Category: Tennessee - United States Ghost Towns

Wheat, Tennessee Ghost Town

Chilling footsteps echo through Wheat, Tennessee, where thousands were forced from their homes during the secretive Manhattan Project.

Amidst Tennessee’s Wolf Creek Valley lies Wasp, a forgotten 1800s settlement with mysterious ruins waiting to reveal their secrets.

Now hidden beneath Watts Bar Lake, Rhea Springs was once a thriving health resort until TVA waters swallowed its healing springs.

In 1940s Tennessee, an entire town vanished beneath Dale Hollow Lake, taking with it the birthplace of a Nobel laureate.

When Tennessee’s Old Butler vanished beneath Watauga Lake in 1948, an entire community left behind their homes for higher ground.

Mountain settlers carved out No Business, Tennessee, until World War II emptied this ghost town of its pioneering spirit.

Now submerged beneath Tellico Lake, Morganton’s underwater ruins reveal a once-thriving river port with centuries of untold stories.

Hidden beneath Norris Lake lies Loyston, a forgotten Tennessee town forced underwater in 1936 by the TVA’s dam project.

Hidden beneath Percy Priest Lake lies Jefferson, Tennessee’s ghostly remains, where pioneers and presidents once walked these sunken streets.

Knowing what happened to this Cherokee settlement turned ghost town will change how you see Tennessee’s haunting past.