Homespun Haints: True Ghost Stories
True ghost stories are scarier (and funnier) when you hear them from the real people who experienced them. We’re Becky and Diana, and we interview people who have seen ghosts--so you can feel their fear with them. Each episode features true, personal stories of ghosts, demons, haints, hauntings, haunted houses, and paranormal experiences, sprinkled with humorous conversations about the random strange events in our own haunted lives.
Homespun Haints: True Ghost Stories
Lake Lanier with Spirits Uncorked: Feed Swap
“This might hurt a little,” the lady in blue tells the four-year-old clinging to the roaring jet ski. Trees blur. The throttle won’t let go. What follows is a tragedy turned miracle, a fate that shouldn’t have been possible.
Today's episode is actually a loaner from Spirits Uncorked, a podcast all about the very haunted Lake Lanier. Their guest, Alyse, takes us back to her childhood at War Hill Park on Lake Lanier, just north of the Highway 53 bridge long linked to the Lady in Blue. You've heard Homespun Haints talk about Lake Lanier and what lies beneath it, but this first-hand ghost story is what really convinced us the legend must be true.
For more Lake Lanier ghost stories and history, subscribe to Spirits Uncorked at LanierGhostTours.com (or take a boat tour with them, if you dare).
Wanna hear Becky tell Diana about the source of her Lake Lanier phobia in a wickedly ribald tone? Well, Hainted Loves, you know you have to go to Patreon.com/HomespunHaints to hear the filthy stuff. This feed swap episode is also available in (partial) video format over on our Patreon.
Thank you to our friends at Southern Gothic Media for introducing us to Elizabeth and Erica of Spirits Uncorked!
Check out Southern Gothic's podcast at www.southerngothicmedia.com
Hello, Hainted Loves, and welcome to Homespun Haints. I'm Diana. However, today's episode does not feature me as the host. No, we've actually been gifted uh through our friends uh at Southern Gothic Media. We've been gifted an episode by Spirits Uncorked, a sister duo, Elizabeth and Erica, who have a podcast related specifically to ghost stories about Lake Lanier in Georgia. Now, you remember Lake Lanier because we've brought it up several times. It's the lake that was formed when a city was flooded and burned, and cemeteries may or may not have been fully relocated. And so this is a lake that's very frightening for very many reasons. Becky talks about it in our Patreon-only episode, Haunted Boat Ride on a Haunted Lake, and starts to tell you a little bit that we know about the legend of the lady in blue of the lake. However, Spirits Uncorked has an even more in-depth exploration of this legend and other paranormal stories associated with Lake Lanier, and they've actually managed to capture an interview of somebody who encountered the lady in blue on the lake when they were a child in a fascinating accident. And so I invite you to sit back and listen to this episode of Spirits Uncorked and let us know what you think. And if you like it, head on over to their website and subscribe. They actually not only have this podcast about Lake Lanier, but they do boat tours for ghosty people on Lake Lanier. So their website is Lanier Ghost Tours.com. I'll have that in the show notes to this episode. But let me know what you think because it sure sounds like this person encountered a legend.
SPEAKER_01:Imagine a childhood memory so intense, so mysterious, it leaves an indelible mark, not just in memory, but on your skin. Picture being just four years old, caught in a terrifying accident on the vast waters of Lake Lanier. In the chaos, a woman in a blue dress appears, saving your life, only to vanish without a trace. The scar on your forehead, a constant reminder of the day when reality blurred with something far beyond explanation. In this episode of Spirits Uncorked, Elise shares the thrilling true story of her encounter with the mysterious woman in blue. And cork a bottle with us for part two of First Hand Encounters on Lake Lanier. And continue to get to the bottom of the Lake Lanier mystery. Dive in with us. Today Erica and I continue to hear first-hand accounts from locals who grew up on Lake Lanier. Last week we heard from Zach and Tina. This week we are diving right in with our conversation with Elise, who has a fascinating true story that kept Erica and I on the edge of our seat. You don't want to miss this one.
SPEAKER_05:Hi. Hi. How are you? I'm good. How are y'all?
SPEAKER_01:Good. I'm Elizabeth, and this is my sister Erica. Hi.
SPEAKER_05:Hey.
SPEAKER_03:I gotta pour some wine.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Do you have a glass of wine?
