WebMeet Old Whitey, the Preserved Corpse of the SS Kamloops, Lake Superior's Most Haunted Shipwreck The ghost of Old Whitey, the preserved corpse of the haunted SS Kamloops They were looking for shipwrecks, but according to Milwaukee Magazine, they found something stranger: a line of stones that looked very deliberately arranged and reminded them of Stonehenge. Perhaps, he is just interested in the company after so many decades alone. It is believed this spirit is connected to his incredibly well-preserved corpse, which awaits visitors in the engine room. They're such jerks sometimes. She set out across the lake in 1891, alongside the Rouse-Simmons. That's the name given to the violent storms that hit the Great Lakes every November. According toWeek in Weird, divers who have explored the wreck of the Kamloops after it was discovered on the bottom of Lake Superior found something with at least three levels of disturbing. Then? It involves a ship called The SS Kamloops that sank in 1927 off Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Kirby, which originally vanished in 1916. More than 200 bodies found at Indigenous school in Canada. Dr. Anton Sohn, then-chairman of the pathology department at the University of Nevada in Reno, discussed the features of Lake Tahoe as it related to the recovery of people who died on or in that body of water: Death brings decomposition where bacteria consumes bodily flesh at some pace. We're going to hop on over to Lake Erie for this tale that's terrifying in both a supernatural sort of way and a "people are terrible" sort of way. Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. WebLike the Kamloops and its well-preserved Old Whitey, the preserved bodies of Lake Superior typically were attached to vessels at the lakes bottom. WebHis body stiff and his skin white as snow, the nameless member of the Kamloops crew had floated inside the ship for fifty years, alone until the divers began to occasionally filter in. Has anyone else heard about this legend? It's no wonder, then, that some believe the area to be haunted not just by the sailors who lost their lives but also by the ships themselves. This is 100% urban legend with the only truth being the SS Kamloops Eww poor thing! A 2008 article about a 1995 expedition to theEdmund Fitzgerald (roughly 20 years after it sank) addressed eventual protection of the vessel and why dives to it were controversial, and it began: Before it was illegal to dive to the infamous ship, two men pulled off the deepest shipwreck scuba dive in Great Lakes history. volunteer firefighter arsonist. Lake Tahoe has a constant temperature of 39 degrees between the depths of 600 to 700 feet, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It's easy to blame mysterious accidents, disappearances, and shipwrecks on UFOsbecause you're totally not expected to have proof. 'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); Content copyright 2016 Planet Weird unless otherwise noted. Were still no closer to understanding what made the SS Kamloops sink to her watery grave, or discovering exactly who Old Whitey really is, which may have something to do with the reason that Grandpa has stuck around his watery grave all these years. There was a storm that fateful day, but that's really nothing unusual for the Great Lakes. Other times, he appears curious and even follows divers around as they search the ship. However, that post linked to a blog post, and the blog post didnt say what the title said it did: LAKE SUPERIOR BODIESThere an 350 shipwrecks in Lake Superior and an estimated 10,000 people have died in the icy waters, but as legend says, Lake Superior never gives up her dead. According to the Great Lakes Exploration Group, the ship was built by one of the first French explorers in the area: Rene-Robert Sieur de La Salle. So much of the idea that bodies in Lake Superior dont float appeared tied to the poetic descriptions by Lightfoot, and general advancement of folklore about the lakes conditions. The average temperature of Lake Superior is about 36F, cold enough to inhibit bacterial growth and prevent bodies from rising. That seems unlikely, so what are the facts? In 2016, a professional cameraman named Jason Asselin caught something eerie on Lake Superior. When a toxin is locked up in the food web, it cant sink into the sediments, evaporate into the air, or flow out with the water.. Oosee added that even in shallow water where the last location of the missing person is known, recovery wasnt always easy for several reasons. Lake Superior contains three quadrillion gallons of water; Lake Superior is the size of South Carolina; Lake Superior is so cold that growth of bacteria is inhibited, and bodies in Lake Superior do not float or surface. The article included comment from local law enforcement and mortuaries about bodies in Lake Tahoe: Sgt. But Tysall said that was not the reason their team stayed quiet. By Way back in the early 1920s, Grandpa, whose true name has been lost to time, was a crewman on the SS Kamloops, a kind of freighter specially-built to fit through the old Welland Canal, which connected Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. The search at the Kamloops site that once was an orchard was prompted because of a discovery of a childs rib bone. By the next day, the two ships were caught in a severe storm on Lake Superior, with near hurricane-force winds and waves up to 35 feet (11 m) high. The Frost ran aground in the exact same spot in 1903 and was largely broken to pieces when the Morazon hit right on top of her. Whiteys corpse is found floating inside the engine room of the SS Kamloops, which sank on the Canadian side of Lake Superior in the 1920s and has never been removed. Sorry bad pun! Kamloops
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