Creepy underwater car graveyard discovered at bottom of lake including antique Ford Crown Victoria and Cadillac DeVille

AN EERIE auto graveyard has been found at the bottom of a large body of water.

Police were searching for answers to a cold case in Miami-Dade County when they ran into something completely unexpected instead.

(They found 32 submerged vehicles - some were antiques.Credit: CBS Miami)

(The divers called Miami-Dade Police to report their discovery. Credit: CBS Miami)

The volunteer dive team United Search Corps founder Doug Bishop and diver Ken Fleming said they hoped to dredge up a critical clue in an unsolved disappearance when they searched the lake.

"We have a case where someone drove from Pinellas County down to pick up their relatives at the airport, and then they disappeared," Fleming told 7 News.

"So, in this spot, we're near the [Miami International] airport, it's a large body of water, it has easy access to get into, so we would target that as a potential foul play spot."

They found 32 submerged vehicles - some were antiques.

Throughout the state of Florida, the volunteer dive team has found a total of 60 vehicles underwater that are linked to crimes. 

The divers called Miami-Dade Police to report their discovery.

After sending their own dive team, Public Information Officer Alvaro Zabaleta put the department's estimate at only 20 cars.

But he, who didn't know the name of the lake, said the precise number would've been impossible for him to know until each vehicle was retrieved. 

Police were hopeful that they would solve more stolen vehicle cases after the first car was pulled from the body of water.

All the submerged cars fished out thus far are 10 to 15-year-old "antiques," he said – the others included a Ford Crown Victoria, an Econoline E-350 and a Cadillac DeVille. 

"We're thinking the majority of these cars are going to come back to crime – whether they're stolen, abandoned or [involved with] some sort of insurance fraud," Zabaleta said.

Ref: Creepy underwater car graveyard discovered at bottom of lake including antique Ford Crown Victoria and Cadillac DeVille (thesun)

 
 Photo Credit:   CBS Miami