I have a few stories, as i have led an active outdoor life.

First story,

In florida where im from i used to go over to my cousin's house on the weekends.He had alot of woods behind his house,and about a 1/4 mile out there was these 3 ponds.At 1 end of it,it was really deep and had this grey clay all around it.On the opposite side it was only about 3 ft or so.We used to go there all the time,trying to see who could dive down and touch the bottom of the deep end."Who ever could bring up a handful of sand/clay would win".So we did this for over the course of a month every weekend.It was me,my brother,and my 2 cousins.
So 1 day we were there swimming as we always did.So we were like f it lets go play on the shallow end of the pool,"after we were in the hole for about 30 mins fing around".So were swimming and we make it to the other side and we turn around to look across the pond.To our suprise we started seeing these bubbles coming up out of the hole we were just in.Then all the sudden a gator surfaced a full grown 12ft or so gator.Scared the shit out of us because we had been fing arounD that area for weeks...lmao lets just say we stayed away from that area.