She was 26 feet wide and 105 feet long and stood 60 feet off the bottom. In 1863 she grounded on Middle Island, near Thunder Bay, MI and was declared a total loss, but later recovered. The area is very treacherous. The ship's name is sometimes converted to an English spelling "The Griffin" but in French, it's Le Griffon. Be very careful of rock ledges and shoals on the south and east entrance of Jackson Harbor; stay between the red and green markers. Subscribe for new episodes announcements, latest news, featured cases, and more! The Griffin is believed to be the first ship of European design to sail the upper Great Lakes. I have read the above comments and hope to provide you a feature movie someday. I think it was cases of rifles, now they would be contraband. History: Richard Bennett, a professional diver and author of 'The Poverty Island Sunken Treasure Brief', has spent over forty-five years and $100,000 of his own money searching for a Civil War treasure in Lake Michigan. Tantalizing stories like these have stoked the imagination of treasure hunters from all over the world, and one of the most well-known of these is a man named Richard Bennett. Often considered the first ship lost on the Great Lakes, little was known about it until shipwreck hunters Stevie and Kathie Libert set to work. You must log in or register to reply here. The production of cotton made the Confederacy's success of prime importance to the French leader. It was in this era when Poverty Island was notorious for sinking ships that one of its most persistent legends would begin, which says that somewhere in the waters off poverty island are five chests full of an estimated $400 million in gold bullion and coins just sitting around waiting to be found. If any of the latter was true the ship would rest in deeper water instead of shallow waters.. Mr Libert hopes to find a cannon, like the above, on the wreck of The Griffin. The sunken salvage ship Captain Lawrence from 1933 was discovered in 1993 and found not to contain the gold. They lie in shallow water and in the deepest . find one that is plausible for you and do the research. Or how many times they dived on each trip there. The wreck was found near Poverty Island on Lake . Sanilac Shores also is the resting spot for the wreck of the Sport, a 57-foot steel-hulled tugboat that sank in a gale in December 1920. It wouldn't be the only supposed lost treasure said to lurk down in the depths of the Great lakes and it surely makes one wonder. VIRTUAL MUSEUM Shipwrecks: A Deep Look Lost & Found Unsolved Mysteries Artifact Collection. They want what theyve found preserved. And dont even get me started on the whole God thing, singular or plural. All Rights Reserved. The bowsprit is believed to have broken off before the rest of the ship sank. ON LAKE MICHIGAN NEAR POVERTY ISLAND, Mich. - In a remote part of northern Lake Michigan, divers have started looking at an underwater pit, hoping to find the resting place of the Griffin, a . On November 2, 1933, Behrens filed a "Record of Casualties to Vessel." Looks like Marty Lagina has gotten wind of the story and is searching for it! I live on the garden peninsula a few miles north of poverty island and have always been intrigued by the story. #1. Steve Libert, a well-known Great Lakes shipwreck hunter and president of Great Lakes Exploration Group LLC, claimed he found the Griffon in 2001 in Northern Lake Michigan near Poverty Island. The story seems consistent, there were witnesses, and maybe it was real, but in the end,it is really just alegend. Only then did Mr Libert and various archaeologists discover that the bowsprit and the remainder of the vessel were separate. The PADI 50 year Contributions Award 2016 The Liberts haveno children, so, in effect, the Griffon is their child. It is only a speck of rocky land just east of Wisconsin, surrounded by the chilly waters of Lake Michigan. First, the mystery, which centers on Poverty Island, a speck of rocky land off the eastern coast of Wisconsin in the constantly frigid waters of Lake Michigan. Poverty Island is a small island in the U.S. state of Michigan. Beacons in the Night, Michigan Lighthouse Chronology, Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University. Several diagnostic artifacts were recovered from the site . The other nearby wreckage, meanwhile, had been dated to between 1632 and 1982. April 30, 2019. The ship lays upside down in 80 feet of water and rises 25 feet from the bottom. 