It has been widely claimed that in 1969, a group of engineers made a disturbing discovery after completely shutting down the water flow at Niagara Falls.
While the waterfall, which is located in both the US and Canada, was indeed drained by the Army Corps of Engineers, there is very little information known about this reported incident.
Snopes, a website that regularly fact-checks myths on social media, confirmed that the engineers did drain the water from the American Falls side to the Canadian side for several months to examine erosion.
They also revealed that the group recovered two unidentified dead bodies from the bottom of the falls.
This discovery made headlines on June 13, 1969, in The Vancouver Sun. The article reportedly read: “The bodies of an unidentified man and woman have been found here in a grisly beginning to a major engineering feat that has all but halted flow of the Niagara River over the American Falls."
“Police said today the decomposed body of the woman was discovered Wednesday while they searched for the man, who was seen leaping over the precipice. His body was found Thursday," it continued.
“The water was shunted to the channel flowing over the Horseshoe Falls so engineers can study the face of the American Falls in an attempt to halt erosion," they added.
It has not been disclosed whether the two individuals were ever identified or when, how, or where the bodies ended up in the water.
In addition to this, the engineers also found something else when Niagara Falls was dewatered: millions of coins, per a report by Wired.com.
"When crews shut down the falls in 1969, they found two bodies and millions of coins, most of which were removed. (As were the human remains, of course.)," the publication penned.
They added that as tourism at Falls has grown wildly in the last 50 years, many more items have been recovered including "cell phones, cameras, baby strollers, errant drones, and whatever else could be thrown or dropped by careless, thoughtless, or mischievous visitors".
"There is, of course, the possibility of human remains being discovered again — though there are no individuals known to have jumped or fallen in who haven’t been recovered," they concluded.
In other news, police confirmed last week that a 33-year-old mom Chianti Means "intentionally" jumped from Niagara Falls with her two children: nine-year-old Roman Rossman and five-month-old Mecca Means.
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