Episode 93: The Christmas Tree Ghost Ship of Chicago

Let's Get Haunted

Comedy

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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SKIP TO 14:51 TO GET TO THIS WEEK’S STORY Welcome to Episode 93 of Let’s Get Haunted. In the 1880s, brothers August and Herman Schuenemann decided to pursue their dreams of becoming ship captains and move together from their hometown in rural Wisconsin to the mean streets of Chicago. Through hard work and grit, they were both eventually able to sail as captains in the most dangerous kind of work available at the time: Christmas Tree Ships. What made this work so dangerous, was that they would be sailing the tumultuous waters of Lake Michigan from Chicago to northern Michigan’s evergreen forests to harvest trees to bring back to the city for Christmas. Very few ships were willing to make this journey as the ice, snow, and winter gales caused dangerous storms on the lake during this time of the year. Successfully completing these missions for many years, something would go terribly wrong in 1912, leading to many urban legends and ghost ship sightings that still exist today in the Great Lakes area of the U.S. Important Stuff: Buy Our Merch: https://www.letsgethaunted.com Donate to our stupid show: https://ko-fi.com/dogmomusa Buy Venterra Farms CBD Products: https://www.venterrafarms.com & use code “HAUNTED15” at checkout for 15% off Check out the photo dump for this week’s episode: https://www.instagram.com/letsgethaunted Send us mail: PO BOX 1658 Camarillo, CA 93011 Send us your listener stories: [email protected] Royalty Free Music in this episode: Song - "Aftermath" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Let's Get Haunted with your host, Matt Straun.
0:18.7	And Ali, welcome back guys to episode 93 of Let's Get Haunted.
0:24.4	This is a good episode because three goes into nine three times and three is the magic number.
0:31.4	That's true. Nine is my unlucky number, but three is a pretty chill number.
0:36.4	Nine's unlucky. Why?
0:38.4	I don't know. I just feel like it looks like mischievous.
0:41.4	I don't know. Like it looks distrustful.
0:43.4	Nine is unlucky to you because you don't like the way it looks, not that you've had like an experience with it.
0:49.4	But do you ever like look at a number and you're like, this number knows something.
0:54.4	And it's not telling me about it.
0:56.4	Yeah, I mean, I guess because when I'm doing multiple choice and it's just a straight guess, you know, you're like, okay.
1:02.4	You have a feeling, right?
1:03.4	Right.
1:04.4	I feel like when I picture the number nine, I like think of a nine that's like red and like sharp and like sharp.
1:12.4	There's fire associated with it.
1:14.4	I don't know. I don't like it. I've always felt this way about the number nine. It is a distrustful number.
1:19.4	Wow. Now we know, guys, maybe someone who does numerology can like validate that claim or
1:26.4	I actually think I've never voiced this before.
1:28.4	So someone tell me what does this mean? And you know what?
1:32.4	Yes, I agree with you. Somebody who knows numerology or somebody else that gets feelings about numbers.
1:37.4	Let me know if you think nine is sketchy.
1:41.4	It's just like hanging out in a dark alley, like waiting nine.
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