When an important discovery is made, it can start to boggle the mind if you think about it long enough.
After all, not only it is wild when a clue that people have been searching for decades is suddenly found by someone who wasn’t looking for it, but we have to remember that so many others passed by it without ever noticing.
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Unfortunately, some of these discoveries are more pleasant than others. Most of us would much rather find an undiscovered dinosaur or something than the remnants of a fatal accident, but life doesn’t always work that way.
However, one Canadian case shows that even when a discovery isn’t pleasant, that doesn’t make it any less important.
Last month, 13-year-old Max Werenka was out boating at Griffin Lake, British Columbia.
Before long, he and his guests believed they spotted a submerged car about 16 feet down.
As CBC News reported , this was unusual because people had traversed that lake by boat and kayak for 17 years without ever seeing a vehicle that wasn’t supposed to be there.
Werenka’s family notified police, who couldn’t see anything when they set on on the lake with Werenka in tow.
And so, Werenka dove down with his GoPro and filmed where he had remembered seeing it.
When he emerged, he had captured footage of vehicle resting upside down at the bottom of the lake.
Police sent in a dive team and equipment to haul out what turned out to be a black 1986 Honda Accord.
When police ran the license plates, they discovered that both the car and the female body inside had been reported missing back in 1992.
The car’s owner was 70-year-old Janet Farris, who had disappeared while driving to a wedding in the neighboring province of Alberta.
As there was no damage to the front of her car, police believe she lost control of her car (possibly while trying to avoid an animal) and rolled the car into the lake.
After years of assuming something like this had happened, police were finally able to give Farris’ family confirmation of her fate.
As her son, George Harris, told CBC News, “I think the worst thing was not knowing.”
h/t: CBC News
