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Graceland Too
Category: Public Services & Government Landmarks & Historical Buildings Landmarks & Historical Buildings [Edit]
200 E Gholson AveHolly Springs, MS 38634
(662) 252-7954
15 reviews for Graceland Too
15 reviews in English
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Review from Matt M.
1/17/2012
Best college drunken road trip destination of the south!
When I went to Ole Miss we would go here at all hours of the night. Paul would answer the door at any hour and be ready to give you the GRAND tour! I dont like spoiling things, but lets just say he is a bit of a crooner himself, and on one tour he may (or may not) have been singing along to an Elvis record when his teeth went flying out.
If you have no sense of humor, avoid this place. If you are demented like me, you will love it! -
Review from J T.
Nashville, TN
11/17/2011
I went in September 2010 with a group of three girls and one guy. The tour was crazy-funny for awhile, but at the end it just got scary. Paul repeatedly made comments about the girls and ended our tour by telling me exactly what he wanted to do to me (this was, by the way, not at ALL encouraged by any of us). We're not that easily offended, but we were all freaked out by the time we got out of there. We have friends who have been before and who were a little surprised at our experience - not surprised that Paul is a little off his rocker, but surprised at how openly lecherous and creepy he's become.
If you have plenty of guys in your group and want to enable a guy who seems to be pretty much mentally ill at this point, you'll enjoy the completely wacky experience. His house is crammed FULL of Elvis memorabilia. There's an entire room full of televisions showing Elvis movies, videos, whatever. He says he has the electric chair from Jailhouse Rock in the back yard. However, if you don't want to enable this, spook easily and/or don't have at least a 50/50 guy:girl ratio, I'd avoid it. -
Review from Barbara C.
Oxford, MS
9/19/2011
Save your $5. Paul is totally off the rails. This place used to be great when it opened. Now it isn't even fun at all. It is a fire trap. Paul's dentures are so ill-fitting you can barely understand him. He has changed his spiel to include wild tales of Jesus and Elvis' underwear. His son is no longer there. He will tell you his mother is 107. She actually died several years ago. It used to be a unique experience. Now it is just the ramblings of a lunatic.....Sadly.
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Review from Irene S.
6/16/2011
this place was AMAZING and INSANE.
it is open 24 hours a day. you can go there and ring the bell anytime. paul mcleod is always ready for you and you know why? because he drinks 24 cans of coca cola a day. when we knocked he yelled "five minutes!" and surely did open the door five minutes later. he put in his dentures but not very well because they kept slipping out, especially when he started singing heartbreak hotel. he takes you through his house and describes the memorabilia, its value, and shows you scripts. he asks if you know anyone in hollywood. he tells some elvis stories and stories about elvis fans visiting and also some personal stories. if you wander off or appear not to be paying attention he whistles or grabs your arms. he tells a few off color jokes. the house is PACKED WITH CRAP. it would be scary to go alone but i think everyone should go. it is once in a lifetime. that is my review. -
Review from Guy M.
San Francisco, CA
8/28/2010
Kind of like Graceland (One), but, well... weirder. Words can't describe what a quintessentially American experience this is. Get led around a pink mansion covered floor-to-ceiling with Elvis memorabilia while a septugenarian yarn-spinner makes claims to his fame. ("Bill Clinton offered me one million dollars, IN CASH, for the whole place, and I didn't take it. The Bush twins came in here drunk as skunks and offered me three million, IN CASH, for the place.")
Open 24 hours a day, with only one employee, the kind-hearted and slightly lecherous Paul Macleod, who named his child Elvis Aaron Presley MacLeod and who (probably) has undiagnosed mania. Only $5, in cash, and if you go thrice you become a lifetime member. We went at 3 AM. -
Review from Lady Of The Villa G.
Pleasant Hill, CA
6/6/2011
The five stars are not for a fabulous and informative tour given by a well mannered host, it's for an experience so far in to the twilight zone that one must come here to fully appreciate the madness. I could write a book about my visit here, but there is just too much to tell and you really just can't imagine anything this crazy if you don't frequent psych wards on a regular basis.
One for a bucket list, which I can't believe I just wrote. -
Review from Marshall J.
Austin, TX
8/11/2010 1 photo
I haven't been to Graceland Too since around 1998. It's my understanding that Paul's son, Elvis, is no longer helping out with the tours. I can't imagine how Paul has the time/energy to do unscheduled tours at any hour of the day, but he's doing the Lord's work (or at least the King's), so bless him.
It's less than an hour's drive from the REAL Graceland, and it's in an area you tourists should be hitting anyway (what with all the great BBQ and juke joints around). So go! -
Review from Jill C.
