Expedition X (2020–…): Season 1, Episode 7 - Lake of the Dead - full transcript

Gates: On this episode
of "expedition x,"

the team travels to georgia
to investigate reports

of ghostly encounters
in and around the world's

most haunted lake.

The accidents
continue to pile up.

Locals believe this body
of water...

Is covering bodies below.

They essentially said
that they dug up all the bodies,

but they definitely did not.

Gates: And now eyewitnesses
are reporting sightings

of the so-called lady
of the lake



and terrifying attacks
from beyond the grave.

It was pulling me underwater.

Standby to recover divers!

My name is josh gates.

In my travels, I've experienced
strange things that defy logic

and made me question everything.

Oh, my god.

Now, I've put together a team

to investigate the stranger side
of the unknown.

Let's go!

Phil torres is a scientist who
hunts for rational explanations.

Jessica chobot's
paranormal research

has made her a true believer.

There is a monster
living in this forest.



Phil, phil, phil, I just saw
something run across.

Together we're searching
for answers...

Torres: What is that?

To the world's
most extraordinary mysteries.

This is "expedition x."

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for today's investigation, guys,

we're headed out to the lake.

Sounds like fun, right?

Yes.
It's not gonna be fun.

That's because this is the lake.

It's a place called lake lanier,

and it's actually
a man-made body of water.

It was created in the '50s
just north of atlanta.

Now, this lake has
a rather ominous reputation.

It has some of the highest rates

of boating accidents, drownings,

and disappearances
anywhere in the country.

It is also a place
that locals believe

is notoriously haunted.

Why is that?

Well, it has everything to do
with these red x's

that you see on the map,
because it turns out

that lake lanier was built
on top of 20 cemeteries.

You do not mess
with dead bodies.

We've all seen the movie.
We all know how it ends.

It does not end well.

Wait, are there still bodies

buried in these cemeteries?

Or did they move them
before they flooded the lake?

The government claims
that they tried to relocate

all the bodies
before creating the lake.

They tried.
They tried.

But there are questions,
a lot of questions.

Check it out.

Gates: It is 1947.

The army corps
of engineers announces a plan

to divert
the chattahoochee river

to a rural region
in northern georgia

and create a nearly
60-square-mile man-made lake.

It will ease flooding concerns,

provide hydroelectric power
and drinking water,

and a recreation area
for the community.

But to accomplish this,

the government will need
to relocate several remote towns

along with their houses,
businesses,

family farms, churches,
and, yes, 20 cemeteries.

It's this last item
and the nearly 1,000 bodies

contained in graves
throughout the area

that proves the most
problematic and controversial.

When the waters
of the chattahoochee flood

the foothills and valleys,
locals question how or even

if the bodies were properly
exhumed and reinterred.

Some say the lake is now cursed

and strange accidents
begin to plague the region.

One of these incidents
is said to be

the origin of lake lanier's
most famous ghost.

Delia young and her
friend susie roberts

are driving home
after a night out

and approach a newly
built bridge over the lake.

According to legend,
an invisible force grabs

on to their car,
which loses control and plummets

into the deep waters
of lake lanier.

Soon after, locals begin
to report sightings

of a ghostly young woman
in a blue dress...

Exactly what delia was wearing
the night she died.

Since then, sightings of
the so-called lady of the lake

have corresponded with accidents
and disappearances

in and around lanier...
A female phantom,

manifesting the power of
the countless spirits disturbed

by the creation of the lake.

Chobot:
There you have it.

This is considered the most
haunted lake in the world.

There's so many sightings,
there's actual apparitions.

Incidents happen on this lake
all the time.

How do you really feel?
It's haunted.

It's haunted, no question.
It's haunted.

Phil, I assume you agree
wholeheartedly.

Absolutely not.
I'm... I'm sorry.

But this is a man-made lake.

Yes.

Natural lakes have erosion.

The bottom of the lake
is easier to navigate

when you're boating around.

