On This Day in Weird, April 28...
1843: Millerites—religious followers of "prophet"
William Miller—forecast the second coming of Christ for this day. When he fails
to appear, they adjust their timetable, looking down range toward 1844, now
commemorated as "the Great Disappointment." Today, descendants of
that sect are known as Seventh-Day Adventists. Still waiting.
1937: Captain George Donner vanishes without explanation
from his cabin aboard the O.S. McFarland, en route from Erie,
Pennsylvania, to Port Washington, Wisconsin, bearing 9,800 tons of coal. Donner
had left orders to be awakened when the ship was approaching port, but the
first mate finds the cabin empty 30 miles offshore, locked from the inside.
Fortean researchers blame Donner's disappearance on the sinister "Great
Lakes Triangle."
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