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For hundreds of years, people who have lived near Seneca Lake in upstate New York have reported hearing loud booms coming from the ...
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Seneca Lake’s Unexplained Booms Remain a Centuries-Old MysteryResidents in upstate New York have reported loud sounds from Seneca Lake for centuries, but their source remains unknown.
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- Seneca Lake is the largest of the Finger Lakes in central New York.
- Residents have reported intermittent, unexplained booms from the lake for centuries, but their source remains uncertain.
- About 30 years ago, Jim Mead said a three-foot bubble rose roughly 20 feet away and burst with a loud boom.
- The Seneca attributed the sounds to an angry deity; later American folklore blamed a Revolutionary War soldier’s ghost.
It made this really deep boom sound. It didn’t make much of a water splash, strangely, but it was a big boom!— Jim Mead, 66, captain of pontoon boat cruises to Finger Lakes wineries, as quoted in the article.
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