Mike Finney has become the talk of the town, and only Claude Conroy can testify to what happened on the infamous night he supposedly went crazy. The night began when Finney receives a call from Neg Deerling, an old acquaintance. Neg suddenly asks Finney to come to his lake house and bring his diving helmet. Upon arriving, Neg suspiciously keeps Finney away from the locked pump house and refuses to tell him what the helmet is for, insisting that he would not believe him anyways. Inside the house, Finney hears something pounding from within a cupboard and demands to know what is going on. Neg admits that there is treasure hidden in a water pit beneath the floorboards of his pump, which is why he needs to borrow the diving helmet. Although Finney has interest in supernatural stories, he does not believe Neg. While spending the night, Finney sneaks out of his room when he hears Neg creep downstairs. To his disbelief, he sees that Neg has opened the cupboard, and there is a large glass jar with a little man swimming inside. The little man has a mouth full of sharp teeth and angrily snaps them. Neg explains that he accidentally discovered little men beneath his pump house and had captured this one.   Inside the pump house, Neg shines a lit on the water pit, and there is another little man swimming aside. He once prodded with a long pole to see how deep the pit was, but one of the little men grabbed it, and it never floated back up. Neg retrieves a piece of chainmail and a thick rope and says he will dive into the pit that night. Finney goes off to retrieve Claude Conroy, an acquaintance and fishery owner who would know if the little men might just be a rare fish species. In the middle of the night, he drags Conroy from bed and tells him about the little men. When they return to the lake house, the jar in the cupboard has been shattered and all of the gear is gone. Believing that Neg has already dove in, Finney pulls up the rope and finds that it has been cut with a mouth. He frantically shouts to Conroy that the little men have cut the rope. He takes a nearby and jams it into the pit, only to find that it hits a muddy surface about three feet deep. Finney despairs that the little men have caved in the water pit to trap Neg. To the current day, Conroy can only explain that Finney drank too much, Finney continues to wait for Neg’s return, and Neg is still missing.