8 CREEPY Louisiana Bayou Lakes That Will Give You Chills

8 creepy lakes in the Louisiana bayou, real black water that drains away, drowns whole towns, and does not give back what it takes. From the sinkhole at Bayou Corne to the drowned town under the Manchac Swamp, this is a countdown through the eeriest, most forbidden lakes and waters of south Louisiana, the still black water the old families stopped going near. Lake Peigneur, the lake that drained into a salt mine in a single afternoon. Lake Pontchartrain, calm and shallow and deadly without warning. Caddo Lake, Catahoula Lake, Henderson Lake, Lake Maurepas, the Honey Island Swamp, each one tied to a real disappearance, a real drowning, or a town the water swallowed whole. Down here the water lies to you. It sits flat and calm under the cypress and the Spanish moss, and then on an ordinary afternoon it opens up and takes a family under. These are eight of them, counting up to the worst. Watch to the end. The lakes are not the danger. The lakes are only the lid. These are real places and real cases. Some footage is illustrative. ▶ Subscribe for more:    / @drownedsouth   ▶ Forbidden Waters of the Louisiana Bayou (full playlist):    • Forbidden Waters of the Louisiana Bayou   0:00 The Water That Lies 1:26 No. 8 — The Honey Island Swamp 2:50 No. 7 — Bayou Corne, the Sinkhole 4:14 No. 6 — Henderson Lake 5:39 No. 5 — Catahoula Lake, the Lake That Breathes 7:06 No. 4 — Caddo Lake 8:45 No. 3 — Lake Pontchartrain 10:12 No. 2 — Lake Peigneur 11:46 No. 1 — Lake Maurepas and the Manchac Swamp 14:00 Stay Off the Still Water #LouisianaBayou #BayouLakes #Swamp #SouthernGothic #Creepy