The SECRET Two Guns Ghost Town

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Two Guns is legendary for those who drive along Route 66 in Arizona. Join us as we explore this old ghost town and find out the story behind the Apache Death Cave. We post new content every Tuesday 7am PST and hope to see you on all our adventures. If you like what we do and would like to support these explores: ✅ Become a Patreon: www.patreon.com/pinintheatlas ✅ Help fuel Tonto: www.paypal.com/paypalme/pinintheatlas ✅ AMAZON WISH LIST: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3FJC5W7Z1C19A/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_1 For More reading and info, check out our blog posts BLOG POST: pinintheatlas.com/travel-blogs/the-curse-of-two-guns-arizona-route-66/ BLOG POST: pinintheatlas.com/travel-blogs/apache-death-cave-arizona/ Contact us: [e-mail] Website: pinintheatlas.com/

[@lesleyrobbins1137]

What an absolute work of rock. Imagine the time it took to put those buildings together. Love the new 'do, Steven!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Pretty impressive Lesley. Would love to have seen it back in the day minus the animals of course!

[@bdbeatle1]

Another great Pin In The Atlas production! I watch a lot of videos done in the southwest, especially Arizona and Route 66 and have seen many videos of the Two Guns area. Your video is by far the best and most detailed of any! Great job! Thanks!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thank you very much. We’re always attempting to improve, try new filming techniques and still have a lot to learn. Happy you are enjoying our content. See you next week

[@sleeplessaquarius]

🤠 I definitely agree 💯 . I've been here to this area, & when I got back home to Tennessee I did a lot of research about this place . This is the best video lve seen on it 😎

[@PinInTheAtlas]

@@sleeplessaquarius thank you very much. Happy you enjoyed it.

[@rhondaz356]

This was totally amazing. Fact or fiction, the stories are so interesting. That place must have been awesome in its heyday. Thanks so much for taking us on a tour of this former, roadside, tourist attraction, Andrea and Steven. 👏🏻👏🏻☀️💛

[@PinInTheAtlas]

It would have been something to have taken a tour with “2 guns” himself and hear how he told the story! Glad you enjoyed this explore Rhonda!

[@rhondaz356]

@@PinInTheAtlas AMEN 👏🏻👏🏻🏜

[@kerryjacobson5465]

I've seen other videos of Two Guns. That's a place everyone should visit, if they can! Thanks for bringing us along! Cool video!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thanks Kerry glad you joined us

[@richardbeee]

No ghosts, goblins or demons all is well. Totally different story than was shared with my wife and I when we looked into buying it back in '78. But who really knows what is truth anymore. Great job. Really liked the old pictures with the recent. Thanks for sharing. 😊

[@PinInTheAtlas]

You’re welcome Richard. The stories have been exaggerated throughout time. Keeps the legend of 2 guns alive!

[@dezertraider]

BLUE BLUE SKY-WOW.....YES ,NO SOOT ON THE ROCKS...STAY AWESOME...THANK YOU

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thanks Ralph

[@davidensign5172]

Hey y'all! We enjoyed your 2 Guns video even though Tuesday has become our fasting day (No Lunch & Video). Kinda' surprised you 2 didn't wear your helmets while in the cave. Perhaps Steven couldn't fit his with the new haircut. 😎 AND, Andrea, your head musta' shrunk when you lost all that height (3-foot! Amazing!) 😭😆😆 LOL! Y'all are so much fun! Quite interesting. Well, in 1962 (I was 10) my family traveled from Missouri to California on vacation along Route 66. Alas, we didn't stop at 2 Guns although my brothers and I begged and begged our parents to stop at ALL the tourist traps. True Story. Thus I never experienced the wonders of the Apache Death Caves until today (go figure). Thanks again for sharing your adventure. Bon Voyage!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Imagine the stories you would have if you would have stopped back then! The place looks so much different than the first time we drove by, can only imagine how different it must look to you now.

[@Jake-yx7ct]

Thanks folks for the great tour of an iconic spot on the Old Route 66. That cave was truly a test of how flat you could get your tummy..LOL. Be safe on the road to your next Pin in the Atlas.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Glad you joined us Jake and thanks for your support. See you on our next adventure

[@roseapple8786]

Yes, you all are very brave. Me, I couldn't do that because I am claustrophobic. I happy to see it through your eyes and camera. LOL. Thank you for sharing and God Bless you and your family. 🥰👍👍👍👍👍(🌹🐞🦂🌵)

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Glad you enjoyed this explore Rose, we wanted to try and go further than anybody else we’ve seen, yes we both felt claustrophobic as well!

[@adventourgirl1096]

Thanks for sharing! I plan to visit end of March. ❤

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Great place to explore. Enjoy your trip

[@OneStrangeJourney]

It's incredible to see how places like this are stitched into the fabric of Route 66's history. Great Vd! Thanks!!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

The mother road has had its share of characters through the years adding to its storied and romanticised legacy and we love that! Glad you enjoyed this little adventure!

