We're headed to Back Creek, to the very spot where the ghost ship was supposed to unload its cargo if everything had gone according to plan. You see all these little canals that come up in these little areas. So as you can tell, like I say, the stuff's getting dense. I went down to Beaufort to retrace their steps. It was just one of many trips they took together across the country to gather evidence. Really, this is where Ned and Shine came back in the nineteen eighties. This whole area is just a tangle of overlapping inlets and waterways, a giant aquatic maze. Now, if you can picture a map in the United States, We're on this little marshy spit of land that sticks out from North Carolina into the Atlantic Ocean. Carl's a local guy, born in Bred and Beaufort. He's a big, strapping guy with this epic beard. It's about a twenty minute ride to Back Creek, twenty minute ride, so yeah, you'll get to see a little bit of the country. We're actually going Highway seventy east. Well, we're heading out of Beaufort right now. Ned quickly begins to realize that so many of the answers he's seeking about the ghost ship, the smugglers, their system are right in Beaufort, North Carolina, perfectly camouflaged in the underbrush. They tell them, yeah, actually we had this one case in particular involving an abandoned drug boat, a ghost ship. So Ned picked up the phone and called the FBI down in Wilmington, North Carolina, asked them if they have any intel on drug smugglers who were using shrimp boats. Shine pointed Ned to a spot on the North Carolina coast where he said his bosses had smuggled marijuana into the country. I know it was a massive operation, and I knew that we had the key to the safety deposit box to open it all up. Shine was in charge of vetting everyone in this smuggling network. His big breakthrough came in the spring of nineteen eighty five, when Clinton shined Anderson flipped. Previously on deep cover, Ned Timmins was finally getting somewhere.
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