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AR Booger Hollow, AR
AR Boozer Hollow, AR
AR Dancing Head, Waldron Elementary School, Waldron, AR
AR Christ to the Ozarks, Eureaka Springs, AR
AR Crucifix & Columms, Texarkana's Calvary Cemetery, Tevarkana, AR
AR Easter Island Head, Highway 71 near Dequeen, AR
AR Photo of Bill Clinton's High School
AR Dangerous town of Greasy Corner, AR
AR Dinosaur World ( King Kong) Beaver AR.
AR Educated Animals Farm ( trained by Kellar Breland, super secret WW 2 research) Hot Springs, AR
AR The Giant Raven, Ravenden, AR  More Info
AR Hawkins Grocery Store, built 1889, Oil Trough, AR ( neat old store )oil trough store.jpg (56118 bytes)
AR Hoo Hoo Memorial, Gurdon, AR
AR Home of worlds largest Mr. Peanut, Fort Smith, AR.
AR Home of the World's Largest Watermellon & the birth place of Bill Clinton, Hope , AR
AR Internees Monument, Rohwer Relocation camp Cemetery, Desha County, AR
AR Latin Town of Ursula,AR".
AR Oil Trough General Store and Restaurant, AR. Old and a great stop with terrific food.
AR Panther Suck Hollow, AR
AR Popeye statue, Alma, AR
AR Puss Hollow, AR

AR Statue of Liberty War Memorial at Green County Court House, 1 of 3 in AR.  Can you find the other two staues as well?
AR The Arkansas Alligator Farm ( half women , half fish) Hot Springs, AR
AR The Mammouth Orange Cafe, Redfield, AR
AR The Raven, Ravenden, AR
AR The WalMart Museum, Bentonville AR  More Info
AR Towns of Oil Trough & Pea Ridge, AR
AR Town of Toad Sucks, AR
AR Uneeda Biscuit sign, Hot Springs , AR
AR The Old Mill ( seen in Gone With the Wind) N. of Little Rock, AR
AR The Worlds Largest Grill,  and cook off, Magnolia, AR  More Info

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Weird Museums

AR The Fantasies Museum, Eureka Springs, AR
AR The Lum N Abner Museum, 501-326-4442) Pine Ridge , AR
AR The Patent Model Museum, 8th St, Fort Smith, AR

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Haunted Places

 

 

Eureka Springs - Cresent Hotel - room 218 is haunted by an irishman named Michael.

Little Rock - Old State House - thought to be haunted by various politians.

Warren - Mark's Mill - ghosts of Civil War soldiers haunted the area.

Dover - Dover Lights - The ghosts of Spanish Conquistadors search for their lost gold in a valley in the ozark foothills.

Gurdon - Railroad Tracks - Legend has it that a man carrying a lantern haunts the railroad tracks outside of Gurdon, Ar.  Numerous people claim to have seen a bobbing light on the train tracks in this area.  It has been widly publicized, including a spot on the TV show Unsolved Mysteries.

Mountain View - Old Charlie Fowler Christian School - at night footsteps can be heard coming down the stairs. The old cafeteria has voices that can't be explained. It is believed to have been built on an old indian burial ground. Water drips from the ceiling on the hottest driest days.

Magnet Cove - Baroid Mines - events include someone whispering your name,  feeling someone push you and things being rearranged.

Arkadelphia - Henderson State University -  A girls haunts the dorms at night searching for her lost love.   After he left her, she just waisted away.

Jerome - The Grand Motel - This motel was once a hospital/insane asylum it has had many different occurances from the lights turning on with no electricity to the precence of hounds that are as tall as a man shoulders.

Hickory Valley-Hickory Valley Church
At night when you go in the church if you listen carefully you can hear people singing "Amazing Grace" and other old hymns, and if you bring a candle you can just about make out figures. Mostly of young children and some teenagers that have not crossed over yet...

Batesville-Lyon College
One day there was a girl that killed herself in one of the dorms. And until this day you can
still hear her in the room walking around. There has also been sights of other so-called ghosts that are still lurking in the halls, at night you can hear them calling out your name, saying, help me! help me!

War Eagle river shores
A confederate soldier appears to be guarding his territory as he walks along the shores of the river next to the War Eagle Mill.