[@candymcclure2476]

Caves give me the heebee-geebees, especially this one. My family drove the route 66 in the early 50's. Who knows, we may have stopped for gas at 2 guns.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

We would have loved to have driven it back in the 50s. That would have been fun.

[@sleeplessaquarius]

​@@PinInTheAtlasNo doubt 😮 . Could you imagine the photography back then 🤠

[@charleyfolkes]

This is the best video tying together all the history and stories on this subject.Thank you! Andrea > ‘I’m only 3 foot .. ‘ Steven > ‘what you talkin’ bout, Willis?’ 🤣😂

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thank you Charley! We do always try to put in our videos what nobody else does and show a place the way we like to see it! Yes that one took me by surprise I was like wait this whole time you’ve been telling everyone 5’ 3 and a half my world is collapsing…

[@pixelpeter3883]

Some hot tea and a Pin-In-The-Atlas touristtrap video! Yay! :-)

[@PinInTheAtlas]

With a cool story behind it 🤣

[@tinadelwiche416]

I love the timbering and stone structure they provide 😊. That’s just what it is and Indian fairytale . That story about the 42 Indians and horse. Look at the space and size it just doesn’t ADD UP ,, if u know what I mean😊 that could have been a cricket Yeah ,, getting claustrophobic for me from even here when u there at the end.. well done 😊

[@PinInTheAtlas]

No it doesn’t add up but great story though!

[@tinadelwiche416]

@@PinInTheAtlas sure absolutely 👍

[@michaeljimenez1203]

You can't have a good Tourist Trap, without a Good Story. I'll have to ask my Mom if we ever stopped there when I was a kid. The Cave looked Safe enough in the Daytime, not alone. But spend a night in there, no thanks. Thank You, for your take on the Apache Caves.

[@jerroldmcley4347]

Very cool 😎🆒 explore thanks for taking us with you

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thanks for coming along Jerrold.

[@RaymondCoggins-xd2re]

Another awesome adventure with my pin and coffee ☕ awesome place I've heard different things about it also

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Lots of stories about 2guns. What’s true and what isn’t? Who really knows but the legend lives on!

[@noahcount7132]

Two guns is an interesting ruin, and the big surprise for me is that Andrea didn't spot a two-holer (loo) to be videoed during your explorations above and below ground. 👍

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Yep. No trip would be complete Noah 🤣

[@glenacebrown9995]

Great video, as usual.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thank you Glenace.

[@brianshersby8979]

Hi Steve and Andrea, what a fascinating place! There is quite a lot online about Two Guns and the Apache Death Caves, but the photos are not as good as your video. Would certainly not want to get stuck in that narrow cave!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Thank you so much, we always try to give a different perspective and document it how we would like to see it, when ever possible when we can find the proper photos and story of course. Yes that cave gets real cramped really quick!

[@kenp9469]

I was at the cave, maybe 30 years ago. I have no idea, if the stories are true. But I do know, that cave made me feel a little spooked.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Yes the cave does have a spooky vibe, you can feel the vibrations and low tones of the traffic through the walls which can make you feel a touch uneasy too!

[@chrisblack8390]

Love that place! You know me an rocks. Excellent video!@@@ thank you. Did get alittle mad when i saw graffiti on the one building. Have a wonderful day .. i did.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Glad you enjoyed it Chris. Thought you’d have fun. 🤩

[@desertcricket113]

Did you check out the observatory near Meteor Crater Rd.? I had to wiggle under the barbed wire fence to get to it a many years ago. I hope the tower still stands as it was cracked and looking like it was ready to collapse.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

We have been there before and it was still standing as we passed it by this last time. It is sad that a lot of structures are quickly disappearing along this route though. We have documented this section since 2015 and the changes are drastic since then!

[@gaylewilliamson9183]

Andrea , your Honey looks so handsome with the hair cut and younger as well.🤗Would that cave be something like some tribes ,when you got to be very old he would go off by himelf to a cave and die?Later someone would come and get the body for burial..I love these places ,you are the best,thank you.❤️❤️

[@PinInTheAtlas]

He’s like Benjamin Button! It’s sickening 🤣 We’re not sure about the real story behind the cave just what’s been said throughout the last 100 years since it was Route 66

[@brianmarywapshott2593]

Well what an interesting place, from a Zoo to an Apache massacre ?????, can't really see enough horse blood to put out a fire ay !!!!, well done again blokes and keep it up Cheers

[@PinInTheAtlas]

You’re welcome. Just another story from old Route 66.

[@normstephens8354]

Interesting explore! It seems like there should be some more information on the cave. Maybe ... before the internet?🙂I think there was a plan for opening a dance hall in the cave in the early 1920s. Most cave formation takes place as the result of water moving through the carbonate rocks and that seems a bit questionable in places there, but maybe the clues are there with a closer look? I spent some time with a Navajo many years ago and they were not at all interested in visiting the old places and the spirits living there. The bigger mystery is the location of Steve and Andrea today? 🙂Looks like they were visiting the death cave last June?

