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Frozen Men, a Bloody Cleaver, and the Vanished Lake Erie Ferry
Frozen Men, a Bloody Cleaver, and the Vanished Lake Erie Ferry
A century-old mystery with nine frozen men in a lifeboat, an empty seat, and a meat cleaver: what sudden catastrophe left a 338-foot ferry vanished and its crew clothed only in shirts on a December night? The ferry departed into 50-75 mph winds with thirty loaded rail cars and no stern gate-so what really happened on Lake Erie?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure to discovery, laying out the ship's construction, cargo, timeline of sightings, and the unanswered contradictions that keep the case open. How…
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