I’ve always wondered what it must feel like to live in Florida. From the news and endless internet clips, it almost looks like life there runs on the extreme setting.

People seem unusually tough, casually dealing with wild animals that most of us would never want to encounter.

The stories of alligators wandering into neighborhoods and being calmly escorted back to the water never fail to amaze me.

Honestly, if I ever stumbled upon a gator, I’d be running the other way. But Floridians? They’re built differently.

Take this story, for example—a man minding his own business when he suddenly heard a loud splash in an alligator-filled lake. What he found when he looked closer left him stunned.

What Made That Splash?

Not long ago, Doug Hay sat at his house in Lakewood Ranch when a loud spla

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