Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-4998996-20140727062852

Now, everyone, gather around the fire. Pull up a chair or, for those unfortunate few who didn't get here in time, a log. Make smores, get drinks, roast some hot dogs or whatever else it takes to keep you quiet because Cousin Will has tale to spin, and like a spider, it will be one full of turns, twists, corners, and unexpected suprises. Don't get too comfortable though, as I am sure I will have you on the edge of your seat.

As you already know, we are at Skeleton Lake in Ontario, Canada. You may have heard stories about how the lake got it's name, perhaps read something on a vacation site or googled it like most other people but I can assure you that none of that is true.

People say that Skeleton Lake got it's name from the aboriginals, when the Black Foot tribe came across the lake they found 3 skeletons washed up on the shore. One medium sized skeleton and 2 smaller ones, they thought it was clearly a mother and her 2 children. Another story about how the lake got it's name is based on the lakes shape. When looked at from a birds eye view the lake looks like a negative space image of a rib cage. Of course, neither of these stories are true. These stories are just to appease the tourists into believeing nothing terrible happened at this lake.

As we all know, during World War 2, the japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and this caused a lot of...distrust for the japanese(or asian community in general). Kind things were not done to the people for the duration of World War 2. Much how like Hitler had concentration camps for the jewish people, in Canada, we did something similar. Now, everyone views Canada as a peaceful country, however this is not the case. We gathered up the asian community and sent them to either our "questioning" camps or our "work" camps for the duration of World War 2. The work camps were just like they sounded for the most part. The asian community was forced to do work similar to slavery but it was only temporary. If anyone died during the work it was purely accidental but they were not given a proper burial because at the time, we didn't trust any of them.

The questioning camps were something entirely different. The people sent there were not put to work. They were not questioned. They didn't get to leave once the war was over. As we all know, near the end of World War 2, the United States helped Nazi Scientists escape so they could continue many of their experiments such as Project: Gemini(testing effects on twins). What you didn't learn and weren't told as some of them were brought to Canada to these "questioning" camps to experiment on the people there. Skeleton Lake was one of these camps. No one really knows what these Nazis were doing to the people here. Some people think it was similar to Project: Gemini, others believe it might have been Project: Mannequin or Project: Marionette. Both of which are projects focused more on mind control and sleeper agents.

The only thing that we do know for sure is what was found after the facitility was burnt down and reminants were covered up. A group of scuba divers headed by one Craven Thompson were looking at the bottom of the lake to find some old aboriginal artifacts that got lost or some other things that might be of value to either the historic community or any community for that matter. Instead they found something much more grim. Skeletons. Hundreds of them at the bottom of the lake each one tied to the other with a large weight tied to either end of a great rusted chain, as if someone didn't want them washing up or resurfacing. This wasn't just on one side of the lake either, where ever the lake was deep enough they would find the exact same. Some of these skeletons still had clothing on, some of them were no bigger then 3 feet.

It is rumored that every night between 3 - 4 pm you can hear large splashes coming from the middle of the lake.

Now, as you can tell with this being a rough draft, this is more or less just the bare bones. I want to know what you guys think so far, if I should flesh it out more or leave it short since we don't have very many shorter stories. 