Ep. 15 | Season 1 Finale: Graves, Ghosts, and Haunted History

In our Season 1 finale of Spirits Uncorked, we’re taking you on a haunting journey just in time for Halloween. This episode, we walk through sacred grounds to visit the gravesites of those whose lives have woven the eerie legacy of Lake Lanier—from the tragic tale of the Lady of the Lake, Delia Mae Parker Young, to the key figures involved in the Oscarville tragedy, including Mae Crow and Rob Edwards. Standing before the final resting places of these lost souls, we reflect on their histories and share what it felt like to stand where they now lie.

We'll dive into the somber history, uncover moments of mystery, and bring these ghost stories full circle. To end the season on a lighter note, we’ll share some of the quirky encounters and unexpected laughs from our haunted travels, wrapping things up with a touch of Halloween spirit.


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Ep. 15 | Season 1 Finale: Graves, Ghosts, and Haunted History

Elizabeth: [00:00:00] Imagine walking slowly through a sacred burial ground, your footsteps lightly crunching the autumn leaves scattered across the green manicured grass. The air is still, with only the occasional distant hum of traffic. As you wander deeper, something unseen tugs at you, pulling you back through time. Here in this quiet place, the present fades away and you find yourself imagining a world where the landscape, streets, and buildings looked entirely different.

The names etched into the weathered headstones become more than just stories on TikTok videos or written in books. These were real people. Once filled with life, love, and dreams, people whose final moments were marked by tragedy, sorrow, and unfathomable fear. In the season one finale of Spirits Uncorked, coinciding with Halloween, we take you on a haunting journey to the grave sites of those we've uncovered throughout the season.

From the eerie legend of the Lady of the Lake, to the [00:01:00] heartbreaking racial violence of Oscarville, we bring these stories full circle. With first hand visits to the resting places of those who shaped Lake Lanier's haunted legacy, we're getting to the bottom of the Lake Lanier mystery. Dive in with us. 

Hi, everybody, and welcome to Spirits Uncorked. I'm Elizabeth. 

Erica: Wow. Really cheerful. And I'm Erica, a little bit more low key. 

Elizabeth: Welcome to Spirits Uncorked, everybody.  I am excited, though, because this is our Season one finale episode. So, good job, Erica. We made it, we made it one whole season. [00:02:00] We did it. And to mark the occasion, instead of wine today, I have champagne.

I'm gonna pour myself a glass of champagne. And toast to myself and to you. What are you drinking? 

Erica: I have a cheap boxed wine in a coffee mug. But it's in the spirit of Halloween. 

Elizabeth: Yes, it's a Beetlejuice mug. Don't worry because this champagne is super cheap. 

Erica: Going all out. 

Elizabeth: Going all out for the finale here.

Yeah. Alright, cheers to the finale. 

Erica: Cheers! 

Elizabeth: Yay! Woohoo! Clink! Well, we've had a good season. We've learned a little bit about wine. 

Erica: We gave it a shot

Elizabeth: We learned a lot about Lake Lanier and history. 

Elizabeth: Oh my freaking gosh.

Okay, Erica is being haunted yet again. Her power just went off. Does this [00:03:00] happen any other time? No. 

Erica: No.

Elizabeth: Yeah, Erica's power goes out when we start talking about Lake Lanier haunted, haunted stuff. 

Erica: Anytime I podcast. 

Elizabeth: Alright, you good? 

Erica: Yeah. 

Elizabeth: Well, we have an interesting show because, I thought for Halloween, It would be a good idea to go visit the grave sites of all of these people that we've been talking about all season.

And see if, you know, just see what kind of feeling I get when I'm there. Because I'm, I'm here local, so I could go out there and search for these grave sites. And I'll just tell you what I found out, Erika. And, interestingly enough, my partner in crime as I was doing all of this grave searching was our mother.

Because, yes, our mother is here visiting me in Atlanta from Nebraska. So she came [00:04:00] on all of these grave hunting missions with me. She's actually pretty good at, you know, the details. 

Erica: She's good at looking for graves because we spent most of my childhood doing that. That's 

Elizabeth: true. Oh, tell that story. Whose grave were you guys looking for?

She talked about this all, the whole time we were driving. 

