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On this episode of Expedition X.

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Ready?

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My team dives into Lake Superior's deadly shipwreck coast.

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Where treacherous waters have claimed hundreds of ships and countless lives.

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I wonder why in this area particularly.

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I guess there's just something in the water here.

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There are those who believe this tragic history has led to haunting sites and sounds.

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Not just at the shore, but now over the lake.

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That is the craziest thing ever.

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To find out what's hovering above.

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I saw something that I cannot explain.

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Phil and Jess will have to search what lies beneath.

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And what their investigation uncovers.

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You had a go ship.

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Is downright terrifying.

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Is there anyone here?

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What the f***?

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Oh my god.

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Graveyard of the Great Lakes.

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My name is Josh Gates.

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In my travels I've experienced strange things that defy logic and made me question everything.

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Oh my god.

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Now I've put together a team to investigate the stranger side of the unknown.

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Let's go.

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Phil Torres is a scientist who hunts for rational explanations.

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This is the criminal who actually found a search note.

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Jessica Chobot's paranormal research has made her a true believer.

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I love my diamond.

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Let's go.

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Together we're searching for answers.

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What is that?

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To the world's most extraordinary mysteries.

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This is Expedition X.

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Alright Jess and Phil, you are in luck.

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I am so excited about this.

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I'm sending you to a place that I have always wanted to go.

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Lake Superior.

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How would you know that?

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She's wound up the notes on your desk.

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Chobot.

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Sorry.

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Don't go through my stuff.

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Well clean your desk.

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Look.

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She's got a point.

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Not just Lake Superior, technically below the surface of Lake Superior.

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And the reason it's on my bucket list is that of all the Great Lakes it is the largest, it is the deepest, it is the coldest.

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And the bottom is littered with shipwrecks.

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But the shipwrecks here are just the beginning.

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Majestic Lake Superior is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth.

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It covers nearly 32,000 square miles and plunges 1,300 feet at its deepest point.

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Storms on Lake Superior can be even more dangerous than on the open ocean.

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Fresh water is less dense than salt water.

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With heavy winds, waves can build up faster.

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Waves nearly 30 feet high.

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On the ocean, captains can navigate around storms.

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But even on a lake this big, sometimes the only option is to sail through them.

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Often with deadly results.

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1816.

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The first commercial trade vessel goes down in Lake Superior.

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A wooden ship with the ironic name Invincible sinks just two miles off Michigan's Whitefish Point.

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Over the next century and a half, Lake Superior swallows an estimated 550 vessels

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and takes the lives of thousands of sailors and passengers.

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Most of the bodies are never recovered.

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The lake's rough waters hiding a literal ship graveyard.

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Perhaps the lake's most storied victim is the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

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In 1975, the mighty freighter carrying 26,000 tons of iron ore leaves Superior, Wisconsin,

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heading toward Detroit, Michigan.

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A fierce storm batters the ship and the Fitzgerald tragically sinks.

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All 29 crew members are lost and to this day, the wreckage lies just north of Whitefish Point.

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Unpredictable winds, navigation hazards and no safe harbors make the area around Whitefish Point particularly treacherous.

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It has claimed at least 240 ships, more than any other part of the lake, earning it the nickname, the Shipwreck Coast.

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And the tragedy along this rocky stretch has led some to believe the coastline is haunted.

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Over the years, stories have swirled about strange apparitions, unexplained sounds and voices.

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And not just on shore, divers have even reported such things under the water.

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But now, there's something new.

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Claims of mysterious lights hovering over the churning waters off Whitefish Point.

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And they've been caught on camera.

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Look at it, now there's two.

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It is the craziest thing ever.

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So, what's causing the lights?

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Could they somehow be connected to the shipwrecks below?

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And the biggest question of all, what on earth is going on at Lake Superior's deadly Shipwreck Coast?

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So, intrigued?

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Natural phenomena can occur over big bodies of water.

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That may seem mysterious at first, but ultimately have a natural explanation.

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Like sailors would claim to see lights and buzzing over the top of the ship's mast during thunderstorms.

