SPEECHLESS! Metal Detecting Deep Woods Abandoned Houses! Treasure Map Points The Way .....

Metal detecting deep in the woods searching for abandoned homesites, using my homemade treasure map. Let's go!
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[@JDsVarietyChannel]

A sincere thank-you to all my subscribers out there! We just hit 220,000 this morning. :)

[@jenniferwright5536]

JD's Variety Channel I don’t have time to watch the whole thing but I’ll watch 10 or so minutes of it

[@RobFindsTreasure]

Whew... was wondering if it would hold. 😉

[@JDsVarietyChannel]

LOL Rob. I was still a few short until a couple hours before releasing the video. Haha. I appreciate the shout last night! If anyone is reading this comment you should check out Rob's channel for awesome coin videos! =P

[@sheilalart5837]

Happy 220,000 subscribers JD :)

[@sheilalart5837]

Nice video JD!! I say the bottle with lions crest of arms some type liquor bottle maybe Irish or french!

[@anunnakielohim2727]

next time you come across a board with nails sticking up, do the next person a favor and flip the board over so the nails point downward into the ground. ;)

[@kickasz_gaming1289]

Wheres the fun in that? 😂

[@RobFindsTreasure]

I really enjoyed the walk to the old home site still standing. The tree was amazing - to think it likely was planted when they originally built that place. So cool. I'm linking the time stamp so those who don't have time to watch the entire video at least can appreciate this part for sure! 44:12

[@JDsVarietyChannel]

Thanks Rob. That was one was on my favorite moments in a long time!

[@icyhotryan9339]

JD’s Variety Channel, Nice job on 220K

[@ogama843]

Thatts hen of the woods. It’s highly desirable in culinary circles. Chef’s pay $12.00- $25.00 a pound. That was your best find of the day.

[@lindawolffkashmir2768]

Yes, it’s supposed to be delicious!

[@thesecretshade]

I'm excited to see it! It is a delicacy

[@Objective-Observer]

The last house with all the trash: my guess is that the trash happened at the end of the life of the house, during the Great Depression. The Lady of the house perished or left, and everything thing of her's was used until broken, and tossed out the back. The disrespect of just throwing trash out, is more of a 20th century mindset, born from a Mass Production Economy. You didn't have to reuse something, or repurpose something when it reached the end of it's life. You could easily buy another to replace it. The Electric Box looked to be Knot and Tube wiring, and those were Fuses, not circuit breakers; the earliest type of electrical wiring in homes. Other metal detectorists all search the grounds around an enormous tree, because that is an indication Residents of a Home took care of that tree. The First Flat ground you really thought a house should be there.... it could still have been there, but it was so old they used wood pegs to secure the logs for the cabin. Thanks for the trek through the woods. You take me places, I will never get to see.

[@KernowekTim]

Very true words. The beginning of the 'New Breed' attitude, 'Good luck, you're on your own'. Me, I'm a 61 years old Cornish hilly-billy boy. If I can't fix it, repair it, re-invent it, it goes into re-cycling. For me, it doesn't bode well to throw things away, unless they are truly done and done. Famine can follow in the tracks of wastage, in time.

[@Objective-Observer]

@@KernowekTim I can't speak to Corwall, because I'll never get the opportunity to go there. Here in the States, the Great Depression created it's own PTSD. I'm your age, and I come from two generations of Hoarders: who learned in the Depression, that you throw nothing away. Worn out items would be the reources for whatever you needed. As you said: you reparied something until it couldn't be repaired, then you repurposed it or canablized it until there was nothing to throw away. My grand mother repaired their colthing until there wasn't enough fabric to hold the patches, then she cut that clothing up and sewed it into quilts. Any broken machine could be a wealth of screws, and metal parts. In the Back Woods areas of the US like this cabin, the Depression saw a great Migration of people being forced into the cities to find resources, and jobs. Which is why this cabin, I susupect, was abandoned with all its trash. Then, all of those out of work laborers went into the army, and their wives went into the factories building machines of war. When humanity spends any time within civilization, they generally, do not return to their more primitive homes.

