Hi Donnie, I too was a coal miner here in England from the late 60s to 1987. I have seen mysterious lights coming from some of our old workings. They were far off in the distance and looked like oil lamp light but they went out after a few seconds. Another strange occurence was when i worked on the coal face, 47 inches high so we worked on our knees following the coal cutting machine and pulling in hydraulic roof supports behind it. Sometime the rock strata failed above the coal seam and we would have to climb above the roof supports into the void to timber up. One day i was about to climb up into the void and someone tugged hard on my arm and said don`t go yet. I looked around thinking it was a workmate but they were 20 yards away from me. Nobody was there, and then an almighty crash and the rock strata failed big time as we all scurried away for safety. All true i can assure you.
Wow. That is an incredible story. I believe you. I once woke up early in an apartment I was staying in, in the north of England (I’m in the Scottish Borders) and I felt something was just ‘wrong’ ? So I raised my head to look around the room and there was an old lady sitting by the fireplace smiling, not at me, just smiling. She looked like a really kindly old lady. I knew she was a ghost of course- as I knew where everyone was in the building as I was the caretaker! And my room door was locked and only I occupied the room. Anyway I didn’t want her to suddenly look at me so I just put my head under the covers, and later she was gone. But, I later found out that the previous caretaker to me had stayed in that apartment- and he had actually moved out of it, stating that he kept ‘seeing the ghost of an old lady’. So the two of us saw the same ghost and we have never met. There are things that we just cannot explain my friend. That ghost who spoke to you saved your life. 👍
@@mynameisGail Yes i think so, i thanked the lord every day during those dangerous times for surviving and getting me back to my loved ones, some were not so lucky.
Growing up in the mountains of Eastern KY in the fifties, with a friend we decided to explore a long abandon coal mine. It was on a mountain with no one around and we thought it would be fun to go inside and check it out. We had to go a long distance to a store that had candles, so then we were excited to see what was inside. Going in a distance we came to an area where it branched out in several directions. We took one and came to the end of it and came back out to see where we entered to find out we had no idea which way we came in. We were then very scared and decided to blow out one of the candles because they were getting a lot shorter. Being around ten at the time and having no clue what we were getting ourselves into, we just wanted out. We didn't cry but didn't mean we didn't want too. Once we had found our way out, we were relieved and so grateful and knew we had almost made a fatal mistake. No one had a clue what we were doing or where we were. A roof caving in or just not finding our way out we would have been two missing kids that just disappeared. I was in my fifties before I finally told my mom what we did. She said, I'm glad I didn't know.
That wasn't very smart even less smart with candles in a non ventilated mine. You could have blown your arse to kingdom come. You wouldn't felt much pain though.
Awesome video sir. As a retired Law Enforcement Officer of 32 years, I have witnessed things I can't explain. Patrolling lonely County roads and highways late at night going in old a banded houses looking for trespassers. Witnessing lots of deaths and evil that some people do. You have an awesome voice. Clear and precise that you for sharing your experience of the unexplained.
I would love to just sit down and talk to you about your experiences. Isn't this video great? If we all got together and told our stories, there would be no doubt that there are things that we can't explain away.
Worked for 45 years underground. Never believed in hants or ghosts. That being said we cut into some old works on a Saturday that were mined in the 20s. This was early 1980, I came in on Sunday mourning to set some timbers and do a little rock dusting so we could get started running coal Monday. Got the dusting done and was setting the the timbers around the old works . I was sawing a timber when I felt like someone was behind me and then I herd the word damn. I was the only one at the mine that day. I turned around with the hair standing up on my neck to see who it was. No one was there but you could smell carbide in the air and see smooth bottom boot prints in the fresh rock dust headed down into the old works. I changed my mind that day! I had another encounter in 2001 at another mine.
I believe you Donnie. I worked in a firehouse that was well over 100 yrs old. Being the driver of the rig, I had to be extra sharp at night, knowing what route to take to the fire. On more than one occasion, I had somebody come into my bed room and wake me. It was like I was instantly fully awake, then the alarm would come in. Its the old guys looking out for the young ones. Maybe in our turn, we will be on the other side looking out for our younger brothers.
Naw, Im retired from the FD and these new kids are on their own. Im not coming back to help any of em. Tell em to google how to be a real Firefighter if they need something.
@@chilltime4878 I was talking to an active member of a neighboring department. He had a new guy driving to a working kitchen fire. Looked over and my man was zoned out and drove right past the street. When they got back to the station, another new guy riding the jump seat, stepped out of the cab and said "Motherfucker! If you would keep your nose outta the phone and on to the maps, maybe you would know where youre going!" Well played newbe!
@@Wa3ypx The job isn’t the same anymore and the firemen aren’t the same anymore. Now they hire women because they have to and the whole place is fucked!!
@@chilltime4878 I was hired with 18 recruits in 1981. They hired the first female. After about 5-6 years she tested for the inspection bureau, a 9-5 office job, non suppression, and pretty much stayed there until she got her minimum retired service which is 25 years half pay. She left the job then died. Other women hired after her gravitated towards that same position. Some left inspection and tested out for the trucks again. We had one that left the trucks to go to inspection, tested for the trucks, got out, then went back to inspection. At one time the firefighters staffed the alarm office. They were radio operators/telephone operators. Some went to that office and were pretty good operators. With the advent of 911, we lost those positions plus a Chief alarm operator.
I lost my dad to the mine and almost lost a few others. I used to love listening to those eerie stories about the mines and coal camps. Years ago, I moved into an old place that was once a boarding house for railroad workers. There were nights you could hear footsteps across the wooden floors, a little girl laughing, and could often smell cigars, pipe smoke, and dark whiskey. A few times I woke up to the smell of breakfast on the stove or bread baking. I could go on and on...
Those things defnetly exists .I know the eerie feeling that sombody's watching you ,as well as the eerie feeling something evil is watching you .There's no need to doubt those things .
I WOULD LOVE to hear your stories! Please go to my channel and find my email address and send me an email. I'd love to talk to you about your experiences, I could do a video on them. I tell many of my own stories and a few subscriber submissions as well but would love to hear yours. Stay safe and I hope to hear from you soon!
I'm in the foothills of the Appalachia. Born and raised, Been here my entire life. and yes, Spirits roam these areas. I recall many years ago, Me along with one of my cousins were night fishing. Same area know for Civil War History, While we were on the river bank, So weird boat with several men, looked like civil war era soldiers floated past us, a lantern being used to guide..and before it got 50 yards down from us, It faded out....Scared the crap out of me..
Ooh, just think of they had heard you, either talking or the lapping sounds of the boat, and were silently gliding through looking for the source of the sound.
One night my teenage daughter came running into my bedroom scared to death and said “ Someone is in the basement !! I can hear them talking !! “ I ran into her room with her and we could hear in the same muffled voices you described two men talking ! But we couldn’t make out anything they said. Then we heard what sounded like cardboard boxes being slid across the floor. We listened for hours . I told her, no one can be down there, the doors are all locked, and they can’t get upstairs because u have to walk around the house to walk in the basement ( we no longer have inside stairs after we renovated our house ) Now mind u our house is 71 yrs old and my father in law passed away in this house many , many years ago. Also, my sister in law was brought back here to her original home place when she passed away in the 1960’s people done that in the old days( long before my husband and I got married )The next day, we went downstairs to investigate and the door was still locked from the outside with a padlock and inside the basement everything was untouched ! We never did find out who or what it was but that is just one of the things we have experienced in this house ! So I believe you wholeheartedly!
I'm in Australia. Over 30 years ago I was staying in a refuge in Surry Hills it was a very old building. It was run by nuns. All our rooms were downstairs below street level. The first night I stayed there with my son I could hear furniture being moved around all night dragged along the floor etc in the room nextdoor. I spoke to a lady that was the caretaker there and said who was making alot of noise last night in the room next to me as I couldn't sleep and she said nobody is there it's a storeroom. She unlocked it to show me. My son had a lamp on at night when he was there sleeping and I'd be in the lounge room with the other ladies. I'd go and check on him and turn off the lamp once he was asleep. Later I'd find it on yet he was asleep this kept happening. Later on he told me he saw a lady in the window looking at him. The windows were huge sash windows nearly floor to ceiling. The glass where he saw the woman was frosted. I told him the lady is keeping an eye on him and it's OK as he was only 4yrs old at the time. Later on I found out a nun had died there so it was probably her.