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Say an almost fire.

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I love that movie.

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It's something Dimmy Moore's best work.

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I haven't seen the movie.

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How is it possible?

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You've got to get out more.

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But regardless, this shows that a lot of these things can start mysterious, but we can figure out what it actually is.

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I mean, with that much pain, tragedy and death?

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No surprise here, the two of you disagree.

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Your mission is to get to Whitefish Point, investigate what's going on around and above the lake.

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Can you prove its paranormal activity, Jess or Phil?

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What is the real world rational explanation?

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You ready for this?

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Phil and Jess leave New York and fly 780 miles to Marquette on Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

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From there, it's a two and a half hour drive to Whitefish Point.

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It is so beautiful. You used to live here, right?

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I kind of. I lived in the lower peninsula.

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This is the Upper Peninsula, so this is considered DUP.

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So everybody that lives up here, they call themselves Uphers.

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Such a beautiful place for so many shipwrecks.

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I wonder why in this area particularly.

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The fact that they just had to rely on seeing lighthouses on shore and not GPS and all the mapping data that we have today.

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I guess there's just something in the water here.

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Oh, wow.

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Look at that.

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Yeah, you can see why they call them Great Lakes.

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Oh yeah. I mean, with this lake, you might even say.

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Don't do it, dude.

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It's superior.

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I did it.

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The shipwreck coast runs along Lake Superior's southern shore.

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The 80-mile strip of land that ends at Whitefish Point extends nearly 10 miles into the water,

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creating a treacherous bottleneck that ships entering or leaving the lake have to pass through.

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Check out the Whitefish Lighthouse.

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I think it's still in use, right?

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We arrive at Whitefish Point to meet Eric Rintamaki.

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You just right down there?

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Yeah, I see him.

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As a lifelong local and gem and mineral expert.

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Hey, how's it going?

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Hello.

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Eric leads groups to this beach at night to search for the region's signature Uperlite rock,

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an unusual stone rich in fluorescent sotolite that he actually discovered right here on the shore of Lake Superior.

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And it was on one of those Uperlite hunts that Eric witnessed something astonishing.

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You can see how the sandbar goes way out here.

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So right at the tip of that sandbar, that's where the light hovered.

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All I can tell you is I saw something absolutely incredible that I cannot explain.

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We've seen the video.

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What are we missing from that that you experienced?

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Just about to get off the beach, we were trying to find our last stone of the evening.

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And one of the participants in the tour tugged on my shoulder and said,

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Eric, what are those lights back there behind us?

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I turned around, lights hovering in the sky.

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So I took my cell phone out and started recording a video.

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Look, now there's two.

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Now there's two again.

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This is the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life.

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And I watched them till 2.50, 2.55 in the morning.

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So almost two hours.

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And a ship happened to be coming through the shipping channel,

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and the ship slowly went right underneath.

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It's got to be right above the ship.

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That is the craziest thing ever.

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On the internet, I get thousands of comments of what it was.

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The most popular ones were Chinese lanterns,

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something from the government, and St. Elmo's fire.

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But they've been flares?

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A Chinese lantern wouldn't stay in position for two hours.

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I'm wondering, could it have been Coast Guard?

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Could it be someone's drone flying around?

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I have no clue.

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Afterward, I've had a lot of people tell me,

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oh, I saw the same thing, I saw the same thing, but...

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Because look, it's almost touching the d- jeez.

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I'm a little intrigued by the idea that they're ghost lights,

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especially since there's so many shipwrecks.

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I don't know. I can't tell you what it is.

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For centuries, there have been legends of ghost lights the world over.

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From the will of the wisps of English folklore,

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and the Luzmala, or bad light in South America,

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to reports across the U.S. of lights hovering in the sky.

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Phil thinks the lights people are seeing here

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might be some sort of optical illusion.

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But given the long, tragic history of Whitefish Point,

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I think it's possible the lights could be a manifestation from the other side.

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From those who lost their lives in one of the many shipwrecks here.

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But which shipwreck?

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And why are these lost souls making themselves visible now?

