Strange Alabama

I have said many times that I am a fan of the strange, weird and unusual. Maybe we all are that way. However, this was highly unusual. I had NEVER seen anything like this in my life. I must say, I was very excited to get the job offer that brought me back to Tuscaloosa.

I MAY Never sleep again. You may not either if you hate spiders as I do. I’m not the only one. I have a witness. I’ve been back in Tuscaloosa for one week, and I have loved it. However, as I looked for a new home, I encountered a creature that honestly stopped another sweet Tuscaloosa resident and me in our tracks.

I MAY Never sleep again. You may not either if you hate spiders as I do. I’m not the only one. I have a witness. I’ve been back in Tuscaloosa for one week, and I have loved it. However, as I looked for a new home, I encountered a creature that honestly stopped another sweet Tuscaloosa resident and me in our tracks.

Founded in 1819, the city was named after Tuskaloosa, the chieftain of a Muskogee-speaking people who battled and was defeated by Hernando de Soto in 1540 in the Battle of Mabila, and served as Alabama's capital city from 1826 to 1846. Tuscaloosa was known as "The Oak City" and "The Druid City" (after an ancient Celtic people who worshiped oaks) in its early years because huge

In the spring of 1865, acting under orders from General J. H. Wilson, detached Brigadier-General John T. Croxton and his brigade of fifteen-hundred rapidly marched toward Tuscaloosa to destroy the bridge, factories, mills, university (military school), and whatever else might be of benefit to the rebel cause...

The common flicker is the State Bird of Alabama and the state has been known as the "Yellowhammer State" since the Civil War. When a company of Alabama Confederate soldiers from Huntsville arrived at Hopkinsville, KY, where Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's troops were stationed their brand new uniforms provided quite the contrast to the uniforms of soldiers who'd been on the battlefields fo

Jimmie Lee Sudduth is a folk artist from Fayette, Alabama who gained international attention due to his interesting techniques. Sudduth began experimenting with art when he just three years old. While taking a stroll through the woods one day, the youngster decided to draw a face on a tree stump using mud and honey as paint...

Burritt on the Mountain not only refers to the majestic Burritt Mansion but also the surrounding 167-acre park and mountain surrounding it. Built in 1937 in Huntsville, the Burritt Museum was originally the home to Dr. William Henry Burritt, a homeopathic physician and inventor...

In April of 1971, paranoia struck Mobile, Alabama when reports of a strange "Wolf Woman" came pouring in. Citizens of Port City and Plateau claimed to encounter a creature that had the body of a wolf but the head of a beautiful woman. Although no one was ever harmed, inhabitants from these suburbs were supposedly chased home and stalked on many occasions...

Located in Montgomery, Alabama, the First White House of the Confederacy is known for housing Jefferson Davis and his family during the first year of the Civil War. The home was built between 1832 and 1835 by an ancestor of Zelda Fitzgerald named William Sayre...