Don't you think for a minute that I don't completely believe what you experienced Mr. Donnie. When I first got off the farm, I worked as a deckhand on towboats plying the coal barges round all the major rivers. I heard stories at the docks from old miners who had switched jobs to barge loader just to get out of the ground because they'd been through the same types of things you're describing. And on a related note, I had several experiences on the boats where I'd catch a glimpse of someone who wasn't a member of the crew onboard. When I'd ask about it, the usual response was, "So you seen him, huh. That's old So and So. He passed away on the boat back in (whenever it happened).
Ohhh yes, Mr Donnie. The spirits from the past!! I so much believe in what you saw and what you still feel!. I've seen ghost shadows too. Thank you for sharing , and may God bless you and your family.
They are NOT from the past. They are fallen angels intent on misleading people with their mischievous behaviors and they are invisible and quite current ! THEY ARE NOT DEAD PEOPLE
@ Scott Beam. During The 1890's In My Pennsylvania Coal Mining Area, The Mines Would Advertise For Workers Back In The Eastern European Countries. To Mostly Attract Those People That COULDN'T Speak English. That Way They Could Screw Over On Them With The Tonnage Of Coal They Dug Out, And On Payday. NOT A Good Job To Have To Begin With...
Donnie, you are a brave man to endure that experience. I’ve heard that if a person gets a strange or uncomfortable feeling there is something to it. Nothing like this has happened to me but a few years ago I caught a faint glimpse of huge angel’s wings wrapped around the cab of my truck on the way to work. I’ll never forget that. I feel that I was being protected by one of God’s servants.❤️
Awwww I loved seeing your comment!!! I just had something put on my heart , DOLLY WOULD BE SOOOOO PROUD OF YALL !!! Please keep doing the work y’all are doing , I love y’all!
@@illex759 Yep, me too! Wouldn't it be a hoot to cook up some greens, cornbread and fry some okra and tators and ask them two over for supper. I would be in hog heaven listening to the two of them.
Hey Donnie. I used to work night shift in a ICU, in a major hospital here in Sydney (Australia ), where I live. I saw and heard things, often in the wee hours before dawn. I wasn’t the only one. Although the staff didn’t talk about this stuff, when word got out that something happened to you, other staff members would corner you and tell you, “Me too”. Some of the things they would tell me were way scary - much more than my tales. I worked there for a long time and I saw many people die, some died well, others died badly. It doesn’t seem at all strange to me that some of them might still be around.
I once saw a spirit in an old house (built in 1905) we rented in California. It was Thanksgiving morning, and I was preparing the turkey. It was about 6:00 am and over to my right side I saw a man dressed in clothing from the beginning of the 20th century. Like what you saw Donnie, it lasted only a few seconds and I never saw it again. I was so scared that I left the turkey in the sink and jumped back into bed with my husband!
Mr Donnie I’m an industrial hvac tech here in Alabama. I’ve been to the coal mines here and done service work on the bath house heaters and hvac. The Jim Walter mines here in central Alabama have some ghost stories behind them. I was working late on a roof there in the warrior mines one night. I was in the switch gear room working on a starter in an electrical bucket. I had my ear buds in and I could hear the sound of someone’s breath and felt it on my neck. I turned around to see who was there and it was me and this mist that was making its way out of the switch gear room. I calmly gathered my things and called it a day.
my father was a coal face works back in the 1930s having got to the shaft bottom ,, him and a few other face miners got to within a few feet of the coal face a small tunnel to the actual face ,, so they had to get down on their hands and knees and scrawl through to the coal face 5 miners went before dad ,,he was the last as he entered the tunnel a blinding light lit up the dark tunnel dad looked up to see a ghostly outline of a man standing right in front of him ,,,,, now this tunnel was only 3ft high! this figure was his late father,,, my grandfather Thompson he died before i was born,,,, as dad had stopped the whole tunnel collapsed,,,,, trapping my father and the other miners,, if dad had not stopped he would have been crushed to death as were all the others ,, dad had broken fibs a jaw,,,, his long dead father saved his life "truth is stranger than fixon" ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Ed
I have never set foot in a coal mine in my life, but I have experienced things like you are taking about so I believe you, I personally have only had one bad experience all other were good I felt like someone was watching over me with good intentions
Mr Donnie !!! My wife and I both have heard voice's and strange music in place we still live to this day !!! Many many times we've heard the same things in many different places to !!! So glad you shared your story, cause we useally don't say anything to anyone because they look at us like we're crazy !! Thanks again for sharing my friend !!!!
I had a similar experience with a light. While Reclaiming old belt structure in the old “works”, myself and two other guys were standing beside the only way in and only way out (hole in the brattice), about 20 breaks up the old belt line we saw a cap light. It floated around like if someone were walking towards our direction when all of a sudden, this light shot across the entry way faster than any human can move. Needless to say we all almost soiled our trousers… we also were short several rollers on our new belt lay and they made me go back in there by myself 😳😳😳
There is a story about an old Georgian house in Dublin city long demolished that a couple rented a part of the house but they were were told to avoid the basement and ground floor after a certain time. The man comes back from the pub one night after this certain time and saw a ghostly looking old woman about to go up the front steps the man charged up the steps through the door and up the stairs. Kilmainham Gaol is said to be haunted as is the hell fire club and leap castle in which they found bodies in the dungeon who are said to have been murdered by the Gaelic clan who owned it hundreds of years ago.
Donnie Laws, my great Uncle was killed in a electrical explosion in around 1938 in the Virginia #1 mine, you probably know what mine I'm speaking of. Many of the miners who knew Uncle Pete said he would walk up on you there in the mine and strike up a conversation with you, as soon as you realize who you were speaking to, they all said when you realized and turned to look he would be gone, other times he would stand around making sure they got their work done as careful as possible. Just in that one side of my family we lost many to the mines!! If there had been jobs cleaning out sewers I believe that would have been preferable.
I work in a mine and only a few weeks ago I was cleaning under beltlines and stopped in an area with nobody within a half mile to a mile of me to look at our mine map in a small lit up area with power boxes. While looking at the map, another beam of light ran down the map I was looking at as though someone was standing behind me with their cap light on. I literally jumped up and spun around and yelled WHAT THE F**K! It really spooked me. I hurried back to my equipment and got out of there and had the most uneasy feeling as I was leaving. Later that night while waiting for the keope and not telling anyone what ha just taken place, a maintenance guy was standing with us and started to tell our supervisor about the other night working in an area with nobody around and a light started to flicker at him from a short distance away but he was in an old area where nobody ever goes so he headed toward it and as he got closer he said it looked as though someone peaked their head around an old air curtain with their cap light on and then disappeared back behind it. He walked over in dead silence and pulled the curtain open and it just went off into darkness. Even after he told that I never brought up what just happened to me that night. I guess you just have to block it out of your mind when you have no choice but to travel through that area twice a night which I do. I'm more worried about top falls, another thing you have to block out.
Hello Donnie! I absolutely love your uploads, my mothers family is from Raysal WV, not far from you, I spent my childhood vacations there in the hollars, my grandfather worked in the coal mines his entire life except for his time in WW2, my uncle's to this day have a coal mine excavation company so it is near and dear to my heart the appreciation I have for everyone who has ever worked the mines! Keep posting those videos Donnie, the memories that you bring back from my childhood brings tears to my eyes.
Donnie, I'm a tinsmith. I've been putting on tin and copper roofs for 42 years. I would walk on an "I" beam 100 stories up before I'd go down in a mine. Some people have vertigo. I'm claustrophobic. It's sad, but both trades are dying.
I always get so angry when people do that to someone for talking about an unexplained experience they had. I just see it as the person being really close/narrow-minded and incapable of or too afraid of opening their mind to the possibility that there's more going on than we realize.
The caves on the back of my property in devils hollow have been a place where many people have asked to stay and camp and do paranormal investigations, out of all the people who have been here not a single one stayed the whole night, I have been back there many times at night cause I heard something and went to check it out and it cant be explained by me or anyone, voices coming from down in the caves and yelling and screaming, and it's been recorded many times, a reverend from Versailles ky came in 1963 and asked to visit the caves and said he had a dream about it and had to come help the trapped souls. He still hasn't came out, the state police searched for 12 days and never found anything but his bible, 7 different times during the search the officers and the people helping ran out yelling and said they wasn't going back in for any reason , when I go back to the cave and have my dogs with me they cower take off running away from the entrance, this area was named devils hollow over 300 years ago but the Indians called it that for much longer, my family has owned it for over 150 years and nobody has been anywhere near the end of any of the caves. They don't stay in no time and their running across the field and wont go back for nothing, you should come check it out donnie lol. Maybe make a video. Talk to the neighbors or people in town, probably make a cool video, the reverend's 46 Plymouth is still sitting in the field beside the caves right where he parked it in 63 we never moved it in case he comes out one day, the state police said someone from his family would come get it but they never did, the wildlife WILL NOT get anywhere near the caves, they know something we don't
You should upload the recordings, definitely try and figure out what is going on in there. How big is the cave system? Is it one big cave or multiple caves?
