Catesby's Trillium growing along Rich Mountain Road
Rich Mountain Road Scenic Drive
Kenny & Dana Koogler
Good Friday April 19, 2019
We had the nice surprise of Kenny being off Good Friday! It was rainy for the morning, and we just did stuff around the house. The rain cleared off and the sun came out. The day turned pretty so we decided we had to get out of the house a bit.
We went for a short scenic drive along Rich Mountain Road. Facebook popped up a memory of April 19, 2018.. one year ago we took Gabe for a drive round that road.
It opened today! First day of the Spring season to be able to take advantage of it.
We headed toward Cades Cove. It was not too bad traffic wise. We didn't take
a long time to be able to make it round to the turn off for Rich Mountain Road.
It leads from about halfway round the loop road to the back side of Townsend.
We had a pretty drive and enjoyed it. It was odd since the same time last year we saw loads of wildflowers bloomed out. Today we saw a fraction of that!
I talked to my neighbor a few days prior to making this drive. I relate in the paragraph below what he shared with me. Email me if you can relate any similar experiences you've had in that vicinity.
T's Story:
Our neighbor told me about a strange experience he and his wife had last year. They took a drive on Rich Mountain Road. It is the one that leads out of Cades Cove into Dry Valley at the back of Townsend. He described a certain point along the drive.. a part of the terrain that I remembered immediately. He said as they were driving along approaching that point they saw an older man and woman along the road. They were not dressed for hiking, but looked like they were dressed having come from church. They also were not dressed for the time period. They looked like 1930's -1940s garb they were wearing. Said the couple smiled at them and waved and kept going. They entered the woods.
They had an odd feeling about it like something was wrong. Yet they kept going and expected to see a vehicle pulled over. Perhaps the couple was venturing out from where they parked. There was one vehicle besides my neighbors on that road.. a truck coming along behind them from Cades Cove. As my neighbors got to the end of the road near Bull Sink at its end.. the truck caught up to them. An upset couple got out and asked them if they had seen the elderly couple? They told them they had. Both couples had the same response of their hackles going up over this. No vehicle was parked anywhere along the way out. There are no dwellings in the area to have come from. It would not be impossible to walk up there from Dry Valley, but it is unlikely. It would bea bit far especially for an elderly couple not dressed for a walk. Has anyone else had this encounter or other odd encounters along that stretch of road? I could tell when he related this to me he was still bothered by it. He said he did not know if what they saw was real or was an encounter with ghosts. He is a Vietnam Vet and tough as iron and not the kind of man given to talk about this sort of thing.
They had an odd feeling about it like something was wrong. Yet they kept going and expected to see a vehicle pulled over. Perhaps the couple was venturing out from where they parked. There was one vehicle besides my neighbors on that road.. a truck coming along behind them from Cades Cove. As my neighbors got to the end of the road near Bull Sink at its end.. the truck caught up to them. An upset couple got out and asked them if they had seen the elderly couple? They told them they had. Both couples had the same response of their hackles going up over this. No vehicle was parked anywhere along the way out. There are no dwellings in the area to have come from. It would not be impossible to walk up there from Dry Valley, but it is unlikely. It would bea bit far especially for an elderly couple not dressed for a walk. Has anyone else had this encounter or other odd encounters along that stretch of road? I could tell when he related this to me he was still bothered by it. He said he did not know if what they saw was real or was an encounter with ghosts. He is a Vietnam Vet and tough as iron and not the kind of man given to talk about this sort of thing.
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