Massive Cache Buried Behind the Old Moonshiner's House for Over 100 Years

[@BelowthePlains]

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[@bouncerslabrealnature9143]

It's always a great day when this old school Minnesota bottle digger sees young folks keeping the hobby strong. 💪😎⚡

[@BelowthePlains]

haha well im glad you liked the show! and yeah, im not sure how i feel about the fact that there arent many other people my age who are into this hobby.. but i do kinda like the fact that its basically just us up in this area! thanks for watching and commenting

[@IamRemoWilliams]

Another great one Sir.

[@lorrainebritton3802]

Oh gosh! I’m still binge watching as many videos I can a day and you post a new one lol shall watch with anticipation of some lovely treasures and a fair bit of history! Peace and love from the uk 🇬🇧 ps you didn’t disappoint, loved the Columbus plate, thank you.

[@TheYammerHammer]

The algorithms asked me to rate your comments true I think this is it right here Tom

[@BelowthePlains]

well thank you! always cool to hear from people who arent from america. and thats awesome! yeah some of the older videos are a little rough, but we're still honing out technique, so hopefully they keep getting better. thanks for watching!

[@jerrysadventures8952]

. Your videos help me relax thanks

[@shepherd4406]

Great fun to see you pop up today.

[@TheYammerHammer]

Oh WOW! This is the BEST TREASURE FIND ON KZbin! Why doesn't this have 1 million views?

[@BelowthePlains]

you're my favorite subscriber!

[@laurelshugars2866]

TheYammerHammer. Are you the gentleman who keeps mentioning "algorithms" in your comments? Tell me what to say, and I will join in!!

[@TheYammerHammer]

@@laurelshugars2866 absolutely not lady. You got a piss poor attitude Stop harassing me

[@rhondaitis6997]

I love seeing all the tiny bottles, especially the perfume bottles ❣️

[@BelowthePlains]

haha tom collects sodas and drug store bottles, and I (jake) collect the tiny bottles.. especially the ones with embossing on them.. idk just something about the huge amount of manufacturing that goes into one of these tiny little bottles.. sometimes i wonder if the bottle cost more to produce than the contents inside it.. and they dont take up a lot of space which is awesome bc my shelf is literally starting to buckle under the weight. ha, anyways! thanks for watching and commenting. p.s. if you want to see the coolest small bottle google "hood's pills cures liver ills" its on of the most embossed bottles ive ever seen and its about the size of a 50 cent piece.. its amazing

[@astralbody]

Love your videos! I've been binge watching them. My new favorite show at night. 🙂 I love the Asian inspired tea cup. I've learned a lot from you about what could be below us. Cheers! Can't wait for more to come!

[@soonzach4017]

Thank you so much, always enjoy watching your videos.

[@ShirleySwedberg-tt2cc]

You are a genius Tom to explore what's below the earth. Thank you Tom.

[@williamheden6794]

Another interesting dig. You guys are awesome! Thank you for saving our history and letting me tag along. From Ohio.

[@BelowthePlains]

well thanks again for leaving another comment! glad you seem to like the channel! have a great night!

[@twindiggersminnesotapamandpat]

Tom another awesome dig and video work. That plate was very cool. I don’t care what the age is, it is fun seeing what people used back in the day. Take care and keep having fun.

[@BelowthePlains]

yeeeaaah.. id prefer to just dig the pits from the 1800s, but to be completely honest, ive under estimated the stuff you can find in some of the early 20th century pits. they always seem to have a lot more variety of stuff in them.. the bottles arent AS cool, but, when you dig one thats a little newer, we tend to come across random stuff like marbles and bakelite pipes and pens.. and idk, its just so rare to come across some of that stuff in super early pits, at least in this area.. anyways! like always, thank you for watching and always commenting on our videos! have a great rest of your day/night

[@gerhard6973]

Tom you are a one man show! Props to you bro

[@BelowthePlains]

hahah well thanks!

[@tommychew6544]

Glad I found your channel, you know what you are doing, and it is amazing how you can find the right areas to dig in. I've watched quite a few of your past videos and will to go even further back as well as reading comments to see if you give away your search techniques. Great channel!

