The Coat on Laura's Pond: No Footprints, Just Questions
The Coat on Laura's Pond: No Footprints, Just QuestionsA dark green, double-breasted wool coat was found lying perfectly flat on the ice of Bellham Mill Pond on January 9, 1983 - thirty feet from the bank, sleeves extended, brass buttons fastened, with no footprints approaching or leaving the frost around it. The same pond is called Laura's Pond after Laura Becker, who drowned there in January 1864 and whose body was recovered without an outer garment; how did a coat end up on the ice 119 years later with no tracks, and why did records quietly change the cause of death 137 years after the…
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