Death at the Great Lakes. The Mataafa Storm & the Edmund Fitzgerald

The 🧙‍♀️  Witch of November comes with a vengeance and for two days in 1905 she will batter the area, taking 29 🚤  vessels down with, sending 36 men to their  🪦 watery graves. Dubbed as the Mataafa Strom, they knew this could not happen again and Split Rock Lighthouse was built, which has a haunting tale of its own, and then of course the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald... known as the Titanic of the Great Lakes.

CREDIT & LINKS

INTRO SONG:

Music 🎵 “Johanna” by Bobby Mackey

 🎶 MUSIC:

Alien Manner
“Green Dragon” 
“Listen Official”
“Zinger”

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 🎙️ VOICE OVER:

Shawn Curtis as Captain McSorely

GUEST:

Mike Shields

COVER PHOTO:

TOP IMAGE:

SS Edmund Fitzgerald underway.

Unknown author

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BOTTOM LEFT:

Each year, Split Rock Lighthouse is lit on the anniversary of the wreck of the steamer Edmund Fitzgerald. The Fitzgerald was lost with all hands during a terrible storm on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975.
The weather was awful for the lighting. It was raining. It was windy. It was cold. There were 5 foot waves crashing into the shore. I stayed long enough to shoot just a couple of photos and then headed for the hotel to enjoy a nice pool and some warm pizza with my wife and kids.

Pete Markham from Loretto, USA

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Split Rock Lighthouse - The Annual Lighting to Commemorate the Loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald

BOTTOM MIDDLE:

The bell from the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum

Duchene9

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BOTTOM RIGHT:

Split Rock Lighthouse, near Duluth, Minnesota.

Chefranden

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