Local school teacher does first research and hires members of the university swim team to free dive on the structures. One of the Wilson brothers helps the group find the structure and several swimmers dive to it and confirm it's existence. Teacher becomes a town celebrity. Lake Mills then becomes a center of statewide attention as newspapers run articles. The divers spend all day find nothing and locals claim fraud .
Teacher is forced to resign.
He comes upon a tall cone shape pyramid in the south end of the lake. The structure made of small stones looked like an upside down ice cream cone that was definitely manmade according to Nohl. Nohl plans to come back to further explore the pyramid legends of Rock Lake. Nohl dies in car crash with wife several years later before he could return. Later searches for pictures turn empty handed.