A Father And Daughter Just Discovered A 152-Year-Old Shipwreck While Fishing In Green Bay

Six-year-old Henley Wollak always enjoyed fishing with her father Tim, but while fishing on Lake Michigan over the summer, the father-daughter duo found something much more exciting than fish: the remains of a ship, one that may have sunk during a massive fire over 150 years ago.

“I was surprised I had never seen it before because it’s in an area where people regularly go,” Tim Wollak told Fox 11 News.

Wollak and his daughter were on the lake near Green Island, when Henley thought she spotted a “Green Bay Octopus” on the sonar. When her father looked to where she was pointing, he realized it was no living creature, but rather the remains of a ship…

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