[PMunch]

The headline as I read the article was "How I Solved the Century-Old Mystery of a Miraculous Shipwreck Survivor", but it doesn't actually detail _how_ the mystery was solved. They talked to a couple different people, found an old newspaper clipping, but the crucial

> Davidson was picked up by a lifeboat and taken to the Storstad, which survived the collision.

The actual meat of the article, doesn't have any clear source. I guess it might've come from the mentioned piece in "St. Thomas Journal", but it's not exactly clear.

Cool story, but not exactly the "How I solved a mystery" that you'd expect from the headline.

[hatthew]

It was structured a little oddly so it took a reread to understand, but I believe the wrong story was from the Vancouver Province, while the right story was from Davidson's letter in the St. Thomas Daily Times.

[Sprotch]

Thats because Davidson said so himself. This whole thing is a clickbait

[nickelpro]

To discover what Davidson said required tracking down an undigitized newspaper article from 1914, the existence of which was only known about by tracking down the living descendants of the man's brother.

Hardly clickbait.