Garden Peninsula

Some even claimed the wreck was in Lake Huron, but no one was ever able to provide enough evidence to prove it.

That is, until 2013, when an enterprising and careful couple, Katie and Steve LeBair from Charlevoix, Michigan, claimed to have found the wreckage off the coast of Garden Peninsula.

According to a piece in the Detroit Free Press, the LeBairs had dedicated their lives to finding the wreckage of the Griffin.

Wanting to go about it legally, they applied for all the proper permits.

And we visited all the sites where the book takes place.

And one was at the tip of the Garden Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

The Garden Peninsula is where all of my dad's family is from.

They're all commercial fishermen up there.

But I'd never been able to access the tip of the peninsula before.

Oh, Annie Bradley.

On the Garden Peninsula, the upper peninsula of Michigan.

And that marriage would eventually last for many, many years.

Interesting.