A suggested post on my Facebook page has prompted this post, so here's the game: You pick a curious/interesting/little know story from your local area and share it with the rest of us.

I'll start:

The Curious Case of Moccasin Bend: https://rootsrated.com/...utm_campaign=dark_october

Moccasin Bend was a home for the original inhabitants of the Chattanooga area from the time of the Paleo-Indians until eight years after the Indian Removal Act passed. After that, the lands were divided among the settlers until the civil war turned the bend into a strategic point in the Battles of Chattanooga. After the civil war, Moccasin Bend languished until plans were almost made to turn the peninsula into a recreation area, but the Great Depression came. After World War II, a tug of war between industry and preservationist took hold with industry nominally winning, but no large scale industrial operations ever coming. What did come was a mental institution, landfill, water treatment facility, and Chattanooga Police Department/Hamilton County Sheriffs Office gun range. Now, the mental institution and gun range are looking for new homes and plan to vacate Moccasin Bend at some point in the near future.

This is from a town I lived in
Pretty cool
Found: the lost pyramids of rock lake

The purported pyramids found on the muddy floor of Wisconsin's Rock Lake are so fascinating that we must pass on the following report, even though it comes from outside the group of publications we usually rely on. In fact, we have never seen anything on these pyramids in the scientific press, although in SF#30 we did present an earlier report on them from the Wisconsin State Journal. So, caveat emptor!

Rock Lake Pyramid
The first sketch of the Rock Lake Pyramid from a 1970 issue of Skin Diver, as presented in Ancient Man.
The author of this article, F. Joseph, states that beneath the surface of Rock Lake lie at least ten structures. Two of these have been mapped and photographed by skin divers and sonar. Structure #1, which has been dubbed the Limnatis Pyramid, has a base width of 60 feet, a length of about 100 feet, and a height of 18 feet, although only about 10 feet protrude from the silt and mud. It is a truncated pyramid, built largely out of round, black stones. On the truncated top, the stones are squarish. The remains of a plaster coating can be discerned.

The Rock Lake structures are made more believable by the presence, 3 miles away, of the Indian site of Aztalan. There, there are two truncated, earthen pyramids, partially surrounded by a tall stockade, which was originally plastered. Aztalan seems to have been occupied as late as the Fourteenth Century.

(Joseph, Francis; "Found: The Lost Pyramids of Rock Lake," Fate, 42:88, October 1989.)

Reference. In our handbook Ancient Man, there is still another article on the Rock Lake pyramids from a 1970 number of the Skin Diver. Details on this handbook here.

From Science Frontiers #66, NOV-DEC 1989. © 1989-2000 William R. Corliss

Soviet ANT-25 completes first transpolar airplane flight from the Soviet Union to the United States (Vancouver) on June 20, 1937.

http://www.historylink.org/...tput.cfm&File_Id=7208

On June 20, 1937, a Soviet-built ANT-25 monoplane lands at Vancouver's Pearson Air Field, completing the first airplane flight from the Soviet Union to the United States across the North Pole. The unfamiliar-looking aircraft, with long, red, albatross-like wings, passes over the field in preparation for an unscheduled and unexpected landing. And although the arrival at Pearson Field is a complete surprise, there is no mystery as to the aircraft's identity. For the past several days people around the world have anxiously followed its progress as its crew sought to be the first to cross the North Pole from Moscow to San Francisco.

Also to poke fun at the Canadians http://www.cityofvancouver.us/...ington-original-vancouver