High Knob Ghost Town & Unmarked Cemetery in the Shawnee National Forest

[@lorieburk6418]

THNKS FOR TAKING US ON GHOST TOUR SHAWN ENJOYING THE SCENERY LOVE THE OLD CABINS I'D LIVE IN ONE ONLY MORE STURDY PRETTY COOL 😎

[@LorieBurk-m8u]

PRETTY COOL OLD CABIN'S. IT'S BEEN MANY YEAR'S AGO NOW SINCE I'VE BEEN TO THE SHAWNEE NATIONAL FOREST ITS GOT A LOT OF HISTORY

[@HikingWithShawn]

I agree

[@MattB-z6o]

My family lives right off of High Knob Road. I hunt that every year! Actually hunted where you were at. Nice video!

[@HikingWithShawn]

Thanks 👍

[@stephenburns3678]

Thank you.

[@HikingWithShawn]

You’re welcome ☺️

[@montegomm]

Those bottles are old, but only about 65-70 years as screw top bottles came out in the 1950's in the US. Thanks for providing GPS info, I hope to get out to see some of these things in the future. I really enjoy seeing these old homesteads and wondering about how folks lived back then.

[@HikingWithShawn]

I know they were very poor back then. Life was definitely hard.

[@LorieBurk-m8u]

COME 🫴 BACK N EXPLORE SOME MORE THE TRAILS

[@HikingWithShawn]

For sure!

[@mikehudgins5764]

Supposedly my family used to own high knob back in the20s/30s. I have great memories of going there to ride horseback. Very beautiful place. Thank you for the video!

[@hollywoodfarmgirl9254]

That cemetery is our family cemetery. Lawrence Family cemetery, I think? Descendants of the Shawnee tribe. From the 1800s, early 1900s.

[@bob321]

thanks ahawn, brings back memories of 1950's nd 60's, upon the fire tower many times.

[@HikingWithShawn]

I love to see this comment :) and I envy that you got to see the area when the fire tower was there. How was the view?!

[@bob321]

@@HikingWithShawn 0 I lived two miles south of karbers ridge growing up. I spent weekends hunting and fishing that whole area.

[@kevingoodson9042]

@@bob321 My aunt lived in Karbers Ridge.

[@bob321]

@@kevingoodson9042 please give me the name

[@bob321]

@@HikingWithShawn the view was fantastic , the air was clean, the sky was blue.

[@lorieburk6418]

THOSE OLD BOTTLES WERE OUT IN THE 1950'S I RECALL

[@kevingoodson9042]

My dad and I went up the fire tower in the early sixties. My dad's boyhood home was down over the hill from the tower about a mile. My dad grew up in this forest and hills.

[@eaglecreek3]

I would love to be able to find this area

[@HikingWithShawn]

Very easy to get to! It’s all on the River to River Trail 😎

[@eaglecreek3]

How many miles back to this area

[@lorieburk6418]

JUST RAN ACROSSED YUR VIDEO WOULD LOVE ❤TO GO GHOST HUNTING ALONG W Y'ALL I LOVE ❤ HAUNTED HOUSES AND ANY HAUNTED AREAS LOVE ❤YUR VIDEOS MORE VIDEOS PLEASE LOVE"EM

[@derrickmoscardelli8813]

Awesome video Shawn! Cool place to hike and visit. Thanks for sharing.

[@HikingWithShawn]

Thanks!

[@danpyles5272]

Awesome video!

[@HikingWithShawn]

Thanks!

[@lorieburk6418]

PROBABLY USED OLD KARESEEN LAMPS BACK IN THE DAY THY DIDN'T HAVE ELECTRICITY BACK THEN

[@kimberlyreuter6825]

That’s near my parents house!

[@drewping2002]

Very cool video! Are the newspapers shredded? Any way to get a timeframe from them? That would be interesting!

[@michellecochran4354]

1930's newspaper. Most of them have deteriorated.

[@drewping2002]

Very cool.

[@Miss_2053]

What are the directions and trails to take to get there?

[@HikingWithShawn]

Take R2R trail from High Knob towards Cadiz

[@Miss_2053]

​​@Hiking With Shawn thank you. About how far of a hike is it?

[@HikingWithShawn]

A few miles out and back. Not bad at all.

[@leslietaylor4458]

The old sign probably used to say "Survey Marker, please do not disturb" until somebody cut it off

[@HikingWithShawn]

Sounds like that could be the case!

[@AttorneyBCollins]

I was convinced that I had found an unmarked cemetery there south of the foundation to the old P.O. just East of the log hut over West of Rocky Comfort road. It also had standing unmarked tombstones that were rectangular rather than flat just like yours. Actually more of them than in your cemetery. Turns out they were supports for an outbuilding foundation. That was a let down.

[@HikingWithShawn]

Lots a neat old stuff out there!