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A North Carolina man was killed when he leaped into Tennessee’s Elk River and was sucked into the roiling water below a popular waterfall, according to investigators.
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It happened Saturday at Twisting Falls in Cherokee Wildlife Management Area, which is just north of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The man has been identified as 35-year-old Lucas Seth Anderson of North Wilkesboro, which is about a 90-mile drive northwest from uptown Charlotte.
“According to witnesses, a man jumped from the falls, became caught in the undertow, and was pulled beneath the falls,” the Carter County Sheriff’s Office said in an Aug. 9 Facebook post.
“A member of the Anderson’s group was able to retrieve him from the water and began giving him CPR. … The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.”
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It’s believed Anderson drowned while trapped beneath the falls, which is in a “treacherous” stretch of river, officials said.
An obituary reports Anderson was a husband and an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting and fishing. He was born and raised in Wilkes County and a 2022 graduate of Wilkes Community College, the obituary says.
The Elk River has a series of waterfalls collectively known as Twisting Falls, according to the website Hiking the Appalachians and Beyond.
“The 35-foot lowermost drop of Twisting Falls, locally known as Compression Falls, creates one of the area’s most impressive sights as it crashes with a deafening roar into a deep pool flanked by tall cliffs. The trail to the base of the falls is no joke though – the unofficial path descends over 400 feet to the Elk River in just a quarter-mile,” the website says.
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