Pasaquan Tour Gives Peek Into Ga.’s ‘Psychedelic Wonderland’

Eddie Owens Martin was living as a hustler in New York when he received his first vision.

“[Martin] was really ill and this large man – he described him as being about 8 foot with, and I think he used the words, ‘arms the size of watermelons’ … He described this being coming to him and saying ‘you need to get on the right path and follow me or this will be the end of the road for you,’” Columbus State University professor Michael McFalls said.

  That being was the first of the Pasaquans, giant people from the future who wore ornate outfits, to visit Martin, who later became known as the colorful ‘St. EOM.’ After Martin’s mother died, he returned home to Georgia – “the middle of nowhere” as McFalls describes it – to transform her 19-century farmhouse into a “pre-Columbian psychedelic wonderland” known as Pasaquan. The work continued and expanded for 30 years and eventually covered over four acres of land with colorful painted concrete, totems and ornate structures.