[@BelowthePlains]

haha im glad you found us too! thanks for watching and leaving us a comment!

[@ShirleySwedberg-tt2cc]

Thank you for your courage. 😊

[@tommychew6544]

@@ShirleySwedberg-tt2cc I'm not a youngun, my courage back in the mid to late 70's almost got me killed several times. Joining the Marine Corps in the mid 80's saved me, it taught me discipline and was the best thing I ever did to forward myself. Those lessons I learned have helped me throughout my life in ways I will never really understand, I just know they did when I compare myself to others I grew up with. My believe in the Lord even back then was the difference, I think. Everyone needs a solid base to rely on, I'm very lucky I had one.

[@tracytarquinio133]

YOUR videos ALWAYS get me motivated to go digging!!!!!!

[@BelowthePlains]

haha awesome! you should do it! it's addictive honestly.. idk if youve ever dug before, but wait until you pull out your first bottle.. its a rush! no kidding! thanks for watching, glad we could motivate you!

[@susancousins8766]

Good digging love the Plate Columbus memorial😊👍💜

[@williamfreyholtz4267]

In reference to the Blue Willow tea/coffee cup you found ... To be a true "Blue Willow" pattern, it must have the following elements: pagoda, apple tree, bridge, willow tree, fence, cottage on island and a pair of turtle doves. "The Legend of the Blue Willow" (The Blue Willow plate.) Long ago, in the days when China was ruled by emperors, a Chinese manderin,Tso Ling, lived in the magnificent pagoda under the branches of the apple tree on the right of the bridge, over which droops the famous willow tree, and in front of which is seen the graceful lines of the fence. Tso Ling was the father of a beautiful girl, Kwang-se, who was the promised bride of an old but wealthy merchant. The girl, however, fell in love with Chang, her father's clerk. The lovers eloped across the sea to the cottage on the island. The mandarin pursued and caught the lovers and was about to have them killed when the gods transformed them into a pair of turtle doves. These are the doves seen gazing into each other's eyes at the top of the design on the plates. Blue Willow China, in its present form originated in the United Kingdom (England) in 1790 by Thomas Turner at Caughley Pottery Works in Shropshire. A lengthy and old Staffordshire poem of the pattern concludes with the verse: "In the oft quoted plate two birds are perceived, High in the heaven above: These are the spirits of Chang and Kwang-se, A twin pair forever in love".

[@cdd4248]

Nice History...Thank you for sharing

[@BelowthePlains]

well thank you for correcting us. we put a lot of time into researching these items and sometimes theres just such a limited source of information on some of the very specific items. well thank you for commenting, and sorry for any future mistakes we will eventually make. have a great night!

[@treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340]

Great finds recovered well done

[@andrewchase7684]

Always great to get off work, and watch a new btp video. thanks for sharing

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks for watching!

[@allenbuck5589]

Best channel for dig n I’ve found thanks from my hill top in. Sc.

[@williamfoster7165]

Thanks for sharing

[@petekbleeepingaustralia8720]

Awesome guys 👌 Love watching bottle digs 👍🏼🍺

[@BelowthePlains]

thank you, glad you liked! thanks for leaving us a comment

[@hchilless3467]

Great video. Always enjoy 😉

[@marykaystreasures]

I enjoyed your video I really like the plate shard that you showed thank you for sharing have a great weekend 👍👍👍👍🗝️♥️

[@BelowthePlains]

Thank you! You too!

[@billykelly3180]

Awesome

[@DavidJones-smiley]

Another good dig in the books!

[@miss.bottles3332]

Great Content Guys. We also dig them all to the bottom, you never know what's down there. Looking forward to the next one.

[@BelowthePlains]

haha yeah i know.. the thing about these 20s-40s pits, is that they always have the most and the best marbles, at least in this area.. and yeah. i have found some good stuff in some of the newers ones, but i typically wouldnt dig a 40s privy. and 30s pits are always iffy.. well thanks for watching!

