An image showing a gigantic cross crushing an “Adult World” store is a hoax.
At the bottom of the photo, it says that the image is “slightly Photoshopped.”
“A local minister erected a HUGE cross near an adult book ... (and ???) store along I-75 in Caryville, Tennessee ... I figured a little assistance was needed,” reads a caption.
The cross and the Adult World store are real, and the cross stands next to the business. However, the cross isn’t positioned right next to the business.
According to the website Hoax-Slayer, “This image, which is currently circulating rapidly via social media, supposedly depicts a gigantic cross that has plunged through the roof of an ‘Adult World’ store. Some commentators have suggested that God deliberately caused the cross to fall and destroy the sinful adult store.”
The cross was set up by James Potter, who put up several massive crosses in eastern Tennessee.
“He claims that he was intending to put another cross in the area before the adult store moved in, but the store gave him even more reason to do so. ‘You have to be pretty brave to go by that cross and go down there [to the adult shop] and ignore it’, the preacher suggests. Potter has fallen foul of local authorities due to his positioning of the crosses,” says Hoax-Slayer.
In 2003, 6 News said, “If you drive on Interstate 75 in East Tennessee, you may have seen large white crosses put up by a Scott County man. The surprise about the latest one is what stands next to it. James Potter’s newest cross stands 101 feet, 6 inches from the ground, and it’s right off I-75 at exit 141 in Caryville. The cross couldn’t get much closer to Adult World.
