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Greed, murder and eyeless goldfish: This is one of Tahoe's oldest myths


Greed, murder and eyeless goldfish: This is one of Tahoe s oldest myths
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A photograph of Lake Tahoe from 1903.Universal History Archive/Getty
In 1910, a scandalous story of greed and murder in Lake Tahoe was published in multiple newspapers across the country. The article looked back 20 years prior, when three miners in Virginia City discovered a corpse at the bottom of a deep mining shaft, built during the Comstock Lode. According to the writer, the body unrecognizable came from a hole at the bottom of Lake Tahoe.
There was just one problem the story wasn’t true.
Let’s get one thing clear at the top: There is no hole at the bottom of Lake Tahoe. ....

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