Stories from Atlântico Norte, A leste dos Açores, Alto-mar

Mary Celeste: ten missing people and a ship that kept sailing

In 1872, a brigantine was found without any of its ten people aboard, although it could still sail. This dossier reconstructs the voyage, survey and Gibraltar hearing, separating the physical traces from the fiction that turned the case into a legend.

833 km · Lousada

Rui Pedro: the Lousada disappearance and the limits of a conviction

Rui Pedro vanished at 11 in Lousada in 1998. An abduction conviction followed more than fifteen years later, but the courts did not establish the child’s fate. This dossier traces witnesses, appeals, unconfirmed leads, and his family’s continuing search.

1,613 km · Nantes

Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès: five deaths in Nantes and an unknown whereabouts

Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès and her four children were found dead beneath the terrace of their Nantes home in April 2011. Xavier, husband and father, became the main suspect and disappeared after staying in hotels in southern France. This dossier traces the records, letters explaining the family’s absence, the last confirmed sighting and the public mistakes that kept the mystery alive.

1,953 km · Paris

The Paris Catacombs: the city that moved its dead below

Beneath Paris, former quarries became a municipal ossuary in the late eighteenth century. This dossier follows the stone that built the city, overcrowded cemeteries, nighttime transfers of human remains, the creation of a monumental visitor route, and the boundary between heritage, memory and legend.