[@PinInTheAtlas]

🤣 not much info about the cave Norm. More in the way of legends. Some say Harry was a hermit and lived in the cave before he built the town. Who really knows for sure. We filmed this in October. Only our patrons know where we are!

[@normstephens8354]

@@PinInTheAtlas I was guessing June from your blog. It's unusual for a cave of any type not to appear in some geologic, or archeology paper at some point. There is a real Apache death cave in the Superstitions. The bones there were recovered by the tribe and buried elsewhere. They were a bit more remote than Two Guns though and most of the activity at Two Guns took place before the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Still ... you'd expect to see some bone fragments still remaining there.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

@@normstephens8354 we wrote the blog several years ago. We did a lot of route 66 in CA AZ NM and TX Sounds interesting about the real Apache death cave.

[@lornahardin4563]

Holy cats, that cave was something, but no way 42 men and horses went into that cave. And I agree Andrea, I don't like zoos either. Great video tho.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Yep far too small but great story though.

[@bobfincher1767]

I want to spend the night in the cave

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Well I guess you could! See if you can hear any chanting of the Apaches? It’s rumoured to be haunted!

[@DecayWithUs]

Not sure if I could even fit through the entrance of that cave... I'm wayyy too "buff" these days 😂

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Show us your muscles Tim 💪

[@DecayWithUs]

I have one HUGE muscle near my midsection.... above the waist 😆

[@Britcarjunkie]

Never knew there was a connection between William S. Hart and Two Guns! (I've been on a tour of Hart's home, when I was a kid!) Been by there a thousand times, and I did stop and look around there some 20 years ago, but never knew the history of the place. I do have a funny story about stopping at the neighboring town of Twin Arrows, back in the early '90's...🤣 Edit: I wonder if the Harry L. Miller of Utah (businessman, rancher, etc.) Is related to this Harry Miller? For that matter, I wonder if that/those families are related to a Harry Miller that I knew in L.A. in the '70's & '80's, that was trying to start an aviation library?

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Who knows. Anything is possible. But the legend of this Harry Miller was that he was a hermit. Some say he lived in the caves before he got the land. He did just disappear one day! Or so they say!!!

[@tedebear108]

Good morning. It's Ted from Texas. This video just came up in my feed. Definitely cool to see I think other KZbinrs have been there as well. I thought I remember seeing that and someone else's video. But you did a good in-depth look and I appreciate and sharing. Stay safe guys

[@PinInTheAtlas]

@@tedebear108 thanks Ted. Glad you enjoyed it. We still post new content every Tuesday. Hope you join us for more exploring

[@MrGigi-dz9cv]

Even, If there were artifacte, they are for long time gone.

[@bobfincher1767]

Navajo people goes in the cave

[@jerroldmcley4347]

I will call you crazy 🤣

[@PinInTheAtlas]

🤣

[@waynebender8835]

The Navajo say they did it to the Apache . There wasn't any love lost between the tribes. It wasn't the fire that killed them it was the smoke. So are you going to travel route 666? Well the state change the number. Because of all the paranormal activity and refuse to travel it.The changing the number has quiet down the activity. They say.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

We’ve talked about doing it Wayne. Maybe!

[@waynebender8835]

@@PinInTheAtlas Just be safe and protected.

[@PinInTheAtlas]

@@waynebender8835 always

[@craigbrowning9448]

No Trip to the Loo in the Two Guns Zoo!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Not this time Craig.

[@zalix512]

Has the cave been professionally excavated?

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Didn’t find any information saying it had. Just the R66 and 2 Guns legends

[@rjbarber2522]

So has anybody been through the way everybody stops it are there any other cave down there that we can see?

[@PinInTheAtlas]

@@rjbarber2522 not that we know of. It starts to get so narrow. It could open up. There may even be other entrances but we were unable to find any references to that.

[@acroduster]

Omfg! As an actual local watching you two walk around with the stories and some facts trying to act as though you are accurate historians on the site has me laughing and rolling! This is a very poor unresearched and very fast produced (I'm guessing your site production was only a few hours😞 certainly not more than a day. To think people could be diss serviced enough to see this video as their first introduction to this historic site makes me weep for the future!

[@PinInTheAtlas]

@@acroduster thank you for watching

[@DeborahFlorian-gy6lw]

As is true with many of your other subscribers, i look at alot of videos of the Southwest. Your productions are so informative and interesting, i so look forward to every new one. Don't know how you guys tolerated those tight spots in the cave, my claustrophobia would have sent me running towards daylight! ✨🏜️💫

[@PinInTheAtlas]

Glad you like them Deborah and thank you for the compliment. We still have lots to learn and improve on.