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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iamwomanseemegame" data-source="post: 1091434" data-attributes="member: 13900">Tropical Midwest...Mitchell, SD is a small city with a few good urban legends/unsolved mysteries...First...There is a fairly large (disgusting) lake called-- get this-- Lake Mitchell.  It is the source of all Mitchell's drinking water and yet, they still allow all water sports (boating, jet skiing... anything).  It is also the site of a whole lot of drainage for local farms so-- not only is the lake full of oil and gas, it's full of various pesticides... the water is a nasty shade of green and will turn your skin colors if you choose to swim in it.  The first of the stories involving the lake is one that I know to be totally true:  A young boy (little brother of a very close friend of mine) was fishing off of the dock.  Generally, all you can catch in Mitchell Lake are bullheads and the occasional snapping turtle.  However, this young man reeled in a very strange fish... It was a white and gold tropical fish that shouldn't even have been alive because it was in fresh water.  No one really knows how on earth the fish got there-- but ever since the young man caught that particular fish, there has been, at least once a year, an individual that reels in some sort of fish that would typically thrive in a reef-y type of ocean setting.Could have been someone dumping a fish tank, I guess... but, I don't know.  Very weird.Second... There is a phantom puma that supposedly lives around the lake/in the surrounding trees.  I, myself. have never seen it.  Many say they hear it howl/scream/whatever it is that pumas do.Not related to the lake...Mitchell, SD is also home to a bizarre series of underground tunnels just big enough for a man or woman to crawl through... many large enough to walk in.  I have explored the tunnels a little... probably traveling about 1/2-3/4 of a mile into them before chickening out and running back to the safety of daylight.  Rumor has it, somewhere in those expansive tunnels is a hide-out originally created by a.) a bunch of teenagers in the 70's or b.) crazy murderer linked to some killings at the train depot.Finally, in Sioux Falls South Dakota, several years ago, a young woman was murdered.  They eventually found her killer but, never found the body (I believe that her murderer killed himself in prison a year or two back)... But, her killer, before his arrest, worked for John Morrell (sp?) at a large plant in South Dakota.  JM makes bacon, sausage and all that kind of good stuff... and, many think that he disposed of his victims body in one of the meat grinders at the JM plant.  By the time he was found and convicted, it had been over a year since his victims death and so, there was no way to tell if indeed that is what had actually happened because, the meat she would have been ground with had been packaged and sold quite some time ago.  Pretty nasty.There are the legends that surround my home town in podunk SD... enjoy!!--LizzyB</blockquote>

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