The Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals, a book by Bland Simpson about the mystery, was recently selected in North Carolina as the main book in a community-wide book reading. As part of the festivities, the Chapel Hill Herald is currently running a four part serialization of the events. Part 1 was published today:

The night of February 1, 1921, was a relatively quiet one at Cape Hatteras. The sky was overcast, but there was only a moderate onshore wind, and the keeper and crewmen of the Hatteras Coast Guard Station expected a routine watch. No lights of passing ships were visible to the lookout, and no signals of distress were observed...