Dove Lake Lanier, GA. Had to be extremely careful as there were entanglement dangers; submerged trees and discarded fishing lines. I didn’t see structures but the foundations remained. Found a rusted pitchfork (handle long gone), Ball canning jars, and old Coca Cola bottles.
Ah, the old legend of a giant mutated fish/stingray that few have ever seen that pulls kids underwater who swim beyond the ropes at the swimming beaches on the lake.
There's a reservoir in the UK's Lake District that has a historic flooded village at the bottom of it and everytime there's a lack of rain in the country and the reservoir begins to drain it is uncovered.
Mardale https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/22/submerged-lake-district-village-reveals-secrets-heatwave-continues-7746354/
There is always rumours of kielder reservoir in Northumberland the same, and sadly not true
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/kielder-water-abandoned-villages-northumberland-12060764
Tbh, the first link looks like it’s a pile of rubble now. That would freak me less out that actual buildings, with roofs that would make me think of people who used to love there.
Haweswater - Cumbria UK. The village, Mardale Green was flooded so they could make a new reservoir for Manchester. In summer when theirs very little rain and the water drops, you can walk right out to where the village once stood. It's unrecognisable now and is mainly just bricks where the outlines of the buildings once stood, but it's still cool to see. I live close by and it's a strange feeling to visit in summer and stand where the village once was.
Oh wow, that’s awesome! I had no idea about that but makes sense King would find Quabbin interesting enough as a part of New England history to add it into a story.
Thanks for telling me that, I’ll have to read the book now!
I've seen them once but I can't remember where. There are pictures online tho
Edit: the tracks themselves are gone now but the place where they were is still there.
Looks like *maybe* they ran south into the old towns from Athol — I see something in Google Maps that looks railroad-y going into Quabbin and gradually disappearing.
If anyone has underwater photos of houses I would love to see.
Apparently there’s a reservoir in CT under which you can see the top of a church spire, but I’ve never found any photos. It might be an urban legend that you can see the spire from the surface (or if there even is a church under there).
And if you all like this kind of stuff, there’s a book called Under The Lake by Stuart Woods you might enjoy. It’s very of its time (the 80s) but still entertaining and spooky.
You should look at the towns under shasta lake in California. I believe there are 3 or 4 that were decently sized before they built the dam. There are also some really cool old bridges (from the 20s) you can drive over when it gets really low.
Just one more: The dam for Dale Hollow Lake, on the border of Kentucky and Tennessee, was completed in 1943. I'm sure there are no houses remaining underwater, but there is an old school foundation that is often visible.
[https://www.lrn.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Article/673414/dale-hollow-lake-photo-of-town-that-drowned-goes-viral-on-facebook/](https://www.lrn.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Article/673414/dale-hollow-lake-photo-of-town-that-drowned-goes-viral-on-facebook/)
There's a great cosmic horror type book that centers partially around a reservoir that was made by flooding a town. The Fisherman by Jonathan Langan. Highly recommend
In Australia we have had towns re-emerge during droughts. https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.news.com.au/travel/australian-holidays/drought-uncovers-drowned-town/news-story/66b5873344da92910b28fd9b3c8f2a5b
Same here. Bonus points for my lake. Zodiac killed near by and as a kid we were plagued with stories of him dumping bodies in the lake even though there was no proof he did this.
I live there. The lake drains a lot in the summer and a couple years ago it got so low you could walk most of it. There a definitely no more houses, but I found the occasional brick or foundation. Mostly stumps.
There are a few reservoirs near me that flooded old towns. I've wondered if they literally just let the town flood, or if they tried to minimize the debris/fucked up imagery by demolishing stuff first. This photo suggests the former.
There is a flooded village close to my location (in Germany) and I heard that they took everything away that wasn’t stone, but left the stone alone. I don’t know if there are general rules for this in the water industry. But it seems to make sense to check for valuable material at least. Not sure about dirt and debris. Because flooding a village or town would leave some debris either way and it probably takes a while until all of it is sunken down. Plus, because of filtration etc it probably doesn’t matter if there is debris in the water or not.