@@behemothfan1990 This a mine not a cave. I don't these sounds recorded. Just what I remember what it sounded like at time. This happened in the early 80's. Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 Hey man, love the channel, I was referring to the Devils Hollow system that coin slots and joysticks was referring to, if there is something that reliably horrendous residing there then there must be a way to capture evidence of it happening. Have been underground a few times here in the slate fields of North Wales and had a few weird sounds occur. Only problem here is that practically all our mines and caves are mostly flooded, with lots of seepage, so there's always the background noise from that. Sure does sound like voices sometimes though.. Binging the unexplained at the moment, it's going to make sleeping in a 500+ year old building interesting tonight haha
I was working a “ run through “ mine which meant it was just a belt line through to the prep plant. It had already been mined out. I was for bossing the mine. I worked in another mine that was on the opposite side of the yard. They needed a fire boss for the run through mine, so I told them I would do it. While walking the belt line I stopped to take a break. I saw behind me a light going back and forth, like someone was crossing the belt. We had hand held radios and I asked if a buddy of mine who worked there, if that was him crossing . He came back on and said you must be at 4 belt head. I answered yeah, and he said you just met Jimmy. Naturally I asked who Jimmy was. While on the radio me and the rest of the mine heard the tale of Jimmy the ghost. Everybody had seen him, but when you got closer to the tailpiece ole Jim becomes shy and goes away. I had over 20 years at that time, so I knew when I seen someone. Lol. I ended up working my last shift on that hill, with 26 years before my knees gave out, and black lung started.
@@leeturner1838 Yes they do all the time now. It's called a leaky feeder system. A coaxial cable antenna runs through out the mines picking up transmission from the hand radios. Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@leeturner1838 Then you are not mining coal in WV. hoss. We been using the since Sago and Aracoma mine fires happened. I bolted top for 11 years and went to section foreman for 16. Handhelds that require fiber optics all the way to the feeder in neutral travel way. Fiber optics in one intake all the way to the line of breaks at the feeder. You wear this round disc that is fastened to your hat. That’s how it gets signal. A man must sit outside at a computer and he can tell exactly where you are unless you go down in the return. Then it just shows the last place you were. We also must have a “ lifeline “. From the outside all the way in the neutral travel way to the section. That line must be maintained at all times. If it breaks, and an inspector finds it, big trouble, that lifeline must also run from the outside in the intake travel way to line of breaks at the feeder . Hand held radios are with you constantly in WV. I might add,……….in EVERY WEST VIRGINIA UNDERGROUND OPERATION. what state are you a mine foreman ? So before you go running’ that mouth get educated! I had 3 years active duty, and 27 years underground until I had to have both knees replaced three discs fused in my neck, and yes, black lung. I know what I’m talking about.
This video sort of hit home with me. I had a grandfather that survived one of those falling rocks in the coal mines of Soddy, TN back in the early 1900's. It did leave him paralyzed from the waist down though. Thanks for sharing.
My Father and three Uncle’s were coal miners in Southeastern KY. There are many stories that came out of those dark places deep in the belly of those mountains. Thank you for this video.🥰
The pictures of inside the coal mines are spooky,and the strange things happened you talked about is enough that I don't think I could have worked in there.When a man has to provide for his family,you have to do alot things that aren't to pleasant. Thanks Donnie and You Take Care 🙂.
Mr. Donnie, I believe there are a lot of things we can’t explain. I was underway on a submarine and we went through part of the Bermuda Triangle. As we were going through, both of our compasses tripped off line as well as our ESGN (ElectroStatically Supported Gyro Navigation) system decided to quit working also. Went through part of the triangle a couple more times but never had anything else happen. It was definitely something that could not be explained to this day.
My paternal grandfather (1925-2007) was a coal miner. He was orphaned at six years old (in 1931 he lost both parents to Typhoid) and went into the mines at 10 years old (that was the legal minimum age to start working in them back then). He worked in them until he was disabled and diagnosed with black lung when I was a little boy, maybe even before I was born I'm not sure, but he had some real stories to tell. He taught me a lot of things, how to shoot, hunt. Many things. But the stories he told me about things seen underground were reserved for late nights and campfires, and would send a chill down your spine. Thank you for this. Brought back many memories.
I work in the oldest coal mine in Australia,opened in 1888.These stories are similar to what happens at my mine.People have seen ghosts and they swear blind they have seen them.These men are straight up no bullshit types of blokes (guys).I believe your story mate because I have seen some strange things also.I was a diesel fitter working at a garage when I got a call to go and check a conveyor belt that had gone off.I happened to be the closest to the belt.When I got there I found a belt switch off.Sometimes a packer of coal or a roof bolt coming out on the belt would hit a switch by accident and turn the belt off.I turned the switch on but the belt didn’t start.I kept walking and found another 2 switches turned off along the belt in an isolated part of the mine with no one else in the area.
🎭My grandfather was a miner; hard work, with little or no thanks...Thank you for your stories, I do hope there is life after this place...Sry about your friend who was in the wrong place at the wrong time...Take care
Thank you Mr. Laws. My mothers dad worked coal in W. Virginia when moma was a girl. A woman had a dream that her son got struck by lightening so she had the boy's daddy take him down with him--for protection. Lightening ran in the mine and killed the boy--and only the boy! They all said it was true. This would have been in the late 1940's.
Back in the old days those older folks had more of a spiritual connection than the people of today witch is sad to say but one day in the near future the good book said there will be miracles like never before I hope it wakes up these nonbelievers
Back in the old days those older folks had more of a spiritual connection than the people of today witch is sad to say but one day in the near future the good book said there will be miracles like never before I hope it wakes up these nonbelievers
About 50 years ago I worked at a pit in Staffordshire, UK and once when doing my monthly statutory inspection of a very old 'second means of egress' tunnel I came up to a long abandoned derelict Tredomen haulage engine and stopped dead. Sitting at the engine with one hand on the brake lever was an oldish man with a large moustache in a waistcoat and wearing a flat cap. I stood gobsmacked and stared and after a few seconds he just vanished. I told my overman and in a very abrupt manner, he said in the local dialect 'Way dunna towk abite 'im and theyt do rate t'kape thee gob shut anow Surree' [We don't talk about him and you'd best keep your mouth shut too Mister] ... and I did ! ....Turns out there was some sort of family feud still going on, that had started with something this man had done some eighty years before. More than that I never learned from anyone. Long retired now, but I loved the job and still miss the pit and all the down to earth guys I worked with.... salt of the earth !
Great video. I believe you 100%. I enjoyed the pictures of the inside of the mines. I didn’t know what it actually looked like in there and to be honest, it’s very unsettling to imagine what it must have been like. I thought mines were big cavernous areas. Thank you for your hard work and enduring such harsh conditions.
I could be wrong here or there but I heard our ancestors in Ireland and UK walked miles underground to work every single day. Maybe Donnie's area too, don't know. But I read people died in them constantly and got paid nothin. God Bless the common working man.
I've had some weird things happen to me in the anthracite mines here in PA. Heard an electronic voice, sounded like a voicemail machine. Thought it was a prank. Nope. I've been touched on my back a few times now. 3 different times myself and others have smelled cherry pipe tobacco smells. Mines are definitely haunted. Haha. It's wild.
Hi Donnie I started working under ground in Harlan in 76 I work for 18 years. I run a 265 lee Norris I never seen anything but I hard a few things in my time. I miss working under ground.got black lung now. Hope you and the family are well . have a blessed day.
Grandpa used to tell us stories all the time of stuff he saw like this underground back when he used to work underground. He started working underground as a boy, as a slate picker, then did just about everything underground I think his last job in the mines before he retired was the mines blacksmith. He used to call ghosts/spirits "Haints". Boy he had some good ones.
