No one knows how Stuckie got stuck, but experts think he has been stuck since 1960. Visit Southern Forest World and meet Stuckie, a hound dog mummified in a hallow tree. No one knows how Stuckie got stuck, but experts think he has been stuck since 1960. The mummified dog, teeth still bared in a fight for survival. Loggers expect to come across some things when they cut down trees. Bird’s nests and things stuck in the branches seem like a given – a mummified dog in the center of a tree, however, does not. Posted by. The Southern Forest World museum in Waycross, Georgia, is the proud home of Stuckie the mummified dog. A logging contractor found the 4-year-old hound stuck in a stump in 1980. We are a non-profit organization that tells of the history of the forestry and the many ways we use the materials from the forest. 437 comments. All that was left was a dried, mummified hound, petrified in an eternal struggle to escape. After finding the mummified pup, the loggers decided to take it to a museum, to show off the rare sight to the world. u/SugaCube7. Archived “Stuckie” is a dog that’s been mummified in a tree for 50 years. Newsweek Stuckie, as the dog is affectionately known now, still stuck in his tree more than 50 years later. Sort by. No one knows how Stuckie got stuck, but experts think he has been stuck since 1960. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Posted by. It can be other dogs in the family, a cat, or even a butterfly! (*The museum's literature sometimes calls Stuckie a "petrified" dog. By calstaff 10:13 am Dogs 0 Comments So the story goes, back in the 1960s down in Georgia, a hunting dog chased a raccoon up inside a hollow tree. share. Creationists have cited Stuckie as proof that fossilization is both recent and quick, but Stuckie is a mummy, not a fossil.) 95% Upvoted. 20.8k. The results of the naming contest held in 2002 settled on the name “Stuckie” for the canine. The Southern Forest World museum in Waycross, Georgia, is the proud home of Stuckie the mummified dog. 20.8k. save hide report. “Stuckie” is a dog that’s been mummified in a tree for 50 years. "Stuckie" has been displayed at a Georgia museum since the 1980s. The loggers took the mummified corpse of the dog to a museum where the rare sight is not on display to the world, and the dog has been given the name of “Stuckie” and lives on forever at the Southern Forest World Museum in his wooden tomb. PLUS we’re home to the world famous Stuckie, the mummified dog. Stuckie got trapped in the log sometime during the 1960s. 20 years later, when loggers cut off the top of the tree to load it into a transport truck, they saw a brown and white hunting dog peering out at them from the hollow space in the log. This thread is archived. Stuckie the Mummified Dog. He is believed to have been a hunting dog, and the museum received dozens of name suggestions. If you have dogs, you know too well that they love to chase anything in the backyard. In 1980 a "logger" found the dog after processing the log and donated it to a museum. Apparently was in there for around 20 years. The mummified dog was a shocking find for the loggers, who were working on cutting the tree into pieces and almost turned it into mulch.