Man-made lakes have

really uncertain topography
down there.

They just flooded this area,

so there could still be debris.

There could be strange currents.

There could be dead bodies.

Phil, haven't you seen
"poltergeist"?

I have not.

Oh, m... what?

So I don't want
to ruin it for you,

but they... they moved
the headstones

but they left the bodies.

I'll do some research.

Can we... can we just pause
for a minute

while we make phil
watch this movie?

That was good, right?

Amazing.
You're welcome.

And now you were saying?

I think the topography
of what's underneath the lake

could be a huge factor here.

It can create strange currents.

It can be very uneven.

So boats could run into it.

I mean, this is very
uncertain ground down there.

According to
the georgia department

of natural resources,

there are triple the amount
of fatalities and accidents

on this lake as the next
most active lake in georgia.

That's a huge difference.

You think topography
could account for all that?

I think something can.

And I think it's gonna be
a real-world explanation.

I'm inclined to agree with you,

but there are some stories here

you're gonna have to square off.

It's not just in the lake.

People report
paranormal encounters

in the woods around the lake.

People have claimed to see
the spirit of this woman

in the blue dress
in the cemeteries

where the bodies were moved to

and in the lake itself.

Swimmers report being attacked

by some sort of unknown force.

So here's the mission...

Get to lake lanier.
Get on lake lanier.

In fact, get in lake lanier.

And see if you can figure out
what's going on here.

Talk to the locals.

See if you can collect
evidence firsthand

and find out...
Did the u.S. Government

creating this body of water
desecrate these graves

and unleash some sort
of paranormal terror?

Or is it all just legends
and superstition?

I'm telling you, this is the
most haunted lake in the world.

Alright. Prove it.

Gates:
The team travels 850 miles

from new york city
to lake lanier

in northern georgia.

Just 50 miles north of atlanta,

this pristine body of water
known as georgia's inland ocean

provides the tap water
for nearly 6 million people.

Its water may be
the elixir of life,

but it's the deaths
in and around the lake

that have drawn attention to it.

Chobot: Here we are.
Lake lanier.

It is crazy to think
what's under there right now.

Yeah, bodies.

People are getting hurt
and dying on that lake.

The team is starting
its investigation

with eyewitness rachel sanders.

A few weeks ago,
she was swimming in lake lanier

when she had an experience

that she could only describe
as paranormal.

Torres: Can you walk us
through it?

I was here training
for a triathlon.

I've trained on this
lake my whole life.

And that day
was something different.

I was swimming and kept
hearing this shrill shriek.

And I felt this force,

something pulling me
deeper into the water

and everything went black.

I woke up on the shore...

On this island.

I have no idea how I got there.

Then I saw a woman in the water

wearing a blue dress,
and I was terrified.

I didn't want to go back
in the water,

so I went up to
the high point of the island

and tried to flag
down some boats.

That, to me, sounds like
it could be something

like a crazy current.

No.

No. I've swam in this lake
my entire life.

I've trained in it

in worse conditions
than it was that day,

and I've never felt
something like that.

And you're sure it wasn't

blue floating debris
out in the water?

No, no.
It's a day I won't forget.

And I remember a woman
in a blue dress.

Mm.

I can't fully explain
rachel's encounter,

so jess and I decide
to secure a boat

and hit the water.

We make our way to the island
where rachel says

she saw an apparition
of a woman in a blue dress.

Locals believe
this lady of the lake

is the manifestation
of delia young,

one of the first victims
of the lake

after it was created.

Alright.
Well, this is it.

This is the beach
where rachel woke up.

Yeah.

I definitely think
something happened to her here,

but I think we should take
a look around this island,

just see what
we can come up with.

Let's go.

Let's see.

Alright. Here.

Thank you.

Chobot:
We investigate the island,

looking for anything

that could explain rachel's
sighting of the apparition

in a blue dress.

Phil, I'm gonna do an emf sweep.

An emf detector measures
electromagnetic fields,

and high readings

are often associated
with paranormal energy.

