♪ - Next on North Carolina Weekend, join us from Ken's Korny Corn Maze in Garner as we highlight Odd and Spooky Places across our state.

We'll hunt for Bigfoot at Meta Mountain, go on a ghost tour of Goldsboro, and visit the UFO House in Frisco.

Coming up next.

- [Announcer] Funding for North Carolina Weekend is provided in part by Visit NC, dedicated to highlighting our state's natural scenic beauty, unique history, and diverse cultural attractions.

From the Blue Ridge and the Great Smoky Mountains across the piedmont to 300 miles of Barrier Island beaches, you're invited to experience all the adventure and charm our state has to offer.

[upbeat bluegrass music] ♪ - Welcome to North Carolina Weekend, everyone.

I'm Deborah Holt Noel, and this week, in the spirit of Halloween, we're highlighting odd and spooky places across our state.

Today, I'm exploring Ken's Korny Corn Maze in Garner, a family favorite, featuring pumpkins, miniature golf, and of course, corn mazes.

Here, you can see farm animals, play pumpkin checkers, and get plenty of great photos.

Now, one thing you won't find here is Bigfoot, so we said Chelsea Goodnight to hunt for him at the Cryptozoology Museum in Littleton.

[spooky music] - Ever wonder what goes bump in the night?

Well, according to Steve Barcelo, a lot of things.

We're here in Littleton to find out who, or what is making such a big impression, and this weekend we're getting weird.

We're at the Cryptozoology and Paranormal Museum.

Hopefully, things don't get too hairy.

- Cryptozoology is the study of creatures not proven of science, Bigfoot, Jersey Devil, Mothman, things of that sort.

I'm telling the stories of things that have been around here for well over a hundred years, and people seem to be enjoying the heck out of it.

My name is Stephen Barcelo.

I'm a commissioner in the town of Littleton, North Carolina, and we're at the Cryptozoology Paranormal Museum, which I run.

[indistinct chatter] [spooky music] - [Interviewer] Tell us what you saw.

- [Interviewee] I know I saw Bigfoot.

- [Interviewer] Did it scare you?

- Yes.

- Now, since I've been here, and I've only lived here eight years, I've four separate sightings on Moore Street.

Bigfoot, we're not sure exactly what it is.

Now, we have a lot of folks that come in here that feel they're inter-dimensional, or they're tied to UFO's, you know, basically as kind of like the aliens' pet.

Personally, I lean towards the fact that these things are flesh and blood.

This is the closest we've got to what they're seeing in here, and I think these things are seen moving in family pods.

It's not just one creature.

So you have some of the large, big prints that have got the splayed toes, and you can see some are just downright, kind of odd-looking, almost alien-looking.

As far as casting the prints, we actually sell the material in the museum.

We have big foot go bags.

We have evidence kits.

- This is what you catch the Bigfoot in?

- Yeah.

If you can, if you can stuff him in there, you're doing good.

And then of course we give you information on places to go in the area so you can go out and do your own investigating.

- All right, so hopefully you'll hear from me again.

- [Stephen] Well, I'll be meeting you down there.

- Okay, well, that's good.

- [Stephen] I'll be the guy hiding in the tent.

[door bells jingle] [whimsical music] Believe it or not, Bigfoot has really helped the town out, the sightings here.

We have a restaurant in town, Littleton Food and Spirits that actually sells a Bigfoot burger now, the home of the Bigfoot burger.

We have a bakery in town, Daphne's, and they actually make Bigfoot cookies occasionally.

It's great.

I'm happy to see people embracing the fact, and the tourism coming in.

I'll be happy when there's a Bigfoot on the water tower.

- I think if you're a tourist, and you have any interest in Bigfoot, or any of the paranormal activities, this is the place to go, Littleton.

It's just amazing the amount of activity that's going on in this location right now.

- Thanks for inviting me to this meeting of Bigfoot Hunters Anonymous.

I appreciate it.

So you've had a sighting recently?

- Yes, yes I have.

First time I ever seen one.

It floored me.

I mean, it really did.

I was probably like, a little teenager screaming when the Beatles first came to America.

