New Shocking Images of Lake Mead Reveals What 90 Years of Water Was Hiding

On September 27, 2026, Lake Mead fell to 1,037.79 feet, the lowest level since it first filled behind Hoover Dam. It is about 188 feet below its 1983 high-water mark, and the pale "bathtub ring" on its cliffs records every foot of the drop. As the water has fallen, what it covered has been coming back: the town of St. Thomas, a World War II landing craft, the first water intake Las Vegas ever built, a steel barrel with a murdered man inside, and, in August 2026, a human jaw at a swimming beach. This video reads Lake Mead as an inventory. Before the reservoir filled in the 1930s, archaeologists raced to excavate the Lost City, towns were bought out, and the last resident of St. Thomas burned his house and rowed away. Almost everything under the lake was written down. The exception is what people put there themselves. IN THIS VIDEO • The record low and the bathtub ring • What the lake actually drowned: Rioville, Callville, St. Thomas • The Lost City and the race to dig it before the water came • The National Park Service's list of what is underwater • St. Thomas returns, and stays • The body in the barrel, and three drowned men who finally got their names back • August 2026: the jaw at Boulder Beach • The landing craft, the bomber, the upright speedboat • Marinas chasing the water, and Las Vegas's drain at the bottom of the lake • Pearce Ferry: the river cutting through its own mud • Why the lake may never refill SOURCES Bureau of Reclamation lake data · National Park Service (St. Thomas; The Lost City; Underwater Resources) · ABC News (Aug 7, 2026) · CBS News (Aug 18, 2026) · NBC Palm Springs (Aug 23, 2026) · NBC News (May 10 and Oct 27, 2022) · AP / KSL (May 3, 2022) · 8NewsNow (2022; Sept 30, 2026) · Deseret News (Jan 20, 2023) · News3LV (May 18, 2022) · UPI (Oct 12, 2022) · Newsweek (May 16, 2025) · ABC15 (2026) · Los Angeles Times (Feb 5, 2023) · National Parks Traveler (Jan 2013) · River Runners for Wilderness · Utah State University Center for Colorado River Studies RELATED Lake Mead water level · Lake Mead record low 2026 · St. Thomas Nevada · Lake Mead body in barrel · Hemenway Harbor · Lost City Nevada · Lake Mead B-29 · Hoover Dam dead pool · Colorado River Figures are as of October 2, 2026. Forecasts are the Bureau of Reclamation's and change monthly. #LakeMead #HooverDam #ColoradoRiver #LasVegas #StThomas #Drought #Nevada #CrisisRadar