But emf readings are well
within normal ranges.

Finally, we make our way
back to the shoreline.

Ooh.

This water's cold.
Yeah.

Thinking of rachel's story,
you're out here.

It's November.
It was cold out.

The sun was probably going down.

So I wonder if she just got
so intensely cold

that she actually
hallucinated something.

Gates:
Training for a triathlon

can be stressful on the body,

especially in November
when the water temperature

can be as low as 45 degrees.

Cold water lowers body
temperature 25 times

faster than cold air.

And hypothermia can begin after
just five minutes in icy waters.

The veins in our extremities
constrict...

The body's attempt to keep blood
flow closer to the heart.

This reduced flow means
a loss of coordination,

extreme confusion,
even hallucinations.

I mean, I suppose
that's possible, I hear you.

But she's a trained athlete
and she lives on the lake

and she trains in the water,

she knows what
she's getting into.

Yeah.

Chobot: Rachel's strange
experience on the lake

is similar to countless others.

For decades, many have blamed
the paranormal activity here

on the traumatic
flooding of gravesites

that the government
was supposed to have relocated.

Tomorrow morning,

we plan to find out the truth
once and for all.

Hey.

- Nice to meet you, jessica.
- Nice to meet you.

Bob.
Nice to meet you, phil.

Yeah, great to finally meet you.

Gates: Bob kender has been
a search and rescue diver

in the area
for more than four decades.

I've asked him and his team
to help phil

make an extremely technical
and dangerous dive.

The locations
of the sunken graveyards

in the bottom of lake lanier
are now heavily silted over.

But at nearby lake chatuge,

which was also
artificially flooded,

bob believes we may be able
to reach the location

of one of the cemeteries.

I mean, it seems like this one

is the easiest
to access from shore

and through diving.

If you're looking for
a cemetery at this location,

our umbilicals,
the surface supply gas

will give us the best
opportunity

to get you to depth.

So we're not gonna put you
in fins today.

We're gonna have you walking.

Okay.
So what's gonna happen

is we're gonna have
on an umbilical.

The umbilical is going
to have video, lighting.

It's gonna have your air supply.

It's gonna have communication.

Okay.

Will I be able to talk to phil?

You'll be able to talk to phil.

You'll see what phil's seeing.
You can guide him.

He's actually gonna be
like a human r.O.V.

You understand, where we're at,

is right at 160 feet.

So to get down to this
potential grave site,

this isn't your typical dive.

No, it's not your typical dive.

It's outside the normal
sport-diving limits.

You know, the depths here

are gonna be pushing
the 160-plus mark.

Really?
Yes.

There's many risks to the diver.

Gates: The team is in georgia
investigating what is known

as the most haunted lake
in the world...

Lake lanier.

This massive body of water

is home to strange accidents,
disappearances,

and even ghostly apparitions of
the so-called lady of the lake.

Many believe the source
of the paranormal activity

are the many cemeteries
in this area

that were submerged.

For decades,

there had been rumors
that some of the burials

were not relocated.

To get to the bottom
of this mystery,

phil is preparing
to get to the bottom

of the lake bed.

The depths here

are gonna be pushing
the 160-plus mark.

Really?
Yes.

There's many risks to the diver.

We're gonna have you on
surface supply equipment.

And we're gonna protect you.

We need to worry about,
because of the depth,

nitrogen narcosis.

What's that?

It's rapture of the deep.

It's almost like you're being
drunk off the air

that we breathe here
on the surface.

Gates: As someone who's spent
a lot of time underwater

in challenging conditions,
it isn't an environment

where you can afford
to be off your "a" game.

Nitrogen narcosis
anesthetizes the brain,

making victims feel
and act disoriented.

It has been known to cause
even experienced divers

to make fatal mistakes.

So looks like
you'll be able to see

everything I'm seeing.

We can record
everything I'm hearing.

We can stay in communication.

You know where
we're trying to go.

