Day 2,276

If the initial core samples were to be believed the iceberg was just over 10,000 years old but the ship's bow peeking out from one side only dated back to the 17th Century. Officially it was a prank for a new period drama - just another pirate love affair, guns blazing trope-fest. The reality was so much stranger.

As more of the iceberg fell away, moving figures could be seen through the uncovered portholes. When the first cannon was fired they sent in the military - all a part of the show's promo material if anyone asked and anyone alive enough to be recovered after the initial breach agreed it was all fake.

The inside of the ship was full of broken wooden things that all thought they were human. They even carried small pouches of some thick, syrupy liquid that they splashed about when they were hurt and claimed they were bleeding as they continued to move unhindered by the 'wounds' they received.

When their captain was broken enough that it seemed to lose whatever had been keeping it alive, all the others retreated to the port side of the ship and into tunnels that dropped into the depths of the ice. It's theorized that these tunnels led right into the ocean but nobody wanted to investigate them and risk being caught in close-quarter combat with a dozen jagged limbs flailing at them.

Eventually enough of the ice dropped that the ship itself came free, sinking as soon as it hit the water and leaving behind most of its port side firmly frozen still. The intricate network of tunnels were barely concealed and the wooden creatures all clamoured at the entrances as if they were deciding whether to jump onto the ship or remain in their hideaway.

They didn't linger for long - a deep rumbling roar came from somewhere beneath the iceberg and they all fled back into the depths as if the ship had never existed to begin with. We were left with so many questions we barely knew where to start looking.

All we knew for sure was that when the iceberg started moving with purpose instead of drifting with the ocean's flow, we headed in the opposite direction and hoped we could outrun it or outgun it. We may have lost it in a storm but it's still out there somewhere, heading south, and when the ice is all melted we'll finally see exactly what's been hiding beneath it for 10,000 years.