The Ground Sinking by the Tracks Leads to an Unbelievable Discovery in an Underground Vault

[@PeppieP]

My grandma used to tell my dad she did not want him working on the railway cause they all drank too much - May be she was right by the looks of this dig. Brilliant. Always keen to learn more. Thanks for this.

[@deancole4559]

She was right!!! .....retired conductor..🚅🍻

[@ohpoleez]

Yeah wrong.

[@deancole4559]

@@ohpoleez Did when I hired out.

[@ohpoleez]

@deancole4559 yeah. Wrong again unless you ran for the hillbilly and redneck eastern. I've got 36 years service and counting. No one really drank when I started, some did, most didn't. I started with UP, currently with Amtrak. I'm pretty sure you can write that down.

[@Cutter-jx3xj]

Now you know why all the accidents to employees of the railroad

[@sue-ow6uz]

Every time I watch your videos I think about the area in my yard that sunk. It is the right size and distance from the house to be where the old outhouse would have been. We live in an old farm house built in the 1800s

[@JohnMarciaShackelford]

Well, dig it 😊!!!!!

[@suebryant1188]

Hello Mr Tom, I was digging a hole to plant a nectarine tree yesterday. You inspired me to dig deeper since our home was built in 1920. No bottles, but I did find the handle on a water pipe to turn on the water to a pond that we filled in 40 years ago. 🤣 13:10 It was so old that I decided not to turn it in case I couldn’t turn it off. I found another water line about a foot away and lower. I dug another hole in a different location this morning. I found concrete from a skanky homemade pool that we broke up and buried 45 years ago. It was still fun finding stuff and exercising in the sunshine. 😊

[@Looter8TreasureHunter]

Congrats on almost 100k Subs! Well deserved! You have the best bottle digging channel on youtube!

[@BelowthePlains]

hahah thank you so much! yeah... we always get about half of our subs in like 10% of the days, and right now seems to be one of those days. im thinking we will cross that line within 24 hours. i still cant believe it. thank you for noticing tho and thanks for watching! glad you like the show!

[@mrnobody3161]

​@@BelowthePlains Hey Tom I was supposed to remind you about doing a question and answer video. The way I look at it, you and those working with you are the Bosses of the Channel, so you make the rules. If you're camera shy, I get it. I'm an introvert and I've had to do public relations and on camera appearances in the past for companies and organizations. You could pin a comment on your videos and that you'll be responding to questions at a later date. Then you could choose the questions that you want to answer. If you don't want to do a Video, you could just pin questions as comments on your channel and then answer them, and just create a banner on the channel screen with; question and answer time, for example. It might be time consuming but then you wouldn't have to be on camera. I think either way it would be interesting. I've got a lot of questions myself, and I'm sure many other Subscribers do as well. Anyways I always enjoy your Videos. My Grandfather was a Homesteader in Alberta Canada in 1908 after he had already settled on "bad land" in Nebraska which is probably why I enjoy your Channel.

[@patty4091]

Well you had a courteous drunk. He put the stoppers back into the flasks! 😂

[@lorettademaio4334]

Thanks for sharing the fines and providing the old advertising or patent description. Love to learn new things

[@lechatel]

We have a bottle pit in our garden. You have inspired me to dig it! The house dates to at least 1604. So could be interesting stuff. Or not. lol

[@steven2212]

If you look at the safety record of American rail roads during that era, it's no wonder every passenger had a flask or two. It was anything but a safe and comfortable journey! Great vid my friend.

[@dangray]

Thanks God for your videos, most of the other ones I watch make my head hurt and make me glad I'm really old, just fear for the younger generations.

[@sundance2005]

You have got to be one of the hardest working YTer. Most do little more than walk around and shoot video but you have to dig, often time a rather substantial pit before you get to your subject matter for a video. What do you do with all these bottles you find? Also interesting that most of the bottles you found in this dig were intact. Unusually a large number are broken. Of course maybe there were a lot of broken and you only showed those that weren't. I was hoping for more non-bottle artifacts.

[@thegoodcatjupie6614]

hi tom. i love when you introduce your videos, all solemn and a cool customer. then suddenly an exciting hutch soda appears and it’s like your voice goes up an octave. 😊 i know you don’t personally answer all comments but one thing i always wonder-do you prefer a ‘dry’ dig (dust and dirt) or a ‘juicy’ dig (muddy) like today? thank you for you and your team’s hard work.

[@charlesevens5377]

Pretty cool. With so many outhouses built and used thru the centuries, you have a never ending supply of prospecting holes. Often there are a line of sinkholes where a pit has been filled and the outhouse moved to the next. perfect place to dispose of such items, as well as the occasional treasure that fell out of a pocket into the poop.

