A pair of young girls swimming in a Michigan lake unearthed an unusual sunken treasure -- a World War I-era practice bomb.
Paige Burnett, 10, and Sage Menzies, 9, were swimming Tuesday in Lobdell Lake when they found an item partially buried in the sand underwater that they were unable to bring to the surface without help from Burnett's mother.
Burnett told WJRT-TV she initially thought the object looked like "a rocket from space," but her mother suspected it could be something far more dangerous.
"When they realized what it was they said 'leave it alone,'" Yvonne Burnett, Paige's grandmother, told Mlive.com. "It's quite a relic. We had called the police and they called the bomb squad in and they said they have seen these before and they are usually around Lake Huron."
Michigan State Police's bomb squad determined the object was a Mark 2 practice bomb from around the time of World War I. It was not found to be dangerous.
"This is definitely one for the books," Argentine Township police Sgt. Douglas Fulton said. "It's definitely old. They drilled a hole in it and nothing but mud came out. It was a pretty interesting find."
The girls were allowed to keep their unusual find.
"We were super excited that we had found this instead of just something metal," Menzies said. "We were saying 'we could be famous.'"
(UPI)
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