Here are some things to do in my area:

http://www.retroweb.com/lynchburg/attractions/main.html

You can go see Mag, a cat with no head. (Seriously)

Or you can go explore a cavern that has reduced gravity. (Dead serious)


Plan your trips, I have a few extra beds.

That seems like an incredible amount of fun.

The chess table is set up. Come on over.

Heh. Most of that stuff looks pretty interesting actually. I'd like to go on a roadtrip to see some of those things.

Shame the headless cat and gravity chamber are out of bounds for the public though. :(

Swivel:

If I come down, you gotta smuggle me into the cave, or I will turn crazy roomie murderer on your ass.

I have to snuggle with you in a cave?

Wha..?

wow... lots to do ...

Swivel:

Well, that too...

That's just evil. I've just spent half an hour trying to match up the map of "Valleyville" with Google Maps. :o

That's just evil. I've just spent half an hour trying to match up the map of "Valleyville" with Google Maps. :o

"A Charlottesville newspaper in 1994 hired former Navy Seal Peter McGowan to infiltrate Valleyville and uncover its secrets, but after acknowledging initial entry, radio contact was broken and McGowan was never heard from again."

Heh. Pwned.

This is a windup site though, isn't it?
There's a lot of bizarre things that I'd like to see on that list.

"Pinehurst Mulleted Naturists Retreat"
http://www.retroweb.com/lynchburg/attractions/mulleted_naturists_2.jpg
Say WHAAAA?!

"A Charlottesville newspaper in 1994 hired former Navy Seal Peter McGowan to infiltrate Valleyville and uncover its secrets, but after acknowledging initial entry, radio contact was broken and McGowan was never heard from again."

Heh. Pwned.

This is a windup site though, isn't it?
There's a lot of bizarre things that I'd like to see on that list.

Read the fine print:
If you desire more information on any of the "attractions" described on this site, please use the e-mail link at the bottom of the page. Please DO NOT contact local tourism agencies, museums, historical societies, or any offices or individuals associated with the mentioned localities, as they would likely doubt your sanity as a result.

Hey. I'm from Southern Ohio and often ventured down into West Virginia and Virginia - and I've been to Lynchburg. Appalachia was my o'le stomping ground. Afterall, we all know the South's gonna do it again!

This "Mag' is a cool cat. Have you ever seen it? She must be sought after by many for scientific research? The homepage you site states, "the owner has allowed medical scientists to examine the animal, who have concluded that the cat was able to survive by a means in which its central nervous system assumed all autonomic functions in the absence of the brain, an uncommon occurrence in nature, but not unheard of." But not unheard? I wonder what the other cases were? Part of the brain stem must be still intact.

If Mike the Headless Chicken (http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/story.html) can do it, why not Mag?

I wonder if that Gravity Hole thing is for real though...

Read the fine print:
If you desire more information on any of the "attractions" described on this site, please use the e-mail link at the bottom of the page. Please DO NOT contact local tourism agencies, museums, historical societies, or any offices or individuals associated with the mentioned localities, as they would likely doubt your sanity as a result.

Damn. I was about ready to sell my worldly possessions to go. :(

I wonder if that Gravity Hole thing is for real though...

Of course not.

It would require that something near the Earth's mass was "above" you. Which means that we would all be drawn to the averaged center of this mass, and the Earth's mass. People in Tennessee would be walking around askant. People in North Carolina would be akilter. People in D.C., well... I doubt they would be any more fucked up than they already are.

And anyone who walked "above" this clump of iridium would feel crushed under the combined attraction of it plus the Earth's mass. They would feel like they were in an elevator which was rising at several meters per second.

I don't think any of the stories are real. But they are really clever, and perfectly written to engender a moment of hope.

The writing style is quite amazing, considering that they're fabrications. I like to think that I'm not easily fooled, but I was pretty much taken in until I got to the gravity hole. :o

You can fool all of the people some of the time...

They have a gravity illusion site up in Maine where you drive your car down a slight grade in a hill to the bottom of it, put your car in neutral and watch it roll back up the hill. I did it, it worked, and I was never amazed or perplexed. I analyzed the situation and the surrounding geography and easily recognized that all the surrounding trees were at an angle - probably an uplift in the Earth. The car was never at a point that it was countering gravity, only the position of the trees gave this illusion.

They have a gravity illusion site up in Maine where you drive your car down a slight grade in a hill to the bottom of it, put your car in neutral and watch it roll back up the hill. I did it, it worked, and I was never amazed or perplexed. I analyzed the situation and the surrounding geography and easily recognized that all the surrounding trees were at an angle - probably an uplift in the Earth. The car was never at a point that it was countering gravity, only the position of the trees gave this illusion.

The thing which never ceases to amaze me about our planet, our universe, and our human existence is the COMPLETE LACK OF ALL THINGS MYSTICAL. Think about it for a second. Everything obeys natural laws. Nothing defies them. Every time we *think* something does, we eventually find a reasonable cause.

This just baffles me. You look at our propensity for superstition. Our willingness to believe in magic, to give everyday occurrences a mystical muse whose ghostly endeavor is to fool our senses. And yet... nothing.

It is a wonder that the universe can move along with no magic, and an even greater wonder that everyone doesn't see, all at once, that this is the true way of things. Especially on this site can you glimpse the mad mind of the mystically inclined. The hope for a universe more thrilling than cogs and levers. Constantly disappointed and disproved, but ever hopeful.

*sigh*

"How come when I went to the Lynchburg Public Library and looked back in the newspaper microfilms, there was no mention of the Riverview Amusement Park from June 16 thru June 20, 1963 and no mention of the Lynchburg West End sinkhole in the newspaper from March 13 thru March 18. Surely, both of these events would have made the headlines in the Lynchburg Daily Advance. Also, I have lived in Lynchburg for the past 62 years and don't remember anything about either of these events."
(Editor's Note: It is very odd that the newspaper would not have covered these events. It is also possible that these stories have been expunged from the files. This certainly warrants further investigation)