Why the Great Smoky Mountains Are Sitting on the Most Unexplained Land in America

🌲 Want even more Mysteries? Check out The Appalachian Mystery Collection: https://mapredacted.gumroad.com/l/ncjdfe Twelve million people a year drive through the Great Smoky Mountains and see a fogged-over overlook, a loop road, and a bear. Underneath that postcard sit drowned towns, poisoned rock, meadows that refuse to grow trees, and tens of thousands of living things that have never been given a name. This is the countdown of what the brochure leaves out — eighteen places and phenomena in America's most-visited national park that still haven't been fully explained. Number one isn't a place you can drive to at all. RIGHT NOTICE: The Copyright Laws of the United States recognize a “fair use” of copyrighted content. Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act states: “Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.” This video and our YouTube channel, in general, may contain certain copyrighted works that were not specifically authorized to be used by the copyright holder(s), but which we believe in good faith are protected by federal law and the fair use doctrine for one or more of the reasons noted above. Fair Dealing: Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988 (UK) section 30 states “Fair dealing” with a work for the purposes of criticism or review, of that or another work, does not infringe any copyright in the work provided that it is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement. Copyright in a work is not infringed by the use of a quotation from the work (whether for criticism or review or otherwise).