[@bobkirk942]

BADASSERY as always Tom!!!

[@BelowthePlains]

haha thanks!

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

Deceiving is bad. He places them there

[@DGillyy]

Yer lucky☘️ it just smells "musty"🌹

[@carolynsimone8647]

Never disappointed...thanks for sharing...🥰🥰

[@andrewowens9382]

👋 Tom and 👋 jake another good dig 👌 👍 👏 all the best 👍 always looking forward to watching your channel 😀 👍 😄 👌 Andrew south wales uk 👌 👍 👏 😀 🇬🇧

[@BelowthePlains]

THANKS Andrew!

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

It's fake. He places them there in between cuts. Notice it's always cut. He could do one solid video and speed it up if real. Always full intact bottles with many not real rusty tops

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

Can buy those from antique stores, antique malls, craft shows. Wherever people have them. Found in houses, barns, some actually in the ground

[@MarkLandrith]

​@Mattology1 your an idiot. This is real. Like he's going to go buy antique bottles, partially fill them with dirty water, dig a big hole somewhere, and place them in the soil and pretend to dig them out. Tjat makes mo sence at all And he's not going to show all the broken ones cause why bother showing them when there's dozens more that are good to show and explain. Do some research on history and all kinds of things got dumped in outhouse, including shit.

[@d.g.n9392]

I’m from central Missouri, there’s so many of the smaller town depots torn down. A shame some couldn’t be preserved I was a kid in the 1960’s and remember many of the depots.

[@robertguelda3469]

You should not be surprised about finding so many Liquor bottles in your outhouse explorations. Drinking alcohol was as common as drinking soda today. Love your videos..

[@653j521]

Depends on who you were and where you were.

[@bouncerslabrealnature9143]

Thank you once again for sharing this awesome educational experience.🎉

[@EmpathBonz]

I'm gonna go ahead and tell you congratulations on 100 K subs bc while I was watching an older video I saw you go from 99.7k to 99.8k!! So probably while typing this out you’ll hit 100k! 😜😂❤🎉 Seriously though, congratulations!!

[@BelowthePlains]

hahah not quite! it should be in a few hours. we having been getting a ton of subs the past few days. we were at 97k like 3 days ago. but thank you! we really appreciate it! i was gonna go to bed, but im thinking im gonna stay up and take a screenshot when it gets to 100k. hopefully in the next few hours. but thank you!

[@EmpathBonz]

@@BelowthePlains You ABSOLUTELY have to catch that screenshot!! It’s gotta go next to that PLAQUE❣️

[@EmpathBonz]

@@BelowthePlains Ok, now it's official!💙🥳

[@RiverCityMiniatures]

Grain Belt! Premium was my favorite beer. Minneapolis represent!

[@BrianCarnevaleB26]

The day will soon come when you have a hired hand to do the hard digging & maybe sooner than you think as it beats down your joints. & whole body frankly. Thanks for the great videos.

[@melindawhite5198]

Thanks for another great video

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

I was telling my wife about your videos. She was amazed cause she grew up in this area. Hendrum, Minnesota. She has a cousin that lives in Augusville, North Dakota

[@amytemple6469]

I love your videos...and the music, too! Also, some of the condiment bottles in your hotel pits actually held honey for the biscuits served at the hotels. I have an old honey bottle with label intact from my grandpa's collection. Thanks for sharing your finds. ...from Phoenix, Az.😊

[@wwjoesr]

It’s always exciting to see what comes up next!

[@willong1000]

🎆Congratulations on reaching 100K subscribers! 🎆 🏁

[@michaelbrewster4114]

Been watching you for a while good narration. Good camera work .that hole was loaded with liquor bottles.hello from Australia. Good luck.

[@oneofthepips1210]

Thank you for finding another historical site that is so revealing.

[@N-Scale]

Wow , cool !!

[@relaxandhealsound]

very cool 😎 you reached the 100k milestone. I like to watch and also have you on mix play while I am working on creating and editing 🌼. I’m a “seasoned citizen “ and love all things historical.

[@jetsons101]

Came across this vid by chance, the first thing that came to mind was Time Team -- the UK show. Great show.

[@aleksanderpopov5060]

almost 100k thank you for your work, actual work😀

[@twindiggersminnesotapamandpat]

Tom, that must have been the drinking hole😜. Nice dig, looked like moist soil. Thanks for another digging adventure.👍👏

[@deloradeabel8487]

Very fun dig!

