November 10th, 1975 — the night the Great Lakes swallowed a legend. The Edmund Fitzgerald, once the pride of the fleet, vanished beneath the icy waves of Lake Superior without a single call for help. Twenty-nine men aboard, gone in an instant. To this day, no one knows for certain why.
This week on Beyond the Campfire, Will and Steve dig into one of the greatest maritime mysteries in American history. Was it a rogue wave, an undetected hull fracture, or a fatal navigation error that sealed the ship’s fate? Through survivor testimony from nearby vessels, Coast Guard reports, and the haunting final transmission from the Fitzgerald, they piece together the final hours before the storm took everything.
Half a century later, the wreck still rests in the cold dark of Superior — silent, intact, and surrounded by questions no one can answer. Some say it was the perfect storm. Others believe it was something far more human: pride, pressure, and one bad decision too many.
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