Underground mansion built in ancient cave maze has water spring inside.

Nate? Kirsten yeah, I can't figure out where the cave is. The cave is right up here. You actually passed it What kind of rock is this? It's limestone, mostly limestone. Yep. I always feel like I'm Jurassic Park right here. Welcome It's kind of Narnia. Yeah, it's a little bit Narnia. Yeah It feels like a house in the rocks. It doesn't quite feel like a cave, right? It was originally meant for a bomb shelter slash home. The gentleman that originally started it He brought his family out here on the fear of war So it was originally supposed to be a bomb shelter and that's why the walls look so thick These are his original walls out here. So so there's some engineering. I'm sure right to put a Facade on a cave. There's a lot of engineering I bet when I obviously wasn't here during the late 70s early 80s But I built skyscrapers and Tulsa and casinos and you're a builder. I was yeah, not anymore though. I'm a caver now Obviously, I'm a caveman. I Believe that a lot of these stones actually came from these streams down here So carting those up is you can't get really get a cement truck up the hill that we came up So they would have had to hand turned all their concrete and mortar for all these walls and for how thick they are It would have took a significant amount of manpower to actually do all this and for it to still stand 40 plus years later and that's pretty significant in and of itself So there was a cave here during the Native American time. They were out here and the Civil War They would have hiked up here. This right here is actually when they excavated the cave out So in the late 70s John Hayes the celestial season special tea guy He actually came in here and started to cultivate the cave to what it is now So they dug out a bunch of dirt and debris. Yeah, that's actually how we have our driveway now You see the rock face do they have to secure any of it like is there any danger of more rock? Yes, I mean, yes There is of rocks always want one to tumble especially during the winter time when it freezes and expands and then contracts But I've been up there. I've kicked a lot of it off. We've not most of the bigger rocks off and here's a stream Yeah, so it's actually coming out right here. It's coming through the cave. It's coming through the cave through the mountain Yeah, so if there's two springs that pop out of a mountain back here I mean it flows through the cysteines underneath the ground and then it actually flows in the back part of the cave and then right Through here and out the front So we go over here. We see the front door. Yeah, that's actually the original front door, too So when John Hayes came out here, he had a mirror on the edge of the road over there That mirror would actually reflect the sunlight into this opening right here That's why it looks like a sunburst and it would shine down our hallway The mirrors were offset so they wouldn't hit you in the eyes But the sunlight would hit those and reflect into the two different rooms and hit a glass crystal chandelier and illuminate the room So I thought that was pretty ingenious way of like lighting a back of a cave back then So it still feels like a cave. Yeah We've been in several caves This it feels the most raw of any cave we've been in I feel like people always try to put a little more of a home a little more like, you know Kind of taming the cave You're just always always always covered in cave just I mean it's not finished There's no covering up of the cracks or any of the it's just left as it would be right? Yeah, this is exactly what I was So when there was actually dirt inside of here There was a dirt hallway like that and we're about the where the window is over there was a little bit of an opening So this entire side was filled with dirt and debris all the way around I mean we've seen signs of how the river in the back was actually against the ceiling of the cave in the back and it ran through The back of the cave and it would have been up in this area right here at one point in time and then fell out of the cave way way way way way back when So there's actually seven layers from a marine grade finish all over the walls and ceilings of the cave That's kind of why it looks shiny and fake if you will They had trouble for years and years with water coming in and moisture. So this actually combats a lot of that Obviously nature is gonna find a way and the cave is still growing. You'll see little straws Actually, there's one above the door right here a little tip here. See how there's a drip right here So the calcium is actually still building on the floor for the stalagmite and the straw right there is still growing right now So so a water fund it finds a way no matter what through this and that's what happens in caves Like walls will grow because water is coming down just like these stalactites right here These more than likely would have been formed by calcium running in especially with the ribbon look right here I'm assuming it would have been more of a ribbon look and this would have been just a calcium Cascade right here and more than likely you can see like how you have a grayer Finish and then a white sections. I believe those would have been a calcium deposit at one point in time So I guess it makes sense to put a kitchen up front. Yeah, absolutely You get the natural light in here and whatnot super open natural light probably gets to about the lamps But I think that's why mr John Hay actually put the mirror out the side and that's why it's Shawn down the hallway. It's a standard kitchen Is there anything irregular about being inside a cave really? It's just ventilation for us like this right here This is the best way to ventilate for us But the nice thing is is even if we have like fish or something You would have to