The grief is palpable in Kamloops, B.C., after a preliminary survey of the grounds of a former residential school uncovered the bodies of 215 children. This is all very new. LOL, the temperature part I might buy, might, but the no fish part at that depth is so wrong. Upbound vessels, including Kamloops, had been delayed and anchored at Whitefish Bay. The giant freeze-up of vessels the year before was still fresh in memory as the 1927 navigation season drew to a close. While might catch glimpses of Travel Channel is kicking off Halloween season on October 4th with a very special live event that brings together more of the networks top paranormal stars than you can For most of us, ignoring the strange people on the subway is second nature, but if you ever find yourself in the tunnels below New York City and you Tweets by @WeirdHQ The next dives on the wreck were done September 5 and 6, 1977, but there was some doubt that the wreck was indeed Kamloops. Would you be keen to go down and visit Old Whitey on the SS Kamloops? I came across an interesting story recently that circulates among diving enthusiasts. Ghost Stories But I didnt see any strange deaths, he said. The alleged burial ground, which is said to include 215 bodies some as young as 3 years old was located with the help of ground-penetrating radar at the site of the former Kamloops Indian . This cold front would be closely followed by a worse storm. The body of one of the deceased crew members, dubbed Old Whitey, floats amongst the wreckage of the ship with some divers claiming follows them as th I guess it spurs the imagination better if the body is supposedly whole, LOL. Photo: Doug Bell . What begins the process, is the body's own enzymes and bacteriums and microorganisms. Very few divers are skilled enough to deal with the extreme conditions. She was smaller than the average boat sailing on the Great Lakes but had the dexterity to maneuver the smaller canals of the Lower Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River. Park rangers responded to the incident after receiving a distress call on marine band radio from the charter company vessel Lake Superior Diver. Four others who could not be identified were buried together at Thunder Bay. People are speaking from their emotions.. He was spotted by the boat crew and was brought aboard unresponsive and not breathing. Doesn't even mention the stories, so I assume they are just made up. In 1936, EMPEROR lost a rudder (Toronto Evening Telegram June 4, 1947). They speak of paying respects to Old Whitey or shaking hands with grandpa. "1". The number of bodies was based on irregularities in the ground ascertained by the radar waves, according to an anthropologist hired by the band to scan the site. Remains of 215 children found buried near school in Canada. The ones who did, though, began to resurface with frightening tales. There is a legend that Lake Superior doesn't give up her dead; it's due to the cold, like you said. A ninth body was found inland some distance from shore, believed to be the remains of Honore (Henry) Genest, first mate. We have not gotten to the point where we can do that. The ship was 260ft deep, its detached smokestack lying a short distance away. The SS Henry B. Smith was a massive steel-hulled freighter, 525 feet long, 55 feet wide, and 31 feet high. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Shipping comes to a halt in the Great Lakes during the winter time due to the harsh icy conditions so ship owners push to get as much freight delivered as possible before winter sets in. Divers understand the risks involved in diving at such extreme depths, but accidents can happen. Everything is kept vague. This is the anchor chain to the OOCL Honk Kong container ship, being raised out of the water. Even if they couldn't get the body, it seems kind of odd that at first, it is stuck in an engine, and then it can somehow magically free itself and swim. As memorials spread across Canada, there are . Workshops, Charity & Fundraisers Whats still missing, however, according to a number of Canadian academics, is proof of the remains in the ground. Encounters with Grandpa have proven to be extra scary because hes not just any ghost he inhabits a well-preserved corpse, nicknamed Old Whitey, that has remained trapped in the downed ship for nearly a century. Lake Superior SS Bannockburn, a.k.a. She had no wireless aboard. Sault Ste. Algoma Shipwreck - Isle Royale. Fragments of superstructure, including the top of the wheelhouse, a spar with a flag on which was printed KAMLOOPS, and a lifeboat were found in the area between Green Isle and Hawk Island. chief