So I feel like we got
a pretty good plan here.

I think we're set up

at the exact spot
you need to be.

Okay. Let's do it.
Chobot: Sounds good.

Okay, phil, now,
you're gonna be with ben,

but you got to stay with him.

We're gonna be putting in
commercial dive gear

for making a deep dive,
approximately 150 feet.

And you're right on the edge.

If you go over the edge,

instead of 150 feet,
the next stop is 300 feet.

Torres: So this is dangerous
to dive here.

It can be very dangerous

torres: Because I'll be
so heavily weighted,

I'll actually be walking along
a steep underwater slope

near the edge
of a perilous drop-off.

That's why I'll be down there
with a safety diver,

ben stanfield.

Come down.

Shake your head in, ben.

I've been diving
all over the world

for nearly a decade,

but this is one of the more
technical dives I've attempted.

I'm definitely feeling
the nerves as I enter the water.

Jess will be manning the camera
and audio recorder from above.

Chobot: Hey, how you
doing in there?

You sound good.

It's so cool

I am literally looking
underwater

through your eyes.

Hey, you're almost 50 feet
right now.

It's starting to pour up here.

Winds are picking up, too,

so that might actually affect
the push and pull underwater.

Alright, you guys are at 130.

What is it?

Oh, yeah, I see it.

You guys are really close

from where the cemetery
is supposed to be.

So let's start looking around
for other stuff, too,

but that is an awesome find.

I need you to get
a little closer.

Oh, I see 'em.
I see 'em. I see 'em.

There's our proof
that they did not

get the bodies out of that area
before they flooded it.

The tombstones suggest
that people buried here

weren't properly moved,

which many believe is the cause
of the paranormal activity.

I want to conduct a unique
call and response

to see
if we can capture any evps

or electronic voice phenomena
from the spirits.

Or I should say I want phil
to do it for me.

So I need you to turn
on your external mic

so that we can capture
sounds underwater.

Are their spirits down here
that have been disrupted?

It's killing him
inside to do this.

Is there anything
you would like to express

regarding your burial site?

Ask, "are you upset
with the creation of the lake?"

visibility
is starting to get worse?

Do you need a little bit
more light?

Tell him, "okay.
You're at 165."

you're at 165. If you're
starting to feel weird,

you got to let us know
right away because we're getting

a little concerned
you're getting too deep.

Hey, phil, are you seeing
any other tombstones?

See if you can go the other way.

I want to see if we can find
anything else

in the other direction.

Coming up on 170.

Coming up on 170.

It's looking like

it's getting real silty
and cloudy down there.

Phil, do you copy?

Are you feeling any narcosis,

little funky stuff right now?

He's not responding.

I don't like this.

Let's get him back up right now.

Okay. Hey, phil,
this is dive supervisor.

You're looking deeper than
I think you should be.

Standby to recover divers!

Gates: The team is conducting
an underwater investigation

near lake lanier in georgia.

And they've just discovered
an underwater grave site.

But phil is now at a depth
of more than 165 feet

and not responding
to calls from above.

Chobot:
Phil's not responding.

I don't like this.
I want to pull him up.

Okay. Hey, phil,
this is dive supervisor.

You're looking deeper than
I think you should be.

Standby to recover divers!

Man: Jess, come here.
Jess, come here.

Okay, let's walk in.

Everybody, back.
Back.

Why don't we sit him down?

Sit.

You good?

Chobot:
How are you feeling?

Torres:
I am dizzy right now.

My head is, uh...
I'm out of it.

It is really eerie
down there. Just...

All I could really tell

was that there was just
this wall of darker water.

When that current kicked in,

I'll never forget that.

I mean, I was sliding down.
It was...

It took all my effort
just to keep my footing,

just to keep from

continuing to go over that edge.

And I know. We were right
at the limit of our...

Of our depth.

I'm very happy you're safe.

But on the flip side,
can you believe

we found a graveyard?

And it looked
so, like, undisturbed.