- Yeah, you'll have to take me to where that was, and we'll see if we can get him to come out.

- [George] Sure, absolutely.

- When we go out, myself, Johnny, George, we take it very serious.

We'll go camping, and we're not there to camp.

We're there to investigate all night long.

We end up carrying a ton of equipment out there.

We're going to have parabolic dishes.

Here's the parabolic dish.

You just want to put the headphones on.

- Okay, what am I listening for?

- [Stephen] You're listening for anything unusual in the background.

- [Chelsea] Ooh, I'm picking up a strong George walking through the grass.

[chuckles] - We bring out flare scopes so you can look for a heat sources.

Here, I'll show you I've got George walking away.

- [Chelsea] Looks like he's a hostage with his hands on the back of his head.

Yeah, this is very Blair Witch.

- [George] Yeah, especially with the scopes on.

- [Stephen] We'll show you just some techniques, and how to look for things.

Look, the Illuminati comes here.

[Chelsea laughing] The odds of finding something, I can't guarantee you're gonna to find anything out there.

- [Chelsea] I just heard a pop.

Did anyone else hear that?

- [George] That was me.

- [Chelsea] Okay.

[laughing] This thing's working.

- [Stephen] Oh, you're gonna have a good time, no matter what.

[moaning call] [moaning call] - [George] That sounded like a female Bigfoot.

[laughing] - All right, they said, "Good job, Chelsea."

[laughing] - I guess the moral of the story is don't give up.

Well, we're lucky to have a place like this around us, so you can go outside, camp.

You get people come out here to hike, and Littleton has that to offer to everybody.

We help get people out to nature.

You come out here, we can show you some things, and tell you things that are happening.

It's all positive, nothing negative.

[creature growling] - The Cryptozoology and Paranormal Museum is at 328 Mosby Avenue in Littleton, and they're open every day from 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

For more information about ghost hunts, Bigfoot sightings, and other events, give them a call at [631]220-1231, or check them out online at crypto-para.org.

The town of Goldsboro in Wayne County has lots of rich history, complete with Civil War battles, tobacco, aviation, even ghosts.

Rick Sullivan recently took a ghost tour there, and discovered lots that make Goldsboro well worth a visit.

- [Rick] There's really nothing very scary about the ever-improving Goldsboro downtown.

For the past few years, the revitalization of this historic town has really ramped up, so much so that my wife Lisa thinks G-town is the perfect first overnight for our new puppy, Oscar.

- He likes babies, yes he does.

- He's giving you kisses.

- [Rick] We've arrived early on a Friday as a prelude to the evening's Ghosts of Goldsboro Tour.

It's going to be a late night, so we begin with a pourover coffee at Labrar, a new shop in town.

- We didn't do a ribbon-cutting or anything.

We just opened the doors, and said, "It's open," and the people have organically started coming and finding out about it.

It's so great to see the reaction of people having our coffee for the first time like that.

- [Rick] Sergio and Carmella grind their fair trade coffees, and take their time with the pourovers Too fast, and there's not enough flavor.

Too slow, that's not good either.

Labrar Coffee is a welcome site on Center Street, where just a few years ago, the building was in sad shape.

Another great do-over is the historic building just down the street, now home to another brew stop, Well Traveled Beer.

- This was built 1867, Goldboro's first grocery store.

In the twenties it was a cafe.

- [Rick] The building was also a record store, then an appliance store, but foot traffic dwindled before John Hodge and his brother opened Well Traveled Beer in 2016.

- I mean, when I grew up here, I don't think anyone came downtown.

- [Rick] They do now, and the clientele is digging the craft beers and fine wines, and Oscar likes the pet policy.

- Well, we are very animal-friendly, not just dogs, but cats, snakes, whatever.

We've had all them in here, but we do, I mean, we try and have like, the most eclectic collection around.

- [Rick] After the brief stop at Well Traveled, we catch some outstanding sushi at Jay's Restaurant.

And then it's show time for the ghost tour.

Our guide for the night is Wilton Thomas Bailey, a Goldsboro resident for over 40 years.

- I've been doing the tour now for about 20 years.

- [Rick] He's a police officer by day.

- Most of the tour is history-based.

