The W.H. Gilcher: Lake Michigan’s Lost Steel Freighter and the Ghost in the Mackinac Fog
On October 28, 1892, the new steel freighter W.H. Gilcher passed through the Straits of Mackinac just as a two-day gale struck, and was never seen again. Here’s the real history of her loss, the theories, and the legend that she still steams out of the fog near Mackinac Island.
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