The Curse of Lake Lanier
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2019
- **Since this episode first came out, more research has been done and published on the history of the Lake and the area, including the town of Oscarville, that was submerged. Two of these works include:
- Blood at the Root: amzn.to/3xtQBYU
- Underwater Ghost Towns of North Georgia: amzn.to/37ShURO
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The creation of Georgia's Lake Lanier came at a high cost for the people who had once settled there; and as a result, many believe that today this manmade body of water is cursed by it's destructive past.
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#LakeLanier #Cursed #GhostTown
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Let's go back to 1912... Oscarville... There are far more souls haunting that MAN MADE atrocity.
Makes me absolutely sick!
It's very sad how human life can be of less value than others!! This surprised and sickened me.
Facts💯
Yes
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My son is a park ranger at Lake Lanier and unfortunately he's already had to look for two bodies in the last 3 weeks. Be careful!!
Dayum
My great grandfather’s land was taken because he refused to leave. The cabin he built by hand that my grandfather was born in is now part of a state park in north hall.
I was on lake Lanier jetskiing one day with this kid I barely knew (he was younger). Well my jet ski died in one of the loops away from homes. I had to swim a looooog time to get us to safety and ask for help. I really thought I would end up dying while I swam and pushed the jet ski. It is beautiful, but that creepy feeling never went away.
Why don't you say it for what it is, they kicked out a whole black town because apparently a lake was better for them. They did not pay those people they kicked them out and killed them with the water. They were forced out, why not spit it how it is.
I've heard the story too how the blacks were forced off their homes and some lost their lives because of the lake. So sad.
There were quite a few towns like that in Georgia, due to racism!!!
That TV show "Seven Little Johnstons" is recorded in Foresyth County GA, and was very racist for years.
Oprah Winfrey did an episode of her show in that county back in the 80's, and nothing but racists were in the audience.
This is how history gets muddied. They gloss over the most important parts and misrepresent other aspects. The FULL story of how the lake became haunted is directly due to the atrocities that occurred there.
@@dtown2816 they water down history because they don't want people to know how evil and hateful they was. They killed thousands of black people.
Exactly 👏👏👏
Gainesville’s first golf course also covered. It was located around Longwood cove- close to, now Longwood Park. A Quarry that mined, I think talcum or a type of clay, was covered. The debris from the 1936 Deadly Tornado that leveled downtown Gainesville, and killed over 200; was put in a landfill also close to Longwood Cove. The lake covered part of it. Some say Gainesville High was built over another section of that landfill?
My Grandfather was paid very little for his land in the Sardis Community, about $20 an acre.
As the lake filled, we could drive to some of the roads that were now dead-ends and wash our (family) cars, only needed soap and a bucket to rinse them off.
Many car thieves would strip them and push them off banks down into the water where deep valleys were.
Chicken trucks hauling birds to the many processing plants, wrecked on couple bridges and went in at deep parts of lake- Cleveland Hwy Bridge, Dawsonville Hwy Bridge; divers that went down to hook cables to trucks for winches, reported catfish 6ft long eating the drowned birds still in the cages- back then the cages were made of light wooden dowels.
My uncle, in 1958, & some buddies formed their own water ski show in Sardis Cove at the Ranger Station House, formerly the Southers property. Couple hundred people would come out on Sundays a sit on the banks to watch. I think he was 1st to barefoot ski on the lake!
It was a small version of Callaway Gardens ski show.
My grandfather's (my dad's father) farm was bought out to build the lake. My mom's family farm was also bought out. She said her Aunt moved to Kentucky after the government bought her house and land.
What town did the live in at the time?
@@kay_buttafly They lived out in the country, between Cumming, and Gainesville. Forsyth county
@@barbaraaly6186 Hmmm..interesting.. May I ask is your grandfather black? I asked becuz those very coordinates u gave is/was a black owned town called Oscarville, Ga where hundreds of black ppl where killed by flood while building Lake Lanier kind of like the Tulsa Massacre during Black Wallstreet. I've been researching about this lake for almost 2yrs and never heard of not one white person living there. Do u know anything about Oscarville Ga that was in Forsythe County between the two cities that u speak of? If u dont u should look into it. Thanks for ur time!
Yes I know of Oscarville, no my grandfather wasn't black. Neither one. There was a convenience store we always called the Oscarville store on 369. I can ask my dad if he knows anything. Or mom. I was under the impression that the blacks had all been run out of Forsyth county around 1912. The lake wasn't built til the 1950s. My dates could be wrong, I'm going off of memory. That was why Oprah did her show about Forsyth county. My brother remembers when Hosea marched through Forsyth county. I grew up in the area around Long Hollow Park and my grand mother lived within walking distance of Keith Bridge park.
We just learned over mother day that the lady of the lake is my grandmother 1st cousin.
Thats cool
Wow. Is your grandmother still alive? Does she speak about all this?
@@thethrowawaythatstayed7055 she is still Alive she actually just told use about it Mother’s Day weekend. It was really interesting to hear about her side of the family and stores of Gainesville. I have a lot of other history books and stuff about New Holland and the mill and the cotton fields. It was definitely interesting.
