The Weirdest Geographic Mystery In The Deep South

Everybody thinks they know the Deep South. Sweet tea, front porches, humidity you can wear. But underneath the part they let you see is something older and a whole lot stranger — a lake that swallowed an oil rig, a town built inside an asteroid crater, wild horses living in a burned millionaire's mansion, and a ghost light on a dead railroad road that nobody has ever been able to explain. We went looking for the strangest things hidden across nine Southern states — Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, and East Texas — and counted down 43 of them, one wilder than the last, all the way to the single strangest thing below the Mason-Dixon line. A few of the places you'll see: The day a whole lake got pulled underground through a hole a drill poked in the bottom The only place on Earth where you can dig up real diamonds and legally keep them The bat cave Johnny Cash crawled into to die — and came back out America's biggest lake, hidden underground, that nobody has ever found the edge of A grand canyon in Georgia that people made by accident in about a century The secret city of 75,000 people that didn't appear on any map Every fact was researched and verified. Some of these have a legend attached, and where they do, we tell you what's actually documented and what's just the story people tell. What did we miss? Every one of these states has a back road with a story on it, and the people who live there know the ones we don't. Tell us in the comments — the strange spot, the haunted place, the thing your town swears is true. The best ones end up in the next video. And you get to pick where we go next: 1. The Haunted Lowcountry — deeper into South Carolina's ghost stories 2. The Appalachian Mountains — the hollers, the legends, and whatever people keep seeing in those hills 3. The Forgotten Coast — the drowned towns, shipwrecks, and lost islands of the Gulf Drop your number in the comments. Highest vote wins. Subscribe for more Unhinged America. #DeepSouth #TheSouth #Louisiana #Mississippi #Alabama #Georgia #SouthCarolina #Florida #Tennessee #Arkansas #Texas #Geography #UnhingedAmerica #Travel #AmericanHistory