SPEAKER_04:I do. So I picked up a bottle of Mayomi, which is my favorite, Pinot Noir. Great. Um, I thought I was gonna get a cab, but I just decided on a Pinot Noir.
SPEAKER_01:So very nice. Very nice. So do you want to just like introduce yourself?
SPEAKER_04:I'm Elise. Um, I currently live in South Carolina, but I grew up in Roswell, or as locals call it, Roswell. Um, I've I lived there for 24 years before moving to the upstate. I grew up on Lake Lanier. Um, we we used to go there every weekend until I was about eight years old, and then we started going to Lake Hartwell. So I have a lot of creepy experiences, but I would say the one with the scar on my forehead takes the cake.
SPEAKER_05:Can you see it? Oh my gosh. You see it? Yeah, I do. Oh my gosh. Okay.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Um, so I work in sales, I have six kids and I'm happily married. Um, I have not been back since you said you have six kids.
SPEAKER_05:Yes, yes, I do.
SPEAKER_03:How old are you? I do.
SPEAKER_05:I'm 34. Um, you look like you're in your 20s. Yeah. What? Thank you. I'm 34 also.
SPEAKER_03:I'm blushing. But oh my gosh, six kids. Yes, yeah. Oh good for you.
unknown:Thank you.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, good for you.
SPEAKER_01:God bless, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I have a dog and a cat.
SPEAKER_04:That's awesome. I love it.
SPEAKER_01:I've got two boys, and they're they're probably equal to six. 100%.
SPEAKER_04:I have all girls, so I would say that boys, two boys is the equivalent of six years, but I kind of love that.
SPEAKER_03:A girl house.
SPEAKER_01:That's really cool.
SPEAKER_05:Thank you.
SPEAKER_01:So she recently went pretty viral on TikTok because she put out a video about her story at Lake Lanier that happened when she was four years old. So I already know the story because I watched somebody tagged me in it. Somebody tagged me in the video and said you should talk to her. And so I was like, ooh, I watched the video and I was like, oh my gosh, it's amazing. So would you mind sharing your story? And Eric, Eric has never heard it. She didn't watch the video or anything.
SPEAKER_04:Like I said, I grew up on the lake, so we would go there all the time. It was the week after. So you have to rewind 30 years, right? It was the week after my fourth birthday. We went to the lake. It was my dad and his friend Jay. So just the three of us. Um, my dad had stand-up jet skis. So his friend and him were taking turns riding the stand-up jet skis. And when my dad came back from riding, his friend was watching me. I jumped on the back of the white jet ski and was just playing around, kicking my feet, splashing in the water when his friend turned on the jet ski. So this is before bilge pumps on stand-up jet skis. The reason he turned it on was to get the water out of it so it wouldn't sink. Okay. However, it scared me. I was a little kid. I was only four years old. As an adult, that would not scare me. But as a child, it terrified me. I flipped around within like a millisecond, my dad says, and I grabbed the handlebars. I didn't just grab the handlebars, unfortunately, I grabbed the throttle. And so before they could yank me off of the ski, I turned the handlebars like this, and I went flying because I my hand locked. I'll never forget that feeling in my hand. I've never gripped something so hard in my life, but I was, it was pure terror. I was so scared by the sound of the engine that I just my hands just froze, like in a complete like fight or flight moment.
SPEAKER_06:Sure.
SPEAKER_04:They were locked and there was nothing. And I remember my like butt would just kept hitting the bottom of the jet ski because I was so light. I was about 30 pounds. I was really small for a four-year-old. Um, so I'm going and I'm just going straight and I can see everything. The tree trees are flying by as fast as possible next to me. And Lake Lanier is a super wooded area, as you all know. There's trees everywhere. I can't hear my dad at all throughout this entire experience. Um, but I know that he was screaming and swimming and telling me to hit the red button. There was not a kill switch on this type of jet ski. It was made in the 80s, so there wasn't that lanyard that most people have nowadays. Long story short, I'm flying, the trees are flying, I feel the wind, and I'm just like so at peace, even though I'm terrified, because it's kind of fun to ride a jet ski. Yeah. And I look over to my left and I'm getting chills thinking about it, but I look over to my left, and there is a woman, and she is sitting on her knees, and she has the most beautiful blonde, flowy hair. It's almost to her waist, and she has on this gorgeous, like it's a almost aquamarine teal kind of knit top, something like a like crocheted almost. And she she looks me in my eyes and she has these beautiful, they're almost like greenish, bluish. They're they're not brown. My eyes are brown, they're not brown. And my mind still to this day, 30 years later, they're green eyes, but I can't confirm or deny that. It's been a long time. Yeah. She says to me, This may hurt a little bit, or this might hurt a little bit, but everything will be okay. And I said, What might hurt? And I, because I was a little kid and I look back straight and I hit the rock. Um, there's like a rock embankment. I hit the rock embankment. This is where I cognitively do not remember anything, but I can tell you what was told by witnesses and what I said in the days after that. I flew up, I hit a tree where they had cut off a branch, and the branch like went in kind of like a circle into my head.
