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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Lake Lanier

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Legends and troubled history lay beneath Lake Lanier in Forsyth County.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's going on, Laporta?

0:02.0

What's up?

0:03.0

So I just moved to Atlanta, and I hit up one of my colleagues who was born and raised

0:06.8

here to see what's up.

0:08.4

What do you suggest people do for fun in Atlanta?

0:10.9

I've been here for a week.

0:13.1

Definitely, um, branching, of course, festival, like festival season is here.

0:18.8

So I definitely think, you know, if you honestly should go to a lot of festivals, we get day

0:23.1

drunk a lot here, like that's the thing, day drink.

0:26.0

Laporta tells me about Atlanta clubs and the best vegan restaurants.

0:29.0

But what I really want to know about is this lake I keep hearing about, Lake Leneer.

0:38.2

What comes to mind when you think about Lake Leneer?

0:41.1

Don't get in that dam water.

0:43.4

Do not go to Lake Leneer.

0:52.0

My name is Baudelaire, and this is Atlas Obscuraugh.

0:56.0

A celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

0:59.7

Today, we are in Forcet County, Georgia, just an hour outside of Atlanta to learn about

1:04.2

Lake Leneer and why I was told not to get in that dam water.

1:10.7

More after this.

1:14.7

When did you first find out about Lake Leneer?

1:25.8

I've not about Lake Leneer my whole life, and my entire life I've been told not to go there.

1:31.8

That's Laporta Thomas, my colleague and a former journalist for NBC in Atlanta.

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