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Lake Drummond and the Phantom Lovers

Chesapeake, VA

Lake Drummond lies deep within the Great Dismal Swamp and has inspired generations of supernatural stories, most famously the Phantom Lovers tale of a young man searching the lake for his dead bride. Reaching the lake requires using refuge roads, trails or waterways rather than a normal roadside pull-off, and access can vary with refuge conditions.

Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.

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Source: fws.gov/refuge/great-dismal-swamp

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