The Mystery of the Mima Mounds

For generations scientists and explorers have come up with competeing theories as to why these uniform mounds stretch across the glacial plains outside of Olympia. This state park has helds its secrets closely for years but we are diving and and looking at the top theories together. Join us for yet another exciting, FREE, virtual tour with Pretty Gritty Tours as we attempt to excavate the truth of the Mima Mounds.

[@lewisgordon1490]

A news report from San Diego said it was from gophers when the dirt is wet they carry it uphill. A scientist had tested it w/ colored dirt, then multiply that by hundreds of years of gophers and you get a large series of mounds. Sort of makes sense, if the area gets really damp or even slightly flooded, the gopher can still dig out a dry little home up in the mound.

[@budgreen7764]

When the ice cap receded , the out-flow might have caused these bumps (mounds)

[@riccooper5689]

I’m in Tacoma. My best childhood friend’s parents owned a large ranch in the middle of the mounds. We rode horses all over them.

[@cannpdx781]

Hi Pretty Gritty Tours I discovered your channel yesterday, started out watching the Washington ghost town tour. Wow, now bingeing your other videos. Great work! Sharing as more people who appreciate this type of channel need to see your content. Great Narrative and so Informative. Thanks for a very interesting and entertaining channel😸

[@PrettyGrittyTours]

Thank you! Appreciate the support.

[@michaellause3437]

They look like garden mounds. Like garden beds with out borders.

[@aliceleder172]

I am a Washintonian and have some suggestion if welcome there is a flaming guiser I think I spelled that right somewhere in Washington not quite sure where but you do well enough with your research I'm sure you could figure it out ... also my hometown Centralia is very rich in Washington history it would be great to see it mensioned

[@PrettyGrittyTours]

I would be happy to do those

[@aunum]

love your cat

[@Quentin217]

There are numerous Mima mounds wherever the land is unplowed near Medical Lake in Spokane County. In June,, one can commonly find a species of wild orange poppies growing out of the tops of the mounds. The soil of the mounds is fine and soft whilst the mounds are bordered along the bottoms by basaltic rock.

[@evilladollyz7602]

Just found your channel and I love it. Thank you for all this history!

[@PrettyGrittyTours]

Thanks for the support!

[@kyebean]

Gophers.. wtf. Why then are they virtually ALL the same size and spacing and in very specific geological areas?

[@raynameadows2152]

Aw great to see u again you are a character, enjoying the info my friend.

[@raynameadows2152]

Tulalip, Wa here.!

[@auspiciouscloud8786]

We should start a petition to bring back the pocket gopher to the mima mounds. Anyone with me?

[@911elijah]

Have you looked into the handprints at Goose Lake Wa?

[@faaqcee7896]

Watch a video about cymatics and the effects of frequency on sand. Various frequencies produce distinctable patterns. One of the frequency's patterns looks most similar to that of Mima Mounds from the above view you have provided. Thanks for the video!

[@davydiver]

Native Habitat/Foraging and Hunting enhancements...

[@alanschwamberger7398]

Very interesting information about the state of Washington. I moved here about 2 years ago, from Ohio, and because I like to travel, especially around my new state, I find all the videos on youtube quite informative and hoping that after this virus stuff gets better under control that I can take some trips to see my new state. I am in a good location, the Moses Lake area, very central... but I have noted you have talked about your live feeds, I would really like to know how to join the live feeds. Thank you very much for the education about various sites in the state of Washington. Also as a side note I am 54 and retired, so many of your shows do give me things to see in this state.

[@PrettyGrittyTours]

Thanks for tuning in. We schedule our live shows usually for Thursdays or Fridays at 8pm. We keep a calendar of them up on our KZbin. All you have to do to join us is open the KZbin channel then at watch live.

[@joshbaker4448]

It’s most likely from the world ending tsunami that Graham Hancock speaks about. Like the wavy landscape in eastern wa

[@kyebean]

Why NO gopher tunnels and NO unfinished gopher mounds????

[@brandyjean7015]

Checked Amazon & eBay, but didn't find a Chehalis Legends. I did find a: Honne, the Spirit of the Chehalis: the Indian interpretation of the Origin of the People & Animals. Narrated by George Sanders. Could that be it?

