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Travel with Florida's Master of the Weird!
WLRN ^ | AUG 26, 2015

Posted on 09/01/2015 2:42:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Florida is a state known for its sun, surf, and sand, where South Beach is famous and theme parks are abundant. But wait a minute! Florida also has a darker, offbeat and downright weird side, where ancient mysteries and legends reside. Florida can be a state of confusion with searches for bizarre beasts and answers to unexplained phenomena.

Then there are dozens of roadside oddities celebrating Florida’s eccentricities like the beer can car, giant cement gators, a castle built of junk, the world’s most unusual monument and the most beautiful pyramids you can rent among a slough of other crazy surprises.

In the middle of all these strange and unusual discoveries, you can find the master of weird, Charlie Carlson and his canine sidekick, Miss Scarlet. Charlie is a tenth generation Floridian who will take the viewer behind the scenes and up close to Florida’s best-kept secrets and oddest legends. He’s a witty folk historian and explorer of the Sunshine State’s unexplained phenomena. As the author of the best selling book Weird Florida, he is the perfect tour guide for this wild and wacky adventure.

Weird Florida Roads Less Traveled is a one-hour documentary produced for Public Television. From Key West to the Gulf of Mexico, we’ll travel the highways, byways and even down a few back roads in search of the Sunshine State’s weirdest and wackiest places. We will chronicle this sightseeing adventure with Charlie as our guide into Florida’s unknown world of weird where viewers will discover a different kind of tourist destination.


TOPICS: Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: florida; floriduh; weird

If he's Florida's master of weird...

1 posted on 09/01/2015 2:42:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

He’s very large....


2 posted on 09/01/2015 2:49:30 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: nickcarraway

Nick your missing a lot of threads where you need to trash Trump. I have been ‘IBN’ on a lot of them.


3 posted on 09/01/2015 2:53:24 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’d like to watch that, esp. anything he has on the panhandle around the Forgotten Coast area.


4 posted on 09/01/2015 2:57:42 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: nickcarraway

Coral Castle in Homestead is worth a visit.
Pretty amazing story.


5 posted on 09/01/2015 3:01:47 PM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: central_va

Can’t you do it a little? Do I have to do everything?


6 posted on 09/01/2015 3:15:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SuzyQue

lol...


7 posted on 09/01/2015 3:44:05 PM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: nickcarraway

Ha ha, good answer.


8 posted on 09/01/2015 5:38:31 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Old Grumpy

Thanks


9 posted on 09/01/2015 5:45:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Years ago, we stayed at a little hotel in Florida. It was decorated by a widow & her kids, with bits of sea glass & seashells, stuck in plaster here & there, painted all pink, green & white - like sleeping in a doll house. Husband said he half expected a giant hand to pull open the front wall & move us around like Barbie dolls. They did gourmet meals in the dining room & had live musical entertainment (a classmate of husband’s once played the harp at that place). I forget the name of the town; but the town also had other tourist attractions. We didn’t go in for the expensive gourmet fare; ate at McDonald’s instead - but, did buy some cans of the gourmet soups they produced at the hotel/motel.


10 posted on 09/01/2015 5:56:30 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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