The story takes place more than 200 years ago and is a mysterious event that is fully documented and remains an unsolved mystery to this day. Today we are going to talk about "The Legend of the Void Boat".The Void Boat Incident took place in Japan in 1803. It is said that at that time, on the 22nd day of the second lunar month of the third year of Xianghe, a very strange boat floated not far from the coast of Hitachi-no-Kuni, which the locals called "Void Boat".
Translated into Chinese, it means "hollow ship".
It is said that the first to spot the hollow boat were a few fishermen. From a distance, they saw what looked like a round spinning top.
According to records at the time, the length of the hollow ship was about 5 meters, and the height appeared to be meters.
On closer inspection from the beach, the fishermen noticed that the boat was shaped like the incense boxes they had seen in their lives—with lattice windows in the upper part of the hull and iron bars on the bottom, and the whole boat looked very well-made and waterproof.
This is completely different from the boats commonly used by fishermen at the time.
Through the window of the transparent ship, I saw a beautiful woman in strange clothes sitting in the boat. This woman doesn't look too tall, she is 5 feet tall, which is about 1.5 meters now.
Her ** is a little fair, with a slight pink.
Surprisingly, the woman's hair and eyebrows also look red. At first glance, the fishermen knew that the woman was definitely not from their country.
The woman wore her hair in a ponytail, and her hair was long and hung down to her waist.
The color of the woman's ponytail is different from the other parts, and it appears white. Fishermen speculated that it might have been a decoration made of some kind of animal hair, or a wig.
The woman's face looks somewhat Caucasian, that is, Russian, or European and American.
But the fishermen didn't see many foreigners at the time, so they weren't sure where the redhead woman was from.
And the woman's behavior was also a little strange, seeing so many people surrounding her, she did not panic, but smiled and spoke to the fishermen around her, but unfortunately no one in the language she spoke could understand.
Many people began to speculate about the woman's origins, and some attentive people found that there were some pastries and food in this hollow boat, as well as some small bottles, which contained fresh water, which I don't know if it was fresh water.
There was a tea bowl, which was probably used by this woman to drink water.
The only living items on board were blankets.
The woman was holding a box about 60 centimeters long tightly in her arms, and no one was allowed to touch it, looking a little nervous.
Among the onlookers, an old man thought that this woman might be a princess who had been exiled to the sea in a foreign country because she had made a mistake.
When the locals heard this, they were afraid of causing unnecessary trouble, so they decided to send the woman and the strange hollow boat back to sea.
When they pushed the hollow boat back again, the red-haired woman disappeared into the vast sea with the mysterious hollow boat.
The story of this mysterious hollow ship and the red-haired woman with the box in her arms has been recorded in many books about the wonders of Japan.
One of the earliest books to record this story is believed to be Quting Maqin's Rabbit Garden**
Many people believe that hollow ships were actually folk tales written up by Japan at the time to fear Western maritime powers.
However, some modern UFO researchers believe that this is a typical third-class contact event between extraterrestrial civilizations and humans.
Because the story takes place in Japan, which is surrounded by the sea, and the word "void boat", many people will think of the hollow ship as a special ship.
But there's a lot of controversy here.
After investigation, some Japanese scholars found that the places where the hollow ships described in the ** of these strange things are not the same.
Some scholars speculate that this particular ship was actually built by some countries at that time in order to exile some errant nobles, and the small boats that these exiles were riding would always float along the ocean current to the coast of Japan, and if they happened to be discovered, they would be recorded, and over time they became these somewhat grotesque stories.
So if the woman on the boat is really the so-called "foreigner", then is she from **?We might as well dig up clues based on this relatively reliable version of "Rabbit Garden**".
The story takes place on the shore of a place called "Haradori" in the "Ogasawara Echichu Mori Chiyukisho" and "Hitachi no Kuni Coast".
However, some scholars have traced back to the idea that the place "Haradori" is actually an area close to the interior, not on the coast.
And no matter which version of the description of the hollow ship, there is no mention of the equipment that can be operated by a human in the hollow ship, not even the handles, oars, or sails of the sailboat.
In other words, the hollow ship did not seem to have a power system, at least at the time, it was impossible to see how the ship sailed.
So what answers can we get by following these clues?
First of all, Hitachi no Kuni in 1803 A.D. was now Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan, located in the middle of Japan's main island of Honshu, with the Pacific Ocean to the east. To put it simply, it is the area of Japan that is close to the open sea.
Secondly, red-haired Caucasians are relatively rare in the world.
In the past, most humans with red hair had a red hair due to a genetic mutation thousands of years ago, and this change appeared in ancient Europeans.
In some Western cultures, redhead is often associated with the devil, and many legends say that Western witches are red-haired.
However, the so-called witch hunt appeared around the 15th and early 17th centuries, and by the late 18th century it had largely disappeared.
Therefore, it is unlikely that the red-haired woman in the hollow ship was exiled due to this factor.
So will she be a European.
At that time, ancient Japan was in a period of seclusion, and it was very rare to meet one or two Europeans once in a while.
The hollow boat itself has no power, but when the fishermen find it, they can pull it back to shore with their own small wooden boats.
That is, the side shows that the hollow ship is either really a strange-looking ship but has no power, or the power of the ship has been damaged.
By any measure, the 5-meter boat and the red-haired woman's belongings weren't long enough to sail long distances.
Therefore, hollow ships are not some ships that can sail on the sea for a long time.
There are ocean currents in the waters around Japan, the most famous of which is the Japanese Warm Current, which can reach speeds of up to 90 kilometers per hour in a day and night, but it is relatively not wide, and the warm current near Ibaraki Prefecture flows from south to north.
In other words, it is even more likely that the redhead woman drifted directly from Europe to Japan.
