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- Natural Bridge, Virginia - Enchanted Castle Studio
April 10, 2001, The Enchanted Castle Studio was burned to the ground. A few of the whimsical fiberglass sculptures at the gates escaped the blaze, but the workshop and attraction are gone. Arson is suspected, due to a recent barrage of religious tracts left in artist and entrepreneur Mark Cline's truck and mailbox, including a note saying he had "a one-way ticket to Hell" and for doing Satan's work, would be visited by God's wrath. Cline has plans to rebuild, but in the meantime it's a big loss for roadside America.
[Nancy Bagato, 04/15/2001]Enchanted Castle Studios:RoadsideAmerica.com Team Field Report
- Address:
- 4942 Lee Hwy, Natural Bridge, VA
- Directions:
- I-81 Natural Bridge exit 180, 1/2 mile on the right.
- Hours:
- No public tours, but travelers can stop and look from outside the fence. Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Admission:
- Free
- Natural Bridge, Virginia - Enchanted Castle Studio Tours
Mark Cline (famous artist and creator of such famous sites as the two battling dinosaurs at Dinosaurland) has an attraction in Natural Bridge, Virginia called "Enchanted Castle Studio Tours". It's a combination of a tourist trap and his studio where he creates fiberglass dinosaurs, giant Yogi Bears for the campgrounds and lots of other great stuff. Giant drinking birds, bungi jumping pigs, and tons of other great props here. Truly a wonder.
[Graham Trievel, 03/08/1998] - Natural Bridge, Virginia - Professor Cline's Haunted Monster Museum & Dark Maze
A haunted house attraction, unique in that it really was a creepy, old, abandoned Victorian house at the top of an overgrown hill. The house burned down in April 2012.
Roadsideamerica.com Report...
- Hours:
- April 2012: Destroyed by fire.
- Status:
- Gone
Mark Cline's Haunted Monster Museum burned down ten years ago, a decade after the attraction it replaced, the Enchanted Castle (which was just up the road), also burned down. Mark enjoyed fashioning monsters out of fiberglass, but suspected that some of his Virginia neighbors weren't happy about it.
The Museum, built inside a real 1890s manor set in the woods, was not open at night, because it was already so scary in the daytime. Walking through someone's real house - musty, dark, and dank - filled with weird Cline creatures (such as "Elvis-stein" in the kitchen) was far more frightening than the usual haunted house populated with gum-clicking teens accessorized with fake blood.
Mark Cline shrugged off the fire, salvaged what he could, and is still making monsters today.
[RoadsideAmerica.com Team, 04/16/2022]- Natural Bridge, Virginia - Haunted Monster Museum - Burns!
On Monday night, April 16, 2012, a fire destroyed the main building of Mark Cline's Haunted Monster Museum, which had been closed for the off-season. His adjacent Dinosaur Kingdom attraction also sustained some damage, and a brushfire in the surrounding woods was eventually extinguished by firefighters. The State Police are investigating the cause of the fire.
[RoadsideAmerica.com Team, 04/18/2012]
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