Norris Lake

If it is not something life-threatening or someone bleeding out, usually nothing affects me too much.

But what happened in that cabin at Norris Lake, that still messes with my head... and not in some bloody or dramatic way.

It was something subtle, quiet, the kind of thing that gets under your skin and catches up with you when you are trying to sleep or when you walk past a dark hallway in your own house.

I had just come off a brutal month at the hospital.

A man named Corey answered after several rings.

He sounded sleepy.

Hi, I'm calling from the Norris Lake cabin, number 214.

Water is coming out from under a locked room labeled owner's storage.

But they're fun.

We had one a couple summers ago down at Norris Lake And we set it up.

It was for the kids, but the way the yard was set up-

It was for the kids

February, I imagine those are Big weights, big fish, pretty good in Louisiana in late February.

Then Norris Lake.

I think Norris is a combo lake, right? Smalley's, Spots, Largemouth.

That's kind of a new stop.

[laughs]

You know Norris Lake?

No, in T- no.

It's, like, 35 miles northwest of Knoxville, and it's the-