Cantil: Drowned in Dust

[@Kurt_Outdoors]

I delete channels when they get boring....but not Wonderhussy!...just keep getting better and better. So glad I discovered ur channel randomly last year...keep it up!!

[@whatsleftbehind6539]

I work with a Registered Nurse who lived in the triplex with the big fireplace in the late 70’s and early 80’s. I shared this video with her after she told me she lived in Cantil as a teenager. She has pictures of her nieces and nephews sitting on that fireplace.

[@normstephens8354]

Cantil was founded as a station on the Nevada and California Railroad in 1908 or 1909 when the line was extended from Owens Lake to Mojave. The name is Spanish for "steep rock", and is one of a series of "C" names chosen for this section of the line including Cambio, Cinco, and Ceneda. The first post office opened in 1916. Parts of scenes of Universal's 1932 horror film The Mummy were filmed here. Cantil is near the home of the Honda Proving Center of California (HPCC), a test track used for testing new car models and motorcycles. Honda closed the test facility in April 2010 and put it up for sale; on December 8, 2015, the company announced that they would renovate and expand the HPCC, with some new vehicle test road enhancements and reopen the facility in April 2016. On October 31, 2014, the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise crashed in the Mojave Desert near Cantil, killing one of the two pilots.

[@janjohannessmith7033]

Norm Stephens thank you that is a wealth of information that you shared with the viewers about this location. I look for these kinds of comments in Sarah Jane's videos they are gemstones of information backfield of the main story

[@jwagnermail]

LOL he just copied and pasted from the Wiki.

[@tomfrye9037]

Thanks for the data, chief. I didn't even know Honda ever had a proving ground in this country.

[@tomfrye9037]

Still...saved me looking it up.

[@gordbaker896]

Thanks for the research.

[@janjohannessmith7033]

Thanks for another great exploration video. And I really appreciate the viewers comments filling in the historical detail and adding their personal experiences and stories about these places it adds another dimension and makes history come alive

[@pokemonhunter9409]

Great... loved it! Should have checked expiration date on the tapatio. Loved the explore, hope to see more of this place. All we are is dust in the wind!

[@jt95124]

Pancho Barnes was an aviatrix who broke Amelia Earhardt record and did stunt flying for the movies. She had a fly-in dude ranch known as "The Happy Bottom Riding Academy" located just outside Edwards air force base. It was a bar and grill where test pilots hung out, portrayed in the movie "The Right Stuff". She had a row of rooms out back and employed attractive young hostesses. The air force tried to shut her down, accusing her of running a house of ill repute. She sued, but then her place burned down and she moved to Cantil and tried to start the same business. That could have been her place with the row of rooms for her "hostesses". I grew up at Edwards and Lancaster and have been to Cantil, saw Pancho Barnes at the fair and Christmas parade.

[@wesallen4228]

They had great views of the mountains.

[@deanmilligan4184]

Cool . Whenever there is a "holy krike" in the first 30 seconds, you know it's going to be good.

[@629GSMITH]

She the first person I heard say holy krike. I mean with her other language.

[@gordbaker896]

Such an incredible view out of that one window. Wish it had lasted longer. I really preferred your signature opening music. The new stuff comes on quite loud. Loved the Harvest Gold Stove and possibly toilet. '70's Another great one!

[@zachdieter498]

Hello from Duluth Minnesota! Love your videos and always look forward to the next!

[@kindune2112]

Holy Moly, Jeepers Creepers! I love the way you narrate!

[@abbeykroeter]

Hi Wonderhussey! Still on occasion doing my own exploration out there probably rolling on the same tracks as your 4runner... had a big break from it to save money and had heart issues.. Depression afterwards but back on the road. I used to write under “abbeykroeter” and followed somewhat consistently. So good to hear your voice and see the weird places through your natural laid back style. Hope all is well.

[@jay33begin]

I like this one wonderhussy 💋 your Soo good at this!!! like all the Sand... never seen this before x!

[@sherrycambridge1531]

WOW A Wonderhussy Wednesday On Thursday! We LOVE It !!!

[@richarddebord4371]

I had a friend that used to live out in Cantel. He got tired of shoveling sand so he moved away. Cantel used to be a farming community but for one reason or another they stop farming and the sand off of the Fields gets blown around pretty bad. Also across the road from Cantel used to be the Honda test track.

[@sherrycambridge1531]

I Didn't Say In My Comment But That Stuff Is Closer To Pea Rock Than Sand !!! & With That Bent bENT bACK mEDICINE Cabinet Door I Am Thinking 120 MPH ????? Whew Thank You For Your Reply I Always LLove Info & Google All Of These Locals MUCH LOVE TO YOU, HOPE TO CROSS YOUR PATH AGAIN !!!