SPEAKER_03:Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_04:There was about 20 witnesses because it was at a campground. They said I, after I hit the tree, I was suspended in the air like this, and then I fell face first into the water. So like I went backwards in the air into the water. Wow. I remember hitting the water and thinking like I couldn't breathe because it was such a there was so much force behind it. Right. I was looking in the water, looking all around, and I could see the blood like from my head mixing with the water. And my four-year-old mind, I had just gotten back from the beach and I was really concerned about like a shark, which obviously as an adult, I would never be concerned about that. But I was very concerned about that. And I remember thinking, wow, like that looks really pretty because blood mixed with water in my four-year-old mind looks really pretty. And then um, no sooner I was about to take a breath because I could finally had kind of gained a little bit of hot ability. Yeah, and you got like the wind knocked out of you, and now you're okay. Yeah. And um I felt my life jacket get really tight, and then I was yanked up, and this man yanked me up and he grabbed me. And right then, as he was grabbing me, that just I could feel the blood like coming into my eyes, and it was really hot and it was everywhere. Um, and he was sobbing, like uncontrollably sobbing while he, I mean, he just witnessed this absolutely terrifying thing. Um, and he's holding me and he said, and I said to him, Is my nose bleeding? And he said, Yes, baby, everything's bleeding, like shh sh, like and she he kept screaming, like, she's alive, the baby's alive, the baby's alive. He's getting up the wrong embankment. Um, and he's starting to slip with me in his hands. And a gentleman who lived in the area who just happened to be passing by, like, saw this commotion and saw him running and grabs the back of him and yanks him up there. And then long story, it's a lot of stuff going on. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So the the craziest part is I had no concussion, I had no broken bones. I yeah, there was nothing wrong with my skull. You could see my skull though. You could you could physically see it. My mom says that when she got to the hospital because she was not with us, it was a big circle like this, and it was just gaping, and you could see my entire skull.
SPEAKER_03:Um, so terrifying.
SPEAKER_04:I yeah, and I had told her, and this this part I don't remember, but I I mean, I told her that when I hit the tree, the lady in the blue dress, that's what I called her, the lady in the blue dress, grabbed me by my um arm and my leg and threw me over her shoulder as she flew away. And that's the reason I got back in the water.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, wow. Yeah. So yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So we have some follow-up questions.
SPEAKER_03:Sure. I mean, first of all, that's gotta be terrifying for your parents. But I mean, you're telling your mom these stories, you don't really remember. And you're just telling her like this initial thing. Like, was your mom freaked out? Like, what is her reaction to like the things that you were saying?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, so my mom has always believed in like spirits and angels and everything like that. So she just said, whoever that was, regardless if they were a ghost or if they were an angel, that like I was protected. And for some reason she didn't know why, but I was. And oh wow. So I've kept that, I've carried that with me. I mean, I see this every day. Like, yeah, there's no way around it.
unknown:Oh, wow.
SPEAKER_04:But she was, she was like, she was freaked out by I told her the entire story. Like, when I got, I was fine. I didn't have any sort of memory loss when I got to the hospital because the paramedics came there and they were like, She looks fine. I mean, I was talking, I wanted to get up, no one would let me get up. I remember being incredibly frustrated. A four-year-old has a lot of energy. I had a ton of energy as a child. So having to like lay, they just told me to like lay down in this bed of this truck until the paramedics got there. I was so annoyed. I remember just being like, Can I get up now? And they'd be like, Oh, don't get up. And I everyone, all the adults around me were terrified by what they're doing.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Because not only did I hit the tree and they all saw that, I flew backwards in the air. And it there was nothing, it's like my dad says it looked like I was on a string and kind of just went like this and then fell. Oh, the doctors at the hospital had pulled my mom out of the room, uh, my mom and my dad out of the room and said, like, after all the tests came back, and they said she shouldn't be alive. Like, there's no way that she should have hit a tree with that much force and be alive. Like, there this is a miracle. We have no idea.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, how fast were you going? You said your hand like locked, probably holding the yeah, like throttle or whatever. So you're just lying.