[@KernowekTim]

@@Objective-Observer .....If that's 'civilisation', give me a dry, draught-free cave, with a readily available source of fresh running water from the mountains, in a well timbered land with relatively mild winters ! For me, people from towns and cities become more 'primitive' in their collective mind-set and behavioural patterns than the'yd admit to. Call me cynical or whatever, but the more I see and hear of people and their machinations, the more time I have for Human Beings. Dogs have always been amongst my most favourite friends though.

[@donaldjohnson4019]

The button You discovered had the Word BELKS is most likely from a Pair of Bib Coveralls sold at Belks Department stores in the Carolina's , It's all farmers wore back in the 19th and 20th Centuries . Great Video J.D. I guess those area's have been picked over pretty much already .

[@harry_hands]

Hello JD! So good to see mountain trails, mountain streams, old homesteads and semi-vintage relics. I wish the old cabin walls could talk and tell the stories of the labor put into the building of the cabins and the people who lived in them. THANKS FOR POSTING!

[@kennysilver9769]

You find interesting places to detect. This is enjoyable to me. Keep it up.

[@ChineseDetective]

At 1:09 it makes me really sad to see all the trash down by the creek! :/

[@audreymuzingo933]

OMG your 'JD's ASMR' bit made me scream-laugh. That was one of the prettiest fungi I've ever seen though. Looks like a white Hydrangea blossom!

[@JanVafa]

JD - when we would find nails pointing up... I was taught to turn the wood over and push the nails into the ground so no one would get hurt!

[@JDsVarietyChannel]

Not a bad idea. I usually flip glass over that is sticking up or haul it away. But I guess being that deep in the woods I wasn't really thinking about it. I always try to clean up urban lawns when I find pointy objects.

[@plugdigdetector5916]

220k! Congrats! I just broke the 80 subscriber mark this month. 3 years not bad eh? Lol. Don't let the haters and losers get you down. Let it be water off a ducks back. Do what you do and laugh at the venomous detractors. You've got no time for it!

[@user-ey9bt7fs6n]

First house looks to be the oldest. Log cabin that had siding applied when log cabins went out of style. JD get some hiking shoes! Your feet will thank you 🙏

[@marymisdom3955]

JD it is one of the best ever pleasantries to see your metal detecting, exploration video pop up. It's hard to beat the quality and enjoyment you put into them. Thank you.

[@donaldmiller9648]

The marble you found was a Vitro Agate from late 1940s to 1950s. Called a "Conqueror" due to way bags were labeled. Had mesh bag with Conqueror on label and a battle axe. The shooter size was usually only one per bag of 40-50 marbles.

[@gregcook7883]

Mushroom looked like grifola frondosa or hen of the woods the highly sought after medicinal and edible maitake mushroom. They are delicious. The ones that I find here in minnesota are darker in color. Do your research in your area and you could be eating well. LOL.

[@bronxboy131]

Completely enjoyed that! One of your best! >>Didn't know that about the old fence posts, I can look out for that in the future- There has to be more old sites- there wouldn't be just one with an electrical box & where the heck did the electrical source come from??. And that Mushroom is a delicacy for sure I don't know the name but we just called it a cauliflower mushroom -not easy to come by & were very happy to harvest one Ty JD until the next one☮❤

[@Carlos-fe7kv]

I have a ton of old old abandond houses in my area. Probably some from the 1800s and early 1900s. This makes me want to get a metal detector

[@annarios5131]

I going to buy on

[@jeff5683]

What state is this? As a Floridian I'm always looking for awesome vacation hiking spots like this.

[@PickinPins]

Where in Fl Jeff? Im n Indian River..

