Lost Elf

December 19, 2019
LOST ELF FOUND IN FULTON! LOST ELF FOUND IN FULTON!

Corrisa Totty of South Fulton, and her nephew-in-law, Josh Gilliland, on Dec. 18, tracked down the elusive Lost Elf, hiding in the Twin Cities, a Fulton Tourism Commission event, which has become a popular holiday tradition for many families in the area.

Totty said she and her husband, Timothy Totty, who is an over the road truck driver, would converse on a daily basis, as to ideas for places to search.

"We have searched together for the past four years," Corrisa said, and she recalls having searched by herself at least one year prior to that.

The Elf was discovered under an orange caution cone, on a paved lot which once was the site of a duplex, in the Highlands area of Fulton.

Corrisa said yesterday, she had told her husband she was going to hunt for another half hour, and then she was "done." She said she would hunt each morning, after having worked the night before. It was her husband who suggested searching at the location of the duplexes, as he knew that at one time, there were three, and after a fire, there were now two. Corrisa actually had her husband on the phone when she raised the orange cone and found the Elf taped inside.

While she said she did not quite understand every clue, and how they all related together, she and her husband did think the Elf was somewhere in the area, originally in the Weaks Nature Trail.

Totty and Gilliland were presented with $400 in Chamber Bucks Thursday morning, by Fulton Tourism Director Thea Vowell, after the pair brought the Elf to her for confirmation.