Haunting footage shows final moments of woman who went missing from cruise ship 27 years ago

It's been almost 30 years since Amy Bradley went missing on board a cruise ship in 1998.

The 23-year-old, from Virginia in the US, was on holiday with her parents - Iva and Ron - as well as her brother, Brad, when she vanished from her room on Royal Caribbean International's ship Rhapsody of the Seas.

Now, haunting footage of Amy's final hours before she vanished has been revealed in a new Netflix documentary, called Amy Is Missing, which dropped on the platform on Wednesday (16 July).

Through witness testimonies, footage and interviews with family, the documentary delves into what happened on the night Amy disappeared, as well as the numerous conspiracy theories about where she is now.

You can watch a trailer for the documentary below:

What was Amy doing on the night she went missing?

Amy was on the Rhapsody of the Seas ship when she vanished from her cabin.

The ship departed from Puerto Rico on March 21, 1998, before calling at Aruba.

It was travelling to Curacao when Amy went missing in the early hours of 24 March.

The 23-year-old had been out with her family for a formal dinner on the night she disappeared. Following the event, the family went back to their room to change and then headed to a pool party and limbo contest.

Not long afterwards, Amy's parents headed to bed, while she stayed on with her brother, Brad, and the pair headed to the ship's disco.

"I said 'I love you', she said 'I love you too mom, I'll see you in the morning," Iva recalled in the documentary.

Amy went missing in 1998 (FBI)

Brad explained the pair had been at the disco dancing and listening to music when he decided to go back to their room.

"I went out onto the balcony, about five minutes later Amy came back to the room. We were both finishing our drinks, hanging out and talking about the next day," he said.

"She brought up that someone she had been dancing and talking to during the course of the evening made some sort of physical pass at her. She told me it was the bass player from the band."

While Brad went to bed, Amy explained she wanted to stay on the balcony as she wasn't 'feeling too good' and wanted to enjoy the breeze.

Brad went off to bed, but at 5.30am, Amy's dad Ron woke up and realised Amy hadn't gone to bed yet.

After seeing her legs on a lounger on the balcony, he went back to sleep, but woke again around half an hour later, at approximately 6.00am, to see she was no longer there.

"Something woke me up again, I don't know what it was but when my eyes opened, I looked out again and she wasn't there," said Ron.

"The balcony door was open about 12-14 inches, I noticed her cigarettes weren't out there and the shirt she was wearing that night was laying on the chair in her room.

"The first thing I'm thinking is she's changed her clothes and went up, getting a cup of coffee, taking pictures because we were coming in to port."

Ron left the room to go looking for his daughter, but after hours of searching, Amy was nowhere to be seen and the passengers on board the cruise disembarked at Curacao.

Is there any footage of Amy from the night she went missing?

A videographer who was working on the ship managed to find some footage of Amy dancing in the ship's disco just hours before she vanished.

In the clip, she can be seen dancing with one of the band's bass players, Alistair Douglas - also known as Yellow.

The footage is the last known clip of Amy before she was missing and was handed to the FBI as evidence.

You can watch it below:

What happened to Amy?

Over the years, there have been many theories about Amy and her disappearance.

While some are convinced she either fell or jumped into the ocean, others - including her family - believe she is still out there.

Meanwhile, some claim she could have been smuggled off the ship after it docked at Curacao.

Two women believe they saw Amy and Yellow at somewhere between 5.30 and 6.00am, in a glass elevator heading to the nightclub.

They then claim to have seen Yellow walk past them - without Amy - on the top deck around 15 minutes later.

Yellow was interviewed by the FBI and later passed a polygraph test.

During the documentary, his daughter, Amica, rings her father and asks him about Amy's disappearance.

He says: "They brought the FBI on immediately and then he said to me that they're trying to find this girl [and] I was seen dancing with her. Everybody that had anything to do with cleaning her room, serving her drinks, we were grounded.

"When they realised nothing was involved, we continued to work. And I continued to work on the cruise ship until two years later."

Meanwhile, six months on from her disappearance, an eyewitness named David Carmichael claimed to see Amy on a beach in Curacao, noting the woman he encountered had a tattoo of the Tasmanian devil - just like Amy.

"I see three people walking towards us, there's one guy, a girl in the middle and then another guy who looked like he was from the island. As they came closer to me, she comes right up to me... I see a tattoo that looks like a Tasmanian devil," he recalled.

"She was just about to say something to me, when the person who was on the inside comes up, he stared at me, doesn't say a word. He motions her away. If he had not stared at me I would have forgotten everything. I think about this every day."

Other sightings include one by a man named Bill Hefner, who said he saw Amy in a brothel - also in Curacao.

"She said, 'they're holding me against my will, I need help. I owe $200 and I can't get my freedom'... I've heard all kinds of stories from working girls... I've heard it before," he recalled.

"That's when she said, 'my name is Amy Bradley' then she told me she got off that ship and she left on her own because she was going to score drugs... 'and now I'm stuck here with these guys'."

Amy had been out with her brother when she went missing (Netflix)

Fuelling the theories even further, in 2005, the family received a series of images of a woman. The person who sent the photos claimed they were of Amy.

The images were allegedly from a sex website, and showed a woman posing on a bed.

After having the photos forensically analysed, experts came to the conclusion that the woman in the photos could have been Amy.

Weeks later and a third witness, Judy Maurer, claimed she saw Amy in a bathroom in Barbados while on a cruise holiday.

"There was a man by the door talking, I heard him say 'the deal is 11 o'clock and I warn you, you better be ready to go'," recalled Judy.

"I didn't know what it was, but then all of a sudden the man left. I opened the door and there was a young woman standing by the sinks.

"She had an awful look on her face, kind of crying. I walked over to the sink and I said 'hi, are you on vacation here?'"

Judy said she asked the woman her name, and claims she told her it was 'Amy'.

She only realised she could have encountered Amy when she saw her family appearing on Dr Phil weeks later.

What have Amy's family said?

Amy's family strongly believe she is still alive.

After setting up a website dedicated to locating their daughter, they worked with experts - online investigator Anthony Willis and witness David Carmichael - to analyse some of the data, including IP addresses that had been accessing the site and on which dates.

They found a large number of IPs coming from Barbados.

They then began adding photos of Amy's family, and noticed that on birthdays, anniversaries and Christmas, they had an increased number of hits on the page.

David explained he has two theories, claiming: "They dwell on Thanksgiving, Christmas and birthdays, and sit on there for 45 minutes or something. Here's my theory: Either the people involved in this are curious and they want to know how close they are to being caught. The second thing is, it's Amy."

Amy's family say they will never give up (Netflix)

Amy's family have said they will never give up searching for their daughter.

"Today is the 9,758th day we have been working to get Amy," said Iva.

"We will never give up on her. In the morning we wake up we say 'maybe today' and then when we get ready to go to bed at night we have a little kiss for Amy and say 'maybe tomorrow'."

Amy Bradley Is Missing is available to watch on Netflix now.

If you have any information about Amy Bradley, you can contact the family’s tip line by calling (804)-789-4269 or by emailing [email protected].