Episode 123: The SS Kamloops Tragedy & the Corpse of Old Whitey

SKIP TO 00:11:05 TO GET TO THIS WEEK’S STORY THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED!!! Visit https://www.venterrafarms.com and enter "HAUNTED15" at checkout for 15% off your order + free shipping on all CBD products. Lake Superior is considered to be one of the most haunted lakes of all time due to the insanely high number of unrecovered shipwrecks and bodies that litter the lake floor. In fact, Lake Superior has earned two foreboding nicknames: “The Lake That Never Gives Up Her Dead” and “The Graveyard of the Great Lakes”. Lake Superior has also earned the title of being one of the “Top 10 Most Haunted Lakes in the World”. Today we learn about the most famous of all of the bodies still entombed on the lakebed floor: “Old Whitey”. Whitey’s corpse is found floating inside the engine room of the SS Kamloops, which sank on the Canadian side of Lake Superior in the 1920s and has never been removed. Divers report seeing Old Whitey’s corpse AND his ghost floating around the ship, following them throughout the wreckage. And if that weren’t scary enough, we also delve into the the fear known as “submechanophobia”, which Aly definitely has. TIME STAMPS 00:00:00 INTRO 00:11:05 SUBMECHANOPHOBIA 00:27:41 LAKE SUPERIOR 00:41:38 SS KAMLOOPS 01:30:00 OLD WHITEY 01:53:30 KAMLOOPS SCUBA DIVER INTERVIEW 02:27:35 FINAL THOUGHTS Please go leave a comment on Curtis Lahr’s Kamloops vlog and say that LGH sent you! He was super cool to come on the show and talk about such a controversial story. Click here to go to his vlog now: https://bit.ly/CurtisKamloops —— Other Important Stuff: Buy Our Merch: https://www.letsgethaunted.com Donate to our stupid show: https://ko-fi.com/dogmomusa Check out the photo dump for this week’s episode: https://www.instagram.com/letsgethaunted Send us fan mail: PO BOX 1658 Camarillo, CA 93011 Send us your listener stories: LetsGetHauntedPod@gmail.com — BACKGROUND MUSIC BY MICHAEL GELFI STUDIOS SUPPORT HIM ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/MichaelGhelfi Link to sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_oZIrPV_iU FIRE SOUND EFFECT BY N BEATS Link to sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz9ftphTWTM — SOURCES: [01] “Submerged Cultural Resources Study: Isle Royale National Park” by Daniel J. Lenihan, the Submerged Cultural Resources Unit, and National Park Service, Link: https://bit.ly/3BBcozs [02] The Youtube channel “Ask A Mortician”, video “The Lake That Never Gives Up Her Dead”, Link: https://bit.ly/3RIyqWM [03] “Lake Superior is one of the Most Haunted Lakes in America” by Paisley Dunn for QuickCountry.com, link: https://bit.ly/3Dn8mMl [04] “Meet Old Whitey, the Preserved Corpse of the SS Kamloops, Lake Superior’s Most Haunted Shipwreck” by Greg Newkirk for WeekInWeird.com, link: https://bit.ly/3U87gdp [05] “Stone now marks burial plot for SS Kamloops tragedy” by Jodi Lundmark, link: https://bit.ly/3Ua1FTS [06] Library of Congress, Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Volume 16 link: https://bit.ly/3U87LEj Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices