Trevor Collins

In 1975, a 729-foot steel Titan battled hurricane-force winds on the deadly Lake Superior.

At 7.10 PM, the captain radioed, we are holding our own, only for the ship to vanish minutes later, taking all 29 crew members with it.

Was it inclement weather, a fatal structural snap, or a phenomenon known as the Three Sisters?

Today, we're discussing the tragic sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

This is Red Web.

Welcome back, Task Force, to another episode of Red Web, the podcast all about unsolved mysteries, true crime, and the unknown.

I'm your resident mystery enthusiast, Trevor Collins, and joining me hearing this case for the very first time, Alfredo Diaz.

It's a cheeky little hint.

Yes, yes.

Now we'll get into what the Three Sisters are.

For those of you who live around the Great Lakes or might know of Lake Superior, you'll know what the Three Sisters are.

But for Fredo, I'm going to titillate you with what that is, and we'll talk about it at the end.

But yes, this is a tragic incident that happened back in the 70s.

This was a freighter.

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was enormous, right?

We're gonna give you the entire background on this record-setting vessel there on Lake Superior.

We're gonna talk about what happened that fateful evening.

We're gonna talk about the discovery of the wreck, kind of the investigation as to what might have happened that night.

But ultimately, yeah, it remains technically unsolved as to what exactly happened, how it sank.

We know all of the moving parts, and so there's a lot of confidence in each of the theories, but I think there is a reality that