102. Mysterious Reappearances: Steven Kubacki and The Lake Michigan Triangle

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In 1978, Steven Kubacki went skiing near Lake Michigan and vanished without a trace. Danny Filippidis was heading to his car to grab his phone when everything went dark. What happened to these men, and do the strange areas where they were last seen have anything to do with their disappearances, and their even stranger reappearances? Subscribe on Patreon for bonus content and to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society. Patrons have access to bonus content as well as other perks. And members of our High Council on Patreon have access to our after-show called Footnotes, where I share my case file with our producer, Matt. Apple subscriptions are now live! Get access to bonus episodes and more when you subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Follow on Tik Tok and Instagram for a daily dose of horror. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.1	Some people believe there is something really strange happening around Lake Michigan.
0:41.2	On April 28, 1937, a ship captain named George R. Donner was leading a freight ship, the OS McFarland, through the still-frozen channels
0:47.3	of the Great Lakes. At 57, he was an experienced captain who had been sailing nearly since his
0:53.7	birth in 1879. And though it was
0:56.5	mid-spring, this northern passage was still frozen. But the captain's goal was simple. Navigate
1:03.6	the freighter from Lake Erie up through the icy waters of Lake Huron, over the tip of Michigan,
1:09.0	and then down the slushy Lake Michigan to his destination
1:11.9	of Port Washington and Wisconsin. There, he would drop off the coal supply the ship was carrying.
1:17.9	But the journey had begun three days prior on April 25th, and Captain Donner had barely slept at
1:23.5	all. Steering through the ice was nothing new to him, but the compasses in both the fore and aft of the ship had broken, making things unusually dangerous.
1:33.3	He gripped the wheel of the freighter, pulling it back and forth to dodge ice flows in the narrow straits of Mackinaw at the very tip of Michigan.
1:41.3	He knew the chances of capsizing were perilously high and conditions were
1:45.6	only getting worse with each passing day. But he was a good captain, with a steady sense of
1:51.4	direction and a level head under pressure. With his guidance, the ship and its crew seemed to be
1:57.5	getting through the worst of the ice. Just then, something strange happened.
2:03.3	Captain Donner released his iron grip on the helm 20 minutes past 10 p.m. The freighter was
2:09.3	quietly chugging through the pitch black night, only three hours from port. Donner told his
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