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Two Bodies on Fox Island - The Ship That Vanished Forever
Two Bodies on Fox Island - The Ship That Vanished Forever
Ice-cold Lake Michigan kept its secret for 130 years: two men found ashore on Fox Island on November 18, 1892, still wearing life preservers, while the 301.5-foot steel freighter they sailed from simply disappeared without a trace. The W.H. Gilcher had carried 3,080 tons of coal and 18 men when she left Buffalo on October 26 - so why were two bodies on the shore and no wreck ever found?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events recorded around the Gilcher’s final voyage and the immediate aftermath, laying out what was built, what…
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