That's just one. I mean,
look how big this lake is.

I am positive that
there are multiple

undisturbed
grave plots out there.

Gates: Jess believes

the discovery
of these underwater graves

could explain much
of the paranormal phenomena

being reported
around lake lanier.

That activity is most often
manifested in the presence

of the so-called lady
of the lake,

a woman named delia young,

who, along with
her friend susie roberts,

fatally crashed her car
into the lake in 1958.

The team previously met
a local woman who claimed

to see the ghost of delia
in her blue dress in the water.

But the vast majority
of the sightings are reported...

Where else... at the cemetery.

A cemetery headed up by a guy
whose name probably ensured

he'd end up
in this line of work.

Alright, so we're going
to alta vista cemetery.

I went to check out

the ladies of the lake's graves

and we're gonna
talk to tommy casper.

I'm sorry.
Casper is his name?

Yeah.

And he works at a graveyard?

Yes.
Is he friendly?

He is definitely friendly.

Casper: Hi.
Hi. Jessica.

Nice to meet you.
Phil.

Come this way and I'll show you

susie robert's grave.

This here is
susie roberts' grave.

Wow.
Whoa.

She is one of the two ladies

of the lake, lake lanier.

As you can see here,
one monument says

that she went missing.

And then they placed
the other monument

when she was found.

"Died April 1958,
found November 1990."

right.

Gates: Susie roberts was
in a car with delia young

when they crashed
into the lake in 1958.

But in the weeks
after the mysterious accident,

searchers were unable
to find their bodies or the car.

Fast forward to a little more
than a year after the crash.

That's when a local fisherman
makes a gruesome discovery...

A human body
floating in the lake.

The remains
are severely decomposed

and can't be identified.

The body is eventually laid
to rest in an unmarked grave.

Whether it belonged
to susie or delia

is a question
that wouldn't be answered

until one fateful day in 1990.

How are they able
to identify her in 1990?

While they were
constructing a span

across lake lanier around 1990,

one of the pieces
of heavy equipment

struck the sedan

that they went off the road in.

When they pull the car up,

they found the remains

through jewelry
that susie had on.

They were able to identify her.

And then once they found susie,

they just kind of
tied things together.

And that's when they realized
this was delia.

Torres: So the body they found
floating in the lake

in '59 was delia.
Wow.

Well, so then, what did they do

when it came time
to flood lanier?

What did they do
with the grave sites

that were in the graveyards
down there?

I do not know that.
Spotty records.

Do you know of any here?

I have heard
that we had some burials

from where the lake
was gonna be flooded

brought here.

They essentially said
that they dug up all the bodies,

but they definitely did not.

So it seems like
some have been moved.

Some have been moved
and identified.

Some have been just left
under the water.

It's pretty much
like the lake...

A little murky.

Yeah.

Chobot: Although
paranormal sightings

occur all around the lake,

it's here at the cemetery

where they are reported
most often.

I was able to track down
a man who just 12 days ago

had an experience here that
left him shaken and confused.

Hi.
Hi.

Torres:
Thanks for meeting with us.

Chobot:
He agrees to share his story

if we agree
to conceal his identity.

I don't really believe
in any of the lake stories.

Well, I didn't till just
a couple weeks ago.

So what kind of activity

have you had
or experienced here?

That's when I was crossing
through the cemetery

to get home.

It was late.

And right when I got
to the edge of the woods,

I heard what I thought
was howling,

sort of like coyotes.

But then I realized
it was screaming.

It was really weird,

definitely not something
that was just nature.

And then I saw a woman
wearing a blue dress.

And in the blink of an eye,
she was gone.

I've never been someone
to believe in ghosts,

but something was there.

We should actually
check things out right here.

The ladies of the lake
are buried here.

This is where we need to be.

Chobot: The witness' story
is consistent with other reports

I've heard about delia's ghost,
but we need to capture evidence.

Using a highly
sensitive audio recorder,

I'll be calling out to delia

and any of the other spirits
of lake lanier.