You learn what kind of a diamond we have down here in Goldsboro.

A lot of people are amazed when they leave about what they've actually learned, and you know, on top of that, they had the fun of the ghost tour.

- [Rick] Be prepared to walk.

Goldsboro has a lot of history dating to pre-Civil War, and a lot of these historic homes have stories to tell.

The ghost tour is suitable for families and pups.

In fact, we found downtown Goldsboro to be pretty family and furry-friendly all weekend long.

Finish the weekend off with a hike at the cliffs of the new state park, and you'll agree here's fun to be had, and nothing too scary about a visit to Goldsboro.

- Ghost tours in Goldsboro will be held every Friday and Saturday from October 1st to November 13th.

For more information, go to totallyflytours.com.

I'm here with Ken Walker of Ken's Korny Corn Maze and Garden Center.

Ken, tell me, how did all of this get started?

- My father was a tobacco farmer, and raised a little bit of produce, like cantaloupes and watermelons.

Could not sell them.

When I was little, we backed down 50 highway, and started to settle on them out of a back of a truck, and grew from there.

We happened to go by a place that had a corn maze, and I liked the idea, and we come home, and I discussed it with my father, and he thought I was crazy.

Now our corn maze is approximately around six acres.

- [Deborah] Tell me about the farm and the garden center.

- We raise corn, a little bit of produce, a few pumpkins.

We have approximately around 27 different varieties of pumpkins, gourds, and squash.

People come in the spring for vegetable plants, flower plants, bedding plants, hanging baskets, that type of stuff.

We have a nursery and our own greenhouses that we do raise most of our stuff.

In the summertime, we go to summertime vegetables, peas, butter beans, cantaloupes, watermelons, peaches, and then in the fall we go to pumpkins, fall decoration, and then the corn maze.

- [Deborah] You've got lots of different things for kids to enjoy.

What are some of those things out here?

- [Ken] Of course, the corn maze.

We have a lot of activities for small kids, teenagers, adults, the parents.

We do have a large playground area.

This is our 22nd year doing our corn maze.

- Ken, thank you so much.

- Thank y'all for coming out and visiting Ken's Korny Corn Maze.

- Can you imagine Halloween music without the eerie sound of synthesizers?

I mean, that's what really makes it, and if you want to know more about this electronic instrument, come with us to the Moogseum in Asheville.

- Bob Moog was an early synthesizer pioneer who invented the Moog synthesizer, which caused a revolution in the phase of music.

[Moog playing] Hi, I'm Michelle Moog-Koussa executive director of the Bob Moog Foundation and the Moogseum, and I also have the immense privilege of being Bob Moog's third daughter.

The Bob Moog Foundation's mission is to inspire people through the intersection of science, music, and innovation.

And one of the ways that we do that is we have a hallmark educational project called Dr. Bob Sound School, where we teach little kids about the science of sound.

We also have a huge archive of material in the Bob Moog Foundation Archives.

Those two projects have come together to form the Moogseum.

Essentially what we've wanted to do was to continue that mission, but also to bring Bob Moog alive as a complex human being, rather than the icon that people know him as.

- It's one of the best museums that I've been to in the world, actually.

We've traveled all over the world, been to a lot of different museums, and the interactive kiosks here at the Moogseum rival those of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

- I'm not a musician, and I still find museum fascinating.

You can walk through, visually the timelines are really clear on the history of synthesizer, the history of Bob, what he's done, and it's an insight into a brilliant mind.

- He was a kind of quiet, geeky kid from the beginning.

He took piano lessons from the age of four years old, but by the time he was 10, he was intensely interested in building small electronic hobbyist projects with his father down in their basement.

By 15 years old, he was building his own theremins.

One of the ways that the theremin was popularized in the 1950s is it was used in many science fiction movies.

By the time he was 19, he launched a business, selling theremin parts and theremin kits.

In 1963, he was at a music educators' conference, trying to sell some of his theremins, and he met a young professor from Hofstra University, and that man's name was Herb Deutsch, and he and Bob wound up collaborating, and that is when Bob invented the Moog synthesizer.

