And suddenly the main event at the 57th Annual Mountain Rest Hillbilly Day was over in a matter of seconds. Nichols didn't expect to win the traditional pig catch. 'I was just standing there when ...

The catch is that the Pigs rework these songs in an upbeat bluegrass ... city slickers they are by day into the kind of slack-jawed hillbillies that might have featured as extras in Deliverance.

Though long abandoned, Dogpatch USA was arguably the country's most successful hillbilly-themed amusement ... the park had "trash eaters"—mechanical pigs, goats, and wild hogs that would suck ...