SPEAKER_01:When did somebody point out to you, or did anyone point out to you like there's this legend about a woman in blue at the lake?
SPEAKER_04:So that I learned about that about a few months ago, which is crazy. My mom actually was the one who said, Elise, did you have you heard about this lady in blue at the lake? I was like, What are you talking about? My lake, my like where I where I was.
SPEAKER_01:And you had never heard that before.
SPEAKER_04:No, I had never heard it. Um, and the story has never changed. It's been the same since I was four. I mean, she's I can I can see her in my mind so clear, I could draw you a picture. I the the crocheted dress that she was wearing is absolutely gorgeous. I mean, it's just this, it looks like something that you would wear not in this time period. And that's what I always told my mom as I got older and could still remember everything. I still can remember it. Like, it doesn't look like she's from, you know, our our time. She's not from the 90s. I saw all these TikToks and I was like, oh my gosh, I wonder if that is the woman. So crazy.
SPEAKER_01:That is so crazy. Because Eric and I, we did a whole episode on The Lady of the Lake. And so we know that there were two women who died, but we know that only one is seen because she's wearing a blue dress, and that's Adelia May. But I'm not sure that I've ever seen a photograph of her. So I would be I would be interested in trying to find a photograph of her. It was reported that she was wearing a blue dress that night when she died. Yeah. Yeah. They found Susie Roberts. I've seen a picture of her, the other woman who died.
SPEAKER_03:So I just looked her up. Thank you. While you were talking. I was like, we actually have never talked about what she looked like necessarily. Okay, so the only pictures I'm finding are black and white, but she has long blonde hair. Um, I can't tell that make you freak out a little bit. Yeah, it actually like I have goosebumps.
SPEAKER_04:That freaks me out.
SPEAKER_03:I can't tell what color eyes she has, but I'm sure we could. Okay. This is gonna be not oh yeah, that's not very good.
SPEAKER_01:But yeah, she's got long, light colored hair.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, her hair was like, it was almost Barbie blonde. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know if you listened to that episode of our podcast that we did, but because we talked about, I think it was the second episode. Um, we talked about how they died and that, and then we came up with theories why she's the only one who is seen and not her friend. And the only thing that we can come up with is that she took decades to be properly identified. Actually, no, not even. She was never properly identified. She was identified by default because they found the other woman. So they assumed like that this these other remains were her. They never officially identified her to this day. That was our theory. And then the other thing is okay, let me ask you this. People say when they see her that she doesn't have hands. Did she have hands?
SPEAKER_03:Do you even remember registering?
SPEAKER_04:Because I mean, she had hands.
SPEAKER_01:She had hands.
SPEAKER_04:She had hands.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, okay. She was like just her physical body does does not have hands. Erica and I, we went to the area where she died with a spirit box, and we asked her if she was at peace now and if she had her hands. And I think her reply was it was something like perfect universe or something like that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, she like she's happy, she's comfortable.
SPEAKER_01:Right. So we felt like that was her saying, like, she's complete and at peace. But you know, there's oh, that's amazing. I can't believe that. That's cute that she was looking out for you. Yeah. You want to hear something else about her? She had an infant daughter when she died. Oh, daughter.
SPEAKER_03:Maybe there's like a maternal instinct there. Like, I mean, I think most women do have that anyway, but I mean, like, she she left behind just she was just a baby.
SPEAKER_01:She only had one daughter, and wow, there's some things there.
SPEAKER_03:Well, that's a really good story. Gotcha. Okay, so you went to Lake Lanier like every summer. Yeah. Have you heard like some other stories? Like, I mean, um you have to have friends who were there and stuff, right?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. I mean, yeah, so we would go camping when I was really young. We would go camping every weekend, pretty much, at least twice a month. We would go camping. Um, and I was always freaked out by the lake, but I couldn't really ever put it my like finger on it, what freaked me out, even as a little kid.
