Mass graves Under Lake Okeechobee?
So you might know Lake Okeechobee as a popular tourist destination, but there’s a little known dark side to one of Florida’s largest lakes.
For starters, in 1928 a hurricane hit lake Okeechobee and this ended up being one HELL of a storm.
It claimed anywhere from 1800 to 3000 lives when it passed through - with over 600 of these souls being denied a respectful burial and haphazardly being thrown into a mass grave nearby.
To this day, it is said that both locals and tourists alike regularly see what looks to be a body floating in the water, only to turn around and see nothing there. Many boaters also claim to hear screaming and see ghostly apparitions while out on these waters.
With all of that being said however, the creepiest part is yet to come - the mysterious underwater graves.
Following the devastating hurricane in 1928, lake Okeechobee was hit by a drought shortly after and slowly began to dry up. When locals saw strange, stick-like objects protruding from the little water that was left, they went to investigate - only to find out that they were human bones. Thousands of them.
While it was nearly impossible for investigators to get a total count on all of the human skeletons littering the lakebed, they speculated that the number of bodies was in the hundreds. Some believe that the remnants belong to an Indian tribe and that this was once a burial ground before the lake formed, but to this day no one can say for sure how these hundreds of people ended up on the bottom of lake Okeechobee.