Thank you so very much for this Donnie. This is a wonderful channel. I enjoyed this account all the more because my grandfather, Konstanty Mierzejewski, worked the Coal mines in Poland in the very late 1800's, and then again in western, PA (GALLITZEN), when he immigrated to the USA in 1916 to marry my grandmother. He died young at the age of 53 from black lung disease. My dad always told me many stories of the coal mines that my grandfather would relate to him when he was a little boy. I believe that some were the stories of the "Tommyknockers," but other stories were much, much more creepy. This story you told here has an extreme creep-factor for me and I'm super glad you shared it. I believe every word of it. I look for your stories of Appalachia every time I get on my phone. Please, keep them coming!
Hey Star, Did Grandpa's house have a cement basement floor? I heard that the company houses had those to prevent the people from digging up their own coal.
Both my grandfathers worked in the mines. One died when a slate fall crushed him at the age of 38 in 1953. All that unfinished business and tragedy….if there’s any place that could be haunted it’s a coal mine.
@@donnielaws7020 Thank you. I never met him. My mother mourned for him her whole life and had a hard time hearing Coal Miner’s Daughter without getting emotional. My grandmother went to get her teaching degree and taught 40 years, till she was 72. Every family has their stories with all that comes with it but I wouldn’t trade mine for a Rockefeller’s.
Used to work in an old nursing home....one of the 6 floors housed the mentally I'll patient's in days gone by. Used to hear foot steps, doors opening and closing and voices in the middle of the night.....yet everyone was fast asleep. So, l don't doubt your stories one bit. Enjoyed your video and keep them coming.
Great lessons for me about mining, having no experience or having known someone who had. The map and the pictures help to visualize some of the conditions you experienced. A black shadow in my former home basement, sure made a believer out of me. You carry that always.
Thank you Very much for Sharing your personal experiences that few people may never see or hear. You sound like a very kind man,and dedicated mine worker too.
Thank you Donnie that was awesome!! I'm sitting here at the beach by myself in the dark listening to the waves crash I know you put in a lot of hard work back in them days!!
I work in construction and have more than a few stories from that. One project was so bad, the GC hired an exorcist. And then there was the hospital, where everyone's tools would disappear and reappear 3-4 days later in the hallway around the ER area. I hope I never need to go to that hospital!
Thanx Mr. Laws for sharing. I won't go into detail on a public forum, but the Bible tells us about familiar spirits. That is probably what you saw. In my Christian ministry I have heard dozens of similar witnesses from people for the last 60 years. Keep the Faith brother, that is our protection. God bless.
The only paranormal experiences I’ve had was at a cemetery in south Cherokee WMA in Polk county, it was a old settlement cemetery. I had a brand new camera with new cards and batteries, after I got home and was looking at the photos, every photo had a hazy figure in them. This wasn’t far from the Dutch Settlement cemetery. The second time was when my cousin and I were just out walking around and deer scouting, miles from the road on the same WMA, came to the top of a cleared ridge and smelled a woman’s perfume, but my cousin and I were the only ones there for miles.
@@donnielaws7020 welcome and thank you for the content, I love the old stories about life back in the day. Reminds me of listening to my grandparents old stories
Good possibility you were very near the dumping site of a woman’s body, or the part if the road where she was picked up and taken away. Very good possibility.
my dad worked those mines as did my grandfather and my uncles....i remember these stories that they would tell of "things " happening down there.the uncles and grandfathers on moms side had some on the raliroad that carried that coal too..i've had a few things happen on the tracks we walked myself...
I saw spirits ever sense I was a child Donnie. Some good. Some bad. I believe you. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. I am a big fan of yours.
Never went down in a mine. Mostly above ground strip mines near me when I was young. A few underground ones now. I am a pretty strong minded lady,but get almost claustrophobic just looking at the pictures. My brother worked for the UMWA and went to a bunch of mines back in the 70's. He was always for the working man at heart. Was arrested in several states. Those were the good old days...lol.
LOVE THIS VIDEO, LIKE ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS. I BELIEVE THE STORIES YOU TALKED ABOUT. IM 71 YRS OLD. AND SINCE I WAS A KID I SAW AND HEARD SOME STRANGE THINGS. SPIRITS NOISES, IVE HAD THINGS FLY OFF THE WALLS AT ME...EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE I GET MY ANOINTING OIL OUT AND GO THROUGH THE HOUSE AND PRAY IN THE NAME OF JESUS, THAT ALWAYS STOPS IT. I VE SEEN UFO s. STRANGE LIGHTS IN THE WOODS TOO. IM GLAD YOU DID THIS VIDEO, YOU CANT TALK ABOUT THIS STUFF TO EVERYONE. THANK YOU.
Our farmstead is over top of old mine shafts and the area was known for Native settlements in the very old days, as we're just up from the river. Sometimes we hear voices outside when there's no one around, feel shaking now and then and my trail cams will pick up orbs with regularity down in the creek bottom. My Grandad worked these mines and we joke he's saying howdy now and again. The old cuts across the roads fell in in a couple of places many years back when they were trying to level it for houses and the developers' told stories of hearing voices while they were running their machinery. I'm convinced there's much we don't know and until the good lord clues us in we won't. Great story and I don't doubt you for a minute.
My uncle Bill died with black lung. Coal miners are a strong breed. I will say this, there is things that are real even though we can't see 'em. A spirit world, I guess. I do love your channel, sir. Your voice reminds me of my kin down home, and for the nostalgia I thank you.
All my life I have seen things, heard things and I am very sensitive to buildings and places. Sometimes when I meet a person for the 1sr time and I get a sick feeling I know that I don't to be around them or trust them. This ability came down my granny's side of the family from KY. My mom told me that she had an old aunt that they called a mountain witch. I never met her while she was alive but I DEFINITELY met her.
I can't say I have any mine stories of my own..but I've heard things in the hollers and hills of rockcastle co ky that simply make no sense. God bless everyone and Mr Laws you've created a great channel.
All of us who live long enough are going to encounter these strange experiences of the spirit world, there will always be those who don't believe our story,many folks just have to experience these things for themselves to become believers.thanks Donnie for sharing your stories.
I operate dump trucks in a open cut coal mine here in Australia. I have huge respect for all miners underground or open cut. Dangerous way to make a living. Im still very new to the industry. I learn something new everyday at work. Watching your videos makes me appreciate the level of safety we have nowadays. Thank you for making these videos. I enjoy each and every one of them. Thank you sir.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. Yes it can be very dangerous work. I often think of how rough it was in early years. Thanks again my friend. Glad you enjoyed it.
Loved the video, both my grandfather's, and most of cousins were coal miners. Alot of strange things in general happen in the hills of Appalachia. They have personally happened to me, In the Kentucky hills of Harlan County.
I’m also in harlan county I’ve experienced paranormal activity and ufos since my childhood and experience it now wish I could show the photos and videos I have I put one on TH-cam call paranormal bottle challenge the house had many strange things going on so they installed cameras and it’s amazing what they caught zoom in and slow down it wasn’t her and it lands on it’s lid
This makes so much sence, I am a great granddaughter, granddaughter, and daughter of coal minors my Dad, and grandpap died relatively young. Wish I could have picked their brains more.
My dad who worked for RBM enterprise has worked in really low coal had told me of phantom knocking voices that came from nowhere and everywhere. He also seen a young girl in a green dress at the mouth of the mines and come to find out in the 1800s there was a young girl who followed her dad into the mines and ended up getting covered up by bad top. The Appalachian hills has many secrets
Hey Donnie. Poor wanderin souls I believe. Heartbroke that they can't stay at the only home they knew in their cherished mountains. I think they'll eventually find the peace they deserve and earned. Thank you my friend.
Another great video Donnie! Now I know what the inside of a coal mine looks like. Never encountered what you did, but I've been in places that gave me a creepy feeling every time I went through.
So happy to have found your page Mr Donnie. I’m a young man 👨🏾 from Philadelphia out here in Los Angeles. So many of these pages have coastal people and even British scholars talking about them mountains. It’s so refreshing to hear your voice and to hear all tales from someone who’s actually from there. Subscribed! Stay healthy and stay with us, Mr. Donnie.
Also think it’s safe to say we’d all probably like more of the mining stories. Whether unexplained or not. I really enjoyed just listening to explain how mining works like the belt and something you said about brass being near a brake stop. (I’m butchering it. It was star story where you saw the light)
Great video, and I love your descriptions of things. I worked in an aquatic centre here in South Australia for a few years, doing the 5am Saturday shift. Things would jump out of cupboards, individual keys would swing by themselves when the others all round it stayed still. At 5.20am almost every Saturday morning as I was doing the water quality tests I would feel someone standing behind me. Never see anything there. I became so used to it, I used to call out 'morning. We all thought it was an older guy who had passed and had been very attached to the place. He was just making sure I did the job properly.
