GRAYLING — In summer 1961, Michigan Dept. of Natural resources officers were called to the scene of a dead shark on the shore of Lake Margarethe.
Former Grayling resident, Carrie Allison Andree, remembers this about the incident. “My dad (Leonard “Doc” Allison) got a call early one morning about a shark being found on the National Guard beach at the lake. He was thinking someone was exaggerating and it was probably a muskie or some other large fish … until he saw it. It was a 6 ft. long shark – a young one. Within a couple of hours, there was a rumor that there was an underground seaway from the ocean to the lake.”
Another rumor around Grayling for decades afterward had been local prankster, the late Larry McNamara, had been involved in the incident.
When recently asked about her father’s possible involvement in the incident, Mary Liz McNamara of New York said, “No comment.”