Alright.

If anything happens, walkie me.

Sounds good.

Torres:
I'm using the thermal camera

along the perimeter
of the cemetery

looking for wildlife
or any other possible

explanations for sightings
in the area.

Chobot: Starting
call and response.

This is jessica.
Will you talk with me?

If there's anyone here
whose graves were disturbed

by lake lanier,

now's your time
to have your say.

Delia, are you there?

Can you reach out to me?

Can you give me a sign?

Gates: Jessica and phil
are conducting

an overnight investigation
in a cemetery

that contains the remains of
the so-called lady of the lake,

delia young.

It's also where a number
of eyewitnesses have reported

seeing her spirit
wandering in her blue dress.

Delia, if you're here,
can you reach out to me?

Phil, I just started
asking questions to delia.

And right when I said,
"delia, are you there?

Reach out to me,"
I think I got a response.

Should I come find you?

Yeah, come find me.

Look for my flashlight.

I'm gonna head
towards the woods.

Delia, if you're there,
can you reach out to me?

Okay. That's weird.

This must have been
the sound I heard.

These chimes were going crazy,

and they're still moving,
and there is no wind.

What's going on?

So what I was doing was

call and response to delia,

and the wind chimes went off.

Do you see
anything on the thermal?

Torres:
Maybe it was an animal

or a bird or something.

Scan up ahead.
Scan a little bit.

This is dense in here.

Chobot:
Delia, was that you

making the chimes swing?

Nothing right now.

Is that a cross?

Oh, yeah.
Yes, it is.

There's a... wait.
There's two crossed.

One over here.

Oh, I didn't even see this one.

We have one here, one here.

Wow.

Do you think it was one
of the bodies that was moved?

I have no idea,
but just think about it.

That cemetery back there
was so official...

Tombstones and everything,

everything looked completely
well-documented.

Over here, we have, like,
two old pieces of wood.

Well, why don't we do
a call and response down here?

And I'd also like to set up
the I.R. Wireless system.

Chobot: I'm setting up
three infrared cameras

to conduct an experiment.

Earlier when I called out
to delia, I heard the distinct

sound of wind chimes.

With zero wind tonight,

the question is whether an
animal could have set them off.

Since our thermal camera
found no sign of any animals,

my money is on delia.

Alright. Got the camera
system initialized.

Everything's about to go
online here

in just a second.

Okay, phil, how's that?

Alright.
Cameras are online.

If it was delia
who responded to me,

maybe she's ready to come out
in the open and show herself

with the help
of a trigger object...

A blue dress similar to the one

she was wearing
the night she died.

Delia, are you here?

You were trying
to signal me earlier.

Was that you making
the chimes swing?

I brought you a dress
in your favorite color.

I put it on the ground
over there.

Do you want to try it on?

My name is jessica.

Delia, are you here?
Will you talk with me?

Jess, I'm getting some movement.

Unless I'm crazy,

the arm of the dress
just moved a little bit.

That makes no sense.
There's no breeze.

It was the right arm
of the dress.

Alright.

This one?

Yep, that's the arm.
That one right there.

I don't know.

Maybe something was
moving on the ground

under the dress?

So how did it move?

It was a slow movement,

but maybe an inch or two
off the ground.

Scared the out of me.

What happened?

My flashlight just got
knocked over by itself.

I'm kind of freaked
out over here.

I mean, I'm over here right now

and there's
no breeze whatsoever.

I don't know.

Holy

Did you hear that?

It sounded like a scream.

I'm gonna go after it.

It was right behind me,
right back there somewhere.

Look, look here.

Do you see something
on your thermal?

Did you hear that?

Uh...
Is that coyotes?

I don't think that was coyotes.

No.

The lake that phil
and jessica are investigating

just north of atlanta
was built around the same time

as another man-made lake
on the other side of the world,

one that was also associated
with strange phenomena.

Lake kariba straddles the border
between zambia and zimbabwe.

