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StoryTide – Where Every Story Finds Its Voice

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00:001915, Chicago, Illinois. The Eastland capsized, and its passengers never stopped calling.

00:06They say on foggy mornings along the Chicago River, you can still hear the sound.

00:11Not of water, but of ringing. Hundreds of faint telephone rings echoing from nowhere.

00:15Security guards at the old river docks swear they've picked up phones to hear voices crying for help.

00:20Their words bubbling through static like they're speaking from underwater.

00:24Tour boat captains refuse to dock near the old site after dark.

00:27Some say they've seen wet handprints appear on glass, dripping across control panels.

00:33Others talk about women in long summer dresses walking along the edge,

00:36glancing back over their shoulders before vanishing into the mist.

00:40It happens every July, when the air feels thick and the water still.

00:45Radios turn on by themselves, voices whisper names no one remembers,

00:49and the current slows, as if the river itself is listening.

00:52What happened here left an imprint too deep to fade.

00:54To understand why, you have to go back to that morning, July 24th, 1915.

01:00The Eastland, a passenger ship carrying more than 2,500 Western electric workers and their families,

01:06was docked and ready for a company picnic.

01:08A simple, happy outing.

01:10But as hundreds crowded aboard, the ship began to list.

01:13Within minutes, it rolled over completely,

01:16trapping and drowning 844 people in just 20 feet of water, right beside the shore.

01:20The tragedy unfolded before thousands of horrified onlookers.

01:24Many of the victims were entire families.

01:26The city rushed to turn nearby warehouses into temporary morgues.

01:30One of those buildings still stands, now repurposed, renovated, bright with new paint.

01:36Yet workers inside have reported the same thing for decades.

01:39Cold water dripping from nowhere, and the faint smell of the river.

01:42Historians say the Eastland disaster scarred Chicago's spirit more than the Great Fire.

01:47But those who've heard the calls know, something else lingers.

01:52It's said that the phones inside that riverside building are still connected to the ship's old manifest.

01:57When one rings and you answer, a voice quietly asks,

02:00Is the picnic still happening?

02:02So the next time you walk the riverwalk at dawn and hear a distant ring, don't answer.

02:06Some passengers never realized the boat went down,

02:09and they were still trying to find their way home.

02:11The next time you walk the riverwalk at dawn and hear a little bit of a riverwalk at dawn and hear a little bit of a riverwalk at dawn.

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