Thanks for that information! I was not aware that the seeds could be used to shock fish.

Please, no logical thinking allowed here.

@@liamgross7217 I am not saying it was aliens... but aliens

@malcwhite I ended up going back to this mine this past April and explored the whole thing. Check out my video from April 2024 titled “Exploring an Abandoned 1870s Silver Mine in Poverty Gulch.” The entrance was still just as hazardous, but on this most recent visit the locked wooden door further inside the tunnel was actually ripped open thus allowing access to the entire mine.

@@marcoaltomare4030 where

@@ashtondmello1968 once you see it, when the camera moves it will be 3d.its well blended with the darker dirt, you will see eye sockets and round shape

@@ashtondmello1968next to the bigfoot

Thanks for the information! I appreciate it. This was a very small time operation and, as you saw by the tunnels, not very extensive. Most of us in the abandoned mine exploration community feel that a brief, one-time exposure to any possible uranium or anything else in a mine like this is inconsequential. It was the miners who suffered here by working day in and day out for 8 or 12 hour shifts with no modern safety regulations and equipment.

@@ryanhert6706 Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment, Ryan!

Just wait and see what AI comes up with now that it’s the new kid on the block! LOL

We believe that it was hibernation time and that the tortoise was digging its winter burrow. Thanks for being a longtime subscriber and supporter! You’ve weathered all the changes that have occurred here. Thanks for your support!

@@AnthraciteHorrorStories Never would’ve thought I’d find a tortoise inside an abandoned mine. Here in California it’s illegal to disturb them in any way. You aren’t even allowed to pick them up. I think they are still considered an endangered species. This one was probably attempting to dig a hibernation burrow. It was autumn when we were there, and that’s the time of year they go underground for the winter.

@@AbandonedMines11 yeah, I read some of the comments here where you mentioned that about the hibernation. It's nice that the government feels the urge to backfill the mines, right? I can't imagine how many animals have been entombed here because of that. I saw a dead baby bear cub on the other side of a bat gate a few years ago, what a sad sight that was.

@@AnthraciteHorrorStories Yeah, I think so. Further in the mine - way further in - I came across a carcass of a donkey or a bighorn sheep or something like that. That was probably placed in there by the miner so the rotting corpse would have an odor that would permeate the entire mine as “bad air.” At least that’s what I’m thinking. When I was there, there was no smell whatsoever. The carcass had probably been in there for a long time. Near the carcass was an area that went downward into another lower area, but I didn’t go down there because it was pretty far in and I didn’t want to take any chances. Back in those days, I didn’t have an oxygen meter like I do now.

@@AbandonedMines11 I get it. Man, people are weird to do that kind of stuff. Lol, for real...humans! 🤦 Oxygen detectors are a must as we all know now. From 2004-2008 I never used them. I'm lucky I didn't get smoked for real.

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.

@@W7DSY I remember you telling me the story about the tortoise you rescued from the side of the highway. Didn’t you say somebody was passing by in their car or somebody saw your video afterward and said that it was illegal to pick them up? Another case of “damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” LOL

@@AbandonedMines11 It was the tortoise I found in the desert. Would have been run over if I hadn't moved it. I think I did a good thing whether it was lawful or not.

Yes, I agree that you did a good thing by moving it off the highway.

@@francesmiller4884 we don’t know, Francis. We were there in autumn, so we assumed it was probably digging its burrow so it could hibernate for the winter.

It did not need to be saved. It was digging a hibernation burrow. Besides, it’s illegal here in California to interfere with these tortoises in any way. It’s illegal to even pick them up!