Skyscraper Sized Hole Hidden Inside Tennessee Forest. MASSIVE Cave System

This EPIC sinkhole drops about 200 feet into the earth. But that's not all, we explore a maze of tunnels that were opened up when the ground finally gave way. This Skyscraper sized hole is what's left as the ancient limestone dome flew too close to the sun.

[@theninjaminx9704]

Another amazing adventure! You guys look like you have so much fun! Thank you for taking us with you.

[@Mineral_dude]

Of course! Thanks for watching :)

[@saffycatamos]

Thanks for another great adventure ! What a beautiful place. Hope no one has ever accidently fallen into any of those "holes" because they're just "out there" !

[@BoomStuff556]

Alot to look at down there, really cool! 😮 Thanks for sharing another awesome adventure.😎👍

[@Mineral_dude]

Yeah I’ll have to make a short or something of the other pit we didn’t go down

[@caldwellbrett6]

Matt Carriker wishes he had that cave system on his ranch.

[@kyleboyd6026]

I appreciate the mention for the shoes. I know they were slippery AF 🤣

[@Mineral_dude]

I appreciate the shoes!! Haha way better than crocs would have been

[@Objectivityiskey]

Still some of the best content on the web, and just getting better! Have you considered bringing a sine wave generator down into the caves and finding the resonant frequency of different chambers just as the ancients did in the Chauvet cave of France?

[@Mineral_dude]

I have not…. But now I am!! 😂

[@ashleybones3556]

Beautiful pit

[@kevinkc3onohelijeepworld953]

Need to start carrying decadent packs with you to preserve the paper logs and a waterproof pencil 😊

[@Mineral_dude]

No kidding!! Got any recommendations I opened my personal battery fry box the other day and it was half full of water 😬 so I’m definitely in the market for a better dry box haha

[@kevinkc3onohelijeepworld953]

@@Mineral_dude I ll post back tomorrow. I get hundreds a month with the chips & parts I get to build our controller boards. I ll throw you sum names. Rei has the waterproof pencils. Harbor freight has a few waterproof boxes with pressure valves that work well, I ve used them at water parks with great success, i line the box with a micro fiber cloth then put my phone n wallet keys, take them on the water park rides never leaked enough to wet my smokes when I use to smoke.

[@marilyn5208]

That is dessicant. Not decadent.

[@kevinkc3onohelijeepworld953]

@@marilyn5208 yes that’s correct dam spell correct ☺️Desiccare is one company. Another plus is they can be baked 245 for 12hrs and reused 😉

[@kevinkc3onohelijeepworld953]

@@Mineral_dude sorb clay Amelco Desiccant inc Desiccare inc also has them

[@BooTheBeagle]

Amazing. So amazing. Love seeing the world through your lens

[@Mineral_dude]

Glad I could help out with some brain/eye candy :)

[@trav_adventures]

Wes Supermaning that pit Auzzie style was cool

[@Mineral_dude]

he's such a wildcard man!!! Wes is the mf'n man!!

[@funfinding4two955]

Heck yeah, get sum. Good video!

[@Mineral_dude]

I gotta take you here man!

[@funfinding4two955]

@@Mineral_dude taken I will expect

[@danielalejandromartinez2923]

Guys why you don't try to go to Ecuador all together and fallow Food steps or one of the astronautas.. niel Armstrong tayos cave ... have good vacation and good videos ... and lot of battery 🔋 and food... hey I know all money all you guys get sponsors.. and all the support helping you guys... Not lot videos on details of the caves like you du... one on time life , . Is just and ideas 💡 🤔 I enjoy all your videos. ...

[@Mineral_dude]

Thanks for the support! Overseas caving is in my 5 year plan, I run a buisness outside of this so I’m a busy dude most of the time, I really wanna go to salvania or Thailand first honestly

[@Belt-ib5xn]

Really enjoying your videos thank you for your content

[@Mineral_dude]

Thanks so much! Many more to come, I’ve actually got some of the best footage I’ve ever shot on the back burner… waiting till caving is treading again my numbers have been crappy

[@commonsense-og1gz]

legend says there is a bottomless, and demonic cave under houska castle in the chech republic. with how this entrance looks, i could believe it.

[@Mineral_dude]

I couldn’t imagine being a cave man or something and walking up onto something like this, you’d think it’s bottomless!! It’s not like you could stand right up next to it cause of the pitch so you’d just think it went to the center of the earth, I bet they worshipped shit like this back in the day

[@commonsense-og1gz]

@@Mineral_dude i watched matt carrikers recent video on the cave he is digging out. at the end of the video, he uses a drone to do a top-down view of the cave, and the hole entrance was pure black.