duty was carrying manufactured goods from Montreal up the lakes to Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Isle Royale What does it mean if you see a White Figure? Apparently Kamloops passed through the Soo on December 4 in the company of Quedoc, a 345-foot bulk freighter ( Owen Sound Daily Sun Times, Dec. 13, 1927). The exact cause of the ships sinking remains a mystery to this day. The ship was lost near Marquette, Michigan, on November 9th or 10th 1913, during the Great Lake Storm, one of the biggest storms ever recorded on the Great Lakes. Ice With no power, she was at the mercy of the raging storm and the northeast gales tossed and blew her toward Isle Royale. "Static - Cold"
Althought there might not have been fish to munch old Whitey away, but what about the microscopic bactieria that I would think after neary 100 years would have made a bit of. http://paranormalborder.net/forum/3002966/
Captain R. Simpson of Quedoc arrived at the Soo and discovered Kamloops still on the unreported list. "Ye old shipped matey be starving for a good rum by now" lol. Today there is no wrong or right. Franklin D Roosevelt. "All Torque & No Traction"
To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below. The cutter Crawford, which postponed entering the drydock in Duluth at Marine Iron and Shipbuilding for repairs, went to investigate. They probably hoped she would remain foundered on the reef, leaving a potential for rescue. [4] With a length of only 250 feet (75 m) and rated at 2,402 gross tons,[4] Kamloops was a relatively small vessel for the Great Lakes in the 1920s. From Sault Ste. Several sleepless weeks. Beaulieu said that remote sensors picked up anomalies and what are called reflections that indicate the remains of children may be buried at the site. The bodies were decomposed, but one appeared to be that of a woman (The Calumet News, June 5, 1928). [4], Kamloops completed its sea testing on 5 July 1924, was shipped to Copenhagen, Denmark, to pick up freight, then was taken to Montreal and Houghton, Michigan, United States. The executive's declaration would prove ironic on two counts: Company vessels would be lost in 1927, and others would end their season icebound in the very same channel as the year before. It was known that there were two women aboard Kamloops during its final voyage. Storm signals were raised once again on December 7, as a northeast wind began blowing at 20 to 30 miles per hour. At first, the woman, reportedly found attired in nightclothes, was believed to be stewardess Netty Grafton of Southampton (Owen Sound Daily Sun Times, June 6, 1928). When they decided to use federal funds they got during Covid to contract with an expert to look for the remains, the results were lightning quick, Read told The Post. [4], Kamloops was dispatched up the lakes in late November 1927, carrying a mixed cargo of tar paper, papermaking machinery, coiled wire for farm fencing, piping, shoes and foodstuffs. Michigan What happened to the American dream? [4] As a canaller, she carried diversified "package" freight between Canadian ports. Divers report seeing Whitey follow them or stare at them while they explore the shipwreck. If thats true, there should be excavations. te he. Kamloops, BC V2C 1T5. July 15, 2013. Also, it is too dangerous to recover a body trapped that far down. Unexplained-Mysteries.com "The Flying Dutchman of Lake Superior". He added that the report showing the results of the ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has not been released by the band but may be at some point in the future. It's a torso with some leg stumps, that's all that's . It went down in history as one of the Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes, dozens of shipsto mysteriously vanish without a trace. The freezing temperatures have turned his body white as snow causing him to be given the name Old Whitey or Grandpa by visiting divers. The ship was released unharmed at 4:00 that afternoon after jettisoning 900 tons of ore (Detroit Free Press Oct. 27, 1926). The system forcibly separated children from their families for extended periods of time and forbade them to acknowledge their Indigenous heritage and culture or to speak their own languages, according to the website of the First Nations and Indigenous Studies of the University of British Columbia. A search for Kamloops began in earnest December 12. Engelbreht, along with dive partner Randy Saulter of Mounds . The owners of the Kamloops pushed the ship to operate as late into the season as possible and it was one of the last vessels still operating in the beginning of winter in 1927. Well. It