Some say the MV Joyita was always cursed, others laughed it off. What is beyond dispute, is that on one hot day in October 1955 the ship and its 25 passengers and crew set sail on a routine journey from Samoa to the Tokelau islands.

And none of them were ever seen again. 

Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith

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