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Ready, boys?

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If the lights reappear tonight,

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I want to capture our own high-definition video for analysis.

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Already nervous.

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So I'm setting up a surveillance camera at the top of the lighthouse.

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Spiral staircase hell.

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We'll have an unobstructed view of the lake.

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I'm thinking we should point the camera out.

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All right, up over here.

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All right, looks like we're good.

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There's our vessel.

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I've arranged for Phil and Jess to meet with Captain Daryl Urtel.

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Hi.

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Hello.

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A seasoned shipwreck researcher who's been navigating these waters for more than 25 years.

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Let's go.

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Recently, while positioned over the wreck of a ship called the Myron,

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Daryl experienced something he can't explain.

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We were all searching the other day.

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We were coming home and we went over the Myron.

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And as we went over the Myron,

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the radar was showing a reflection off our port bow,

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but there was nothing there.

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What do you mean?

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So you saw something that looked like a ship on your radar?

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Yeah, like this is a ship right there.

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But it showed one off to our port bow,

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but there was nothing out there.

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The screens all started flashing and fading in and out.

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You had a go ship.

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That was right over the Myron.

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November 1919.

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The wooden steamship SS Myron leaves Munising, Michigan,

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bound for Buffalo, New York with 18 aboard.

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Two hours after leaving port, they get caught in a heavy storm.

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60 mile an hour gale winds, accumulating snow,

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and pounding waves rip open the ship at the seams

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and take her to the bottom of Lake Superior in just four minutes.

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Rescue workers from the nearby life-saving station attempt to save the crew,

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but the sailors freezing hands can't grip the line.

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17 bodies are eventually recovered, frozen to death.

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Could the tragedy of the Myron somehow be related to the strange phenomena reported here?

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To try to answer that, my team has their work cut out for them.

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Oh, we can see it?

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That's it, right?

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I've arranged for Daryl and some cutting-edge equipment

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to support their investigation above and below the surface.

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Well, it's part of it.

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That's just the part we were over the top of.

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That's the engine and boiler there.

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Crazy.

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we prepare to make a dangerous dive to see her up close and personal.

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Drop it.

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The water here is below 40 degrees,

255
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meaning I'll need the specialty drysuit so I don't freeze to death.

256
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All right, straps are good. You guys, you wait.

257
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If the Myron is somehow to blame for the strange lights and sounds people have encountered here,

258
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then I believe there must be an environmental or biological explanation.

259
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I'm hoping to find some answers in the depths below.

260
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Okay, time to dive.

261
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Okay, time to dive.

262
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Okay, everybody good?

263
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Yeah, good.

264
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All right, I'm just sending down the anchor line.

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Copy.

266
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I'm just sending down the anchor line.

267
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Copy.

268
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Look inside of me. Oh my God.

269
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As Phil begins his investigation of the Myron,

270
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Drop it.

271
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Daryl and the team launch a remote operated vehicle or ROV.

272
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This $250,000 robot is state-of-the-art technology.

273
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Okay, you're going down.

274
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That's good stuff.

275
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More maneuverable than any human diver.

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It also has the ability to send a video signal to the surface.

277
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It'll be an extra set of eyes on Phil in case he runs into any trouble.

278
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Describe what you're seeing. How is it down there?

279
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This is really, really amazing.

280
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Wow, look at that. That is so cool.

281
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There they are.

282
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There they are.

283
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Look at that.

284
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It's like, look how small they are compared to just a section of what's left of the ship.

285
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The wreck is in really good condition.

286
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This thing is so well preserved. Unreal.

287
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That's kind of crazy because it's been down there for over 100 years.

288
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It's legitimately frozen in time.

289
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How cold is it?

290
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It's 36 degrees. I already can't feel my fingers.

291
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Trying to see how far it goes.

292
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Most of the damage that he's coming across is all damage from the original shipwreck.

293
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Some divers have claimed to see strange shadows and hear unexplained noises while diving around the Myron.

294
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Sights and sounds that have been attributed to the paranormal.

295
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The more logical culprit, fish.

