'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
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
