Don Day, meteorologist for Cowboy State Daily, was on the path to becoming a weather buff from an early age. He recalls the way his adolescent ears perked up as the storm bulletins crackled through the kitchen radio of his home in Farmington, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

And though he was only 8 years old, he uniquely remembers what came through the radio on Nov. 10, 1975, when a meteorological phenomenon known as "The Witch of November” sank the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, killing all 29 crew members. Not a single body was recovered.

“I remember it vividly. Anybody who was around the Great Lakes region in the mid 70s will remember when it happened.”

On the eve of the 50-year anniversary, with no survivors or witnesses, the tragedy remains fogged in mystery. Yet it’s a mystery that continue

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