8 Creepiest Louisiana Bayou Swamps Locals Refuse To Go Near
8 of the creepiest swamps in the Louisiana bayou. These are real places people walked into and never came back out. From the dead cypress forests near Cocodrie to the endless Atchafalaya Basin, this is a countdown through the eeriest, most dangerous backwaters of the Louisiana bayou, the water the locals leave alone. Down in south Louisiana, the water is black, still, and deeper than it looks, and the old-timers will tell you the same thing every time. It takes, and it does not always give back. This is a slow, true countdown through eight swamps and backwaters where the water itself is the reason no one comes back, each one tied to a real disappearance, a real drowning, or a town the swamp swallowed whole. We travel from the salt-killed ghost forests of Terrebonne Parish, to Catahoula Lake, the largest natural lake in the state, which drains to a cracked mud plain every summer. We move through the vanishing marshes of Barataria and Terrebonne, where the United States Geological Survey has measured the coast losing a football field of land roughly every half hour. We stand on the Pearl River sill the locals call the drowning machine, push into the flooded timber of Honey Island Swamp and the Bogue Chitto, cross Lake Maurepas where the water turns on people without warning, and reach the drowned railroad town of Frenier in the Manchac Swamp, lost in the hurricane of 1915. It all drains, in the end, into the Atchafalaya Basin, the largest river swamp on the continent, big enough to get lost in and never be found. These are real places and real cases. Watch to the end. The deeper we go, the less of what went in ever came back out. 0:00 – The Water Takes 0:48 – No. 8: The Dead Cypress at Cocodrie, Terrebonne Parish 2:10 – No. 7: Catahoula Lake, the Lake That Empties 3:34 – No. 6: The Marsh That Keeps Vanishing 5:05 – No. 5: The Pearl River Drowning Machine 6:38 – No. 4: Honey Island Swamp 8:32 – No. 3: Lake Maurepas 10:08 – No. 2: The Drowned Town of Frenier, Manchac Swamp 12:16 – No. 1: The Atchafalaya Basin 14:18 – Respect the Swamp If the bayou is your kind of quiet, subscribe and ride the rest of the way out with us. More from the channel: • Forbidden Waters of the Louisiana Bayou #LouisianaBayou #Swamp #Atchafalaya #SouthernGothic #BayouMystery
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