296
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Lake Superior is home to about 80 species of fish including trout, salmon, walleye, sturgeon and pike.

297
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But strangely, the fish are not as big as the other ones.

298
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But strangely, I don't see any down here.

299
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This is weird, Jim, but I'm not seeing anything at all swimming around here. I expected to see way more light.

300
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Another possible explanation for the reports of strange sounds is the deterioration and the slow collapse of the wreck itself.

301
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Even though I'm freezing my butt off right now, Lake Superior is actually getting warmer every year.

302
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And warmer waters create more hospitable conditions for invasive organisms like zebra mussels that are known to wreak havoc on shipwrecks.

303
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But I'm not seeing any evidence of that on the Myron.

304
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Select a good zone down here.

305
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As for the lights people have reported above the surface here, the only thing that could even possibly glow down here are mineral rich rocks like Eric's Uprolights.

306
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But I have a hard time believing that has anything to do with the lights he recorded on camera.

307
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I'm near the river, starting to ascend to the surface.

308
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Got hypothermia yet?

309
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Oh, yeah. It was incredible.

310
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But why don't we get you guys warm?

311
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With Phil unable to come up with any biological or environmental reasons for the strange activity reported here, it's time to put my theory to the test.

312
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I believe it's possible that the tragic deaths of the Myron sailors could be causing both the lights in the sky and the strange sights and sounds reported below the surface.

313
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I'm not letting you get out of this. You're gonna contribute.

314
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Without any scientific explanations to offer, Phil's getting drafted into the ghost hunt.

315
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So I'm gonna drop the hydrophone down. I'll ask the questions for the EVP.

316
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I want you to listen in on the headphones and let me know if you hear anything weird.

317
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Okay.

318
00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:14,000
So these are for you, sir.

319
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Let me start recording so we get everything right away.

320
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The hydrophone can record audio underwater that we can't hear from the surface.

321
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Can you hear anything?

322
00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,000
Nothing.

323
00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,000
Yeah.

324
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Yeah? Okay.

325
00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:41,000
My hope is that my questions will get the attention of any spirits who remain here and will pick up their responses.

326
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To avoid any noise pollution, we kill the engine.

327
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Good?

328
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000
Here we go.

329
00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,000
Ready?

330
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,000
Engine off.

331
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Engine off.

332
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,000
Are there any sailors with us right now?

333
00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000
Did you freeze to death when the Myron went down?

334
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,000
What's your name?

335
00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,000
Are you causing the lights to appear over Lake Superior?

336
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,000
Would you hear something?

337
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,000
I just heard some low humming.

338
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:35,000
Engine's still off here, right?

339
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,000
Yeah, engine's off.

340
00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000
You heard humming?

341
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000
Are you causing the lights to appear over Lake Superior?

342
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,000
Would you hear something?

343
00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000
I just heard some low humming.

344
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,000
Engine's still off here, right?

345
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,000
Yeah, engine's off.

346
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,000
You heard humming?

347
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,000
It almost sounds mechanical.

348
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,000
It's weird.

349
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,000
When did your ship go down?

350
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000
When did your ship go down?

351
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,000
Bill continues to listen to the headphones for several more minutes,

352
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,000
but that strange mechanical hum he heard has gone quiet.

353
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:32,000
It's super hard to tell because I still hear all the splashing around us,

354
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,000
but it's really hard to tell.

355
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,000
The sound travels way further underwater.

356
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,000
Maybe it was another boat that we can't see out here.

357
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,000
Should we bring it up?

358
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,000
Yeah, let's bring it up.

359
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000
Just want to make sure it saves.

360
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,000
After several hours on the open water,

361
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we head back to the Whitefish Point dock.

362
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000
So far, we've investigated under the water.

363
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I continue to monitor for activity above the water with our surveillance camera.

364
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,000
And now, Josh is calling with some news.

365
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,000
Hi!

366
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,000
Hey, Josh.

367
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,000
How's it going in the upper peninsula?

368
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,000
Oh, we're just upping it up up here.

369
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000
That means you cracked the mystery lights then?

