Allie Ward

kind of the creepiness factor of bodies of water.

And I'm sure people talk to you about this a lot.

Do you feel like there's something innate where if you can't see below a certain depth or if you like rub up on a stick or something, what makes some bodies of water creepy to you now that you have gone literally like in depth?

Do you ever see like the Reddit board, like sub-mecha-phobia, sub-mecha-phobia?

Submerged vehicles, submerged anything like freaks me out.

Yep.

So if you share my goose bumpy dread at the sight of a sunken boat or car or a shopping cart or whatever, please know that there is a word for that, submechanophobia.

Also, please enjoy our Maritime Archaeology episode with Chanel Safaropoulos, who I love.

And that episode talks about all kinds of shipwrecks and submerged machines all over the world.

Now, Gio has also traveled all over in her quest to bring you Haunted Hydrology Reports.

And just like a mommy blogger's perfect Instagram, they can be picturesque on the surface, but mask unknown horrors.

Lake Tahoe.

Do you know what's going on in there?

Lake Superior, 1,333 feet or 406 meters at its deepest point.

Lake Tahoe, 1,645 feet or 500 meters.

And Crater Lake in Oregon is over 1,900 feet deep or nearly 600 meters, which is about as deep as the tallest radio towers that you might see.

or like two Eiffel Towers stacked on top of each other deep.

And we're going to chat about Russia's Lake Baikal in a bit, but it's over 5,000 feet deep or over 1,600 meters, which is about twice as tall as the tallest building in the world, which is the 163-story Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

But back to Lake Tahoe, which straddles the lines of Northern California and Nevada near Reno.

Well, almost.