Killer Means Awesome

Killer Shipwrecks II - The SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Brainstorm Season 5 Episode 8

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On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald vanished in a matter of minutes. She was the largest ship on the Great Lakes. No mayday. No distress call. Just a captain's last words: "We are holding our own." The wreck inspired Gordon Lightfoot's famous song, but the real story is stranger than the lyrics. Fifty years later, nobody agrees on exactly what caused the ship to go down, and the lake has never given up a single body. Plus, a recent legal saga involving a police department, a relic from the ship, and a $600,000 settlement continues to keep the story alive.

Listen to the first four seasons of Killer Means Awesome to hear incredible true stories. Season 1 features amazing tales about recently discovered shipwrecks, while Season 2 highlights biographies of people you really should know. Season 3 tells incredible stories of real inventions, and Season 4 offers impossible to believe tales of true crime!