[@tag_caver]

My backyard!! I live just above there.

[@THATcaveGUY]

Hey awesome video dude. Next time I'm inviting myself to come with.

[@Mineral_dude]

New channel??? youre always invited haha

[@jarmyvicious]

Salutations Mineral Dude, Simply put.... an Incredible documentary, what an amazing film in such a beautiful place! I do have a question and I hope it doesn't put you off like it might some others; is there any chance that this pit might be an ancient tree hollow, driving down into the taproot, the passage walls water worn wood that has petrified after a certain amount of desiccation, which extend out from the main pit, the array of tunnels places where roots once were. It really could explain a lot, formations made by water erosion versus only growing centimeters in eons....but, I am asking your opinion, especially in this circumstance....8 feel we take too much reliance on science by the book, written by folks that suppose much, perhaps more than the layman. Great explore, and the climbs looked like quite the workout! Thank You for sharing such an exceptional location! Sending Cheers and Blessings to You and All Yours! CIAO!

[@Mineral_dude]

Thank you!! I’m not against that theory although I don’t think I agree with it completely, unless the roots of ancient trees did something different than they do today I don’t think this particular one is a tree (side passages are half way up the pit… I guess you could argue that they are the limbs) however in California a lot of the caves out there are made from lava burning up ancient trees and leaving a hollow spade where they once where

[@jarmyvicious]

@@Mineral_dude Saludos and Thank You for the reply! Shared your video! I agree with your surmisations! Consider that those roots served multiple purposes, besides providing anchorages and leverages to balance the tremendous weight above, the most important purpose was probably conveying water to the massive bulk of the trunk, branches and foilage above ground! I think it is those burned roots, the oils and moisture inherent causing a slow burn, the eventual cooled reduction of said fluids and rendered root pulp resulting in volcanic magma and lava, but in a purer ashless burn; volcanic glass or obsidian. Great Channel! Cheers!

[@jarmyvicious]

@@Mineral_dude those side passages, could branch off from the main taproot which drives yet deeper down!

[@MegaPredator20]

Off rooo oooo ooa ooooaaoaaape!!!!!

[@Mineral_dude]

😂😂

[@Cedricknowledge]

Anyone hear the sound? It’s deep!

[@Equinox601]

I love your videos man. I reckon they would be even better if you try to stick to one rule for the time being: When you're narrating/commentating, try to move your head slooowly.

[@trav_adventures]

Looks like Glory and Jeep side I think 🤔

[@Mineral_dude]

Jeep Side is correct! I'm not sure what the other one to the left of it is called so it very well could be glory

[@mudzou812]

Hey nowww ya'll. ! Into the vooooid😅

[@Mineral_dude]

Hell yeah!

[@lostknowledge1709]

🌊🏰 The Great Flood 🌊🏰

[@zzzzzzzzzzaper]

Lol brother, caving and shorts don't mix well hahahaha. Laser pointer+ small packable disco ball and string,,,,,,,lol hahahahaha It would probably be pretty awesome looking,, laser that strobes. cool pits. Thanks for sharing.

[@Mineral_dude]

It’s funny you say that cause I actually have a video I still need to edit where we have a cave rave, lights and all at the bottom of a pit 😂

[@zzzzzzzzzzaper]

@@Mineral_dude It would be pretty cool good video material Too bad you all don't live closer to here I know of and been in hundreds of caves here In Missouri. I have been giving you all shout outs on my channel Underground adventures is subbed to me cool fellow. We tubers stick together.

[@mattbarry5938]

Sick video, cagle?

[@colonistsfirst204]

I HECATE PRIVATE HECATE MYSELF HOBBS GARAGE HAD DEMENTIONS OF MION VEHICLE

[@johnofthewoods3902]

What's the name of the pit?

[@zzzzzzzzzzaper]

Oh and I was hoping that you would not tie off to that tree next to the pit thanks for having sense enough not to do that Trees next to pit are not secure...... I know that and don't even repell hahahha.

[@jilbertb]

...but, you didn't bring the WIFE?!?! 👎

[@Mineral_dude]

We work very different schedules so it’s hard to sync up sometimes, trust me she’s got a bunch of videos on the back burner ready to edit so you’ll be seeing more of her

[@mk83_Daniel_Williams]