Lake Norman - The Great Energy Vortex
By Greg Evans
Statistics indicate that at least 100 million Americans take a boat out onto water every year. And judging from the view while driving over multiple bridges on I-77, going north or south at varying rates of speed, I’d ascertain that at least a 1/3 of those turn up on Lake Norman on any given weekend. Lake Norman is a man-made lake located about 20 miles north of Charlotte, North Carolina. Big boats and small boats, white ones, and black, fast ones and the painfully slow, striped ones and checkered, some skinny and others round, it is a site that you can only make sense of if you can see it in real life. And sometimes driving over Lake Norman, floating upon it, or sitting and sipping a bloody Mary enjoying its miraculous view, sunrise or sunset, it doesn’t much seem like real life at all. It is leaving and heading home that you think, “back to the real world;” whatever that really means.
But it is not just about floating on the surface that makes Lake Norman so magnetic, especially when the days are warm and lazy, and the nights are mild and mysterious, floating orbs and fleeting apparitions, the glittering lights of the lakefront homes enticing the eye and indulging the mind. The the place is straight bewitching. I pull over sometimes on the bridge, the longer of the two. Cars are whipping past, threatening to send me plummeting from the structure into the dark waters below. I stand there and feel the wind through my hair and get lost in the lights, the ambiance, the stars above, and the distant rumbling of the nocturnal boaters, some of them creatively adorning their flotations with magical light configurations. The night sky is different there, like standing on top of the Pyramid of the Sun or the Great Pyramid of Giza. There is a strange energy, a hybrid of magnetism and electricity and creates a vortex, and if you listen closely enough you can here it chanting, or humming - a siren song of sorts. A call to the wild. As if from the harp of the universe. God’s perfect pitch. I stand and take it all in before a different kind of light configuration, the blue and white blinking ones that require me to “move along buddy.”
There is no lake on the planet analogous to Lake Norman especially in terms of its energy. Not Lough Neagh, Tanganyika, Superior, or even Lake Baikal. All are beautiful and enigmatic, but they pale in comparison with the complexity of the energy, plus, they don’t have Normie; and hot springs, and the perfectly placed bridges where you can stand at night or drive across and feel like you are flying, and the peach blossom jellyfish, the prevalence of UFO sightings, nor the ambiance or prominence of Hollywood actors dangling their feet in the green waters. Nervous people try to write off UFO and UAP aerial sightings as anecdotal. Why does it seem like everything involving this lake is a step into some 4th dimension? Coming to it isn’t just about adventure, or rest and relaxation, it is other worldly. There is another dimension that exists here. It is like a crossroad. That may come off as presumptuous to some, but in this edgy world of chaotic work schedules, incessant afterschool events, endless traffic jams, unhappy marriages, the soaring cost of living, and acute depression, there has to be someplace one can go to makes some sense of it all, whatever that is. In 2018, a man witnessed an unidentified flying object, lights in a V-shape hovering over the lake at around 12:20 am. The UFO that I saw as a child in the 1984, was also a V-shape of bright lights. According to WBTV report that same year (2018), North Carolina found themselves in the top 10 for states with aerial phenomena sightings. The state, especially in the west, as far as the eye can see are enigmatic, misty mountains, unexplored hollers and expansive crystal clear lakes and coursing rivers. At Lake James, in Hickory, North Carolina, a man one night saw strange lights hovering over the lake. And it seems, all brain compasses eventually lead to Lake Norman, like it’s some giant invisible magnet. The world is full of such places. Lake Norman is not alone. But it is unique in its experience. There is an energy around Lake Norman that is extraordinary, it is engaging and powerfully inspirational. Travelers to Lake Norman will experience significant healing both mentally and physically, and enhanced creativity. They will feel at peace as if through mediation or yoga.
Certain places around the world have incredible concentrations of energy. Scientifically and mathematically, we are not yet able to quantify it, but maybe one day. Stonehenge and Machu Picchu are good examples; so is the Pyramid of Giza, the Hessdalen Valley, and the He Sapa, the Wind Caves, and Beat Butte for the Lakota.
I don’t get to see Lake Norman every day. And because of that, I truly see it and feel it when I am there. The first night I ever crossed the bridge I felt the energy envelope me. I immediately was put at ease. Sometimes when I am out on the road, somewhere in the mountains, hours to the west, I think about it. I tell people about it. A random waitress delivering me a plate of scrambled eggs, I will tell her about it, its energy, the view from my favorite spot on the bridge, the UFOs, and paranormal activity that goes on. I always leave people with more questions than answers. I tell them about, and then I walk away. They have to experience it for themselves.