Cursed Ship. The Sinking of the ‘Estonia’
Is the true reason for the 1994 maritime disaster being covered up?
The ship which would later be known as the Estonia was constructed in Germany between 1979 — 1980 and sailed between Stockholm, Sweden, Mariehamn, Åland Islands, and Turku, Finland as the Viking Sally, operated by Viking Line.
Before her 1994 sinking, there had already been two murders and an attempted murder aboard the cruiseferry.
In July 1986, a body was discovered in one of Viking Sally’s cabins after she had docked in Stockholm. The body was that of Finnish businessman Antti Eljaala, 44. He had been stabbed and strangled to death. His killer was his business associate, thirty-three-year-old Finn Reijo Hammar. Eljaala had caught Hammer stealing money from his wallet.
Sentenced to life in prison for the killing, Hammar managed to escape with two other inmates from Turku prison in 1988. Re-captured after killing one of his fellow escapees with an axe, Hammar was pardoned by then-President of Finland Tarja Halonen and released in 2004. He was imprisoned for attempted murder in 2011.
In July 1987, a horrific attack took place on the Viking Sally’s open-air 9th deck whilst she was sailing overnight from Stockholm to Turku. The attack left young West German…
