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During a hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1995, Don Barger climbed Chilhowee Mountain hoping to gaze across the valley below. All he saw was a wall of gray haze.

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Police say 73-year-old Gerald Brown created a large collection of pornographic material, some of it showing young girls in various states of nudity.