I was a coal miner here in Australia ,44 years, often has strange and eerie feelings, and all miners have seen images created buy the stone dust and coal i bet. Very lonely place being in a return airway hot and hardly any air movement, rotting timber smell and mould, 400 feet down and 14 kilometre's to the surface, and all alone.
I can agree with Ya their Donnie. I got my start at the ole Biloxi mine 740' down second week there when I suddenly felt a tap and a tug on my shoulder. Scared the wits out of me. will never forget
I certainly believe you. I've never been in a mine in my life, but, I've seen strange things elsewhere. An old house one night, a friend and I seen a shadow figure and at first we thought someone was standing outside and the security light was creating the shadow onto the window shade but, after a moment, we realized the shadow was 3-d and standing in the room. We could tell because as we shifted left and walked slowly trying to make sense we could tell then it was standing in the room freely and not a 2-dimensional silhouette against a wall or other surface. But I did not have feelings of eeriness, fear or anything at that moment, I just remember being confused and trying to understand what I was seeing and then being amazed. I also want to mention that this home is popular in the area and I had heard many stories before. I was always a believer in ghosts and never doubted what I heard but I now have experience knowledge that those stories are true. I'm not trying to compare or compete stories; I'm just letting you know that I do believe you, and also that you are not alone. Others, such as I, also have seen such things. We know you are honest.
I moved to an old mining town in PA and these stories and pictures really help me understand what mining is actually like. I'm from Philly but I have a ton respect for this community. Plus I love a good ghost story. Thank you for sharing 💝
I do believe you. We do not know everything about this earth or even life itself. Y’all are brave men to have worked down there. Brave men. Love and blessings your way! Oh, yeah, and Thank You for sharing these stories! Great!
One year before the covid pandemic, late at night I was walking along a side road off the main street and decided to take a short cut. I walked through the grounds of a nursing home. The building was very old and dark. I heard loud shouting and deep cries coming from within. I peaked into a window and the desperate cries got louder and louder. I was a bit scared but I was curious as to why all these sounds were coming out of there. It was the sound of death crying for help. A car drove by me and I stopped it. A man was driving the car and I asked him to listen to the desperate crying voices and sounds. He told me that he couldn't hear anything and then he drove off into the night. I couldn't understand why only I could hear the crying and not him. One year later, the covid pandemic happened and that nursing home was on the news reporting that over 30 seniors had died in there. Was I hearing their cries before they departed? I told this to my mother and she asked me to pray for them.
This stuff is for certain real. I Have seen things myself and i know that feeling you're talking about, every hair on you stands up sometimes. I've seen the good side and the bad side of things like this. I don't understand it all the way and don't often talk about it but i figure one day like the song says we'll understand it all by and by. Good stories buddy!
Good Day Donnie, I'm glad you shared that with us, there must be spirits of old and young miners that lost their lives below ground. I've seen a spirit myself when I was young so I know how you feel about them. Anyways thanks again for the great tales of the past. Have a great week.
I had a similar experience in the navy. I was in a pump room on a aircraft carrier. I could hear someone and feel someone was watching. I found others had the same thing happen to them
Hi Donnie. I enjoy your videos very much and this one especially. I grew up in a coal mining camp. My grandfather was the camp dr. for almost 50 yrs. He had a lot of interesting stories of things that he had experienced. It was a hard life. Back in early days of the coal camp where he was at, many miners would loose fingers in mishaps at the mines. If they complained about their accident they would be fired. So they would put the fingers in their pocket and go to my grandfathers office. He would sew their fingers back on and they would actually regain function of those fingers. He said he only had a stethescope and a microscope, no antibiotics back then. No xray machine, except in the hospitals, and nobody working in the mine could afford to go hospitals. It was his job to go in the mines when one of the men were injured or killed, and I do remember him talking about weird things happening while he was in the mines. I am getting older and having trouble remembering details of stories he told, and have great regret that I didn't record him or at least write his stories down.
I believe you. All of it. My husband and I lived in an old Victorian house in Kentucky. I was open minded about the paranormal. My husband thought it was all nonsense.Within one month of moving into this house, he had become a believer so much so that he would tell people what was going on in that house but would always end by saying, "I don't care if you believe me or not. This place is haunted." LOL! It was truly frightening for the first year but we learned to live with them. We were there 5 years. We were very sad to leave. Thank you for your story. I really enjoyed it.
Hello Donnie I haven't been on for a while I've missed watching your videos I like this one a lot but I tell you one thing no matter how much I'd need a job I think after anyone of those things I'd be coming out of there and never go back you are a much braver man than I am I hope you've been doing well I'm getting back to watching your videos
This one brought back some good ol memories. I worked over in Man West Virginia at Rockhouse #2 mine, low coal. I also worked over in Pike CO.Kentucky at Massey mine. I loved working in them mines. The people that I worked with were like family. Thank you for the memories and the video. GOD BLESS 🙌🙏
Hi Donnie, I watched this with someone, your voice brought back good memories of my Mama and how she use to sit back and tell us when we were kids true stories that made us think twice. Thank you. :)
I've seen some things that can't be explained except that it was spirits. I believe every word you said, there's a lot in this world that we can't explain. Thanks for sharing!
Hello Donnie, Thank You for sharing your personal experiences. I believe you. I am from New Brunswick Canada. I'm a 65 year old (Retired) commercial poultry farm worker (over 40 years). Sir.. you have my utmost admiration for bravely risking your life each day, to provide for your family in such a dangerous occupation. Just seeing the photo's of those leaning partly crushed support beams, gives me goosebumps! Glad you don't do that job any longer. You can still get hurt with any farm machinery, but raising chickens was never "That" risky! Stay Healthy! 😊🙏
Hello my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. I sometimes look back and think how many times the good lord has saved me. God bless you my friend. Your very welcome.
Good video, Donnie! Been hoping you'd do some videos about your time in the mines!In my 20's, I worked in an old rendering plant where a couple of guys had been killed a while before I hired on. When that plant was shut down and quiet, there'd be different noises sometimes, even though nothing was running. Some of the older hands would say the noises were just like certain sounds those two guys used to habitually make while they'd been working. On those quiet nights, there were a few of those old hands that wouldn't go alone into the area those guys had been killed in...and a couple that wouldn't go, period.
My grandmother’s father was a blacksmith in a mine in SW. Pennsylvania. He was killed when he was run over by a coal car. My grandmother was a wonderful person who loved the Lord.
Wow, Mr. Laws, those are some eerie experiences, for sure, that you encountered! Your job was hard enough without these strange anomalies, and here you are dealing with trying to explain the unexplainable on three occasions. And allow me to say that I have a lot of respect for all your hard work and fortitude in working such a dangerous job while being a good husband and father supporting your family - well done!! And I have no doubt what you witnessed in these mines is true and I thank you for the creepy but fascinating bedtime stories!! I will share this video with my girlfriend who loves these kind of spooky stories, yes sir!!! You channel has a lot to offer, sir, and I really appreciate your efforts in all your videos!! There is a lot one can learn from you. I'll be talking to you soon. Much respect! Very Sincerely, Martin
I love your stories. I am new to east Tennessee transplanted from Atlanta GA and am soaking up this history like a sponge. You're a wonderful story teller in the tradition of real story tellers I recall from childhood in Alabama. Thank you for taking the time to ensure this oral history survives. ❤
Hi Donnie, I too was a coal miner here in England from the late 60s to 1987. I have seen mysterious lights coming from some of our old workings. They were far off in the distance and looked like oil lamp light but they went out after a few seconds. Another strange occurence was when i worked on the coal face, 47 inches high so we worked on our knees following the coal cutting machine and pulling in hydraulic roof supports behind it. Sometime the rock strata failed above the coal seam and we would have to climb above the roof supports into the void to timber up. One day i was about to climb up into the void and someone tugged hard on my arm and said don`t go yet. I looked around thinking it was a workmate but they were 20 yards away from me. Nobody was there, and then an almighty crash and the rock strata failed big time as we all scurried away for safety. All true i can assure you.
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Are those Tommy knockers?
