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After years of fatalities and bizarre incidents, the Georgia reservoir has spawned countless ghost stories. Are they merely legend or the after-effects of a history steeped in racial trauma?

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In this installment of William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan’s serialized novel, Don Santiago reveals his astonishing ...

"They kept changing the date for the end of the world...1880...1914...1929...1974...2000... sheeze, end it already..." ...