Discovering Remnants of the Past

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[@carlavision6143]

Cliff, really enjoyed your video! Thank you for taking me along with you on your little adventures! What beautiful scenery. Bring JP back with you. I really enjoy seeing y'all together.

[@karendworschack756]

Thanks Cliff! Nice video! And yes, you are soothing to listen to! I like your videos! 👍

[@jenniferbutcher8393]

I've never heard anyone more excited to find a hole to crawl into! 😁❤

[@vikkinicholson2300]

return to the womb perhaps

[@garnetbarton3313]

I agree! I don't think he feels that way about heights though. lol

[@jonathanbaker4936]

I am going with Silos, either for farms or loading grain onto trains, for those round features.

[@travelingman484]

Thanks for the trip brother

[@wanderingcrowe]

Your videos are not only educational but relaxing. I love exploring a part of the country that I've never been to and with a host who respects and loves nature. Thank you for posting such great videos.

[@doloresvargas6450]

To walk through these leaves is feeling your way with sub-standard weather,which is really nice.Tony has spoken.

[@donnaklingbeil4468]

Thanks for sharing the exploration! I love it when you find a "hole". You try to talk yourself out of entering, and within seconds you "cave" in! Yes, pun intended. LOL. The mother in me is reminding you of safety first! Another great video. Keep 'em coming!!!

[@neitajames6029]

2020.🙏. The year that changed many of our lives. Thankfully I can watch this on April 7th 2023, and be Thankful that through God Grace, I made it. I lost family members, friends. But somehow I made it through the drama, the fear others tried to.inflict on me. Today I can rewatch this video and apperciate and enjoy what I'm seeing. Glad if you are rewatching or watching it for the first time.Again Gratitude again Cliff. Peace,love and Blessings to you. Love respect and positivity always. Neita ✌🖖🕯💕🙏🦋🌠🌻🙂👋👣🙌. .

[@edithdavis2848]

If there is a hole you will find it. So glad to know if we are watching this it means your back and safe. Round Silos were made out of cinder blocks. Aunts family farm had 5 of them.

[@jenniferbutcher8393]

Edith Davis , I was thinking silos as well lol! The one out by our barn was poured cement, but I would guess whatever you have on hand will work. They were about the right size. I'm wondering if there are any corn (ex-corn?) fields close by that they would have hauled the green chopped corn from...

[@edithdavis2848]

@@jenniferbutcher8393 We will never know, for sure.

[@sharondelaney5346]

Pretty scenery..lovely colours..great finds Cliff.. thanks for the explore..Enjoyed it!!😊👍

[@jamielieberg7053]

they look to me that the remains of grain silos. Water tanks would have posts and the tank would be high off the ground that would let the water in them be able to run by gravity. also that foundation you found in 6.21 that looks like a spring house

[@jackielammather7087]

Great video Cliff....looking forward to see what is in them holes !!! 😊

[@davemi3213]

I'm a railroader and I think water tanks is a real good guess it wouldn't surprise me if you found old footers at the rail trail for a water tower

[@leonaheraty3760]

Yes, you're right, Cliff, always bring a friend with you if you go into a hole, tunnel, etc. Safety first. 👍

[@terry6665]

Don't Cliff. Go in by yourself.

[@davidlalone2286]

Yes... I agree... Your programs are calming and relaxing... You have a calm soothing voice and I am not saying this to make ya feel weird... It is a good thing I think. Oftentimes I play your programs all night long on my while I sleep, etc. For I do suffer from insomnia and sleep doesn't come easy for me. This is the concept I mean by your voice is calming and soothing. Not loud or abrupt. Which I appreciate. Dave on the Oregon

[@davidlalone2286]

...play your programs on my K~TV...

[@georgannawyatt31]

I agree with Ms Davis, the round foundations may be silos. They are the right diameter. Grew up in old farm community in Ohio, 1898 farm, 2 old silos, an old barn, milk house 2 graineries. Love the explorations you go on! Good info, love the history.

