Secrets Lake Mead Revealed In Vegas

The water level of Lake Mead is dropping rapidly. The lake is near Las Vegas, which has been called Sin City for a reason and for a long time. There have already been interesting and brutal revelations, but most likely, the water hides more. Scroll down for the secrets Lake Mead revealed in Vegas!

The Mystery of Leak Mead

People created the reservoir in the 1930s with the construction of the Hoover Dam on the border of Nevada and Arizona, not far from Vegas. They named Lake Mead after state engineer and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Elwood Mead, who supervised the construction. It was a huge investment, and Leak Mead is still one of the biggest reservoirs today. The last time they filled it up was in 2000, and since then, the water level has dropped 50 meters. It means that they use only 30% of it. 

However, it’s not just about the capacity anymore, but the secrets it has revealed. Not long ago, Lake Mead was a popular vacation spot, full of tourists and boats. Out of the ten marinas, only one operates today, as not many boats go on the water anymore.

There is another reason why the lake draws attention now. Besides the alarming rate at which the water level is dropping, people have found several corpses since May 2022. It seems that Leak Mead reveals dozens of years old secrets in Vegas. At least one of them was a victim of murder and could be linked to the mob, but this has not been confirmed.

Since the discovery of the first remains, people expected more to emerge from the receding lake, and they were right. Since the Las Vegas mafia eliminated many people who stood in its way in the seventies and eighties, it’s possible that the lake served as the most convenient hiding place.

However, the police know that most mob members tried to avoid killing around Vegas, so people would come and spend their money in their casinos. Check out the famous Las Vegas mobsters who created Sin City! It’s more convenient nowadays, as you can go to the King Billy Casino site and play without having to look behind your back.

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The most shocking case was the first body they discovered in a rusty metal barrel. Obviously, the person got killed, but the police could determine only a little about it. They found out that it was a man and that he was shot. The water preserved his clothes in a good condition, and his shoes helped determine when his death probably occurred. The shoes were sold by an American department store chain in the second half of the 1970s, so they concluded that he might have died in the late 70s or early 80s.

The authorities have their work cut out with the case because even if they could take a DNA sample, there were no genetic databases at the time of his death, so they can only search for relatives in current databases. Online casino sites in Nevada wrote that a woman named Barbara Brock went to the police and told them it might be the remains of her brother, Bobbi Eugene Shaw, who disappeared in 1977. According to the authorities, the description given by the woman matches the body found, and Barbara admitted that, in the late 1970s, at the time of her brother’s disappearance, he was a member of the mafia in Nevada. However, there is no proof of any of it yet.

When the first body was found, the authorities indicated that they expected more, and they were right. During the summer, two sisters walked by the lake when they saw something strange in the trash on the shore. At first, they thought it was stone, then that it might be an animal’s skull, but they also found a jaw with teeth. One of the women who works as a nurse made sure they found human remains before telling park rangers. Eventually, they identified several human bones, but authorities did not find evidence of a crime.

Secrets Lake Mead Revealed in Vegas!

In June, the dropping water level of Lake Mead’s reservoir revealed a previously sunken World War II ship for the first time in decades. The National Park Service said that they used the vessel named Higgins there for various tasks.

For example, surveying the lake and the Colorado River. Similar devices were used during the Normandy landings. If the waters of Lake Mead continue to recede, other artifacts from the Second World War may also surface. The depth of the lake hides a B-29 bomber used in World War II as well. 

The wreck is a remnant of an LCVP. The vehicle, also called the Higgins ship after the designer Andrew Higgins basically functioned as a passenger transporter. In the 1940s, they built more than 20,000 such devices for the Allies, and during the Normandy landings, they deployed approximately 1,500.

In an interview, Dwight Eisenhower claimed that Andrew Higgins won the war for them. The Army sold the boat after the war and then used it to chart the Colorado River. Later a marina operating on the lake bought it and deliberately sunk the boat to protect the coast by using it as a breakwater.

The wreck was then at a depth of 56 meters, but now most of it has become visible. The ruins used to be a popular diving spot. In addition, an incredible amount of garbage, weapons, strollers, sunglasses, and other boats surfaced. People regularly alert the national park after finding bones on the shore of the reservoir. However, most turn out to be from animals.

Unexpected plastic skeletons have also scared some bystanders, but they found out that they were fake and placed at the bottom of the water for the entertainment of divers sometime ago. What other not yet revealed secret will Lake Mead expose in Vegas?

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