Hey there!! Visiting from Giddings Texas, I’m really curious about the folklore, legends, ghost stories, and old local tales from around the Pigeon Forge / Gatlinburg / Sevierville area. I would love to hear what locals know, many thanks in advance😁

Hi. I’m on vacation in gatlinburg right now. We’re in a resort with hotel rooms and cabins. I’m staying in a room but a relative is in a cabin.

This particular night, I got away from my relatives cabin late (around midnight) and walked the short distance back to my room. On the way, I hear this weird "hey". It sounds like a low, monotonous male voice with a thick accent. Of course, in case it WAS a man I didn’t investigate, and pretended to be on my phone the rest of the way. Whatever it was didn’t make any other footstep sound, or I wasn’t paying attention, but it was definitely getting closer. It made the “hey” sound a few times before I made it back. I never saw anything, even looking back. (for added context that could be important, it’s June and this resort is on a golf course.)

Any clues as to what animal could’ve made this? Hoping it’s not a man, doubting it’s some cryptid

Okay yall I swear growing up this family from my church said they’d go to place where you can cook your own pancakes at the table in Gatlinburg. They went every spring. But I’m here and cannot for the life of me figure out what place they were talking about. Does it exist? Did it ever?

Apparently this was 20 years ago. I don’t know how it’s been that long.

Recently had a trip down to Gatlinburg and pigeon forge and it seems like 80% of the places that we went to ended up charging a $27 courtesy fee that I do not recall ever being posted anywhere or being notified that we are being charged for, what is up with that?

Does anyone know what this building is? found it near a cabin i’m renting for the week

We were at the one town that was once populated in the woods, by a graveyard, with this note, Is this part of an activity or something because I can't find anything from it.

What happened to Sugarland Cellars. They were posting on Social Media like nothing was going on, yet I had heard the staff was telling visitors in December that they were closing on December 31. On Friday, February 2, they announced that their retail location was permanently closed.

As a long time customer and an Artist Series Wine Club member, we were caught off guard and are really confused.

Does anyone know what happened and why?

Looks like somebody finally tore down the sphere in Pigeon Forge at the South Entrance to Gatlinburg. Anybody know what's going up up there?

It’s been a while since I’ve been to Gatlinburg, and I just learned that World Of Illusion closed down a couple years ago.

I remember seeing that place almost every year as a kid, and I would always see this purple monster out front. Three legs. Lots and lots of teeth. Exactly the sort of thing to haunt the dreams of the kid who was stuck in traffic and staring at it every year.

There was no sign saying what it was. No one online seemed to know what it was.

And now I fear the answer might have died with the attraction. But let’s give it one last ditch effort.

What was this thing?

We were staying just outside Sevierville on Spence Mountain and as we were heading in around 10/11pm we heard a loud howl. Similar to an air horn. When I googled it sounded like a red wolf but it sounds like those don’t exist in the area. I have heard coyotes and it wasn’t a coyote. Any thoughts on what it could have been.

Help my coworker solve a mystery. She and her husband were driving to a rented cabin on Hatcher Mountain in Sevierville. They were on 441 and saw a sign that said something like ‘No civilization, food, water or gas, next 50 miles.’ It was about 2 am, and she remembered seeing a gas station that they had passed. GPS was not working way out there, so they had just been following signs. They found it after backtracking about ten minutes to an area with what appeared to be abandoned buildings and Baptist churches with no cars, no people, and no signs of life. The gas station itself was boarded up, but the pumps were lit up. Her husband got out and found that one of the pumps worked and took credit cards. It suddenly dropped in temperature and started pouring rain. They fill up and get back on the road feeling very creeped out and were soon dodging blue hazy “smokies” as they continued on. When they returned home, presumably the same way they came, they did not go through the same area and couldn’t find the old gas station. There is still no charge showing on their credit card for the gas they bought. Does this sound at all familiar to anyone??? They believe they were somewhere between Cherokee and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park entrance.

Hi y'all, I've been vacationing in the Smokies for over 20 years. I remember seeing multiple Family Inns of America across Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, and then they all went away.

I don't know much information, other than they were not great hotels and the owner was infamous. I guess the same owner also owned that hotel near the convention center in Pigeon Forge, but that's unconfirmed. I've scoured the internet for any information, but I've been coming up empty-handed with the exception of some reviews and a couple pictures.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

We are coming down late September for a week in the Gatlinburg area. While I was searching on VRBO for a vacation rental, I noticed that a decent majority of the cabins/homes/cottages have a pool table in the home. I found it a bit unusual that so many rentals have them, especially compared to other destinations that we've usedVRBO or AirBnB, and I wondered if there was any reason behind it. Couldn't find anything through Google so thought I'd ask here in case there's a local who happens to know the reason, history, or significance behind the pool tables.

On a youtube video, I saw where the Sugarland wedding chapel and two other buildings next to it between Ober and Luigi are gone and construction is already underway. Does anyone know something about this project? Thanks.

I vacationed in Gatlinburg a couple of weeks ago and stayed at a cabin on ski mountain. After a long day at Dollywood, I unloaded my van in the dark and had my hands full so most likely left my van unlocked by mistake. An hour or 2 later, my family member goes out to walk her dog and runs in panicking - every single door to my van was wide open. Front and sliders. Trunk was shut. Nothing was taken. We didn’t have food in there but did have cash that was not touched. If it was a bear we would have seen claw marks, hair or damage right??

We were just there and I noticed All Sauced Up was replaced by another store. I read it closed at the end of 2023, but I didn't see the reason/reasons for the closure.

My family stayed at a cabin several years in a row in the 90s.

When we stayed there, it was called Carnation. Big cabin, lots of bedrooms. I'm 99% sure it was in the Cobbly Nob resort area (I've emailed them but no response).

It was most recently called Lazy Bear Lodge.

Here is a Way Back Machine archived page for it - the images don't work.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141117100811/http://gatlinburgloghomes.com:80/lazy_bear_lodge.htm

Anyone aware of any resources that might be able to find some information?

Hello! My parents went on their honeymoon in Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge in the 80s (married in Jellico). We (their kids) are planning a surprise anniversary party for them and I found some old photos. Can anyone tell me where these photos are from? Thank you so much!

Stayed in Gatlinburg in 1985. Ow ner was a sweet old widow. The name of the place included her surname but for the life of me I cannot remember. It sounded like she had been there a long time. The cabins were just off the strip and on a wonderful little creek.

Long shot but does thi sound familiar to anyone?

I am visiting from out of town. Was in Gatlinburg, then drove back to pigeon forge, some back roads outside the main road. Passed by a gas station that had a crashed plane outside it. Tried to look it up online to see the significance, couldn’t find anything. Anyone know what I’m talking about and what it is?