Erica: Um, so our grandmother, her, her mother and father came to Nebraska from Mexico through the railroad. Our great grandpa worked on the railroad, so they just kind of worked their way. From Mexico to Nebraska, they had 14 kids, and some of them just kind of died along the way, as they do back then.

Back in the day. And, um, somewhere in Kansas or Missouri, one of grandma's older sisters, [00:05:00] Amelia, was buried as a baby. And the only thing we knew was some of the words like bluebird cemetery or something. So whenever we would go to Nebraska land days, we would stop at every single cemetery. And I think we even made special trips out just to do that.

Looking for this weird cemetery to find Amelia, it became like this hyper focus. And then years later, mom told me like, Oh, well, actually we probably could have found her because your grandma spoke to some neighbors and they had moved the cemetery. And grandma just didn't want to go ask the neighbors where they moved the cemetery to.

Elizabeth: Right. You got really, really close. And then grandma like had a block, like she just couldn't do it.

Erica: Yeah, she couldn't do it. And when mom told me that I almost set my hair on fire. I was like, it's like, uh, 

Elizabeth: You spent years of your [00:06:00] childhood wandering through random cemetery. 

Erica: I'm like a creep because I'm like, Let's go check out that cemetery.

Elizabeth: Well, that's exactly what we did this week. Yeah. That's exactly what we did. 

Erica: Well, I'm sure mom was just living her old glory days.  

Elizabeth: Yeah, no, she was very helpful actually. So, I, I'm gonna tell you what I found. So, I thought we need to find, we need to go visit the Lady of the Lake for sure. That was kind of like stop one.

Hold on one second. Mother, I hate to tell you, but the moving of the chairs comes through my earphones. That's okay. It's a very sensitive microphone. Down there moving furniture and vacuuming, doing the floors. That's what mommy does when she comes visit. 

Erica: What was that? What was that line that you remembered from the others?

Elizabeth: The day mommy went mad , 

Erica: the day mommy went mad. 

Elizabeth: So when we were driving [00:07:00] around looking for cemeteries, we listened to that episode. So mom had never, she had seen a lot of the clips of our podcast, but she'd never listened to an entire episode from start to finish. So we really, yeah. So we listened to that one.

Erica: Okay. What'd she think? 

Elizabeth: Yeah, she thought it was funny. She was laughing. Okay. Yeah. 

Erica: Good . Anyway. 

Elizabeth: Okay. So the Lady of the Lake, I thought. Would be one of the top priorities. So Delia Mae Parker Young. And then I also wanted to find Susie Roberts. So just to recap, if you haven't listened, like a lot of people haven't listened to every single episode, which is fine.

Erica: Now we're discovering , 

Elizabeth: we forgive you. But the lady of the Lake, this was in the 1950s. Two women went out dancing. Delia Mae Parker Young and Susie Roberts. And Delia borrowed a blue dress for the occasion. They were in a blue Ford, they gassed up their car, and then they were never [00:08:00] seen again in Dawsonville, and about 18 months later a discovery was made of a, of a body wearing remnants of a blue dress.

She was, that body was never officially identified and then decades later in 1990, they were building a new bridge in the area and when they dredged the lake they discovered the blue Ford and the remains of Susie Roberts inside and then that was when they identified by default the previous remains that were found.

They identified her as Delia Mae Parker Young. So, That is the story of the Lady of the Lake, there's really two of them, but Delia Mae Parker Young is the apparition, the most commonly seen apparition at Lake Lanier. And we've talked many, many episodes about her, we've heard stories about her, she saved a little girl's life, uh, Eric and I spoke to her using a [00:09:00] spirit box, and uh, so she's, she's definitely there.

in spirit. She is buried in Alta Vista Cemetery. It's a huge cemetery in Gainesville. So we drove out there and we had an area where, you know, that we found in line that it said where her grave was. So we're here we are like looking at the map and trying to find section FG and we wandered around for a good long time, drove around looking and like trying to figure out this map and we don't think that the streets were marked the same as what Google Maps was marked.

So we were kind of getting frustrated. And I think we're we're getting ready to stop. 

Erica: Yeah. 

