On January 5, 1989, a blueish, apelike creature was killed by a pickup truck on Sugar Flat Road outside of Lebanon, Tennessee. For some reason the body wasn’t preserved, but the head was.
“I think most people have a conversation with themselves, but not in such an oddball way,” said Billy Tripp, creator of the Mindfield, a giant artwork in the little town of Brownsville, Tennessee.
In an age of GPS/mobile map convenience and on-demand attractions, travelers are occasionally hasty in advising us that an obscure sight is “Gone!” or “Not there!” It may well be gone, but it also might be behind a bush 50 ft. down the road, or dragged into a basement until the local tornado advisory is over.
Like Florence, Italy, in the Renaissance, or Los Alamos at the dawn of the Atomic Age, the Hollywood Wax Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, is an incubator for radical ideas.
“If you don’t believe in the devil,” said Horace Burgess, “you can look at that rock right there and tell that he’s much alive.” Horace is the builder of the Minister’s Tree House — largest in the world — and the rock that he mentioned hangs in the choir loft of the tree house chapel. […]
