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The Lifeboat of Knives: Lake Erie's Unfound Train Ferry Mystery
The Lifeboat of Knives: Lake Erie's Unfound Train Ferry Mystery
A lifeboat with nine dead men washed up fifteen miles off Erie, Pennsylvania, in December 1909 - no ship, no wreck found on the surface, and a steward clutching two large knives and a meat cleaver. What did happen aboard the Marquette and Bessemer No. 2 that left nine men naked to a seventy-five-mile-per-hour storm and one man strangely armed?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from the No. 2’s departure from Conneaut, Ohio, to the discovery of lifeboat No. 4, presenting the conflicting evidence that frustrated…
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