Cap
@@katielee5200 reveal the history I would love to see what you have. You have history right under your nose. Speak it Please!
Great video very creepy and informative.
yes it's definitely haunted no doubt about it, my grandparents would tell us the legend behind tht lake but we thought it was jus them scaring us...boy were we ever so wrong...
How so? You have any story's??
@@timothyblackburn6801 only what my elders would tell us, as a child I would see odd things but never to 2 & 2 together till I got older.
Could you please share a story or two? What did you see?
@@keyaniamurray8961 it was more of an ominous feel of dread & pain. I few times I would thought I'd seen a person standing in the middle of the lake, but jus thought my eyes were playing with me, I do remember it was time where our car would suddenly loose control nothing outrageous but definitely noticeable, it had gotten so crazy tht my parents jus stopped visiting our family up there. Even now I won't go (pre-covid).
@@Lady.Tijuri ..thats real interesting, thanks for sharing 👍
I wish their was an emphasis on the fact that it was Black town and they were ultimately forced to leave 😒
Why?
We're all equal, right?
@@wesleyalan9179 no unfortunately we are not
@@slallison67 i believe we are equal
So that mean only the white folk get haunted at lake Lanier huh ? Phew 😅
@@Mikecanmanifest 😅🤣😂
So sad such an Atrocity ! May all of the Victims RIP ! Prayers for the Families and the Perps they'll have to answer to God Almighty !
I somehow doubt Sidney would have been too keen on Lake Lanier.
Sounds like Tim's Ford lake here in Franklin Co. Tn
I’m not from the South, but this angers me for some odd reason. 😕
Yeah I’m in Seattle there is an underground city... it’s was never a thought to cover it water....
It’s not odd that you’re angered by this
You have to be from somewhere to have compassion for others???
@@dannybryant3141 What's the name of the underground city over there?
Invading Minds oscarville ga
Why start @ the 1940s? The hands that the survivors felt dragging them could be those of the lady of the lake trying to drag them to her body and probably was released close by but was to panicked out. Have anyone thought of the bodies that were found, how close were they to where the lady of the lake was found, and also the hands of all the souls that put in their blood sweat and tears to survive and were bought or forced out so cheap as of the 1940s. Those survivors probably were released at key points on the lake. But b4 then they killed (murdered) the blacks of that town over a 1000. After sentencing 2 teenage blacks to deaf in 1 day for accused rapping a white girl in 1912.. As the dam lake is deeper than the statue of liberty 🗽 stand let's go deeper in history. Them concrete and brick building they left behind creating strong currents deep underwater in my opinion with souls and spirits that will lay hands on you upon the current.
I just want folks to know that flooding towns to form lakes is not uncommon.
When ppl still live there?
@@IamNikkiG It was a slow process and they were ALLOWED to leave. If they stayed, that's on them...
Killing Blacks ain't either. I have Elders in My Family that lived through that. They were forced out. The ones that refused to leave were murdered and no one paid for it. forsyth county is still a racistcounty. I'm from Atlanta and that's the one place I've visited that put their racism on front street. Yes, you are right, there are a lot of cities that are flooded but not all was done in this brutal manner. In all My 63 years have I came across a town like forsyth. The People that were killed and the ones in their grave at the bottom of this lake are not going to rest. lake lanier will always be haunted. Since justice wasn't served on their behalf They will continue to make Their own. My advice to you is "don't go in the water at lake lanier.
@@maggiecox2293 exactly. My grands and great grands told us all about it. Great grandma would say " it was terrible weekday they did to all those people".
Near Savannah as well
I'm not sure anyone has pointed this out already, but the narrator states that the Chattahoochee River flows southward into "Georgia's east coastal plains." The fact is that the Chattahoochee River flows on a course slightly west of south, west of Atlanta, eventually becoming the border between Georgia and Alabama. Further south the Chattahoochee joins the Flint River at the Florida border to form the Apalachicola River which empties into the Gulf of Mexico. So instead of flowing through Georgia's east coastal plains toward the Atlantic Ocean, the Chattahoochee flows through Georgia's southwest coastal plains toward the Gulf of Mexico. Just thought you'd want to know.
That lake is one big graveyard. I always refused to swim in it.
No one in Georgia pronounces Forsyth County that way.
It's "Four-scythe"...not "Four-sith"
*points!!! * Non-native Jawjain!!!! :D /sarcasm
Loving the podcast though!
Lotsa ghosts in Forsyth county . Lotsa blood at it’s roots
So wait.... is it still a water supply.... for ATL..... with all the bodies in it????😰
Yep
Yes, just like every other lake that supplies water to city's.
Oh btw, do you that when dead body's are embalmed, all the blood and fluids go right down the drain to your local water treatment plant. Yeap!! You drink that water too.
Yep….We call the water body juice
@@timothyblackburn6801...correct
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Listen to this with the lights off.
I just did
No, no, listen while on a lake at night 😏
I just want to say I stopped listening because how can you tell this story and leave out how they did the residents of this city? This was a prominent and up coming BLACK town! How dare you!
