Lake Okeechobee Artifacts

Hundreds of years of history is sitting beneath the waters of Lake Okeechobee which were revealed during this year's drought. Fearing looters the locations of hundreds of newly found relics had been kept under wraps. A crew from News 12 became the first T.V. journalists to get a look at the sites. We went with Boots Boyer who made the first discoveries as the Lake O level started plummeting.

Since then, Boyer and archaeologists have found artifacts from Native Americans as well as items from more recent history. Boyer showed News 12 some of the discoveries including pre-historic pottery, a conch shell made into a tool, arrowheads, spearheads, a motor with a fly wheel, an old catfishing boat, two stacks from a steamship, and a piece of a sailing vessel likely 150 years old. Boyer said, "We're just here a speck. You're talking four thousand years of history, just right here. It makes me appreciate every breath I take." Boyer hopes the artifacts can stay in the Glades as part of a museum.