Wow. That is an incredible story. I believe you. I once woke up early in an apartment I was staying in, in the north of England (I’m in the Scottish Borders) and I felt something was just ‘wrong’ ? So I raised my head to look around the room and there was an old lady sitting by the fireplace smiling, not at me, just smiling. She looked like a really kindly old lady. I knew she was a ghost of course- as I knew where everyone was in the building as I was the caretaker! And my room door was locked and only I occupied the room. Anyway I didn’t want her to suddenly look at me so I just put my head under the covers, and later she was gone. But, I later found out that the previous caretaker to me had stayed in that apartment- and he had actually moved out of it, stating that he kept ‘seeing the ghost of an old lady’. So the two of us saw the same ghost and we have never met. There are things that we just cannot explain my friend. That ghost who spoke to you saved your life. 👍
Sounds like you had an angel looking out for you.
@@mynameisGail Yes i think so, i thanked the lord every day during those dangerous times for surviving and getting me back to my loved ones, some were not so lucky.
Growing up in the mountains of Eastern KY in the fifties, with a friend we decided to explore a long abandon coal mine. It was on a mountain with no one around and we thought it would be fun to go inside and check it out. We had to go a long distance to a store that had candles, so then we were excited to see what was inside. Going in a distance we came to an area where it branched out in several directions. We took one and came to the end of it and came back out to see where we entered to find out we had no idea which way we came in. We were then very scared and decided to blow out one of the candles because they were getting a lot shorter. Being around ten at the time and having no clue what we were getting ourselves into, we just wanted out. We didn't cry but didn't mean we didn't want too. Once we had found our way out, we were relieved and so grateful and knew we had almost made a fatal mistake. No one had a clue what we were doing or where we were. A roof caving in or just not finding our way out we would have been two missing kids that just disappeared. I was in my fifties before I finally told my mom what we did. She said, I'm glad I didn't know.
WOW! Thank the good Lord you made it out safely. There are extremely dangerous. Thanks for sharing my friend.
God Always There : )
@@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 Amen.
That wasn't very smart even less smart with candles in a non ventilated mine. You could have blown your arse to kingdom come. You wouldn't felt much pain though.
Open flames in a coal mine?!? There's a scary thought.
Awesome video sir. As a retired Law Enforcement Officer of 32 years, I have witnessed things I can't explain. Patrolling lonely County roads and highways late at night going in old a banded houses looking for trespassers. Witnessing lots of deaths and evil that some people do. You have an awesome voice. Clear and precise that you for sharing your experience of the unexplained.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend
yes love your voice accent honesty lucky are your family and friends esp the younger ones.
@@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 Thanks for sharing my friend.
I would love to just sit down and talk to you about your experiences. Isn't this video great? If we all got together and told our stories, there would be no doubt that there are things that we can't explain away.
@@fiercest_calm So true my friend Thanks so much for sharing.
Worked for 45 years underground. Never believed in hants or ghosts. That being said we cut into some old works on a Saturday that were mined in the 20s. This was early 1980, I came in on Sunday mourning to set some timbers and do a little rock dusting so we could get started running coal Monday. Got the dusting done and was setting the the timbers around the old works . I was sawing a timber when I felt like someone was behind me and then I herd the word damn. I was the only one at the mine that day. I turned around with the hair standing up on my neck to see who it was. No one was there but you could smell carbide in the air and see smooth bottom boot prints in the fresh rock dust headed down into the old works. I changed my mind that day! I had another encounter in 2001 at another mine.
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend
Cold chills 🥶
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Carbide? Old mining lamps I assume.
@@Razor-gx2dq Absolutely.
I believe you Donnie. I worked in a firehouse that was well over 100 yrs old. Being the driver of the rig, I had to be extra sharp at night, knowing what route to take to the fire. On more than one occasion, I had somebody come into my bed room and wake me. It was like I was instantly fully awake, then the alarm would come in. Its the old guys looking out for the young ones. Maybe in our turn, we will be on the other side looking out for our younger brothers.
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Naw, Im retired from the FD and these new kids are on their own. Im not coming back to help any of em. Tell em to google how to be a real Firefighter if they need something.
@@chilltime4878 I was talking to an active member of a neighboring department. He had a new guy driving to a working kitchen fire. Looked over and my man was zoned out and drove right past the street. When they got back to the station, another new guy riding the jump seat, stepped out of the cab and said "Motherfucker! If you would keep your nose outta the phone and on to the maps, maybe you would know where youre going!" Well played newbe!
@@Wa3ypx The job isn’t the same anymore and the firemen aren’t the same anymore. Now they hire women because they have to and the whole place is fucked!!
@@chilltime4878 I was hired with 18 recruits in 1981. They hired the first female. After about 5-6 years she tested for the inspection bureau, a 9-5 office job, non suppression, and pretty much stayed there until she got her minimum retired service which is 25 years half pay. She left the job then died. Other women hired after her gravitated towards that same position. Some left inspection and tested out for the trucks again. We had one that left the trucks to go to inspection, tested for the trucks, got out, then went back to inspection. At one time the firefighters staffed the alarm office. They were radio operators/telephone operators. Some went to that office and were pretty good operators. With the advent of 911, we lost those positions plus a Chief alarm operator.
I lost my dad to the mine and almost lost a few others. I used to love listening to those eerie stories about the mines and coal camps.
Years ago, I moved into an old place that was once a boarding house for railroad workers. There were nights you could hear footsteps across the wooden floors, a little girl laughing, and could often smell cigars, pipe smoke, and dark whiskey. A few times I woke up to the smell of breakfast on the stove or bread baking. I could go on and on...
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend
Wow
Those things defnetly exists .I know the eerie feeling that sombody's watching you ,as well as the eerie feeling something evil is watching you .There's no need to doubt those things .
I WOULD LOVE to hear your stories! Please go to my channel and find my email address and send me an email. I'd love to talk to you about your experiences, I could do a video on them. I tell many of my own stories and a few subscriber submissions as well but would love to hear yours. Stay safe and I hope to hear from you soon!
@@WhispersFromTheDark Thanks. Find me on Facebook.
I'm in the foothills of the Appalachia. Born and raised, Been here my entire life. and yes, Spirits roam these areas. I recall many years ago, Me along with one of my cousins were night fishing. Same area know for Civil War History, While we were on the river bank, So weird boat with several men, looked like civil war era soldiers floated past us, a lantern being used to guide..and before it got 50 yards down from us, It faded out....Scared the crap out of me..
WOW!! Thanks for sharing my friend
Ooh, just think of they had heard you, either talking or the lapping sounds of the boat, and were silently gliding through looking for the source of the sound.
Willing to bet a boat sank there back in the civil war times and took down those men down with it
@ Mark Catron You Shouldn't Have Been Drinking That 5th Of Booze That Night Before You Passed Out...
One night my teenage daughter came running into my bedroom scared to death and said “ Someone is in the basement !! I can hear them talking !! “ I ran into her room with her and we could hear in the same muffled voices you described two men talking ! But we couldn’t make out anything they said. Then we heard what sounded like cardboard boxes being slid across the floor. We listened for hours . I told her, no one can be down there, the doors are all locked, and they can’t get upstairs because u have to walk around the house to walk in the basement ( we no longer have inside stairs after we renovated our house ) Now mind u our house is 71 yrs old and my father in law passed away in this house many , many years ago. Also, my sister in law was brought back here to her original home place when she passed away in the 1960’s people done that in the old days( long before my husband and I got married )The next day, we went downstairs to investigate and the door was still locked from the outside with a padlock and inside the basement everything was untouched ! We never did find out who or what it was but that is just one of the things we have experienced in this house ! So I believe you wholeheartedly!
WOPW! Thanks for sharing my friend
I'm in Australia. Over 30 years ago I was staying in a refuge in Surry Hills it was a very old building. It was run by nuns. All our rooms were downstairs below street level. The first night I stayed there with my son I could hear furniture being moved around all night dragged along the floor etc in the room nextdoor. I spoke to a lady that was the caretaker there and said who was making alot of noise last night in the room next to me as I couldn't sleep and she said nobody is there it's a storeroom. She unlocked it to show me. My son had a lamp on at night when he was there sleeping and I'd be in the lounge room with the other ladies. I'd go and check on him and turn off the lamp once he was asleep. Later I'd find it on yet he was asleep this kept happening. Later on he told me he saw a lady in the window looking at him. The windows were huge sash windows nearly floor to ceiling. The glass where he saw the woman was frosted. I told him the lady is keeping an eye on him and it's OK as he was only 4yrs old at the time. Later on I found out a nun had died there so it was probably her.
