CARL D. BRADLEY
Site — Rogers City, Michigan
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/carl-d-bradley-rogers-city-michigan/

November 18, 1958—the freighter that broke in half.

Carl D. Bradley is a site in Rogers City, Michigan. November 18, 1958—the freighter that broke in half. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the 33. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.

The Carl D. Bradley went down November 18, 1958 — the largest ship on the Great Lakes breaking in half in a Lake Michigan storm, thirty-three of the thirty-five crew dying when the freighter sank, the wreck being the lakes' worst peacetime loss of its era.
The file's documented spine is the sinking's weight: a ship that split in two and took thirty-three men, the crew's deaths being the lakes' biggest single loss before the Fitzgerald — the Bradley being the storm's most famous victim.

THE THIRTY-THREE
The lore reports the dead seen — the file's haunting being the crew's residue: the thirty-three men who went down with the Bradley reportedly still at the wreck, the lake keeping the freighter's dead at the site where the ship broke.
The thirty-three are the file's signature — a lost crew reportedly still at the wreck, the lake's floor keeping the men the storm took in the lakes' worst night.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Bradley is the archive's shipwreck file — a freighter that broke in a 1958 storm, keeping its thirty-three reportedly still at the wreck. The documented sinking is the record; the lingering crew are the lore of the lakes' biggest loss.
A ship that broke in a storm keeps its crew — the file's suggestion being that the Bradley's thirty-three are still at the wreck the lake made of their ship.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The dead are reportedly seen. The 33 is the name the reports keep returning to. The reports at Carl D. Bradley are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Sources including 'Carl D. Bradley' keep the claim in circulation. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.
  source: Carl D. Bradley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Carl_D._Bradley)
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported a presence at the wreck. Carl D. Bradley in Rogers City, Michigan carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. Sources including 'Carl D. Bradley' keep the claim in circulation. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.
  source: Carl D. Bradley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Carl_D._Bradley)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The November 18, 1958 sinking is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Carl D. Bradley' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Carl D. Bradley — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Carl_D._Bradley

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