Titanic Victim's Family Gets Eerie Letter From Him One Year After The Crash

Many of the passengers aboard the RMS Titanic were asleep in their beds, enjoying a night with friends, or thinking about the new lives that awaited them in America when they received word their "unsinkable vessel" was doomed. In the panic that followed, no one saw the man who grabbed a pen and began to write a message to the world.

Thousands Of Escape Attempts

In the two hours and forty minutes between striking the iceberg and sinking into the ocean, 3,300 people aboard the Titanic scrambled in panic, trying to figure out if anyone had a plan for how to escape with their lives.

One Among Them

One of the people forced to make impossible decisions on the ship that night was a young Irishman named Jeremiah Burke. The 19-year-old had purchased a ticket to America to visit his sisters in Boston, but fate had other ideas. 

He Wasn't Alone

The collective panic of that moment must have been nearly impossible to bear. Thankfully, Jeremiah was traveling with his 18-year-old cousin Nora Hegarty, so they at least they had each other. 

A Token Of Farewell

This trip was a big deal for Jeremiah, so his family gathered to give them a warm send-off. As a parting gift, his mother gave him a little bottle of holy water to keep him safe on his journey.