{"id":2475,"date":"2011-07-28T21:04:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T03:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2011-07-28T21:04:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T03:04:23","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-july-28-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2475","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For July 28, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Mysterious Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bannockburn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2477\" title=\"bannockburn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bannockburn-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"Bannockburn\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bannockburn-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bannockburn.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Captain McMaugh of the steamer Algonquin may have been the last person to set eyes on the distinctive profile of the 245-foot canal streamer Bannockburn, with its three raking masts and tall funnel, on November 21, 1902. Laden with 85,000 bushels of wheat, the steamer was downbound from Port Arthur, Ontario, heading for Midland, Ontario, and fighting a strong headwind. Later that night, the steady wind became a full-blown gale and ships out on Lake Superior struggled to make headway. Days passed and the Bannockburn failed to reach the Sault locks. On November 27 it became obvious that the Bannockburn was missing. Some believed that the vessel was wrecked off Stannard Rock, where the steamer John D. Rockefeller had passed through a wreckage field. Captain McMaugh advanced the theory that the sudden, mysterious disappearance of the vessel was a result of the ship\u2019s boilers blowing up and causing the vessel to sink almost immediately. At the time, the only wreckage positively identified was a life jacket bearing the name Bannockburn, found on the beach near Marais, Michigan. The strings were tied, suggesting that it had slipped from a body. Captain George R. Wood and his entire crew of twenty perished. The wreck of the Bannockburn has never been located, but the vessel is rumored to live on in the form of a ghost ship &#8211; likening it to the legendary Flying Dutchman, which was wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope and is said to reappear from time to time as a phantom ship. Only a few years after the Bannockburn disappeared, sailors began to report the ghostly figure of the steamer sailing past Caribou Island, still trying to reach Sault Ste. Marie.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1894073266\/theasylumeclecti\">Disaster Great Lakes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Mysterious Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Captain McMaugh of the steamer Algonquin may have been the last person to set eyes on the distinctive profile of the 245-foot canal streamer Bannockburn, with its three raking masts and tall funnel, on November 21, 1902. Laden with 85,000 bushels of wheat, the steamer was downbound from Port [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}