Don't you think for a minute that I don't completely believe what you experienced Mr. Donnie. When I first got off the farm, I worked as a deckhand on towboats plying the coal barges round all the major rivers. I heard stories at the docks from old miners who had switched jobs to barge loader just to get out of the ground because they'd been through the same types of things you're describing. And on a related note, I had several experiences on the boats where I'd catch a glimpse of someone who wasn't a member of the crew onboard. When I'd ask about it, the usual response was, "So you seen him, huh. That's old So and So. He passed away on the boat back in (whenever it happened).
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend
Ohhh yes, Mr Donnie. The spirits from the past!! I so much believe in what you saw and what you still feel!. I've seen ghost shadows too. Thank you for sharing , and may God bless you and your family.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend
They are NOT from the past. They are fallen angels intent on misleading people with their mischievous behaviors and they are invisible and quite current ! THEY ARE NOT DEAD PEOPLE
@@jerryshunk7152 Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@jerryshunk7152 you are exactly right.
My great grandfather worked his whole life in coal mines. He used to say he saw some things, too. Good story. I don't doubt it.
Oh wow! Thanks for sharing my friend
What did he tell you he saw down there ?
@@pete7665 Probably a couple coal-bros doin the double dutch rudder
@@imakrewitatl RRRIIGHT... sure mac sure .
@@donnielaws7020I had on my paternal side great grandarents who emigrated to the Welsh valley’s from West Cork to work in the mines.
Much respect to those who've worked in the mines!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
So brave! Scary work
@ Scott Beam. During The 1890's In My Pennsylvania Coal Mining Area, The Mines Would Advertise For Workers Back In The Eastern European Countries. To Mostly Attract Those People That COULDN'T Speak English. That Way They Could Screw Over On Them With The Tonnage Of Coal They Dug Out, And On Payday. NOT A Good Job To Have To Begin With...
Donnie, sometimes I think people don’t realize they are dead, and they hang around for some reason. Thanks brother.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend
Reminds me of Biden.
Donnie, you are a brave man to endure that experience. I’ve heard that if a person gets a strange or uncomfortable feeling there is something to it. Nothing like this has happened to me but a few years ago I caught a faint glimpse of huge angel’s wings wrapped around the cab of my truck on the way to work. I’ll never forget that. I feel that I was being protected by one of God’s servants.❤️
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend
That's awesome! I always pray to God that he will keep me and mine under the protection of his wing. Happy to hear it's real!
@@loriflarson4236 Psalms 91 it's absolutely real
I have a question. Did they look exactly as we might imagine angel wings might look?
@@toriiacoviello4127 It was just faint image of a man.
Enjoyed this one Donnie! There are just some things we can't explain in this ole world.
So true! Thanks for watching Tipper. Thanks for sharing my friend
Awwww I loved seeing your comment!!!
I just had something put on my heart , DOLLY WOULD BE SOOOOO PROUD OF YALL !!! Please keep doing the work y’all are doing , I love y’all!
Tipper and Donnie. My two most favorite youtubers!!
@@illex759 Yep, me too! Wouldn't it be a hoot to cook up some greens, cornbread and fry some okra and tators and ask them two over for supper. I would be in hog heaven listening to the two of them.
I don’t tell nobody much about none of thi
Gets on the Internet and makes a video about it…
Hey Donnie. I used to work night shift in a ICU, in a major hospital here in Sydney (Australia ), where I live.
I saw and heard things, often in the wee hours before dawn. I wasn’t the only one. Although the staff didn’t talk about this stuff, when word got out that something happened to you, other staff members would corner you and tell you, “Me too”. Some of the things they would tell me were way scary - much more than my tales.
I worked there for a long time and I saw many people die, some died well, others died badly. It doesn’t seem at all strange to me that some of them might still be around.
WOW, Thanks for sharing my friend
I’m an RN,MSN for 38 years and I’ve seen and heard a lot of things too ,,there really life beyond this one
Loved your story
@@ohmeowzer1 Amen.
Think about how many die in hospitals. They are always haunted. ❤️🍀
I once saw a spirit in an old house (built in 1905) we rented in California. It was Thanksgiving morning, and I was preparing the turkey. It was about 6:00 am and over to my right side I saw a man dressed in clothing from the beginning of the 20th century. Like what you saw Donnie, it lasted only a few seconds and I never saw it again. I was so scared that I left the turkey in the sink and jumped back into bed with my husband!
Oh wow! I don't blame you. Maybe he was waiting on Dinner. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Mr Donnie I’m an industrial hvac tech here in Alabama. I’ve been to the coal mines here and done service work on the bath house heaters and hvac. The Jim Walter mines here in central Alabama have some ghost stories behind them. I was working late on a roof there in the warrior mines one night. I was in the switch gear room working on a starter in an electrical bucket. I had my ear buds in and I could hear the sound of someone’s breath and felt it on my neck. I turned around to see who was there and it was me and this mist that was making its way out of the switch gear room. I calmly gathered my things and called it a day.
WOW! Thanks for sharing that my friend.
my father was a coal face works back in the 1930s
having got to the shaft bottom ,, him and a few other face miners got to within a few feet of the coal face
a small tunnel to the actual face ,, so they had to get down on their hands and knees and scrawl through to the coal face
5 miners went before dad ,,he was the last
as he entered the tunnel a blinding light lit up the dark tunnel
dad looked up to see a ghostly outline of a man standing right in front of him ,,,,, now this tunnel was only 3ft high!
this figure was his late father,,, my grandfather Thompson
he died before i was born,,,, as dad had stopped the whole tunnel collapsed,,,,, trapping my father and the other miners,,
if dad had not stopped he would have been crushed to death
as were all the others ,, dad had broken fibs a jaw,,,,
his long dead father saved his life "truth is stranger than fixon"
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Ed
WOW!!! Thanks for sharing my friend
I have never set foot in a coal mine in my life, but I have experienced things like you are taking about so I believe you, I personally have only had one bad experience all other were good I felt like someone was watching over me with good intentions
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend
Mr Donnie !!! My wife and I both have heard voice's and strange music in place we still live to this day !!! Many many times we've heard the same things in many different places to !!! So glad you shared your story, cause we useally don't say anything to anyone because they look at us like we're crazy !! Thanks again for sharing my friend !!!!
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend
I had a similar experience with a light. While Reclaiming old belt structure in the old “works”, myself and two other guys were standing beside the only way in and only way out (hole in the brattice), about 20 breaks up the old belt line we saw a cap light. It floated around like if someone were walking towards our direction when all of a sudden, this light shot across the entry way faster than any human can move. Needless to say we all almost soiled our trousers… we also were short several rollers on our new belt lay and they made me go back in there by myself 😳😳😳
WOW, Thanks for sharing this my friend.
There is a story about an old Georgian house in Dublin city long demolished that a couple rented a part of the house but they were were told to avoid the basement and ground floor after a certain time. The man comes back from the pub one night after this certain time and saw a ghostly looking old woman about to go up the front steps the man charged up the steps through the door and up the stairs.
Kilmainham Gaol is said to be haunted as is the hell fire club and leap castle in which they found bodies in the dungeon who are said to have been murdered by the Gaelic clan who owned it hundreds of years ago.
Donnie Laws, my great Uncle was killed in a electrical explosion in around 1938 in the Virginia #1 mine, you probably know what mine I'm speaking of. Many of the miners who knew Uncle Pete said he would walk up on you there in the mine and strike up a conversation with you, as soon as you realize who you were speaking to, they all said when you realized and turned to look he would be gone, other times he would stand around making sure they got their work done as careful as possible. Just in that one side of my family we lost many to the mines!!
If there had been jobs cleaning out sewers I believe that would have been preferable.
Sorry for you loss my friend. Thanks for sharing my friend
I work in a mine and only a few weeks ago I was cleaning under beltlines and stopped in an area with nobody within a half mile to a mile of me to look at our mine map in a small lit up area with power boxes. While looking at the map, another beam of light ran down the map I was looking at as though someone was standing behind me with their cap light on. I literally jumped up and spun around and yelled WHAT THE F**K!
