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From: "Len Berlind" <p00881@psilink.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Bodies in Hoover Dam?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 05:51:37 -0400

>DATE: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 20:16:08 GMT
>FROM: kirk@hitachi.com
>While taking a tour of Hoover Dam the speaker mentioned just this. I believe
>they said there were three bodies in the concrete. The pouring went on
>24 hrs a day for 3 years (not sure of the exact time frame but it was years).
>They couldn't stop the pour to look for the bodies.

Hokum. Bunkum. Bushwah.

Many guys died building the dam, but none that way.

In _The Hoover Dam_, ISBN 0-8061-2283-8, Joseph E. Stevens debunks this one. Besides, the thing was poured in individual blocks (_lots_ of 5 foot high blocks). Also rigidly inspected. A dead or live bod would have: a) been easy enough to fish out and b) so screwed up a pour so that they would have been forced to yank it out.

Excellent book BTW.

--Len


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