"Some 250 families were displaced, 50,000 acres of farmland were destroyed, and 20 cemeteries were either dug up or completely engulfed by the lake's waters. Afterward, the town of Oscarville remained disturbingly intact just below the surface of the water — making it one of the most dangerous lakes in America to this day. In the 70 years since its creation, some 700 people have been k*lled in the lake, many of them ensnared by the ruins of the former town and unable to get out. Many of the deaths have been so grisly and so inexplicable that some have come to believe that the lake is cursed and that restless spirits haunt its depths.⁠"