in the meantime, keep it twisted.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Twisted and Uncorked is hosted and produced by Sierra Zorn
and Alisia Watson. If you like the show, don't forget
to leave a five star rating and review wherever you
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