BREAKING:
Randall “Randy” Spivey’s clothes were discovered floating near his abandoned fishing boat early Tuesday morning, roughly 40 nautical miles offshore. The vessel, Maribel, was found adrift with its engine shut down cleanly—no signs of struggle, no damage, no distress signal ever sent.
But investigators say the clothing wasn’t what made them go silent.
It was the GPS log.
According to the vessel’s navigation data, the boat came to a complete stop at 2:17 a.m. for exactly 11 minutes and 38 seconds—at a set of coordinates that do not correspond to anything on any maritime chart. No island. No reef. No shipping lane. Just open ocean.
“This isn’t drift,” said one marine navigation expert consulted by authorities.
“A boat doesn’t stop like that unless something forces it to.”
When search crews returned to the coordinates, they reported abnormally cold water, nearly 6°C lower than surrounding areas. Electronic compasses malfunctioned within a 300-meter radius, and sonar scans produced irregular shadows that operators couldn’t classify.
Underwater drones captured only brief, distorted footage before losing signal—frames filled with static and the outline of something massive passing beneath them.
Randy’s family later revealed a message he sent to his brother two days before disappearing:
“If anything happens to me out here… don’t trust the map.”
The GPS data has since been sealed as evidence. Federal investigators are now involved, though no official explanation has been released.
The preliminary report lists the cause as “undetermined.”
But in an internal note, handwritten and unsigned, one line stands out:
“That stopping point doesn’t belong to any known route—or any known place.”
