- Told to
- William S. Robinson
- Where
- American Fork
- Swallowed
- Four swimmers
- Escaped with
- A knife
William S. Robinson came to American Fork as a boy with his family, and he grew up hearing that something huge lived in Utah Lake.
An Indian man told him what it was: a fish. Long ago, the man said, it swallowed four people who were swimming in the lake. They had a knife with them, and they cut their way out of its belly.
Robinson wrote the story down and noted how much it sounded like Jonah and the whale. It is one of the oldest lake stories in the valley, and one of the few with a happy ending.