First photograph recovered from the same installation, reportedly taken years after its deactivation.Despite being one of the earliest hydroelectric facilities in the region, verified images from its operational years remain notably difficult to locate. Research continues. I will share here all I eventually find.
Picture of a late 19th-century hydroelectric powerplant in Southeastern Brazil. Rumor has it that it was the first one in the country. Even so, it remained operational for only 7 years, officially discontinued due to technological obsolescence. Despite being a massive project during an age of scientific optimism, all official photographs from its years of operation were not found.
It was 1679
A ship called Le Griffon sailed out into Lake Michigan and had never been seen since.
Most people have never heard of Le Griffon — yet its disappearance is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in North American history.
In 1679, French explorer René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle launched a ship unlike anything the Great Lakes had ever seen. Le Griffon was a 45-ton barque built above Niagara Falls, in wilderness so remote it might as well have been another planet. Indigenous nations watched in disbelief as La Salle’s crew dragged anchors, cannons, and rigging through dense forest and raging rapids to create the first large European sailing ship on the upper Great Lakes.
Think about the mindset required for that.
La Salle wasn’t just an explorer — he was the Elon Musk of the 17th century. Obsessive. Visionary. Recklessly ambitious. The kind of man who convinced investors to fund ideas most people thought were impossible. While others saw endless water and hostile wilderness, La Salle saw a commercial empire stretching across an entire continent. Le Griffon was his prototype Starship.
And then it vanished.
After loading its cargo of valuable furs near Green Bay, Le Griffon sailed east toward Niagara… and was never seen again. No confirmed wreckage. No survivors. No distress signal. Just silence across the cold inland seas.
For over 340 years, treasure hunters, historians, and divers have searched for the ship. Some believe it sank in a violent storm on Lake Michigan. Others think the crew mutinied. A few theories claim it was deliberately destroyed to sabotage La Salle’s ambitions.
The eerie part is this: the Great Lakes are so vast and deep that Le Griffon could still be sitting perfectly preserved in darkness somewhere beneath the water. Perhaps it has been found but this is unconfirmed.
An entire ship. Frozen in time since the 1600s.
Waiting to be found.
During Dr. Jones lecture, the girl with, “Love You”, written on her eyelids, in the 1st scene, when Marcus enters the classroom, is seated on the far right of the front row, sitting next to a girl with a green sweater on. After Indy sees what is written on her eyelids, the bell rings. Now the same girl is sitting in the middle desk of the front row, next to a girl wearing a pink jacket. There is a totally different girl sitting where she used to be sitting, on the far right, next to the girl in the green sweater. Also, there was a guy wearing a bow tie in the middle row, next to the girl in the pink jacket, who is no longer in the scene. Has anyone else noticed this?