Filer’s Files #13 – 2014 Mysterious Disappearances

Mysterious Disappearances

A triangle located in Lake Michigan is the site of mysterious disappearances of both land and sea craft with similar characteristics of the Bermuda Triangle, including ghost ships, strange disappearances and even UFO sightings. There’s been some strange disappearances out there, there’s been many ships that have been lost that haven’t been found.” Bill Wangemann is a historian from Sheboygan, Wisconsin who’s spent a lifetime gathering tales about the Lake Michigan triangle. The legend doesn’t end with sunken ships; nearly 40 planes have disappeared over Lake Michigan too.

Probably the most famous is the DC-4 Northwest Airlines flight 2501 that took off from New York City headed for Minneapolis in June of 1950 and plunged into Lake Michigan just off Benton Harbor. No one of the 58 passengers survived and the craft was never found. Then, there are the sightings of UFO’s and other strange anomalies in the sky. In fact there have been so many sightings of strange objects and phantom planes that the Federal Aviation Administration created a special lake reporting service to catalog the reported sightings. And yet still, thousands make the journey through the Triangle every season. There’s dozen’s of these stories about different things that have occurred out there and people that have been lost and sailors that have disappeared off of ships and some people claim that there is something supernatural going on out on the lake,” says Wangemann.

The wreck of the schooner Rosa Belle and the loss of 11 crew members and passengers appeared as if the schooner had been in a collision with another vessel. Among the strangest of the mysteries was the disappearance of the schooner Thomas Hume, which disappeared without a trace in a Lake Michigan gale on May 21, 1891, sailing to Muskegon, Michigan to pick up a load of lumber, seven sailors were lost with the ship. Even though the lake was searched thoroughly, not a stick of lumber or piece of flotsam from a wreck was ever found. Old sailors speculated that the Hume, a wooden vessel, could not have sunk without some wreckage floating away. To this day, the Hume’s disappearance remains unsolved. Aircraft and ships have disappeared in a relatively small area of Lake Michigan.

Perhaps UFOs or strange creatures have something to do with strange disappearances? Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldUFOphotos.org