'Alligator' Mound May Really be Oil Drum

Cherry Hill Courier Post, NJ
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Riverside, Delaware (US):
Could Alligator Jr. just be an old oil drum?A small expedition out to the site of a mysterious mound on Wednesday turned up no evidence that the prototype of the U.S. Navy's first combat submarine rests in the mud along Rancocas Creek.
An expert with a metal detector took readings of the cylindrical mound, shaped tantalizingly like the submarine, but turned up only a small anomaly, according to Alice Smith, archivist for the Riverside Historical Society.
"Well, there will be no submarine in my stocking for Christmas," Smith wrote in an e-mail to followers of her search for the submarine. "I wish I could say we were keeping a secret but our mound is probably just an iron drum."The group, however, plans to continue its search.
Smith did not return calls for further comment.
Dec 15, 2005