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Dolly Parton Musician

LEADS GHOST TOURS, BUILDING HAS NO GHOSTS

Pigeon Forge Ghost Walks 4, Ghosts 0, Rhinestones Awarded Match on Penalties

Existence confidence provisional
A generated photo of an anonymous stranger. It is not the person named.
Dolly Parton stands at a garden centre café in Surrey, holding multiple shopping bags in each hand, her concentration fixed on balancing them as if executing a layered ballad arrangement.
Location
A damp cellar behind Dollywood's Pigeon Forge car park, Tennessee, level with the third lamp post
Currently
N/A
Last confirmed sighting
Leading a lantern tour past a very empty broom cupboard, 9:05pm
Observations
Can fit nine hundred rhinestones into a single sigh and still have room for a chorus.

Dolly Parton has taken a post as night guide at a three-storey building in Tennessee that has never had a ghost. She leads groups of eleven through the corridors in a sequinned lantern-bearing gown. Visitors are told the cold spot is a radiator.

Upcoming dates include a Thursday walk through the boiler room at 8pm and a sold-out Saturday in the stationery cupboard. A Sunday matinee covers the stairwell, where the guide will write a song about it on the banister. Wigs are available for hire at the door.

Monday, 7pm: a flickering light turns out to be a rhinestone. Wednesday, 9:15pm: the lift hums the opening of 'Jolene' unprompted, and the group begs it to stop. Friday, 10pm: a vanishing draught is persuaded to work nine to five, with a tea break.

Guidance for the public

Do not ask the radiator to leave. It has been very clear.

Actual status (not satire) Died 25 August 2026, aged 80. Source: Wikidata

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