The Curse of Lake Lanier 

Let's go back to 1912... Oscarville... There are far more souls haunting that MAN MADE atrocity.

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!!

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.

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.

We just learned over mother day that the lady of the lake is my grandmother 1st cousin.

That lake is one big graveyard. I always refused to swim in it.

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!

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...

Great video very creepy and informative.

I’m not from the South, but this angers me for some odd reason. 😕

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.

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.

I wish their was an emphasis on the fact that it was Black town and they were ultimately forced to leave 😒

Sounds like Tim's Ford lake here in Franklin Co. Tn

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.

No one in Georgia pronounces Forsyth County that way. It's "Four-scythe"...not "Four-sith" *points!!! * Non-native Jawjain!!!! :D /sarcasm

I just want folks to know that flooding towns to form lakes is not uncommon.

So wait.... is it still a water supply.... for ATL..... with all the bodies in it????😰

Lies what about the town that was all black he's not giving you the truth

Tell the story of oscarville 1912.

Lotsa ghosts in Forsyth county . Lotsa blood at it’s roots

Listen to this with the lights off.

I've been there and there alot of holes😀

I live on Lake Lanier. There is no curse. No lady in the lake.

Weird

I live like 20 minutes away 😱

I LIVE HERE…

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.

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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

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……….

Who else lives on top of the lake and gets in it almost everyday no one is scared of it here

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.