San Francisco, CA
10/3/2009
Y'ALL.
You must go.
Visiting Graceland Too is sort of like a spiritual experience, fever dream, and brush with death all at once.
Paul McLeod is Elvis Presley's number one fan, and supposedly has the most valuable collection of Elvis memorabilia and media next to the Graceland estate itself. He's awake around the clock (knock anytime, he'll be there), records any and all mentions of Elvis Presley on television, and even named his own son after the King himself.
This type of devotion is fascinating and somehow a little heartbreaking all at the same time. How can anyone love something so much? It's apparently possible.
Some of the most valuable memorabilia is stored safely away from the public eye, so if you go, know you're there more for the experience than a true study of Elvis and his work.
Bring your camera, a sense of humor, and an open mind, because this is going to be one of the most awesome dates with American culture in your life. -
Review from Kelley D.
Austin, TX
9/30/2007
Yeah this place is not closed, but the house should probably be condemned.
This guy was SOOO freaky! I thought we were all gonna get chopped up in to little tiny pieces. I'm mostly serious too. It was kinda cool but I wouldn't have wanted to be there alone and for sure wouldn't have taken up his offer of 'If you're not satisfied then we'll pay you'. We all had a good time and it'll be a good story to tell now.
But go with a big group of friends in the middle of the day and not after dark or around Halloween, he said on Halloween he wields his gun and steals candy from children. -
Review from Robin J.
Jamaica Plain, MA
3/19/2008
DON'T visit here if:
*you scare easily.
DO go here if you enjoy:
*having a frighteningly obsessive and enthusiastic sleep-deprived man barrage you with photos of himself raking up big piles of money
*being serenaded with "Heartbreak Hotel" by aforementioned man wielding one of those plastic echo microphones while slapping the inside of his leg the whole time
*....immediately followed by an unavoidable marriage proposal, even if you're there with a man who is or could be your significant other (he seems to propose to literally every woman who walks through his door)
*being regaled with stories about vampire babies sucking the blood from Elvis-related car crash victims, an incident that is somehow connected to the movie "Blade"
*....followed by more stories about girls in Xena costumes stripping their clothes off and riding the big concrete, chained-to-the-ground white lions in his front yard
*realizing you're in a 'museum' where the rare records are either stashed in a bureau or thumbtacked to the wall, but the crown air fresheners are lovingly preserved in plastic Ziploc bags
And trust me, this isn't even the half of it. I grew up in the next town over from this guy, but somehow I didn't make it here until I was 19 years old and living in Memphis, was bored one day, and decided to give it a shot. It is a decision I will never regret. A Scottish punk houseguest once referred to his Graceland Too visit as "a journey into one man's psychosis". That's about as accurate as it gets.
Three visits gets you a lifetime membership. I still keep my official membership card in my wallet. -
Review from mandy f.
Oakland, CA
10/28/2005
Not sure who updates the Business info...but I was shocked to see that Graceland Too Closed. Is this true? Anywho here's my yelp:
Ok..so it's the 3 am in the morning in Northern Mississippi...you are an Ole Miss student...and you're looking for something out of the ordinary to do...what are your options? Drive out to the sticks to try to find that guy who sells moonshine? Hmm..no, it's too dark and you could get lost and well the thought of losing your sight over alcohol is not too appealing. How about driving to Holly Springs to visit with the 'World's Number One Elvis Fan,' Paul MacLeod, as he gives you a tour of his home which he has approprately named Graceland. Countless other students and roadtrippers have done it so why not. This guy loves the King of Rock N' Roll so much he named his son, Elvis Aaron MacLeod. His "museum" is open 24 hours a day...admission is only $5 bucks. If you go 3 times, you are a lifetime member and never have to pay again, and you get a poloroid taken with the cardboard Elvis to be displayed on his wall of fame. What is exactly in this "mueseum"? Well Elvis memorbillia, obviously, but the best part of the tour is this man....he's unique..and what's that saying: eccentric is what we call those crazy people who have some money. If you've already seen the World's Largest Ball of Yarn, you might has well talk with the World's Number One Elvis Fan. -
Review from Elliott H.
Mundelein, IL
7/31/2009
Absolutely ridiculous, not for the faint of heart, uninformative, a gem.
I was brought to Graceland Too Tuesday night at 1AM by a friend who is a lifetime member. He tried to describe it to me before hand, but just as it was impossible to explain then I won't expect it to work now.
It took about half an hour for me to realize that he hadn't really talked about Elvis at all. There were thousands of pictures but most related to Graceland Too and the people that had visited there. For the most part the memorabilia looked to be junk purchased at a flea market. He went on about some candy wrappers that were worth mucho dinero. Everything he pointed out was followed by an estimated worth (the elvis wine bottles were allegedly worth $10,000 each but he forgot to remove the $12.99 price tags).