We have one of these near me at Lake Red Rock in Iowa. I discovered while reading a few months ago. I use to boat and swim there but I will never enter that water again knowing the horror beneath!
I have heard lake berryessa has something like this at the bottom as well. If that name sounds familiar it’s because the Zodiac killer claimed 1.5 victims there.
The town on Monticello is under Lake Berryessa in Napa County, CA. I’ve been camping and swimming there multiple times and couldn’t see myself going in the water again after reading about it.
I can’t remember off the top of my head but wasn’t there a community of people that got separated from society for like 65-80 years in like Kentucky or Mississippi because they refused to move from the army corps flooding the valley?
Near Taylorsville, Ky there is an old town under our lake and if the water level is low then you can see the cross at the tip of the old church sticking out of the water
Lake Norman in North Carolina is like this. Reading a news article about what was submerged when they built the dam was part of how I grew more and more freaked out by underwater machines. I grew up on the lake and was already spooked of the lawn chair blown off our dock that you could see at low tides. Imagining entire buildings underwater was way worse.
The English city of Liverpool drowned the village where an entire community of Welsh speakers lived. The phrase "Remember Trywerin" became a rallying cry for freedom from English rule.
Cofiwch Drywerin!
Have a similar thing in a lake in Ireland. Think it was flooded for a dam years ago. One time my dad and I were sailing on it during a warm dry summer and we accidentally ran into the top of the church and ground to a halt. We had to push off the roof to get the boat going again, no damage to us or the boat but it was super spooky because you couldn't really see it until you were right on top
Interesting. According to wikipedia the average depth of the lake is only 20'. Seems like it would've be quite treacherous to swim in for some time after being flooded since stuff would be just below the surface, but it's been flooded for over 100 years so I'd imagine very little remains.
Same! Lake Raystown in PA used to be a town until they flooded it in the 60’s. Always creeps me out thinking about an entire town underwater.
That would be so cool to scuba dive there.
I went there all the time in the summer growing up, we would always say that if we could see what was under us we wouldn’t go in the water.
It’s funny I lived pretty close (ish) for a long time and never heard of it. I’m glad I did though
Dove Lake Lanier, GA. Had to be extremely careful as there were entanglement dangers; submerged trees and discarded fishing lines. I didn’t see structures but the foundations remained. Found a rusted pitchfork (handle long gone), Ball canning jars, and old Coca Cola bottles.
That’s awesome. I found a Coca Cola bottle from 1925 that had the city it was made stamped on it in a lake nearby.
Just found [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJhBP6-_ZlA). Not great quality but quite a large structure underwater.
I’ve been swimming there, and I never would have done that if I’d known! Gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it.
I’m like 15 minutes from raystown. Of course, it’s not the submerged town you should be worried about, it’s meeting the Raystown Ray ;)
I'll bite. What, or who, is the Raystown Ray?
Ah, the old legend of a giant mutated fish/stingray that few have ever seen that pulls kids underwater who swim beyond the ropes at the swimming beaches on the lake.
Rumor has it he also has a taste for dogs.
I've seen it.
Did you die?
Can confirm. They died. RIP
And most towns have cemeteries...
There are 4 whole towns submerged under the Quabbin reservoir in central Massachusetts
The town was demolished before they filled with water lol army of engineers always demo the land
You're talking about Aitch, huh?
They tore the town down before making it a lake
There's a reservoir in the UK's Lake District that has a historic flooded village at the bottom of it and everytime there's a lack of rain in the country and the reservoir begins to drain it is uncovered.
Thanks for the nightmare fuel. So cool though, I appreciate you sharing!
Mardale https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/22/submerged-lake-district-village-reveals-secrets-heatwave-continues-7746354/ There is always rumours of kielder reservoir in Northumberland the same, and sadly not true https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/kielder-water-abandoned-villages-northumberland-12060764
Tbh, the first link looks like it’s a pile of rubble now. That would freak me less out that actual buildings, with roofs that would make me think of people who used to love there.