2020 MYSTERIES & HISTORIES. Discovery of the Shipwreck. [4] Le Griffon was the first full-sized European style sailing ship on the upper Great Lakes that was built and commanded by the French explorer Ren-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle in 1679. Its littered with the bones, timbers and planks of wrecked vessels. Similarly, in 2014, treasure hunters Kevin Dykstra and Frederick J. Monroe claimed the discovery of the wreck near Frankfort, Michigan. The orginal 8 minute program was cut to 6 minutes because the program was moved into their 200th Anniversary Show. Did they, the people from "Unsolved Mysteries," believe it to be true? He has spent many years in the Great Lakes searching for shipwrecks. The big questions is has anyone else found it and recovered it and kept there mouth shut. The story ends with the bartender living in Hawaii and owning his own construction company. Shipwrecks [1982/1996] - . Various seasons available now on Hulu. It's an exciting story of missing treasurepassed down through time, a tale that is intriguing and, well, maybetrue. Nevertheless, Bennett is quite confident that he is very close to the treasure. 1,517 people lost their lives. The sunken salvage ship Captain Lawrence from 1933 was discovered in 1993 and found not to contain the gold. The island is within Delta County in Lake Michigan and is home to the Poverty Island Light Station, an abandoned lighthouse which is in disrepair. Despite that belief, there is a story that a group of sailors might have accidentally snagged one of the trunks in 1929. The Coronado shipwreck is located south of Hotel del Coronado, a historic hotel in San Diego, in front of the El Camino Tower of the Coronado Shores condos. He has identified a debris scatter in 40-60 feet of water, adjacent to the shore of Poverty Island, which includes planks, a cable, barrels, and several areas of magnetic declination. What about one of those small manned submarines?? Asked about the couple's claims, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources was quick to dismiss them. Many people dream about winning the lottery or being a great sports figure. I have been fascinated by treasure hunting all my life whether on land or sea its addictive. The Light was permanently deactivated and abandoned in 1995 and the old discarded lantern room laying on the ground was retrieved and used to restore the Sand Point Lighthouse ( you can see my post HERE). All in all, the locals were impressed by how friendly the Hollywood people were. Archaeology: Discovery of 'grand old' Pearl Harbour ship, Archaeologists stunned at shipwreck 'frozen in time', Nostradamus makes chilling 2022 'prediction' for EU collapse, Mountain range disappeared into Yellowstone supervolcano magma chamber. But Im a dreamer, and Im a gambler. 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There are many new facts that appear to support the legend. Sailors in the 20s almost had the chests. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. There have been numerous quote-unquote discoveries of the Griffon that were neverproven," Adkins said. Is a sunken fortune hidden in the bottom of Lake Michigan? This wreck has been mentioned in newspapers since 1945, and I wasn`t around to write those stories. The action steadily rises, but Bodeen . Summer Island in Lake Michigan, but never reached its destination. The legend and the attempts to discover the treasure caught the ear of the producers of the highly popular, 14-season television series Unsolved Mysteries. The program, which ran from 1988 to 2002, used a documentary format to profile real-life mysteries and featured re-enactments of unsolved crimes, missing persons cases, conspiracy theories and unexplained paranormal phenomena such as alien abductions, ghosts, UFOsand "secret history" theories. At the time, Union forces were beginning to gain the upper hand in the war, and the cash-strapped Confederates were frantically trying to raise money for their war effort. But alas, lifes priorities and age dissolves their dream. For at least one determined treasure hunter it is very real indeed, and time will only tell if there is anything to it or not. Poverty Island is currently owned by the federal government. It also lies in Michgan (the state) waters. FOR MORE DOOR COUNTY NEWS: Check out our homepage. In June 2019, further misfortune befell the 200-acre island, which was struck by on-and-off fires throughout the land. 10. We are confident the ship was wrecked due to a severe storm. Having a museum historian carbon-date it to the same era left them eager for the adventure. In most versions of the tale, the chests, usually said to be five of them, were chained together, making it likely that if one is to find one, they will find all of them. I almost came over to your house, to get your papers on the treasure. As he walked the room, he said, 'Who knows? Biology, nature, and cryptozoology still remain Brent Swancers first intellectual loves. Until that day, Lake Michigan will keep its grip on the five wooden treasure chests hidden far beneath its surface. Yet the battle to find The Griffin has been riddled with issues. 