Gardner Lake

Anglers and campers on Gardner Lake have long reported faint piano music rising from the water, heard from every direction, said to be the sunken piano of Thomas LeCount's summer house still playing, and ghost hunters have gone out on the lake to find the source. In February 1895 LeCount, who wanted to move his fully furnished two-story summer house across the lake, set it on sleds over the frozen surface; the move stalled and the ice gave way, and part of the house, including a stove, furniture and an upright piano, sank to the bottom roughly 250 to 300 feet from shore. For years afterward the house's second story remained visible above the waterline, partly submerged and a tourist attraction, and local children reportedly skated through its rooms in winter.