[@downtonviewer]

Amazingly solid construction to still be "standing". The one smaller shed was probably a wood shed. The other one was a tool shed. That add on was the summer kitchen. I'll bet the had some kind of windmill for power...maybe. That is an awesome find, JD!

[@richardstump4582]

Hi! What A Great Moment! Congratulations! I love How you Look For Things And the History is Amazing! Thank you! Happy Metal Detecting!!

[@rdjess]

JD! Dude awesome drone footage!! I may have been under a rock but when did you get a drone!?

[@cutestkittensanimalrescuep8531]

When you go to Old homesteads like this you definitely should detect the floors under what might be a chicken coop since in the old days they used to bury their treasures under chicken coops but people used to bury treasures under their floors you're kind of doing yourself a disservice if you do all this walking and don't detect the buildings floors.

[@cutestkittensanimalrescuep8531]

So people didn't carry around their coins usually back in those days if they did have a treasure or artifact it would probably be in the Attic or under the floorboards or under the chicken coop floor maybe buried under a big rock and sometimes maybe buried in a lead box so you shouldn't ignore things that sound like lead or tin boxes ladies would put their treasures in tin boxes

[@dinahjackson8146]

Boy, JD, you work HARD for TREASURE ! 😁 I'm SOOO GLAD you, ( at least found a marble! ) I love to dig OLD DUMPS... But, I would like them a little older than that... GOOD HUNTING to you ! 😍 You sure deserve your treasures !!! ☺ GOD BLESS YOU and KEEP YOU !!! ❤

[@jamesjamm]

This was just fantastic!! Fascinating! I love that you found this, I hope you find the cemetery at some point. I am just very surprised to see the electric at that home. Where did it go to?? It makes it seem like there should have been even more homes up there, for them to have brought the electric to there. I LOVE the length of this and what fun!!!! The porcelain tops in the canning jars are just so awesome to have found!!!

[@MrCary2279]

That was a wonderful adventure hike. You gotta' love Tennessee woods. Thanks for sharing!

[@wilmaburrgooch981]

I started watching today and heavy rain then breaker made power outage in y area . Finish now

[@brightpurpleviking]

What a fun video this is! And very clever of you to do this research and build the map. I’m a new subscriber. Thanks!

[@JanVafa]

With all the dishes tossed it appears that they didn’t do dishes and just tossed them when they got dirty!

[@coshgirlify]

Just subscribed very interesting videos.

[@robertferguson64]

Nice job on the video watched it to the end thanks for sharing.

[@nancydubin9328]

Just thought I'd pass on a. It of info. Watching an old vid of you finding lotsa pennies-think your up to 35 !! Someone told me, that in yrs gone by, people threw pennies in the yard when it was built or they had just moved in as this was a way of attracting good luck, hopes, & dreams.

[@richardstump4582]

Thank You! And your Great Finds! Will See you Next Time! Thank You For Sharing! God Bless! Happy Metal Detecting!!

[@sadhvacman7238]

This is my favorite kind of detecting to do. In the woods, trying to locate old homesites, after researching old topo maps.

[@chrismarshall8859]

Thhtun no 😏😏

[@Jeremy_Zack_Lucas]

Definetly! It'd be cool if we could get a group of us to get together to go out every weekend to go metal detecting for old relics! I'm in Richmond Virginia where there's lots of history!

[@StevenSchoolAlchemy]

Cool beans.

[@williamyorkolepossum]

Good work. Glad to see someone using 'SCIENTIFIC METHOD, HISTORY, AND COMMON SINCE in detecting. Those zinc Mason top go way back before the 50's LOL

[@makerofmanythings8447]

Who ever lived there didn't need money they just bartered..

[@lindawolffkashmir2768]

If you like mushrooms, you should do some research on the edible ones. That Chicken of the Woods, you could have eaten good on that.

