You'll Never Guess What Was Found In This Average Tennessee Home

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Dixon Springs Road is a little slice of suburbia. The houses are pretty, the roads are clean and if you're lucky enough to live here, you've got yourself a personal portion of the American pie. Located in eastern Trousdale County, Tennessee, it is truly idyllic. That's why it seemed a little odd when an electric company employee was chased away from one of the beautiful stone-and-wood residences by a man with a shotgun. After all, this sort of thing just doesn't happen in a place like this.

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The million dollar house, which is located about 40 miles northeast of Nashville, featured a hidden passageway which led down to a cinder-block corridor with a concrete floor and ceiling. The corridor led onto a secret underground cave which was being used for a colossal grow operation. There were around 400 500 plants

#3 Some plants were up to 6 foot tall

#4 There was a sophisticated climate control system

#5 Lights kept the temperature at around 87 degrees F

#6 The cave was thought to be able to produce 100 pounds of product per harvest

The owners hired around half a dozen Hispanic workers from Arizona and then drive them to the house. It is thought that the operation could have made around $6 million to $8 million a year. But what were the suspicious circumstances in which the house was destroyed? And to whom did the "The Great Tennessee Pot Cave" belong? Click on to find out. You'll be surprised at who lived here The head honcho was Fred Strunk (whose name is alarmingly similar to "Fred Skunk"). A normal looking middle-aged man, he actually had six forms of identification all with different names as well as $50,000 dollars in cash. He eventually had to provide a yearbook so that the authorities could confirm who he was and reduce his bond from $15 million to $1 million.

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Strunk pleaded guilty to growing marijuana, money laundering and theft. In March 2006, he was handed 18 years for drug charges and 12 years for theft. As an extra kick in the teeth, he was also ordered to pay Tri-County Electric exactly $60,001 for the electricity he stole. Strunk was told he would have to serve at least 30% of his sentence. (If you're in Tennessee and coast is clear, let's just assume he's still inside due to a less-than-excellent behaviour report). But what about how the house was destroyed? Click over the page to find out. Video over page After the raid on 14th December 2005, most of the remaining evidence was suspiciously destroyed due to a fire. Much like a fire which destroyed another house around a mile away on the same day, the cause was put down to arson. Of the many rumours, one is that the police burnt down the house due to a missed piece of evidence. What remained of the property including the seven acres on which it sat was auctioned off. The raid on this place must have been intense. The sense that the officers had stumped upon something big must've been powerfully palpable.