Jennifer and I were with Mark and Ashley on our way back to Safford from Kartchner Caverns (very cool, I highly recommend it; I'd show you pictures but they wouldn't let us take any) when we started seeing billboards about every half mile with “The Thing?

We paid a dollar to get in to the attraction and begin following giant yellow footsteps on the sidewalk then passed through a series of warehouses full of dusty exhibits.

The exhibits included things of historical note without any of the museum credibility. They had wagons, guns, paintings, furniture, and even a cool old car:

They had signs on them explaining where the item was thought to have been found/used. For example, they had a car that they claimed Adolf Hitler rode in, and a carriage Abraham Lincoln used. There was actually quite a bit to see, but we walked through quickly because we were anxious to see The Thing. We came to one final warehouse, and I thought I had found it:

That looks like “A Thing" doesn’t it? We kept looking and found a glass-top coffin labeled with a billboard-sized sign indicating we had arrived. We felt just like Indiana Jones once he finally beheld The Ark. If you would like to see The Thing for yourself, don’t look down below, but since most of you will never make it to rural Arizona, and even fewer of you will care to stop at such a place, here it is. Viewer discretion is advised.

Yep, that’s it. Just some kind of dead Indian-looking lady with a baby. Looks more like a wooden display that used to be in an amusement park. It’s amazing what a lot of dust can do to make something look authentic. Anyway, there you have it. Now you can sleep tonight finally knowing what The Thing is.