I learn something new every day
@GardenGerty (159754)
United States
July 16, 2024 8:12am CST
I know about some of the touristy things in Wichita, Ks. It is my closest big city. This morning I learned it has a troll. Yep, a troll.
If it had not appeared as a note on a google map, I would never would have learned of it. I was looking up The Keeper of the Plains, a very neat sculpture in Wichita, but the map also pinpointed The Wichita Troll. This is part of what I found online:
Known as “The Wichita Troll” for lack of a proper name, this gruesome sculpture is a well-kept local secret. Visitors walking by it (or even over it) on the sidewalk during the day are likely to miss it entirely, but at night a sickly green light illuminates the seven-foot tall creature. With a large, grotesque head and spindly appendages clothed in cobbled together black fabric, the troll stares up out of the grate with a look of rage for being chained in his industrial jail. This is quoted from The Atlas Obscura
I can imagine how startled I would be to look down and see that.
How about you, have you discovered anything new lately?
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@LindaOHio (170715)
• United States
17 Jul
Very strange. I wonder who did this and why? I haven't discovered anything new lately. Have a good day.
@JudyEv (334404)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jul
Wow, that's a bit different. I was looking at the photo trying to work out what it was before I started reading. Fancy having it under a footpath.
@just4him (317038)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
16 Jul
I'm glad you learned about the Troll. I'm sure he looks menacing at night.
Nothing new from around Green Bay.
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