Is Merced's Lake Yosemite haunted?
Are these waters haunted by the ghost of a mother looking
for her lost children?
There is a story that a few decades ago a woman had taken her two children to go swimming at the lake one summer afternoon. The two children decided they wanted to dive off the boat tower, perhaps to impress their mother, and climbed up it. Unknown to any of them, the water was shallow at this spot. As both children dove, they struck their heads on rocks in the shallow water. But for some reason, when authorities were summoned to retrieve the bodies they were not found.
For years the mother would drive out there, delusional, and look for the bodies of her children, hoping to find them. She did this for years until she finally passed away. But even in the afterlife she felt guilty over what happened. People have reported seeing headlights in the distance, never seeing or hearing a car as they approached. Others have claimed to have actually seen her walking along Old Lake Road, calling for her children, hoping that she will finally find them.
I'm not sure if this next story is related or not, but while researching the ghost of the mother I came across a story of someone who was working late one night, when they came across a little boy hiding behind a bbq pit. They asked him if he was lost, but the little boy ran and hid behind another bbq pit. As the worker approached the pit, there was no one there and there weren't any other hiding places. Walking back to where a coworker was, they mentioned what happened and the coworker said they saw the same little boy hide, but didn't see where he went.
Could this little boy be one of the children who died while swimming? The area mentioned isn't near the boat tower. Perhaps the bodies of the two children somehow ended up in this area, and that is why the mother never was able to find the bodies of her children. Or perhaps this is the ghost of another child, whose parents could never find him. Either way I think a trip up north is in order to investigate the place for myself.
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I DID have a girlfriend, tho, who claimed to have seen her. She was on an overnight boat trip, spending the night in a sleeping bag in a boat. She said that she woke up and saw a pale female leaning over her. When she was finally able to extricate herself from the covers and get outside, there was no one there but her and the 2 others on the boat.
Anyway, 3 summers I was out their I can tell you their was a lot of tradgy in a triangle around the tower, their use to be the house where the caretaker for Mid lived and he was killed very tragically in a motorcycle accident. His wife who was very young pretty and had young children did go crazy and as life guards we were told by the sheriffs her house was off limits to the public and everybody for the time I was out their left her alone. In addition this one summer a boat was fishing right up against the tower and a huge wind storm came out of nowhere and flipped the boat killing one of the fisherman. As life guards we got out their fast but the tower was on the other side of the lake so it would takke a good 10 minutes by jet ski to get their. Myself and the Sheriff dive team could never figure out how the guy died. Because the swim from the shore was only 20 yards but the water is cold even though the outside temp that day was over 100 degrees and they said he died when he hit the water case closed.
After that I can remember at least 3 different nights when locking up the gates late at night garbage cans being thrown around and spontaneous bright lights that would disappear just before we could get a closer view. I will say people would be shocked of the number of accidental deaths at the lake, sudden heart attacks, drownings, boating accidents many happening around or in that triangle I described. I never put the connection together until I read these posts. I never saw a ghost but looking back their was quite a few deaths that were very tragic and late at night I would definitely hear weird sounds. That lake and tower at night look very weird in the middle of the night and the currents around that tower are very dangerous I would not be surprised if that lake were haunted.
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