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  2. 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.

  3. Oscarville, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Oscarville is a ghost town in Forsyth County, Georgia. Oscarville, a majority-Black town, is most famous for being a central location in a series of violent crimes and racially motivated riots that happened in 1912, driving away most of the Black residents in Forsyth County. In 1950, the remnants of the town were flooded during the construction ...

  4. 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 ...

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

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    In July, Tamika Foster, a fashion designer and the ex-wife of R&B singer Usher, started an online petition to "drain, clean and restore" Lake Lanier. Foster’s 11-year-old son was killed at the ...

  6. List of largest lakes of the United States by area - Wikipedia

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    Lake of the Woods: Manitoba–Minnesota–Ontario: 1,679 sq mi 4,349 km 2: natural 7 Iliamna Lake: Alaska: 1,014 sq mi 2,626 km 2: natural 8 Great Salt Lake: Utah: 950 sq mi 2,460 km 2: natural salt: 9 Lake Oahe: North Dakota–South Dakota: 685 sq mi 1,774 km 2: man-made 10 Lake Okeechobee: Florida: 662 sq mi 1,715 km 2: natural 11 Lake ...

  7. 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 Man, 23, drowns in Georgia’s Lake Lanier after slipping on dock - the eighth death at ‘haunted ...

  8. List of ghost towns in Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    A former unincorporated town along the Chattahoochee River that was flooded to create Walter F. George Lake. Olympia: Lowndes: Oscarville: Forsyth: 1912 Submerged Flooded during the formation of Lake Lanier. In 1912, it was the site of a lynching which prompted the removal of all black residents. Owensbyville: Heard: Petersburg: Elbert

  9. Ghosts (American TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Ghosts (2019 British TV series) Ghosts is an American television sitcom adapted for CBS from the British series of the same name by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, who were also its showrunners. It premiered on October 7, 2021 [1] and was picked up for a full season that month. [2]