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Is this an Urban legend ? 1....There were divers down by a local dam that were scared back to the surface by enormous Catfish .
2 .... A car was found (usually a corvette ) with a dead man in it . It was undamaged , yet the smell of the deceased couldn't be eliminated .

nixon said:

Is this an Urban legend ? 1....There were divers down by a local dam that were scared back to the surface by enormous Catfish .
2 .... A car was found (usually a corvette ) with a dead man in it . It was undamaged , yet the smell of the deceased couldn't be eliminated .

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Yes.

I heard a similar about a catfish. A diver working on a bridge pier was standing on bottom working when the bottom started moving. The diver came to the top white as a ghost and told others of a cat fish he had been standing on ....that was bigger than he was. And the diver refused to go back down to finish the welding. I've seen some big catfish around here so I never doubted the story, but it does fit the urban legend type of legend.

I also heard of a corvette with the dead man odor ...but more prevalent was the guy who got a corvette for next to nothing .....the story is of an ad to sell a 10 or 15 year old corvair. Buyer goes to look and it's in the garage and had been there for years. It's a corvette not a corvair ...and the little old lady is selling it ridiculously cheap. I figure that story is urban legend for sure.

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I actually used to know a police diver who told me he wouldn't dive in the local reservoir anymore after a night search when he got to the bottom, turned on his light, and was looking at a catfish whose mouth was wider than his shoulders.
Yes, I believe catfish can get that big, no, I don't believe the other stories about fish big enough to block the outflow tubes with eyes the size of basketballs.

Many species of fish grow to a size that's on par with the size of the body of water they inhabit as well as the food supply. Carp grow rather large in a lake, but, if you kept them in an aquarium, they'd probably stay at near-minnow size.

Don't you worry, DS, I believe your big fish story. Cats DO get large.

#1 true.
#2 Entirely possible, depending on how long the body was in the car. As the body decomposes fluids would leak out into the carpeting and upholstery, making it nearly impossible to remove the 'death smell'.

Mythbusters checked out the deadbodyincorvette thing. They bought a Corvette (and then after they did, they told the PO why), killed a pig, stuffed it into the car, and left it out in the sun for quite a few weeks.

I think the thing smelled, no matter what they did. But I could be wrong, and I am too lazy to look it up.............

This actually does happen in houses. While the smell will decrease over time, it takes a loooong time.

That is believable.

My Grandparents had a friend that worked on the ill-fated Auburn Dam site in N. Calif. This was in the 70's. Injun Joe(This was also before PC; he was Piute I believe) drove bull dozers on the dam construction site. They would divert the river, and then backfill the old channel.

When they backfilled the channels, they left numerous fish high and dry. I was 10 or 12 back then; I remember going to visit with my Mom and Grandparents; the catfish he brought home were HUGE.

Those old cats had probably been in deep pools on that American River for decades, just getting big.

I'm 6'2" tall; those fish were easily as long as I am tall.

It was funny;" What ya catch that with?"
"Oh, a D8 CAT..."

Danang Sailor said:

I rate #1 as "Possible/Likely" as I personally watched a friend pull a cat out of the Mississippi that was 2 inches "taller" than me - and I was 6'2" then.

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