seems Old Whitey is happy to make friends with any visitors to his watery grave. [3] Its detached smokestack lies a short distance away, near the starboard aft cargo mast. - The Quixote, When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. It seems that the harder it is to access a haunted location, the scarier the ghost stories tend to be, and they dont get much creepierthan that of Grandpa, the spirit haunting the submerged wreck of the SS Kamloops. Answer (1 of 13): Quora User gave a fantastic answer showing pairs of shoes on the sea bottom at the resting place of the Titanic and I'd encourage you to have a look at that. Wisconsin The Canadian government and provincial authorities pledgedabout $320 millionto fund more research and in Decemberpledged another $40 billioninvolving First Nations child-welfare claim settlements thatpartially compensate some residential school attendees. Apparently Kamloops passed through the Soo on December 4 in the company of Quedoc, a 345-foot bulk freighter (Owen Sound Daily Sun Times, Dec. 13, 1927). I'd like to follow up his answer with a dose of science. Duluth Grandpa, they claimed, would actually reach out and touch them. The temperature dropped to 10 degrees below at Port Arthur. It's easy! Knowledge Keepers, after all, cannot be questioned, because to do so would be perceived as disrespectful, wrote Widdowson in The American Conservative in February. The visibility was poor, on account of frost fog, and it is not known if the KAMLOOPS saw the rock or heard the signal. 1. Flanagan and others saythe number is misleading at best because a large percentage of Indian parents willingly opted for residential schools as they were the only way for their children to get an education. Sorry bad pun! An ancestor of mine lived there for a time in about, donna Creamore | Lake Superior Journal: The Vanishing Act at Pebble Beach, In 1976, I married my wife and we took a camping honeymoon. Near gale force winds smashed wave after wave across the decks of his ship, the Kamloops. Kate Crowley lol, I cracked up at this comment from him: "His skin in life or death would lose pixelation". A party led by John Steele filmed the wreck in 1978. Widdowson is a former tenured professor at Mt. Another tug captain, Sam Wright, said that practically every tug captain, mate and engineer was ready to start a close search of the shore of Isle Royale, and the waters and islands between Port Arthur and the big island, to ascertain the fate of the freighter Kamloops. The SS Kamloops has lain at the bottom of Lake Superior for nearly 100 years but visiting divers claim they are not alone when visiting the shipwreck. I know that below 40m, divers have to use a different gas mix and I know that the record for a scuba dive was 270m, but apart from that, we need someone with some diving credentials (and probably some familarity with that area of the Lakes) to tell us how bunk recreationally diving the wreck would be. I came across an interesting story recently that circulates among diving enthusiasts. Outdoors. They use a lot of words like cultural genocide, Rouillard told The Post. Brock Batten stated, "She was fully dressed and wore a sweater and a coat (Ft. William Daily Times Journal, June 7, 1928). Lifesavers candies still preserved in the cargo hold | Via Doug Bell / YouTube. The only thing I can't verify is the difficulty of the dive. 02:40 - Source: CNN. [5], It is the custom of Great Lakes shipping to try to move as much freight as possible before winter and associated ice conditions bring boat movements to a halt. In the engine room of the Kamloops divers discovered a crewman's body preserved and completely intact. This is the biggest fake news story in Canadian history, Flanagan told The Post. We use this income to keep producing high quality articles for you on Paranormal Catalog. Wolves Beaulieu scanned the site between May 21 and May 23 and the band announced her shocking findings on May 27. Captain Henry Gehl of the tug Champlain believed every bay of Isle Royale should be inspected. Mrs. Brian expected her husband home for the winter season six days later on Saturday, December 10. HAH! Yellowhorn, who grew up on a farm on the Peigan Indian reservation with many family members who attended residential schools, is both an archaeologist and anthropologist. Kamloops(Official Number 147682): The Kamloopswas built in 1924 at Middlesbro, England by the Furness Shipbuilding Company for the Canada Steamship Lines.Small for the era, the Kamloops was a scant 250 feet in length, 43 feet in beam with a 14 foot draft.The Kamloopswas built to the maximum dimensions