Groundhog unearths Louisville's centuries-old trash leading to treasure
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- In the Germantown neighborhood, a local businessman turns Louisville's centuries-old trash into the only museum of its kind.
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What a great story. RIP Phyllis.
Agreed.
The photojournalist on the groundhog/digging project is named Burrow? Perfect!
I can dig it!
Some of those old embossed bottles can be very valuable if they're in good shape.
Something most people don't know? People didn't always have to buy stamps to mail letters and packages. They could put the letter in the mailbox with enough change to cover the postage, and the carrier would take the money and the letter, putting a stamp on it when he got back to the office.
Many times the money would fall on the ground, and especially in the winter, rather than digging through the snow, he would simply leave it and put the stamp on it when he got back to the office
I used to take my metal detector on rural dirt roads and find many old coins along the edges where the mailboxes used to be.
Lots of old quarters and dimes.
My grandmother kept a gallon milk jug cap in the mailbox for just that purpose. She rarely bought stamps.
You can still leave change for letter postage. Source: Me, a rural carrier.
@@ThatBrubakerFellowI know. I live on a farm in the sticks. My postman is awesome.
@@ThatBrubakerFellow Among other stories of the Depression era, my much-beloved grandmother told me rural people would leave eggs, jars of homemade preserves, pickles, and such things as payment for postage.
I have this!!! But its moles. My home was built as a small farmstead in 1918. The moles bring up all matter of things from the 20’s-70’s
Cool! Thank you for sharing.
I understand this man. Lol. I love finding history.
I took out the history this morning.
Lol
Good one
Terrific story! Thanks, Phyllis, for helping the humans find some history.❤
This is the content I'm looking for. 😊
Great job Phyllis! And great job to this guy for keeping the history alive. There are TONS of YT channels that spend hours and days and weeks digging up this kind of history around the country.
Very neat, great story!
And I'm sorry to hear Phyllis has passed on ❤
Thank You WHAS for doing this story it made my day watching
That's so cool! It's very nice to see some happy news for a change!
What an interesting story and what great finds!
Ha Ha, wonderful to see this is being rediscovered and shared. Charles
Gotta love groundhog archeology
I spent many years digging for bottles in old dumps but how lucky can someone be to find one underneath their own home!
Wow,that’s really cool ,it’s a labor of love for him ,fascinating.
Absolutely love this! Incredible what Patrick has accomplished with this project. Can't wait to visit.
I love every facet of this report and his museum project🫂❣️❣️❣️❣️
I'm a Californian and I love all the states. ⭐ Imma come visit your channel a bit. Oh, and Happy Independence Day, dear compatriots. 🇺🇸
Please stay in comifornia .. we don’t need your ideas spreading like a disease
Groundhog helps prove old saying true. One man's trash, is another man's treasure. This is one of those it sounds fake, but it's actually true stories.
R.I.P. Phyllis
Bless little Phyllis. Rest in peace sweet furry digger.
Well, this guy has found himself one very tedious, interesting and rewarding hobby. I wonder if it all comes together in the museum he has in his mind’s eye?!?! Good luck with your projects!
Loved this! Hope his museum succeeds.
So interesting. Thank you for this story!!
This was so much fun!
Hidden treasure isn't always gold and silver! ❤❤❤
FANTASTIC! +++++
I love all kind’s of stuff like that it’s so interesting to think about who was using what and what their life was like in their time 👍🏻
Bottle dump behind my family home in CT. Love the treasure.
This guy seems really cool ...best of luck with everything !
Fabulous story.
That's so amazing! ❤❤❤❤
This is so cool! Love it!
Inspiring... I've found some of my best items at the local "transfer station"...
Super cool story ❤
Always find old dumps that way.... It's pretty normal. 👍😎
Wow. I love this!
I can see local actor Steve Zahn going here. He loves this stuff. Get him to do a promo for the place.
That’s so cool 👍👍
This is fascinating!
Nice work.
Pretty cool!
So very cool!
I have been to trash dumps in the woods of the UP Michigan from the early logging era always interesting but medical risks always have to be considered when logging camps were shut down due to Cholera.
So cool.
(holds out a pocket watch) "It's worthless. Ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless..." Belloq, Raider of the Lost Ark...
At one time you could get holy water from the church to put into your font in your home. It didn't necessarily have to be a nun.
Still can! All Catholic churches have a large supply for folks. Ours is right by the front entrance to the church. Refill any time.
Incredible
Awesome.
I want some bottles!!!!!!!love
Wonderful. Idea
Awesome
Wow!
I love it
I wonder if all the plastic stuff we throw out today will still be around a hundred+ years from now.
