110. Hales Bar Dam

Is This a Ghost?

In the first of what is probably destined to be some sort of suite of dam episodes, we're tackling the Hales Bar Dam. Which is a surprisingly unknown name for what is apparently the most haunted dam in the U.S.! Also, it's actually very bad at damming.

This is the story of the Hales Bar Dam. Come for the ghosts, stay for M-16 pocket protectors, MCU Donny, the meany lessons of Poltergeist, land investor Dracula, you can eat a horse, mom got the big suck, Schrödinger’s town, and normal naked dude.

Sources:

• https://samterryskentucky.com/kentucky-history/f/the-treaty-of-sycamore-shoals
• https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/03/13/dragging-canoe-true-american-indian-hero/81501938/
• https://www.visitchattanooga.com/blog/post/whats-hiding-in-the-tennessee-river/
• https://www.nativehistoryassociation.org/dragging_canoe.php
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Treaty-of-Sycamore-Shoals
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania_Colony
• https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/primary-source-transylvania
• https://ghostresearch.org/Investigations/hales.html
• https://hauntedus.com/tennessee/hales-bar-dam-and-marina/
• https://tataandhoward.com/tag/hales-bar-dam/
• https://ghostresearch.org/Investigations/hales.html
• https://youtu.be/IMyiL2yi-ZY