The Great Dismal Swamp is home to the ancestral lands of the Nansemond Indian Nation and the historic lands of the Haliwa-Saponi and Meherrin Tribes. The area is also home to the largest known ...

“I felt I was entering a mysterious place,” said author Amina Luqman-Dawson. “The smell was mossy, earthy, and the trees were so tall, with leaves that cast shadows.” Luqman-Dawson is describing the ...

Colonel William E. Byrd, the colonial ancestor of Virginia’s Senator Harry F. Byrd, named the place the Great Dismal Swamp. After trekking through the muck and mire with a band of hardy surveyors, ...

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Authorities used a bulldozer Saturday as they tried to reach the bodies of four people from Florida who died Friday in a small plane crash in a dense Virginia swamp, state police said. Subscribe to ...

State police say four people from Florida have died in the crash of a small aircraft in an extremely remote section of a Virginia swamp. Using a privately-owned helicopter during search efforts Friday ...