have a lot of it to actually permeate the cave, which is amazing So so you have beds upstairs if somebody wants daylight don't want to go too deep into the cave Yeah, you're kind of in the the ones above are still lag Stalk tights because they hold tight and then then mites take a lot of might to come up. That's how I learned So so anything special about windows put put two windows on a cave to anybody out there that wants to build a cave home So that is actually calcium that comes off the mountain here And we have trying to clean that with every known product a man and that is actually pitted into the glass itself It's just something that happens to the cave so if the cave is taking over what you've added it's wanting to re Reclaim. Yeah, exactly. I mean even here I just got dropped on. Yeah, so like everywhere there's stuff happening Yeah, it's just dynamic. It is still growing no matter what like you said, you've been blessed by the cave. You're just tripped on It's almost like a cathedral natural It's funny you say that because later on in the life of the cave we kept hearing this was like a nightclub or Unfortunately a brothel, but it wasn't but there was a gentleman that actually bought the cave after John Hey, and he would have significant parties in here So like the nitty-gritty dirt band would come up here and play like Sylvester Stallone extended family Michael Jackson diner Ross quite a few other people would charter helicopters in and they would actually land here all the town's folks would line up around the Driveway and watch it come up here for these really big parties So technically it could have been a nightclub brothel kind of thing going on, you know And there's more water coming down here if it rains significantly outside This will actually get a lot wetter right here mostly from the drips. But yeah, it'll significantly come in here So and it's coming down the mountain coming through the it's coming right through the dirt So if you're kind of standing up there about a hundred feet up It's going through the dirt and then it's gonna go find ways through the cracks and the limestone and whatnot And it's gonna find its way through here and out of a straw or out of a crevice that they can find inside of here So yeah, absolutely 90% of our cave right here is actually filled with water almost all the way through so we have about 6,000 square feet of living quarters in here And this is the extensive part of the cave that goes a couple miles back inside of there. It's going back. This is 100% Yeah, so it's several miles several miles. Yep. You can keep walking back this way. Yeah, absolutely I've been about three and a half hours this way Yep, I had to drain the water from back there and I was trudging through mud up about that high So yeah, there's pretty significant amount of cave here. So so this is just the beginning of a really big cave I mean we're seeing the tip of the iceberg and not all the cave has actually been explored completely yet Like this area this area this area that area this area the rock was blocking that so those actually don't go anywhere That we know of just this far because they haven't gone to it yet. So What would you like to see next? So basically, I know that this will go for miles if you keep walking They call it the door to Narnia So you need to stop me Okay, let's look upstairs. Okay, cool. So upstairs is our primary room and then we have two Queens down here I didn't realize there was another upstairs. So there's it's just higher in here So they thought to put in a bedroom like pretty much. Yeah It's just figuring out how to kind of work with the cave, right? Stairs really well and fits a bedroom. Yeah so I think they actually had to take off a few of these stalactites like this one right here you can see it's kind of Like right that way back when because otherwise it would probably hit your head. Oh, yeah. Yep I actually had a gentleman knock this one off with his head right here. It was about that much longer So is that soft enough that it no, it's not soft whatsoever. It hurts so bad This keeps going to tip So this actually used to be the primary bed back in the day when people were shorter I think that that was the primary bed in here in the 90s or something of that nature So they ended up moving it here and I encourage people if they sleepwalk not to sleep in it And all this is natural coming this far down. Absolutely 100% natural. So in some places it just keep building. Yeah, absolutely What's kind of crazy is is you're anywhere from about a hundred to two hundred feet enough the ground right here For how the hill climbs above us and if you look directly above the bed right here There is a vertical cave that goes pretty well way up inside of there So this would have actually been where the stream ran at one point in time. That's why it's carved like that So there's two of those in this room Actually, what's crazy is they didn't excavate all the rock out of the stream bed, which was right here And that's why it looks different from the rest of the cave And so this was actually the stream bed and the water flowed through here And I think they just was like bro, this would be cool to leave here So they actually left it and then painted over it if so, it's a natural second story cave, correct? Well, this floor is actually obviously a subfloor we put in long time ago But this so the dirt would have been kind of up in this area the floor would have been up in the natural floor would have been in this area right here and The water would have canaled through here and out the front. So you see that the water and now it's found another way through It's underneath us how it's how far it's dug down So, yeah It would have started up here more than likely and then dug its way down over the years How many feet from here to the top or