of a ship intended to pass through the Welland Canal in 1926. Wright believed that the missing ship would be found ice-locked on the inner side of Isle Royale between Washington Harbor and Gull Rocks, a stretch of 15 miles of sheer rock where there is no shelter for ships, or else in one of the numerous bays and island-sheltered nooks that extend from Gull Rocks to the outer point of the island (Port Arthur News Chronicle, Dec. 17, 1927). I never forgot the 2 or 3 minutes they devoted to the Kamloops. Divers in 2019 located a different shipwreck the SS Hudson , which sank in 1901 at a depth of 825 feet below the surface. Lloyd W. Krohn, 55, of Wyoming, Minnesota, was diving in a party of three on a charter SCUBA trip to the park operated by Isle Royale Charters, Inc. The weather remained at sub-zero levels with lows of 10-38 degrees F. below zero reported. 4. "Old Whitey" is the nickname given to a deceased crewman of the SS Kamloops, which sank in Lake Superior in 1927. The Kamloops is considered an expert dive due to the depths involved; most of the wreck lies below 200 feet. A rumor had circulated from Buffalo that Lake ships, fearing another blockade, would end their season on November 30, but executives of Canada Steamship Lines denied the rumor. The ship passed Detroit at 11:30. The education I got thereset me up for life.. However, I love learning about the Edmund Fitzgerald. Back then it would have been dangerous. I'm from Michigan, so that's kinda natural. Two divers in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin found the mummified remains of 52-year-old Dirk Kann of Guttenberg, Iowa 225 feet below the surface Saturday still in his wet suit, WLUK-TV reported. Privacy Policy. ", "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both" - Benjamin Franklin, "They are barking, Sancho, so let's ride"
The Coast Guard ceased its search of the Keweenaw in the face of heavy seas and ice, and suggested concentrating efforts on the shores of Isle Royale and Manitou Islands (Houghton Daily Mining Gazette, Dec. 16, 1927). -Leo Burnett. Some cargo remains in the holds, while other cargo is strewn around the wreck site. Now 70, he was born the youngest of 12 in a tent pitched on a snowbank on an island in a lake in remote northwestern Manitoba. Lake Superior Journal: Building Skiffs, Crafting a Life, Around the Circle This Week: The 300 (Cyclists). On the last dive of the weekend, Engelbrecht, at a depth of 195 feet "saw this really big shadow, the Kamloops, and this other shadow coming out of it, which was the flagpole. There are several bodies there -- in the story it's not an old wreck -- and as he moves through the ship he stirs the water and the bodies of the drowned sailors are drawn into his wake and move along behind him. Some even returned saying that they had seen Grandpas ghost and his body in the same trip, though never in the same room. Introduction. It's painful to hear that 215 bodies were found at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. TheKamloops, on the other hand, was nowhere to be found. SS Kamloops story elements are probably real (except for the body swimming around). more information on current conditions explore the source materials that contributed to the. Shipping As if its not spooky enough diving down to an insane depth in freezing cold waters the Kamloops has one famous corpse who acts as a guardian of the ship. This expedition discovered that the engine telegraph was set at the "Finished With Engines" position, indicating the engines may not have been operational at the time of sinking, or that the vessel was laid to before the disaster. Rounding the northern tip of Isle Royale, the vessel had a . Lake Superior Circle Tour But, like Rouillard, Tom Flanagan, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Calgary, isnt buying any of it. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. At least 80 people survived Sunday's shipwreck off the Calabrian coast, but rescue crews recovered 60 bodies, including those of several children and the corpse of a young man Monday morning. Steele's party made the following speculations based on their observations: In the position of her last sighting and in the raging storm, a guy wire attached to the port side of KAMLOOPS' stack snapped or tore free. The "whiteness" could also be from lack of sunlight for, I dont know 100 YEARS! The last trip of the 1927 season would be Kamloops' final trip. [3] The ship had two rigged masts and a 1000HP triple expansion steam engine with Scotch boilers. Continue with Recommended Cookies, The Wheel of the SS Kamloops, submerged under Lake