My name is Cameron Buckner and this is the What If It's True podcast where we tell stories.

That's all we do.

We just tell stories from real people about real people about subjects that they claim

are true.

Let's don't delay another minute.

All right, here we go.

The writer of this story would like to be anonymous.

She claims the story is true and the topic is an ET encounter or a UFO sighting.

I was a college student in rural Tennessee in the mid 1980s.

The campus is on a plateau in the Blue Ridge Mountains and has been there since the Civil

War.

There are 10,000 acres of woods with the buildings all clustered together and we were

30 minutes from the nearest Walmart and hours from a big city.

There are lakes and caves and waterfalls and I had grown up in a congested area so this

place was a dream come true.

I attended one session of summer school in 1985.

Class was over at noon most days and it was hot.

At lunch on one of those days my friend Jane and I decided to go swimming out at a lake

where we didn't have to wear bathing suits.

We did it partly to cool down because it was so hot but mostly to be wild, free and brave

in our own little way.

No one ever went to this lake, Jane and I discovered why as we stepped in and sunk deep

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