Sylas (Silas) Dean

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500 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries · 186. Summer Camp Horror, Scary Camping, and Time Slips: Campfire Scary Stories with Sylas Dean · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

I'm fine for you to share my story, but just for the sake of my own privacy and theirs, please just change out their real names and use Sarah and Maddie, which I did.

At the time, the three of us were juniors at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and we were planning a spring break road trip down to Georgia.

We were all pretty avid campers.

I grew up doing it, so the plan was to drive down to Blue Ridge Lake as the first stop on our trip.

And if you don't know this area too well, it's beautiful.

It's scenic, it's by the water, so the three of us, we were feeling pretty good about camping there for the night.

I remember we packed up my Jeep, loaded in the tent, the booze, the food, all the gear, and we hit the road at around 10 on the first day of spring break.

Everything seemed fine, as it always does.

So Blue Ridge Lake is a pretty well-known spot.

And most people who are gonna go down there, you're probably gonna camp out at Morgan Point.

But we wanted to find a camping spot deeper in the woods.

But before we did, it was actually Maddie's idea that we could do something a little bit different.

She wanted to add a creepy vibe to the trip and suggested that once we got down there, we would go up Cemetery Road.

And yes, this is a very real road deep in the forest that leads out to an old cemetery.

Maddie had told us all of these ghost stories about the cemetery because she used to camp there when she was a kid.

Like if you walk through the cemetery at a certain hour of night, you might hear whispers coming from different directions, but nobody is there.

So we drove for a few hours and finally got to the entrance of the area, and the sun was beaming at this point in the afternoon, and we passed all the cabins, all the other campsites, and we just kept going deeper and deeper into the woods until we saw the cemetery up ahead.

It looked kind of how I imagined it at first.

It was gravestones that were really small.

They were also kind of spread out and definitely old.

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