I grew up only a few miles from Zoar Valley… every year somebody gets killed there. Almost everytime it was a freek accident.
I remember some hikers were walking through the gorge along side the water when a tree trunk from a dead tree feel about 150’ from above, missed the hikers. When the trunk hit, a big piece splintered off and hit the hiker in the head…he was killed.
we also called it “The 40’s”… because everybody would go there to drink.