370
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000
No, I wouldn't say that.

371
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,000
It more so means that Jessica's Michigan accent is coming out more and more every day.

372
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,000
Whatever, right?

373
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,000
So the reason I'm calling is I actually have good news.

374
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I did some digging and I came up with another recent report of mysterious lights in the area.

375
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Only this time, it is not over the water.

376
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000
It's being reported on shore.

377
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It's coming from a former life-saving station that is literally just a few miles from where you are.

378
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That's where they would have launched the boats to try to rescue the shipwrecks.

379
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:43,000
Yeah, when they tried to save sailors from sinking ships like the Myron.

380
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That's right. This station is where sailors would be brought.

381
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:50,000
It is also where they would keep the recovered bodies of sailors who didn't make it.

382
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Now, the place is nearly abandoned.

383
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Access to it is really restricted.

384
00:23:55,000 --> 00:24:00,000
But there is a scientist who's living there and I have arranged for the two of you to meet him.

385
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,000
Really?

386
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,000
Yeah.

387
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,000
Maybe you can find a possible link between whatever's happening there and the lights above the water.

388
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000
Okay, that's cool.

389
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,000
Alright, we'll go talk to this guy and figure out what's going on out there.

390
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,000
Phil and Jess trade in their boats for all-terrain vehicles

391
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,000
and set out toward the former Vermillion life-saving station.

392
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It's seven miles down an old logging road flanked by thick pine forest

393
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,000
that's home to all manner of Michigan wildlife.

394
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,000
Things like wolves and bears that you probably don't want to slow down for.

395
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,000
Whoa, Jess!

396
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,000
Unless you're Phil.

397
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000
Jess, check this out.

398
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:41,000
Look at the size of that track.

399
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,000
Oh, there's its toes!

400
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000
That's not a small bear. Look at the size of that footpath.

401
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:46,000
That is huge.

402
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,000
Yeah, that's big.

403
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,000
You got toes up here. You got a heel.

404
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,000
Another one right there.

405
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,000
Yeah.

406
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,000
So it looks like he crossed over the road.

407
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,000
Check out these deer tracks.

408
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,000
See how much spray is behind them?

409
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,000
That means there was running to you here.

410
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,000
Oh, yeah.

411
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,000
And this is bigger. This could be a moose.

412
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,000
No way, really?

413
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:11,000
Tracks like these come from animals that can sometimes make eerily human sounds

414
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000
like a fawn crying out for help.

415
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,000
We got running deer. We got running moose.

416
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,000
It's friggin' wild kingdom up in here.

417
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,000
The Vermillion life-saving station was built in 1876

418
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,000
back when ships had no radios

419
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,000
and the upper peninsula was sparsely populated.

420
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:36,000
Sailors were pretty much on their own in the treacherous waters of Southern Lake Superior.

421
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,000
The station's purpose was to help rescue those in distress close to shore,

422
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:44,000
but often those rescue efforts only recovered bodies,

423
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,000
like those from the ill-fated SS Myron.

424
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,000
With the advance of maritime technology,

425
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,000
the Coast Guard closed the station in 1944.

426
00:25:55,000 --> 00:26:00,000
The site that once saw so much death now operates as a nature preserve

427
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,000
and its current inhabitant is Isaac Lutzenheiser.

428
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:04,000
You must be Isaac.

429
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000
Yes, I'm Isaac.

430
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:10,000
A conservation scientist who monitors the populations of federally endangered birds in the area.

431
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,000
We're here trying to research the ghost lights on Lake Superior.

432
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,000
But he knows all about Vermillion's reportedly haunted history.

433
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,000
I've definitely heard some pretty creepy stories.

434
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,000
A group of gallows gone here on a college retreat.

435
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:30,000
There were some weird lights spotted at the top of the lighthouse.

436
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000
These lights were green.

437
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,000
Does it work?

438
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:41,000
Yeah, the lighthouse produces a very dim light that flashes throughout the night.

439
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,000
Okay, but not like a green color or anything to like explain why those girls saw that.

440
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,000
Exactly.