wait how the hill runs in the mouth of the cave right here? We guess it's between a hundred to two hundred feet above you right here So so there's the thermal mass in the middle of the summer. It's it's going to be much cooler Oh, yeah, when it's a hundred out here hundred and ten, it feels freaking amazing in here You know, I mean and actually we had a really bad winter and we actually stayed really comfortable in here It is actually a really cool bathroom. Oh, it's a big bathroom Yeah, so there's probably like four or five people can fit in here and I'm sure there has been And of course the shower is just part of like why make walls? That's what this is all about water. Yep So yeah, this is the cave This is the cave obviously these walls right here and this seat is actually man-made we put that obviously in here But we try to keep as much of the cave in here so that it just is still part of the cave So showers in here are actually pretty amazing. It's it's really good for your hair The type of water it is I'm not I'm not even kidding it makes your hair feels Yes And there's all these funny shapes kind of a jaws over there. You were like clouds, right? Yeah, we have a dragon around the corner that you know, the alien movie where the the thing comes out of the mouth It's in the main living quarters, so funny. Yeah, cuz I see I see sort of teeth. Yeah, exactly. Yeah He's like almost like looking into the rock, you know going from construction and making something out of nothing You're actually forcing your own construction into like existing Formation and you kind of have to go with whatever the caves want you to do and so you have no choice in some areas But yeah, it's just part of it and it's it's an experience all of its own So it's kind of what they recreated Disneyland and it's some of that. This is a ride. I've been on I'm sure Yep so speaking of which so you can see that this is obviously the cave right here and They cut this groove into the actual cave You can see how thick it is and how long it is across here This actually held plexiglass the entirety of it. And this was a fish aquarium back in the day Fish tank you correct. Yeah fish tank here, huh? I feel like it doesn't need that this place is special enough I mean, I think it would be absolutely cool, but it doesn't So yeah, you were talking about clouds and stuff. So this is our dragon that everybody points out So there's the face and his little neck his little chest and his wing got encapsulated in it. So The kids dig it alien ish as well. Yeah Yeah, kind of is isn't it? It's interesting because you come up from there and you forget that it's daylight right like you come back and it's easy to forget time of day and Yeah, it's weird because the sensory just shuts off and you can just sleep. So Yeah Why it's very quiet, right? Especially when the doors shut and you're tucked into bed or something like that. It's actually very peaceful in here. So When you spend the night here, do you come out of out feeling different afterward? You spend some time you spend some hours here. Does it change you? To me driving on to the property or being inside. I just feel this big relief Kind of like just this hug from Mother Nature that it's okay Yep, we actually get anxiety going into the cities now because we're so removed from everything We look like the Duggar family going to Walmart once every two months It kind of grounds you for me it feels more grounding and kind of just peaceful It's very peaceful in here. So you see the I mean, these are the few walls that are artificial walls Yeah, this is man-made obviously How does man-made materials interact with the cave in my opinion this in concrete is gonna be your best bet Because when they did have the sheetrock in here, obviously she rocks and I'm doing very good And so this stucco is probably the best way to go. There is actually a metal I-beams in here, but it's more of a metal Dish that holds the concrete it actually fixes to the cave itself on this side as well as you can actually see some of The structure supports inside this room. This is the structural supports. You can see the lag bolt That's actually sticking out of this area right here the floor and the ceiling actually attaches to these steel beams and this actually goes down into the floor and in actually Underneath the floor because we're about five foot above the actual cave floor right here concrete floor concrete floor eight inches thick When they redone this because this floor has actually changed several times So when he had the bomb shelter here, he actually had a trapdoor that would open in the front And so those actually that trapdoor actually held center blocks that would fit into every single opening you see on the outside of the building So if there was ever like a nuclear fallout or a zombie apocalypse, he could actually close off the in front of the cave So this guy was actually really super smart. He made a dam back here And ran piping all the way from the back underneath your feet All the way down that big hill towards the pond and there used to be a concrete bunker down there We just took it out that was a Hydroelectric system that the water caught momentum going down the hill and pressure and it turned the wheel and sent direct current DC power up To the cave so so he was powering the cave with this water coming through it pretty smart All right. Do you guys want to see something that most people don't get to see? Oh, so this is the door to Narnia. Yeah Not too many know it that it's any more The wash and dry just feel so normal actually alien at this point because now I'm used to the cave Yeah So there's two salamanders right here We're gonna try to avoid them as much as possible because we do actually like these little guys So they're coming in from the just from the stream just from the