The Legendary Meteorite Crater (Santa Claus, Indiana)

[@colelovelace1]

Thanks Rodger. I moved to Indiana ten years ago. I'm an outdoors guy but don't know the area. I have a son now and we use your videos to check out the state like my father and I did in the past in Texas. Again, these video are more than what you believe.

[@fatcatlost]

Roger is full of information and indiana has so much to explore.

[@TheSwissChalet]

Southern Indiana is beautiful, lots of hiking

[@AdventureswithRoger]

@swisschalet1658 100%. I love being able to get lost in nature, any day of the week.

[@agenda2175]

@@AdventureswithRogergot any videos on Columbus Indiana?

[@AaronAlso]

@agenda2175 Columbus is a sesspool of corruption and tyranny. It is a neat place to visit, lots of cool art and architecture, but you really, REALLY, don't want to live there. That county has the highest property taxes in the entire State.

[@jonesin202]

Good one! I love Holiday World! It's so clean and the rides are so fun! Plus it's so nice of them to give the complimentary soft drinks and sunscreen!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

It really is a great park. And, they’re adding another roller coaster this year!

[@Woody_Florida]

I really enjoy Rogers content. I would probably never learn most of the great storys he covers otherwise. Southern Indiana is such an interesting and beautiful region.

[@JohnHaroldjr]

Another great video Roger! Turned on my laptop and your post caught my attention as always. This was a new one on me and I've lived in Mt. Vernon, Evansville, and Boonville most all my 63 years. Don't you ever sleep? You must be a night owl like me. My best hours of the day are from 9pm until about 3 - 4am. Once again, thanks for your enjoyable films. Yes, well made films as far as I'm concerned.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you, John! Sleep is over-rated! 😃

[@sheilap7204]

I was born in Evansville and have been living in Chandler, IN for the last 30 years. This is such a beautiful state. Thanks for your hard work Roger

[@tonyrainbolt9388]

Another big winner, Roger! I love the background stories. And you tell them so well. Engaging, yet relaxing.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you, Tony! I’d only learned of this one a short time ago.

[@nancyM1313-Boo]

Thanks Roger💎 I had forgotten about meteorite. I did remember King Tuts Dagger. Tfsharing~♡ Hope you have a nice Sunday.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

You as well!

[@whitneykovener]

Thanks Roger, that was interesting. You teach me something new about our area all the time. Keep up the good work!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you, Whitney!

[@MichaelBramlett-x5z]

Seen this is morning and had to go see it. We really enjoy all your videos. We live in Tell City and ride a motorcycle. So I watch your videos to make our day motorcycle trips. I absolutely love the places you show on here.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I have several more videos filmed, covering unusual roadside attractions. Just have to get them edited! I absolutely love finding and sharing them. 🙂

[@jameswarren5895]

I have a house 8 miles south of Santa Claus. I never knew about the crater. Great video.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Allegedly, a meteor crashed somewhere in Bartholomew county, a few decades ago. That one was supposed to be made of diamonds! To this day, no one knows where it hit. Can you imagine hiking in the woods, finding a crater with small, rough diamonds all over it? 😟

[@jameswarren5895]

@AdventureswithRoger Sounds like "The Giant Spider Invasion", 1975. Geodes falling from space containing diamonds and spiders. Mystery Science Theatre 3000 version is pretty good.

[@justinangel4977]

Good morning Roger! Well this is a new one to me ,thanks again for another great video

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure! This was a new one to me, they just recently installed the sign.

[@railroadcei]

Another great video Roger, as many times as I've been to Santa Claus land I never knew about the meteorite crater......Thanks again!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure! I love finding these unusual stories. 🙂

[@billwilson-es5yn]

What remains of a really big ancient meteor crater can be seen in NW Indiana. It's called the Kentland Crater in Newton County. There are write ups about it online since geologists didn't figure out it was a crater until 1971. You'll see a rock quarry where the different types of rock and coal seams are vertical with some folding. That strata once was thousands of feet below the surface until big meteor impact pushed down the ground where that strata rebounded straight up to create a rebound cone that around 4 miles in diameter. Erosion and glaciers have erased the crater and bulldozed an estimated 1000 feet off the top of the rebound cone.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Seems like I heard about that one.

