The campus was home to a series of large lakes that were rumoured to be interconnected, though there was no physical proof of this and all of the lakes were declared stagnant some hundred or so years ago. Aside from the recent addition of large fountains in their centres that kept the water circulating and reduce the algae, there only interesting thing about the lakes was their utter lack of wildlife. No birds had ever been seen near the lakes, not so much as a single sparrow flying overhead.
Around the campus they were nicknamed the Jenny's Sisters from the old English legends of the water-dwelling creature known as Jenny Greenteeth. A few older professors liked to jokingly claim that the lakes were teeming with Greenteeths, all hungrily snatching at any source of meat that stayed about for too long.
It was all seen as a quirk of the university until an entire biology class went missing after they attempted to cross one of the larger lakes by boat. A mix of human and wooden remains were found scattered all around the shore, almost forming a perfect circle as though something was marking out its territory. No divers were sent into the lake to find the rest of the bodies, no official cause of death was publicly released although the victim's families all report that they have been given closure.
A photography student attempted to set up a series of cameras around this lake overnight, claiming they were going to capture the algae in the moonlight. Its been five months and they haven't come out of the darkroom, their classmates deliver them food enough to keep them going until the staff can figure out what to do.
They still won't say what was in their photographs, only that there was so much beneath the lake.
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