[@larrypeplinski593]

Without reading all of the comments, did anyone else get to see the rarely observed, Wonderhussy's left hand?! I'm truly astounded!😁

[@mariasierra6501]

Nice exploration 😙😙😙 Caleb was the role playing of James Dean in "East of eden". The place reminds me to Steinbeck's imaginery.

[@hestheMaster]

Just an abandoned town but her observations is what makes things most interesting.

[@beermangood3725]

Nice! Go Wonder Hussy.. U B my HERO... :)

[@mattalpha2802]

Wonderful fantastic awesome videos

[@paddymaguire1703]

WOWZERS! CRIKERS!💥

[@TheBrotherofcats]

Keep finding these amazing places, Wonderhussy, and I'll keep watching.

[@deskennett4808]

Amazing place to explore thanks wonderhussy

[@victormanz9451]

Just Perfect!

[@TheRooster1122]

Love you Hussy!! Your awesome girl..

[@vern74]

Holy krikie and Wowsah..! that was a nice vid. Keep em comjng.

[@desertghost5668]

I love your videos. I also live in Vegas. Friday May 4, 2018 is the 30th anniversary of the Pepcon explosion that took place in Henderson. It was the plant that was part of the Kerr McGee corporation that made rocket fuel for the space shuttle back then. The marshmello factory next to it also was obliterated. Two people died and 300 were injured in the explosion. It was like a mini nuclear blast for Southern Nevada. I think that it would be a great video for you to do at the site. It's located near 215 and 95.

[@jeeprod1]

Much of that area was a huge alfalfa farm, and many of those buildings were homes for the farm workers. In the late 70s the water table began to drop, to the point where it was no longer possible to pump it up for irrigation. When the plants died and blew away, the desert reclaimed everything. I remember the whole valley being greened up with alfalfa. Now , most of it covered with solar panels.....

[@eddiekunert2719]

I think half these houses kinda look like my place. Lol, it feels like it when i go thru and clean. U have a good day sweet one. Your vids rock. Makes me wanna move there sometimes.

[@alkennedy1124]

This is real close to me , I’ve been there 100 times going to Paiute, mountains, getting fire wood, thanks y’all BigAl California.

[@deefranklin824]

Great Expectations. ❤️❤️❤️

[@underthetornado]

My mother discovered the most interesting older farmstead built by rocks in Cantil on the outskirts. It had mosaic pictures built into the walls of flowers and cactus. We figured maybe sheep farmers. Wished you could have found those ruins cause they were incredible!

[@kurtbaker4078]

Got to go back and check the rest out. Very cool.

[@buddy8225]

Cool video. I think the first house could have been a brothel. Enjoyed the view.

[@friskyopossum7983]

Geez. The late fee for that Blockbuster video is going to be real bad.

[@rocknroll6396]

Some manager is pissed at all the phone calls made to collect them fees

[@Katseye102]

Reminiscent of the dust bowl in Kansas isn't it? Wow! Maybe that was why it was abandoned. Safe travels WH!!! Wow!

[@lynnlopez3274]

Love your videos!

[@greasewoodflats]

I don't remember the exact years but several hundred acres west of Cantil had been cleared for alfalfa farming. When it failed (30+ years ago?) the dirt was left barren and the prevailing winds completely denuded the surface land.

[@mennoboon8037]

Great find againnn! You keep findings these cool abandoned places. But ok realisticly, when you don't have any more places like this to explore where would you like to go.(just curious)

[@jpsadventures9864]

Wow how creepy!! You have a very interesting channel. Just subbed ya!

[@geneloscowski3070]

I really enjoy your videos.

[@cruizzer77]

That is one massive cool ghost town, you could have made parts 1 through 37 at least I think ;-) Summing up what others have said before and what some research told me this was a farming community in the 60s and 70s, but due to bad agricultural techniques the formerly fertile land turned into wasteland. Trivia: There is an album called "Abandoned Cities" by Harold Budd that was released by the label "Cantil" in 1984, this makes me believe that this place must have been abandoned already at that time. At least in parts that is, all that 80s and 90s stuff you found indicates that some people must still have been there later. Maybe when people lived there there was more vegetation like trees and bushes around the houses which would somewhat keep the wind from piling up sand dunes I guess. Using Google maps there are some interesting observations to be made: - Some houses do still have green bushes around, maybe those places are still lived in - On the eastern side there are ponds and green fields, something must still be going on there - There are two compounds with lots of trailers and cars Would be interesting if you told which road it was you explored.

