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On Obliviot’s Pond II

It started with a post to Dustin Smith’s Facebook page, saying that he was camping at East Fork Lake, Ohio, and found a body frozen in the ice — and included photos. Several people commented, telling Smith to call the police. He didn’t, but someone apparently did. “We kept the joke going for about two hours,” Jasen Dixon said. Smith “eventually comes clean and said he was just messing with people. But 30 minutes later, he gets a call....” Dixon is the owner of the pond where he said the photos were actually taken. “We had a little zombie figure and threw him in the pond and we thought we needed to take a picture of it and post it on my buddy’s Facebook page,” he admits. The call Smith received was from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. East Fork Lake is commonly searched for missing people, and bodies have been recovered from there. The DNR said it is working with local law enforcement on potential charges. “He didn’t break any laws,” Dixon said. “If they had a case, he would already been charged.” (MS/WCPO Cincinnati) ...If those were actual zombies, they’d still be searching for braaiins.