Would you believe that the Bible’s Garden of Eden was right here in Florida?

While we can’t say for sure this is true, there was a man named Elvin Callaway who believed he had found the birthplace of man in the town of Bristol in Northwest Florida. He based his discovery on the fact that the Apalachicola River splits into rivers, like the one described in Genesis that watered the Garden of Eden. He also pointed to the existence of the rare Torreya tree, which only grows in a small area along the bluffs of the Apalachicola. The Torreya is also called gopher wood, which is mentioned in the Bible as the wood used by Noah for the Ark.