Entering through a vintage gas station and into an old Creole cottage, curious visitors are overwhelmed with the odd. What about the 32-foot gator Well I can’t tell you about that some things have to be left to mystery don’t they Details for the Abita Mystery House UCM Museum. The Abita Mystery House is a rambling labyrinth of buildings that each house a different collection. In this one, you push the button below and the tornado whirls around. If you are anywhere in the area, a trip to the Mystery House is definitely in order. There are quite a few of these dioramas complete with moving parts.
The mystery is how the house is still standing. Think about how much stuff you can stuff into a small house and then triple it. Besides mysterious creatures you will also find a lot of stuff at the AMH. I imagine the duck didn’t survive the afterglow.Īnd then there’s the skull head fish. How do a gator and a duck copulate? It’s a mystery. But how?! It’s a mystery, cuz you just don’t want to think about it.ĭarryl the Dogigator. Part gator, part human and fabulously dressed.
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True to form, AMH is full of nature’s oddities. Now, because this is Louisiana, you would think any mystery house worth its weight in the unknowable would have mysterious stuffed animals because there are all kinds of weird critters roaming the swamps and the bayous. I’m guessing because the mystery is so great, you need constant reminders that there is mystery going on all around you. These too were a big part of the history of. Stock up on postcards featuring your favorite Abita Mystery House attraction or purchase a woodcut print designed by the museum’s creator.
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One of the largest displays in the Abita Mystery House are a series of automata, which you activate by pressing a button. Once you finish touring the museum, a stop in the gift shop (which you conveniently enter and exit through) is a must. As per usual with mystery places such as this one, there are a LOT of signs. A human-fish hybrid can also be found in one of the dusty cases in the Abita Mystery Museum, this one from the John Strong sideshow, well-known from performances in Coney Island. If you’re in N’awlins, it’s a drive across the Pontchartrain causeway. Not to be outdone (though truth be told, Louisiana is one big voodooy, mysterious state) there is the Abita Mystery House in Abita Springs, LA. And then there is The Thing: Mystery of the Desert. There is the mysterious car movements of Mystery Hill in Maryland.
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Nicole I’d rather go back to my Pawpaws stinky old shed and watch him skin a muskrat than to revisit this awful place. There is the mystery of Confusion Hill in Californy. The Abita Mystery House is a folk art museum with lots of collected and created items placed all throughout the property.
As you should be aware by now, there are many places to experience the vast mysteries of the universe, to stand in awe before the questions that have no answers, to be dang ol’ gobsmacked at how mysteriously mysterious mystery can be.