Case file · High strangeness
The Christmas Tree Ship
In November 1912 the schooner Rouse Simmons, carrying Christmas trees from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Chicago, sank in a storm off Two Rivers, Wisconsin, with Captain Herman Schuenemann and his crew.
1912 CE · 44.27, -87.40 · status: legend
The account
Sailors and shore watchers have told of seeing the ghost ship sailing at Christmas time.
The sceptical view
The wreck was found in 1971; the ghost is maritime folklore.