[upbeat music]
- It's the second most
photographed
thing in their county.
And the only other thing
is the lighthouse itself.
- It's just obscure.
Why is it there?
What possessed somebody
to do what they did?
What makes him dress up
like an alien anyhow?
Something different.
Who owns a spaceship, you know?
Like, who does?
[upbeat music]
[chatter]
- [Leroy] My name
is Leroy Reynolds.
Just an old man!
I'm the owner of
the Futuro House.
I call it the Frisco
UFO Spaceship.
Been being the alien
probably since '96.
I had a racing suit from
when I used to race cars
and I thought well, that's
alien green, you know?
All I need's a mask.
I would wait until people
were out here taking pictures
and slip down out of the door
and sit down behind them.
You know, just
for fun, you know.
You believe in aliens? Hm?
Everybody always
liked the spaceship.
It's just different.
- Did you have any alien
friends back on Tron?
- [Leroy] Of course!
Everybody that comes here
after they leave,
they're smiling.
They come here crappy,
and they leave smiling.
[upbeat music]
- I love that it's unique.
- I guess it's like a type of
house that not built anywhere.
Is it somebody actually
used to live in there?
- Before it existed it
was a beach cottage,
but not in this location.
- You drove by, you
have seen this before.
Where have you seen this before?
- I saw this in either the
late 60's or early 70's
in Playboy Magazine.
- It was sold in Playboy
Magazine in 1972.
Had a six-piece spread.
It was the ultimate
bachelor's pad.
You attach your
helicopter to it.
- [James] My name is James
Bagwell, like a bag in a well.
I own the property and we
brought the Futuro House
down here, but
Leroy runs it now.
- [Leroy] Now I guess it's ours.
And I told him it's gonna be
a legacy if it's anything.
- [James] This was on the
ocean front in Hatteras
as an ocean-front cottage
and then it was moved
in the Hatteras village as a
girl-scout boy-scout location.
Then it was taken to
Frisco Campground as a
hotdog, hamburger,
alien out-of-this-world.
It's been down here
for over 50 years.
And a lot of people have
a lot memories about it.
There's some kind of alien
connection and it is a hoot.
It just pulls people in.
- [Leroy] Come down and
you see it falling apart
and you're like I can't.
I can't deal with it.
I'd rather see it gone
than falling apart.
- So you want to spruce it
up and make it the legacy.
- [Leroy] Yup. I want to
do something big with it,
not something little.
- [James] We would like to
fix it up back to what it was
and allow people to go back
inside and just look at it.
We're dickering with the
county over that now.
- [Leroy] I would like to turn
it into a museum of the arts.
When they stop here,
they'll say why.
And I'll go, why not?
The other question
is, do you believe?
It had to do with
believe in yourself
Believing you can do this.
It'd be a legacy if
you're doing something
and giving back
to the community.
That's kind of the alien thing.
[guitar music]
♪
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