Crater Lake National Park, located in southwestern Oregon,

features one of the deepest lakes in the world.

The eye of a cyclops.

Crater Lake sinks 2,000 feet into the face of this ancient land of old-growth forest.

Accessible only by trail and surrounded by a rim of rock there are no tributaries to what

Native Americans considered a sacred lake created following the eruption then collapse of a

volcano that existed in its place nearly 7,000 years ago crater lake's pristine waters are

slowly emptied by evaporation but easily replenished by heavy rain and snowfall.

A process that completely turns over like the freshening of a hot tub every 250 years.

But it's not hot. Crater Lake stays quite cold due to the massive amounts of snow the area

receives and often has trouble shedding itself of until June and even July.

In winter, it's not unusual for 10 feet of fresh snow to roll in a completely cripple Crater Lake.

Snowmobiles, snow shoes, and snow gear are in fashion nearly year round.

Also in fashion is the idea that the area is plagued by the paranormal.

Not a place that many would venture to visit alone,

but in 1975, Charles McCuller, a 19-year-old adventurer and avid photographer,

decided to do just that.

What became of him is the stuff of crater lake legend.

Welcome to Marooned.

Stories of the Catastrophically Lost. I'm Jack Luna. This is Aaron

Abel. The crater lake legend begins with its long history of inhabitants by Native Americans dating

back over 10,000 years. Tribes such as the Klamath believed that the eruption and subsequent

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