Episode 202: Surface Tension (ad-free) (Patreon)

Beneath one of America’s largest man-made objects is a dark, painful past. And if the stories are true, it has never truly let go of the world around it.

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Further Reading

1. “’58 Car Wreck In Lake Yields Woman’s Bones.” The Buffalo News. November 4, 1990. https://buffalonews.com/news/58-car-wreck-in-lake-yields-womans-bones/article_e02b2fc6-5b4a-5bfd-b562-4dbac58ae046.html.
2. “Ask the Times: A flood of memories rest at bottom of Lake Lanier.” The Gainesville Times. March 9, 2012. https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/ask-the-times-a-flood-of-memories-rest-at-bottom-of-lake-lanier.
3. Brown, Dan. “Secrets and Legend All a Part of the Lake Lanier Folklore.” Gwinnett Citizen. July 30, 2013. https://gwinnettcitizen.com/46-secrets-and-legend-all-a-part-of-the-lake-lanier-folklore.
4. “Car, Remains Hauled From Lake Bottom May Solve 1958 Mystery.” Associated Press. November 3, 1990, https://apnews.com/article/d1f840053bb625dae0b75c2f3a4c6c49.
5. Carrasco, Daniela. “What really haunts the waters of Lake Lanier? What this paranormal investigation revealed.” Forsyth County News. October 24, 2021. https://www.forsythnews.com/news/lake-lanier/what-really-haunts-waters-lake-lanier-what-paranormal-investigation-revealed.
6. “Cove Claims Swimmer at Lanier” The Atlanta Constitution. August 31, 1959. Page 3.
7. “Croft Private Loses His Life in Lake Lanier.” The Greenville News. June 7, 1942. Page 8.
8. “Drowned Man Alive, Wife Told.” The Atlanta Constitution. March 17, 1959. Page 1.
9. Enjeti, Anjali. “The Haunting of Lake Lanier.” The Oxford American. June 1, 2021. https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-113-summer-2021/the-haunting-of-lake-lanier.
10. Hembree, Brandon. “Cemeteries of Lake Lanier.” North Gwinnett Voice. March 9, 2020. https://www.northgwinnettvoice.com/cemeteries-of-lake-lanier.
11. “Is Lake Lanier haunted? CBS46 takes a look.” CBS 46. October 31, 2017. https://www.cbs46.com/news/is-lake-lanier-haunted-cbs-takes-a-look/article_a02240a0-4360-5115-9e8f-be833f7f3867.html.
12. Karimi, Faith. “A Georgia lake's dark and deadly history has some people seeing ghosts.” CNN. October 21, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/31/us/lake-lanier-urban-legends-trnd.
13. Kellogg, Becky. “Deadliest day at Lake Lanier, 1964 Christmas tragedy.” 11 Alive. December 11, 2019. https://www.11alive.com/article/news/history/lake-lanier-deadliest-day/85-ef100b07-7d2d-41f3-af44-158421ba9649.
14. Kerns, Sabrina. “The truth behind Oscarville and the violent removal of Black residents from Forsyth County years before Lake Lanier was built.” The Gainesville Times. February 17, 2022. https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/history/truth-behind-oscarville-once-prosperous-black-town-now-covered-lake-lanier.
15. “Native American History of Forsyth County, Georgia.” Access Genealogy. Accessed February 18 2022, https://accessgenealogy.com/georgia/native-american-history-of-forsyth-county-georgia.htm.
16. Podo, Kelsey. “How safe is Lake Lanier?” The Gainesville Times. July 24, 2019, https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/how-safe-lake-lanier.
17. Russell, Lisa M. “Underwater Ghost Towns.” Accessed Feb 18, 2022, https://lisamrussell.net/underwater-ghost-towns.
18. Shelby, Caitlin. “Five haunted places in Forsyth County.” Alpharetta-Roswell Herald. October 24, 2012. https://www.appenmedia.com/news/five-haunted-places-in-forsyth-county/article_6e9190f4-2d97-5e74-b367-2c71f9308740.html.
19. “State Road Toll Climbs to 11; Slaughter Held to 231 in US.” The Atlanta Constitution. July 6, 1959, page 9.
20. “The Curse of Lake Lanier.” Southern Gothic Media. Accessed Feb 15, 2022. https://www.southerngothicmedia.com/lake-lanier.
21. “The ‘ghost village’ of Derwent.” CGTN News. November 27, 2018, https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674d356b444f30457a6333566d54/share_p.html.
22. “The most haunted places to visit in the Peak District & Derbyshire.” Visit Peak District. October 30, 2020. https://www.visitpeakdistrict.com/inspiration/blog/read/2020/10/the-most-haunted-places-to-visit-in-the-peak-district-and-derbyshire-b146.
23. Tinwala, Yasmin. “'Curse' of Lake Lanier rears its ugly head again as boat explodes at Georgia reservoir.” MEAWW. July 16, 2021. https://meaww.com/lake-lanier-creepy-haunted-lake-lanier-deaths-lady-of-the-lake.
24. “Two Teen Girls Drown at Lake Lanier.” The Atlanta Constitution. July 22, 1960, page 1.
25. Yarborough, Zoe. “The Most Controversial & Haunted Lake in America: GA’s Lake Lanier.” StyleBluprint. October 28, 2021. https://styleblueprint.com/everyday/the-most-controversial-haunted-lake-in-america-gas-lake-lanier.