Hey guys. I have been doing some research on old "ghost towns"
Are there any lakes in texas with old buildings etc? I think it would be neat to see them now.
Also, I saw a hazard buoy in the middle of grapevine lake. My question is what is down there? Some have said it is an old crane. I can't find anything on the camera or the depth finder.
thanks
Kenneth

I heard it was a crane but the boom finally rusted off, don/t know why it is still marked. Was out Wed and saw nothing on fishfinder..

stillhouse has a bunch of ol foundations in it. ive also heard rumors that their was a small village under belton lake but dont know the validity of that rumor. falcon also has a bunch of old villages and foundations under water too.

Lake Ivie has an entire town underneath it.

So are Lakes dug out of the ground if so wouldn't this stuff be demolished during that process or do they just dam it up and let it fill naturally?

Grapevine filled up so quickly they did not have time to get the equipment out

I've never seen them, but my maps of Texoma show several inundated towns.

Ivie they just dammed it and let it fill.

up in Oklahoma, the there is a town at the bottom of Broken Bow Lake

Lake Arlington is suppose to have a lot of construction equipment at the bottom, it filled up faster than they thought it would and Joe Pool has a lot of historical history in it's depths

Hubbard also has some equipment in it also!!!!!

I doubt there are very many lakes with equipment left in them from construction, it's not like they just plugged the river/creek and didn't get out in time. Most lakes are usually cleared of trees near the dam, they usually build a diversion channel for the water or have some other means of diverting water while they construct the dam. Once the dam is completed they re-divert the water back into the lake and close the gates. I've worked for a lake authority for 15 years now so know a little about lake construction.

I think a lot of those equipment left in the lake stories are more urban legend than anything.

Kind of like the huge catfish that could eat a man down by the dams? I remember they had a guy who was trying to catch them and he had a heavy set up. His bobber looked like a no wake bouy. I think he left to search for bigfoot.

There are old buildings or foundations in many Texas lakes.

I know there is some old builings and a well at the bottom of PK

Not when the rain comes llike it did in '57? (I think it was). Was really concerned about the possible loss of Waco.

Hence why I said not in very many lakes, I wasn't dismissing the notion was just stating what I know, I've heard a lot of stories about many lakes with supposed equipment.

I do know of an airplane just south of the boat club in EM Lake, we surveyed the dam a few years ago with side scanning sonar and a magnetometer. After we were done we went searching for the supposed air plane and then found it. You could clearly see part of the tail laid over and some of one of the wings. We also graphed the old Peden Road bridge which is mostly silted over.

I do have GPS coordinates for sale if anyone is interested, caught a few fish off the airplane.

I don't know about whole cities underwater but I do know where some condos can be found.

Falcon Lake!!! The town of Ole Guererro is completely submerged, buildings and all completely under water with this church sittting in about 5-7 ft of water..

Lake Travis has a bunch of old buildings/houses under water. There are some old foundations, wells, and roads at Lake Granger. I have seen the Humminbird Si pics of both lakes.

Those are great pics!

The is a foundation on the west side of Bridgeport that is underwater when the lake is full. Some houses on Arrowhead.

I think they finally got all the equipment out of Arlington. It was down so far a few years ago that you could walk all the way across it. I thought that they cleared it out then. I grew up in Arlington and remember there being some bulldozers in the bottom of it. It used to be pretty dangerous from what I heard.

I am surprised that the historical Lake Tawakoni has not been mentioned. It covers the world's largest collection of beer cans.

only dead bodies in twak.

I caught a old "steel" Schlitz beer can last year at Twok
on a slab.

There was an urban legend about Lake Houston having lots of equipment in it. What's not hearsay is that the mayor and his cronies bought up all the future lakefront land they could get their hands on before the project was public knowledge. Nice job perk!

TB

no the dead bodys was on whitney i seen it on the first 48 show
and white rock lake in dallas.

Heard rumors of a gas station under Cooper..........

also (FACT) there's a couple little 'burgs under Table Rock
in Arkansas, 'cause my old boss used to scuba dive on them.
And yes, at least there, the giant, man-eating catfish stories are true; he speared a 100+ blue cat in '94
-B

I know when they built Benbrook Lake they had to relocate several small cemeteries. There are multiple foundations in there as well.

I know the approximate locations of several sunken cell phones on Ray Roberts and Lake Lewisville. Also where a pink girlie pole went down (right Lite-liner?) on Ray Bob!!!! Some say if you listen closely to the wind, you can still hear the cries of the broken-hearted little girl yelling "get it daddy, oh no, get it daddy!!!!!"

