The wreck of a “ghost ship” cargo schooner that sank off a Wisconsin coastline during a ferocious storm has finally been uncovered 140 years later. A team led by researcher Brandon Baillod found the ...

BAILEYS HARBOR, Wis. -- Brendon Baillod wasn't expecting to find the F.J. King. Sure, the president of the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association (WUAA) had researched the old schooner's wreck.

Researchers discovered a 19th century “ghost ship” in Lake Michigan. The missing clue to the wreck’s location was hiding in plain sight in a local newspaper clip.

Picture the waters of Lake Michigan some 140 years ago, playing host to the F.J. King, a ship that would wreck and, consequently, sink in the unkind lake in September of 1886. Fast forward more than a ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwrecks in Great Lakes history, but it's just one of hundreds of vessels lost to these waters. For researchers, ...

A "ghost ship" that sank in Lake Michigan nearly 140 years ago and eluded several search efforts over the past five decades has been found, according to researchers with the Wisconsin Underwater ...