A lake with escaped prisoners’ names is located one and a half miles up in California’s High Sierra Mountains.
Six prisoners who escaped from the Nevada State Penitentiary in September 1871 gave the lake its name. The Nevada desert jail where 29 men serving sentences for robbing stagecoaches and trains were broken out, and they fled. They entered California from across the border.
It was a bad idea for this gang of prisoners to split up and trek towards the High Sierras because these mountains were already seeing their first snowfalls in late September.
This party of six guys went south to the lake that bears their names. They discovered that they had no supplies or a place to stay.
They came upon William Poor, the neighbourhood postmaster, while hiking. When he saw them on the wanted posters at his workplace, Poor immediately recognised them. He was brutally murdered by the prisoners once they noticed the dread in his eyes.
The villagers were incensed when they learned about this murder and organised a posse. On September 24, they discovered the inmates’ lair next to the lake. A brutal gunfight then broke out. Robert Morrison, a deputy sheriff, passed away.
Three men were detained after the struggle, but the other three fled and perished from exposure in the mountains. The third guy, who had testified against the other two prisoners, was sent back to jail while the other two of the arrested men were executed. Because he was a snitch, other convicts killed him by stabbing him.
Three ghosts have been reported ever since in the area of this lake. Two of them have nooses around their necks, while the third, who has a knife protruding from his back, is thought to be the informant.
Icy icicles are observed hanging from the eyebrows of the three ghosts, who are all seen clothed in snow. These males, according to witnesses, had “lifeless” eyes.
All year long, there are sightings of these three ghosts close to Convict Lake, but the autumn is when they appear most frequently. Locals and fisherman claim that when these spirits are sighted, the trout in this lake do not bite.
Witnesses claim they are a horrifying sight.
