The Sinking of the Blue Belle : Julian Harvey

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Season 21 : Strange & Unusual

Julian Harvey was hired to captain a sailboat around the Bahamas with the Duperrault family on board. When he was rescued in a small dinghy a week later, he said the ship had sank and he was the only survivor. Three days later, another passenger would be found floating in the water and their story would not match Julian's.

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0:00.0	On November 16, 1961, a cargo ship was cruising through the North Providence Channel in the Bahamas on its way to Houston, Texas, when the second officer saw a small speck of white out in the water.
0:14.0	As the ship got closer to the object, it became clear that it was a tiny life raft and on the raft was a young blonde girl. The girl, sunburned and
0:23.8	emaciated, was pulled aboard the ship as sharks were circling her raft. The captain tried to get
0:29.9	information out of her, but she was in no shape to answer questions. All she could do was say the word
0:36.0	bluebell, in a raspy voice before the crew contacted the U.S. Coast Guard to report the discovery.
0:43.1	Authorities immediately recognized the name Bluebell as they were already investigating the situation.
0:49.4	Just three days prior, another person had been found floating in the waters around the Bahamas.
0:55.6	Julian Harvey had been rescued in the story he told about an accident that sank the ship
1:00.4	he was the captain of, the Bluebell, and killed everyone else on board, was about to unravel.
1:07.0	This is Monsters.
1:39.1	Music This is Monsters. Arthur Duperalt was born in 1921 and grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
1:45.2	He was the president of his high school class in 1939 and went on to college right after,
1:49.2	but he dropped out and joined the service when World War II broke out.
1:54.8	Arthur joined the United States Navy, and after training, he was sent to Southeast Asia,
1:57.3	where he worked as a medical corpsman in Burma.
2:02.9	It was his time in the Navy where he developed a love of the open ocean. He was an experienced sailor back home where he sailed on Lake Superior, but even being on one of the largest
2:08.5	lakes in the world was no comparison to the ocean. After transfers to Washington, D.C. and then China,
2:16.1	Arthur was sent to work at the Pentagon in 1944.
2:20.1	That was where he met a woman named Gene Brosh, who worked as a secretary at the FBI headquarters.
2:26.5	Within months, the two were married, and the following year, Arthur was discharged from the Navy.
2:32.7	Gene was born on July 16, 1923, and had grown up in Madison, Nebraska.
2:38.6	When Arthur left the service, the couple moved back to Green Bay and Arthur continued his college
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