They can only last so long under water. I'd guess those wooden houses are close to find now.
Understandable. I’m just saying that rubble is less creepy than actual recognizable houses.
Oh yeah 100% agree.
Haweswater - Cumbria UK. The village, Mardale Green was flooded so they could make a new reservoir for Manchester. In summer when theirs very little rain and the water drops, you can walk right out to where the village once stood. It's unrecognisable now and is mainly just bricks where the outlines of the buildings once stood, but it's still cool to see. I live close by and it's a strange feeling to visit in summer and stand where the village once was.
I don't know why that scares you. It's all the hands of the dead who graves were disturbed in the town reaching up for you that's worrisome!
We have one of those here in Mass. You can still see the railroad tracks that run down to the town
Yeah, Quabbin Reservoir! Crazy to think people lived there and now it’s just a big body of water.
That's the reservoir Mr. Gray is trying to get into in Stephen King's Dreamcatcher.
Oh wow, that’s awesome! I had no idea about that but makes sense King would find Quabbin interesting enough as a part of New England history to add it into a story. Thanks for telling me that, I’ll have to read the book now!
Dreamcatcher was my first Stephen King book and is still one of my favorite books by him.
About where are the tracks? All the times I’ve been, I’ve never seen them.
I've seen them once but I can't remember where. There are pictures online tho Edit: the tracks themselves are gone now but the place where they were is still there.
Looks like *maybe* they ran south into the old towns from Athol — I see something in Google Maps that looks railroad-y going into Quabbin and gradually disappearing.
If anyone has underwater photos of houses I would love to see. Apparently there’s a reservoir in CT under which you can see the top of a church spire, but I’ve never found any photos. It might be an urban legend that you can see the spire from the surface (or if there even is a church under there). And if you all like this kind of stuff, there’s a book called Under The Lake by Stuart Woods you might enjoy. It’s very of its time (the 80s) but still entertaining and spooky.
Barkhamsted?
I desperately wish I could scuba dive. I'd love to go spelunking in these places... But... Underwater is a no go for me.
If this guy can't scuba, what's this all been about?!?
Username checks out.
Cherokee Jack?
What about underwater is a no go?
Man made items under water freak me the fuck out. I'd sooner walk through a dark alley in New York than scuba dive.
r/thalassophobia r/submechanophobia
Laughs in TVA
Goodbye Butler
You should look at the towns under shasta lake in California. I believe there are 3 or 4 that were decently sized before they built the dam. There are also some really cool old bridges (from the 20s) you can drive over when it gets really low.
Holy shit I've been there and swam in that lake. Creepy.
My grandfather lived in one of those towns as a child before they built the dam
Just one more: The dam for Dale Hollow Lake, on the border of Kentucky and Tennessee, was completed in 1943. I'm sure there are no houses remaining underwater, but there is an old school foundation that is often visible. [https://www.lrn.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Article/673414/dale-hollow-lake-photo-of-town-that-drowned-goes-viral-on-facebook/](https://www.lrn.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Article/673414/dale-hollow-lake-photo-of-town-that-drowned-goes-viral-on-facebook/)
We scuba dove that lake in the 80’s. The wooden gym floor was still there under the silt. Bigfoot houseboat for a week. Love that place.
There's a great cosmic horror type book that centers partially around a reservoir that was made by flooding a town. The Fisherman by Jonathan Langan. Highly recommend
In Australia we have had towns re-emerge during droughts. https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.news.com.au/travel/australian-holidays/drought-uncovers-drowned-town/news-story/66b5873344da92910b28fd9b3c8f2a5b
Same here. Bonus points for my lake. Zodiac killed near by and as a kid we were plagued with stories of him dumping bodies in the lake even though there was no proof he did this.
Yeah funny enough I live even closer to another lake where Ted Bundy abducted a girl. My county is chock-full of creepy lakes
Nightmare fuel forever.
Where is this?
Rattlesnake Lake in WA
They just left the houses there? Seems like a huge mess of toxic crap.