stream Yeah, and this is actually where the water is running underneath your feet right here. So this here This is actually water purification system. I put in with my brother These are sediment tanks and these work amazing because they actually sell flush So you can just get the water right out of the mountain. Yep, and you get a little bit of a cave cricket action They get pretty thick right now. Those are juveniles living back here. You wouldn't think so much. No So this is the back of the scenes like I was telling you I'm still looking for the pirate ship. So But yeah, this is actually our water holding tank for the cave There is a little bit of a dam in a cave back here that we pump the water into here to hold it and then this Actually gets pumped into the cave through that water purification system itself so so this is water for the sinks and the Everything and then that goes through the water for your purification, correct? Yes, ma'am. So you have a spring in your cave house we're actually we're very blessed to have it out here because Unfortunately, we do get some really bad droughts the actual city of Jasper dried up I think it's been two years in a row now They've had to source water from other areas and this huge huge tank right here We still have water coming into it, which is amazing Quite amazing. It just opened to me and I said look they're like the goodness, you know, yeah, I got it does yeah Hey you guys. Yeah. Yeah. Oh You see the water coming in Yeah, so that's one of our water sources right there You can see my blue pipe that actually pumps it from the cave in the back This is actually running mid-range right now. Usually I have full force inside of here It will run and we'll be yelling each other, but it's going pretty good right now and we're seeing water dripping right here So this is because it's raining or just always yep So this feature right here has actually been running as long as I've come out here as you see this Talag tight right here is all orange So that's all calcium growing on it when I first got out here in 2019 these ribbons right here We're running and it's just kind of neat because they're all dried up now And it's just the water's gone over here now and it actually started building on that one Eventually, that'll probably make a dam and then water will come back over here and start building on this one again This is actually really neat. Just seeing how everything builds keeps changing funny and you have such a history with it because you've been here long enough now to Know it So we're the only case this to me the entire world that we know of thus far that has a certain Species of springtail that lives in our water out here. Let's sprinkle. I had to Google it It's kind of microscopic if you will and it springs reminds me of a flea that springs from his tail But it actually lives in our water. We have an entire ecosystem in here So the stream that's underneath this right here used to be see how it's more rougher in that area over there That used to be the stream bed and it actually ran all the way through the primary bathroom through the bedroom where I showed you And out the front of the cave so what they say is they had a really bad drought and it hardened and solidified into the ceiling and became one with the Ceiling as you may know water tries to find the easiest way Yes So it started to cut down instead of through that canal again and it just started cutting and that's how we have these different looking Layers and shelves inside of here. It's just actually really super neat how everything's created I was picking my favorite inside But now I think this part is more interesting to me because I think this water source is a part of the house Yeah, it really actually is this what makes this property just so amazing So is this where it goes back? Yeah, you want to see a little bit further? Yeah, okay Watch your step right here. It is a little bit tricky. So we've tried to leave this natural Yeah, this is like you're walking in a stream. Yeah Yeah, I don't see any crawdads today. Usually they want to stay in these little cubbies right there Yeah, sometimes you do watch your step right here this rock is a little bit tipsy there you go No, well there's rocks inside of here but no one has actually formed a path in here This is all natural 100% and so but I'm guessing it gets more difficult somewhere Oh, yeah, absolutely a little bit further back But it's kind of cool is we do have some graffiti up here. And so it says 1859 we believe 1859 and that's still I'm surprised it's still there because this feels just like it's all evolving and Changing and and there's some more graffiti above it 1876. There's a name across there that we're not for sure about So this is actually the pretty probably the coolest part of it right here. So there's a J a says James Plumlee 1892 and we did have to clean some of this dirt off of here But so we found this one and then we also found this one right here Jbp 1892 so what the kicker of this is is my brother was working out here and he actually found them online Obviously not the 1892 guy, but his descendants around us, correct? Yeah, so how the story goes he was out in this area during the skirmishes of the Civil War several years later He had a kid they actually carved their name on this wall right here in 1892 to local Arkansas family They're actually really prominent in this area now too, which is kind of crazy. So yeah, this is part of their history so We spoke about vertical caves This is actually what a vertical cave looks like from us underneath and I don't know if you can see it or not But we have a cave spirit face inside of there, too So this right here would actually be the dam They put it in about the 90s and this is actually where our source of water comes from So it's so tight inside of