Late October and early November are for large wind storms in the Great Lakes. One such "November witch" lead to one of the most infamous ship sinkings in U.S. history. On Nov. 10, 1975, 50 years ago ...

SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - Mid-Michigan marks 50 years since the wreckage of the Edmund Fitzgerald that sank on Lake Superior in November of 1975. The ship battled the rough waters of Lake Superior as ...

For the past several years, a Gordon Lightfoot song from 1976 has become an unlikely seasonal meme. The song, of course, is “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” a mournful ballad of the true story of ...

LAKE SUPERIOR, MI — “Things look pretty bad. It looks like she may have split apart at the seams.” In the hours after the 728-foot Edmund Fitzgerald abruptly vanished from the radar during a gale on ...

“The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy.” 50 years ago today marks the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which is infamous for its mystery and notoriety ...

Thanks to an iconic ballad by Gordon Lightfoot, most people think they know the story of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, the ore carrier that sank in Lake Superior in November 1975. The mysterious sinking ...

DETROIT, MI — A life ring and lifeboat fragment found after the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald are up for auction after a strange detour through a police misconduct lawsuit. DuMouchelles in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Not since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down 50 years ago today has a giant freighter been lost on the Great Lakes, but prior to then, a number of big ships met their demise, often in ...

The doomed ship went down just 17 miles from safety. Could this evidence explain what went wrong?