TDW 1722 - Stuckie The Mummified Dog !

0:03 starting off this morning in Way Cross

0:03 Georgia and it looks like I'm going to

0:06 have to stop for this train welcome

0:08 everyone Adam the woo here today is

0:12 going to be a good day I cannot predict

0:14 the course of the events that were

0:16 transpire over this day but if you go in

0:19 with

0:21 it it's the daily woo stopping off now

0:24 at Southern Forest world and inside this

0:28 Forest Tre

0:30 Museum behind that train in that

0:32 building is something incredibly unusual

0:36 they have on display an animal found

0:39 inside a tree log similar to this one

0:42 named Stucky the Petrified dog actually

0:46 the more I think about it the tree would

0:49 become petrified the dog was mummified

0:52 and I just realized I didn't have any

0:54 cash on me since they don't take credit

0:55 cards I had to count out $5 in change to

1:00 be granted admission I am now inside and

1:03 now that I see this I am wondering how

1:06 well do I really know pine cones in

1:10 reality I really don't know pine cones

1:13 that well showing the way wood is used

1:16 in the making of guitars and there's a

1:19 pretty cool mural here on the wall looks

1:21 like I see Teddy Roosevelt in there and

1:24 even Babe Ruth down in the corner this

1:27 is an example of the growth of trees

1:29 after five 5 years and then up into 15

1:33 years and then 25 years it just shows

1:36 the process of how quickly or how slowly

1:39 that they grow how many Factory workers

1:41 in Georgia are employed by a forest

1:44 related industry do you have any

1:48 idea

1:50 80,000 oh my goodness there it is the

1:55 sign stating the fact that there is a

1:59 mummify

2:00 dog

2:02 inside that log the environmental

2:05 conditions in this Chestnut Oak were

2:07 sufficient enough to preserve the animal

2:09 a chimney effect occurred in the hollow

2:12 tree resulting in an upward draft of air

2:16 causing the scent of the dead animal to

2:19 be carried away otherwise it would have

2:22 attracted insects and other organisms

2:25 that feed on dead animals and that is

2:28 how he stayed intact are you ready for

2:30 this he's waiting for us they have

2:33 preserved it even further by putting

2:35 glass over it it's going to be very hard

2:37 to get a good shot here because the

2:39 reflection is very strong but look at

2:43 that look down in there holy cow that's

2:47 him Stucky the Petrified dog he

2:54 exists he just has been chilling in

2:57 there for decades this is

3:01 extremely terrifying and what is this

3:04 little bag over to the right of him well

3:09 his left our right it's like he's in

3:11 there with a bag is that like a a bag of

3:14 snacks and food or is that something

3:17 that's kept in there to keep him from

3:20 decaying even more go ahead look

3:28 here this guy's feeding a gator that

3:28 Gator is bigger than he is someone has

3:32 carved an eagle out of a tree itself

3:36 there W an eagle carve from a portion of

3:40 a pine tree thankfully this hornets nest

3:42 is not full of the Hornets themselves

3:45 and it's just a display because I

3:48 probably wouldn't be able to get this

3:49 close to it without being stung stepped

3:52 into the back

3:54 Courtyard and look at the size of

3:57 this look at the width

4:00 of that tree

4:03 that's it's pretty incredible these

4:06 might be some of the largest wind

4:09 chimes I've ever seen they're taller

4:11 than I

4:24 am I don't think I did that correctly I

4:24 am not as eloquent as a breeze I've

4:26 always been a big fan of Smokey the Bear

4:29 but I never actually thought that I

4:31 would become Smokey the

4:34 Bear but you never

4:36 know sometimes things just happened

4:38 there's even a children's play area that

4:40 looks like a spider web and looming Over

4:44 The netting is this creepy

4:48 spider but you could pretend that you're

4:51 Gwen stefanian there I'm walking in the

4:53 spider webs leave a message and I'll

4:56 call you back a little more information

4:59 on this tree stump it has the diameter

5:02 of

5:04 106 in and you can stand inside of it

5:08 you want to go in there you want to

5:09 check it out let's go

5:19 in we're standing inside a

5:19 tree looking

5:21 upwards through the exposed

5:25 top it looks like this used to be a hole

5:28 in the tree maybe it was sealed in or

5:30 maybe the hole is slowly starting to

5:32 formulate you start with this uhhuh and

5:35 then the finished product are these yes

5:38 and this one actually has a lead on it

5:40 how long does it take to make one of

5:41 these 8 to 12 hours 8 to 12 hours so you

5:45 have to be really

5:46 dedicated all right d d and

5:50 retired a couple of those things in the

5:53 center of the main building you can walk

5:55 up inside a fake tree that they have

5:59 created cre ated and built that

6:02 stretches to the

6:03 roof and if you look

6:06 down down there that's that

6:09 log that's that log that the mummified

6:12 dog is in be very quiet don't wakeen

6:15 that is one beastly looking chainsaw

6:19 that thing could do some damage I'm

6:21 still having a hard time wrapping my

6:23 head around Stucky the dog just it's an

6:26 incredible story and he's just he just

6:29 hanging out down there in that piece of

6:31 wood oh you're going to open the case

6:33 for

6:34 me oh my gosh I can get it up close look

