TDW 1504 - This Could Have Ended VERY Badly

0:19 welcome everyone Adam the woo

0:19 here what are you doing up there just

0:23 chilling that's cool

0:48 there's quite a bit of chalk lettering

0:48 here on the ground that is either a

0:52 hamburger or a spaceship there's this

0:54 big wooden building called The Mountain

0:56 Mall basically right here at the start

0:58 of the Parkway in gat Berg but in

1:02 1910 there was a store here and it

1:04 belonged to Noah augle and it sat right

1:08 there and it was the very first store

1:10 anywhere in this area sadly that store

1:12 is nothing more than a memory and this

1:14 was built in 1977 and if you wander

1:17 around the Gatlinburg area you will see

1:19 the name augle pretty much everywhere

1:21 they are one of the founding families

1:23 here and right behind this place is a

1:26 cemetery where most of them are buried

1:29 once you cross over the decorative brick

1:32 onto this road the cemetery is right to

1:35 the left the top of this hill the

1:37 touristy strip starts right there and

1:39 runs all the way down and most people

1:43 don't

1:48 realize but this old cemetery is back

1:48 here this was the original name of

1:50 Gatlinburg they changed the name because

1:53 of one man here is the large headstone

1:56 of the agles and this is their family

1:58 plot you can see some of the dates

2:00 passed away in 1923 passed away in

2:09 1951 and even a few more recently as

2:10 well there's also a very Famous folk

2:12 hero here in the Smoky Mountains that is

2:14 buried at this

2:16 Cemetery Wy Oakley the Roman man of the

2:20 mountains that guy is pretty legendary

2:23 around these parts and if you're really

2:25 curious about what I was saying about

2:26 the original name of the town just look

2:28 up the name Radford

2:30 Gatlin and all your questions can be

2:32 answered there's this very touristy

2:34 miniature golf course on the side of

2:36 this little Hill these buildings were

2:38 not built for the miniature golf course

2:39 these are some of the original homes and

2:41 businesses here in Gatlinburg the

2:43 miniature golf course just built it

2:45 around it and through these old homes

2:48 and take a look at this there is an old

2:50 business sign on the top Corner

2:53 underneath the Shrubbery hidden and it's

2:56 still there and look closely there is a

3:00 putting green below it I wonder if

3:01 anyone ever notices that sign oh here

3:03 comes

3:04 trouble Here Comes Trouble Is that the

3:08 Hatfields or is that the McCoy I never

3:10 can

3:12 tell I never can tell for anyone that is

3:16 a fan of Americana roadside attractions

3:20 you will definitely remember the next

3:22 subject xanadoo home of the future there

3:25 were three of them all three have been

3:27 torn down the Wisconsin one the Orlando

3:30 one and the Gatlinburg one which was

3:33 somewhere in here that is a humongous

3:37 griddle or is that a frying pan I don't

3:40 know the difference here's an

3:41 interesting General Store old dad's it

3:43 looks like he has a little sidekick

3:45 there a little dog wonder what his name

3:47 is I couldn't find a lot of information

3:49 about where the spot where xanado do

3:51 home of the future in Gatlinburg was

3:53 located so I've got to use some serious

3:56 colbol like research skills I'm thinking

3:58 it was located basically where this

4:00 building is now the main strip is right

4:03 there I found one photo online a picture

4:06 of where it stood take a look at a few

4:08 key

4:09 landmarks this Sky Ride bucket that is

4:13 going by The Sky Ride Machinery this

4:17 little Tower and up on the top of this

4:20 hill this Resort or house now take a

4:24 look at the old photo you can see all

4:26 three of these things now I do not think

4:28 it was located right here in this

4:30 parking lot because the photo is just a

4:32 few feet off I think it was either

4:34 located here or here right on the main

4:38 drag which is just about 20 ft that way

4:41 I think this was the spot in fact look

4:43 at this little mountain tree line of

4:45 course the trees have grown considerably

4:47 but it's the same angle and it was right

4:49 here on the Strip one thing cool about

4:51 this town is there's rocking chairs

4:53 everywhere of course no one's sitting in

4:55 them right now because it is scorchingly

4:57 humid and hot

5:02 how far is it from Gatlinburg to Pigeon

5:04 Forge here's a time lapse you can see as

5:07 I start off driving down the main drag

5:09 in Gatlinburg you go through a little

5:11 bit of traffic you hit some lights and

5:13 then you Veer off through about four to

5:16 5 miles of mountainous beautiful

5:20 Majestic Greenery until you protrude

5:23 into Pigeon Forge they're basically the

5:26 same area Twin Cities if you will or

5:29 twin towns I guess you could call

5:33 it I just realized that whole little

5:35 Trek through the mountain my side mirror

5:37 was smooshed in I didn't even notice

5:41 it huh that is one heck of a patriotic

5:45 bear well actually there's two of them

5:48 two patriotic