Superior. Kamloops was one of a network of residential schools across Canada run by the government and operated by churches from the 1880s through the end of the 20th century. [3] On 1 December, the steamer called at Courtright, Ontario, to top off its cargo with some bagged salt. Biking Some bodies were found in spring and June 1928 and some shipwreck debris off Isle Royale. The ship passed Detroit at 11:30. The nearest school to where his family roamed as nomads was 300 miles south, Highway told The Post. S.S Kamloops sunken in Lake Superior with holds a preserved corpse, nicknamed "Old Whitey". By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. His body stiff and his skin white as snow, the nameless member of the Kamloops crewhad floated inside the ship for fifty years, alone until the divers began to occasionally filter in. The location of the shipwreck was unknown until sport divers located the wreck in 1977. Here it is, in case you haven't already seen it: Following are 7 of the most famous shipwrecks of Lake Superior, each with its own ghost story. The only way to be certain is to peel back the earth and ascertain what lies beneath. It doesn't mention the body in the engine room though. I've done multiple videos on . Scary For Kids, The gruesome discovery took decades and for some survivors of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in . Lake Superior (Kamloops Shipwreck) Lake Superior is spooky for a lot of reasons. At ten o'clock Tuesday night [Dec 6], the lookout on the steamer QUEDOC suddenly saw a dark mass ahead, and gave the alarm immediately. Tomson Highway, a full-blood Cree, is a well-known Canadian composer, author and pianist. The experience we had last year does not deter us because we realize that a thing like that may not happen again for another 50 years." The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. [4], Of the nine bodies recovered from Kamloops, five were identified and the remains shipped to next of kin. Marie Canal, and in 1926 it ended the season stuck in the ice in the St. Mary's River. Some of them rationalized it as currents, but others insisted that there was something unnatural, even intelligent, about the way Grandpa moved. This story has been shared 118,693 times. Search parties were sent out through the Great Lakes, all of them turning up no evidence of the ship, and on the 26th, three weeks after the ships disappearance, winter weather came down hard, as did hope for the Kamloops crew, and the search was halted. What happened to the Kamloops is still a mystery. I hail from the area around Butte Montana where we call the pastry povitica. By the beginning of the new year, there was little mention of the loss of Kamloops. It disappeared in December 1927 with its entire crew. The Canadian professors also take issue with reports that at least 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools, which is now accepted as gospel in Canada. Marquette In the novel, the body of a fictional contemporary diver is found together with the historical human remains in the ship's engine room. in mind summer or winter--it is specta, Gary R Ilminen | You're Gonna Love Winter, I loved your tributes to both of these places. On May 17, 2021, the band hired Sarah Beaulieu, a young anthropologist from the University of the Fraser Valley, to scan and survey the site. Where is the actual evidence of the 215 bodies discovered at the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School? It sounds to me like a mixture of history (the true story of the wreck) and fiction. The storm increased as the second front arrived, sweeping Lake Superior with high winds on December 5. Experts say an estimated 150,000 children attended the schools. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. Winter You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. KAMLOOPS' power plant was shut down before she sank. The other twelve crew members probably remain trapped in the stern house, yet to be opened. It is located approximately 300 feet from the north shore of Isle Royale near Todd Harbor. It must be made certain that no one is on the island before the search for the missing steamer is given up as hopeless" he said (Port Arthur News Chronicle, Dec. 16, 1927). The Kamloops was built in the UK for Steamships Ltd. of Montreal, Canada. So we went.. Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society . Frederick Stonehouse [citation needed], The wreck is listed as "address restricted", but Isle Royale National Park permits public dives and publishes the location of the wreck. 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