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Who Owned the 140-Year-Old Lake Michigan Ghost Ship? Wreck Found After Eluding Searchers for Decades

The wreck of the ‘ghost ship’ F.J. King, lost in Lake Michigan for nearly 140 years, has finally been found. (Credit: Wisconsin Historical Society Official Website)

For decades it was known only as a ghost ship, a vanished schooner said to lie somewhere in the dark, icy depths of Lake Michigan.

Divers whispered about it, maritime historians traded theories, and locals passed on stories of its fate.

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