[@richardbeee]

The old outhouse is still standing, tho the papers cracked and dried. There's that old oak seat that I used to sit on. Down the lane I'd run, sometimes i'd fake it, other times i had to fake it; that's why we have such green, green grass at home. The ode to chicken Joe:-) To be song to that old country tune, The Green, Green Grass of Home. Now every time your out there digging you'll have that song going thru your head. Yee-Haa! That was a fun dig. Turns out those Cryrus Noble bottles i dug are worth a few bucks. Like hundreds.

[@BelowthePlains]

haha wow that was actually pretty good! for real! well im glad you had fun watching! thanks for leaving us a comment!

[@starsportscards8688]

Would be cool to see an episode on what happens to many of these bottles & where they end up. I've been binging on a few of these videos & it looks like fun.

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks for watching! Most end up with the property owner or local historic society. Lately if we find all the pieces we will piece a lot of the dinnerware/pottery back together and take pictures to add with the videos before donating them.

[@starsportscards8688]

@@BelowthePlains That's cool. Have you ever thought of asking Brent at Ghost Town Living KZbin Channel if you could dig there? I just watched them dig a hole for a new water tank & they were digging out all kinds of old bottles & relics. I'm sure he'd appreciate if you can find more relics for his museum & the exposure for your channel would be great. Cerro Gordo was a thriving mining town back in the 1800's.

[@andreikaplanov8903]

Спасибо за труды. Интересная была тарелка. Удачи в дальнейшем.

[@marilynbergemann6927]

Hi. Happy new year. I hope your year is fruitful 🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🫙🔍🙂

[@mavericktheiceman1155]

Awesome job guys

[@laurat5143]

Those were very nice finds.

[@aprilthomas1734]

Gosh that land is so pretty. As always thank you for another great video and the education I always get out of them ☺️

[@BelowthePlains]

Glad you like them!

[@rebecar-g7631]

Looks like a blast finding all of those hidden treasures. Love your channel.

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks so much!

[@johnsnow6586]

Wow what a cool plate

[@linzjan4276]

Have you done another video explaining the layers you are referring to. I’d love to understand the process

[@lunchboxproductions1183]

Have you ever tried germinating any of the seeds you find?

[@iswhatitis2744]

Thanks for sharing.Looking forward to you getting into a pit of older age , take care

[@BelowthePlains]

haha yeah me too! everything we put out was filmed months or sometimes years ago, so we have dug a ton of older pits, but we are trying to put out some of our worst videos first, before our channel starts to get big.. and we've had a lot of technical difficulties over the years, which has caused us to have to cut a bunch from some of our earlier videos.. we just want the quality of our videos to increase instead of decrease! older pits coming in a few weeks! thanks for watching

[@Toodle.Pipp001]

Brilliant job! Would be great to hook up with local heritage groups and do pop up exhibitions with them and your finds. You could have a creativity contest with all the broken bits and sell some to fund a small hand held metal detector, think of what you might be missing! All the best and happy digging! ✨

[@BelowthePlains]

That would be cool!

[@matthewbrown3477]

how in the world do you have this knack for finding the dump pits you do? Awesome work. keep it up. i am in NW Ohio

[@laurelshugars2866]

I think, a lot of research!!

[@BestSellers2122]

Nice!

[@pyewackett5]

In the UK we call that jug a demi john. I have 2 in my kitchen right now . One with cherry wine & the other with strawberry. You have a great channel. 👍

[@BelowthePlains]

We appreciate the info. Thanks for watching!

[@alisonmary1443]

Chicken Joe left you some really nice pieces 😂👍

[@markieproductions22]

How do you determine where to dig? I saw your stakes outlining the area to dig. Thank you.

[@dawnhaynes7784]

I love yalls videos I'm way down in southeast ga do u sell your bottles I would love to have a pumpkin seed flask for my bottle collection thanks for taking us along

[@jeffclark2725]

Great video, just found this one, lots of suprises to be found i am sure

[@anthonycongiano8890]

@21:02 I'm really surprised to see that the Columbus plate is only being sold for about 20 bucks in mint condition on Ebay... I thought that was going to be a winner!