In the hour and a half i was there he demonstrated the way he would chop up his mother with a chainsaw if he were lying by drawing imaginary lines on my girlfriends shoulder, told me he had enough guns to send Iraq packing, and warned that the knocking sound on his knee was his endowment that could repopulate china thanks to the case of coke he drinks a day. Lastly he described some claim from NASCAR drivers? that pegged him as a child abductor. Mind you all this is described through loose dentures and is spoken so fast that it is hard to decipher.
Overall, a great offbeat destination. It's less a museum to elvis and more a museum to his addiction to elvis. In the ensuing confusion after my visit I decided to believe very little of what Paul McLeod had told me including his close relationship with his son Elvis Aaron Presley McLeod and realized that he is probably twisted by the need to justify a life defined by ignoring all but a single obsession.
Don't go alone, but don't be afraid to explore this truly unique experience. -
Review from Van N.
Los Angeles, CA
9/15/2010
warning! warning! this place is not about elvis! it's about some crazy and somewhat creepy old man with an obsession of his and his son's likeness to elvis! holy crap there were 5 of us girls and every time we entered a new room i thought he was gonna bolt us in and either chop us up or fondle us. he makes no sense at all so don't bother trying to understand his poor pronunciation. the best part about this visit was driving in pitch dark on small town highways at midnite on a weeknite into mississippi and seeing a live armadillo across the street from graceland too.
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Review from Dan B.
3/8/2009 3 photos
I stopped at Holly Springs, Mississippi just to see what the deal was with this house everyone keeps talking about. I wasn't dissappointed at all. He knows how to make your time memorable, unforgettable, hilarious, interesting, fascinating, inspiring, and weird. First of all, come in with your attention span, because Paul talks FAST. He uses ALOT of hand motions, sudden movements, and sudden volume changes to his voice to deliver his tour. Definitely don't come here if you're uptight because you have to be loose with this guy. He will tap you alot, make sexual comments, and ask you to marry him if you're of the female persuasion. It's all in good fun. The tour was excellent. The amount of cool stuff this guy has can't have a price tag on it. The tour is only $5 and he promises that if you're not satisfied with the tour, not only will he not charge you, but he'll pay you. That would be just wrong if anyone ever did that, because what you see there is easily worth your money. From original signed Elvis guitars to pictures of celebrities, the most expensive records ever, Elvis' jacket, his underwear, the last footage of Elvis alive...Trust me! It goes way further. He has sooo much stuff and ALOT of celebrities have come to see him and he has pictures of all of them. This guy has to be a Mississippi legend. If you go three times, you're a lifetime member, you get a jacket, a picture, and unlimited free visits. There were so many funny moments, I could hardly contain myself. The guy is just such an oddball from his misplaced, falling dentures to his greasy, slicked back hair to his incredibly graphic stories including a midget with a 10 inch penis running around naked in his front lawn that he tried to beat with a blunt object, a baby drinking the blood of a dead woman (which somehow inspired the movie Blade), women sucking off pit bulls in his front lawn at 4 AM, and his plans to kidnap the grandson of some famous guy. Coming here was one of the best things I could have done while driving through the South. He's awake all the time and willing to give tours even at 3, 4, or 5 AM. Just knock. He didn't answer at first because he was out back but if you're patient, he's likely to answer. Pay attention to his stories about Pepsi and why he switched to Coca-Cola. At first I was dumbfounded, then couldn't stop laughing. I would come back in a heartbeat and would recommend to anyone to see this. It's much more fun if you're with at least 2 other people though, I'm sure. The 56 years he's spent putting this memorabilia and collectibles together was well worth it.
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Review from Holly O.
Austin, TX
10/2/2007
Okay, so this place is creepy. And yes, you definitely wouldn't want to go alone......Paul is a large man with a tight grip...but, not on his dentures....heee. He drinks a case of Coca-Cola a day (maybe the old recipe). He is an avid collector. I thought at first it was just Elvis stuff but, he was in the know of Paris Hilton and a fan of the English Royalty. This is definitely something I would not have wanted to miss. Paul gives you a tour of his house "Graceland Too", which is basically a home that has been turned into a packrats' dream collection of Elvis memorabilia. I have to hand it to him...he had some stuff I didn't know existed. The one thing I thought to be the most interesting is that he did actually used to dress up like Elvis, had a wife who I think was his Priscilla and even named his son Elvis Aaron Presley. Turns out there is a Graceland Too the Movie. Can't wait for that one!!!
