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I love it! Wartburg sits just west of... wait for it... . . . . . You can't make this up... . . . . . Really you can't . . . . . . "Frozen Head State Park".  For a little perspective. Wartburg is the County Seat of Morgan County but has a population of less than 1000. Some damn fine folks up there... if they know you. I think David Allen Coe may have written a song about them.  Let me just say I have been to Wartburg and leave it at that. Collecting dust. | |||
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Um..what?? Care to elaborate? Already reeling over the shades on a human skull sitting on a mantel like it’s no big (we’ve done that with pumpkins, etc, but Jesus..) __________________________ "Trust, but verify." | |||
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A guy did that some years ago in my county and brought it in a bag to the law enforcement office where I was a dispatcher at the time. He could have left it where it was and reported it, of course, but it was deep in the woods and he may have been uncertain he could find it again. Or perhaps he thought it wasn’t a good idea to leave it there for someone else to pick up and put on his mantlepiece. The skull turned out to be that of someone who had been missing for a couple of years. There were suspicions of foul play in connection with his disappearance, but nothing could be determined. Despite a large scale search of the area, nothing else was located other than a few scraps of clothing in a swampy area at the bottom of a slope from where the skull was found—not even another single bone. Another time a fisherman(?) discovered some bones washing out from a riverbank that he identified as human. As I recall he had some with him when he reported it at the LE office. Those turned out, as best could be determined, to have been from a burial of a soldier, or more likely a veteran wearing an old Army coat, probably in the mid-nineteenth century. ► 6.4/93.6 “ Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance.” — Immanuel Kant | |||
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European mount. It should have been in the china cabinet  CMSGT USAF (Retired) Chief of Police (Retired) | |||
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I am not surprised. I worked in Morgan County in the 1970s. Take Deliverance up ten notches. Was a sundowner town at that time. No running water in many of the homes. Poorer than poor. No meth back then. Some very rough characters. The jail had a nice stone arch inscribed with the words" It don't pay to do wrong. At times people just disappeared. | |||
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I was in Morgan County about three weeks ago and can testify that there is not much there except a lot of very tough territory. Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary is in Morgan County and is the place where James Earl Ray was incarcerated after he shot MLK. Ray and six others escaped over a wall using a homemade ladder made of pipe sections. As I recall, Ray never made it out of the brush and was recaptured 50 odd hours later. At one time Brushy Mountain operated its own coal mine using prison labor. Prisoners were tied to a post in the central courtyard and whipped if they didn’t make quota. I understand that my grandfather, a judge in Galveston, had the top half of a human skull that he and his poker buddies used to hold the pot when they got together for a game. | |||
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Wait a minute....is this where they run that ultra-marathon, the Barkley?? _______________________________ The artist formerly known as AllenInWV | |||
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This is why you cant find any bones from Bigfoot. Years ago my mothers boyfriend was a mason that had found a skull while digging a footing. He kept it and never said a word to the authorities. I wonder who it was that died. An Indian? Hoffa? Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows. Benjamin Franklin | |||
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That must have been a pretty interesting call: <deputy picks up the phone> "Hello, Sheriff's Office" ....long silence.... "Say, What?" | |||
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You hit it! The Barkley was inspired by James Earl Ray's escape and is run in Frozen Head State Park in Morgan County. The Barkley has two courses, 60 miles and 100 miles. It has a little brother, The Barkley Fall Classic, which is only 50 kilometers. One of my running buddies, a beast of a woman who has finished several 100 milers ran the Fall Classic (50K) and said it nearly killed her. I can't imagine attempting the real thing. | |||
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Yep Florida has plenty areas for people to go missing permanently. In SW Missouri, we had abandoned mine shafts and such that were filled with water. Deep places to hide things. To have a skull on the mantle though - balsy. Stupid, but balsy. | |||
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