[@gloriaprimeau7318]

Enjoy your video so much thanks

[@DanielGBenesScienceShows]

I recently found your channel and absolutely love your videos and really appreciate your knowledge and respect of the bottles and artifacts you find. My expertise is in vintage/antique technology (telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, high-voltage devices, medical devices) but I’ve always had a love for old bottles and glassware. I look forward to watching more of your digs.

[@marcelmallory2761]

As usual I completely enjoyed the video!

[@terrencebuller7676]

Another great program Tom. Always enjoy seeing the history connected to what you find. Stay safe and take care. 👍

[@johnnyalberty6071]

Very cool. Have you ever tried to germinate those seeds to see what they grew into ? not even sure if they would grow after so many yrs.

[@dirtclodmetaldetecting]

Nice dig and history!

[@jerrysadventures8952]

I enjoy watching you dig

[@wadehendryx7378]

Damn you, Tom. If i knew there was another video today. I would have held back on yesterday's until now. I really don't know why. That's just the way I would have done it. Just giving you a bad time. Very happy to see another one today. I do now forgive you for the short one yesterday. Lol.Take care.😊

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

Pumping them out to make that cash. He places them there in between cuts. Sorry he fools people. It's okay to be tricked. I'm naive in ways to but I see through this.

[@RangaTurk]

Makes you wonder what the M2 road contractors found at Epping digging through a railway embankment from 1885 in New South Wales in 1995. Or the recent embankment at Mascot dating from 1924 for the Wentworth Ave extension. You find this sort of stuff at Monterey because it is built on reclaimed land. Dig two meters down and you'll find bottles that almost date back to the Edwardian Era. No preserved liquor in them though but they sure did look like spirits bottles plus heaps of old vinegar and chemist shop medicine bottles in numerical abundance. That is if you have severe plumbing trouble requiring you to replace the clay pipes with p.v.c. ones.

[@barbarahatcher4552]

This is wonderful two videos back to back love this

[@SuperKabookie]

I appreciate all the history you provide in your videos! I also like shorter videos too!❤

[@tj48649]

You guys work your fannies off in these digs. I'm truly impressed!

[@mercedithcompala8148]

Pretty good finds

[@meinme9165]

What do you do with what you pull out of these digs? I like watching them, but I would like to learn more about what you do with them.

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

Use them in another video

[@shaverx3293]

Outhouse pits many times were bottle dumps.

[@audreysmith3559]

Great video!

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks!

[@53shuzzie]

What do you do with the bottles?

[@stephenwright5562]

Watching from Australia, love these video's 👍

[@SuperKabookie]

Looks like you have good soil to dig thru. Oklahoma is nothing but clay! That another word for concrete lol!

[@rossrucker3571]

Tom, when you hold up a mikado, then an eagle style liquor bottle, sometime quickly explain the difference. They look the same to my untrained eye! 🤨😂

[@SuperKabookie]

What do you do with all those bottles you find?

[@kdawg2446]

So out of curiosity how many bottles have you guys ever found in one pit?

[@mikeroerig2499]

Are you digging out old outhouses or maybe garbage pits? I am trying to understand why so many bottles are located in such a small area and why so many pits you dig contain only glass bottles? What do you do with all these bottles? Is there a market for these?

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

Yes. People like him buy them and place them in holes he dug and says he found them. The tops would be way way more rusty or not there. And more broken ones.

[@ToddTheJoker]

Hi guys! Correct me if I am wrong, but the glass in these bottles is quite clear, with little to no Iridescence, so does that indicate a ground less rich in minerals? thanks guys! Can't wait for the next dig!!!!

[@mattmcbottles]

Wish i knew how to run my probe like you do, i dunno what im doing with it.

[@karenwright8556]

I love reading some of these comments...I think we're having fun here.😁👍🍻

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

He found his niche. Found his people to fool

[@RyoshilovesKabosu]

If you are looking for maps of cities, I have atlases from 1874 and 1875 of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa. All of these atlases have city maps in them.

[@dai-nippon_digger]

Liking these shorter videos

[@di4bol1c4l7]

I don't understand that all this winter that I have been watching your videos why is the weather in ND and SD always seem to be summer?😂

[@Kltpzyxm17]

Let's go 100K! ❤

[@marykunselman284]

Hi Tom I love your videos I think I’ve watch a hundred here lately (a little exaggeration) lol

[@user-Vvf_camp]

I’m just wondering, do you sell any of the bottles that you find?

[@johnc7512]

Do you do this in other areas of the country?

[@maggiemathes1219]

Could It Be A Bar stood close to the Depot ?

[@corricatt]

not one of your richest finds, and so wet! well done!!

