Regardless, the “ghost ship” will live on to haunt Lake Superior – at least in some minds. The human brain “tends to try to make sense out of what our eyes send to our brain,” Becker said. “Is it a ghost ship? No, I’m pretty sure,” Becker told CNN, “and it might not be that big.”īecker explained that without depth cues, our eyes have no way of identifying how far an object is. The same way the moon appears to be massive when it rises on the horizon, the video may have captured a much smaller object that’s playing tricks on the viewers’ eyes, said Mark Becker, an associate professor of psychology at Michigan State University. The shimmering image is very likely the Granite Island lighthouse, about eight miles of the coast of Presque Isle. In this case, science offers a more plausible explanation. Some said they spotted spectral sailors off the coast of Whitefish Point after the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck in 1975, Stonehouse said. Ghost ship sightings are a part of the culture and tradition of the Great Lakes, said local maritime historian Frederick Stonehouse. “If there was a ghost ship sighting, this would be the place for it,” Lynn told CNN. That’s according to Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum Executive Director Bruce Lynn. There are more than 6,000 known shipwrecks in all of the Great Lakes, and more than 200 just in the 80-mile stretch of Lake Superior off Whitefish Point, not far from where Asselin shot the video. Displaced in the wake of the Empire, Ransom and young Tenhi search for a place to call home. Haunted ship sightings aren’t unheard of in the region.
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