Elizabeth: And then I went on like, Find a grave or something, findagrave. com or something, and I put in her name and it had a GPS dot on it. So I was like, oh, let's just see what happens if we walk towards the blue dot. Maybe it'll lead us right to it and it did.

[00:10:00] And it was nowhere, where we thought it was, like, according to the map. So, whatever. Uh, we found it, and there were flowers on it. And there was a little heart figurine that said, Love you, Mom. And there were some coins. And then it said, Delia Mae Parker Young, September 21st, 1935 to April 16th, 1958.

And, uh, yeah. It was a beautiful, uh, Beautiful cemetery, beautiful place in the cemetery, right under a huge oak tree, and surrounded by some really, really old, um, graves, including some of, a lot of Confederate soldiers. Interestingly enough, um, it was very interesting. I mean, once you start looking around at Graves grave sites and you start reading the tombstones, you know, you start to get kind of interested in like who that person is.

Erica: Yeah. 

Elizabeth: Um, [00:11:00] and then we found one right next to hers, and it was this, um, Confederate soldier, and it said, it had a plaque on it that said, Cooper B. Scott, 1st South Carolina Infantry. And then it says, Cooper B. Scott's obituary states, he fired the first cannon at Fort Sumter, South Carolina at the beginning of the American Civil War.

Whoa. Uh huh. Okay. I know. I'm like, gee, what a legacy to have. Yeah. But lots of confederate flags and, you know, like all over. So it turns out that, um, Susie is buried in the same cemetery. So we're like, yay, that's easy. We went on another hunt for hers, and that was also hard to But we did find it eventually.

She is buried, uh, in the same cemetery [00:12:00] with her family. Her family is all nearby. And her gravestone says, in memory of our mother, no, no, no. Okay. So on her tombstone, it says Susie S. Roberts missing in memory of our mother. So they put that tombstone there cause she wasn't found until 1990. Right. He was missing for 30 years.

And then a separate marker is above her, above that tombstone. And it says. Died April 1958, found November 1990. Wow. So they went back and put the marker about, you know, when she actually died and when she was found. Oh. So sad. That cemetery did not feel, it did not feel spooky or creepy. I didn't get any unsettling vibes.

We were there during the brightest time of day. Sure. You just kind of think about the lives of the people who. [00:13:00]We're there. And it is interesting because a lot of the families are buried together. So it's like, it's like, it'll have one big headstone that sticks up with the last name on it. And then around it will be like the mother, the father, the kids, whatever, you know.

Erica: There's some like that where our grandpa's buried. 

Elizabeth: So that was cool. That was the first one that we did. And I was glad that we found that because the Lady of the Lake is just, you know, so symbolic of It kind of everything that we've been talking about. It was beautiful to see the flowers there. I was glad to see that.

I don't know who put them there

Erica: Someone's keeping up with it. 

Elizabeth: Yeah. Which is great. And then I thought probably the next easiest one to find would be May Crow. Just to recap on May Crow for those listening. May Crow. Is, uh, the woman [00:14:00] who was found attacked. She was not dead yet when she was found.

In 1912, she was a young white woman in the city of Oscarville. Oscarville had a large up and coming black community. She was found attacked. Three young black men were accused of the crime. One of the black men was lynched before he got a trial or any kind of due process. And the other two were convicted of murder because she did later die.

They were convicted of murder and they were hung. And then that's what set off a wave of racial violence. And the white residents of Oscarville basically terrorized the remaining black residents and chased them out of the area. And then no black residents lived there for 75 years. And Oprah came and did a show to talk about why no black resident had [00:15:00] lived in Forsyth County for 75 years, literally since 1912, like from 1912 to 1990.

So they, that mob succeeded in basically racially cleansing that area. That was their goal and they achieved it. Anyways, uh, May Crowe. Alright, so we went in search of May Crowe's grave. It was in this. It's smaller, much smaller cemetery called Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. Very, very country church vibe.

Small cemetery on a grassy hill and she is buried on her tombstone. It says born September 16th, 1893.

And then it has a quote at the bottom that says she hath won the victory after life was hid with gods. I don't really get [00:16:00] that. And I don't get what, I don't know what that means. And she's buried next to her parents. Her parents names are L. A. And then parentheses, it says Bud. So he must have went by Bud and Azzy Crow.

