![]() ![]() ![]() It has long been verified that Tahoe is a lake that does not give up its dead. At Tahoe, many locals talk as if everybody knows about this, that there are lots of gangsters down there, wearing pinstriped suits, with sneers on their faces and bullet holes in their foreheads. Some fishermen even call the spot The Grave. The legend is that this is where the Mafia killers dumped bodies after executions. Many have told me that, if you were to take a submarine down 900 feet just off South Shore, you would see hundreds of bodies suspended in the water, preserved perfectly like an underwater wax museum, most wearing clothes from the 1920s, '30s and '40s. It is a tale passed around called "The Legend of Three-Fingered Tony." In one account, a fisherman snags up, gets it loose, and reels up a partial hand where two of the fingers had been lopped off Mafia-style. This might sound crazy, but in the past 25 years, I've heard different versions of this story at least a dozen times. When he reeled up his line, to his shock, on his hook was the top of a human ear. As the story goes, a fisherman snagged something for a moment in the deep water just offshore of the South Shore casinos, but it easily broke free. The way this idea came about is that I was told another crazy, unverified story this past week about Tahoe's darkest legend of all. ![]()
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