[@turtletruck1664]

thank you for the wonderful walk in the woods I always fee like i'm right there with you thank you for great video!

[@wilfredomendez3450]

Agreed, start doing that too, watch your videos to relax. Thanks for sharing.

[@georgannawyatt31]

There was an old home, had a legend with it. Now only a foundation, an old story of an old woman who lived alone there and met some tragedy. Some friends of my grandparents took us on a walk back to that area. At that time, I was a youngster in the 60s and only have a limited memory, collection of snapshots in my mind of the little excursion. I did find it online at one time a few years back. It was in the area of Cable Line Road near John Thomas Road in Northern Ohio southeast of Ravenna Ohio. Would love to see someone investigate that and bring some light to the story and the site.

[@leonaheraty3760]

Happy New Year, Cliff, and everyone! Thanks for sharing with us, Cliff, very interesting. 😎

[@karenpacker8862]

Always enjoy seeing the old remnants that you find. Glad you didnt go down the holes without someone with you!!!!

[@christinet.4159]

You're so lucky to get cards. I haven't gotten one in years. Thanks for sharing

[@daveyjoweaver5183]

Very nice video WW! When you came upon the round foundations and had seen the fences, I thought they might be silos. The early silos were often much shorter than modern day. But with the RR tracks below it makes sense they were water towers. A fun video and with those holes you discovered, I could see you were choppin at the bite to crawl in there. Something to look forward to and I'll bet you can't wait. I was also thinking about the people who lived there. Being forced away from there homes and then nothing ca,e of it after all that. Of course a park is nice and it did preserve the land, which may have turned into something far less appealing. I wonder why they all relocated and how they felt. I've known people who lost their homesteads to dams and right of way. My Aunt, now 101, live on a farm with a mill and the old pictures showed how beautiful an area it was. The mill was post and beam and wooden siding, four stories and in good shape. The house was beautiful as well. All under water now. It was sad for the family when all was lost and they didn't receive the true value of their land, adding to the heart break. Is that progress? Was it so people could wash their cars and water their lawns? I realize the population has increased but the use of farm lands doesn't hold much consideration when it comes to development and shopping centers and now big box stores. Perhaps one day we shall be tearing up many places trying to reform the land again,,,,,after all the top soil was sold off. We shall see. And now there are many abandon shopping malls. May be they can use them as reservoirs and attach a car wash to the side. Hopefully, the free energy non polluting cars will be in use then. Thank You Kindly and many more exciting trails and holes and caves and dumps,,,,,,with no weird clowns! DaveyJO

[@chelseydeetta2847]

You are extreamly interesting you come to a woods and find so many treasures its just amazing.

[@crystalfabulous]

Thanks for sharing. Nice video

[@lindamccaughey8800]

Others are so right your videos are so relaxing. With all bushfires raging around me your videos are just so welcome. The area is just beautiful. Thank you so much for taking me along

[@saigenrose1032]

Great find Cliff, that will be awesome if you get to come back there. Wonderful explore thank you. 🙂👍

[@rj78productions88]

Some sweet finds.

[@randallschutt5033]

Finding all that fence and the round foundations from maybe silos might be a farm!

[@robertbiesecker9613]

Up on the hill, just outside of Swatara State Park, there are two old wooden train passenger cars just sitting on rails out in the middle of nowhere.

[@CentralPaRailfan]

Do you have the coordinates for where they are?

[@samanthab1923]

Robert Biesecker What RR company are they?

[@robertbiesecker9613]

I don't know. I remember it was really neat finding those railroad cars in the middle of nowhere, in the woods, like that. I remember the church that I was with at the time rented a cabin, house, right next to, Swatara State Park, right beside I81 too, it was there that we went into the woods from, and found the train cars, they were wooden train cars, very old train cars too. We were wondering if they were left there by a coal mining company a long long time ago. CAMP BARIKELL, was the name of the camp that was rented, and went up into the woods from, the camp was destroyed by fire a couple of years later, it was arson too, the camp has been rebuilt since then I had heard. It was around 2010 when we found the train cars up on the mountain in the woods, they seemed so out of place. I imagined that 100 plus years ago, those woods looked very different, probably had a lot of coal mining going on, on that mountain. Found some old railroad beds up on that mountain too. I'll bet a lot of coal mining on that mountain 100 years ago, don't know though. Take care now. I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS THOUGH!!!