here that we don't actually know where this cave system goes But this would never truly dries up where the other one over here how you get to the extensive part of the cave It actually will dry up during the hotter seasons and stuff like that. So so this would be an area That's not explored hasn't been explored has not been explored. No, I could probably stick like a camera in there somehow But it gets actually pretty tight inside of there and there's a lot of water that just flows through it. So But yeah, this one's actually I used to have a balcony right here. They'll go inside of there It kind of rotted out and so I'll put a new one in there and I'll use the track deck or some plastic boards But yeah, you can kind of look up inside of there and it's a vertical cave and then that spirit face is in there, too So, oh, wow, the water just keeps going here. It's really cool, right? So this is actually so I remember that dam I told you you had a hydroelectric system So this is it right back here. That's a dam That's where the pipe started from and it ran through the cave. We can go back there. It's just really super slippery right here So this is John Hayes's dam right here And you can see that his pipes came out right here and this pipe actually ran underneath your legs out that cave right there Kind of like our pipe and out the front of the cave So this holds back a lot of water inside of here So this is where he was generating energy Down at the pond, but the water for that energy was coming from right here by damming it. He's forcing it Correct and forcing it into this pipe through this pipe We capped it off back in the day and this used to run all the way through the cave Where now you see a pipe? Is me so that's how we get our water and it goes over to the other dam Where this dam is filled with too much sediment inside of here We can't pump anything from it and it will dry out eventually too. Will it really? Absolutely, you can actually walk through this area at the floor collapse. It's back here? That's actually up this ladder and then around a corner. It probably gets more difficult back in here. It does Yeah, this is pretty much where the lights stop though. Yeah, it gets too dark So right up here you kind of have to duck walk and then you have to lay on your stomach and go through a passage That's about this big. It's a cave and then there's a stalactite that's made a column and then it actually opens up And there's a really neat looking room It's probably about 30 foot tall and then there's actually a really big 30-foot waterfall back inside of there And then there's graffiti from an 1820s back there Oh, yeah, so you've heard of Jesse James Oh, yeah So the James gang would actually come through these hills and the running history is that he hid a lot of silver in one of These caves out here. So, you know, we're looking for that in the Goonies pirate ship. So one of these days There's actually another subfloor underneath us right here to right here. There's a hole going all the way through this one on the water So there's actually another floor underneath there it just keeps on going down inside of there So that's I don't know how deep I'm staying there It's probably only like six to eight inches right here But there's no telling since there's no standing water inside of there how far it actually goes down inside this hill and then underneath our floor that we're standing on Super cool. So it's it's just like layer upon layer. Yeah, absolutely. Yep You probably spent hours and hours back there exploring so I would do this every other day for five and a half years Yep, I'm gonna go this way and meet you guys on the other side. Can I follow? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, you can do whatever you want This is where you can just completely shut off and go away from the world. You know what I mean? So this used to be part of this stream right here. And if you look up you'll see stones encapsulated in this ceiling But obviously this is the cave wall cave wall, but this section in the middle right here you can it looks like stones This is actually calcium wrapped around all those stones and this used to be a stream bed right through here And it just formed around it and then it just started digging out from underneath and it's just so amazing how it kind of just Does everything like that? So I'll show you the fossils. This is the easiest place to see them over here So these aren't like gonna be like t-rexes and cool stuff like that And this one's really packed with them and what you'll typically see is like football shaped ones You'll kind of scan along and there's another football shaped one There's possibly a leaf of some sort and then you'll see perfectly round ones like this guy And he has like a Phillips head in the middle of it. And so those are spinal cords and whatnot. There's a shell right there That's just making me remember that this was you were saying at the beginning right this was we would have been under the sea here So what someone told me was these areas right here were when the seas were really calm and then this section right here is when They had like a catastrophic event like an earthquake or hurricane or some of that nature that turned the sea up And then it settled all back down and that just kind of keeps doing that So this we just did a big roundabout right here This is a very very very small section of the back of the part of the cave Yeah for a couple miles, yeah Miles, yeah, it actually goes off of our property line goes off the property line. Does it shoot out the back? There's actually what they call the vacuum hole at the very end that they know of and that is on someone else's properties and I'm assuming the reason they might call the vacuum holes because it might hear a sucking sound or something like that cuz