{"id":12,"date":"2006-08-20T01:30:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T06:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinomara.com\/2006\/08\/20\/it-beats-that-thing-at-walt-disney-world\/"},"modified":"2006-08-20T01:30:30","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T06:30:30","slug":"it-beats-that-thing-at-walt-disney-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"It beats that thing at Walt Disney World"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had one of the strangest experiences of my life today. Did you know that there is a gigantic treehouse<\/A> in Crossville, TN? I didn’t either. Leon told me about it a few days ago and tried to describe it, but I was seriously not prepared for the enormity of the whole thing.<\/p>\n

The amount of background I have on this place is absolutely zero. I’ve found a very few scattered references to it online and even those are just someone mentioning having been there or having heard of it. I can’t begin to tell you who built it, or why, or how long it took. The most I can say is that the guy must have liked Jesus ’cause there are several references around.<\/p>\n

Okay, so, let’s see. Apparently there was once a barn on this property in Crossville. Then someone had the bright idea to remove the roof and build on to the top. And from there, more levels, and more levels, and then some more, and then a spiral staircase<\/A> leading even higher than that, finishing somewhere at least four stories off the ground, maybe higher. Five or more if you count the ladder climb to the bell tower.<\/p>\n

I’m now realizing how impossible it is to describe this thing. Leon tried to describe it to me, and he’s good with words, and the concept didn’t really come across. The magnitude and enormity of this undertaking is … mind-boggling, to say the least. The haphazardness of it makes it far more interesting – at every turn it seems like there’s a staircase or a landing that leads to a whole lot of nowhere, a boarded-off dead end. If not that then it leads to a new area in a way you can’t anticipate, perhaps down a half-flight and under a previously-explored room, or around the outside of a tree and up through the floor of a different room.<\/p>\n

There’s a large main ‘hall’ in the middle of the second floor<\/A> complete with old elementary school chairs and a basketball goal<\/A>. There are bedrooms in several locations, complete with mattresses, couches, dressers, pictures in frames, candles, and so forth, all in various states of disrepair. There’s a wood-burning stove somewhere up around the 3.5th floor. Around every corner there’s a new discarded piece of furniture<\/A>, or maybe a hanging poster, or length of mirror<\/A>. The walls are very open in some parts<\/A> and closed, complete with windows, in others. There’s zero rhyme or reason to the layout.<\/p>\n

Leon<\/A> and Jennifer and I (oh, and their dog Malachi) traveled damn near every square foot we could find our way to, and it seemed like we didn’t cover even half of the whole structure.<\/p>\n

I’m running out of ways to describe this thing and feeling overwhelmed just contemplating the enormity of it. It’s made even more odd by the fact that it’s not an official attraction, there’s no gate, no guard … it’s just some guy’s treehouse.<\/p>\n

Oh, and the location apparently is a closely-guarded secret, so I’m afraid I can’t tell you exactly where it is<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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