Episode 9: The Deadly History of Lake Lanier

Georgia's Lake Lanier is one of the deadliest in the U.S., and while some claim the high death rate is due to the large number of visitors each year, Mark and Lisa ponder if Lanier's shady history could be the cause of so many deaths.

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Sources:
Underwater Ghost Towns of North Georgia by Lisa M Russell  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G1D1TG4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
Welcome to Lake Lanier, Georgia! https://lakelanier.com/welcome/

CNN: Lake Lanier: A Lake's Dark and Deadly History Has Some People Seeing Ghosts  https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/31/us/lake-lanier-urban-legends-trnd/index.html

Southern Gothic: The Curse of Lake Lanier https://www.southerngothicmedia.com/lake-lanier

Travel Noir: Is Lake Lanier Haunted? The Eerie History of The Georgia Lake Built Over an Entire Town  https://travelnoire.com/georgia-lake-lanier-haunted-twitter-chimes-in

Oxford American: The Haunting of Lake Lanier by Anjai Enjeti  https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-113-summer-2021/the-haunting-of-lake-lanier#:~:text=Legend%20has%20it%20Lake%20Lanier,bodies%20were%20never%20successfully%20recovered.

Georgia Exhibits: Race and Reckoning in Forsyth County https://georgia-exhibits.galileo.usg.edu/spotlight/forsyth-race-relations/feature/the-lynchings

11 Alive: Whitewashed: The Racial Cleansing of Forsyth County
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/the-reveal/forsyth-county-lynching-memorial-to-go-up/85-e9e16326-36d5-4c3b-abfd-e76f9b0a793a