To put it simply, the woman was exiled from Europe or from somewhere in Russia at the time, and she would have to travel a long distance to reach the coastline of Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan.
The probability of getting to Japan from Europe by rafting is basically very low.
Not to mention the food, judging from the bottles of fresh water that the woman in the story carried alone, it is unlikely that she will be able to support half of her voyage.
And it is unlikely that the hollow ships will drift in the direction of Russia, although from the map they are not far apart.
But if you look at the direction of other ocean currents, you can see that this is actually a very difficult thing to do.
Not to mention that the direction of the hollow boat drifting is opposite to the direction of the ocean current, and the distance is about 1,000 to 2,000 kilometers or more. This distance is almost impossible for a ship that is only 5 meters in size and has no power.
There was a little brother abroad before, he wanted to use inflatable bubbles to cross the sea, although he only stayed at sea for a short time, but when the little brother returned to the shore, his expression was not so happy.
Even if the hollow boat is hundreds of times better than this inflatable bubble, if you want to drift alone on the vast sea for more than ten days, maybe even a few months, you can still smile and look at everyone when you get off the boat, I think this red-haired woman is definitely not an ordinary person.
If there were European and American fleets or Russian fleets passing through Japan on the route through the Pacific Ocean, it is indeed possible to leave such a well-made and unpowered mysterious ship.
However, in 1803, it did not seem wise to spend such a cost on a ship that traveled thousands of miles to carry such a ship into exile.
Historically, however, Russia has not been without ties to Japan.
In 1804 there was a well-known Russian fur merchant named Nikolai Petruvich Rezanov. He left a record as one of the first people to have dealings with Japan in the early days.
So the red-haired woman at that time, the white hair on the ponytail is probably some of the decorations made by the Russians in the fur **.
In addition, at that time, Japan was in a state of seclusion, so I had not met these foreigners, so it was possible that there would be some misunderstandings.
It seems that this explanation can be self-justifying, but in fact, there are quite a few loopholes.
In modern times, many people have begun to think that the legend of the hollow ship is not as simple as the exile of someone, and there are some details that have been overlooked.
Some scholars believe that although the hollow ship is described as "a ship that has no power to float on the sea", in fact the ship itself is particularly strange, first of all, because it does not look like a ship very much, except that it is barely characteristic of a ship floating on the sea. But what floats on the sea is not necessarily a boat, such as the inflatable bubbles we mentioned earlier for the little brother to go to sea.
At that time, the steam engine had not yet been popularized on a large scale, and Japanese fishermen still used wooden boats, powered by oars in addition to sails.
However, the overall structure of this hollow boat is much ahead of the fishing boat, which is a bit too different. Not only is it very airtight and has panes, the bottom is made of iron plates, and it seems that there are many strange words on the ship.
The text may have been distorted so long ago that no one can tell which country it was.
And there's a very strange feeling to the whole thing.
In the original story, the hollow ship did not seem to have a door to enter and exit.
And some people understand that the red-haired woman smiled at everyone as a kind of relief after being exiled and returning to land, but then she was sent back to sea by a boat.
If a normal person encounters this kind of thing, it is estimated that they will probably refuse to go back, but the woman does not seem to struggle.
Some Japanese scholars have speculated that the hollow ship may be a kind of submarine-like existence.
It's not that the hollow boat has no power, but that people at the time couldn't understand the power of the hollow boat, and it may be that he encountered some problems during the voyage that made the hollow boat float above the sea.
That is, this hollow ship is most likely sailing below the surface of the sea.
There is a hypothesis that the red-haired woman is another mysterious civilization from beneath the sea. The submarine she was on had some kind of emergency underwater, so she had to surface.
In this way, the hollow ship also becomes a USO, that is, an unidentified diving object.
Of course, there is also speculation that this red-haired woman may be a visitor from outside the world.
But apart from the mysterious box in the woman's arms, there seems to be nothing special to prove that she is an alien, and even the food and supplies she eats seem to be similar to those of ordinary people.
So the only strange thing left was the strange writing engraved on the ship.
Someone once compared the words on the hollow ship in the record with the strange text symbols found in the "UFO wreckage" claimed by the whistleblower in the Roswell incident, and there are indeed some similarities. It still feels like the same system of words.
In addition, it is said that there are fishermen who can recognize what kind of wood is used for the wooden part used in the hollow boat, and the clothes worn by the woman are described in detail in the records, and they are not spacesuits or wetsuit-like outfits that surpass those of that era, so it is likely that the woman is not an alien.
However, there are also a lot of contradictions in the story, such as the fishermen being able to see the inside of the hollow boat through the window, but they don't enter it. However, it was mentioned that the box held by the woman was not allowed to be touched by others, and it was obvious that she had contact and communication with the fishermen, so what did she come out of **?If there is an obvious door, how can it be said that it is "very airtight"?
In fact, among some Japanese legends, there are actually some legends of gods and monsters that are similar to the legend of the void boat. For example, a woman came to the shore from the Dragon Palace under the sea with a treasure box, and the box contained some rare treasures. Perhaps because of the age, the stories overlap with each other, so the truth is blurred.
Interestingly, in 1803, the submarine had already been invented. So it is not known whether the woman is a so-called "diver".
Beneath the ocean, there are still some mysterious and unknown stories. In fact, there are some legends about "onijima" or "sunken ancient castles" in the waters around Japan.
Legend has it that the continent of Lemuria sank in the Pacific Ocean.
If you think about it, maybe the red-haired woman is the remnant of these sunken continents, and the uso is the technology of the civilization hidden under these oceans, then everything seems to make sense.
Compared to the sky, which can be seen by looking up, the sea, which cannot be freely roamed by humans, is even more mysterious.