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Valerie van Heest, MSRA co-director and author of the book Fatal Crossing, says human remains from the June 1950 crash into Lake Michigan washed ashore and were buried in a mass grave. She claims they were buried in a St. Joseph –area cemetery without the knowledge of the victims' families, and the grave was never marked. [ 8 ]
Nov 13, 2021 · Archaeologists found something much more fascinating than they got credit for when searching under the waters of Lake Michigan for shipwrecks: they uncovered a rock with a prehistoric carving of a mastodon, as well as a collection of stones arranged in a Stonehenge-like manner.
May 8, 2023 · Who would’ve thought that Lake Michigan was once a land that had ancient humans as guests who left their marks for us to trace? Let's dive into this deeply.
Aug 10, 2023 · It was relatively easy to dredge the muck, sand, and buried cattails out of these river valleys, thus creating harbors. During post-glacial, low-water periods, similar rejuvenated rivers eroded future harbors at other locations around the southern periphery of Lake Michigan. Bias in human time-perspective
Nov 17, 2023 · However, records from the Milwaukee District Medical Examiner’s Office show that between 1980 and 2020, 267 human remains were recovered from the lake. Most of the bodies were recovered from the West side of the lake, primarily in the Milwaukee County area and Sheboygan County.
Sep 29, 2020 · While some surmised it could be more than 10,000 years old — about the same time as the post-Ice Age mastodons in the upper Midwest — others, noted in the Chicago Tribune, that the animals were nearly extinct when humans might be around to draw them.
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Aug 22, 2012 · The body of a diver missing for more than a decade has finally been found in the icy waters of Lake Michigan. Two divers in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin found the mummified remains of 52-year-old Dirk Kann of Guttenberg, Iowa 225 feet below the surface Saturday still in his wet suit, WLUK-TV reported.
