Video claims to show 'ghost ship' on Lake Superior
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A man looking at a rainbow on Michigan's Upper Peninsula over the weekend captured video of what he suggesed was a "ghost ship" on Lake Superior.
Jason Asselin says he recorded the footage of a tall object Saturday night near Marquette, Mich.
"Even if it was a ship, what could be that tall in these choppy waves?" Asselin wrote in the description of the video, which had garnered nearly 20,000 views as of Tuesday evening.
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"Some people said it might be a mirage, but for that to happen conditions would have to be perfect," Asselin told CBS Detroit.
The station suggested that Asselin could have seen a specific type of mirage called a Fata Morgana, in which elongated images appear on the horizon. The station also said the object could be a large lighthouse.
More than 6,000 vessels have gone down in the Great Lakes, according to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The most famous of those is the Edmund Fitzgerald, a freighter that sank with 29 crew members on board during a Lake Superior storm in November 1975. The tragedy was immortalized by singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot in the hit ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."