Lake Lanier has unfortunately gained a sinister reputation for the high drowning rate, mysterious disappearances, boat accidents, a dark past of racial injustice, and the Lady of the Lake.
William Morgan was an anti-Mason activist whose disappearance led to the downfall of the Freemasons Society in New York. In 1826.
During the 1940s, Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish businessman who helped thousands of Hungarian Jews escape into Swedish territories.
Within the basement of the Catacombs of Lima, lie the remains of affluent residents of the city who held the belief that they would be the final ones to find eternal rest in their expensive burial sites.
The legend of the Man in The Iron Mask goes something like this: Until his death in 1703, a prisoner was held for over three decades across France, including at the Bastille, all while wearing an iron mask, concealing his identity.
The famous 12th-century castle passed from the Broase clan to the houses of Mowbray, Despenser, and Beauchamp. But why was it abandoned so mysteriously? Was it the advancing dunes or the curse of the Fairies that caused the castle to be abandoned?
During the 1920s to 1950s, drinking water with radium dissolved in it was widely promoted as a miracle tonic.
On September 22, 1979, an unidentified double flash of light was detected by a United States Vela satellite.
It was said that the mysterious liquid is impossible to extinguish once it started to burn; and coming into contact with water caused the flames to burn even more ferociously.
Legend has it that 1940s Angelenos witnessed one of the most important UFO sightings in history, known as the Battle of Los Angeles — depending on who you ask.