More spikes!
Figuring that, you know, where there are 40 spikes there are likely to be more, a bunch of divers jumped into Greenlake this morning to go spike hunting. And, what do you know, they found another 41 [PI]. Some of them are spiked and some of them are curved, and it’s the curved ones that confuse me. Are all of these spikes there for a reason? Did someone plant them? Did someone know that there were some spikes there from holding down plastic sheeting or weeds or a sea monster’s roof and decide to screw with people’s feet by adding some extra sharpened ones?
The area was searched in 2005 and no spikes were found then, so it seems a little unlikely that they were there to hold down some old plastic sheeting found at the bottom of the lake. Other theories include “that the stakes held down a barrier planted two decades ago to control milfoil on the lake, but…those stakes were plastic. There was also some speculation that the spikes might be related to a theater that operated at the south end of the lake years ago [Times].”
No spikes anywhere else yet, but still, watch your feet.
I don’t know why, but this story and the severed feet story are strangely fascinating to me. You just don’t get this kind of stuff in the Midwest, I guess ;)
"The area was searched in 2005 and no spikes were found then…"
just because an area was searched doesn’t mean the people doing the searching did a good job. have you ever seen city workers at actual work? there’s usually one guy doing something like, digging a hole (slowly i might add) and three people standing over him, watching. i don’t put much faith in city workers doing a job right the first time.
i’m not sure why this is such a riveting story for seattle. the answer seemed pretty obvious or at least, not criminal, once more than two spikes were found. the spikes were used to hold something to the floor of the lake. if you look at the amount of corrosion on the metal it is clear they’ve been under water for a while (more than a couple of years). it’s possible that all the rods were curved at one time but many of the curved ends rusted off/away and probably got pushed deeper into the lake. these were placed in the water to do something beneficial, at some time, long ago.
and according to this article the spikes used initially to hold down the plastic weed barrier weren’t plastic but were, instead, metal. based on all the evidence, it seems pretty clear that the "mystery" has been solved; time to move on.
[...] we had the spikes in Greenlake- and much like the B.C. feet, more and more spikes are showing up in the lake. I couldn’t [...]
officially solved