Intro: This is the stern section of the Acme shipwreck in the Great Lakes. Don’t fall for the Photoshopped version that’s claimed to be the “Lake Michigan Stonehenge” on Facebook.
This is an actual image from the original discovery by Dr Mark Holley. He published in 2007, calling it a “Lake Michigan Stonehenge,” which inaccuracy has been exploited repeatedly by click baiters, pseudoarcheology types like Ancient Aliens, and on dubious “Internet Mysteries” Facebook groups.
Search Facebook, and see how the misleading title and the cropped image of the Acme wreck turns into a perfect underwater Stonehenge, and gets endlessly reposted in different “ancient mystery” groups? I just reported one post for inaccurate information and tapped the group for “show less like this,” and my feed is clean for now.
I also posted the long debunking link into the FB “Ancient Mysteries” group; there were about a dozen people who were marveling at the “mysterious stone circle and mastodon carving under Lake Michigan.” That’ll get me some hate DMs, I expect.
The glyph stone on the linked blogpost looks a little like the image below, which has been enhanced a lot to make the mastodon “clearer.” It’s undated due to lack of funding, and also due to the lack of petroglyph specialists who are also underwater archaeologists. Petroglyphs are usually found in the desert or forest land, so that’s understandable.
People Love Internet Mysteries
The Grand Traverse Bay Stones is a legitimate archaeological site and it is interesting in of itself and it’s certainly worthy of that interest. “Lake Michigan Stonehenge” is modern yellow journalism in that the site and its discovery was sensationalized in order to drive clicks and generate advertising revenue because people fundamentally love internet mysteries.
Link: The Enigma in the Lake: The Lake Michigan “Stonehenge”
