About the Author

Welcome to “Michigan Mysteries.com”, the website of Author and Shipwreck Hunter Ross Richardson. This website is dedicated to the stories of the missing persons, missing aircraft, missing maritime vessels and the unrecovered drowning victims of the Michigan Region. The Michigan Region includes the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, Islands, as well as the Great Lakes which are contiguous with Michigan’s mainland: Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior.

Richardson is the author of two books, “The Search for the Westmoreland: Lake Michigan’s Treasure Shipwreck” and “Still Missing: Rethinking the D.B. Cooper Case and Other Mysterious Unsolved Disappearances.” He also speaks about Great Lakes maritime history at libraries and historical societies around the Great Lakes Region.

Richardson is a trained technical SCUBA diver and has been involved in the discovery, identification, and documentation of numerous Lake Michigan shipwrecks. He serves on the board of the Maritime Heritage Alliance based in Traverse City Michigan.

The author resides in Lake Ann, Michigan, with his wife, son and their retired racing greyhound, Claire. He enjoys giving folks rides in his 1964 Lincoln and working on various woodworking projects in his workshop.


In The News…

DB Cooper is Still Missing – Ross Richardson

The Cooper Vortex Febuary 26, 2020 Listen to the Podcast here: Ross Richardson is the author of two books, “The Search for the Westmoreland: Lake Michigan’s Treasure Shipwreck” and “Still Missing: Rethinking the D.B. Cooper Case and Other Mysterious Unsolved…

WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN AGE OF SHIPWRECK HUNTING

BETTER, MORE AFFORDABLE TECHNOLOGY HAS MADE SHIPWRECK SEARCHES A REGULAR GUY’S GAME. SHIPWRECK HUNTER ROSS RICHARDSON IS A CASE IN POINT.BY PATRICK SULLIVAN | NOV. 30, 2019 Read the entire article here: WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN AGE OF SHIPWRECK HUNTING

Mlive.com: Lake Michigan Shipwreck W.C. KIMBALL

LAKE MICHIGAN – A shipwreck found almost by accident, sitting 300 feet deep in northern Lake Michigan, is being described as one of the “most intact wooden schooners” in the world. Read the entire article here: Lake Michigan shipwreck could…