[@lindabradford9591]

@@billwilson-es5yn what the heck, I never knew about this and lived in N.W. Indiana for 69 years. We went to the network site in Arizona and have one practically in our backyard. Thanks for the info.

[@garyradtke3252]

As I spent most of my younger years working and very little discretionary money, I didn't do much exploring except my local area of Indiana. I left there 12 years ago but your videos have almost convinced me to return and if we ever get global warming I might just do that. 😁Keep the interesting and educational videos coming. They should be distributed to all Indiana schools.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I love most everything about Indiana but the cold winters! But, the winters along the Ohio River seem much milder than when I lived in Central Indiana. In fact, I’ve been able to film every month of the year, with only a few really cold days. But, glad for spring to come my way!

[@lindafaulkner7982]

Another fun road trip. Thanks so much. 😊

[@gregmccutchan.]

Another great video. Thank you, Roger!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure, Greg!

[@lostbear53]

Elementary School class trip, 1962... Spring Mill park was next. Thx Roger for reminding me!!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Did one about Spring Mill, last year. They’ve changed a lot of things, including a new ramp to Donaldson Cave. My favorite State Park, by far.

[@shaneburst5661]

Thanks for making this Sunday a little better, I love all of your videos!!! Outstanding work as usual 👏

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank -you, Shane! I have some big projects in the works, but love to share the things I find, along the way. Wishing you a great week ahead! 🙂

[@alicewilson2504]

Having grown up 4 hours from here I found this all very interesting. I am 70, went to Santa Claus Land when I was a little girl.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I went to Santa Claus Land when they had the baby deer petting zoo. As a kid, I thought that was the most amazing thing I’d ever done!

[@leospring6264]

Roger, you have the best videos on youtube.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My humble thank-you, Leo!

[@marysparks6592]

Thank you Roger interesting as always 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@RetiredLovingIt]

Interesting legend. We had never heard it before 👍

[@AdventureswithRoger]

It was a new one to me. They only recently installed the historical marker.

[@Deezcutz2024]

Love this channel . Have so.much go explore thanksss

[@GreenTea3699]

Great story! Thank you. Great job

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you!

[@forgottenindiana.5991]

I just found your channel. Love your vids . I live in southern indiana and have an urbex channel. You have showed me alot of new things in my state.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

@@forgottenindiana.5991 Surprisingly, a huge amount to see an experience! I started the KZbin channel, with the intention of being done in about 3 months. Still going, 7 years later! 🙂

[@forgottenindiana.5991]

@@AdventureswithRoger ive been doing mine 3 years

[@edwardh1591]

Another great video.

[@dhelix85]

I've never heard this story, will be worth and going to see.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Lots of cool things in southern Indiana. One of my favorites is the Wesley Chapel Gulf in Orange County. Basically, the Lost River disappears underground for over 20 miles, and re-appears again at a place where a cave roof has collapsed. I caught it once when it was flooding badly, and I have to admit it was downright scary. The Southern cave was making a sucking noise, and I realized, “You accidentally slip into the water, no one will ever know what happened to you.” The Mysterious Wesley Chapel Gulf and Orangeville Rise (Orangeville, Indiana) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bV7VpnuVdqh0qMk

[@bobkirk942]

I love holiday foods !! IGA SAUSAGE!! I been there 6 times to Santa clause !!! Santa lodge has 2 lakes with massive bass and catfish

[@Baul_Punyan]

You know... I hate being THAT guy, but they're called shooting stars. Also known as an Alex Baldwin.

[@garyradtke3252]

Weather you really hate to be that guy or not, you are and that was funny! I will put that in my book of Dad jokes. If I ever write it.

