Jul 23, 2026 · 29 min · 20 segments
Just a few miles from the tallest concrete dam east of the Mississippi River, there's a paved road that ends at a mysterious tunnel. This unfinished roadway, deep inside the Great Smoky Mountains…
Charlie Shelton Ormond
Anisa KhalifaHost
Lance HollandGuest
Henry ChambersGuest
Chris ChandlerGuest
James CalhounGuest
Jessica GunterGuest
Katie LimingGuest
Okay, Charlie, tell me about this mysterious road in the mountains of North Carolina.
Yes.
Yeah, it's in the far western corner of North Carolina, right outside the town of Bryson City, close to the Tennessee border in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Now, thankfully, the sun was out the morning that I was there because the two ends of the tunnel is really the only light that you have inside of this thing.
It's about a quarter mile long, and a lot of that is pitch black.
Can't really see where I'm walking, but I see a light at the other end.
Okay, Charlie, tell me about this mysterious road in the mountains of North Carolina.
Yes.
Yeah, it's in the far western corner of North Carolina, right outside the town of Bryson City, close to the Tennessee border in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Now, thankfully, the sun was out the morning that I was there because the two ends of the tunnel is really the only light that you have inside of this thing.
It's about a quarter mile long, and a lot of that is pitch black.
Can't really see where I'm walking, but I see a light at the other end.
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