Some lakes are built for swimming, skiing, or showing off your boat. This one was built for something else entirely.
When this Oklahoma reservoir was constructed decades ago, the water level rose and swallowed a forest whole, leaving behind a graveyard of bare trunks that reach out of the water like frozen screams. The effect is hauntingly beautiful, a ghost forest that stops visitors in their tracks.
The trees stand in eerie silence, their bark weathered and pale, stretching along the shoreline like forgotten sentinels. On foggy mornings, they disappear into the mist completely…