The most frequently asked question of tour guides at Hoover Dam is how many people are buried in the dam.
Visitors are surprised to learn that the answer is none.
People like to believe in tall tales, legends and myths, and this seems to be the one for Hoover Dam. The story of workers being buried in the dam has been around for a very long time, it originated when Hoover Dam was being built in the 1930's. Tourists would come and watch the dam being built, and they felt compelled to humanize the dam by concocting wild stories about its builders and the hair-raising dangers they faced. One of these stories was the myth of men buried alive in the concrete. Between the years 1922 and 1942, the total time for construction of Hoover Dam, a total of 114 men died.