15 Geography Facts So Crazy They’ll Change How You See The Great Lakes

The Great Lakes have swallowed more than 6,000 ships, hidden a phantom island on official maps for 150 years, and hold bodies that never surface. Most people think they know these lakes. They don't. Five lakes sit in the middle of North America holding 20% of the world's fresh surface water, and almost everything strange about the continent flows through them. Ships vanish without distress calls. Waves appear from nowhere and kill people on calm mornings. Bacteria older than oxygen live in sinkholes at the bottom of Lake Huron. A stone circle with a carved mastodon sits 40 feet down off the Michigan coast, older than Stonehenge if it's real. This isn't a geography lesson. Today this video will explore 20 facts about the Great Lakes that will change how you look at a map of the United States. From the Witch of November to the Marysburgh Vortex, from the Eastland disaster to the Edmund Fitzgerald, we're going through the wrecks, the mysteries, the science, and the one reason Lake Superior never gives up her dead. 00:00 Intro: The Lakes Are Hiding Something 00:50 Fact 20: Carved by Ice Two Miles Thick 01:28 Fact 19: Lake Superior Holds 10% of the World's Fresh Water 02:03 Fact 18: 6,000 Shipwrecks and 30,000 Lost 02:34 Fact 17: The Phantom Island on Official Maps 03:05 Fact 16: The Underwater Stone Circle with a Mastodon 03:34 Fact 15: Lake Huron's 3-Billion-Year-Old Bacteria 04:09 Fact 14: Chicago Reversed a River 04:12 Fact 13: The Wave That Came From Nowhere 03:32 Fact 12: Lake Ontario's Bermuda Triangle 06:17 Fact 11: The First Ship on the Lakes Vanished 06:58 Fact 10: The Flooded Silver Mine Under Superior 07:37 Fact 9: The Apostle Islands Ice Caves 08:14 Fact 8: Phantom Cities on the Horizon 08:55 Fact 7: Flight 2501 Disappeared With 58 People 09:43 Fact 6: The Witch of November 10:24 Fact 5: Lake Erie Died and Came Back 11:04 Fact 4: The Trench Deeper Than the Willis Tower 11:43 Fact 3: 844 Dead Without the Boat Leaving the Dock 12:31 Fact