The story was told by a guy under the nickname "Lerpado".
“When I was a kid, I lived in Colorado near Ridgeview Glen Park. Every day I walked past him to school and played in it after school with my brother and friends. In the middle of the park there was a reservoir with water and next to it there was a drain pipe and an entrance to the sewer.
I remember that once we were climbing there with my friend Ben and he told me a strange story. He said that a few years ago there was a boy named Steve who, like us, loved to play in the park, and one day he fell into the water.
It was winter and the tank was filled with snow, which was just beginning to melt and there was a lot of water. Steve couldn't get out and drowned. And since then, his ghost is allegedly often seen in the park, which walks both in the park itself and in the sewers, and local residents have repeatedly seen him and gave him the nickname Scuba Steve (Underwater Steve).
The story scared and impressed me and I decided to check it out and did not find any mention of the boy Steve who lived here. However, I found out that a lot of people have drowned here in past years.
In search of answers, I decided to question Ben's father, and he said that the story was true. But I thought that he could easily have said this in a mock to scare me even more. Moreover, Ben liked to compose something and we did not have much confidence in him.
Nevertheless, there were at least three strange phenomena during our games in the stormwater and in the park that could be associated with Steve's ghost. The first was in the summer, when my friend Elliot and I were climbing through storm sewers looking for strange creatures. In those years we were obsessed with the TV show "Lost Tapes", which told about different monsters, the so-called cryptids.
Elliot and I wanted to find the Lizard Man in the sewers, and one day we really came across something that seemed to us like a dark silhouette of a man in a pipe passage. We began to carefully approach him, but he rushed to run away and we ourselves, frightened, jumped out.
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The second incident also happened to me and Elliot. Once we decided to go back into the sewer, but at the entrance the water was too deep for us. Then we started to have fun and throw stones into the water and at the same time decided that there was a ghost of Scuba Steve in the water and we began to come up with various insults to lure Steve Scuba out of the water.
We called different children's name-calling, but then the water suddenly became agitated and we froze. For several seconds we looked at this water, hoping that it was all just waves from the stone, but the water began to splash even more. It looked like something very large was moving in the water. We ran away in horror.
The third incident was after Ben's birthday celebration. It was late evening and me, my brother, Ben and another friend of ours Preston were full of fun and decided to go out to the park and look for the ghost of Scooby Steve there for fun. We begged our parents so hard that they let us go.
We ran to the park and almost immediately ran into a strange child there. He was very thin and had blond hair that was stained with mud. I got a good look at this despite the darkness. We quickly forgot about Steve's Scuba and started playing together in the park until the boy said he had to go home.
And that's what's strange. This boy walked away from us in the direction of the chimney and disappeared at the entrance to the storm drain and this was the first and last time I saw him here. It was probably the same Scuba Steve.
My friends told me some other things, but since we were children, this could be attributed to a childhood fantasy, I told only what I myself witnessed. But there was something else in the area. There were many wild foxes running into the park, and they were unexpectedly aggressive. Sometimes this or that fox would start chasing us.
I am not an expert in paranormal phenomena, but maybe the places where ghosts live affect somehow the behavior of animals?"