Le Griffon: La Salle’s Lost Ship and a Ghost Story Written 200 Years Later
In September 1679, La Salle’s Le Griffon sailed from an island near the mouth of Green Bay with a hold full of furs and was never seen again: the first ship lost on the upper Great Lakes. Two hundred years later a Detroit writer gave her a curse, and later writers gave her a phantom. Here’s what the record says, what’s folklore, and why the wreck still hasn’t been found.
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