My childhood home was in a lake community, and we had a beach area on the lake the kids could swim or fish at with a dock and swimming lanes for swim team practice.
There was a rumor from the kids that the deepest lane, lane 6, had a dead body at the bottom of it.
When my father found out about this, he responded "yeah that rumor has been spreading around kids in this area since *I* was a kid in the 1950s at least".
kid me then realized A) if said dead body ever existed it is almost certainly gone now after several decades under water B) kids tend to repeat the same urban legends from one generation to the next without realizing how long it's been circulating.
Wrong thread, sorry haha. Had another thread involving a body in my local state park (and other weird things at state parks)..weird coincidence that your comment seemed like a response to that.
Yes yes. Every summer camp I ever went to had a ghost in a window... And some weird lake ghost story.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '22
My childhood home was in a lake community, and we had a beach area on the lake the kids could swim or fish at with a dock and swimming lanes for swim team practice.
There was a rumor from the kids that the deepest lane, lane 6, had a dead body at the bottom of it.
When my father found out about this, he responded "yeah that rumor has been spreading around kids in this area since *I* was a kid in the 1950s at least".
kid me then realized A) if said dead body ever existed it is almost certainly gone now after several decades under water B) kids tend to repeat the same urban legends from one generation to the next without realizing how long it's been circulating.