The internet has a version.
The record has another.

Researched history about places with documented pasts, and the myths that grew around them.

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Episodes

Six places, and what actually happened at them.

Every episode separates what the record says from what gets repeated. Folklore is labelled folklore.

Lake Superior episode

The lake that never gives up her dead

Lake Superior. The Edmund Fitzgerald, 1975.

Lake Michigan episode

The triangle that isn't magic

Lake Michigan. Flight 2501, 1950.

Lake Tahoe episode

What is really at the bottom

Lake Tahoe. A dive that never happened.

Lake of the Ozarks episode

The county seat they drowned

Lake of the Ozarks. Linn Creek, 1931.

Lake Norman episode

A town holding its breath

Lake Norman. East Monbo, 1963.

Lake Lanier episode

The internet gets it half right

Lake Lanier. Oscarville, 1912.

If we cannot source it, we do not say it.

The whole point of the channel is the second half of its name. That only works if the sourcing is real.

Real records

Government photographs, period engravings, county and court records. Never AI-generated imagery presented as archival.

Folklore stays labelled

When a story is folklore, the episode says so out loud. The interesting part is usually the gap between the two.

Cut, don't guess

A claim we cannot stand behind gets cut rather than softened. Sources are posted with every episode, corrections included.

Lake Michigan bathymetric map print

The maps behind the episodes.

Every lake in the series is drawn from public bathymetric survey data, the same source the research starts from. Printed on archival paper and shipped from the shop.

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