by Anorak | 28th, December 2019
A modern mystery: how did five human corpses and two severed human heads come to be on a boat shipwrecked on Japan’s Sado Island? The boat’s name has not be confirmed, but there are Korean letters on the side.
How long the boat had been at sea is hard to say, but the corpses are “partially skeletonised”. Were the bodies eaten, perhaps, by a North Korean crew seeking refuge in Japan or South Korea?
The BBC speculates the the boat is a fishing vessel and the crew were forced by the country’s oppressive regime and a desperate need for food to fish too far from shore.