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If you're one of the millions who suffer from thalassophobia (i.e. the intense fear of deep bodies of water such as the ocean or sea), then I probably don't have to remind you that the ocean, lakes, and other bodies of water can be scary places.
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Roopkund or "Skeleton Lake" where you can see hundreds of human skeleton remains.
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The disappearance of Andrew McAuley whose distress calls were later found on a recovered memory stick.
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The Murder of Helle Crafts whose chopped up remains were found in a lake.
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The Salish Sea human foot discoveries.
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The Lake Bodom murders, one of the most infamous unsolved homicide cases in Finnish criminal history.
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The Lady in the Lake trial about a woman whose body was discovered by amateur divers at the bottom of a lake.
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The existence of bog bodies β i.e. human cadavers that have been naturally mummified in a peat bog.
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The Lake Nyos disaster that killed almost 2,000 people.
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Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee, an unidentified young woman found murdered in Florida.
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The Lava Lake murders, one of the oldest unsolved murder cases on Oregon's history.
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The MV Joyita, a ship whose crew and passengers mysteriously disappeared.
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The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis that left crew members floating alone in the ocean...with sharks.
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The Abyssal zone, the part of the ocean that remains in perpetual darkness.
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Oba Chandler β a murderer who threw his victims into the water while still alive.
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The very long List of Bermuda Triangle incidents.
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And finally the Diving bell spider β a species of spider that lives almost entirely underwater.
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