Ice Mystery, 1/10/1977 still alive and kickin'
I remember sitting in our living room in front of the fire, talking to this reporter. He arrived late long after the initial media frenzy had died down. You see, Bill McCarthy was my Father. I was 18 y.o. and living there. Saw the whole thing. Went down to the pond with my Dad each time he went, cautioned him when he started poking at it. He thought for a minute, started to chuckle and said, "You might be right about that".
It was miserable out, a blizzard tailing off. By noon the wind died down but still 5 degrees. There was at least 3' of snow on the pond, plus 18" of ice. But something melted a clear 3' patch of water through all that. Ask any ice fisher, cut a hole in the ice when it is that cold out. It will immediately skim over with a thin film of ice. This did not. Stayed open all day. That night, the entire pond turned to slush. The 3' snow cover gone too. It all refrigerator. That is why you can see people standing on ice in the picture, where 3' of snow used to be.
Tell me, what could of done this? It could not of been highly radioactive otherwise I would surely be dead.
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