there's Drawing air into it. We think so. I haven't actually been there. Yeah, it's actually quite a ways up I mean, I think this is probably my favorite I mean, you know like it's neat to live in but I think if I were gonna be living here I'd almost want to put like some sort of maybe just temporary bed that you sleep here Once in a while and you're just in the cave. I think it would be cool to actually put a hammock in here Yeah, I mean you wouldn't want a mattress here. Yeah, you can definitely get wet feels like it's getting wetter That does seem like they've actually kind of picked up a little bit So what's happening is is all the rain that we just had last night is Finally kind of streaming through the ground and finally making its way right here These straws right here have been dripping since the 80s onto this floor because this floor is poured in the 80s And these bowling ball and prints down here have been growing as you see That's actually in the cement, correct Yeah, and you can see that these over here actually have been actually leaving calcium deposits like this right here So so when I first came in here, it was overwhelming to be honest with you it takes a lot to Build something but then to maintain it Especially a cave. This is something I've never done in my entire life Obviously and not a lot of people have and to maintain it Afterwards is just a significant undertaking in and of itself You were having to fix something every single day for about two years So now I've got everything down to a tee if you will So if something happens like the water pump goes out I know exactly what to go look for and what symptoms that might cause in the cave. So it's been one heck of an adventure So right here, you know when we went in the back part of the cave We're actually sitting on top of it right here. So when I say no pressure, that's a lot of dirt debris over here So it's pretty spectacular So you can make out the a-frame of a mountain over there That's where the two springs pop out and then any of this water that runs off actually falls into vertical caves and sisteens underneath The ground and that's how we get our water And this is one of the camps that the Native Americans they actually lived in these hills and there's so many Native Americans out here back in the day that in the 80s and 90s people would come out here with five-gallon buckets and they fill them full of arrowheads constantly and This would be where people were living, right? Yep. Absolutely Another type of cave This is really just actually an overhang if you will because there's actually three large rocks here And we think that this one actually slid in this one because right here We believe that these were probably stalactites at one point So this might have been a straw that might have been a straw and then it just formed larger and larger as it came down So these right here are matatas these two bowls and this would have been their mortar and pestle So imagine someone sitting here and probably putting corn or wheat or something in there and grinding it And so since they couldn't take these with them They think they actually came back to this spot over and over and over again Since they're nomadic tribes and so they actually resided here for quite a while and when it's like a hundred hundred and ten out here 108 whatever you'll come through that opening over there and it just changes like 10 to 20 degrees and Then of course the stream that runs through here kind of probably brought them to this spot, too So what we call the back door to the cave is right over this hill It's a vertical cave that it started out about this big. We kept hearing something very audible underneath the ground So we opened about my arms length doing about 12 to 14 feet under the ground There was two streams coming together in the small little cave and it was falling down a waterfall And we couldn't fit through the waterfall opening So we put red healthy environmental friendly dye in there and about 30 minutes later It actually came running through the back part of the cave where I took you guys and out the front of the caves Do you see how like the whole mountain is connected? It's all connected at some point. Yeah The water flow is the coolest part to me Just how nature how it shapes everything too and how it finds a way no matter what it seems like So this cave is about 75 foot deep. We've actually had people go into this one It goes down in the what we call like little steps But it's actually outcroppings or ledges that go dotting down through here. Some of my friends actually went down in this one They actually tied off to this tree right here. And this is the picture looking off of the first ledge It's a different world exactly If you've made to that 75 foot point and don't break nothing you can crawl out about 40 feet 50 feet and it goes in The crevice they haven't actually found the bottom to yet If you want to drop that rock you kind of see it's trying to get in the middle So that is actually just the first ledge So if you're lucky enough and you can hear it just crumble keep on going and it just keeps going and going and going I actually dropped a very large rock down in there and it hit all those ledges and it just kept going and going okay Catching speed and what I think to me be the bottom made a really cool hollow sound But was even neater to me is it actually reverberated through the ground like a miniature earthquake. I could feel in my feet It was really cool So my idea is we get a big I move them across here with the a-frame welded to with that winch on some wheels little cable coming down with like a buckle and like Lights and stuff and I want to lower people down into it so they can actually see like a submerged part of it but insurance companies like Not a good idea, bro. So We don't have our