Its current owners cite things like vandalism as part of the reasons its it wasn't able to open as planned earlier this year, per the local ABC affiliate.Ĭursed or not, this is still a pretty spectacular opportunity for the right group looking to get their hands on an amusement park with good bones. In the intervening years, it's become a popular spot for urban explorers and others who make a hobby of poking around abandoned places. The worst of the bunch, though, went down in 2013 when a performer in one of its staged gun fights was accidentally shot and wounded by a real bullet during one of the shows. Others have involved equipment failures, including one incident that left passengers on its SkyLift trapped there for hours. As for the mishaps, it once fell victim to a devastating mudslide that forced it to close. Over the years, there have been attempts to re-imagine the place as a Christian theme park and even a hillbilly theme park, according to the site Roadside America, though none of those took off. It's also had its fair share of mishaps and financial issues, though, and has opened and closed several times, helping contribute to its alleged "cursed" reputation. The 230-acre site, modeled after an old Wild West ghost town and decked out with 40 buildings, rides and roller coasters, was a wildly popular destination in the area for decades, attracting up to 400,000 visitors per year at its height according to the Charlotte Observer. The shuttered 60-year-old attraction, located on the top of a mountain in Maggie Valley, was expected to re-open earlier this Spring, but instead its owners decided to sell. Or at least that's what we're telling ourselves after scoping out the Ghost Town in the Sky park 150 miles west of Charlotte, North Carolina, which just went on sale for a little under $6 million. Think that's out of the question? Think again, because a huge wild west-themed park in North Carolina just hit the market for a cool $6 million.Īlthough most of us may be focused on finding the funds to secure our first homes, it's never too early to consider your theme park portfolio.
Of course, beating the crowds would never be a problem if you had your own theme park. Will Burnett: “Yeah, you’ve helped me decide what kind of man I never want to be.There are plenty of ways to beat the lines at amusement parks these days, though they mostly involve paying out the nose for fast-passes and VIP packages. But I’ve always tried to provide and make you into a man.” Victor Burnett: “Look, we may not see eye-to-eye, and I may not be the ideal parent. And he got the part because Burt Reynolds once performed as a guest star at the Ghost Town in the Sky Wild West attraction.
Bill McKinney is much more convincing as the sadistic Victor Burnett.Īnd here’s a piece of trivia - Coward appeared in one other film, “Deliverance.” He played the toothless character who rapes a man in the film. Looking feeble and very old, Coward simply isn’t capable of pulling off the role of a vengeful Harmon Teaster, who can hop off his death bed and still inspire fear in the hearts of his enemies. So did Herman “Cowboy” Coward, who reprises the role he had been playing at the site since 1961. The director’s dad worked at that attraction. And Harmon, a deputy at the time, watched it all from the jail cell he’d been locked into.īetter than it deserves to be for what it is - an homage to a once-popular Wild West tourist attraction located on the fringe of the Smoky Mountains in Maggie Valley, N.C. When Harmon’s father refused to release him, John had him beaten, nailed into a coffin and burned to death during a jailbreak.
John Burnett’s son was being held in jail for killing a young Indian boy. Violet’s arrival provides that clue.īut what Victor hasn’t told his son Will is what prompted that violence. Matter of fact, town boss Victor Burnett (Bill McKinney) has been waiting for years for some clue as to where to find Harmon Teaster, the man who slaughtered his father, mother and brother during a night of gruesome violence. But most of the occupants of Ghost Town aren’t nearly so friendly. Perry), who’s busy fixing up the town church after the preacher was scared off by all the violence in the town. She finds a sympathetic ear in young Will Burnett (D.J. So ill that his pretty daughter Violet (Princess Lucaj) heads to Ghost Town to find a doctor and a cure. Years after turning Maggie Valley into a Ghost Town in the course of avenging his father’s death, Harmon Teaster (Herbert “Cowboy” Coward) has become gravely ill.
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