[@PrettyGrittyTours]

It might be. They might have pulled the original from publication too. Last time I saw it was early 2020

[@2007cgarza]

The charts at 29:00 were very good visuals! Waiting for someone to "discover" you and get you on TV somewhere!

[@PrettyGrittyTours]

Me too!

[@nataliej82]

You should meet up with John Larson, the curator of the Polson Museum in Hoquiam, WA. Grays Harbor has a storied past and was once on the "no go" list for our navy because of the dangers. The history of John Tornow or Old Camp Grisdale, or the Dead Forest are all interesting topics and places to explore.

[@PrettyGrittyTours]

Those all would be great

[@2007cgarza]

Side note...Northern State Hospital in Sedro Woolley, abandoned buildings with so much history and the cemetary with numbered gravestones, many of which have been farmed by locals for their own needs...Also Roslyn off I-90 (Northern Exposure fame) which has a cemetery that is divided by lodge membership and ethnicity...

[@bitofbrownshuga3061]

I drive by these mounds with cattle grazing on top almost daily. Wondering what could be under the mounds? I remember hearing something about them growing up in Alaska and now I live near them in Washington State. Lol! Thank you for sharing.

[@robertsnyder5149]

Brady, Wash. here

[@nicholasfrair1772]

anyone else forced to watch this by school

[@martihetrick609]

Quilcene wa

[@angelmage99]

I work with the East Benton County Historical Society, currently on "mysteries" of the region project for not this coming, but next Halloween. If you want to discuss or get ideas about it please feel free to to message me.

[@PrettyGrittyTours]

That would be awesome!

[@patriciamattocks7641]

Walla Walla Area

[@dbcooper206]

Always thought it was pronounced “mee-ma” mounds…learn something new everyday!

[@markrufener4172]

I grew up in Olympia, spent a couple of years in Yakima, and have been in the Greater Seattle area since 1983. One serious curiosity of mine is a place called Fort Borst Park in Fords Prairie next to I-5 in Centralia. What do you know about this place I passed by hundreds of times going to visit my cousin in Chehalis only a half hour south of Olympia? Thanks

[@PrettyGrittyTours]

The Borst Blockhouse was built in the 1850’s as a guarded supply station during the Washington Indian wars and was meant to provide defense forces the Chehalis River. The structure was purchased from the US government and turned into a private granary in the 1920s if I’m not mistaken and then moved to its current location which became the area for the park. Since that time the area surrounding the “fort” has become a recreation spot and the most significant park in the area.

[@yayhew10086]

I think that ancient people found a flood plain, raked up the gravel and built a bon fire on top. When the fire cooled they collected the melted metals.

[@midnightcaller200]

There is a legend on the Malty Cemetary (SP) 1 tomb has 13 steps that you go down and it is is a gate way to the underworld

[@PrettyGrittyTours]

I had heard of that but I haven’t had the opportunity to go out and try it myself yet

[@Katey2012able]

Where are these North American pocket gophers now?

[@PrettyGrittyTours]

Still in the area. Several mounds still have burrows.

[@quietstormshawn2858]

Its just some bs satire to hide indigenous people accomplishments. Its always aliens when it comes to what my people have done.

[@quietstormshawn2858]

Just like the Mississippi Nile delta. All pyramids older than africa’s and all the indigenous Americans inventions. So called african america is the Indian and always was. 💯

[@daveeaton6723]

left over from prehistoric moles and gophers??😁

[@hawaiiguykailua6928]

It's electrical, happened in the last realm wide reset, so last 500yrs it appears?? But who knows what's real in this AI realm eh? 😏🤔

[@auspiciouscloud8786]

Maybe pocket gophers like to eat camis?

[@seansimons7043]

Haha! Dad jokes! Lol

[@shawnkiesel5349]

It's most likely burial mounds but the state won't allow anybody to excavate...

[@doggonervn211]

I was told Prehistoric Gophers made them! LOL!

[@JennHawk]

It had to be the aliens!😄

[@PrettyGrittyTours]

10000 year old senior prank

[@joshbaker4448]

But Sasquatch 😂😂😂

[@danyellerobinson5940]

One would think there were drier places for Gophers to build. Also, there should be some evidence of gopher colonies. The theory simply shows that pocket gophers could synthesize this phenomena over several generations. (Are there pocket gophers around the world in association with these mounds or just in North America? If this theory were valid then the mounds should still have gophers and should still be growing.)