EDITOR’S NOTE: Western North Carolina is weird – and it always has been. From Cherokee myths to Bigfoot and alien encounters, the Blue Ridge Mountains host the quirky and bizarre from past and present. We would not have it any other way, and neither would you. Join us in unfolding the histories and unraveling the mysteries of this strange land we call home.
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The Jackson Building held the title of tallest building in Asheville for 41 years. Within only a decade of opening, its reputation became forever tarnished as a symbol of the city’s financial struggles after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Nearly a century later, Western North Carolina residents still whisper of the fate of the men who supposedly jumped to their deaths from the thin tower, landing where a bullseye now sits in the pavement below…