10 Mysteries Lurking Underneath the Great Lakes

Have you ever wondered what secrets lie beneath the surface of the Great Lakes? Some of the largest freshwater bodies in the world, the Great Lakes (Erie, Superior, Ontario, Michigan, Huron) are renowned for their spectacular beauty - but there are stories of hidden artifacts and strange remains discovered in the depths. In this video, we'll explore 10 mysterious finds uncovered from the depths of the Great Lakes.

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0:20 - Old Whitey, the Man Stuck in the SS Kamloops Engine Room
5:35 - Michigan Stonehenge
6:50 - Old Growth Waterlogged Wood
9:01 - Underwater Volcano, Lake Superior
10:51 - Barge 129, Whaleback Ship
12:04 - UC 97 German WW1 U-Boat Submarine
13:34 - Locked Safe in a Shipwreck in Lake Erie
14:21 - Avro Arrow
15:52 - SS Edmund Fitzgerald
19:09 - The Anomaly near Isle Royale
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[thinkonomics]

Thanks for watching! What's your favorite Great Lakes mystery?

[silverlaptop]

Thank you for NOT using a fake ai voice. Great video🤗

[nickoliva]

I like the mystery about the lost ruins. I have always felt some kind of great spirit lives in Lake Michigan.

[dmc]

The Edmund Fitzgerald was scheduled to go in for repairs after after it completed the trip that it sunk on. There were Summer time and Winter time weight limits on the amount of cargo a ship could carry on the Great Lakes. Winter storms cause high winds and huge waves. Ships would carry less weight in the Winter, so the ships would sit higher above the water, to help keep waves off the deck. These Winter lesser weight limits for ship went into effect October 1st. But the company that owned the Edmund Fitzgerald asked the Coast Guard for permission to run their ship to run at Summer weight levels for rhe 2st time ever that year. The Coast Guard allowed them to use the Summer weight limits. So the ship was over loaded weight when it sank. The Coast Guard made the company go back to the Winter weight limits the day after the ship sank. The paper maps the ship had were from the 1920s and inaccurate, so trying to navigate if the equipment went out was impossible in the storm. The Coast Guard had sent all their Michigan search and rescue vehicles in for service at the same time and the near Coast Guard search and rescue vehicle was over a day away in Wisconsin. Plus the ship had been repaired several times in the same area and it may have becune its Achilles heel. Greed led to the over loading of the boat. The Coast Guard wasn't going to implicate itself has contributing to the sinking. If it had been scheduled to be repaired befire that trip rather than after. So many if onkys.

[kevinduveneck]

During WW2, 28 submarines were built at Manitowoc Shipbuilding in Wisconsin

[BillyJ]

I remember the night the Edmund Fitzgerald sank. I live in Cleveland Ohio and it was storming very bad. A windy cold night with heavy rain. I was around 9 years old. I will never forget it.

[Freesavh]

Gordon Lightfoots song about the Edmund Fitzgerald helped to bring attention to the dangers of shipping in general. But most of all the shipping on the lakes. The fact he was willing to admit what he got wrong and quickly changed it shows the great character of the man. I might be bias, because it is 1 of my favorite songs. And this tragedy happened 13months before I was even born.

[stephenbender]

Thanks for the presentation. Well done. 👍

[JahBreed]

Holy mackerel! I haven't heard anyone talk about carbon dated stones in years😂

[By_Vee_]

Geologist: “We found ancient petrified wood!”

Humans: “that would make a great guitar or table top..”

🤦🏻‍♂️🤣

[Fossillarson]

I grew up on south shore lake superior. All red clay sandy with basketball ball sized glass blk lava rocks 😊 use to be nice find after good rain. 😅

[stevenhard]

Lake Superior never gives up her dead.

[jimcurtis]

I suggest some reading about the Midcontinent Rift. You'll learn better information about volcanic activities in Lake Superior.

[TheKidFromYTown]

The Kamloops gets shipwrecked right next to an island and there is a search party looking for three weeks and no one ever thinks to search the island?!?!?! Wouldn't that be the first place you would look? I know they didn't know the exact location of the ship but they did know the last reported position and they knew it was in close proximity to the island.

[Mandcfrey]

Little know fact: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was not the longest ship on the Lakes. Her sister ship the Arthur B Homer was one foot longer. 😊

[whynocht]

The annunaki built the Great Lakes as fresh water reserves duh 😅

[jeffdishong]

The petrified logs in the great lakes ARE found elsewhere. There’s petrified sycamore in Louisiana.

[paddy]

Still is a COOL Ya felt like YOU were 🎸

[LawrenceLarson-lnyy]

No the wood petrification process happens Anywhere wood is able to remain submerged for centuries

[bigpasty]

I've lived on lake superior my whole life and have seen some crazy stuff. Some I can't explain honestly but I love it here