Eureks Springs - Cresent Hotel-
Room 218 a construction worker named Michael died while it was being constructed, a nurse pushing a person on a bed, on the second floor. a business man walking around in the lobby, a man pushing his wife down a flight of stairs, and a school girl who was pushed out of a window to her death.

Lyon College-
Used to be an old orphanage and burnt down in the early 1900's.  Said that late at night up in the chapel you can hear (what sounds like) a rocking chair going back and forth.  Then down in the auditorium on a certain night the walls look like they are burning down.  Around the chapel there are 4 posts and there's only a shadow of 3.

Horatio-
In a rest stop in between DeQueen & Horatio, Arkansas, there is a hill at the exit of the rest stop, if you stop at the stop sign & put your car in NEUTRAL, you get pulled UP the hill.

DeQueen-
There is a cemetery called, "Avon".  There is a well in the middle, that if you drop a rock in it at night, you can hear a baby cry. There have been some people say you can even see & hear the babies mother running through the grave yard, near the old burned down church.  The story is told that a woman was in at the well, drawing out water, before it was a grave yard, getting water out-of-the well, she sat the child on the edge, & the baby fell in & drown.

Searcy-Harding University-
A girl named Gertie haunts the Old Music Building.  The top window where she was said to be seen is painted black.  You can hear someone playing a piano even when no one else is in the building.

Arkadelphia- Henderson State University -
A much better example of campus ghosts would be Simon, who haunts the theater in Arkansas Hall.  He is particularly fond of the balcony section, where he flips seats, giggles, and makes footsteps.  He is also known to drop harmless objects, such as newspapers, onto the stage from the ceiling.

Woodson-Highway 365-
A few people have reported picking up a female hitchhiker on a stormy night.  She asks them to drive her to her house.  When they get to the house, the driver turns to say goodbye, and the girl is gone.  The driver goes up to the house and asks about it and the woman at the door reports that this happens all of the time since her daughter was killed in a car accident close to home.
 
 

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Guests at the 10th annual Magnolia Blossom Festival and World Championship Steak Cookoff will witness the unveiling of the worlds longest trailer mounted grill. The 78' monstrosity is the brainchild of well known steak-cooker and Blossom Festival volunteer, George Black. According to Black, the grill, which he patterned from an ICBM missile, is made primarily from a 36" diameter gas line, includes 22 cooking doors and individual charcoal trays and weighs 15,800 pounds. It uses 740 pounds of charcoal to cook over 1,000 steaks. The Guinness Book of World Records is creating a special category to recognize the legendary grill.
The World Championship Steak Cookoff will be Saturday, May 16th and is the highlight of the many Blossom Festival activities. Anyone who would like to enter the competition should contact the Magnolia Columbia County Chamber of Commerce at 870-234-4352 for entry forms. Steak tickets are also available from the Chamber office.

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This twelve-foot cement stucco raven is the work of Bill Johnson of Ravenden. It stands along the north easement of highway 63 at the edge of town. This is the third raven sculpture to be built on this spot. The first two, both constructed of fiberglass, were burned by vandals.

In 1991, Bob Clements started an initiative to build the bird, collected donations and hired a local vo-tech student, who was studying auto body repair, to fabricate the statue. After that statue was burned, Clements had the bird rebuilt and shortly thereafter it was burned again. Clements began to suspect, for reasons that he did not explain to me, that the destruction of the bird might be a personal attack against him, so he got one of the other citizens, Jack Dale, to carry the ball in the fundraising attempt to build the third bird.

Jack Dale hired mason Bill Johnson for the job, which took about a month's worth of after-work and weekend time. Completed in 1996, and still intact, the third bird is coated with fire-retardant paint.

The inscriptions on the base read as follows (emphasis theirs):

Front--Ravenden, Ark. Est. 1883, First known as Ravenden Junction

Rear--The Raven was first built by donations in 1991, Reconstructed in 1996

Left--The RAVEN was the first bird sent from the ark in search of land

Right--The RAVEN has the reputation for DIVINE or MAGICAL powers

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WalMart Museum

Located in Sam Walton's original Bentonville variety store, the Wal-Mart Visitors Center traces the origin and growth of Wal-Mart.

The center was created as an educational and informative facility for those interested in this American retailing success story.

If you're ever in Northwest Arkansas, make sure to include a visit to the Wal-Mart Visitors Center in your plans.

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