Felt like it was only yesterday when me and the boys would come to this lake and through the craziest parties your generation will never see haha… sigh… but son I didn’t bring you here to reminisce but to give you a bit of a history lesson about this ole lake.

Ya see this lake used to be the talk of summer, people from all around Virginia would come out there way to spend even a day here ha shucks I may even recall seeing some ladies as far as cali ha…. Good times…. But that all came to an end on the summer of 1974. I was only 20 at the time and me, Reggie, your aunt yanni and a couple of our friends would come here every year since we were 10 with our own families and it was what we lived for all year. Like I said…this place attracted people from all around but I suppose we were naive to the thought of it attracting the wrong kind of people.

“ wrong kind of people ?”…. Yeah, that day a few men from the Appalachia region came to enjoy the lake and we welcomed them with opened arms but you see your uncle Reggie didn’t like their “ vibe “ and tried to convince us that those men were bad news and we should leave but we ignored his warnings because nothing bad has ever happened here before. Night struck and I was fast asleep in our cabin until I woke up from screams… when I ran outside… words can’t describe the horrors I laid my eyes upon. Screams, panic, and nothing n could have prepared me for what I saw nex-

( grandpa ? It’s okay… you don’t have to finish ) no.. no . What I saw was your uncle Reggies body being ripped in too right here on this deck before they through his body to the bottom on the lake. I don’t remember much after that but I was told I threw up and blacked out. When I woke up in an ambulance I was told by your aunt yanni that a lot of people died… including your uncle and she could barley get a word out. That tragedy leaves a huge mark on the history of this place. That is why it is permantly closed, but I felt like you needed to know the truth about what happened to your uncle.

( and those crazy men? ) right… I heard they were all gunned down but they weren’t killed till after the massacre, they all ran into the woods and it took a 3 day search party to find em all, but in the end they all got what was comin to em.