That is the story of Mae Crow. And that had such a large and lasting effect on Forsyth County and Oscarville. Like you said, It's still talked about today. It's still extremely controversial, but whatever she went through, she was attacked and she was murdered and her killer was never brought to justice.

Yeah. So that brings us to the next graves that I searched for. This is a different story. I searched for Rob Edwards, Ernest Knox, and Oscar Daniels grave. Okay. Those are the three black men that were accused of that crime. And [00:17:00]unsurprisingly, I found nothing. So think this through a little bit. Okay, it's 1912.

You're a black man who has just been a convicted murderer and then executed. What are they going to do with your body? 

Erica: They're just going to throw you in a ditch somewhere.

Elizabeth: They're going to throw you in a ditch somewhere. And then on top of that, they probably, this was Oscarville. So they put you in a, in an unmarked grave somewhere randomly and not documented.

Well, so when the U S government did buy that land that you're buried on, they didn't know, they don't know you're there and they don't know to move you. So they're probably in the lake. They literally probably are at the bottom of that lake. Yeah. Because, all right, so here's what I did find, okay. [00:18:00] There's a book by Robert David Coughlin.

It's called Lake Lanier. A storybook site. It's basically the most comprehensive textbook about land acquisitions that exists. He has documented every cemetery that the U S army Corps of engineers purchase in Forsyth County. So for example, it's like a plot of land and then it says unnamed cemetery, 0. 25 acres.

bought for 10. And then here's another example. Old Beaver Ruin Cemetery, one acre, bought for 50. Unnamed Cemetery, Thornton Cemetery. So all of these are examples that there's record of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers purchasing these pieces of land for a certain amount of money. And all that's in this book is the record of the [00:19:00] purchase.

It doesn't have the record of the moving of the cemetery. 

Erica: They probably didn't move them all. 

Elizabeth: They probably didn't move them all. So let me tell you what I did find. Island Ford Baptist Church, established in 1832. Oh, actually this was my favorite cemetery to visit, and I did this one by myself. It's off a, off a quiet road, and it's surrounded by a heavily wooded area.

So it does feel very isolated. Walking through, I'm looking at the dates, There's, there's 1800s, there's confederate flags, you know, on some of them and all this and that. And then I walk over and I see this marker. It's not a tombstone, but it is a marker. So I walk over and I read it and it says, in memoriam, three graves moved in 1957 from within Buford [00:20:00] Dam and Reservoir Project.

Included are graves from Thornton, California. Cemetery and Shoal Creek Cemetery erected by Corps of Engineers U. S. Army. So, they put a marker there saying there's some graves here that have been moved, but it doesn't say which ones. Right, and I kept walking back. I wanted to walk. I was walking towards the woods and Because there was like a little fence and so I walked over to the fence to the border and that it was bordered against these really tall trees in this thick wooded area and There were these rows and rows of brown wooden crosses On the ground.

They didn't have names, but clearly they were markers of people buried. Yeah. [00:21:00] So then I wondered, what does that mean? Yeah. What does that mean? And it's off in its own section. You know, I'm just speculating here, but is that where, I mean, you know that they had separate cemeteries for Yeah. 

Erica: Yeah. You're saying it's black people, probably, they didn't even bother to get the names, probably keep the families together, they were like, well, We're just going to put them over here.

Elizabeth: I don't know if somebody is listening and they have another, if they, if they know what that's about, I want to hear it because I don't know. And there was no, the church was completely empty. There wasn't a single person there. Cause I, I would have gone in and asked. Um, so there's just these wooden crosses, no names of several rows of them.

And then each wooden cross had a stone next to it, like a heavy stone, you know, [00:22:00] nothing written on it. And then I walked even further back because I saw another marker, and that was a marker of National Park Service border, so I thought that was interesting. So we're, we're clearly in national, something going on federal, you know what I mean?

Yeah. Even though it's, even though it's at a church. Like I said, that's just my, that's where my mind went because I knew what I was looking for. 

Erica: That's pretty likely. If that makes sense

Elizabeth: Um, so maybe they did relocate some Black cemeteries, but they didn't get the benefit of having the record kept of their names and who they are and where they were put.

