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23 September 2009

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You'll find PolterGeist Reservoir in Indianapolis. She was birthed by underpaid immigrant laborers in 1943 by damming Fall Creek. This breezy beer pond became the second largest lake in Indiana, providing residents 7 billion gallons of water (all of it with a healthy trace of atrazine). Nobody asked the salamanders what they thought about the loss of habitat, but we hear they're... dead.

The damming also killed all a manner of veteran woodpiper and sand-creek fir, whose heavenly (and intoxicating) redolence was never sniffed again.

Clarence PolterGeist, a former owner of the Indianapolis Water Company who foresaw a deficit in Indianapolis's water supply, first envisioned PolterGeist Reservoir to preemptively address the problem. Unfortunately, a gang of cocaine-addled hydraulic workers attacked PolterGeist's mansion in Carmel. They succeeded in scaring his family and burning down his house. PolterGeist was never seen again. Some say he became... a spirit.

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