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Horror Story: Ghosts, Mysteries, and Hauntings

Beware of the Water Babies

Horror Story: Ghosts, Mysteries, and Hauntings

Horror Stories

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Pyramid Lake and Lake Tahoe have been surrounded by dark mysteries since the beginning. Tales of entities that surround the bodies of water and are the ones responsible for the many disappearances in the water. We explore some first-hand accounts, along with some of the legends from the Washo and Paiute people that add to the significance of these eerie lakes.

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0:00.0

On July 23, 2011, a group of divers was exploring an area of a lake, about 265 feet below the surface.

0:11.0

That's when they spotted a body, one of a diver with a wet suit buckled into a weight belt, an air tank, and everything.

0:19.0

Confused at first thinking that it might be a member of their

0:22.4

own group, they decided to get some help. Eventually, they find out what actually happened.

0:28.7

It was 1994, summertime, on July 10th, when a diver, Donald Christopher Windecker, was out having a dive

0:35.9

in Lake Tahoe along with a friend.

0:38.5

Which, by the way, this lake can go very deep, up to 1,600 feet, or a little bit more than that,

0:44.4

making it the second deepest lake in the United States.

0:47.8

So divers are not an unusual sight around there.

0:51.4

So anyway, these two people were exploring for a bit, keeping an eye on their

0:55.3

equipment and pressure before finally deciding to ascend. But as they were ready to head back

1:00.6

up to the surface, there was a problem. Donald's friend noticed that Donald was sinking

1:06.6

quickly with his respirator out of his mouth. His friend tried to help, but he soon started running out of air so he was forced to surface.

1:16.5

They attempted to rescue him, but he was never found.

1:20.2

Well, until this group of divers that I mentioned at first had the encounter.

1:25.9

About four days later, mini submarine with the claw was able to retrieve his remains,

1:30.3

on July 27th, on the west side of the lake, by Rubicon Point.

1:35.3

What was most surprising was that the diver was found nearly intact, although completely motionless in the lake.

1:43.3

To this day, they say that about four other divers are unaccounted for.

1:48.0

This brought up a lot of speculation about the place and its many myths and stories that surround Lake Tahoe,

1:55.0

although one of them really stood out to me.

1:58.0

Stories of people that have been found there, but didn't disappear at Lake Tahoe, but at

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