[@samanthab1923]

Robert Biesecker Thanks for that. Looked up some, might be an old Reading line. But the wooden cars not sure about.

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

I have made a video of them already

[@benbox7329]

As far as the Hunter. Yes it was deer season. Muzzle loader and archery come back in the day after Christmas. Just so you know. Be careful nice of you to share the cards

[@RusticVentures]

Very cool finds!

[@lynnlopez3274]

My 77th birthday on 12/26!

[@christinet.4159]

Happy belated birthday.

[@karendworschack756]

Happy Belated Birthday! 🎂🎈

[@lynnlopez3274]

Thank you!

[@chrisgray8774]

If I still lived in Pennsylvania, I'd be down that hole on Saturday. Your videos make me think.

[@hogkillerjp]

great hike and finds

[@elainecooksey5338]

Enjoyed the video cliff, looking forward to the next one.

[@martyjones9374]

Love to see you so excited with so many ways to go & explore. Especially when you find a hole to crawl in. Glad you are waiting for John or someone to come along. Look forward to seeing that. Chinese chestnuts very interesting. Your videos always relaxing & enjoyable. Great cards! Thanks Cliff. :)

[@andrewbarlow8937]

Resembles a root cellar

[@nevillemoore.7581]

Thanks for your videos,I suffer from anxiety and find them very calming. I love nature and find the information very helpful.

[@pamelabowcock5305]

I just came across your channel and I love it, I love the history behind the stories, it's so exciting to find the history behind the old stories, and discovering remnants of the past

[@alexandria8255]

The round ones coulds have been from old silos or round cribs for corn or grain . I grew up on a dairy farm.. :) this is really nice!

[@thebarefootcountrychick5536]

Great find!! Wonder what it looked like when the houses were still standing.

[@kateclark7250]

Thank you for the explore. But this is a sad place. All those people who lost their homes...

[@OlWolf1011]

The house foundation you found... musta been nice to sit on the porch and watch the cattle graze.

[@onceANexile]

Hes a personal type of fellow,....👍

[@Redgonetogray]

Nice video. We have a lot of old cool stuff in and around our woods too. This inspires me to get out and video some of it.

[@R.C.1161]

Its small game, and Flintlock for deer until Jan 20, some places the 25th.

[@HD-J.R.]

Those could be remnants of water tanks, but most railroad water tanks I've seen are significantly elevated. Along the Northern Central in York Co. there was an oil depot that was serviced by the RR. It was for home heating oil and there were 3 tanks. Not used since the 1970's and were removed about 15 years ago. They were ground level. Similar in size.

[@gregkellow4723]

I'm going to agree with some of the others that those look like silo bases, likely the corrugated metal type. Makes sense with the fencing around. Probably a dairy farm. Bet you'd find the barn in that thick stuff! Great video. Alot to see there for sure.

[@brantmorrison3704]

The land slightly west of me doesn't usually have many trees, but often on empty land when you see standing trees they indicate where a farm or ranch once stood. In the winter when the weeds aren't too tall you'll sometimes find wooden wagon wheels or just their parts, the remnants of old farm implements or wind mill towers that used to lift water above ground for livestock. Trails or paths that once led to the farms or ranches aren't too obvious. Sometimes the shoulders of the paved roads that led past the places show where the paths were once located. Sometimes it is hard to imagine that so many more people once lived in these remote and rural areas.

[@nickmad887]

Thanks

[@bernardduffy6199]

Wondering if you've ever found any bottles?? When I go exploring I find alot of them. I've found them as old as 1860's up to the 1970's. I also explore n old steel mill. Joliet Steel works. It's along the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Tons of history. Thanks. I like when I see others doing the same things I do. Keep trekking.

