Now's your chance to own your own caverns:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Calling Batman: Cave owner Steve Rush has a deal for you. Rush, 49, is auctioning off the Mystic Caverns in the hills of Ozark Mountains on eBay. The 28-acre property in Arkansas includes a gift shop and three caves, two of which are safe enough for visitors.
The bidding starts at $899,900, cut from Rush's original asking price of $1.2 million.
Rush bought the property near Harrison in 1988 and began giving tours in 1992 to the two accessible caves, Mystic cavern and the Crystal Dome cavern. A third cave on his 28-acre property, Not Much Sink cavern, remains too dangerous for tours.
You probably couldn't find a better fallout shelter than a deep cavern, and in fact, caverns have been designated in the past for just that purpose. For a survivalist-minded individual with some funds, this is a great opportunity.
I seem to recall seeing a cavern for sale in the Knoxville area back in 1979, during one of my family's drives through the countryside house-hunting. Seems to me it was closer to Oak Ridge than to Knoxville, and may have been known on the sign as "Cherokee Caverns." (yah, just Googled it, found this.) I actually was inspired by this cavern to outline a science fiction novel, still unwritten.
Actually, the very first cave I ever entered was the wonderful small faux cave at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. As a child I spent many happy hours in that cave; the coolest feature was a "crack" in the rock near the entrance in which a lifelike replica of an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake took refuge. He probably startled more than a few people out of their wits.
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