Live Periscope Adventures

I have been putting a lot of focus into my youtube page recently.  One new experiment I have been trying is to film live explorations of abandoned locations and broadcast them in real time on the periscope app.  This allows me to interact with viewers in real time while I am at a location.  Later, I can upload this adventures to youtube complete with viewer comments.  Please add me on periscope @jcarpetbagger and join me on my live adventures.

Check out the live videos below.

I'd love to have you there!

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Food Review: Anna Eats a Raw Oyster

Three years ago Anna tried her first raw oyster.  She was scarred for life.

Three years later she has built up the courage to try raw oysters once again.

 

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Exploring an Abandoned Church

Follow me as we take a look inside this amazing abandoned church.

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Don't Build a Theme Park on a Mountain

In my travels I have come to one realization in my travels across the Southern roadside:  Don't build a theme park on top of a Mountain.  I present to you exhibits A, B and C.

Exhibit A: Gold Mountain: a theme park that failed so spectacularly that it hardly anyone even remembers that it existed.  A rotten staircase is nearly all the remains.


Exhibit B: Ghost Town in the Sky: a cursed theme park that can't catch a break.  From rock-slides, financial woes and accidental shootings, every time they get ready to reopen the park something
 terrible happens.



Exhibit C:  Funtown Mountain.  A theme park so cursed that after only 2 months its owner went completely insane and single handily destroyed it with his own bare hands.


The Mountains are cursed.

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Oral Roberts Prayer Tower

Last November when I visited Tulsa Oklahoma's Oral Robert's University, I didn't have much idea of who Oral Roberts was. 

My research now shows, he was controversial religious figure and one of the first televangelists.  He was a faith healer and his son later claimed that his father could bring people back from the dead.  He was know for his controversial tactics in collecting money, going as far as telling people that God would literally kill him if he didn't reach his fundraising goals.  Oh yeah, and he also had his own personal University which is still operational to this day.

Now, no mater what your religious beliefs are, there is one fact that cannot be denied:  Oral Robert University is amazing.  I have no idea what kinda stuff they teach here, but check this out.

The architecture is stunning, grandiose and like nothing I have ever seen.

Check out this Jesus statue....

The center piece of the university, sticking out like Cinderella Castle, is the magnificent Prayer Tower.

The prayer tower is modeled after Jesus's crown of thorns and has burning flame on the top.

It has an observation deck, but silly old me showed up on one of the rare occasions that it was closed.

As amazing as the Prayer Tower is, THAT'S NOT ALL......Wait until you get a load of this.....

The world's largest praying hands!  And check out those tine normal sized people underneath. 

Seriously, this place is amazing.

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Carpetbagger Food Reviews

I have been doing some food reviews of weird  twists on Southern Foods.  Check them out.







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The Odditorium Bar - Asheville, NC

I'm not much of a drinker, but when the Odditorium bar opened in Asheville, NC I was psyched.  As I have discussed here in the past I am a huge fan of freak shows.  With a name like Odditorium, it was bound to exhibit some strange an unusual things.  I went to the bar in 2013 and honestly was a bit disappointed.   There collection of oddities at that time was very small.....

They had a two headed duck which was admittedly really cool....

Some post-mortem portraits of little kids, which is a bit dark, even for my tastes.....

A dummy with a monocle.....

And a freaky Carol Channing doll.......

Of course, I should have cut them some slack, as they had just opened.  I returned recently and the bar was much improved.  They had added some really cool murals on the outside.

This mural features both the King of Freaks, Johnny Eck and the Siamese Hilton Sisters..........

And check out this weird Elephantapus........

Now I just want to see the SyFy original movie.........

Inside, the collection of oddities had grown.  Most of the collection is for sale.  Here is a big gross petrified hairball....

Their collection included a lot of nasty things in jars......

Including One Eyed Willie the Rabbit....

They had some taxidermy as well.......

I must say 250 is a good price for a stuffed coyote.....

They have a cabinet full of random creepy doll heads.....

Their Fiji Merman was a little cartoons for my liking.....

Of course I am probably the only person in the world who rates Fiji Mermen..........

Here is "Kevin", their human Skeleton....

 

But my favorite object had to be Amy the Possum Dragon.....

Which is the perfect center piece for a Southern Freak Bar............

Definitly check it out if you are in the area.....Oh yeah, their drinks are good too...........

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