Going to the lake is a staple of summer fun for the family. Here in Tennessee, we certainly have some beautiful lakes, but there’s one lake near Nashville that also has some sinister history to it. Center Hill Lake, a little over an hour East of Nashville. Just what makes it so eerie? It’s not what’s on top of that water, but what’s underneath….

Valerie Everett - Flickr Nothing is quite as spooky as a graveyard. But an underwater graveyard? Not knowing what’s right under you makes it that much spookier.

Wikipedia The Center Hill Dam was constructed in 1948 to dam the Caney Fork River. Slowly, 18,000 acres of farmland, houses, schools, and churches became inundated.

Thomas Hardy - Flickr The town moved their cemeteries by exhuming the bodies and transferring them to other local cemeteries, but the locals still think the area is haunted.

Thomas Hardy - Flickr On top of all of that, Smithsonian archaeologists discovered two Native American burial grounds near the soon-to-be submerged town. The mounds had artifacts as old as 15,000 years, which are also now under the lake’s water in an area known as The Narrow.

Wikipedia If you want to check it out for yourself, the Canoe The Caney company leads haunted canoe rides to the haunted “Cemetery Cove.” The trips run on Friday and Saturday nights from mid September to mid November. See their website here for details.

Check out the Haunted Canoe trip trailer below:

Valerie Everett - Flickr

Nothing is quite as spooky as a graveyard. But an underwater graveyard? Not knowing what’s right under you makes it that much spookier.

Wikipedia

The Center Hill Dam was constructed in 1948 to dam the Caney Fork River. Slowly, 18,000 acres of farmland, houses, schools, and churches became inundated.

Thomas Hardy - Flickr

The town moved their cemeteries by exhuming the bodies and transferring them to other local cemeteries, but the locals still think the area is haunted.

On top of all of that, Smithsonian archaeologists discovered two Native American burial grounds near the soon-to-be submerged town. The mounds had artifacts as old as 15,000 years, which are also now under the lake’s water in an area known as The Narrow.

If you want to check it out for yourself, the Canoe The Caney company leads haunted canoe rides to the haunted “Cemetery Cove.” The trips run on Friday and Saturday nights from mid September to mid November. See their website here for details.

Looking for something more mellow? Check out this Tennessee Wine Train.

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