Uh… I guess some people don’t know but that’s one of the main concerns with plastic, it falls apart, oxidation from air and especially sun will make it crumble in a few years in the sun, buried it will stay intact MUCH longer… but the problem is this crumbling plastic pieces, micro plastic is what we now call it now, is not “biodegraded” it’s simply broken into tiny pieces that we can’t see but we’ve made so much of it that all of us and our food is full of micro plastics.
@@swayback7375 -- We need to drastically reduce plastic use and go back to glass, ceramic, metal, and wood.
@@gregb6469I agree but I don’t think it will happen because plastic is in everything…flooring, plumbing, siding, shoes, clothing, diapers, food packaging, vehicles, furniture! You name it, it’s made of or coated in plastic in one form or another. 😵💫
The word is "midden", not "mitten".
Hey @barnabyaprobert5159 NO ONE says "Mitten", especially me, the guy who reported it and WAS there. But thanks for watching. Doug Proffitt WHAS TV 11
@@user-be3iy7ik7m Closed caption has it sometimes right and sometimes wrong on this video.
I bet this guy is an awesome puzzle doer!
So is there anything under the other houses next to his?
Wow, what a find!!
He should give the donation jug back to the church.
Isn't the building going to collapse after all that digging??
Give the collection bottle to the church
Agree
I hope he is collaborating with someone with earthwork/mining and foundation support experience. A building built on unstable midden, and he is excavating. A recipe for disaster.
1:20 2,000 tons of broken glass ? Is this guy running for President ?
Maybe 2,000 Lbs...
k K😊
Cool story! Makes me wonder what someone might think in 100-200 years if they excavate what is a dump in our time?
Who's the stud muffin Realtor they interviewed toward the end?? Oh wait .. that's me!!
😂
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your not wrong 😁
😂 hubba hubba
Good story. small correction. It's a midden not a mitten.
Hi @mariabettega3515 ... THANK YOU for watching our report! It is reported correctly as a MIDDEN . For some reason a few viewers are reporting that the closed caption is switching it to MITTEN 😂. BUT the script I provided is MIDDEN.
Far out!
I wonder what years trash went from porcelain, glass, wood and cloth, to plastic, styrofoam, vinyl and presswood.
THERE IS JUNK AND THEN THERE IS JUNK.THIS STUFF IS GOOD JUNK
That which survives...
What a colossal waste of time to put junk back together!
don"t dig too close to those column piers!
grave yards - treasures under them for sure
Amazing!
How much trash could a trash panda turn to treasure..........
HAIL Phyllis! 🇺🇸 she knew. _rip_ *Thanks Patrick Donnelly,* This was Great to see!
I have [T]rolls, Armadillos, or some other critters digging down, around and frustratingly, under house, only received a Marble so far. : } Tho, discovered past early 1900's residents buried their 'Trash' in yard. Always Probe before digging, use Fork, then shovel. Quite Fun, but i'm nowhere near organized as i see here, and sadly seem to Lack knowledge how.
Oh go no... The drawer of doll heads....
Hope he gets compensated for his time.
THIS GUY BETTER BE CAREFUL HE DOESN'T DIG TOO DEEP OR THE FRACKING IN THE AREA WILL CAUSE THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD TO COLAPSE!
Very cool!!
I'll give you 3.50 for the lot
Ahh teeth!
Awsome fine. R.I.P. Phyllis
Phil Burrow??? C'mon!
🌞SWEET🌻
after 100 years. someone will find the famous jar of "one guy one jar" video and will make a museum about that amazing achievement
Ricky's used shit!
RIP Phyllis.💐💐💐🌈
Very clever
Kentucky.....let's dig up trash to make money. 🤣🤦🏻♂️
That scraping sound... People need to ne more aware of misophonia.
I have it and it SUCKS!
It's a disorder where some sounds affect your brain. The best way I can explain it is you know how you feel when someone scrapes their nails on a chalkboard? Imagine that feeling times 100 trapped in your brain... Certain sounds make it feel like someone's running a cheese grater on my brain. And sometimes it's sounds that didn't bother me before. It even affects my job because I was a rideshare driver but people like to have windows open, even on the highway, and the sound of the wind coming through the windows completely disorients me. I'm just saying this because that clip started with such an atrocious sound that I literally doubled over in convulsion...
But the rest of this is freaking awesome!
An important piece of history more relevant than all the presidents put together, especially recently ! 🔵🇺🇲1775🇺🇲🔵 and continue the American experiment.
Stud muffin 😂😂😂
Rubbish!!
Was there a body to go with those teeth?
Someone needs to find him another Phyllis!