Strange but true stories from the North Georgia mountains
The Detour
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Workers called it the monster. Visitors used the lab's radioactive slabs as picnic tables. Read the story -
The crowd yells push. In 1983 these dolls sent five shoppers to an actual hospital. Read the story -
One gas station owner borrowed $15,000 to fit in. The city keeps a font list. Read the story -
One story says a church steeple floated on the new lake for a whole year. Read the story -
He joked into a microphone most of the way. A town wanted its tourists back. Read the story -
An archaeologist called it total bunk. What's really up there is the better story. Read the story -
The money changed hands. Then somebody turned on a turbo heater. Read the story -
Around mile 31, in north Georgia. Nobody agrees why old boots hang in the tree out front. Read the story -
The rush that beat California by about 20 years, and the doorstop that beat Georgia. Read the story -
One man bought the land sight unseen and went to Spain looking for answers. Read the story -
Bored teens picked the name. Then hog dressing bought them part of a mountain. Read the story -
Four cameras, a wall of water, a cracked tailbone and one very short review. Read the story -
It can go off at any hour of the night, and one family is the reason. Read the story -
The owner let archaeologists dig in 1915, as long as any precious metals went to him. Read the story
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