You know they don’t want their Wickedness to be revealed
Thank you for saving my time. I've already wasted 1:16 of it, but at least not the whole 23:00. I should've known better smh.
Weird
I've been there and there alot of holes😀
I LIVE HERE…
Tell the story of oscarville 1912.
There's *
I live on Lake Lanier. There is no curse. No lady in the lake.
the lake is so big that just because parts of it are quiet doesn't mean others are active...with that being said i agree with you that not every assumption is real
I live like 20 minutes away 😱
i love taking my super air natique wake boat on this lake. gorgeous.
For the better part of the last 2 decades, Gainesville has grown a heavy population of illegal immigrants. A lot of people who have drowned in Lanier in recent years have been these populations. I don't know if swimming just isn't ingrained with their culture like it is for Americans.
Most of my neighbors and those in my community are taught to swim as young children. I think that's pretty much the norm for most Georgia residents. I find it likely that the same cannot be said of illegal aliens since their culture is different. So they'll get into the lake as poor swimmers with no sort of life jackets or knowledge how to manage if they find themselves struggling to keep their heads above water. They panic. It's so important to have huge respect for waters like Lanier.
A disturbing amount of people who can't swim still don't wear life vests on boats. I think ignorance blinds them, or stupidity. Any number of accidents can happen in a boat, with those on board often being tossed out without a moment's notice. That's why for the most part, residents in my community DO wear life vests while in certain types of sporty speed boats or jet skis even if they are well equipped swimmers.
What does race have to do with swimming? Racist !
I’ve swam in lake Lanier my whole life. I’ve Always known the history behind it, it never bothered me. I’ve never had any issues on lake Lanier, and I’ve swam all over it. Except one time, our boat stopped in the middle of the lake at night, we were out there for hours, on a little fishing boat. That was scary
Same. No issues. A lot of the drownings are inexperienced swimmers or swimming too early or late in the season when the water temp is too cold. There was a drowning this past weekend, weather has been barely over 70 degrees but a few days this year; that water is cold. There was also a drowning several weeks ago near spring break; water had to be too cold then too.
It doesn’t matter how experienced a swimmer you are, even divers recovering bodies out of this lake have said they’ve had difficulty getting through the debris. Be thankful for having no issues. Swim at your own risk. ⚠️
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Mami Wata, Nix, Iri, Oshun.... someone might be watching over you.... or testing you.
How can people just swim and have fun on top of a lake that was flooded just to take black peoples lives,businesses,houses? Idk if it’s just me but that plain disrespectful it like pissing on someone’s grave and laughing at the same time
Lies what about the town that was all black he's not giving you the truth
Why don't you make a video about it since you care?
@@wesleyalan9179 where's your video?
@@briargodineaux4872...where's your context?
In other words, "Why would it matter if *I* made a video? "
Im not the one bitching about it.
@@wesleyalan9179 why do you have to be an ass hole . He’s pointing out the obvious so shut the fuck up
@@lexiesummers99 haha, im an asshole?
Ok,I apologize for being an asshole. I'm just tired of everyone's bitch when it comes to stories not being told like the one bitching wants it told, geeez!
(Instead of being a crybaby, sit back and watch the video for what it is, if someone believes they can do a better job, then go do it, don't complain about it!! Wasn't you raised to believe that too? Did your parents just let you complain about things instead of correcting you to make the thing you're complaining about right? Well, did they?
Who else lives on top of the lake and gets in it almost everyday no one is scared of it here
Scared? I’d be disgusted with all the dead bodies that have floated in it🤮piss, poo, and body fluids
@@tiffanysgottimetoday4589 so I’m guessing you’ve never been to the ocean either ?
@@lexiesummers99 I wouldn’t put my lady parts in a nasty lake …. Especially not one with dead ppl
dnt white wash this shit tell that jawn 100 this why yall dnt want the truth in school and call it CRT
Can…. You….. talk…… more…… slow……….
We are talking 1950 people. Money amounts were very different back then. The lake is not cursed its what the government did to meet the demands of atlanta. It wasn't fair to some folks but no need to dwell on the past and stir up hate. Its history leave it.there.
Tell that to the lake killing people. No matter how practical or we just wanna move forward atonement is a thing. They need to ban people from that lake. Almost seven hundred drowning
@@cammiosis A lake does not kill people. It is a thing and is just there. You people need to GROW UP!
danmo43 tell that to people who said they felt hands on their feet pulling them down, or the people who’s boats have crashed and sank with no obstructions in the water. 675 “accidents” ok
@@cammiosis I don't have to tell anyone a damn thing. But I will tell you my uncle drowned in a cove in that lake and when the divers went down to get his body, they came back and said there were catfish down there "big enough for a man to ride". I don't believe in your ghosts but after watching catfish catch pigeons in video, do you think for one moment a person can over power a catfish that large? I highly doubt it. I have watched 4 foot catfish nearly drown a man noodling.
danmo43 well damn that’s one hellava story what are those big fish eating on?