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Haunted Hoover Dam
Before it was the Hoover Dam, it was called the Boulder Dam in 1935 because it was built near a mountain, which is why it was the boulder dam name changed.
The Hoover Dam bears the name of Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States. The Boulder Canyon Project Act provided for the Boulder Canyon Dam, which was to be erected in the Black Canyon of Colorado, and Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur ordered that the Dam be dubbed “Hoover Dam” when building on it began on September 30, 1930.
And no, Herbert Hoover did not invent the Hoover vacuum; instead, James Spangler did. In 1908, Spangler sold William Hoover his idea for an electric broomstick-like cleaner with a cloth filter and dust collection bag attached to the long handle that sucked in a good way.
Significant volumes of hydroelectric electricity and irrigation water are produced by the Dam and are distributed to cities throughout Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada. During the Dam’s construction, 112 persons lost their lives.
During its development, 112 persons lost their lives between 1931 and 1935. According to legend, some who died while pouring concrete fell into it and are now a part of the Dam, forever confined inside.