[@codyblenden369]

I totally want to get out and detect rn, but it's 106F where is live😭

[@starocean6013]

you need better editing skills because one hour and twenty min. boring

[@faerieSAALE]

From my view - what I see - with the last place - is the house of a backwoods Witch. The other standing place with some of its remnant outbuildings with Mason jar lid finds, looks like a perfect place for moon-shining brew. That whole creek area looks like a Moonshiners Paradise from back in olden days.

[@johnramirez5032]

Jd thanks for the adventure! I wonder why were here and why were here. Others went to great lengths to find there own spot in this world. Life wants to live and it finds it way.

[@lynnschmidt8421]

Love your detecting in the woods. Thank you for sharing your video. Your so understanding about history and old things! I feel I'm in a history class, in a great way. Hands up for your video and 👍.

[@audreymuzingo933]

What a beautiful place, thank you so much for sharing, and THANK YOU FOR THE MAP-SHARING. It was me who requested that last time, so I'm loving it.

[@randyscj429]

Hello JD, Man-oh-man JD, that's what I'd feally call "Cabin Feaver"!!🧐🤔 Thanks for the effort of showing us this adventure🤗 That's some really remote areas to get into (huh🤯?), those kinds are called "REmote"!😖🤔😢 Hey JD, keep on pinging and digging, you'll find that haul🤗! BTW, JFYI: Remember to swing around those older fence posts (w/in 👀 of their house etc.), as that could be where they'd put their 💰 (in old Mason jars😯🙏🏻!!)!!! Have fun and BE SAFE! Take care, "God Bless", sincerely, Randy.👍👍🙏🏻😇👊

[@roybal1975]

why were you fondling that mushroom... lol

[@mykittenisagrandmaster4381]

Sup Mister JD and everyone

[@JDsVarietyChannel]

Sup! =D

[@Daiska_Plays]

This was so fun to watch! Living history. It really made me wish I didn't live 1000 miles away from where I grew up. We lived in the woods in Washington state with lots of old buildings that 40 years ago, were close to 100 years old, and old abandoned logging settlements. Across the road was an old dump in the woods we'd get old colored glass bottles from, and glass insulators. buried under years of pine needles. Today everything there would be well over 100 years old. A little farther into the woods, a lost town called Lad or Ladd was erased from a flood, no sign of it, it.. I can't find anything about it now. I'd love to go swinging in that entire area.

[@miccole5362]

So glad you are going to go back, I think it would be amazing to dig a few pits up there at the second house to see what interesting things you could find.

[@audreymuzingo933]

Wait does mold smell BAD to most people? I know there are many species and I would say the kind of mold that grows on bread smells nasty, but that's probably half yeast. Moldy wood though? --Kinda good if you ask me.

[@JDsVarietyChannel]

I find that it doesn't bother most people until they get sick. But I'm extremely sensitive to mold. Being interested in real estate and viewing hundreds of houses, my throat starts to close up when I enter a lot of basements. I can usually tell if there's significant mold growth behind walls with just the feedback from my nose and throat.

[@audreymuzingo933]

@@JDsVarietyChannel That totally makes sense. I haven't had any skirmishes with microorganisms despite getting into them all the time since I was a kid (probably why they don't affect me). But whiskey--that's about the vilest smell I can think of, like I guess my nose remembers the time I got a shot or two shy of lethal overdose. All alcohol reeks to me, but whiskey is what the actual devil would smell like if I ever met him, lol!

[@JDsVarietyChannel]

I don't like alcohol, but the smell doesn't bother me.

[@jeffdudley12]

What a nice Hen of the woods worth about 15 bucks a pound

[@Gracie_02]

All I can say is....Wowweeeee! I love that place. Good luck on the next one and happy hunting🙋🏻‍♀️

[@stevecorbett5209]

Pretty sure they were all moonshiners during the prohibition

[@montydewitt547]

Nice woods there

[@CajunRed]

Hi JD, Where in Tenn? I'm considering moving either to Tenn or Ky, somewhere stradling the state line perhaps? Thinking 400 acres, for farming livestock ranching! Know of any large areas, not currently under plow, for sale?

