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Show Misery Bay, Curious Water Phenomenon, Baffles Scientists; Never Gives Up Dead Nine mUes northeast of Alpena, forming a. part of Little Thunder bay is a curious water phenomenon' phenome-non' that has baffled scientists for vears It is known as Misery bay and undoubtedly properly named, for it is said that the waters never have given up their dead writes Albert StoU Jr.. in the Detroit News. As far back as 1876 Misery bay claimed the attention of the curious. At that time William Boulton, in writing the history of Alpena coun-ty, coun-ty, said: "In Little Thunder bay is a curious curi-ous freak of nature. It consists of a deep hole some 200 feet in diameter diame-ter and a depth, according to a sounding made by us, of 79 feet It is full of water and is supposed to be the outlet of Sunken lake, some 30 miles distant from shore. In passing over this sunken hole a person experiences a feeling as u tte bottom had dropped out, leaving leav-ing him suspended in the air. The Sdes appear to go straight down and as far as can be seen, are covered with weeds, amid which large pike find a secure hiding place. It is affirmed the hole never freezes over." Misery bay has been one of the projects recently undertaken as a Federal Writers' project and the research workers now report that the bay itself, about one mile long, with the dark hole in the center, is fast becoming landlocked and separated sepa-rated from Lake Huron by silt and rocks piling up along its outer border. bor-der. They also say they were unable un-able to reach bottom in the hole with a 1,200-foot plumb line. They report the water in the hole never freezes, but in winter wears a plume of vapor above the surface. The theory that this bay is connected con-nected with some underground river fed from some lake far inland sounds logicaL for aU through the Alpena-Presque Isle district are numerous nu-merous sunken holes and disappearing disappear-ing streams that travel underground through the soft limestone formation forma-tion These waters must find an outlet somewhere, and Misery bay seems to be the answer. |