Erica: Mm hmm. 

Elizabeth: And then there's um, another cemetery and that is a Beaver Ruin cemetery that's in Cumming and that has another marker and it says in memoriam. Site A. 44 graves moved in [00:23:00] 1956 from within Beauford Dam and Reservoir Project included our graves from Hendrick Cemetery, Welbonne Cemetery, Old Beaver Ruin Cemetery, and unnamed grave.

Erected by Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army. So that correlates with that record of unnamed cemetery bought for 50 in the fifties, but it doesn't say which, which or which, I mean, there has to be a record somewhere of that. You would think somewhere, I mean, I don't know.

Erica: They could have kept some record while they were doing it, but because of just the racism, I'm sure that they really just didn't care.

If there was a record, it's probably lost. 

Elizabeth: Or the family has the record, but you know that the families were all chased out. Well, [00:24:00] yeah, they were all chased out. So if in 1912, if they had loved ones buried in Oscarville, well, they're leaving, they're leaving their houses and their farms behind. Yeah, you know, so wherever they end up maybe the story is with them and passed down to subsequent generations But I think that's the only way that Anyone would ever be able to figure out Mm hmm where you know 

Erica: if they were even notified that this was gonna happen 

Elizabeth: Right, because if they left in 1912, they did this damning in the 50s.

Erica: Yeah, there's a Pretty big time period there. And I mean, I can't see the Army Corps of Engineers really going through the trouble of finding the, the following generations, 

Elizabeth: you know? So we get a lot of comments on TikTok and stuff about, you know, my ancestors are buried there, and then people wanna come back and say, no, they weren't buried there.

You know, because everyone had plenty of [00:25:00] time to get out before they damned, which is true, but look. I mean, 

Erica: there's still graves. 

Elizabeth: There was still a thriving community there. And the population that was not cared about. Yeah. They, no one took the trouble to move them. So of course there, there definitely are bodies under that lake.

Erica: Yeah. There definitely are. There definitely is. 

Elizabeth: I mean, nobody's being dramatic about it. No, but that's just a fact. They have to be there. Yeah. 

Erica: Yeah. 

Elizabeth: They have to be. So anyways, um, I thought, well, darn, I just don't think there's any way I could find the, where those three men are buried. The closest thing that I could find was in Forsyth County.

And this actually made me extremely emotional. I got really choked up. So there is a plaque in downtown Forsyth. Forsyth County right [00:26:00] outside the courthouse and I'm going to read the whole plaque in its entirety. Okay. It says, lynching in Forsyth County. On September 10th, 1912, a 24 year old black man named Rob Edwards was lynched and hung in downtown Cumming.

During this era, deep racial hostility burdened black people with presumptions of guilt, often resulting in accusations that were unfounded and unreliable. On September 10th, Mr. Edwards and two black teenagers were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the fatal assault of a young white woman named Mae Crow.

White residents of Forsyth County responded to the arrests and accusations by forming a mob of at least 2, 000 participants. Storming the jail, the mob found Mr. Edwards in his cell, brutally beat him with a crowbar, and repeatedly shot him. The mob then dragged Mr. Edwards through the streets where his mutilated [00:27:00] body was hung in the town square and left on display.

Mr. Edwards lynching and the subsequent mob violence terrorized the remaining 1, 098 black residents of Forsyth County who fled the county in fear. The loss of black owned property in order to flee arbitrary mob violence was common during this era, and Forsyth's black residents left behind their homes and farms to escape, taking with them only what they could carry.

Forsyth County would remain essentially all white until the 1990s. No one was held accountable for Mr. Edwards lynching or the mass exodus. A black residence that followed like all victims of racial terror lynchings, Rob Edwards died without due process of law. So I'm standing there in this downtown courthouse and imagining a person [00:28:00]hanging

and a mob around person dying, suffering, being tortured, probably cheering it on. 

Erica: Can you imagine just how hopeless? You would feel 

Elizabeth: he was hung from a telephone pole. He may have died of shot wounds before being hanged Let's pray to God that he did.

