User:Ari from capital camps

Aunt Bertha Story at Capital Camps

The Aunt Bertha story at Capital Camps is a very popular story counselors share to their campers. There are many versions of the Aunt Bertha story but the one I will tell you is the version i heard on the last night of camp of my first year from former Reich village leader, Julie Carmen. If you are from CCRC and are reading this please put in the version of the Aunt Bertha story you know but do not erase the other stories on this page.

Aunt Bertha was a counselor everybody knew and loved. Everybody called her Aunt Bertha. She loved everyone else at camp, especially her campers. One day when they were down by the lake, near where the farm is now, swimming. Aunt Bertha was down on the shore while her campers were swimming. She was just sitting by the lake and all of the sudden she looked over and saw one of her campers struggling to stay over water about 15 feet out. She jumped in the water and grabbed the camper. But when she was swimming out she felt a little prick on her leg, kind of like a shot. She got to shore and saw she had been bit by a poisonous water snake. Legend has it that she sat there and died on shore. Now by the lake campers, counselors, and staff still tell the story of Aunt Bertha. You are supposed to go her honor her every session by saying they miss her or next summer bad things will happen...