windshield yet. We're gonna get a windshield We have some vertical caves over here They're actually all over on this Ridge alone. There's at least 20 to 30 of them So so this one's about the size of your guys's vehicle around And you're more than welcome to get out is gonna be very slippery though So right there where that tree is broken off is about 12 foot deep and then it goes down to about 16 to 20 foot Deep and there's a vertical cave that is actually down there So Mimi and me I jumped down there run across there stick my hands and head in that thankfully I'm up and topped on top of it because it took off 40 to 50 feet out that way There was nothing to hold on to and right underneath that floor is actually just a false floor So all the rocks have fallen and crushed together and made a false floor. So I look underneath them there's a massive room that goes way back up inside of there all the way around and It would be really super neat to get like a long arm extend an excavator with a thumb and pick all these rocks out and actually Have stairs going down inside of there. It would definitely fit a vehicle in there So these right here are actually vertical caves that turned into false floor sinkholes as you can see the leaves They're kind of filling it in. There's actually two here There's one right there and there's one behind that bigger tree back there So these are actually all over the property and that's what we kind of just warn people not to wander off alone or and stuff like that There is the possibility that you could fall into a cavern like we've seen so and deep like yeah like rather deep so Watch yourself right there. Sorry about that So this was actually the only road slash trail on the property when I first got out here But this trail right here has some old old history to this when the first homesteaders came out here They actually logged most of these hills out here and clear-cut them and so they would skid them up these roads with ox I was told from like the locals out here that This trail right here was the only way off the property when it would flood out here And I can't imagine bringing a team of ox up through here The wildlife out here is very fun Check out my favorite tree, which is this one right here, but that first hole up there actually held an owl in it forever We can became friends kind of thing going on because he wasn't afraid of us And then I think he outgrew his home, so he had to go find another one, but it was neat to see This was homesteaded people were farming I think they did run cattle out here and hay and stuff like that, but yeah, they homesteaded a lot of this area That's for sure If you look to your right you see that rock sticking out So that is actually the right-hand side of the waterfall give you an aspect of how tall it is We were about three to four hundred feet further up. That's actually where the water was running and running off that hill It's gonna give you an aspect of the homesteading out here if you look right over here You'll see rocks stacked on top of each other these actually run through these hills everywhere the homesteaders the farmers would pick those rocks Up out of the field so they'd have the kids stack them like that This is our streams right here. We kind of live over here, and this is like an island if you will We actually had a tornado touchdown in this field and it jumped over these trees for whatever reason and then it touched down over here You can see how the logs are laying there it knocked down about 50 trees through here, and there's my girl Luna and Lucy Yeah, all right girls be good Living here has its own challenges because this stream right here gets so powerful It'll actually come up to the road right here It gets about this deep right here, and it actually washed all of our concrete down and around the corner We do have this little cave right here There is a waterfall inside this hill on a little pool inside there, and this goes miles inside there, too So these are some of the rock walls right here that I was telling you about yeah the homesteader Yep, so my aunt had a friend the lady is like a hundred and two years old living over this hill over here And she remembers being like five to ten years old and being out in this area And she said that before they went to church or school They'd have to come out and pick up rocks like this and stack them every day before they went to school or something like that So this is remnants of homesteading right here, and we do find some plows and whatnot We'd kind of decorate the property with them, so it's kind of neat this cave right here You couldn't even see into this when we first got here We've cleared it up, but there's actually called a glory hole, but on that right hand side There's a cave, and it's actually pretty massive inside there in the water will shoot out about this big How do you get up there so we repelled off this last time off the face of it up there into it the first year? There's a rope right there, but it's rotten now But that's how I climbed up there with a couple of ladders, so I cleaned all that out You know and then that round hole and left-hand side is actually another cave system that goes way back inside of there It's pretty spectacular You'll see like a little roof right there. There's like a little house roof So that's actually their outhouse that they would use for the cave Way back when before the road was actually established, and they'd have to walk all the way down here and use the bathroom So imagine that you know back when we didn't have cell phones There's stress out here like the healthy stress Where you don't get that much healthy stress being in a city If people will just come out here and slow down and just let the property absorb They'll they'll feel it too, but we lived it firsthand. Let's put it that way