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Religion ...is the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. Especially a personal God or Gods. A particular system of faith and worship...or a pursuit of interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance. Religion is a way of devotion, and its the first act of the virtue of religion and is defined as the promptness or readiness of will.. in the service of God. Concretely, this means the perfect offering of the will itself to God, for readiness of the will in the service of God is the will offered to God in worship. and while many have devotion in their religion..one man in Prattville, Alabama, took his devotion to God & faith to the next step. On top of a hill and across the road, are thousands of crosses. Symbols pointing the way from earth to heaven, warning against the evils of sin and offering the message of redemption..at the Rice Cross Garden.

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Leland, is a city, located in Washington County, Mississippi. With a population of just over 4,000 people. For a long time, it was the center of cotton culture, which is still a very important commodity crop in this rural area. Leland is located in the Mississippi Delta. On the banks of Deer Creek, and since before the Civil War, farming has always been the basis of the local economy...with the town also being known for its fishing of catfish & hunting of white tail deer. but Mississippi has also spawned many famous folks. Especially from the town of Leland. A number of national and regionally noted blues musicians are from this small town, and there are five Mississippi Blues Trail Markers in Leland. Celebrating this towns significant contributions to blues history. But while Leland has created many famous Blues Musicians..it also helped to create one well-known amphibian, Kermit the Frog. And the best part is, there is an entire museum dedicated to the beloved frog and his creator, Jim Henson, and with Deer Creek running directly behind the museum, it is easy to imagine Kermit sitting on the bank playing his banjo.

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Christmas is that time of the year for sharing the spirit of giving, festive traditions with family or friends, Christmas Cards, magical lights, holiday music, like Holly jolly Christmas, Its the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Jingle Bells, and Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer. But as children, we grow up under the magical umbrella of Christmas, with all the stories of Santa Claus, his reindeer, and those little elves working all through the night, making toys for all the good little boys and girls.. around the world, filling Jolly ol Saint Nick's red sack, full of presents.. to be delivered on Christmas Eve, but what if I told you, that there is a small town in Georgia. Named after the big man in the red suit. Its hard to believe, but its true. And it may be the most festive town in all of the state of Georgia.. especially come Christmastime....as people drive, from hundreds of miles away..to the charming little town of Santa Claus, Georgia. Just to drop a letter in Santa's bright red mailbox...

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In many religious and occult concepts, an apocalypse usually discloses something very important or hidden.. the belief is usually accompanied by the idea that civilization will soon come to a turbulent end, due to some sort of catastrophic global event. These views and movements often focus on cryptic revelations about a sudden, dramatic, and cataclysmic intervention of God in history; the judgment of all men; the salvation of the faithful elect; and the eventual rule with God.. in a renewed heaven and earth, and while many have their own theories of what the Book of Revelations actually means, one very religious couple from Alcoa, Tennessee, took the literal Biblicial Armageddon interpretation of Revelations Chapter 20 Verse 6, as a blueprint to survive the end of the world. The couple was so convinced it would happen in their lifetime, and that afterwards they would be one of the 144,000 righteous souls who would live on Earth with Jesus for another 1,000 years, prompting them to build an indestructible fortress to wait out this supposed incoming Armageddon, and From 1938 to 1946..the Nicholson's, both in their sixties, constructed what is known today as Millennium Manor.

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In Austin, Texas lies one of the oldest. Best known. Operating hotels in the whole state of Texas, The Driskill Hotel. A Romanesque style building remains one of the premiere hotels in Austin, featuring lavish bridal suites, two restaurants, and a grand ballroom. Constructed in 1886..the hotel is even listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Colonel Jesse Driskill, a successful cattle baron, moved to Texas from Missouri in 1849. Flushed with cash from his service to the Confederate Army, to who he supplied beef to all throughout the Civil War, decided to construct a the finest hotel south of St. Louis in Austin, Texas. But while this grand hotel might have elegant history, and many upscale renovations, bringing it into the third millennium, it has a dark past, rittled with death, and is considered one of the most haunted hotels in the United States, featuring a variety of alleged supernatural activity all throughout the building. Including the possible spirit of Colonel Driskell himself, as The hotel has become synonymous with hauntings, that it has even garnered its own Spotify playlist to the subject, and over the years, several resident ghosts have been spotted through out the hotel grand hallways and rooms, with many legends of the 130 year old hotel's macabre history.