'The Poverty Island Treasure Brief' can be found at. Whether the Liberts found the Griffonor merely stumbled on the watery wreckage of some unidentified old ship, their book and the saga of their search open a door to the fascinating earliest days of European exploration inthe Great Lakes, before the founding of Detroit in 1701. "We don't really have anything onthe Griffon. "Many of them didn't even know that an island was there," said coastguard Charles Cormier . You can unsubscribe at any time. However, Richard believes that there would be no record because the treasure was brought during a clandestine operation. looking for the lost gold of Poverty Island. A 2272-ton cargo ship that wrecked off Namibia's . They say that big things come in small packages. More than 14,400 migrants have arrived in Italy by boat this year so far, compared to 5,470 in the same period last . As long as I have those things working for me, Ill probably continue to do it.. Spending years building long running, fast boats he could outrun the storm in, once getting to the island from Traverse City area. As long as I have those things working for me, Ill probably continue to do it. This might seem like wishful thinking until you realize that in that era France coveted the steady cotton crop they received from the South, something it was thought would be disrupted with a Union victory. But, that reasoning is far beyond this writting. Fee will invest in luck. Bennett, a professional diver and author of The Poverty Island Sunken Treasure Brief, has spent over forty-five years and $100,000 of his own money searching for the Civil War treasure. Archive of past shows: 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2000 1999 1998 1997 The Poverty Island Treasure story has been arranged and rearranged with the same slim two sentences or at most a few paragraphs. Pounded to pieces, the ship eventually sank. Additionally, this particular shipwreck is well-known, can be clearly seen on aerial imagery internet sites, and has been visited by state authorities.". Rrrrrrrrrr/shiver me timbers/another treasure story/ Im hopeing this ones true/all I can say is/PLEASE/PLEASE/BE CAREFUL/Ive personally saved 5 children from drowning / including myself twice/true story/ MAY GOD BE WITH YOU /and PLEASE donate/some of the findings to /ST. A coast guard boat carrying bodies arrives in port after the shipwreck. Its cold. Rick Lagina and the team set out on a highly anticipated dive operation to find evidence of a shipwreck, in this clip from Season 9, "The Hedden Truth."Tuesd. Some say that the native Indians boarded the ship and killed the crew. The location and reason of her sinking has remained a mystery ever since.[5]. Up it came, just seconds away, a fortune in gold, when suddenly the chains broke. Courtesy Steve Libert "Probably 99 percent of that . Traveling up the seaway to the Great Lakes seems to me a very odd way to reach Richmond VA. Some, maybe more than some, might admit they didnt believe it. RELATED: Traveling Back: Witnesses watch bridge lift car, police search for driver, RELATED: Traveling Back: WWI vets honored fellow doughboys to the last man. So you spent 35 years looking for this treasure, are you any closer to finding it? Dean Anderson, the Michigan State Archeologist, examined the object, an alleged "bowsprit," and determined it to be a fishing net stake. There were considerable changes to the story line for the sake of TV time constraints. If they survive 100 years, they probably have an 80, 85% chance of being true.. Richard Bennett, a professional diver and author, has spent more than 20 years and $100,000 of his own money searching for the sunken fortune: Any story that survives 100 years has to have some validity to it. I've got to get my finances in order though first to divulge into this mission Keep the info coming. I really hope you find them. An update on the Poverty Island Treasure legend. As for the Griffon? Never give upand God go with you! This video by Steve and Kathie Libert is from the location where they found the wreckage from the Le Griffon. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. In 2001, a famous Great Lakes shipwreck hunter, Steve Libert, claimed her wreck in Northern Lake Michigan near Poverty Island. The built-in tension in their family structure helps move the pace along initially, even though there's no sign of a story arc. The delivery came down the St. Lawrence River between the United States and Canada and into Lake Michigan en route to Chicago, but somehow, the Union became aware of the delivery and attacked the boat. But we just wanted to let our community consider this mystery. The Liberts say the wreck lies neartiny, uninhabited Poverty Island, part of a chain of islands that runssouthwestinto Lake Michigan from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. To answer Joe from the 8-30-16 comment: Your right Joe, that was the point, to be odd. Exposed timbers of the Twelvemile Island wreck (NPS Photo) SEAC and the Submerged Resources Center (SRC), in conjunction with the Slave Wrecks Project, were part of a federal, state, university, and private sector team assessing a reporter's claim that the wreck of the Clotilda - the last known ship to bring enslaved people to the U.S. from Africa -had been discovered near Mobile. The Griffin, Mr Libert believes, was caught in a four-day storm. Around 300 passengers responded by climbing on to the deck, with large waves washing some out to sea. Very interesting