441
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,000
And there was one gal who woke up in the middle of the night

442
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,000
with a ghostly apparition of a man standing at the foot of her bed.

443
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,000
How do you feel being alone here?

444
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,000
I will admit it's kind of eerie.

445
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,000
I have a key to get inside the lighthouse and I'm going to explore it a little bit.

446
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:09,000
You definitely have this overwhelming feeling that you're not alone.

447
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,000
What about sounds? Do people claim they hear things or just see apparitions?

448
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,000
There was one group of gallows up on this dune up here

449
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:24,000
and they reported hearing someone talking in the middle of nowhere.

450
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,000
That's weird.

451
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:32,000
And for you as a biologist who works with birds, do you think that they may have just heard wildlife?

452
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:33,000
It's quite possible.

453
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,000
I mean, I'm always up for debate on what might have actually been experienced.

454
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:42,000
Isaac is stationed here to monitor the local population of endangered piping clover birds.

455
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,000
The sounds they make are quite high-pitched.

456
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:54,000
But maybe from a distance in the right atmosphere conditions, they could be mistaken for human voices.

457
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:59,000
Well, do you mind if we kind of camp out here tonight and investigate the space?

458
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,000
Yeah, I won't be here.

459
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,000
So you guys are more than welcome to have access to the lighthouse.

460
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,000
Thank you.

461
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,000
Yeah, of course. Good luck, guys.

462
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,000
Since the reports of paranormal activity here all happened at night,

463
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000
we make plans to begin our sweep as soon as the sun sets.

464
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:21,000
We start with an external temperature reading of the house using the thermal camera.

465
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,000
Don't worry about it. Let's see what we can find on this.

466
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:31,000
I'm thinking we might detect something warm-blooded living in or just outside of the building.

467
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:37,000
An nocturnal animal like a fox or wolf that could be responsible for the sounds people report.

468
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,000
I just saw somebody walking in there and there's no one here but us.

469
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:45,000
Do you see light?

470
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,000
Yeah, what the f***?

471
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,000
Definitely someone inside that house.

472
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,000
See light?

473
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,000
Yeah, the light there.

474
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,000
Oh, right there, right there.

475
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,000
Okay.

476
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,000
So, none of us are in there.

477
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,000
There should be no electricity in the house except for up at the light.

478
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,000
Want to go inside?

479
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,000
Yeah.

480
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,000
Hello?

481
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,000
Is there anyone here?

482
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,000
Injured end-to-sea sailors were brought here for decades,

483
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,000
so I wouldn't be surprised if restless souls remain.

484
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,000
Jess, this door's locked.

485
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,000
Is there anyone who could have come in or out of that?

486
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,000
Jess, we absolutely saw a light on inside here.

487
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,000
Yeah, let's go upstairs.

488
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,000
Alright, let's put the robot out.

489
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:05,000
The REM pod emits an electromagnetic field around an antenna.

490
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,000
If anything enters this energy bubble, which has a radius of about three feet,

491
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,000
the device makes an alert.

492
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,000
Walk past, I want to see if you can act.

493
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,000
Yeah.

494
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,000
It's working.

495
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,000
I've got to go and check it.

496
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,000
Why is it so hot?

497
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,000
I thought it was supposed to make things cold or not hotter.

498
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,000
It's insane.

499
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:34,000
Are you the person that people say they see when they stay here?

500
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,000
Let's go downstairs.

501
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000
As we continue looking for whatever that mysterious light was,

502
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,000
I break out the Structured Light Sensor, or SLS camera.

503
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,000
It's a unique piece of tech that has an infrared light source

504
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,000
and software that supposedly detects paranormal entities

505
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,000
by recognizing unique movements of the human body.

506
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,000
If a person or spirit appears in front of the SLS,

507
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,000
it shows up as a stick figure outline.

508
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,000
Can we test it?

509
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,000
I'm going to jump up front of you.

510
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,000
Yeah.

511
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,000
If you want to see it, make sure it's working as it's supposed to.

512
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,000
Yeah, it's working.

513
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,000
That's wild.

