MYSTERY: Lake Lanier

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Not Your Mom Media

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Beneath the waters of Lake Lanier in Georgia lies something far more haunting than fish and tree stumps. We're talking entire towns, graveyards that were never fully relocated, and a history soaked in tragedy. Before it was a popular summer destination, Lake Lanier was the site of a federal project that displaced hundreds of families—many of them Black landowners—uprooted cemeteries, and submerged an entire community under 56,000 acres of water.

This week, Mandy and Melissa explore the dark past and chilling present of one of the most infamous lakes in the United States. From ghost stories and urban legends to real-life drownings and disappearances, the lake has earned its deadly reputation. Whether it's unexplained boating accidents, tales of invisible hands pulling swimmers under, or the eerie story of the Lady of the Lake, Lake Lanier continues to make headlines nearly 70 years after it was created.

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0:00.0	A hidden forest, a thousand farms, and hundreds of unmoved gravesites. That's what lies beneath
0:06.3	the infamous Lake Lanier in Georgia. But before those lakeside cocktails and million-dollar speed
0:11.8	boats, there was a federal project that uprooted families exhumed cemeteries, and, if you believe,
0:17.6	the folklore, left restless spirits patrolling the waters of the lake.
0:22.2	Today, we're unpacking how it all happened and why this man-made lake keeps grabbing
0:26.6	headlines nearly 70 years later.
0:36.3	Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa.
0:43.9	Hi, Melissa.
0:44.6	Hi, Mandy.
0:45.3	How are you?
0:46.0	I am doing well.
0:47.3	How are you?
0:48.4	Doing great, thanks.
0:49.8	This episode, I am so excited.
0:51.9	You and I are both so excited.
0:53.0	I don't want to get into anything that you're going to be saying because there's just so much to talk about, but I am so excited. You and I are both so excited. I don't want to get into anything
0:54.5	that you're going to be saying because there's just so much to talk about. But I'm so pumped.
0:58.7	I feel like if you listen to true crime, this is a thing you hear about a lot. And just seeing it all
1:05.2	put together and just the history of it is almost completely unbelievable. It really is unbelievable in some ways.
1:12.8	And in other ways, I feel like I was happy to kind of deep dive on this one and learn a little bit more about the history of Lakeland.
1:20.9	Yeah.
1:21.3	Because as you said, it is a very popular topic for maybe not conspiracy theories, but just people who like to think about things
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