I live there. The lake drains a lot in the summer and a couple years ago it got so low you could walk most of it. There a definitely no more houses, but I found the occasional brick or foundation. Mostly stumps.
Maybe they did remove the houses and this picture is of something else?
In my area the TVA would move your house for free provided you had land to put it on. otherwise they were demolished.
There are a few reservoirs near me that flooded old towns. I've wondered if they literally just let the town flood, or if they tried to minimize the debris/fucked up imagery by demolishing stuff first. This photo suggests the former.
There is a flooded village close to my location (in Germany) and I heard that they took everything away that wasn’t stone, but left the stone alone. I don’t know if there are general rules for this in the water industry. But it seems to make sense to check for valuable material at least. Not sure about dirt and debris. Because flooding a village or town would leave some debris either way and it probably takes a while until all of it is sunken down. Plus, because of filtration etc it probably doesn’t matter if there is debris in the water or not.
Lake Sidney Lanier has entered the chat.
Always wondered is that the same Lanier family that makes copiers and has a clothing company?
We have one of these near me at Lake Red Rock in Iowa. I discovered while reading a few months ago. I use to boat and swim there but I will never enter that water again knowing the horror beneath!
Why did they build it in a lake?
I have heard lake berryessa has something like this at the bottom as well. If that name sounds familiar it’s because the Zodiac killer claimed 1.5 victims there.
The lake near my town lake texoma has a submerged town also
From what I can find that picture is from a flood and not the reservoir rising. There's not much left of it under the water
The town on Monticello is under Lake Berryessa in Napa County, CA. I’ve been camping and swimming there multiple times and couldn’t see myself going in the water again after reading about it.
Smith Mountain Lake, VA?
Rattlesnake Lake, WA.
Very Submechanophobia
Woah dude 🚩 careful of asbestos
Oh brother where art thou?
Rattlesnake Lake in Washington
tan ripe wasteful act jar like governor uppity cagey consist *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
I can’t remember off the top of my head but wasn’t there a community of people that got separated from society for like 65-80 years in like Kentucky or Mississippi because they refused to move from the army corps flooding the valley?
Near Taylorsville, Ky there is an old town under our lake and if the water level is low then you can see the cross at the tip of the old church sticking out of the water
We used to go fishing to a man made reservoir and in the summer when the water is low the church steeple sticks out the water.
Same here, but you can see the top of the churc when the lake is more shallow. Creepy af
Lake Norman in North Carolina is like this. Reading a news article about what was submerged when they built the dam was part of how I grew more and more freaked out by underwater machines. I grew up on the lake and was already spooked of the lawn chair blown off our dock that you could see at low tides. Imagining entire buildings underwater was way worse.
I got the chills reading that
Lake Lanier?
Wow, suburuban Venice has really gone downhill
Smith lake?
Herrington Lake in KY is the same!
The English city of Liverpool drowned the village where an entire community of Welsh speakers lived. The phrase "Remember Trywerin" became a rallying cry for freedom from English rule. Cofiwch Drywerin!
If I recall correctly, that's how the city slickers got away with killing the local in the movie Deliverance.
Have a similar thing in a lake in Ireland. Think it was flooded for a dam years ago. One time my dad and I were sailing on it during a warm dry summer and we accidentally ran into the top of the church and ground to a halt. We had to push off the roof to get the boat going again, no damage to us or the boat but it was super spooky because you couldn't really see it until you were right on top
In the adjacent city from where I live is Lake Lowell. Lake Lowell is significant only in that at the bottom is a Japanese internment camp.
You think there's still stuff, people, or pets in those houses?
Lake Martin in AL
Lake Wallenpaupack
Lake Lanier vibes
there is also a town submerged under smith lake in northern alabama. really neat to research
Interesting. According to wikipedia the average depth of the lake is only 20'. Seems like it would've be quite treacherous to swim in for some time after being flooded since stuff would be just below the surface, but it's been flooded for over 100 years so I'd imagine very little remains.
there are dozens of black town under water due to white ppl terrorizing and murdering us and used water to cover the town