9- The WILLIAM And MARY "URBAN LEGEND" From The LAKE MATOAKA "Black Lagoon"........

A) After midnight.....
B) The story is told how a small covey of students, two coeds and two guys, planned and ventured out to the far reaches of some of the Lake's many inlets (fingers), AFTER MIDNIGHT a handful of years ago, to prove once and for all IF "POCA" really does exist!
C) "POCA" is the name of the "urban legend creature" circulated on the W&M Campus, America's 2nd oldest campus, for a number of years.
D) the foursome took cellphone cameras, one flashlight and, after midnight, started out past the Ampitheatre, under the Art Dept. bldg., with the deteriorating Lake bank and slowly, carefully followed the rough edges of Lake Matoaka with its many fingers....IN THE DARK, with that one light!
E) A gaggle of Canadian geese suddenly squawked and nosily flapped, taking off from along the opposite lake edge, creating quite a huge commotion, frightening the four adventurers. After settling down, all was quiet again on the western lake front for a time as they continued their adventure along the dense, rough edges of the lake in the dark. Without another warning, something splashed loudly in one of the lake fingers in front of the four and was long enough to undulate with a length much longer than the four person standing, shivering. The lone flashlight was barely able to follow "it." One of the coeds, carrying the notebook, jumped from fright, as well as the other three, and the notebook went flying into the dark water along the edge of the lake. The four, scared, had forgotten to snap a pic before "it" submerged and disappeared, not to be seen again that Friday night.
The four made a pact, friends confessed, to "forget" what happened that Friday night after midnight many years ago in the far reaches of Lake Matoaka fingers. They had decided that no one would believe them! And no one has ever, we're told, ventured out late searching again. Only during the daytime light are canoes paddled out and about...but not too far.
Someone, somewhere, still has a flashlight, maybe, that can prove "Poca's' existence?????