{"id":3500,"slug":"cedarville-mackinaw-city-michigan","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Cedarville is the fog's — the '65 collision with the Topdalsfjord, the limestone that it carried. The miscommunication was the cause — the warnings that weren't clear, the portside gash that was fatal. The roll was the sudden — the 10:25 capsize that took it, the 105 feet where it lies.","The crew was the 35 — the 10 who died in the cold, the one who's still missing. The dive is the favorite — the Straits preserve that it rests in, the model that's the museum. The Cedarville is the straits' — the wreck that's the worst, the fog that was the enemy.","The file keeps the Cedarville: the 1965 collision, the 10 dead, the capsize, and the wreck dive.","The Cedarville is the archive's Mackinaw file — the fog's freighter."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Cedarville is the archive's Mackinaw file — the straits' worst wreck.","A ship keeps its limestone — the file's suggestion being that the Cedarville's hold is the fog: the miscommunication that was the cause, the sudden roll, and the 10 who stay."]}],"name":"Cedarville","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","LEGEND_SITE","MARITIME_DISASTER"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"May 7, 1965—the collision in the straits.","full_desc":"Cedarville is a site in Mackinaw City, Michigan. May 7, 1965—the collision in the straits. HauntHunt files it with maritime disasters, dark history and local folklore. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the 10. 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.","address":null,"city":"Mackinaw City","county":null,"state":"Michigan","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":45.783922,"lon":-84.756558,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"SHIP batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":3808,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The dead are reportedly seen. The figure answers to The 10 in the retellings. Cedarville in Mackinaw City, Michigan carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. 'Cedarville' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The 10","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Cedarville","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cedarville","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3809,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the wreck. The reports at Cedarville are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. Sources including 'Cedarville' keep the claim in circulation. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Cedarville","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cedarville","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The May 7, 1965 sinking is documented. Cedarville's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Cedarville' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1965-05-07","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Cedarville","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cedarville","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The reports at Cedarville are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. 'Cedarville' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The account appears in 'Cedarville'. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Cedarville","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cedarville","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The 10","claimed_identity":"The 10","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The 10 is what the reports name it. Cedarville's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The file keeps The 10 on the roster; the sightings keep the name alive. The lore keeps its witness. The lore keeps its witness. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","behavior":"The dead are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Cedarville","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cedarville","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Cedarville","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cedarville","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}