[@RobertCook-np9qk]

These videos are fascinating. Reminds me of watching some if the old PBS shows. I moved to southern Indiana from northeast Arkansas almost 10 years ago. This is exactly what Ive been looking for to get to know more of the history and culture. I had heard small parts of the stories on some of these places through some of my family passing down tales from relatives that lived here over a hundred years ago but for the most part noone remembers much of any of it.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I grew up just south of Indianapolis, watching a PBS program called, “Across Indiana”. I absolutely loved it, and it gave me a ton of great adventures. When I moved to southern Indiana, I couldn’t pull that station, so ended-up making my own KZbin Indiana travel show! 🙂 I was talking with a fellow historian the other day. Schools don’t teach these rich stories, which are usually oral traditions, and not written down. I’m always delighted when I find them!

[@RobertCook-np9qk]

@@AdventureswithRoger I was on vacation at an RV park right by holiday world. Even though I had taken time to talk with some of the camp guides, never once did they mention any of the stuff you brought up like how Santa Clause got its name or the meteorite crater.

[@geraldmeehan8942]

TY for video, Roger

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure, Gerald!

[@lucasjackson2638]

Nice, been there a few times but never knew the history

[@vickilindberg6336]

There are craters all over but many of them are covered in dirt, vegetation, & development. We have a large one here in the Mols/StPaul area thatwas recently diecovered. It's covered in development.

[@davidkimmel4216]

Thanks sooo much

[@bardmadsen6956]

Well done video and lots of Indiana sites. I'm here for the Space Fall, oh well, learned something different. I really like the divine provenience part, I researched the world's mythology for chicken little stuff and I've found that everyone seems to have an aversion to things falling from the sky and will glaze over at talk of such things, including Anthropologist and Astrophysicists! For example, the iconic bull symbol to them is about virility and will not even venture that it is about the Constellation of Taurus.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

There was a great deal of bull worship in ancient times, but they also knew the constellations better than most people today. There were no city lights, industrial air pollution or electronic devices to fill the time. They had beautiful, clear skies and time to make note of what they saw. Curiously, many different ancient cultures, considered the constellations the same animals.

[@christadawnwheeler2696]

In 2011, we had a meteor crash behind our house in a field in Jackson County. It left about a two ft shallow crater and was shattered into hundreds of small pieces. We saw and heard it. I have peices of it. The interesting part is it's not the first, or last, meteor to crash in our area.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

One night when I was a kid, a meteorite missed the family car by about 20 feet. We never thought to go back and see if it did any damage.

[@christadawnwheeler2696]

@@AdventureswithRoger I bet that was both scary and awesome! I wonder if it's still there?

[@AdventureswithRoger]

@@christadawnwheeler2696 As an adult, I’ve driven passed the place, but it seems like any other yard in town. Either it wasn’t much, or they fixed that “hole on the lawn”. 🙂

[@christadawnwheeler2696]

@AdventureswithRoger most likely. The crater in our field looked like a firepit with burned rocks. Had we not actually seen it hit, we wouldn't have known any better.

[@tootsiequilt]

It was nighttime and I was going to Richmond and something streaked over the hood of my car, narrowly missing it. The next day the state paved the highway, and the turning lane to Wallace Rd. That's where I think it landed. It's by Northeastern High School in Wayne Co outside of Fountain City. I'm not sure what it was, but it was very small, and moving pretty fast, and was glowing red with a small trail behind it.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Something similar happened when I was a kid. Whatever it was, only missed the family car by 20 feet or so.

[@richardbritton5280]

Ty Roger 🏆 🏆👍👴🙏🙏😎

[@KentuckyGirl]

How do you find out all this neat stuff? You are a good detective. 🕵️‍♂️

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Sometimes it’s just accidental, happy discoveries! But I do a lot of deep research for some of these. The internet has helped me, immensely, but so has talking to people in small towns. On many occasions, the history is written nowhere, and only resides in people’s memories. I’ve felt honored to capture some of those type stories, and preserve them.

