India, Sept. 16 -- The wreck of a schooner known as a "ghost ship" has been discovered in Lake Michigan, 140 years after it sank during a violent storm. Researchers have confirmed the ship is the F.J. King, a three-masted cargo ship that sank off the coast of Wisconsin on September 15, 1886. However, Brandon Baillod, a maritime historian, found the shipwreck on June 28, 2025. The Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association announced the news this week, as per the NY Post.

The F.J. King was built in Toledo, Ohio, in 1867 and was 144 feet long. It carried heavy cargo on the Great Lakes. On its last trip, the ship was carrying iron ore from Escanaba, Michigan, to Chicago when disaster struck. A gale was...