SPEAKER_01:So some people say I never suspected anything. And then some people are like, oh yeah, I always had a weird vibe. So there's a quite a bit quite a spectrum from locals. I so I just think it's interesting where people fall into the spectrum. So, did have you heard about Oscarville? And when did you hear about it? And how did you feel about it after you had learned it?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I was a teenager when I found out what had actually happened.
SPEAKER_01:Did you learn at school?
SPEAKER_04:Or no, they don't talk to talk about that at school. Absolutely not. No, I learned because one of my friends, um, her ancestors, like her great grandparents, lived in Oscarville. And I was saying about how we were gonna go. My friend had a houseboat. And so we would go up there on the weekends and go to her house boat on Lake Lanier. So cool. Which it was cool, but also again, I was so creeped out that they like everyone in my family would be like, Why won't you get in the water? And I'm like, I don't, there's something here. When I heard about Oscarville, And I was like I said, I was in high school. I was about 14 or 15. And I never swam in the lake again. Um, all of high school until I graduated. I was 18. I could drive a car, and we went back and I got in, and then I saw something under the water that looked like a hand, and I got out and I said, I'm not done. I'm done.
SPEAKER_01:And that's common too. That's a common thing that I hear.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Well, I mean, I think it's kind of a good time for us to even like touch on this. I mean, we talked about Oscarville in our very first episode.
SPEAKER_01:Before we knew like how angry it made people to talk about the local uh they don't want to talk about it.
SPEAKER_03:And so it's it's become a pretty serious issue. We don't have to get into all of that, but I mean, we're talking about historical facts here. We're not we're not explaining.
SPEAKER_01:We do talk about ghost stories, but like actually those come from historical facts.
SPEAKER_03:And but everything is documented. Beth has cited every single thing that we've talked about, like her sources and where we're getting this information. And I just had no idea that we would be facing um so many crazy comments and like local business owners. And I mean, it's insane the backlash just from this was a place that was here before. We're not saying that they washed the city out, we're not coming up with like the conspiracies. She's done actual videos of the actual timelines.
SPEAKER_01:So I feel like it would go a long way. And you can tell me what you think, Elise, is going to the lake and just sort of maybe you believe in this thing, maybe you don't, but sort of like clearing the air and like whatever injustices happen there, just recognize that it happened, you know, and like move forward. I think that would go a long way. And but people are so resistant to that kind of thing. I don't know. What do you think? What would it take you? What would it take for you to go back to the lake and kind of feel at peace?
SPEAKER_04:I think, oh, that's a great question. I've never I've never been asked that. And you know, it's funny is um up until about a year ago, my mom lived in Roswell. She doesn't anymore. Um, she lives closer to me now, but I would have to drive by the lake all the time. And um, my kids would be like, Can we go to Lake Lanier Islands? Because they've heard I said, Absolutely not. We can we can never go there. It's wow.
SPEAKER_01:So you wouldn't even go to that's like the the islands, it's like an amusement park. They've got like a swimming pool and they've got like a water park. You wouldn't even go there.
SPEAKER_04:No, I think I would walk the site again. I I do I as I get older and I appreciate life in a different way, right? When I was young and I got saved, there was no, I was just like, okay, whatever. You know, whoever saved me, whatever saved me, I do feel like needs a thank you. You know, um, I would love to walk the site again where that happened.
SPEAKER_01:Have you never you said it was at a campsite? Do you remember what campsite? I'm just curious.
SPEAKER_04:I wrote it down because I I have we've never been back. My parents, they we went back that next day, but never again. My mom was so traumatized, my dad. He still won't talk about what happened. Um, I asked him like when I made the TikTok, I asked him because someone had asked me some questions that I didn't know the answers to because I was four. I don't remember everything. Yeah. Um, and he was like, I don't, I can't talk about it. I blocked it all out. Um it was War Hill Park.
SPEAKER_03:It would be kind of cool to go back and do like uh I'm kind of like small ceremonies. What? No. No.
SPEAKER_01:What? Like almost too much for me. War Hill Park is right by Highway 53. It's right by the Dawsonville high the bridge where she died. It's right there. It's right by Highway 53, it's just north of Highway 53. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_04:Uh but you asked, what would it take for me to go back? I think I'm at peace enough that I could go back. I would love to say thank you to the person that saved me.
