So there’s this lake. The Great Lake, outside a place called St. Marys, west from Columbus, Ohio, along the 33. It turned solid. Not to ice, but the water became hard, about as strong as slate, definitely like some kind of sedimentary rock.
Strangely enough nothing was in the lake when it happened, so nothing got stuck in there or anything. It’s been suggested that everything that (was) in there vanished in the same action that turned it solid. This has been dismissed as silly fantasies of magic . Just a coincidence. What did turn it solid has pretty much been worked out, there are opposing theories of course, but everyone is pretty much settled one a few core concepts.
Settled. Pretty much the key word here. During the 18th Century London would get particularly fierce winters, much worse then now. The thames would freeze over, enough to create temporary structures on. Festivals were held. Same thing happened. We set up tents, houses, buildings. We forgot about the lake.
A frog blinked. Turned to liquid.