Titanic's LIFEBOAT #7 SURVIVORS: Nazi Connections & Death Prophecies | Their TRUE Stories

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This in an untold story of the Titanic's most influential survivors. Imagine hearing the cries and screams of horror from people who you know will surely sink to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, as you sit safely in a lifeboat. Now imagine being in that lifeboat, with death all around you, and having one concern on your mind, and it is... “I’ll never be able to wear all of my new clothes from Paris! They sank with the Titanic!”

If you were Dorothy Gibson, you wouldn’t have to imagine it. That’s one of the many selfish thoughts that went through her head as 1,500 people were in the midst of losing their lives while she made her way safely onto a lifeboat that was never even loaded to full capacity.

In our modern times, many of us can’t help but to think of James Cameron’s Titanic film when we think of the actual 1912 sinking. Its big names and big budget special effects certainly made it a spectacle for the eye to remember. Yet, Titanic historians (and survivors when they were alive) preferred the 1958 film called A Night To Remember for its historical authenticity. It is often called the first Titanic movie, but it’s not.

The FIRST Titanic movie was called Saved From The Titanic and it was released in May of 1912 - just FOUR WEEKS after the disaster occurred. And its star was our Dorothy Gibson - the girl who was so sad about losing her brand new Parisian fashions in the wee morning hours of April 15, 1912. She was a silent film actress and this role was going to make her a bigger star than she already was. And the movie was made by her lover - a man who was married to another woman. But you know how the saying goes. Whatever is done in the dark…will come to the light. And the way that this adulterous affair came to be known by the public…was a scandal in and of itself.

Dorothy’s story has it all - sexual affairs, crazy court cases, a man in a night gown, and a stay in a Nazi concentration camp.

This is the story of one of the most self-absorbed first class passengers who boarded the Titanic. Silent film actress Dorothy Gibson. And she was a total hot mess.

There was so much confusion in the newspapers and through wireless communications after the Titanic sank. No one knew what to believe. Like, the couple we’re talking about today. Word got back to their hometown that they were both dead. Their hometown, by the way, was Dowagiac.

Dowagiac, Michigan is a town that I had never heard of before I started doing the research for this Titanic passenger scandal for you. But it was put on the map before the Titanic ever set sail. And yes, our first class passengers from today’s story are indirectly related to the town’s boom.

Dickinson Bishop and Helen Bishop were a pair of newlyweds who were returning home on the Titanic after a several months long honeymoon. Their plan was to get off of the Titanic and have their chauffeur drive them from New York back to Michigan.

But we all know that they had to change their plans…mainly because the Titanic sank. But maybe Dickinson and Helen would be able to get back on track. Spoiler alert. They both survived the sinking.

But would Dickinson be able to survive the rumor that he only made it into a lifeboat because he wore a dress and pretended to be a woman? And if that was what people were saying about him, how would his wife feel? Helen.

And oh yeah, Helen was his second wife.

The truth is that he was only able to afford a first class ticket on the Titanic because he had inherited MILLIONS of dollars from his first wife after she died. He didn’t have any money of his own. So the truth was that people were already saying some pretty harsh things about him BEFORE he got on the Titanic.

You can imagine “using that poor dead girl’s money to galavant all over the world with his new wife. He’s sickening!”

There have been so many questions about what happened on that late night and into the early morning with Titanic.

Did the Titanic captain go down with the ship? Did he pay attention to the iceberg warnings? What time did the ship hit the iceberg? What day did the Titanic sink?

Like you've probably heard in every Titanic documentary, April 14th and April 15th 1912 are the days associated with the sinking about both are correct. Titanic hit the iceberg at 11:40 pm on April 14, then finally sunk just a couple of hours into April 15, 1912.

We'll get into a little bit of that and a lot of the stories of Helen and Dickinson Bishop.

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