Lake Mead Is Full Of Dead Bodies.
The drought has caused the bodies to show up.
The accumulated water from Hoover Dam forced the evacuation of several communities, most notably St. Thomas, Nevada, the last resident of which left the town in 1938.
The ruins of St. Thomas are currently visible (as of May 23, 2022) via dirt road and hiking trail, due to Lake Mead’s low water level. Around 100 fatalities occurred during the construction of the Hoover Dam.
Lake Mead also covered the sites of the Colorado River landings of Callville and Rioville, Nevada, and the river crossing of Bonelli’s Ferry, between Arizona and Nevada. Six years after the dam’s construction, the lake filled to an elevation of 1200 feet.
At lower water levels, a high-water mark, or “bathtub ring”, is visible in photos that show the shoreline of Lake Mead. The bathtub ring is white because of the deposition of minerals on previously submerged surfaces.
At the bottom of the lake is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress that crashed in 1948 while testing a prototype missile guidance system known as “sun tracker”.