And when it was filled
in the late 1950s,

it became the world's
largest man-made lake by volume.

Almost immediately,
locals claimed there was

something strange
about this unnatural lake.

They even blamed it for a series
of powerful earthquakes

that swept through the region.

So was this a case
of angry spirits

making their displeasure known?

In this case, no,

because it turns out
the locals were correct.

The lake was likely to blame
for the earthquakes.

Geologists theorize
that the lake's

more than 200 billion
tons of water

created seismic disturbances
felt up to 100 miles away.

It just goes to show
that redirecting that much water

is gonna have an impact with
or without paranormal activity.

Chobot: Did you see something
on your thermal?

Did you hear that?

Uh...
Is that coyotes?

I don't think that was coyotes.

Gates: Jess and phil
are in a georgia cemetery

investigating the paranormal
reports of a spirit

known as the lady of the lake.

After witnessing a series
of strange events,

they hear what sounds like
a female scream in the woods.

Torres:
It is colder over here.

Chobot: Yeah, it is colder
over here.

Let's listen.

Do you hear it anymore?

Wow.
We're at the lake.

There we go.

We are right at the water.

Look at that.

That's delia.

This whole time,
she's been having us

come down here,
where rachel and others

have said they've seen
delia's spirit.

I mean, we had the chimes go off

by the edge of the forest

when I was doing the call
and response with delia.

Delia, if you are here,
can you reach out to me?

You told me the dress moved.

Yeah. It could have
been the wind.

And what was that sound?

Chobot:
Did you hear that?

Leading us to what?

Torres: To the lake.
I get it.

It's... it's a weird
coincidence.

I feel like
there's something out here.

Delia, are you here?

Torres: While jess now conducts
a call and response

next to the lake
where delia died,

I scan the shoreline
with the thermal camera.

We search for another two hours,

but don't pick up any unexpected
temperature fluctuations

or additional mysterious sounds.

We head back into the woods

to retrieve our infrared cameras
for analysis.

Gates:
With the sun coming up,

the team is eager
to review their evidence.

Alright.
Okay. Well...

The underwater discovery
of graves seems to confirm

that not everything
was relocated

before this region was flooded.

That, to me, says a lot

of the rumors
from the past are true here.

People talk about there
being unexcavated graves.

There you go.

I mean, clearly
this wasn't excavated.

So somebody had a job to do,
but they didn't do it.

Jessica has enhanced the audio

from their underwater
call and response

and turned up
an intriguing result.

There's something I want you
to listen to.

Torres: Are you upset
with the creation of the lake?

Huh.

Isn't that weird?
It is a little weird.

I mean, it's hard
to tell for sure,

but, to me,
it sounds like voices.

Have you ever heard anything
like that before?

No.
I will say

in a big lake, the sound
of a distant motor

could be weird,
but I can't place it.

So for last night's
investigation,

this is the footage that
I downloaded off the I.R. Cam.

Okay.

And this is camera 3.

See that?

You are not kidding.

There it is.

Oh, my god.

That is super weird.

When you were telling me
about this, I expected

something pretty subtle.

Her arm's moving.

And then
my flashlight fell over.

That's weird, right?

There's just too many strange
things that have happened

on lake lanier to write this off

as anything less than
paranormal phenomenon.

And I believe
this is all occurring

because of the total
mishandling of gravesites

and bodies back in the 1950s.

What I saw at the bottom
of the lake

with those graveyards,

that will stick with me
the rest of my life.

So I will give you this, jess.

If there is any lake
that could be haunted,

it's probably lake lanier.

I'll take it.

But I absolutely think
it's haunted.

Gates:
Whether the many accidents

and strange occurrences
around lake lanier

are paranormal...

Or just unlucky coincidences

depends on what you believe.

We now know this region is home
to submerged burials

and a long history
of eyewitness encounters.

So if you happen to be swimming
here or walking late at night,

be sure to stay alert.

You might just be
the next person

to meet the lady of the lake.