[@johnmurray4918]

Circles seem like water tanks, but may be to far away from the railroad, unless possibly all those roads were some kind of rail beds. An old Hagstrom road map may show what was there originally. The first hole with rails may have been a train service pit. Hard to tell.

[@rickashay6023]

Your camera does a really job almost seems like I'm there .

[@lorrainejinks8639]

I sure like exploring with you.

[@sherrilee230]

And not all who are lost wander.

[@cynthiasanfilippo5537]

Looks so peaceful there! Pennsylvania a beautiful state! Do you travel the U.S. check out Flagler county and St.Augustine! A lot of history here!

[@christinamoore6361]

They look like garden areas. Such as planting flowers around trees

[@paul2960]

By the way... These videos are great.

[@MitchelLainyUs]

The three round foundations may be for Amish missile silos. Lol :)

[@dbeard451]

Be careful bro..my Uncle Pooty went down a big hole and a mutant gopher chased him back up!!!

[@garnetbarton3313]

Shame on you Cliff. lol Forgetting your flashlight again. You need to just keep one in your backpack all the time. I'm glad you didn't go into the unknown hole you found. I love your back in the day videos.

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

It happens...

[@garnetbarton3313]

@@thewanderingwoodsman7227 Yes it does. I enjoy your videos with or without the flashlight. lol

[@porkturtle8321]

@@garnetbarton3313 Me too. Cliff is lucky he doesn't have the Sidestep Adventures crowd in the comments. The safety police AND equipment authority would be going absolutely nuts on him!

[@alansmith4734]

18:30 That refrigerator is a death trap. Kids died because they climbed inside and the door LATCHED shut. The only way to open them was from the outside. All NEW refrigerators have doors that are held closed by magnets, that can easily be pushed opened from the inside.

[@janecharlton6780]

Railway ties are called railway sleepers in the uk . Check out Tom Burleigh on KZbin, he does mudlarking videos .

[@Caddl123]

Hi Cliff and all others.. These deeper ol cellarhole..i think they are from the 1700-ties. I remember the old big church you were that was also buil in full sandstone from outsdie. I think that were cellars for all sort of things Here in southern germany we have buildings from the 15. to the 16.Century that look like that.. And oler celar here from earlie where wine and applecider was made then. Maybe a farmer from southern germany buil that.. But is there so much sandstone with that colour around?? In my eyes these cellers have seen the french -englihh war in the 18.century.. Was there a outpost or a bigger company warehoue..because the old ways around look like they are also over 200 year old.wie enough to drive a coach there an rie a 3 men wie formatn,what wa usua then in the days. Question over Questions..

[@christinet.4159]

Hi! Thank you for that information. I believe Pennsylvania has/had a lot of German population.

[@Caddl123]

@@christinet.4159 Hi yes...we have here in southern part of Germany something.. These are Cellar that are mostly former vie/ciercellars or "allltogethercellar" in the woods in narrow eep in the ground street.. Maybe the old people wantet something that they can "remember in old times from where hey come from ( I think many people ettle there down where the landscape reminds them on her ol homeare)" where they come from or the area was so ieal that it wa ok to do it so. Here is a example for these cellars.in Nothern Bavaria-"franconia switzerland". www.denkmalschutz.de/fileadmin/media/Bilder/Presse/Bayern/BY_Oberhaid_Felsenkeller.jpg another one from Rhine-Hessia www.regionalpark-rheinmain.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/felsenkeller-dauernheim-925x499.jpg

[@Caddl123]

And if i look at that narrow hole in the biggr structure ..with its sandtone around.. It reminds me on a combination of a deeper Cellar with a well..maybe a old fortification f the old settlers.. The old streeta around the area "speak that to me".. if you know what i mean.. A crossing of important ol overlandroute connctin twns and misions and fort.. We have in Germany france and Britain similar hitoric things. For Riders and mounted messenger riders..Also for coaches that were late and had no place to rest then..

[@JP2837]

Stepped on a chestnut with my barefeet when I was a kid. Worst pain ever.

[@paul2960]

How bad are the deer ticks out there? I live in Western PA and they are still in full force!