Erica: Yeah, hopefully but they beat him with a crowbar first

Elizabeth: The Atlanta Georgian reported that the the corpse was mangled into something hardly resembling a human form Oh my gosh Yeah, so That kind of solidified, to me, all the people who want to make comments on what we're talking about and say, we don't know what we're talking about or they want to [00:29:00] soften that part of history.

Yeah, I don't care what you think. I'm glad that there's still a plaque there that says this. Right, right there, right in the middle of downtown coming. 

Erica: Because I, I know, I don't know why everybody just gets all up in arms and it's like, sorry, you can't just forget that these things happened. 

Elizabeth: Yeah, it reminds me of when we talked to Tina, remember Tina, whatever episode that was from, and she was talking about how her, uh, her, she did a genealogy test and her ancestors were all Confederate soldiers.

Erica: Oh, yeah, that's a real bummer. 

Elizabeth: But you know, she doesn't feel defensive about that. She's like, well, now we're all poor forever. And I guess that's karma. Like, but I love like that she specifically said, like, just because of all this, she cannot stand. Some of the talk that goes on about minorities, [00:30:00] like she just can't stomach it, you know, and so I, I'm happy to hear that kind of perspective, like it, you know, I'm, I think she's like a really brave person to talk about it so openly, because a lot of people do get so defensive of their, their ancestors, you know, they do

Erica: You know, whatever, they believed what they believed for whatever reason, and that doesn't mean that you are them just because they're your ancestors. I got really scared when I was doing our ancestry for the Irish side. Because Bunch of drunks. No, for sure. Um, but I, I didn't know, I was pretty young, I think, and I did, I found the federal census, you know, forms that people would fill out and I found one for every year and it states on there, if you own any slaves.

And so I didn't even know what the [00:31:00] federal census was. And so I was like, wait, what is this weird slip that they're filling out every year? And I was like, thank God you didn't own any slaves. I mean, they were dirt poor and 

Elizabeth: yeah. 

Erica: They just drank all their money away. So, um, yeah, that is, it's good to just own, like, I don't know.

You don't have to feel guilty or defensive of your ancestors. It wasn't you. 

Elizabeth: It's so, it's so important to keep these stories alive. I mean, It just, it is so important. And I'm so glad that these stories, like the ones that we've talked about, those are just a few that have made it to our ears. You know what I mean?

Erica: Oh, I can't even imagine the things that we don't know. 

Elizabeth: Countless. I don't know. I don't know what else to say except for like, this is just such a, an interesting and like horrifying part of history and it's worked its way into the paranormal and all of these [00:32:00] legends and lore and, you know, and it's fun to talk about ghosts, but you also have to think about like, where is this coming from?

Because like anytime you have paranormal activity, right? Like we've talked about this before. The theory is it always comes from a place of trauma. So, oh my gosh, can you think of anything more traumatic than like what I just described? Yeah. Yeah. You know, um, so, and, and countless more stories like that, that, you know, and we're, I mean, this is season one, but we're going to come back for season two and we'll, we'll find more stories.

These are, these are on the surface, like these are things on the surface. 

Erica: And I mean, it's interesting and it should be talked about and remembered. 

Elizabeth: If you're listening, let's try not to be horrifying in the future. Yeah. So like, you know, it's, it's fine to talk about these things to, uh, to not repeat. 

Erica: No, it is.

And there should be plaques and there should be [00:33:00] descriptions of what happened. People should be horrified by it. 

Elizabeth: So I'm going to make TikTok videos of all of these graves. So if you're listening and you want to see these because, you know, I was there in person. I took lots of video and pictures and everything.

I'm going to put some videos together for TikTok. So make sure you follow us on TikTok at LinearGhostTours. Oh, here's another little tidbit. The other two men, okay, Rob Edwards was lynched basically immediately. The other two men, Ernest Knox and Oscar Daniel, they got a small amount of due process in like the next month or two, but they were sentenced to death by hanging and they were executed October 25th.

1912. Oh, today is October 24th. So we are coming up on the anniversary of their death sentence of their, their execution. Oh gosh. [00:34:00] I just thought all this coming together the week right before Halloween, the week of our season one finale, like it's just, it's, it's a lot of coincidences going on here. 

Erica: Yeah, that's, that is interesting.

And how many years ago? What year was it? 1912. I can't do maths. 