[@kaybonette]

I was hoping you would find all the pieces to the Christopher Columbus plate.

[@AShoreThing]

I have found treasures and done digs and explorations but what do you DO with the sherds and pieces. I have only so much room but I dont want to toss them back in a hole.

[@juriaan13]

So.tool top is machine made right?

[@marjorielittle6160]

Tea POT!!!! tea POT, TOM!!!

[@John-mh6mi]

What do you mean when you refer to in the youth layer?

[@tracytarquinio133]

GOT my girl to subscribe to your channel also!!! ITS a good day!!!

[@DMC8707]

You can recycling the broken glass bottles & Glass plates and old broken pans recycling into new stuff. Better than put back in dirty again. 🙂 what do you think of opinions discuss. 😊

[@marymuller1062]

What do you do with what you find?

[@clemhollingsworth9885]

Loved your content, but too many ads ruined the experience for me!

[@Portaltotheparanormal70]

Certo is still around especially in the uk

[@boydbaxter]

As the old saying goes, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Care to take a swig of that old moonshine there?

[@idabohan]

My Mom used Certo when she made homemade jam. It's a Pectin product.

[@hummerfan9360]

I don't get it. Did all the old timers throw their glass, etc. into the outhouse?

[@whiskeycitydiggers]

Yes

[@Cutter-jx3xj]

I'm in a dump that has some very rare sodas in it, I have found over 25 of themSomeone please tell me why just the very top is knocked off of every single soda. I've never dig a place like that

[@BelowthePlains]

I've been in the same situation. I've been told that the bottling works would often get their competitors bottles returned. Being it was illegal to use someone else's bottles they would simply destroy/discard them. Another story I've been told is that during prohibition it was illegal in some places to have empty bottles around that could be used to hold moonshine, thus resulting in the tops being knocked off. Thanks for watching!

[@prairiefive4260]

Certo was used to thicken jam.

[@radiantrosie]

There's a public park with excellent hiking/biking trails near me with a seasonal creek through it. The creek sits at the bottom of a hill of an old farm. Clearly they dumped their trash there before it was a park and I decided to climb down to it last summer (there's a bridge over it for the trail). I pulled out loads of old bottles right on top without much digging at all. After I cleaned them up I posted a photo of my finds on FB - most were 1950s-70s. And a friend of mine who is an anthropologist absolutely ripped me a new one! He said people like me are the reason history is lost and only the experts should be digging that stuff up. We're talking 7up bottles from the 70s and shoe polish jars from the 50s. I was hurt but also angry! I mean, seriously?? If we listened to him, no one should even pick up litter! 🙄

[@whiskeycitydiggers]

Your archaeologist friend is probably ignorant to how proliferous those sites are. Don't take it personally. You're doing a good thing by cleaning up the water and learning about your finds.

[@sweetsierrablues5095]

I have a couple questions? What do you do with the more decorative pieces of broken dinner ware? Second question. Has anyone told you, that you look a lot like Tom Petty?

[@BelowthePlains]

We will piece them back together if most pieces are found and offer them to either the property owner or local museums. And I've heard that before haha. I actually play guitar too. If you find my FaceBook (Tom Askjem) I posted a cover a while back of me singing and playing Tom Petty's "You don't know how it feels". Thanks for watching!

[@alanatolstad4824]

I get a kick out of seeing ground water in any container!---Who got that kool Columbus plate?!

[@chezpoisson6]

Check that green marble with a black light. It might be uranium glass!

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah i checked! that one unfortunately wasnt.. ive found about 200 marbles over the last few years, and ive only been able to find 8 that glow under a black light.. those ones are obviously my favorite ones, and those are specifically the ones i seek out, tho i keep them all. thanks for leaving us a comment tho! and thanks for watching

[@TnTaur125]

I know you have said that you donate most of the bottles and things to local historical societies.. When you have multiples of the same one it would be great if you would sell them on eBay so that we could have one too!

[@BelowthePlains]

We've thought about starting a website to sell some of the pieces that the historic society's aren't interested in. We'll definitely be posting a link once we get it up and going. Thanks for watching!

