Michigan Triangle

The Michigan Triangle is an area of Lake Michigan where unexplained phenomena have reportedly occurred.
Location
According to author Linda S. Godfrey in her book Weird Michigan (2006), the Michigan Triangle is located over central Lake Michigan. One side stretches from the town of Ludington to Benton Harbor in Michigan; another links from Benton Harbor to Manitowoc, Wisconsin; the final side connects Manitowoc back to Ludington.
Disappearances
There are numerous stories of the supposed appearance of strange creatures; unexplained vanishings; time standing still, slowing to a crawl, or speeding up; and other unusual happenings.
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501
On June 23, 1950, a Northwest Airlines DC-4 aircraft carrying 55 passengers and three crew members was lost in the area of the Michigan triangle. This Flight 2501 had departed from New York City and was due to land at Minneapolis. The last radio contact recorded with the plane indicated it was over Battle Creek, Michigan and was going to change its course to a northwesterly path over Lake Michigan because of bad weather near Chicago. Later, considerable light debris, upholstery, and human body fragments were found floating on the surface of the lake, but divers never located the plane's wreckage.
Czech trainer jet disappears during air show
On July 3, 1998, an Aero Vodochody L-39C, N7868M, operated by a commercial pilot, was reported missing over Lake Michigan, in the vicinity west- northwest of Traverse City, Michigan. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The pilot and passenger on board were never found.

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