[@andyfletcher3561]

I haven't been out that way since the late 90's. I was a bit surprised to see it this far gone. But it wasn't bad farming techniques. At least not primarily. It was water districts forming and charging them for water. When we got good rains in January/February, and again in the spring, they could get 2 extra crops that they didn't really have to irrigate. When they did irrigate it only cost them the electricity to pump it. Happened all over the area early, mid seventies. LA Dept of Water and Power for the most part. Water districts are like HOAs. Free folk should keep the heck away from them. One of my favorite memories is of days driving through the alfalfa fields east of Palmdale and Lancaster, and out to Rosamond, mid August or so, heat of the day. When you were lucky you hit a mile or two of the sprinklers running close to road and the apparent temperature dropped dramatically. So refreshing, and of course we were kids and it was the seventies. Listening to good old rock and roll on the 4 track tape player. Air conditioning wasn't a thing for most kids in their first cars then. I sure loved to drive... Anyway, it's just off of State Highway 14(The Antelope Valley Freeway) north of Mojave and just before Redrock Canyon. Once upon a time there was at least one sign on the highway.

[@rab6453]

old mineing town the alfalfa ranch came later west of town suched all the water out by the 80s.now the fields west of their are nothing but sand producers.old bars and brothels were famous in kern county in the 1880s to the 60s.just east of town was a 5 mile test track for toyota shut down in the 2000s.love your trips.

[@stephenesler1125]

A vacuum salesman would have made a fortune in that town

[@gordbaker896]

HOpe you had your boots on............. Good Review.

[@keithrichards4513]

Cool!

[@josephcmcauliffe1706]

Great video must of had several severe storms for people to just abandon their homes

[@jessiescottmartinez365]

all love from Delray bch. Florida.

[@rockoneer]

That's what I'm talking about,and the door shuts,cool

[@johndiaz7240]

Thank you,we drive by places like that and I want to do the same thing you do ,but my wife says nooo. Really enjoy your videos.

[@Katseye102]

Maybe a part 2???? Sooooo interesting!

Looks like an older couple retired there and enjoyed the serenity of the high desert. Probably not a lot of buyers in such a remote location after they were gone. I imagine they had a good time there back then.

[@johnlawrence9957]

Great video! Thanks! Are you colorblind? The walls were green in one room and purple in the other!

[@setyourmindfreenow]

I'm moving out there next year. Yes, I'm 🤪.

[@yllohgineok]

sounds good...

[@kevins1114]

When I see an abandoned house or other building, I often wonder what kinds of stories could be told if the walls could talk about the lives of the former occupants.

[@kevins1114]

+TakeAmericaBackfromIsrael: The pics you're talking about are on her website - wonderhussy.com, and there will be a long list of articles you can go through that tell of the places she has been, and there are some pictures included, some of which show her in the buff. Yeah, I've checked out some of them - I can't help it that I'm a Dirty Old Man.....

[@danielyoung6630]

wow so cool!

[@dogwalkfinds9899]

Insightful video and commentary - you are a gifted anthropologist and modern day archaeologist.

[@tracym1284]

The sand is crazy 😀😀😀

[@rontaylor4618]

Cantil was a farming community at one time. In the 60s and 70s there were huge fields of alfalfa. guess something happened to the water source. Wonderhussy, did you stop by Jawbone Canyon? the store was founded by Pancho Barnes of the Right Stuff movie fame.

[@andyfletcher3561]

Yeah, the aqueduct. As well as the proliferation of rural "water districts". They slapped meters on all the farmer's wells, basically. Into the seventies the area grew most of the world's alfalfa then they started charging them for the water. Stopped at Jawbone many times.

[@fleetwoodray]

That one home with the photo album had to be an elderly couple's home with the old paraphernalia. They probably died and no family member claimed the home nor contents. So, the desert claimed it all. Sad.

[@lozobrown637]

Can't beat a Hussy pokin around vid.

[@OdySlim]

I bet it was a high end hunting cabin. The big closet for your gear and your own pooper. That would be great

[@shorttermlongterm6881]

I've spent a lot of time in Cantil in a tent. I live near there...good times.

[@cg7856]

Nice vid wh

[@jfhm1991]

Omg you know about Priscilla?? I live near where they filmed some of that. Favourite Aussie film ever :D

[@cheryltomlin6761]

First house might of been a brothel? Cool video.🙂

[@planetwisconsin9901]

Hot and cold running dust!

[@jtcbrt]

Like sands through the hourglass, so pass the Wonders of our Hussy! - It figures that you would read from The Bible right after you found that flying pig. - No VHS of "Dune"? - That place is a Dickens of a time capsule.

