what I find weird is that they were found to be in only 12 feet of water? Did the water level never drop? Or did nobody ever go out there when it was low?
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what I find weird is that they were found to be in only 12 feet of water? Did the water level never drop? Or did nobody ever go out there when it was low?
Check the shore line and you can see where the water has been a lot higher than it is now. Looks like it's about a 1/4 mile from the last curve in the road to the waterline. With a running start around that corner, and then punched to the rug you could get some pretty good speed before running out of road. Ramp looks shallow enough they could/would skip and hydroplane a fair distance before sinking. Who knows, maybe they were being chased. Almost sounds like a movie plot.
what I find weird is that they were found to be in only 12 feet of water? Did the water level never drop? Or did nobody ever go out there when it was low?
Check the shore line and you can see where the water has been a lot higher than it is now. Looks like it's about a 1/4 mile from the last curve in the road to the waterline. With a running start around that corner, and then punched to the rug you could get some pretty good speed before running out of road. Ramp looks shallow enough they could/would skip and hydroplane a fair distance before sinking. Who knows, maybe they were being chased. Almost sounds like a movie plot.
I agree with you there, but something to think about, how much fluctuation has the water level been in the last 40 years??They have had some pretty hot spells out there and some lakes where pumped low from irrigation pumps. Also, both cars where found very close to each other. Wonder how the lake looked 40 years ago compared to how it looks now?
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There was a story I cant remember how many yrs back in the States . Family , husband , wife , two or three kids in back , went off a low road along a lake shore . I cant remember how long they were in the water before being found . But I seem to think they thought the car went into the water at night , and maybe they were all asleep , driver nodded off , drove straight out into the water .
I put my 69 triumph Daytona 500 about 40 feet out into water of shallow lake , heading west , straight offa the bend right on the shore of shallow lake . I think the water was only 3 - 4 ft deep ..77.
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I did the Google on Foss Lake OK. It looks like the shoreline hasn't changed for years. The lake looks quite shallow.
The other car is a '52 Chev sedan.
Makes me wonder about a car I was told about under Lake Scugog.
My dad told me that back in the late 30's the dealer in Port Perry [Beare mtrs] used to take their used cars that didn't sell, T's etc. out on lake Scugog in winter & park them on the ice!! Spring came & "magically" the old cars were GONE!!!!!
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Makes me wonder about a car I was told about under Lake Scugog.
My dad told me that back in the late 30's the dealer in Port Perry [Beare mtrs] used to take their used cars that didn't sell, T's etc. out on lake Scugog in winter & park them on the ice!! Spring came & "magically" the old cars were GONE!!!!!
Well...I did find an old ring gear out of a T in the lake in front of our cottage once! Hangs in my shop to this day. LOL
-- Edited by 2inchestoolow on Sunday 22nd of September 2013 08:03:48 PM
Fastchevy will remember hearing about the Campbell family mystery in N. Bay, dissapeared over 50 years ago, about every 10 years the case was public again, then a few years back they both were found accidently in a sunken boat on the bottom of a lake here.
They both drowned when the boat sank.