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One troubled & lonely Alabama country singer, storyteller, and legendary songwriter used his writing of emotional convictions, by giving the world a series of musical hits like "Cold, Cold, Heart" , "Your Cheatin Heart", and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" , garnering himself many nicknames like Mr. Lovesick Blues and The Hillbilly Shakespeare, country music legend. Hank Williams Sr. He recorded 35 singles that would reach the Top 10 of the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart, including 11 that ranked number one, with a few of these songs releasing after his death. But one of these number one songs, that just so happened to be released a few days after his death, has an interesting tale of how it was written & conceived, within a small cabin, in the small lake town of Kowaliga, Alabama, just a few months before Hank would pass away in the back of his Cadillac in 1953, involving an ol wooden Indian whose heart was made of knotty pine.

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As a kid in America, we always learned that the America's were discovered by Italian explorer and navigator, Christopher Columbus, by learning this specific rhyme from our teachers "In 1492 Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue". Columbus wasn't the first explorer to set foot on North American or Canadian soil. Nearly 500 years before his birth, a band of Vikings left their homeland behind in search of a new world. Their high powered Viking Longship sliced through the unfamiliar cobalt waters of the Atlantic Ocean, until these Norsemen spied a new land, dropped anchor, and went ashore. But what if the Norsemen, the Vikings...ventured even further into the wilderness of the Southern United States, reaching what we know today as the states of Oklahoma and Arkansas, well according to some interesting finds within both states, it might have been possible, with the Heavener Runestone & the Van Buren Mystery Grave.

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New Orleans. The big easy... is world-renowned for its distinct music, Creole cuisine, unique dialect, and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The music of New Orleans is especially known for its strong association with Jazz Music, as it is universally considered the birthplace of the genre. And the tradition of Jazz has taken on many various forms.. that have either branched out from its original form.. Dixieland or taken entirely different paths altogether. but it would just so happen, that the beloved music of Jazz, would also become an unusual motive for one mysterious serial killer, serving up his abnormal gratification for murder & Jazz music. From May 1918 to October 1919, the city of New Orleans was in a frenzied panic over a roaming serial killer dubbed by the press as "The Axeman", for his brutal killing methods with his particular weapon of choice...an axe., and to make matters worse.. the axes he used to bludgeon his victims, often belonged to the victims themselves.

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"The Wonderful World of OZ" by L. Frank Baum, America's greatest and best loved homegrown fairytale. The World of OZ is one of the best known stories in American literature, as it chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the Magical Land of OZ, after she and her pet dog, Toto, are swept away from their Kansas home by a Tornado. The Wizard of OZ film was a marvel for its time, characterized by its use of Technicolor, fantasy, storytelling, musical score, and memorable characters, making the film an American Pop Culture icon. This American musical fantasy, would go one to create many generations of loyal fans and lead two brothers, with their love for the Wizard of OZ, to began looking for a way to turn a ski resort into a year round attraction in 1965. Brothers Harry and Grover Robbins began looking for an area that reminded them of the 1939 film, "The Wizard of OZ", and by the end of 1965 their brother Spencer Robbins would join along with them in the search for the best spot for their entertainment complex and ski resort, and by June 15th, 1970 "The Land of OZ" would open to the public.

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Everyone has heard stories of the Bigfoot or also known as Sasquatch by the Native Americans, the hairy ape like.. bi-ped creature, that supposedly roams the woods, predominantly around the Pacific Northwest of the United States & Canada. Most cultures have accounts of human-like giants in their folk history, expressing a need for "some larger-than-life creature", each language even had its own name for the creature, and many of the names translated back to "wild man" or "hairy man". But while the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest and many others have added Bigfoot to their American Bestiary, one within the deep Alabama woods, is by far different from the others. Residents in Northern and Central Alabama have reported seeing a creature roaming the dense woods & neighborhoods, these reports stated it was a giant, hairy monster covered in white fur, which ultimately gave the beast its name .."The Alabama White Thang".

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