"Disappointment Lake"

The child was beyond unbearable to look at, the deformities were indescribable. A person might not even be able to call the little boy a child. When Mr. Webster knew this was his last chance to have a child to carry on his family name he felt this child was simply a disgrace to his family, and he would rather not even have the child at all, then to be embarrased. Mr. Webster had begun creating ways to get rid of this anomaly.

The child was named Agape, which meant unconditional love, and clearly was named by his mother Sarah. Sarah was made quite aware of her husbands disgust of the child, and he didn't even try to hide the plans he was thinking of to get rid of the disgrace. There was no way possible Sarah could pretend to not know of the way her husband felt because he made it a daily task to keep her aware as how he ignored the child, and cursed him at every opportunity. Mr. Webster couldn't even bring himself to look at the child, let alone even pick him up. Regardless of the thick feeling of hate and evil that hung in the air, it was almost palpable. Sarah continued to maintain an amazing feeling of amorous toward her child.

Finally one chilly fall evening, Mr. Webster could no longer take the icy stares, and ongoing whispers behind his back. He decided then and there he would throw the child into Lake Elza and make it look like the carriage had accidently tipped over and the child would be thrown into the freezing waters and drown to death. This was his answer to the ongoing weight he carried daily on his shoulders. That fall evening the child had finally succumb to his horrific death. Immediately after Sarah had been told of Agape's death, and after the extensive search for the child's body which could not be found she knew she could not go on living. That same horrible night she took her own life, because she felt if she could not be with her child in life, then she could be rejoined in the afterlife. Before ending her own life she had written a brief note stating that if she could not be with her child amongst the living then she cursed all those children that came across the lake that their lives would end as well. Sarah affirmed that any other children would also be guaranteed to die an unforeseen death.

Mr. Webster went on living a sad and lonely life, because he never thought for one minute he would lose his wife as well. Life obviously went on for others and many years had passed. However, the lake was designated the cause of hundreds of unthinkable deaths of children. Many people looked at it as pure coincidence, while many others blamed the curse of Sarah.

Sarah was not at peace in her afterlife, and there seemed to be no way for Sarah to be content without her child. Ironically, a short time after Mr. Webster lost his child and wife he died at the same lake that took his family. Officially people of the town claimed the lake to be cursed.

Savannah Meyers beamed with joy at the birth of her long awaited son Eli to be born. One beautiful fall afternoon Savannah and her husband Drew decided to visit the beautiful Lake Elza with their son. The couple had heard the rumors about the lake, but neither one of them were superstitious in any way. The last thing that either one of them had thought about that morning was that this would be the last day their son would be alive. That day ended up being the most devastating day of their lives. That was a day that Lake Elza claimed the life of another innocent child. This now began a huge controversy in the town because the townspeople were equally divided half saying the deaths were a result of the curse of Sarah, while the other half said it was pure coincidence and unfortunate accidents. The town couldn't come up with a logical explanation for the deaths of all the children, but somehow they made their selves believe there was a reasonable explanation somehow. They felt it was easier to believe in some kind of logic rather than Sarah's curse. To many folks it was just unfortunate and unexpected deaths, but to the parents of the kids that past they NEEDED to know the truth.

Decades later, two college students decided to look into the myths and legends and chose Sarah's curse to investigate. They thought if they could determine what specifically made Sarah so angry, they could put her soul to rest and end the dreaded curse. The students decided that since Sarah was never able to physically put her child's body to rest in a grave that would continually keep her from being at peace in death. The students started to raise money and apply for grants to finance their mission to go to the bottom of the lake to salvage what they could. After weeks of locating nothing in the lake, they suddenly began to discover some wreckage and several infant bones that were amazingly preserved in moss, silt, and seaweed. Every item discovered was carefully analyzed and identified and labeled as pieces of a carriage from that time era. The bones were identified as bones from an infant matching age and size of Sarah's boy Agape. The students agreed to give the baby an appropriate burial right next to his mothers grave and by doing this they would have reunited them together and Sarah would finally be at peace. Hopefully, Sarah would no longer carry that anger and since they would now be with each other the curse would cease and no more innocent children would die at the hands of Sarah.

Many years had since passed and no more unusual and unexpected deaths of any children had happened. Would this be the curse broken, or pure coincidence? The town remained equally divided in their opinions of what was the curse or plain coincidence. You can decide for yourself, because ultimately it's plain and simple as I see it. Sarah was reunited with her boy and she seemed to have put her rage to an end. Maybe it was that people were aware of the curse and became more careful around the lake or a grieving mother had her heart mended and was happy now even in death.