Two submerged cars containing five bodies are found by chance after FIFTY YEARS

Mail Online ^ | Mystery of Foss Lake: Two submerged cars containing five bodies are found by chance after FIFTY YEAR

[hedgetrimmer]

They had lain undiscovered under an Oklahoma lake for fifty years.

And now the discovery of two rusting vintage cars containing five bodies has reignited the mystery of how three teenagers and one couple vanished more than five decades ago.

Highway patrol officers testing their sonar equipment Foss Lake near Elk City, Oklahoma on Friday stumbled upon the rusting 1969 Camaro and a Chevrolet dating from the 1950s.

Inside the Camaro were three bodies believed to be of local teenagers who vanished after going out for a drive in 1970. Inside the Chevrolet were two bodies – thought to be a couple who went missing in the state in the late 1950s or early 1960s.

[Revolting cat!]

Have we reached the minimum required number of references to Ted Kennedy yet?

[Emmett McCarthy]

50 years? So the Camaro went into the lake some years before it was built?

[Boogieman]

That, or aliens.

[Boogieman]

2 separate incidents, one in the 50’s-60’s, one in 1970.

[Revolting cat!]

It might have been Camaro the concept car, which could explain the circumstances of the tragic event.

[GeronL]

Yes, might not have been new when crashed

[Talisker]

Nothing happens by chance.

Not even nothing.

[Revolting cat!]

True,I stand corrected. Let me rephrase it: Nothing doesn’t happen by chance!

[doc1019]

There is that. LOL!

[Ezekiel]

Have we reached the minimum required number of references to Ted Kennedy yet?

No, because

the rusting 1969 Camaro and a Chevrolet dating from the 1950s are oldmobiles!

[ansel12]

Carnival of Souls

[jodyel]

Wow, that is some story!

Amazing what they are finding using modern technology.

[Bon of Babble]

Ain't a story without the pix.

[hoosierham]

I'll bet there are literally hundreds of cars and pickups submerged in lakes and rivers as a result of accidents ;that is in addition to many others sent there as part of a murder.There are tens of thousands of places where water deep ,and,or cloudy, enough to hide a car from casual sight, is close to a road.There have been at least three cases in the last couple years of people unfamiliar with the area driving down a boat ramp into a deep lake and drowning.The drivers had time enough to call 9-1-1 on a cell phone before going under.Note it is very hard to open a car door against the pressure of all that water and modern cars electic windows would be shorted out.It isn't easy to break out a window with the usual items found in the passenger compartment. How many must fallen asleep ,swerved to avoid a deer, hit an icy patch,etc. on the decades of auto use?
There have been two men killed in separate accidents on opposite sides of my small town in just the last few years and a neighbor drove into the creek a decade ago.Only one of the three was drunk.One was on his way to work.One was going to get a prescription filled.

[Bon of Babble]

Yeah, it IS weird, especially the headline:

From the linked story:

Inside the Camaro were three bodies Inside the Chevrolet were three more bodies.

Maybe 3 + 3 = 5 now equals five?

[2ndDivisionVet]

[2ndDivisionVet]

[hoosierham]

Note when I say “the area” I meany my locale ,not the one in this story.Anyway just take notice of all the places in your area where a car could go into the water.

[cunning_fish]

Lakes are the prime spots to look for people missing in vehicles.
Ice is often not strong enough to drive on it but many people don’t care.

[cunning_fish]

>>>>.Note it is very hard to open a car door against the pressure of all that water and modern cars electic windows would be shorted out.<<<<

In fact trying to open a door before a car is submerged makes the biggest chance to die. A vehicle tends to heel on a side of your opened door to sink faster and land on a bottom right above you.

The best idea is to leave a car through your opened window but it is not always possible because most vehicles are sinking nose-down.

If you haven’t managed and sinking with locked windows, you have to undress to fold seats for more room and grab any floating items you have inside (even an empty plastic bottles).

As soon as your car is full of water and there are right enough space just to make a few breaths, get out (doors are opening easily at the time).