A “ghost ship” that sank in Lake Michigan nearly 140 years ago and eluded several search efforts over the past five decades has been found, according to researchers with the Wisconsin Underwater ...

The wreck of a “ghost ship” cargo schooner that sank off a Wisconsin coastline during a ferocious storm has finally been uncovered 140 years later. A team led by researcher Brandon Baillod found the ...

Picture the waters of Lake Michigan some 140 years ago, playing host to the F.J. King, a ship that would wreck and, consequently, sink in the unkind lake in September of 1886. Fast forward more than a ...

MADISON, Wis. — After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a “ghost ship” that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwrecks in Great Lakes history, but it's just one of hundreds of vessels lost to these waters. For researchers, ...

“A few of us had to pinch each other.” That’s how Brendon Baillod, then president of the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association, described the otherworldly excitement of finding one of Lake ...

'Along Lake Michigan' is a deftly told collection of 14 shipwrecks in the Great Lake. In addition to severe storms, poorly maintained vessels and hubris were sometimes a factor in the shipwrecks.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen about the record number of shipwreck discoveries in the Great Lakes in recent years, including two just in the last several months.

A "ghost ship" that sank in Lake Michigan nearly 140 years ago and eluded several search efforts over the past five decades has been found, according to researchers with the Wisconsin Underwater ...