I heardc about the "GIANT' catfish at the Dams. I heard about the ones at the Hoover Dam. They said scuba divers who do routine repairs and checks just up and quit because they "saw" them and were too scared to go back down....

there's a bunch of meth labs at the bottom of Elmo Lake in Kaufman County.

where on arrowhead are there supposed to be houses

I grew up in Arlington and remember there being some bulldozers in the bottom of it. It used to be pretty dangerous from what I heard.

+1

My dad tells the story of bulldozers and such being left in Ray Hubbard due to the lake filling up faster than expected. So much so that they had to go out there on bardges to finish cutting the remaining trees off at like 10ft. He's pretty honest.

I love this subject! I am always curious to know whats down there!

I had a local historian on the boat last year. He showed me where an old Wells Fargo Stagecoach depot is under water. It is near the HWY 380 bridge. Across from it is a VERY old Texas and Pacific trestle, that is visible when the water gets real low.

In WW2, Bridgeport had a seaplane training base near the Methodist camp. There is supposed to be a huge block of concrete that was used to anchor the planes. I have heard it is like 10 feet tall and 40 feet wide. I have never found it, but old timers say it is Crappie heaven!

Hmmmm. One anchor for several planes. Seems like they would bang together. I wonder if a smooth (concrete covered with algae)block 10 feet by 40 feet would attract much more than an ordinary hump in the lake. Keith I think somebody is pulling your leg. It's right up there with the stories about equipmment getting covered because the water rose too fast to get out.

Well there are supposed to be catfish the size of cars on grapevine near the damn. My old history used to work as a ranger at grapevine and someof the divers that worked there said that they wouldn't go back down there because something the size of a school bus swam by them.

You got it right!

That is just WRONG!!!

Tex

you suck, dude.
you know I tried. MOB'd it & everything!

It's not like I can't get cellphone insurance or anything....
I hope you get a slab in your eyeball!

Hey, I USED to be able to get cell-phone insurance. I might even be able to get it again, since I haven't lost a phone in a while (but I doubt it). And your little girl needs to look at is she upgraded. I wish everytime I lost something overboard, I could replace it with much better stuff!!!!

And by the way, my names not Richard. Where did you ever get that idea????? You've known me a long time and I've never gone by Richard.

I doubt there is anything that big in grapevine lake. The water is so murky that chances are you couldn't tell what it was unless it was right on you. Maybe it was a big school of shad or something.
However I had a trot line out once and had a huge cat on it! It was long enough that I couldn't get the net under the fish. He bent the hook out and was gone.
I was one mad m/f!!!!

i would also like to know where the houses on arrowhead are. i know there are a few old foundations in there

sure, Richard Cranium

A buddy of mine said Braunig lake in S.A has or had a cemetary in it,I'm sure they moved everything but kinda of creepy to think about especially when night fishing we usaully stay away from that area lol.

There is an old cemetery in Lake Whitney. The graves where all relocated before they flooded the lake, but the plats are still there. You can see them now that the water is so low.

There was a wrecked plane in meredith before it got low enough to be exposed last year or two years ago. They thought it crashed in the lake in the '80s but they weren't sure, never could find it including two individuals. Only found one tire floating the next morning. The plane was removed and no remains were found.

There's an old stone house in Squaw Creek!

I believe we used to fish around the chimney from that house

i know where im fishing haha

There was a cemetery that had to be moved on the new side of Amon Carter lake.

Fayette county

There's an old water tank under Amistad. (Actually, it might be out of the water now due to the low levels.) You can also find a couple dams that were built on the original Devils portion of the lake. Furthermore, there is an old house underwater where a couple of divers got caught many years ago and at least one didn't make it out. Thus, there are no diving buoys there so that doesn't happen again.

Isn't that church on the mexico side where the man from the united states was killed a couple of years ago. I think they were sight seeing there on jet skis.I know there are a couple of planes in moutain creek lake. I have seen a few foundations on lake fork.

Navionics has the rock crusher listed on grapevine.

Lake Arlington was finished in 1957 and at the dedication they said it would be full in 2 years maybe. 26 days later it was going over the spillway. They were still working on it with a dragline and that is what is still in the lake to this day. They never were able to find it. They think it sank in the muck.

hard to believe no one mentions Toledo Bend. Dad and I fished there many times when the upper part started filling and there were quite a few houses and small buildings almost submerged out in the middle of the flooded timber. We would fish around them and i remember how strange it seemed when i was a kid catching nice bass fishing under someones porch.

Tawaknoi also had some old homes/small building that were submereged around the tall man reach area.