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Aerial view of entrance to Sugarloaf Mountain’s underground facility
Secret facility under NC’s Sugarloaf Mountain
By Mary Joyce, website editor
There is a secret underground facility just west of Chimney Rock State Park in North Carolina. Its entrance is at the top of Sugarloaf Mountain and inaccessible to the public.
As early as 1969, an eyewitness living near the mountaintop knew something unusual was happening there.
“It was night and there were helicopters flying up at the top of the mountain,” Rebecca told me. “They would hover over the mountaintop and drop earthmoving equipment. They had floodlights up there and worked all night long. The shape of the mountaintop changed overnight.
“The next morning, my husband and I hiked up to the site. It was like walking on a fresh grave. It was like they’d dug something up, took it out, put something else in and covered it up. I don’t have a clue what it was. It was covered with sod.”
ABOUT FIVE YEARS LATER, the mountain trembled beneath Rebecca’s home.
“I was up here alone and heard and felt an explosion inside the mountain,” she explained. “It shook the entire house and the mountain. At the time, I wasn’t sure if it was an earthquake or an explosion.”
She soon knew it had been an explosion when she saw an unmarked 18-wheeler being escorted by two unmarked white pick-up trucks, one in front and one behind, and a person walking beside the 18-wheeler.
“There was something huge on the trailer that was covered with a tarp,” she said. “They all went up the mountain and stayed up there all day. Late that afternoon, the three vehicles went back down the mountain with something on the trailer covered with a tarp. I was under the assumption they’d replaced whatever had blown up.”
NOTE: You can read more about the Sugarloaf Mountain facility in my book “Underground Military Bases Hidden in North Carolina Mountains.”