Now they tell me its haunted after I Fished inside the Hales Bar lock and Dam

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HISTORICAL FACTS MIXED WITH LEGENDS
Following the 1775 Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, where the Translyvania Company purchased from the Cherokee Indians over 20 million acres of land, Cherokee Chief Drag Canoe, who opposed the treaty, cursed the area to become dark and bloody if should anyone settle upon it. People tend to blame all tragedies on this curse.

There are countless ghost stories involving Hales Bar Dam. Some say the souls of the workers, the children, and the buried whose graves flooded are among the spirits that continue to haunt the site. Examples include: workers who were supposedly trapped in the walls during its construction, men who drowned during those first few years, the spirits of Cherokee natives-including Chief Dragging Canoe-who still haunt the property, a presence called Chris, an alleged murdered young girl named Linda, and apparitions from the school children who haunt the tunnels.Several hundred workers perished during the construction of the Hales Bar Dam. These deaths were expected in such a large project in those days. However, there were eleven deaths after its completion that included children. There was a dimly little tunnel that ran underneath the dam that the kids had to pass through each day to get to school. It is said that at least two children perished during one of the leaks in the tunnel. The narrow tunnel served as a common passage across the river for not only the children but workers as well. In the 1960’s, the dam suffered a catastrophic failure, flooding the downstream area and disrupting hundreds of graves, mainly those of the children that had perished during the Spanish flu epidemic of the 1920’s. No bodies were removed from the cemetery prior to the flooding and up until the late 90’s. You could see three headstones peering out of the water 70 yards from the bank where Dry Creek empties into the Lake.
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