{"id":3515,"slug":"kamloops-isle-royale-michigan","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Kamloops is the '27 — the December 7 that's the last, the 22 who died. The ice was the load — the wire that's the deck cargo, the '20 below' that's the temperature. The '77 was the find — the 50 years that's the missing, the 'big shadow' that's the Engelbrecht.","The Isle Royale is the grave — the 'Twelve O'Clock Point' that's the location, the 'all hands' that's the loss. The ghost is the crew — the 'old man' that's the seen, the engine room that's the working. The Kamloops is the preserved — the cold that's the Superior, the mystery that's the 50 years.","The file keeps the Kamloops: the 1927 sinking, the 22 dead, the '77 discovery, and the Isle Royale wreck.","The Kamloops is the archive's Lake Superior file — the lost ship."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Kamloops is the archive's Lake Superior file — the 50-year mystery.","A wreck keeps its shadow — the file's suggestion being that the Kamloops' hold is the cold: the '27 sinking, the '77 find, and the '22' that's the all hands."]}],"name":"Kamloops","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","SHIPWRECK","LEGEND_SITE","MARITIME_DISASTER"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"December 1927—the freighter that froze in Superior.","full_desc":"A site in Isle Royale, Michigan, Kamloops is filed here for what the record attaches to it. December 1927—the freighter that froze in Superior. HauntHunt files it with maritime disasters, shipwrecks and local folklore. The file’s recurring figure goes by a name, not a description: the 22. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Isle Royale","county":null,"state":"Michigan","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":null,"lon":null,"coord_kind":null,"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":3838,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The dead are reportedly seen. The lore gives it a name — The 22 — which is what turns a report into a resident. The site in Isle Royale, Michigan gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The 22","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Kamloops","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kamloops","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3839,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the wreck. The reports at Kamloops are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. The account appears in 'Kamloops'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. It remains the site's standing claim.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Kamloops","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kamloops","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The December 1927 loss is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'Kamloops'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1927","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Kamloops","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kamloops","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. Kamloops in Isle Royale, Michigan carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'Kamloops'. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Kamloops","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kamloops","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The 22","claimed_identity":"The 22","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The presence goes by The 22. The site in Isle Royale, Michigan gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The lore has a face now: The 22. The file stays open on it. The file stays open on it. 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":"Kamloops","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kamloops","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":"Kamloops","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kamloops","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}