[@motorcyclemikele5856]

Great video, but kind of sad to see personal items like the photo album left behind.

[@tomfrye9037]

Thanks for sharing your exploratory visit, Sarah. It's kind of a shame...people just trying to "live the dream" then, now, it's just dunes overtaking wrecked houses.

[@TheAdventuresofMrMrsB]

Lots of dust for sure.

[@dapperdanman1956]

Like they were all just TAKEN! That tumbleweed looked like Don Kings head!!

[@MrGaryRoberton]

The jigsaw puzzle of the past. Nature re-asserts itself.

[@joaquinvalera2847]

This is the best evidence and proof that Sarah loves her devoted fan's and audience ....double banger vids...LUV..U>>>LTR

[@moondawgee]

Yikes Wonderhussy... get a broom and start sweeping... e-gadds... hahaha.. Gary & Li'l Billy in Hurricane, Utah

[@63DAVEMAC]

Hi. I am from England now living Minnesota. I have only just found your video's, I have seen two so far. The one with the highest wooden trestle bridge, and the abandoned trains. I will enjoy watching more of your video's.

[@mariasierra6501]

The letter you found its a love letter, someone who left says that shes the only thing he needs but cant be beside her. And that his heart belong to her but he think she will forget him.Think its mexican people for the way its writed.

[@NevadaArcade]

2000th viewer, woo hoo, go Sara!

[@Larry2]

I used to live there back in the 80's.

[@lestererwin3388]

Sis like your videos cause your real people

[@burymedeep-be7dm]

Rent looks reasonable

[@youmakeitreal]

"When there was no crawdad to be found we ate sand" "You ate what?" "We ate sand..."

[@meanqueenvvvvv]

You should do a duel video with Adam the Woo sometime !!

[@scottchase8014]

You see that hose in that bedroom that was for cleaning a swimming...pool... There must be a swimming pool out in the yard

[@howtolivethegoodlifeplease407]

What is the name of the town

[@andyfletcher3561]

Cantil

[@eds1994fatboy]

Nothing a few thousand trips to Home Depot couldnt fix.and about 10 legal Mexican drywallers....those fiberglass tub and shower units are fairly modern.That was probably built in the late 80s early 90s

[@MaxZomboni]

I'm inclined to believe these houses were abandoned in the 1970s or maybe early 80s, and the newspapers and magazines were dumped there later. In addition to the 1970s letters, the wallpaper, the carpeting and decorating is all from the 1970s.

[@jimbaker6442]

I keep thinking you're going to open up one of those doors and Walkers are going to start pouring out. Or at the least a very dusty Walter White.

[@jumpinjack1156]

Looks some what like a retirement community, the sand thing would have driven me out..quickly, probably the main reason it was abandoned. Says much about getting all the information about an area before you buy.

[@pigoff123]

In the 90s postage changed from free to MPS

[@MrGeronimoe]

the o called "shitter" next too the kitchen looked like a possible laundry room, maybe?

[@viewersstop7720]

Now new occupants are there in each house sand and tumbleweed.

[@tonygourley4896]

It's kind of a haunted lookin' town. With the decapitated winged pig ,and decapitated religious statue..YIKES ! , maybe it was once a secret occult town over taken by the satanic drag queens of the desert who like taking showers in the Brady Bunch's groovy bathroom there . Holy Cow ,when you went into that creepy bedroom and the wind was blowin' through the tattered curtains , it made me think of that scene in Hitchcock's The Birds when the wind blew through the curtains in that farmer's house , then she saw him in the same looking bedroom with his eyes pecked out , (i'm just sayin'). anyway .. it was another trippy adventure , very cool Sarah ,thanx & stay safe you little hussy u. Bob. G

[@bennynew1633]

How about doing a story about the great depression of the 1920s and 1930s from Oklahoma to California I know they did the grapes of rath but wouldn't it be cool to see???

[@wayneleonard6434]

Interesting. Capt. Stotllemeyer was the Homicide Detective who always saved Monk and Sharona and Natale when Monk got caught by the villain after solving the crime.

[@JoggyMorvin]

wow this place looks different😅

[@andyfletcher3561]

Yeah, not at all as I remember...

[@tunafish3216]

That bathtub probably has a dead body in it.

[@craigbrowning9448]

Why does it seem like many people who live in the Desert own Boats?

[@andyfletcher3561]

There's actually plenty of places to boat in that desert

[@HouseDrone1]

Excuse me Miss Hussy, I think your getting dirty minded asking me if I would bathe in that tub..lol

[@michaelfarmer9901]

I think the gophers could live indoors there!