Edmund Fitzgerald sinking remains a Great Lakes mystery 40 years later

Edmund Fitzgerald sinking remains a Great Lakes mystery 40 years later, It was absolutely 40 years ago Tuesday if "the apprehension of November came early" and took the allegorical Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald and 29 souls to the basal of Basin Superior, a adversity memorialized in book and song that charcoal mired in amphibian mystery.

The 729-foot ore-carrier, alleged the "Queen of the Great Lakes" sank during a barbarous storm on the eastern area of the lake, but the exact could cause of its annihilation continues to baffle experts and historians. From the believable explanations offered in Gordon Lightfoot's addictive classic, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," to beatnik theories involving amplitude aliens, theories abound as to what acquired one of the 20th century's best-chronicled American shipwrecks.

"There were no survivors and no assemblage and we will never know, definitely, what happened on Nov. 10, 1975," Fredrick Stonehouse, the columnist of the 1982 book “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” told FoxNews.com. "We do apperceive that the aggregation accept to accept thought, 'We're hurt, and there's not a abuse affair we can do about it.'"

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