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  2. Man, 23, drowns in Georgia’s Lake Lanier after slipping on ...

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    An eighth person this year has died in Lake Lanier, making people question if the lake is safe ... on Lake Lanier by the Hall County Fire Rescue on Saturday night. ... drowned in the lake last ...

  3. Georgia's Lake Lanier has claimed over 200 lives. Why do ...

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    A 23-year-old man drowned last Saturday after slipping and falling off a dock into Georgia’s Lake Lanier, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR). It’s the fourth death ...

  4. Oscarville, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Oscarville is supposedly one of multiple "drowned towns" beneath Lake Lanier. Local legend alleges Lake Lanier to be haunted. One commonly claimed reason for the supposed haunting is the high number of drowning deaths, with over 500 deaths between the lake's formation and 2021. 200 deaths occurred between 1994 and 2020. Underwater debris such ...

  5. Show featuring chilling tales of Georgia’s Lake Lanier tops ...

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    Lake Lanier is 26 miles long, covering over 38,000 acres. According to a recovery diver and researcher on the show named Richard Pickering, the lake is over 156 feet deep.

  6. Lake Lanier - Wikipedia

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    Lake Lanier (officially Lake Sidney Lanier) is a reservoir in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created by the completion of Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River in 1956, and is also fed by the waters of the Chestatee River. The lake encompasses 38,000 acres (15,000 ha) or 59 sq mi (150 km 2) of water, and 692 mi (1,114 ...

  7. List of drowning victims - Wikipedia

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    Also on 8 July 2020, actress and singer Naya Rivera drowned in Lake Piru, Ventura County, California, after saving her son. After being declared a missing person and a subsequent search and rescue mission, her body was found on 13 July 2020. On 26 November 2021, the Norwegian YouTuber Apetor drowned at Jakobs dam, a lake west of Kongsberg, Norway.

  8. Chattahoochee River - Wikipedia

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    The Chattahoochee River (/ ˌ tʃ æ t ə ˈ h uː tʃ i /) forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia border, as well as a portion of the Florida and Georgia border. It is a tributary of the Apalachicola River, a relatively short river formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers and emptying from Florida into Apalachicola Bay in the Gulf of Mexico.

  9. Is a serial killer behind a string of drownings at Austin’s ...

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    Elsie John buried her 30-year-old son Jason in Austin, the city he breathed and loved and where he died on the night of 5 February. He is among four people who have been discovered drowned in Lady ...