5:49 Bears I have seen more airbrush boosts

5:52 this week than I have probably in my

5:54 entire life

6:00 not 100% sure but I think in some towns

6:03 and some states if you ride in the back

6:05 of a truck you get a ticket I guess

6:06 Tennessee you don't which is good

6:08 because when I was a kid I used to love

6:10 doing that even though it's completely

6:12 unsafe hello geese it's very windy out

6:15 here and I'm meeting a friend very

6:16 shortly he's not here yet so I have a

6:18 few minutes to kill I'm going to fly the

6:20 Drone I don't know if that's a good idea

6:21 or not because look at those storm

6:23 clouds but I'm going to fly it right

6:24 along this little river area this little

6:26 Ravine of watery goodness towards The

6:29 Old Mill right here off the side of the

6:33 strip in Pigeon Forge pretty awesome

6:36 note to self always charge batteries at

6:40 night that way they're fully charged

6:41 during the day I always forget to do

6:44 that all right going into the woods them

6:47 Tennessee mountainous regions this is

6:50 how a horror film

6:56 begins I guess I should probably tell

6:56 you where I'm going Dolly Park grew up

7:00 out here and her Tennessee Mountain Home

7:02 that she wrote a song about is buried in

7:05 these Woods out in the middle of nowhere

7:07 and there is virtually nothing in video

7:10 form on the internet showing where it

7:14 is so that's what I'm doing right now

7:16 I'm trying to find it I should probably

7:18 also mention that I have no cell phone

7:20 service I have lost all

7:26 signal fun these are very windy steep

7:26 roads out here

7:34 I honestly don't know if this is the

7:34 right way or not I'm kind of just taking

7:36 a

7:45 chance the good news is I do have

7:45 gas so that's a plus and honestly how am

7:49 I going to drive back up this

7:57 thing okay I don't think that's it

7:57 through there

8:00 back up the

8:02 hill this thing is so incredibly steep I

8:05 don't know if it translates the video

8:07 very well but I'm trying not to slow

8:09 down just so I don't go get stuck or go

8:11 back down the opposite way and I also

8:13 got to be careful not to fish tail off

8:15 the side of the road off the side there

8:17 or off the side there look at that do

8:20 not want to go off the side okay there's

8:22 one last possible place in the song that

8:24 she wrote she talks about how she would

8:26 walk to the church and there's a church

8:28 building right there

8:30 there the Evans Chapel Baptist

8:33 Church I'm going to try down this next

8:35 Road here to the

8:47 left look at the bullet holes in the

8:47 back of that sign oh yeah you know I'm

8:50 just going straight that way no big deal

8:52 the cabin honestly could be anywhere

8:55 down in there it's an old barn or

8:58 something off here to the side it's like

8:59 something out of Blair Witch

9:03 Project I'm sitting on the passenger

9:05 side right now because down in the woods

9:08 down

9:09 there I swear I heard a

9:12 bear and I started to walk a couple feet

9:15 past here where it says no trespassing

9:17 and then I started to think I don't want

9:19 to go back in there

9:21 because people were saying that right

9:23 now it's a very very stressful time for

9:26 Bears or like there's a lot of bears out

9:29 and as soon as I thought that I heard

9:31 some grunting and some growling and

9:34 stuff down that Hill down there like

9:36 tree branches like breaking and some

9:38 like

9:40 noises oh my

9:43 gosh this is a bad

9:49 idea but I think I found it I think down

9:49 this road is that old cabin where she

9:52 grew up and there was an album there was

9:54 a picture used for the front of the

9:56 album Tennessee Mountain Home it's right

9:58 down there and I don't want to break the

10:00 law by going down there any further nor

10:02 do I want to get eaten by a

10:05 bear man that was pretty scary I ran I

10:08 sprinted back to the van jumped in this

10:11 side I didn't even have the wherewithal

10:14 to pull the camera

10:16 out oh man do not want to die today at

10:19 least not out in the middle of nowhere

10:21 where nobody would even find my bare

10:23 ravaged

10:26 body like I was saying this this was a

10:28 bad idea

10:30 the things you do for Dolly and for

10:33 these Vlog whoa see look at this holy

10:36 cow what's going

10:38 on they would have found my

10:42 body get me out of here please and now

10:45 that I think about it I wonder if those

10:47 guys were looking for me maybe they saw

10:49 me from a distance and they were like

10:51 going to go out there and say what are

10:52 you doing out here on our property boy

10:55 what do you think of my hat is this a is

10:56 this a good look for me that is

10:58 wonderful you like that I kind of like

10:59 the little corn cop pipe here corn

11:01 little corn cop pipe and the feather

11:03 yeah what kind of bird put that feather

11:05 there I don't know what kind of bird has

11:06 a green feather must be tropical

TDW 1504 - This Could Have Ended VERY Badly

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