After nearly 170 years under Lake Michigan, sonar detected what turned out to be a passenger ship that sank in the winter of 1854.  Seventeen lives were lost, and 280 barrels of whiskey and a stash of gold  were thought to be buried in sand forever. That treasure is now valued at $17 million.

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