Some say a ghost known as the Lady of Lake Lanier haunts the waters. More specifically, a young woman named Delia Mae Parker Young drowned in Lake Lanier in April of 1958, alongside her friend ...

Russell expounds on this in her book: “Underwater Ghost Towns of North Georgia.” Lake Lanier, as well as Lakes Tallulah, Tugalo, and Yonah, were built before federal regulations requiring dams ...

Uproar as 'Haunted' Lake Lanier, ... 'When Lake Lanier was formed in the 1950s, it washed over Oscarville and turned it into an underwater ghost town,' a 2021 OxfordAmerican article reads. ...

Last year, Lake Lanier made national headlines when Usher's ex-wife Tameka Foster, 52, collected more than 2,500 signatures for a petition imploring official to drain the lake.

The Lake Lanier website explains how many theories of an ‘underwater ghost town’ have come about because of the displacement prior to the flooding of the town.

LAKE Lanier is a notoriously deadly, ... This left Oscarville a ghost town, and when authorities decided to build a reservoir in the 1950s, they flooded the remnants of Oscarville ...

Is Lake Lanier really haunted? That’s the question a new Netflix series tries to answer in the show called “Files of the Unexplained.” The investigative docu-series follows “perplexing ...

The legend of Lake Lanier dates back to 1912, when a white woman was killed in Oscarville, a thriving Black town which is now home to the lake, according to the Atlanta History Center.After her ...

Lake Lanier, where Valencia disappeared, was built in the 1950s over submerged towns, forests, and cemeteries — and has been a location for eerie scenes in the Netflix drama “Ozark,” CNN ...

Learning about Lake Lanier’s dark past–its burial of communities, graves, and particularly Oscarville, a thriving Black town wiped out/forcibly displaced by white residents in the early 20th ...