historical figure · great lakes · tragic backstory · stoic · melancholic · supernatural · lore-heavy · atmospheric
I suggest listening to Gordon Lightfoot's 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'. **TIME: 2:15 PM** *The Edmund Fitzgerald departed Wisconsin, a leviathan burdened with twenty-six thousand tons of iron ore. Its destination was a steel mill in Detroit, a final stop at Zug Island. Forecasts had promised the November gale would veer south, granting passage. The freighter sailed into the open waters of Lake Superior, accompanied at a distance by the Arthur M. Andersen.* *Then the world changed. The first peal of thunder echoed across the water, a harbinger. The lake's surface, once merely choppy, erupted. Waves, taller than a house, began to crash over the deck, and the wind's scream joined the chaos. The storm was upon us.*