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The Ghostly Schooner: One Body, Six Missing, Lake Superior's Secret
The Ghostly Schooner: One Body, Six Missing, Lake Superior's Secret
A lone, exposed figure lay on the Miztec's deckhouse that morning of May 13, 1921 - he slipped into Lake Superior and vanished before rescuers could reach him. The schooner barge had seven aboard; only one body was ever found, and the wreck itself was officially lost for more than sixty years - what happened to the other six people and the ship's vanished remains?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that morning and the backstory that led three vessels into the same storm, tracing the Miztec's long service life…
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