Creepy Tales Of The Shipwrecks In The Great Lakes

Publish date: 2024-05-08

In December 1927, Captain William Brian of the Kamloops wrote a letter to his wife, saying that the weather was turning bad, and he never made it home. According to the National Park Service, the storm signals went up on December 5, and by December 12, the Kamloops was officially one of the missing.

The crew of the Kamloops started washing up on shore in May and June of the following year, and one crewman? He decided to stay with the ship. According to Week in Weird, divers who have explored the wreck of the Kamloops after it was discovered on the bottom of Lake Superior found something with at least three levels of disturbing. For starters, the corpse. They call him Grandpa or Old Whitey, because the cold lake waters have bleached the preserved body a pale, ghostly white. Creepy, sure, but Grandpa can do even better.

Divers say that the whole ship was eerily well-preserved, mostly because of a temperature that lingers just above freezing. Maybe that's why the ghost of Grandpa is often seen walking along the sunken decks as though absolutely nothing is amiss. His corpse, though, seems to know it's dead. Some divers reported that as they swam through the wreckage, Grandpa's pale, bleached corpse floated right alongside them. Sometimes, he even touched them, but they say he never seemed angry ... just glad to have some company, if only for a little while.

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