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

Haven't been having any issues with them.

[@paul2960]

@@thewanderingwoodsman7227 Apparently the possums eat them. We have quite a few coyotes in the woods around Pittsburgh that are damaging the possum population. At least that's what I've heard.

[@cynthiahamilton3232]

Round foundations corn cribs maybe?

[@JeffBishop_KB3QMT]

This video was posted a while ago, could those round foundations be the base of silos from a farm?

[@justincassidy4512]

Big ups woodsman, wonder if other teens watch also? I watch lots of gamer channels but I like out in the woods.

[@robbyproctor165]

Cant wait to see whats down in that hole. 🤔

[@kenbritton6782]

"Wish I would have brought my flashlight" ...AGAIN. My phone has a flashlight option. Regular flashlights are not burdensome to carry along. Sidestep Adventures seems to forget to bring a flashlight too occasionally.

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

It happens...

[@porkturtle8321]

...and the whining morons totally unleash on poor Robert in the comments. Relax!!!!! I agree with Cliff: It happens.

[@qeensadie2385]

awesome vido

[@radioactive.11]

Is there any cool places like what you explore around or a 2 hour radius of Pittsburgh, im so jealous that you and other have really cool places to in the middle of the state and towards the New York

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

Haven't explored the Pittsburgh area yet

[@keithmaxwell2169]

The holes are likely cellars or old spring House's

[@SueGirling68]

Hi, wow those 2 holes really look very inviting, I'm guessing the second one is just an old collapsed cellar but that first one does look very intriguing. I can't wait to see what they lead to, don't you have a torch app on your phone ???. Thanks for sharing. x

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

My phone is a cheapie, I don't believe I have a torch app on it...but maybe I do...I'm not the most technilogical person.

[@SueGirling68]

@@thewanderingwoodsman7227 Hi, a lot of smart phones have the app it's in the drop down menu at the top of the screen, just put your finger on the top part of the screen and pull your finger down twice. You should see it where it shows signal, battery power etc. x

[@robdwy1708]

Cool

[@johndengler4595]

Maybe the round circles were grain silos?

[@CentralPaRailfan]

East of the area you were at there's a structure right along 443 at 40.528809,-76.474650. Was there a coal mine or quarry in the area?

[@Roon3808]

Old maps don't indicate anything being there, but the building definitely looks like some kind of coal or grain loading structure.

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

There was coal mining in the area

[@chelseydeetta2847]

Yes bring a friend. Those holes scare me to death. You are a very smart gye to have another person around. Why did people move out and just left there house deteriate so badly. I bet they were old water tanks. man the history is incrediable in PA. Boy you travel like a bird, can't believe it, you must have very young legs.

[@barry3565]

Interesting historical hiking trail ! You eat chest nuts ? Delicious !

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

I think I tried one many years ago

[@alexandria8255]

Cliff...@ 18:15 pause it and look in the center in the distance looks like another foundation with some steps. Did you see that? Or is it my imagination?

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

could be something else out there, everytime I go out there I find something new.

[@alexandria8255]

@@thewanderingwoodsman7227 That's the fun of exploring and hiking :)

[@randomvintagefilm273]

Was this an old colonial era road?

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

Perhaps....I can't say for sure

[@darlenegood4101]

I guess water towers,

[@roseanewebster855]

Cuidado, fica explorando esses buracos , vai que fica agarrado, não consegue sair, é picado por uma jararaca, não sei se tem essa cobra aí, mas aqui tem. Vídeo muito bom, gostei mesmo não entendendo quase nada. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇧🇷

[@JamesRobertSmith]

Visit some places where you can't hear road traffic in the background!

[@porkturtle8321]

Relax.

[@Piecemaker1623]

What a shame to claim eminent domain and make people leave the homesteads and never do anything.

[@christinet.4159]

Please be careful on your explorations, who knows where holes that may not be very visible are. I'm sure I would have busted my butt by now. Seeing JP fall during his video last night was alarming.

[@anandrew6641]

4th