Name:   Wakely - Subject:   Alligators? Date:   12/21/2017 2:16:59 AM

There are rumors, but none of them are true. Not even the one about the gator that supposedly lived at the old ski club.

And as many people who now have a camera with them everywhere they go, you'd think someone would have managed to snap a photo if there were any in the lake. (Ever notice how the sightings of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster stopped being so common as soon as everyone started carrying a camera? Same reason.)

There was a guy in Alex City who imported a couple of them for his pond a few decades back, but he was nowhere near the lake, and they would have had no chance to make it to the lake if they had wanted to. And there are probably some far below the dam, since there are reliable reports of gators in one of the creeks that into Yates.

But in Lake Martin itself? No.