The Chilling Reason Why Lake Superior 'Never Gives Up Her Dead'

One of Lake Superior's most well-known shipwrecks, immortalized in the Gordon Lightfoot song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," happened in 1975, according to the Shipwreck Museum, when all 29 men aboard the freighter called the Edmund Fitzgerald (pictured) were lost. Many mysteries remain about exactly what caused the accident. Another well-known wreck in Superior happened much earlier, though, when the SS Kamloops Canadian lake freighter sank to the depths in the winter of 1927, lost in fog and freezing temperatures (via Superior Trips).

The physical location of the Kamloops has since been found, according to the National Park Service, and the remains of Kamloop crew members who tried to swim to safety on the remote Isle Royale in Lake Superior were also recovered. One victim who went down with the ship — the captain, now known as "Old Whitey," per Astonishing Legends — remains on board the boat — the frigid depths of Lake Superior his final resting place. "Old Whitey"'s body, named for its ghostly white appearance, is said to haunt SS Kamloops explorers to this day.

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