The Forgotten Horror of the Lake Shawnee
Published: May 6, 2026
Duration: 1:03:26
A man bought a piece of land in southern West Virginia in nineteen twenty-six and built an amusement park on it. He didn't know what was already there. He didn't know what was going to come. This episode tells the layered story of Lake Shawnee. It starts in the year 1282, with a wave of sickness that swept through a Fort Ancient village and killed too many of its children.
It moves forward to 1775, when a colonial settler named Mitchell Clay brought his wife and fourteen children to a stretch of bottomland by the Bluestone River, where they became t...
It moves forward to 1775, when a colonial settler named Mitchell Clay brought his wife and fourteen children to a stretch of bottomland by the Bluestone River, where they became t...