SPEAKER_03:You know, I'm I'm a big kind of like ceremony person. Like, I like to do little things for myself. I've always done that. Beth is still freaking out right now. But I mean, yeah, if there was something that you could do, you know, just personally for yourself, like alone, I bet that would feel really nice. I like to do things like that too. So that's crazy. But I mean, that's amazing that she literally intercepted this whole thing.
SPEAKER_01:Well, here's the thing about Lake Lanier, Elise, is that it, you know, that it's huge, it covers five counties. There's parks, there's dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of parks. And so you said Warhill Park. I just typed it in, and it's literally right next to the Highway 53 bridge, and that's where she died. I mean, I just think it's I I find it amazing. And it just kind of validates your story even more. Yeah, it really does. It really does. Because you are four years old, you don't know what park you're at when you're four, and so you, you know, you had to get this information. You would have no idea. Yeah, you had to get this information from your parents. So I mean, I just I just think it's fascinating and I love it, quite frankly. I really do. I love it, and I love that you said that you would be willing to go back now and just, you know, because it was such a I mean, that's a huge thing in somebody's life. So to go back and revisit that, I'm sure it would be difficult, but I think it's nice that you're willing to do that. I think you're an amazing person, just like you grew up and you had six daughters, and like I just I'm still stuck on that one. Yeah, I know. I'm still stuck on that one, but like, you know, and then you lived a really great life, you know. So I think I know it's great. Erica's Erica gets haunted all the time with her tech issues.
SPEAKER_03:Uh one moment, please.
SPEAKER_01:Every single time that she and I talk about spirits on Lake Lanier, like specific ones, her her lights go out, her microphone turns off. Every single time. It's not even funny anymore. We don't even I just I just sensitive. I literally just edit that part out because it's like it's so mundane at this point. Like, well, we're talking about Lanier.
SPEAKER_03:Like I live, um, so I live in Alexandria, Virginia, and it's a very old apartment building, and I'm kind of like half in the basement, half, you know. So I I don't know, it's not like creepy here. I don't ever get scared, but um, yeah, I don't know. Like my stuff is always messing up. Is it do you think it's haunted? You know, to be honest, so we really hope so. I just have not gotten any kind of like vibes, you know. I don't even get like a feeling, like there's nothing.
SPEAKER_01:I know, like I'm imprinting on you. I want your apartment to be haunted. Like I really want it to be.
SPEAKER_03:Don't do this to me.
SPEAKER_01:Well, Elise, is there anything else that you might want to share?
SPEAKER_04:Um, oh, you know what I did not mention? The man that pulled me out, I forgot about this, and this is a pivotal part. Um, he was actually paralyzed. And he had had a car roll over his legs, and he was on a walker. They said he would never run again. So I don't know if it was adrenaline that kicked in, but it was all very supernatural. Like we went back to the site the next day because my mom, she's a super compassionate person, the best woman, in my opinion, I'm biased, but ever. She said, like, we can't let all of these people who helped you and who witnessed this, because they were all camping there, they were still gonna be there. Like, we can't let them end on like they don't know what happened to you. Like you should have died, right? We have to go back. And that I love that. So, yeah. So we went back the next day, and like I said, that's the only time we've ever been back, is the that next day. We went back and we thanked the people, and my mom gave them flowers and everything. And um, the man, he was just he was in like this camping chair, and he had a walker with him, and he was just crying to my mom, like saying, like, they never said I would walk, like they said I would never walk again. The doctor said I would never walk again. Like, I'm he's like, I'm really sore, but I'm just shocked I can walk again. So there is something very supernatural about Lake Lanier, and I will forever die on that hill. That is crazy. Yeah, and I can't believe I forgot that part out of everything. I was like, yeah, so he I have his name written, I have the people's names written down, which is kind of crazy. So, like the man that um saved me, I believe his name was David, and then the pastor, the guy that grabbed him, his name was James, but I've never been able to find them since. And I have looked for them. I think they've passed, unfortunately. They were older. I was four, this was 30 years ago. My mom still, which I think is so wild, um, she carries around the sheet of paper that they wrote their names on and their phone numbers in her wallet. And she's had it in her wallet for 30 years. So after I made the TikTok and it went kind of viral, right? People were asking me some questions that I couldn't, I didn't know the answers to because all I know is what I experienced that day, not the people's names or this or that. Um and I called her and she said, Elise, like I have the piece of paper in my wallet. And I'm like, what piece of paper? And she just pulled it out and it was their names. And I looked them up. Um, I do believe the man that was that had been crushed by the car, his legs, and he could barely walk and had the walker at the campground. I believe he's unfortunately passed at this point, but I don't know about the um pastor who helped him.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, your mom sounds like the sweetest human being.