Elizabeth: 112 years ago right?

Erica: 12. Good job. . 

Elizabeth: Well, I do have a master's degree. . Yeah. . 

Elizabeth: I can do basic math sometimes. So I did some cemetery hunting, uh, with our mother. That's what I did This lovely pre Halloween week. 

Erica: That's a good, good way to end it.

And I'm sure she loved it. 

Elizabeth: So I asked her if she wanted to say hi on the podcast, but I think she was thinking about it, but then she said no. So Erica. Uh, over our [00:35:00] season one journey, what are some of your fond memories? 

Erica: What was that chick's name that we did? Uh, yeah, Alyse. That was cool. Yeah. I think doing the interview with her was a lot of fun.

So that was probably my highlight.

Elizabeth: Let me tell you the worst memory.

Erica: I probably can guess.

Elizabeth: What?
Erica: When you were at the late? 

Elizabeth: Oh, no, that's not that. No, no, no, the worst memory was the worst episode. Anyways, was the one I don't remember what number it was. But we started the episode, and you had already drink three glasses of wine.

Oh, we're already pretty toasted. And then no, listen, we recorded the entire episode. So then we drank for like [00:36:00]another hour. 45 minutes or whatever. We finished the episode and I looked at the zoom and I went, Erica! I did not press record! 

Erica: We, yeah, and then we had to start all over

Elizabeth: because we're on a super tight time schedule and we did not have a single, like, another spare hour in our life for the next week to record the dang thing again.

So by the time we were done, 

Erica: I was completely hammered. And, I mean, then we're trying to remember, like, we were being funny and good. We did really good!

Elizabeth: And We lost all of our funny, witty jokes. Yeah. We were trying to recreate them. We were just trying to remember, like, what, wait, what did I say about this?

Like We were going over symbology. Like, yeah, and I remember like, oh, that was all I got is crap up again. 

Elizabeth: So now I'm incredibly OCD about checking the recording. Make [00:37:00] sure it's actually recording. Oh my gosh, that was awful. 

Erica: Yeah, that's, that's true. That was sad. 

Elizabeth: I have really enjoyed this season, uh, learning about Lake Lanier.

I mean, geez, I think we're experts on it now. Like, we're pretty close to experts. 

Erica: Yeah, I would say so. I mean, I just can't believe that there's enough there for this long, for a whole season of a podcast. Cause there's just that much trauma and suffering. Sadness to talk about. 

Elizabeth: I think that, so when we come back for season two, we'll, we'll expand our circle to talk about other things.

Cause I've, we've got some suggestions. I actually want to do a whole episode on shadow people. You know, the shadow people that you said that you see because other people say they see them too. 

Erica: You've never seen one?

Elizabeth: I've never seen a shadow person. [00:38:00] No, I don't think so.

Erica: Like just out of the corner of your eye, you think like, no.

Watch my lights go out again. If that happens, I'm just gonna scream. 

Elizabeth: And I'm, you know, I'm excited. Erica is going to come to Atlanta in a couple of days. Woohoo. And she's going to help me with the last, uh, ghost tour. Yes. So that one, I'm really looking forward to that. And that, our ghost tour on Halloween is our very last ghost tour of Lake Lanier by boat that you can do this season.

And then we're going to take a break for the winter months, and we're going to come back for more. Fresh next spring and it's going to be fantastic. Bunch of new ideas. And so I'm, I'm really excited about everything that's coming up. So, all right. Well, everybody, thank you for listening. 

Erica: Yes. Thank you, everybody.

Elizabeth: All, all dozens of you. All dozens. 

Erica: [00:39:00] Yes. 

Elizabeth: Um, but no, this has been a lot of fun. I think you, I think everyone should start a podcast. Tell me when you start it and I'll subscribe to you. 

Erica: Yeah, 

Elizabeth: it's 

Erica: fun. 

Elizabeth: I hope you have a happy Halloween and a great spooky season. And make sure You follow us on TikTok and Instagram and Facebook at Lanier Ghost Tours.

Thanks for joining us on season one of Spirits Uncorked Under the Water.

Elizabeth: Hey mom, you want to say hi real quick?
Mom: Hi girls.
Erica: And that's the wrap up from our mother.