Ep.4 The Hollow Ship: Japan’s Unsolved Maritime Mystery

Welcome back to Brief Encounters, where history whispers about things that don’t quite fit.I’m your host, Nik. And today, we’re traveling to the shores of feudal Japan—to the year 1803. A time when samurai still held power, and isolation from the outside world was strictly enforced.It’s a story passed down through strange drawings, oral tales, and old scrolls. A ship, unlike any other, drifts ashore. Not wooden, not familiar—a metallic disc with glass windows, covered in symbols no one could read, it’s a story known as the Utsuro-bune legend.

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