What happened to a plane that disappeared in 1968 over Lake Superior? A robot may unravel the mystery.
Shortly after noon on Oct. 23, 1968, a National Center for Atmospheric Research airplane made its final radio call before disappearing along the southern shores of Lake Superior. The Beechcraft Queen Air had taken off from Madison with two pilots and one passenger, a graduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. All three...
Why Bodies Don’t Decompose In Michigan’s Lake Superior
Have you ever heard the saying, "Lake Superior doesn't give up her dead?" This saying was forever immortalized in the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." If not, you have now. The myth behind the phrase is that those who go down with the ship in Michigan's largest Great Lake never resurface. But is there any truth to Gordon Lightfoot's lyrics?
The quest for Lake Superior shipwrecks
PARADISE — Nobody knows exactly how many shipwrecks lie beneath the waters of the Great Lakes. While some wrecks are known and documented, many others are still waiting to be discovered and for their stories to be told. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society is committed to telling those...