Drowned towns: What traces of cities remain beneath Alabama’s man-made lakes?

Officials celebrate return of crucial waterway 5 years after near-catastrophe: You could hear the water ... just roaring'

After half a decade of staring at a barren canal where a lake once was, a small Michigan community is finally beginning to restore its once-flourishing waterway, according to WCMU.  As if the United States weren't dealing with enough problems in May 2020, a historic rainfall in Central Michigan caused spillover from several dams, including those in Edenville and Sanford, quickly leading to their collapse. This caused evacuations of local towns (…

Drowned towns: What traces of cities remain beneath Alabama’s man-made lakes?

On quiet evenings, boaters sometimes hear the ghostly chimes of church bells rising from the depths of Lake Martin. At other times, the eerie baying of coon hounds echoes across the waters, said to be the spirits of hunting dogs whose graves were never moved before the dam was built and the farmlands flooded.