I Am the Walrus

How many times have you lost your keys? Your wallet? A purse? Passports, earrings, headphones, socks, that old beaten-up cooler, passwords, bottle openers: they all ebb and flow on a mysterious, absentminded tide in and out of our lives. That’s because humans are adept at losing things—maybe nowhere more so than the Lake of the Ozarks, which might as well be a swirling watery void. Or it was, until people started calling the Walrus to help them find their valuables, and, in turn, his legend grew for safeguarding their return.

The Walrus’s real name is Tim McNitt, and he’s a professional diver who has found a treasure trove of items in his watery backyard. McNitt isn’t simply a thief or a good Samaritan (though there’s a case to be made for the latter), he’s a businessman and owner of Atlantis Dive & Dock Salvage where he and his team have made a living finding and returning an assortment of items to their owners. He also assists insurance companies in extricating boats and other vessels following an accident. He locates bodies—what he refers to deferentially as “souls.” But he does that free of charge, because McNitt believes in a karmic scale