So Minnesota: Haunted history of the Sea Wing disaster
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This Halloween many ghosts and goblins will be roaming all across the state.
The spirits of those who died in a shipwreck more than a century ago are known to haunt a building in Red Wing.
The Goodhue County History Center has an exhibit on the Sea Wing disaster.
On the morning of July 13, 1890 more than 200 people boarded a steam boat in Red Wing for a fun day on the Mississippi River. As they were returning home on Lake Pepin a powerful gale from a storm capsized the steamer. Ninety-eight passengers drowned.
"When you consider that the Sea Wing disaster is probably the worst maritime disaster in America inland waterways never mind Minnesota, it’s amazing to me as a historian that not enough people know about what happen," Ghosthunter and historian Adrian Lee said.
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Lee has conducted paranormal investigations at the history center.
"You have the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, so this is a very haunted building," Lee said.
A monument honoring those who died on the Sea Wing sits at Red Wing’s Levee Park.