[@christineingram55]

This was an awesome trip and the scenery was just beautiful.I was amazed how well those ole places had survived all these years,I bet they could tell so many stories ..A testimony of your ancestors building..Thank you for all the information too 😀

[@mawi1172]

10:35:. Looks like bigfoot markings.

[@Ohpnuts]

Love going on the adventure with you and loved the marble , I’m glad to see you smiling and happy again thank you patricia

[@richardbreisch8049]

Congrats on the 220! I enjoyed the video but I must tell you I felt a little sea sick afterwords!

[@carolallenwelzel2219]

JD tell about any encounters with snakes. Thanks for what you do, be careful.

[@stevehar883]

Saw the JD graffiti in the cabin. How fitting. Lol

[@stevecorbett5209]

Hence the Mason jar lids and all the garbage and the one small hut the didn't look like an outhouse where they kept preserves probably can go both way either booze or food

[@johnfoster4414]

that fungus at 58 is called "Hen if the woods" it is an eatable mushroom.

[@wilson42cc]

That there’s really in-bread country there boy ,,I was awaiting Jed to come outa that house lol,,

[@blackbirdmetaldetecting6893]

Great video JD , thanks brother

[@kirbyroad5743]

That first find looks like an old survey pin. Other than being kind of short that's how some old timers put their own boundary markers in place.

[@mikenichols9384]

I typically don’t comment but I have to say I felt like I was on that adventure with you. Very cerebral approach to everything you do!

[@garyg.8739]

Enjoyed the video. I'm a fairly new sub and was wondering what state you are in? That area you found to explore is really neat. I will be checking you out more after watching this video. Good job!

[@JDsVarietyChannel]

Thanks. I live in Tennessee. But I also explore the surrounding states as I live by the VA and NC border. :)

[@richardstump4582]

No!! Amazing tho , Great Find!!

[@michaelbadejo3063]

Excellent opening sequence! Keep up the awesome vids! Thank you for sharing and putting the time into this.

[@michelledenieff7275]

Good to see even old stuff. Ty. Is this the trail to the waterfall u took with ur mom?? Hope all is well with u n ur family. Stay safe

[@lisawilliams5490]

Thanks for the video you need to were hiking boots.

[@JDsVarietyChannel]

Too hot this time of year. But come winter. Yes.

[@lisawilliams5490]

@@JDsVarietyChannel please be careful out there in the woods alone you need to take someone with you

[@michaelbeall2540]

Great Video

[@patrashdigger]

Nice video!

[@adammccall1033]

Moonshiners

[@cutestkittensanimalrescuep8531]

Some people would even put their treasures up a chimney in the summertime. you're not doing yourself Justice when you walk so far but you don't check out the buildings thoroughly with the metal detector.

[@johndodson4527]

U got lots of friends jd.thank u!

[@pedrovision6987]

OK...00:42 seconds in...I have to stop...to say...wow, just wow...what a great video so far...superior production skills...I'm impressed, and in awe... OK...glad I took time to say that...now...BACK TO THE VID!!! ROLL 'EM!!!

[@cutestkittensanimalrescuep8531]

love minnows we're college girls and we'd like to go out to this waterfall what's the GPS what state and city is it in thanks so much for sharing this video with us.

[@suettheartistickamillion9996]

great video JD. love to you and mom. Stay safe.

[@randyscj429]

Hello J.D., Instead of buying bottled water, you need to get a Big Berkey! I watched a scientist who tested all bottled water when they first came on mass! Most stated "reverse osmosis" which took out too much, as he labled them basically "dead water", as we need those microscopic minerals! Berkey I'd trust over any other system, as I've used a "Sport Berkey" since '10 which is a "SUCK ONLY BOTTLE" w/a replaceable filter that's good for 100's of refills!!! The others are a gravity drip, w/replaceable filters good for 100's of gallons!!! Check 'em out at Berkey.com, you'll be better off. Have fun and be safe, take care, "God Bless", sincerely, Randy. 👍👍🙏🏻😇👊

[@joegilly1523]

Not a good place to get lost in the woods ,out in the middle of nowhere .