[@bobbiejothomas681]

OMG! I don't think I could live in or even near an town entirely revolving around Christmas and Santa. I was born on Christmas eve, and on my moms birthday, it was really good when I was a little girl, but after she passed when I was just 13 well you can see why it went south for me. Anyway I am curious about the black eagle on the abandoned building that shows right after the workshop, what is the significance of that eagle? I ask because it was over the back door of the house i grew up in, in Cincinnati and also on my dads garage door. I have always wondered why they were there and what they meant. Sorry if this is hard to read its really early for me when I just got to bed at like 330 am. All the neighborhood dogs barked, whined, howled and anything else you can imagine all frickin night long! Lol. Think there is a bear roaming around. Or something......😂 Take care Roger and thanks for everything 🙏🙏🙏

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Eagle ornamentation was very popular Americana, dating back to the Eagle being chosen as our national symbol. It’s kinda like the large federal stars you see, on many old buildings in Indiana.

[@bobbiejothomas681]

@@AdventureswithRoger oh ok that's simple lol. Down here they hang up big star quilts I can't remember what they're called and they are all different shapes, sizes , colors ect. Mostly you see them on barns but I have seen them on the side of homes as well. Thanks. I'm fixing to watch the most haunted video of yours 😉. Ttyl 👍

[@fatsdulange]

Someone oughta go down in the 'crater' with a geiger counter. 😎👽

[@bobkirk942]

Holiday world is awesome too

[@standingbear998]

this is like North Pole Alaska, a Christmas town year round

[@brandonjackson1434]

Scary to think this part of the world got pummeled ages ago,could it ever happen again

[@lettybastien4624]

Word on the street is giant craters are ‘fountains of the deep’. All were opened for the Flood.

[@chrisblack8390]

Thank you Roger . Wonder if my meteor has a diamond. Didn't know about that. Wonder how you find them. Its maybe 500 lb

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Most of them are either all iron or encrusted with fine diamond material. There’s probably a way to figure it out without tearing into it.

[@chrisblack8390]

@@AdventureswithRoger mine is iron an nickel i think. Some how i forgot what the other part is with the iron but I have a sample of it an a burn charcoal piece that broke off when I pulled it out of the truck. It said to use a diamond saw to get a iron sample. We're going to take the samples to a museum in Chicago. To be verified. An they keep the samples it said. Might be worth 120,000. It's my brothers and he died an now i have cancer like he did a year ago an died. I'm wondering if I'm gonna die on the same day as him. So my sister gets the money now. Hope she doesn't die too. I have to go live with her soon. Kills me to leave my house. I been giving stuff away from me an my brothers house. Got 2 people that want my living room wall. Haha. I salvaged it from my parents house. An thought how am i gonna get rid of a wall! Knotty pine with a 6' by 6' book shelf on it. An my grandmas stained glass front door. Hope i get rid of all this stuff before I die. An my grandmas barn doors an our staircases. What a mess!

[@coffeeseven]

My dad was from Chrisney. He called it Santy Claus. 60 years in Northern Illinois and he still talked like a hillbilly. 😂

[@brandonjackson1434]

The original meaning of St Nick got me thinking,funny the statue is a giant

[@nancysmith2389]

Why does that Santa Claus look like Robert DeNiro? Lol

[@AdventureswithRoger]

VOICE OVER I SHOULD’VE USED: “You talkin’ to me?” 🙂

[@Mike_Greentea]

👍👍👍👍

[@Renee-kk1hf]

😊

[@jerrydeem8845]

Sup, Roger?

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Sup, Jerry!

[@rickengen5249]

I been there

[@drofmudd]

Santa Claus AZ highway 93 west of Kingman

[@nancyvolker3342]

you should move there

[@h.bsfaithfulservant4136]

👍😁👌

[@smokeyhigh3126]

People will soon realize what we were taught was all lies! just saying, Buckle up! the end wont be for everyone! Love your videos, but things aren't as they seem! I will keep watching 😁👍