514
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,000
That's you.

515
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000
Is there anyone in the room with us?

516
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000
Do you live here at the life-saving station?

517
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,000
Where you brought here after your ship went down in a storm?

518
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,000
What's the high pitch noise?

519
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,000
Is that the ground?

520
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,000
That's the high pitch noise.

521
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,000
What's the high pitch noise?

522
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,000
That's the ground.

523
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,000
That's the high pitch noise.

524
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,000
That's the high pitch noise.

525
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,000
That's the high pitch noise.

526
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,000
Is that the ground?

527
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,000
That's the ground.

528
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,000
Oh, would you stop?

529
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,000
Hello?

530
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,000
Is there anyone up here?

531
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,000
Oh, my God.

532
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:26,000
I just want to know how we were all downstairs.

533
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,000
Just that's proximity and EM going off.

534
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:39,000
That's saying it's been...

535
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,000
Oh!

536
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,000
What the f***?

537
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,000
Oh, my God.

538
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,000
She's lost it.

539
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,000
Oh, my God.

540
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,000
I'll call it a ghost.

541
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,000
You can call it whatever you're comfortable with, Phil.

542
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,000
I guess the one thing I'm concerned about is there's so many of us up here.

543
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,000
Okay, I'm down for a split now.

544
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,000
If you want you and half the crew, head outside.

545
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,000
Yeah.

546
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,000
While Jess stays in the lighthouse to try and track whatever caused those hits on her devices,

547
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,000
I head out to investigate the reports of disembodied voices.

548
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,000
There's no shortage of wildlife out here.

549
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:29,000
It's possible certain animal vocalizations could be mistaken for human voices.

550
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,000
This is the coastline.

551
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:39,000
But I also know that this very stretch of sand between Vermillion and Whitefish Point

552
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,000
is a designated high-rosion area.

553
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:47,000
That means that the habitat and, in turn, the wildlife populations are under constant threat.

554
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,000
See these little footprints?

555
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,000
These are the good ones you want to see.

556
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:58,000
These are probably footprints of the piping plover, which is the endangered bird

557
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,000
that Isaac is here studying and monitoring.

558
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,000
Gotta do a loop around the old life-saving station.

559
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,000
See what you can find.

560
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,000
Look at this.

561
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,000
Sound of light voices?

562
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,000
I think just bullfrogs gone.

563
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,000
I like this.

564
00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:00,000
This lakeside marsh is an ideal habitat not just for bullfrogs and birds,

565
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,000
but also for small mammals like beavers, muskrats, and raccoons.

566
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,000
All of which make sounds that could be misidentified as human voices.

567
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,000
Big, big forest edge with some kind of marsh.

568
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,000
So this is a really good location to bust out the fleer camera

569
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:21,000
and we're going to basically look for a thermal hit on any wildlife around here.

570
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000
Let's see what we can find on this.

571
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,000
The forest seems so thick when you look at it with your eyes

572
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,000
and then look at it with the thermal and it just sees through everything.

573
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,000
Sound of wind blowing

574
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,000
Hello?

575
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Is there anyone there?

576
00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,000
It's the REM pod.

577
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,000
That thing is going off.

578
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,000
Oh my God, is that Morse code?

579
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,000
With over 3,000 miles of shoreline,

580
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,000
Michigan has more lighthouses than any other state in the country.

581
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,000
124 of them.

582
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,000
And it's believed that many of these lighthouses are haunted.

583
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,000
Take the curious case of the Southhaven lighthouse

584
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:35,000
where Captain James S. Donahue is appointed keeper in 1874.

585
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,000
Despite having lost a leg in the Civil War,

586
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,000
he maintains the light by climbing steep stairs every day

587
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,000
and navigating icy walkways in winter.

588
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:51,000
He reportedly never misses a day or should I say a night of work in 35 years.

589
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,000
Today, visitors claim that around the lighthouse,

590
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:59,000
they hear disembodied voices and footsteps with a slightly odd rhythm,

591
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,000
like the sound of a one-legged man getting around on crutches.

