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Missouri: a steamship under a cornfield
Folklore became reality when a mysterious sunken steamship was discovered under a cornfield in Malta Bend, Missouri.
For generations, tales have been told about ghostly vessels lost at the bottom of the Missouri River. In 1988, Bob Hawley (pictured) and his sons located the steamboat Arabia, which was located 45 feet underground and less than a mile away from the present-day river channel.
Inside was 200 tons worth of cargo, which had sunk along with the boat back in September 1856. In fact, so much treasure was discovered that the Hawleys founded the Arabia Steamboat Museum in Kansas City and have since collaborated with other treasure hunters in a bid to locate more lost steamships.
Alice Cattley
28 November 2023
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