In late March 1998, 23-year-old Amy joined a Royal Caribbean luxury cruise with her parents and brother from Puerto Rico to Curacao. This was a family vacation after Amy graduated from college.

According to the female tourist’s parents, Amy had taken a lifeguard training class and was a good swimmer but was afraid of the ocean. Therefore, she was very reluctant to join this trip, according to Mysteriousuniverse.

Amy with her parents and brother on the cruise in 1998. Photo: Mysteriousuniverse.

On March 23, 1998, the third night of the trip, the Bradley family attended a dinner party on the deck. Amy’s parents went to bed first, and she stayed with her brother. The two brothers sat in the cabin until 3:40 a.m. when the older brother returned to his room. At 5:30 a.m., Amy woke up, changed her clothes, and walked out of the room with a cigarette and a lighter. Since then, the family has never seen the young girl again.

Not seeing their daughter return to her room, her family was very worried and requested to broadcast search information through the ship’s loudspeaker system. But they were refused on the grounds that it was too early in the morning. The crew also refused to request to block all exits from the ship so that the kidnapper (if any) could not take Amy away. However, all requests were not carried out until 8 a.m. that morning, but by this time the tourists had already left the ship to go to the mainland.

During the search for the missing girl when the ship had not yet docked, the captain ordered the staff to search and turn all 999 rooms of the giant ship upside down, but to no avail. Everyone said that everything happened as if Amy had disappeared into thin air.

In 2015, there were nearly 15 million solo cruise ship passengers in North America. Photo: Mysteriousuniverse.

Although the girl was not found, the captain refused to send her photo to the passengers on the ship. He said this affected the passengers. The Bradley family later asserted that the captain was “uncooperative throughout the entire search process and denied any responsibility related to the disappearance”.

In the following days, the FBI informed the victim’s family that the actual search for Amy on the ship at that time was very sketchy. People only glanced at the common area and the toilet, not turning everything upside down and searching thoroughly as they had heard before. The lack of cooperation from the tour company, the ship owner… made the young girl’s family extremely discouraged.

A witness on the ship, Crystal Roberts, said she saw Amy and Blue Orchid guitarist Alister Douglas hanging out on the ship. Another witness said she saw Alister flirting with the girl, holding hands and going to another part of the ship. But 10 minutes later, this witness saw Alister return alone, but the girl was nowhere to be seen.

Amy’s family insists that their daughter had no reason to fall into the sea, and if she did, she could not have drowned because she was a good swimmer. They are inclined to believe that Amy was kidnapped. However, the police have no evidence to prove that the disappearance is related to the musician.

The night before the young tourist disappeared, the victim’s family also noticed strange things. A group of people appeared on the ship, but they were not tourists watching the band perform. At least three of the crew members on the ship were flirting with Amy and calling her by intimate names – inappropriate for strangers. Some even stared at her.

Also in 1998, two Canadian tourists claimed to have seen Amy walking along a beach in Curacao with two men. When she heard the tourists speaking English, she tried to approach them. But the two men with her dragged her away. The tourists also said they saw three tattoos on the girl – matching the ones Amy had.

Amy was seen again in 2005, at a department store in Bridgetown, Barbados. The witness was Judy Mawer, a tourist. Judy said Amy had been threatened. The girl also told Judy that she was Amy before being forcefully dragged away by the strange man. Judy later reported the case to the police but to no avail.

The public has raised the question: what happened to Amy Bradley? Many people are inclined to the theory that the girl became a victim of human trafficking, sold into sex slavery. Amy’s case became so famous that, years later, the police launched a large-scale investigation. The government even offered a reward for anyone who could find clues about her and determine her whereabouts. However, to this day, nearly 20 years later, the young tourist’s disappearance remains a mystery.