[@susancousins8766]

That container looks like a top to a lantern?

[@carl5536]

I have what looks to be a pint bottle, or half pint, and the neck of it isn't straight and it's a cork bottle. The glass has air bubbles in it but I don't know how old it is cause it could be teens 20s or 1800s or older but I don't know cause I can't find anything that's exactly like it on the web...

[@marykaystreasures]

Chicken Joe didn't leave you too many bottles he must have sold them all I know that's not what you're used to getting 😞♥️🗝️

[@BelowthePlains]

It's a lot of hit and miss with these things. The adventure is always fun, though so I can't complain too much. Thanks for watching!

[@TheCosmosagan]

The person who threw those broken things in thier toilet probably never imagined some guy would be digging it up in a century.

[@judylukehart6854]

Have you ever not found anything?

[@rhondamiller6355]

Are you really coming up here to ND? I won't give it away. But anyway I could detect your spoils pile?

[@grassulargranite]

I Googled “milk glass christopher columbus” and came up with that exact plate for 20.00.

[@acb381]

Swing a detector, has to be some coins in there

[@mandybrown7758]

I been thinking the same either detect or sift I feel like there has to be more relics and coins in those pits

[@judylukehart6854]

Where are your gloves?

[@livewithnick]

Moonshiners in my area of Alabama would bury their money in mason jars to hide it from the revenuer man.

[@BelowthePlains]

We've yet to dig up a jar of coins though have heard stories of local farmers who didn't trust banks and died with money unaccounted for. Thanks for watching!

[@OutdoorDon]

I have an old bible that is falling apart that commemorates Columbus 1492-1892. Must have been popular like that plate.

[@BestSellers2122]

It strikes me that with the exception of beer and alcohol bottles, most of the bottles of the time seem rather small. When bottles were perhaps more difficult to make, why didn’t they make bottles bigger so they didn’t have to make as many? Was it just a marketing thing or was there another reason for that? Home canning was certainly larger than those commercial little pickle and water bottles. Maybe the larger bottles broke more easily?

[@BelowthePlains]

By the turn of the century general glass bottle manufacturing had become somewhat mainstream and bottles were readily available in all sizes across the US. By the WWI era the automatic bottle machine had become commonplace in glass bottle manufacturing and had increased glass bottle production in the US by 500%. Thanks for watching!

[@carlmartin4577]

Are you saying use layer or youth

[@dreams2933]

Who would have ever thought so much trash under the ground

[@cathybenson5119]

What do you do with all those pieces you find? You could restore that Christopher Colombus plate if you find the rest of the pieces. Lol. 👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@ValerieDee123]

The moonshiners did not like the #13 mason jars. They were superstitious and didn't like the number. I'd love to find a #13 Mason jar

[@whiskeycitydiggers]

A modern urban legend told to swindle people out of money. There is no historical evidence that this practice happened.

[@ratapaga5963]

Any coins?

[@BelowthePlains]

no, almost never find any coins, other than wheat pennies. thanks for watching

[@mandybrown7758]

I reported all those Bots

[@cdd4248]

I will too!

[@TheYammerHammer]

Those are my girlfriends leave them alone

[@BelowthePlains]

lol thanks

[@BuildingRides]

That was horrible you need to start getting into some

[@raydunhill5160]

Damn Tom. With all your permissions you should be digging some older pits? If its past 1910 or embossed jug age: move on! Great videos but find the older privys!!! Good Luck! 👍

[@BelowthePlains]

We aim for the earlier lots; this one dated back to the early 1870's but it seems the older pits were likely dug up when the newer ones were put in. Thanks for watching!

[@Tealtra]

Well next time there will be some older stuff. Keep trying guys it's all still out there.

[@laurelshugars2866]

Another stoopid porn ad 2 weeks ago on this comment thread. I've never seen this occur before. What's going on?! P.S. I just "reported" it on the actual comment. Hope it helps make it go away.

[@laurelshugars2866]

TheYammerHammer. Are you the gentleman who keeps mentioning "algorithms" in your comments? Tell me what to say, and I will join in!!