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Jun 4, 2025 1:41 AM
SquirrelWithATophat
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Ebo352
Like Chicago, should have been part of Wisconsin. Such a Midwestern powerhouse was missed giving the northern bit to Michigan and the southern bit to Illinois.
GhostTater
IgnisInvictus
It kinda will.
rotodisc
SUPERIOR THEY SAID
NEVER GIVES UP HER DEAD
WHEN THE GALES OF NOVEMBER
COME EARLY
TicklishOwl
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Mxlespxles
Dated a lady from Marquette for a while.
This is 100% true.
PrincessConsuelaBananaHammockTheThird
Cold storage lake: where your body stays fresh for future archaeologists to find, free of charge!
KalypsoKirin
My mom told me she swam in the great lakes once and I asked if she was insane.
Shaodyn
Lake Superior never gives up its dead, either. No, really. The water is so cold year-round that the biological processes that make dead bodies float to the surface can't happen. So the bodies just stay down there. Forever.
jnaz
Well, she certainly ain't Lake Inferior. The lake will dominate you.
AgamemnonsMemes
Okay but these are all true things.
PwnageHobo
Of course! You all know the elemental, She Who Drowns in Moonlight, Lord of Thunder Bay, ON? It turns out that her name is a description of WHAT SHE DOES, not WHAT HAPPENS TO HER.
That's pretty much the only thing I know about Lake Superior.
mindfrieze
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early!
atomicsockmonkey
It is the honey badger of bodies of water.
martineb72
It will kill you and preserve your undecomposing corpse for years, because it stays so cold the normal bacteria doesn't survive. Plus it doesn't have many carnivorous animals that would eat you.
peridotstar
Hells bells, I feel like the lake itself could almost be called a carnivorous animal o.O
Invisibleman1921
Superior: Kills you and no one will know for 12 hours after your ship is capsized.
Michigan: Northern portion and Southwest are rough, of not dangerous. Rest is fine.
Huron: Avoid Northern portion until mid-April.
Erie: Fine.
Ontario: Hey, a waterfall!
inthepines
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee
DeathtrapGarage
Seriously, Lake Superior is scary. I've been stuck on a small fishing boat in a pretty bad storm. The violence of the ice cold waves crashing over the boat is something I will never forget.
undrh2o
The alcatraz tour in "so I married an axe murderer" was pretty metal
ulfgarBentbeak
Youtube Channel: Big Old Boats: https://www.youtube.com/c/bigoldboats has a lot of content about various shipwrecks, many of which happened on the Great Lakes. It's an excellent channel to listen to like a podcast, though he also has a lot of great vintage pictures and video to go with.
MeMonty
I just posted about this channel but it appears you beat me to it
ChonkyChungus69
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, to make a long story short the big fucking boat sinks!
scuba7jb
There are a bunch of great scuba dive'able wrecks up there.... the only problem is that you need a dry suit to be comfortable in the really cold water.
RandomUser673
Is this Lake Superior on a burner account?
silentjay01
They just found a new one of a ship built in the late 1800s in Lake Michigan. Its under only 9 feet of water.
pookieeatworld
I read about that. A fisherman found it using his sonar. He checked and rechecked his map of other shipwrecks and nothing was known to be in that exact location, so he called it in to a historian in Wisconsin.
DrewtanggaurdiumLeviosa
Probably wasn’t only 9ft when/where it sunk.
silentjay01
Maybe, maybe not. In 1923 the large tug boat was "scuttled" by being set on fire after anything useful was removed.
stonetemplefox05
The gales of November remember.
michkbrady22
Natural History museum in Dublin is referred to, locally, as The Dead Zoo & that's just how we are
Problemwoodchuck
Scruffy2
And you killed it!
AlwaysDownvotesDogs
Hey! That's the big lake they call Gitche Gumee!
Problemwoodchuck
Gitche gon' get ya
JCDenton10
The sock puppet face havin' Great Lake has spoken.
nspriest233
Just don't say that to its face. You may find yourself missing
photo1311
Superior it’s said never gives up her dead
PostalHeathen
I didn't know there was anything in the UP.
R100GSPD
There's a maritime museum with various exhibits on how Lake Superior will kill you and everyone you love; it's lovely.
PostalHeathen
That does sound cool.
CorvidPrime
Stan Rogers: White Squall
retnab
Exactly what I came to post
Keru
the man had a voice like no other.
cyno01
Ive been to that museum, and yeah.
FreePalestineAndTheWorldFromIsrael
...All of these sounds like sex acts....
Bhargo
ploughing, bottoming, swamping, yeah I can see it
FacelessAce
We still hold a grudge over the Edmond Fitzgerald.
WhoHim
I dumped an old car battery in Lake Superior once so consider them avenged
mithiwithi
Lake Superior's response to your grudge:
GreatWhiteNorthEh
Time to go listen to Gordon Lightfoot again.
CongratsYouAreHereNow
In 1819, oh the Chippewa bean, made a big plate they call such a goonie
IconicM
Good beer though.
ThatuldoPig
I periodically do work on the guys house who helped design it. Nice guy
figuringeights
I looked this up so for those who don't know: it was the largest freighter on the great lakes in 1958, so people liked it. It carried iron? In 1975 there was a shit storm, and despite what seems like an abundance of caution from the captain maybe some crewmen were negligent? Maybe required more caution? There's a mystery because the ship split in half and took it's entire crew down. Lake superior makes things wet. That's all I know for sure.
marsilies
You missed that Gordon Lightfoot made a song called "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," which is how most people know of the ship and wreck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI
figuringeights
Right yeah I figured somebody else had mentioned it but def there's the song which helped it's fame thanks for the link