[@JDsVarietyChannel]

Agreed. That's why in unfamiliar areas I stay close to specific landmarks like water sources and trails. :)

[@TheFullStar]

Enjoyed coming along with you. Thank you for the adventure.

[@darrellbroomhall7020]

Just to think those people lived a life in those cabins.

[@eachandeverything4022]

I know and I don't think that life would have been too comfortable either!

[@indiedevine2703]

Or was it? We have become slaves to jobs, reliant on internet, and our hobby is watching TV?

[@warwagontppowercarrestorat1456]

THAT CABIN IS VERY OLD THE DOVE TAILING SHOW S THAT

[@Ben-rj7xs]

You are definitely in a good spot you just need to keep hunting, and I guarantee you will find some good stuff.. People back then would bury there valuables.. Keep in mind when they buried it more than likely it's in a location that the person can see from there window.. And it won't be very deep.. I think you are going to have a lot of fun at this location.. Don't give up it's there.. Hope you find a lot of good stuff.. Happy Hunting..

[@buddycarroll9641]

Click bait. Title says "SPEECHLESS" What the hell is so speechless about it? Thought this was a metal detecting video. Didn't see ANY metal detecting at any time...... Click bait.

[@lindamarsh6711]

Google maps is rarely updated. Did our old farm and the barn was still there. The firemen came and did a controlled burn as the the barn was a hazard ready to collapse. I bet it’s been gone 15 years and yet they still are showing it’s there. Google listens in on conversations and anything else it can get. I hate it. I use Duck Duck Goose. You can burn your history or save it and fireproof it and it’s not shown to anyone else but you.

[@Tumbleweedin]

The video movement in this one makes me nauseous. Too much up and down and roundy-round. Go-Pro has it's place, but hiking ain't it. Can't watch.

[@gerdman8354]

just getting into metal detecting and enjoy your videos.. btw the buttered noodle mushroom is a cauliflower mushroom which is a tasty edible

[@chuckracine8418]

Jay do you need to change the trim that scruff off your chin man it don’t look at it makes you look like a goober Smoochers trim that thing off you can’t tell me you were gonna girlfriend likes that the way it shaped like a damn Billygoat least you could do is trim it up a little bit different I don’t think you’re quite old enough yet for a full beard but by the way that things shape you need to shape a little bit different you probably look pretty good cleaned up

[@rshutterbug47]

The First Was Probably A Root Cellar/ Food Storage & The Second A Tool Shead Shop & I Wander What They Did To Make A Living Up There

[@joejohnston3045]

The way you swing the camera around is enough to leave us dizzy and disoriented. Those zinc jar lids sure sound off though, don't they? The trash dump is a good place to dig for relics, and look for a cloths line to detect under for dropped coins as well as the path to the outhouse. Interesting use of the map showing you researched the area. Not much detecting in this one though.

[@dorineweston621]

I know that you won't get this being an older vedio but I think this is one of your best. It could be because i am a country girl and love the outdoors along with i live in an old gold mining town. Sonora California out west from you. Thank you for your time and energy. Doe

[@boomerdc]

second solid house looked abandoned for 50 years but there was spray foam in the roof area.. someone was living there in the past 20 odd years, so not that long abandoned for looking so dilapidated

[@jxavier3876]

What a great area! You are living the dream out there man.

[@possum104]

You got a little intimate with that fungus LOL!! If it's on an Oak tree it's probably "Hen of the woods", good eating.

[@TheShagdog1313]

I got a 2 part question for you, What kind of metal detector do you use,,,,???? And how much did it cost???

[@emaildoctorj]

You made my weekend with this video. Thanks!