[lively music playing on Moog] Then, of course, it was Wendy Carlos with Switched-On Bach who made an absolutely groundbreaking impact that caused a kind of shift in the public consciousness about the Moog synthesizer's use as a main musical instrument.

[upbeat music played on Moog] Also in 1969, the Beatles used the Moog synthesizer on four different songs, and of course, helped again, to bring the Moog synthesizer to the fore of popular music.

Then we get into the progressive rock scene, with Keith Emerson, who was also inspired by Wendy Carlos.

[rock music played on Moog] And then the more recently, there's so many musicians who have used the Moog synthesizer.

[funky music played on Moog] Bob Moog's legacy is one of innovation, creativity, technical brilliance, and human warmth.

There are many synthesizer pioneers, but there's only one who founded an industry.

So through the Moog synthesizer, he expanded the sonic consciousness of people all over the world.

♪ Here comes the sun ♪ - The Moogseum is at 56 Broadway Street in Asheville, and they're open daily from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

For more information, give them a call at [828] 258-1262, or visit them online at moogseum.org.

Here at Ken's Korny Corn Maze, you can carry a tall flag so they can see you, just in case you do get lost.

You know, there's nothing more fun on a Halloween night than going to see a scary movie at a drive-in theater, right?

Well, there's actually a really popular one in Vance County.

It's called the Raleigh Road Outdoor Theater.

Let's check it out.

- [Mark] The Raleigh Road Outdoor Theater showed its first movie July 15th, 1949.

That's when the theater was opened.

It's set up very similar to what it was in the forties.

- [Announcer] The drive and movie takes care of everything, courtship, babysitting, shelter, Marilyn Monroe, food, and drink.

- We're kind of already retro when you say the word drive-in movie theater.

All right, let's get this party started.

And we've been playing a lot of retro movies, sprinkled in with some new Hollywood releases.

So we've been operating at a year round schedule, that's every weekend at least, year round, and we bought it in December of 2011, my wife and I, and we've been running it 10 years, and we love it.

[upbeat music] Hey, how's it going, chief?

- [Driver] Hey, how's it going?

- [Mark] All right, you've got online tickets?

- [Passenger] Yes.

- [Mark] Drive-ins actually are unique, and a little different than watching a movie at an indoor theater.

You can get there early.

You can settle in.

You can watch it inside your car if you choose.

You can watch it outside on a blanket or a chair.

- We are drive-in fans.

- So we actually live in Raleigh, so we made a trip of about 50 minutes to get here.

- Yep.

- To spend the night, and enjoy the drive-in.

[orchestral fanfare] - [Mark] It's an anticipation, almost like the big game, or any sporting event.

As you get there, you get there early, you get prepped, you're ready, and then when it gets dusk out, and it gets dark enough out, that really big screen lights up with the movie, or lights up with the pre-show.

It's a communal event, like movies should be, either indoor or outdoor.

It's a great experience.

- I guess it was something that we wanted to try, plus I've never been to a drive-in movie.

- [Mark] Are you excited?

- I am, I'm excited.

Are you excited?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[laughing] ♪ Always keeps me loving you ♪ - We have a stage in front of the screen, so before the movie starts a lot of times, much like tonight, we have bands that'll come out, and perform before the movie.

We actually show pretty much everything from G to rated R. We do horror movies, we do comedies, we do family movies.

We do cartoons, animation, Pixar.

Our customer base we say is from three to 103.

Those of you that like horror events, we've got camping with horror movies all weekend.

- I've always been a big horror movie fan, and they played Nightmare on Elm Street last night, which is one of my all time favorites.

- Yep, and we haven't seen Evil Dead, so they're playing that tonight, so we're looking forward to that one.

- [Announcer] Before the next show starts, let's enjoy an intermission.

You will find our snack bar chocked full of good things to eat and drink, tasty, tempting, hot dogs, thirst-quenching, soft drinks, fresh, crunchy popcorn.

[grill steaming] - Right before the movie is when it really gets crazy.

- [Mark] Sometimes we actually have a treat, and we'll bring food trucks out.

So if you visit our website or social media, and see what food trucks we have out, we bring a variety of menu to the drive-in on busier nights.

