A body in a barrel, ghost towns, a crashed B-29: What other secrets are buried in Lake Mead?
A body in a barrel. Human bones along the shoreline. Ghost towns. A crashed B-29 Superfortress used to track cosmic rays. Prehistoric salt mines. What will the rapidly receding waters of Lake Mead reveal next? “This is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Travis Heggie, a former National Park Service official who has studied deaths at Lake Mead Recreation Area. “I’m expecting all sorts of criminal things to show up, and I mean a lot.”