SPEAKER_01:I know we love your mother.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, she's like she is a national treasure. I I just love her. She's the best person and an amazing example in how you should be.
SPEAKER_03:In the midst of your child almost dying, the fact that she thought about these campers need closure, and let's go back like the next day. Let's that's so yeah, that's really thoughtful.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, she's a really thoughtful person. And we did go to the church that that guy was a pastor at, but he wasn't there. So she just like wrote a note and left some flowers for him in the week.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, that's so sweet.
SPEAKER_04:I remember going in the church and being like, Why are we here? Like, I'm four, so I don't really even understand exactly the situation.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, wow. I'm sure that was just a uh such a like a pivotal uh point that because you were so young, but you still remember it. So it must have shaped your life so much, I would imagine.
SPEAKER_03:What I really like is we've done so many stories that are so negative about Lake Lanier, and this is something that's just so positive. Like, just because something is haunted doesn't necessarily mean that it's evil and coming from a bad place. Well, we've said that before.
SPEAKER_01:Like, if you sense a spirit there, it if that doesn't mean that it's there to do you harm.
SPEAKER_03:Like, yeah, you know, so but it's good to hear like something positive because it is nice. I think when people have negative experiences, they tend to talk about it more. So you sharing your very positive experience, like I'm still alive, and now I have six daughters.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I think there's a duality with Lake Lanier, right? I think there's good and bad. And not every experience is bad, but that's what's talked about more.
SPEAKER_01:It's yeah, it's easy to dwell on the negative, but I mean, and the negative is there for a good reason. I mean, you know, obviously it's it's there for a good reason, but I think we can whether or not you believe in spirits or hauntings, like you can always just use the narratives from the history and the narratives from the past to do better in the future instead of just pretending like the history doesn't exist. I think that's I I think I don't think that's a good idea. No, just in general.
SPEAKER_03:Well, thanks for sharing.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, just thank you so much for coming on and like taking time out of your day to do this. It was so nice of you, and you're so much fun to talk to.
SPEAKER_04:Thank you for having me. I feel honored.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, of course. It's this is just our silly little podcast. We, you know, we yeah, I love it. Literally, we just you know I can't like people listen to us. I know, me neither. I'm like, let's just get some microphones and like start talking about like linear stuff.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, there's a lot to talk about. It's there's a lot.
SPEAKER_01:Wow, for sure. Did you make it through your bottle of wine, or how far did you get?
SPEAKER_03:I've only had one glass.
SPEAKER_01:I I only had one glass too. She's drinking wine out of a straw. She's our she's our spirit animal.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. I don't like a cup. Like, I don't like a cup that I have to tilt normally.
SPEAKER_03:I do a coffee mug and I put some ice in it because I'm a white wine drinker. Sure. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Now you can finish your bottle of wine and like just tell your tell your husband that you're not quite done yet, and then just stay in the room by yourself. Stay in the room. Thank you to our guest today, Elise. You can find her on TikTok at Elise on TikTok. And one more thank you to our other guests, Zach and Tina. Join us next time on Spirits Uncorked.
SPEAKER_02:Well, Hainted Loves, what do you think? That was quite the interview and quite the story. And we want to thank our friend Brandon at Southern Gothic Media for helping hook us up with Elizabeth and Erica. And again, if you're fascinated by this story, there are many more ghost stories specifically about this area at their website, linear ghosttours.com. Thank you so much for listening to our episode Feed Swap with Spirits Uncorked, and I hope you have an appropriately spooky day.
SPEAKER_00:Homespun Haints is hosted by Becky Kilimnik and Diana Doty, and produced by Homespun Haints Media LLC. Editing and music by Becky Kilimnik. Show notes by Diana Dhody. If you have a ghost story and you'd like to be considered as a guest for this podcast, please visit our website at homespunhaints.comslash submit.