6:38 if you get it just right you should be

6:40 able to see his ribs his ribs yes oh my

6:44 goodness try to get this side of him

6:46 okay oh yeah you can see his ribs down

6:49 in there yeah see oh my goodness you

6:52 can't do it if you don't have some kind

6:53 of lightning on it

7:01 wow such a crazy story yes and I

7:01 actually got to meet the guy that this

7:04 wood was this block of wood was cut down

7:06 and actually put on the trailer before

7:09 they found out that the dog was in there

7:11 I talked to the guy that actually put

7:12 this on the trailer and he said he put

7:15 it on and he got off to walk the trailer

7:19 check his wood how he had it stacked on

7:20 there you notice him in here all he

7:22 could see was clothes he said he said I

7:25 he said it scared me he said I didn't

7:27 know what was faing to jump out at me

7:29 the people running the place are very

7:30 informative and very kind they gave me a

7:33 couple bumper stickers and a t-shirt for

7:36 free I told them they didn't have to and

7:38 they said no no no take this so thank

7:41 you really appreciate it that looks like

7:43 one of those paintings you'd see in a

7:45 Bugs Bunny or Road Runner

7:47 cartoon you can't actually drive through

7:49 that Tuttle remember when Wy coyote

7:51 would throw the fake hole in the wall

7:53 and the Road Runner would still run

7:54 through it and then Wy would try to run

7:56 through it and then smash into the

7:58 bricks classic there are some

8:01 seriously antique relics behind that

8:05 fence old classic

8:07 cars just rusting away

8:14 there

8:14 wow pretty

8:21 cool lots of them back in there there's

8:21 an old water slide there behind the

8:25 weeds no longer in

8:28 use but there was a lot of good times

8:31 that were had there as well

8:33 as at the roller Rank and the bowling

8:38 alley all of

8:40 which are no longer in business when I

8:42 was young I spent a lot of time at water

8:46 parks and when I lived in eala Oklahoma

8:49 they had a water slide just like this it

8:51 was just like a little local two or

8:53 three flumed

8:54 one just seeing this brings back a lot

8:57 of memories from my youth I'm currently

8:59 heading East well more

9:01 Southeast really but this is Highway one

9:05 it's the number one highway or at least

9:08 that's what they labeled it and we are

9:10 completely engulfed in trees the little

9:13 teeny tiny ones they were either just

9:16 planted or they are in the 1 to 5e range

9:21 judging on the little display I saw back

9:23 there at the

9:24 Museum they're baby trees

9:34 I hear the trainer coming it's rolling

9:34 around the band there it

9:36 goes dang I just started singing big the

9:40 foot I just started

9:43 singing fail entering downtown folon

9:48 Georgia right along the train tracks

9:51 they take their trains very seriously in

9:54 this town in fact right across the

9:57 tracks there they have built a little

9:59 viewing area they say 60 trains a day

10:04 pass right through here another little

10:05 hangout area on this side as well and

10:08 currently there are a few people waiting

10:10 for the next train to pass here at the

10:13 area they call the folkton funnel they

10:16 even made a sign that's dangling from

10:18 the roof

10:39 that run off of a VHS or is that digital

10:39 I haven't used one of those since I was

10:41 a kid see

10:50 that's hear one coming oh wow yeah it's

10:50 got a pretty good zoom on it and it runs

10:52 off the old VH chest

10:55 tapes you don't see those anymore still

10:58 still in use no a

11:39 I realized in the short while I stood

11:39 there talking to all the locals that I

11:41 know very little about

11:43 trades they take it very seriously here

11:47 I'm now on Highway 40 but most people

11:50 refer to this as the Oka phoi

11:54 Parkway that's what it's really called

11:56 wind Dixie grocery stores I worked for

11:59 this company for about two years one

12:01 year in the early 90s and then another

12:04 year probably in the early

12:07 2000s I was a stock crew manager and I

12:09 also worked in the dairy Department the

12:11 Boy Scouts are doing a food drive out

12:13 front so I'm going to contribute some

12:14 chicken of the sea gave the non-p

12:17 perishable items to them and I have some

12:20 perishables in here that I'm going to

12:21 consume I got myself a ham and cheddar

12:24 wrap a is that a bushel of celery it's

12:28 not maybe not a bushel but a bunch of

12:30 celery and some delicious fruit look at

12:35 that I'm really going to try to start

12:37 eating a little bit better I'm not going

12:38 to go on a crash diet like I have in the

12:40 past I'm not going to do something

12:42 extreme but you will notice from here

12:45 till hopefully the rest of the future me

12:48 peppering in a little bit more fruits

12:51 and vegetables into my life into these

12:53 Vlogs into my Regiment of what I'm

12:56 eating my body definitely needs to lose

12:58 a little bit of weight and it needs a

13:00 little bit of nutrients flourishing

13:02 around more than what I have been

13:05 consuming in the past 6 Seven 8

13:08 months oh

13:14 man that's

13:14 good oh man you want

13:19 them you want a piece which one do you

13:24 want just take one just take it vlog

13:29 over

TDW 1722 - Stuckie The Mummified Dog !

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