592
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:08,000
Some say that Captain Donahue is still there keeping watch.

593
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,000
But then again, they might just be pulling your leg.

594
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,000
Oh my God, is that Morse code?

595
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,000
Well, holy...

596
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,000
That was a lot. That was a lot.

597
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:41,000
A REM pod potentially sounding off in Morse code would be a first for me.

598
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,000
But given that we're inside a former life-saving station,

599
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,000
I'm not ready to rule it out just yet.

600
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,000
I mean, I don't know what else to say. This place is haunted.

601
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:54,000
We'll have to further analyze the audio recordings to see if this might have been a myth.

602
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,000
Jess, how you doing in there?

603
00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:01,000
I don't know. We think we might have gotten some Morse code across the REM pod.

604
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,000
Uh, that's crazy.

605
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Yeah, but I actually think whatever was in here with us is tapped out.

606
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,000
Oh yeah, well, I think I should head back and meet up with you.

607
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,000
Yeah.

608
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,000
I think we should go back and meet up with you.

609
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,000
Yeah, I think we should go back and meet up with you.

610
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000
I think we should go back and meet up with you.

611
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,000
Okay, well, I think I should head back and meet up with you.

612
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:27,000
Yeah, um, meet me back up at the house, yeah.

613
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,000
I'll be there soon.

614
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,000
Tell me.

615
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,000
I mean, I know I should be more excited right now and I'm super stoked,

616
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,000
but I'm so emotionally drained because so much happened tonight.

617
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:43,000
Like, I don't even know how to wrap my head around it, honestly.

618
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:49,000
So, my aunt heard frog or an owl or something that sounded a little talky.

619
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,000
I could see how people could maybe think they're hearing some voices out there

620
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000
deep in the woods when really it's wildlife.

621
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,000
Yeah.

622
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,000
There's so much tragic history here.

623
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,000
It's the perfect place for a ghost story.

624
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,000
It's the perfect place for ghosts.

625
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:13,000
The waters off Lake Superior's deadly shipwreck coast hide a literal graveyard

626
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:17,000
that serves as a stark reminder of the area's tragic past.

627
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,000
Nothing is so wrong with the camera.

628
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,000
It's legitimately frozen in time.

629
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:31,000
The question is, could the echoes of all that tragedy somehow make their way above the surface

630
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,000
in the form of strange sounds and lights?

631
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,000
That is the craziest thing ever.

632
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,000
Jess's surveillance camera atop the Whitefish Point lighthouse.

633
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,000
I think we should point the camera out right up over here.

634
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,000
Yielded no new sightings of the mysterious lights reported here.

635
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:53,000
But Phil might have found natural explanations for at least some of the reported sounds.

636
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,000
These are probably footprints of the piping clover.

637
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:02,000
My team also captured a mechanical hum under the waves on the hydrophone.

638
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,000
I just heard some low humming.

639
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,000
Engine's off. You heard humming?

640
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,000
It almost sounds mechanical.

641
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,000
Yet there were no other vessels visibly around them.

642
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:19,000
And then there's the flurry of activity Jess's devices detected at the life-saving station.

643
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,000
Is that Morse code?

644
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:27,000
We ran the REM pod audio through a digital Morse code translator, and the results are in.

645
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,000
Some of the sounds did in fact register as letters in Morse code.

646
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:35,000
But the team struggled to identify any words.

647
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,000
Until they isolated this.

648
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:44,000
It translates to N-E-E-A-I-R.

649
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:48,000
Which some could speculate means need air.

650
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:53,000
Wireless telegraph technology came into use on Lake Superior in the early 20th century.

651
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,000
While I'd call the evidence inconclusive,

652
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:03,000
believers would suggest the sounds recorded by my team could be a reverberation from a tragic moment in time.

653
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:08,000
Perhaps a lost soul attempting to make contact from the other side.

654
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,000
Oh right there, right there.

655
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,000
But one thing is certain.

656
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:21,000
The wrecks on the floor of this frigid lake and the ghost stories of Michigan's shipwreck coast aren't going away anytime soon.