story. Id love to join Mr Bennett and help with the salvage, Im. Paul Paul Heersink has also been collecting data on sunken ships during World War II for seven years. Luck is as important as working capital. At the time, Union forces were beginning to gain the upper hand in the war, and the cash-strapped Confederates were frantically trying to raise money for their war effort. French archeologists who visited the site at the Liberts' invitation have said they believe the couple is on to something; they even staked a claim for France for whatever wreckage turns up, Steve and Kathie Libert say in their 2021 book, "Le Griffon and the Huron Islands," published by Traverse City's Mission Point Press (about $26in softcover and$35in newly released hardcover). There are always five chests, and its always the same scenario., Records of 1863 shipwrecks are well preserved. But how could $400 million in gold end up on the bottom of Lake Michigan? Today, Richard Bennett feels confident that he will succeed where others have failed. But some believed that, while traveling inland to Chicago, the ship was attacked and sank. While tug boats draggedthe ship off the rocks, the tug boats' anchors snagged some wooden boxes and the chains that held them together. The original story from the 1980s tells of a bartender from Washington Island that dove many times also looking for the five chests. Eduard Bohlen, Namibia. and the expenses needed for this type of endeavor.l would welcome a discussion. The team makes an astonishing discovery in the investigation of not just one but two shipwrecks. Michigan Brothers Finally Unearth 220-Year-Old Secret Hidden In Oak Island. Later, a lighthouse keeper's son, Carly Jessen, watched men on a salvage boat searching for something in the water offof Poverty Island, and the young man bet that it had something to do with the gold. How deep is it?? Thanks for the good wishes. In the 1930s, there was also the story of a Karl Jesson, who was the son of the Poverty Island lighthouse keeper. We had dived the Clark a hundred time and still lost it for a while. if you think about it gold and silver were not illegal in the 1860's so why throw them overboard ? As shipping traffic increased on the Great Lakes it was decidedthat a light was needed to guide ships safely thru the chain of islands at the entranceto Green Bay. The best part- A underwater tow sled is far more efficient. Poverty Island Lighthouse, U.S. Coast Guard Archives, PovertyIsland is located in northern lake Michigan and one of several islands marking the entrance to Big Bay De Noc and Green Bay, as in the bay in lake Michigan, not the city. My grandfather spent half of his life after coming home from WWII with a friend in Benzonia, MI. The ship was constructed and launched on Cayuga Creek on the Niagara River as a seven-cannon, 45-ton barque. But, while delivering a valuable cargo of furs, it vanished amid rumours that she had been cursed by a prophet from the indigenous Iroquois tribe. I cant believe how much I have learned about the US Civil War and all its components. Professional diver and owner of a diving school and shop in the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa, Bennet became fascinated and obsessed with the legend of the Poverty Island lost treasure back in 1968, and has been looking for it ever since. Body Count Rises on 400-Year-Old 'Murder Island' Shipwreck. Others believed it was shipwrecked in a storm. In 1984 he found an anchor. Like all adventures in treasure hunting there is a lack of funding. I would love to be there when this particular treasure is found and recovered. After a long courtship and college degrees, they married in 1981. Background: In 1863, as the tide of the Civil War was turning in favor for the Union, the Confederate States of America appealed to French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte III for a secret shipment of gold to bolster their economy. Door County has long been a magnet for famous people who have sought itsnatural beauty and long, lovely coastline. Its deep. Libert has been diving around Poverty Island since 1983. Data on another 4,981 ships were . Richard T. Bennett, Master Scuba Diver Trainer presents the legendary story The Sunken Treasure of Poverty Island, a treasure that has haunted diving treasure hunters since the first documented report in 1904. This San Diego County beach is also locally nicknamed Shipwreck . In 1994, a TV program investigated the Door County legend that $400 million in gold lies submerged near Poverty Island. Yetnone has accompanied Steve on his dives, the couple saidin an interview last week at theirwaterfront condominium in Charlevoix. According to Mr and Mrs Libert, The Griffin is a good match for wreckage found in 2018 near Poverty Island, Lake Michigan. Steve and Kathie Libert, of Charlevoix, said they've spent more than 40 years seeking the answer to one of North Americas most enduring mysteries the final resting place of the legendaryGriffon.
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