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Finding Minnesota: Spooky thrills aboard decommissioned ship in Duluth’s Canal Park
DULUTH, Minn. — ‘Tis the season for ghosts and goblins, and in Duluth a well-known ship has change into a vacation spot for paranormal investigators. On this week’s Discovering Minnesota, John Lauritsen will get a haunted tour of the William A. Irvin.
“It is a good looking ship. The flagship of the SS Metal,” stated Lucie Amundsen, Duluth Leisure Conference Heart.
For many years, all 610 toes of the William A. Irvin cruised throughout Lake Superior. When it was decommissioned in 1978, the ship discovered a everlasting house in Canal Park and opened its hatches to historical past excursions. However one month out of the yr it turns right into a nightmare of a tour.
“They know the proper method to make you are feeling all of the willies whenever you stroll by way of,” stated Amundsen. “Our lead designers simply reside to make it scary.”
Mariners have been changed by monsters, with a reliable scare round each nook. Chris Allen is on the tour for an additional motive. He believes a ship that carried iron ore in its former life, now carries ghosts.
“A part of it’s there are plenty of issues hooked up to it. To begin with there was an accident within the boiler room,” Allen stated.
A sailor later died because of that accident and legend has it his spirit remains to be right here. Utilizing paranormal K2 Meters and Rem-Pods, he has spent nights alone in what he calls the ghost vessel. Allen believes the spirit of a woman named Maggie haunts a room close to the entrance of the ship.
“She was proper right here taking a look at us and we each went, ‘Oh,’” Allen stated.
Ghosthunters additionally assume the spirit of Capt. John McDonough, higher often called Capt. Kidd, nonetheless spends time in his cabin quarters. They’ve used an Echo-Vox to attempt to speak to him.
“He normally says easy issues like, ‘Hi there.’ We did get a ‘Get out” one time so we left,” Allen stated.
Probably the most purportedly haunted locations within the William A. Irvin is present in that room with the creepy dolls, in the midst of the Halloween tour.
“After I see a room like this, that is the final word creep to me. That is scarier than having a mummy chase me or any of the opposite scary monsters from Halloween,” Allen stated.
However in the long run, it is truly a clock as soon as utilized by sailors that offers him goosebumps.
“I used to be advised there are spirits hooked up to it,” Allen stated.
Guests have reported dozens of sailor ghosts sightings as effectively. Whether or not you consider within the supernatural or not, the William A. Irvin will strive exhausting to persuade you that you just’re not alone.
“I’d say be skeptical however maintain an open thoughts. As a result of there are issues which might be unexplained,” Allen stated.
About 20,000 folks undergo the haunted ship and paranormal tour annually.
Ohio State will look for some Big Ten consistency on the road against Minnesota.
The Golden Gophers are struggling to keep up with high-end competition, yet to beat a top 80 team in the country thus far. Can the team score a home upset against Ohio State? The Buckeyes have yet to win a true road game but are laying a handful of points on the road on Monday night.
Here’s our best bet for this one.
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Total: 136.5 (Over -110/Under -110)
Odds courtesy of FanDuel Sportsbook
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Bruce Thornton: Enjoying a career-best year, Thornton is up to nearly 17 points per game while shooting 54% from the field and 44% from three. The veteran guard will be tasked with guiding the Buckeyes to a road win as the team looks to keep its three-point shooting at a high.
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Dawson Garcia: The senior is averaging 19 points per game with seven rebounds while also showcasing improved playmaking with two assists per game. The Gophers are struggling to find consistency on offense, but a lot of it is coming from the 6’11” senior.
Ohio State continues to be an overvalued commodity after a strong start to the season. The team is ripe for regression, including three percent overall with a massive drop-off expected from beyond the arc (four percent), per ShotQuality.
The team will face a Minnesota team that grades out as a better defense according to shot quality and does a great job of contesting perimeter shots, which is a key to Ohio State’s offense. The Gophers are 38th in the country in three-point rate allowed, which can slow down Ohio State’s offense that ranks top 30 in three-point percentage.
The Gophers play at a prodding pace, bottom 10 in the country in adjusted tempo, and Ohio State’s defense continues to be overvalued due to poor shot-making marks, ranking 14th in effective field goal percentage. However, the team is outside of the top half of the country in turnover percentage, defensive rebounding rate, and opponent free throw rate.
In a low possession battle, give me the home underdog to keep this close.
PICK: Minnesota +5.5
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Detroit’s next series was upended by another turnover of sorts, this time a stop on fourth-and-1 that was caused by Jonathan Bullard tipping Goff’s pass at the line of scrimmage. It returned the ball to Minnesota with three-and-a-half minutes left in the first half – and a prime opportunity to double-dip.
But they botched that chance, too, tasking Reichard with another field goal after fading at Detroit’s 13.
“This game could look differently in the end, very easily, with one or two more plays down in the red zone, being successful, and the way that works with momentum, and the way that works for the energy of your whole team. I thought the guys fought. I thought they battled,” Kevin O’Connell said. “They answered the bell, in that first half, turning the football over, giving us ops, getting stops. … We were going to go down there and try to get seven points, and we just didn’t do it. And you’re not going to beat a team like that, regardless of some of the other metrics in the game, when the weighty downs kind of go the way it did, and weighty as they get. They don’t get more weighty than scoring plays.”
Minnesota’s inability to capitalize offensively lingered in the third quarter, when Smith plucked an overthrown ball for Williams out of mid-air. Again, Reichard kicked a field goal.
To understand how well Minnesota’s defense played early look at the difference in second-quarter performance – a good indicator being it has been the most productive frame for the Lions this season in terms of yards (120.9) and points (10-plus) – Sunday and Week 7: The Vikings yielded 65 yards on 18 plays (3.6 avg.), and just three points, versus 202 yards on 17 plays (11.9 avg.) and 21 points in October.
Eventually, however, Gibbs stole the show.
The second-year phenom compiled 170 scrimmage yards and scored all four of Detroit’s touchdowns. He did it via a blend of untouchable speed, uncanny vision between the tackles and a serious finishing burst.
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Vikings vs. Lions score, live updates: Detroit, Minnesota face off for the NFC's No. 1 seed in 2024 NFL finale
Game 272 of the 2024 NFL regular season is a special one. In a year where so much of the playoff dust settled early, one Week 18 game stands out, not just for this season but in the history of the league, with the 14-2 Minnesota Vikings taking on the 14-2 Detroit Lions in the first regular-season game between two teams with 14 wins. The stakes are simple but extremely high: the winner is the NFC North champion and the No. 1 seed, with a first-round bye in the loaded NFC; while the loser is the No. 5 seed and will open the playoffs on the road during wild-card weekend. If the game should end in a tie, Detroit would win the division and be the 1-seed, thanks to winning the first matchup between the teams back in Week 7.
No matter how the game ends, this will be the first time in league history a wild-card team will have 14 wins. The only time a wild-card team had 13 wins in a season was 1999, when the 13-3 Tennessee Titans finished second in the AFC Central to the 14-2 Jacksonville Jaguars. Tennessee won the AFC championship game in Jacksonville that season before losing to the Rams in Super Bowl 34.
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