- We are experiencing it for the first time, but just kind of being outside in the nice weather, and having some time with friends, and catching some good movies.

- Very nostalgic, and it's definitely safe of all the events we could be doing this weekend.

- [Mary] Yeah, you can socially distance here easily.

- [Mark] Just go to our website, raleighroaddrivein.com.

We have a first-timer checklist.

Just check on that tab, and it'll just get you set up.

If you haven't been to a drive-in before, we want to make sure you're first, and many experiences after that are great.

- The Raleigh Road Outdoor Theater is at 3336 Raleigh Road in Henderson, that's in Vance County.

For a list of events and upcoming movies, call the movie line at [252]438-6959, or go to raleighroaddrivein.com.

Well, nothing odd about walking outside of a corn cob at Ken's Korny Corn Maze.

Another favorite oddity in our state is located in the outer banks, where a UFO-style house has attracted visitors for decades.

Let's join Heather Burgess in this My Home NC story.

♪ Come home ♪ ♪ Come home ♪ [upbeat electronic music] - It's the second-most photographed thing in Dare County, and the only other thing is the lighthouse itself.

It's just obscure.

Why is it there?

What makes him dress up like an alien, you know?

Something different, and who owns a spaceship, you know, like, who does?

[upbeat electronic music] [indistinct chatter] My name is Leroy Reynolds.

- [Dad] Just an old man.

- [Leroy] I'm the owner of the Futuro House.

I call it the Frisco UFO Spaceship.

I've been being the alien probably since '96.

I had a racing suit for when I used to race cars, and I thought, "Well, that's alien green, you know?

All I need's a mask."

I would wait until people are out here taking pictures, and slip down out of the door, and sit down behind them, you know, just for fun, you know?

You believe in aliens?

Everybody always likes the space ship.

It's just different.

- [Heather] Why do you love that it gives joy to so many people?

Why do you love that?

- Because everybody that comes here, after they leave, they're smiling.

They come here crappy, and they leave smiling.

[upbeat electronic music] - I love that that it's just like, that it's unique.

- I guess it's like a type of house that's not built anywhere is that somebody actually used to live in there.

- Before it was a beach cottage, but not in this location.

- Okay.

[upbeat music] - You drove by.

You have seen this before.

Where have you seen this before?

- I saw this, it was either in the late sixties, or early seventies in Playboy Magazine.

[upbeat music] - It was sold to Playboy magazine in 1972, had a six-page spread.

It was the ultimate bachelor's pad.

You attach your helicopter to it.

My name is James Bagwell, like a bag in a well.

I own the property, and we brought the Futura House down here, but Leroy runs it now.

- Now I guess it's ours, and I told him it's going to be a legacy if it's anything.

[upbeat music] - This was on the oceanfront in Hatteras as an oceanfront cottage, and then it was moved into Hatteras Village as a Girl Scout, Boy Scout location.

Then it was taken to Frisco Campground as a hot dog, hamburger, alien out of this world.

It's been down here for over 50 years, and a lot of people have a lot of memories about it.

There's some kind of alien connection, and it is a hoot.

It just pulls people in.

- When they stop here, they'll say, "Why?"

And I'll go, "Why not?"

And the other question is, "Do you believe?"

It had to do with believe in yourself, believe in you can do this.

It would be a legacy if you're doing something, and giving back to the community.

That's kind of, you know, the alien thing.

- The Futuro House can be found at 52189 Morris Lane, in Frisco, that's on the Outer Banks.

For more information, go to thefuturhouse.com.

Well, that's it for tonight's show.

We want to thank the folks at Ken's Korny Corn Maze for hosting us.

It's a great place to visit year round, and if you've missed anything in today's show, just remember, you can always watch us again online at pbsnc.org.

Have a great North Carolina weekend, everyone.

[upbeat music] ♪ - [Announcer] Funding for North Carolina Weekend is provided in part by Visit NC, dedicated to highlighting our state's natural scenic beauty, unique history, and diverse cultural attractions.

From the Blue Ridge and the Great Smoky Mountains across the piedmont to 300 miles of Barrier Island beaches, you're invited to experience all the adventure and charm our state has to offer.