Mystery AtlasChristopher Columbus Gray
A Buxton, North Carolina fisherman who produced a bottled note in April 1921 claiming the Carroll A. Deering had been seized by an armed vessel, then confessed that August to forging it himself.
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People
Christopher Columbus Gray is frequently compared to Olof Öhman — Both are amateur individuals suspected of perpetrating a physical hoax that briefly fooled investigators, though neither ever formally confessed.
Places
Christopher Columbus Gray is associated with North Carolina — A fisherman from Buxton, on North Carolina's Outer Banks, near where the Deering wrecked.
Objects & Artifacts
Christopher Columbus Gray claims to hold Carroll A. Deering — Produced a bottled note in April 1921 claiming the ship had been seized by an armed vessel; confessed in August 1921 that he had forged it himself.