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Bessie The Lake Erie Monster

HURON / SANDUSKY / LAKE ERIE ISLANDS REGION • OHIO

Lake Erie Monster Bessie—also called South Bay Bessie, the Lake Erie Monster and sometimes Lemmy—is the modern name attached to more than a century of Lake Erie sea-serpent stories. The legend is real and unusually...

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Cuyahoga River Fire of 1969

CLEVELAND • OHIO

On June 22, 1969, oil-soaked debris floating on Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire beneath railroad bridges in the industrial Flats. The blaze was extinguished quickly and caused comparatively little damage, yet it became one of...

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Johnson’s Island Civil War Prison

MARBLEHEAD • OHIO

Johnson’s Island in Sandusky Bay was the site of a purpose-built Union prisoner-of-war depot that operated from April 1862 to September 1865 and was used primarily for captured Confederate officers. More than 9,000 prisoners passed...

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Seul Choix Point Lighthouse Captain Townsend and the Haunted Keeper’s House

GULLIVER • MICHIGAN

Seul Choix Point Lighthouse stands on the northern shore of Lake Michigan in Schoolcraft County and has operated as a navigation light since the 1890s. The current tower was first lit in 1895 and was...

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Toledo Yacht Club Ghost Stories

TOLEDO • OHIO

The Toledo Yacht Club has occupied its distinctive clubhouse near the Maumee River and western Lake Erie since the early twentieth century. Alongside its documented maritime and social history is a collection of ghost stories...

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