A 24-year-old man became the latest in an array of fatal incident involving Lake Lanier, that has reportedly claimed the lives of 700 people since it’s creation 1956.

On July 29, the man reportedly jumped off a dock into the lake and ended up encountering electricity in the water. The victim was taken to Northside Forsyth Hospital, where he later died. However, this is far from the first of such mysterious death that has taken place in Lake Lanier.

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In fact people are so familiar with the deaths happening in Lake Lanier that social media started to fill up with memes the moment the news of the latest death went viral. Here are a few of them:

Lake Lanier is famously known to be one of the deadliest waterbodies in the United States as it has claimed the lives of 200 people in the last three decades alone. Many people believe that lake is cursed or haunted because of its extremely controversial history.

History of Lake Lanier

Before the construction of a reservoir on the lake in 1950, a town called Oscarville reportedly occupied a portion of the lake. It was a small community of reportedly predominantly Black population. It was also infamously the site where the 1912 lynching took place. The incident resulted in the displacement of 1,100 African Americans from Forsyth County, orchestrated by white people.

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At the time, the County’s total population comprised of 10 percent of Black residents. At the moment, the same area has about four percent of Black population.

There are legends which says that the ghost of a woman roams this lake in a flowing blue dress. Additionally, there are rumors that arms reach out for swimmers from the depths of the lake. There are also reportedly submerged graves from which angry spirits call out to people to join them.

Lake Lanier is a reservoir in the northern portion of Georgia. It was created by the completion of Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River in 1956, and is also fed by the waters of the Chestatee River.