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

Put some water on it. Muddy it up so it doesn't look predug and placed. Great technique. 🤌

[@StrawberryCopper]

My grandpa worked for the C & O railroad.....he was a drinker......threw a wrong lever.....caused a 'minor' derailment.....never lost his job.

[@marks.c4753]

😂😂😂😂

[@marks.c4753]

😂😂😂😂

[@jamiekaye3680]

Could be the train stop that had the Bar replenished, but then again maybe not

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

What you do with all this stuff when your done?

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

Maybe put it in another hole and says he found it in another video in the future

[@atuuschaaw]

😳A lot-o-liquor! ♥

[@cudathehawgjetfixer7520]

Looks like you hit a lost liquor stash from the Prohibition Era, because all of those bottles are in excellent condition and would have been broken if they were in the garbage pile

[@ITZGR82BFREE]

How many times have you come up empty after probing what you thought was a promising site?

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

Many. Until he decided to place them there and has people convinced. Found his niche crowd that people will keep watching even if people point out things

[@bgierat]

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker!

[@KA4UPW]

Digging a latrine

[@OneStrangeJourney]

Don't you get nervous every time you pull one out of the ground that has liquid? Like it may explode like that one time!!!

[@pakedermsfavs9080]

Holy alcohol bottles . My husband was telling a friend about this . I love when my husband learns history from me then tells his friends about it like a genious . Anyhow the friend said that the men would go out in the outhouses to drink during the temperance and the inability to drink alcohol in the house .

[@mdshonkkc]

The sound of the trowel in the soil, the tinking of the glass pieces, and Tom's calm voice make great ASMR! Love your videos!

[@niteshades_promise]

Do you get permission, or just dig n fill it back in real quick before someone notices?🤔😂🍻

[@SubaruLove]

Your videos are excellent. It's like watching high-speed archeology, and your knowledge of glassware and pottery is remarkable.

[@buckhunter1378]

Suspect a burial site of prohibition era reaction to the laws around 1917 to account for the bottles recovered.

[@samsager1]

I bet that pesky horse fly bout pissed yall off😂

[@BelowthePlains]

hahaha oh dear god, they werent as bad balfour!

[@DonaldBarnes-ys4mh]

I wonder if prohibition had anything to do with the cache

[@douglaskerr6813]

I guess everyone needs a hobby drinking seems to be the one in that town😂

[@Moxieman]

They all have stoppers it's the same person or selling alcohol by the shot

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

Or he buys them and places them there

[@CarlWinter-oy8uf]

Too many bottles &no treasure --boozers paradise !

[@marylavine2632]

So many liquor doesn't seem many broken.

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

Because he puts solid ones there

[@blindfredy6128]

Bottles.

[@howarddenney5331]

How in the world can you tell all the different styles of flasks. They all look pretty much the same to me

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

I think he buys them in bulk from antique places and puts them there. Oh found another bottle. In mint condition. In loose soil. In between cuts.

[@nickel19941]

Just a weird observation, but Tom reminds me of a young Tom Petty...

[@mrsseasea]

Sooooo close to 1,000 k…..subscribe people…..think of it like the History Channel 😀

[@RyoshilovesKabosu]

Why don't you metal detect the property since you have permission to dig it?. Back in those days people didn't necessarily trust banks. Money ended up in jars in the ground. I think it would be a very worthwhile endeavor.

[@garysimonson9593]

Doesn't seem like the occupants here ate much, but they sure put away some booze!

[@charlesevens5377]

Well, they ate plenty. Over time all that poop becomes that dirt he is digging in.

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

I don't know. Just so happen to find all these bottles in good condition in loose dirt way down. Oh here they are. Many with caps on. People find a niche and do things to keep their viewers interested. Anything for views. Could put them there in between cuts. I am skeptical. If it is all legit then that is cool.

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

It's good to have skeptics. You may delete this comment or disagree with it. But to have everyone praise what you are doing is somewhat suspect in itself.

[@robertmcfarland3323]

It's north Dakota if you lived there you'd be drinking alcohol too

[@Kltpzyxm17]

😂

[@VickiinArizona]

I have been watching your videos from most recent and backwards, I can see why they had to have prohibition, all they did was drink, get sick and have to go to the drug store LOL

[@danno3497]

As you can see,I bet that most of the men were frowned upon drinking so they hid the liquor from their wives "small flasks" and drank up in the outhouse! Then they dropped them in the pit for you to find 100 years later!

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

If that's even the case it would be ground water by then. The peep seeped out and water seeped in. I think he may place those there in between cuts. Oh found another bottle in mint condition.