It really spooked me. I hurried back to my equipment and got out of there and had the most uneasy feeling as I was leaving. Later that night while waiting for the keope and not telling anyone what ha just taken place, a maintenance guy was standing with us and started to tell our supervisor about the other night working in an area with nobody around and a light started to flicker at him from a short distance away but he was in an old area where nobody ever goes so he headed toward it and as he got closer he said it looked as though someone peaked their head around an old air curtain with their cap light on and then disappeared back behind it. He walked over in dead silence and pulled the curtain open and it just went off into darkness. Even after he told that I never brought up what just happened to me that night. I guess you just have to block it out of your mind when you have no choice but to travel through that area twice a night which I do. I'm more worried about top falls, another thing you have to block out.
WOW, Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hello Donnie! I absolutely love your uploads, my mothers family is from Raysal WV, not far from you, I spent my childhood vacations there in the hollars, my grandfather worked in the coal mines his entire life except for his time in WW2, my uncle's to this day have a coal mine excavation company so it is near and dear to my heart the appreciation I have for everyone who has ever worked the mines! Keep posting those videos Donnie, the memories that you bring back from my childhood brings tears to my eyes.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend
Donnie, I'm a tinsmith. I've been putting on tin and copper roofs for 42 years. I would walk on an "I" beam 100 stories up before I'd go down in a mine. Some people have vertigo. I'm claustrophobic. It's sad, but both trades are dying.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I believe you Donnie. People shine me on when I tell them of experiences I've witnessed.
So now I don't share anymore.
Always enjoy your videos
Because they’re scared and would have heard but cryptids live down there xx
Thanks for sharing my friend
I know the feeling friend.
I always get so angry when people do that to someone for talking about an unexplained experience they had. I just see it as the person being really close/narrow-minded and incapable of or too afraid of opening their mind to the possibility that there's more going on than we realize.
The caves on the back of my property in devils hollow have been a place where many people have asked to stay and camp and do paranormal investigations, out of all the people who have been here not a single one stayed the whole night, I have been back there many times at night cause I heard something and went to check it out and it cant be explained by me or anyone, voices coming from down in the caves and yelling and screaming, and it's been recorded many times, a reverend from Versailles ky came in 1963 and asked to visit the caves and said he had a dream about it and had to come help the trapped souls. He still hasn't came out, the state police searched for 12 days and never found anything but his bible, 7 different times during the search the officers and the people helping ran out yelling and said they wasn't going back in for any reason , when I go back to the cave and have my dogs with me they cower take off running away from the entrance, this area was named devils hollow over 300 years ago but the Indians called it that for much longer, my family has owned it for over 150 years and nobody has been anywhere near the end of any of the caves. They don't stay in no time and their running across the field and wont go back for nothing, you should come check it out donnie lol. Maybe make a video. Talk to the neighbors or people in town, probably make a cool video, the reverend's 46 Plymouth is still sitting in the field beside the caves right where he parked it in 63 we never moved it in case he comes out one day, the state police said someone from his family would come get it but they never did, the wildlife WILL NOT get anywhere near the caves, they know something we don't
WOW! That is a very strange place indeed. Thanks for sharing that my friend.
You should upload the recordings, definitely try and figure out what is going on in there. How big is the cave system? Is it one big cave or multiple caves?
@@behemothfan1990 This a mine not a cave. I don't these sounds recorded. Just what I remember what it sounded like at time. This happened in the early 80's. Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 Hey man, love the channel, I was referring to the Devils Hollow system that coin slots and joysticks was referring to, if there is something that reliably horrendous residing there then there must be a way to capture evidence of it happening. Have been underground a few times here in the slate fields of North Wales and had a few weird sounds occur. Only problem here is that practically all our mines and caves are mostly flooded, with lots of seepage, so there's always the background noise from that. Sure does sound like voices sometimes though..
Binging the unexplained at the moment, it's going to make sleeping in a 500+ year old building interesting tonight haha
@@behemothfan1990 Awesome my friend. Thanks for the info and story.
I was working a “ run through “ mine which meant it was just a belt line through to the prep plant. It had already been mined out. I was for bossing the mine. I worked in another mine that was on the opposite side of the yard. They needed a fire boss for the run through mine, so I told them I would do it. While walking the belt line I stopped to take a break. I saw behind me a light going back and forth, like someone was crossing the belt. We had hand held radios and I asked if a buddy of mine who worked there, if that was him crossing . He came back on and said you must be at 4 belt head. I answered yeah, and he said you just met Jimmy. Naturally I asked who Jimmy was. While on the radio me and the rest of the mine heard the tale of Jimmy the ghost. Everybody had seen him, but when you got closer to the tailpiece ole Jim becomes shy and goes away. I had over 20 years at that time, so I knew when I seen someone. Lol. I ended up working my last shift on that hill, with 26 years before my knees gave out, and black lung started.
Thanks for sharing my friend God bless you.
i Never seen a mine use hand held radios underground!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am a mine examiner, and mine foreman!!!!!!!!
@@leeturner1838 Yes they do all the time now. It's called a leaky feeder system. A coaxial cable antenna runs through out the mines picking up transmission from the hand radios. Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 ok, thanks thanks new tech, to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@leeturner1838 Then you are not mining coal in WV. hoss. We been using the since Sago and Aracoma mine fires happened. I bolted top for 11 years and went to section foreman for 16. Handhelds that require fiber optics all the way to the feeder in neutral travel way. Fiber optics in one intake all the way to the line of breaks at the feeder. You wear this round disc that is fastened to your hat. That’s how it gets signal. A man must sit outside at a computer and he can tell exactly where you are unless you go down in the return. Then it just shows the last place you were. We also must have a “ lifeline “. From the outside all the way in the neutral travel way to the section. That line must be maintained at all times. If it breaks, and an inspector finds it, big trouble, that lifeline must also run from the outside in the intake travel way to line of breaks at the feeder . Hand held radios are with you constantly in WV. I might add,……….in EVERY WEST VIRGINIA UNDERGROUND OPERATION. what state are you a mine foreman ? So before you go running’ that mouth get educated! I had 3 years active duty, and 27 years underground until I had to have both knees replaced three discs fused in my neck, and yes, black lung. I know what I’m talking about.
This video sort of hit home with me. I had a grandfather that survived one of those falling rocks in the coal mines of Soddy, TN back in the early 1900's. It did leave him paralyzed from the waist down though. Thanks for sharing.
Sorry to hear that my friend. God Bless.
I did pest control over 45 years. I went into many attics and crawlspaces...I experienced many strange feelings of being watched.
WOW! I know the feeling. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My Father and three Uncle’s were coal miners in Southeastern KY. There are many stories that came out of those dark places deep in the belly of those mountains. Thank you for this video.🥰
Oh wow! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend
The pictures of inside the coal mines are spooky,and the strange things happened you talked about is enough that I don't think I could have worked in there.When a man has to provide for his family,you have to do alot things that aren't to pleasant. Thanks Donnie and You Take Care 🙂.
You get use to it. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend
Mr. Donnie, I believe there are a lot of things we can’t explain. I was underway on a submarine and we went through part of the Bermuda Triangle. As we were going through, both of our compasses tripped off line as well as our ESGN (ElectroStatically Supported Gyro Navigation) system decided to quit working also. Went through part of the triangle a couple more times but never had anything else happen. It was definitely something that could not be explained to this day.
That's so awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing 👍
In the UK mines,whistling and singing was banned down there as it was believed it attracted the spirits ect
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I was a morning custodian at a 60+ year old elementary school and gosh darn was that place host of completely unexplainable phenomena.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
My paternal grandfather (1925-2007) was a coal miner. He was orphaned at six years old (in 1931 he lost both parents to Typhoid) and went into the mines at 10 years old (that was the legal minimum age to start working in them back then). He worked in them until he was disabled and diagnosed with black lung when I was a little boy, maybe even before I was born I'm not sure, but he had some real stories to tell. He taught me a lot of things, how to shoot, hunt. Many things. But the stories he told me about things seen underground were reserved for late nights and campfires, and would send a chill down your spine. Thank you for this. Brought back many memories.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I work in the oldest coal mine in Australia,opened in 1888.These stories are similar to what happens at my mine.People have seen ghosts and they swear blind they have seen them.These men are straight up no bullshit types of blokes (guys).I believe your story mate because I have seen some strange things also.I was a diesel fitter working at a garage when I got a call to go and check a conveyor belt that had gone off.I happened to be the closest to the belt.When I got there I found a belt switch off.Sometimes a packer of coal or a roof bolt coming out on the belt would hit a switch by accident and turn the belt off.I turned the switch on but the belt didn’t start.I kept walking and found another 2 switches turned off along the belt in an isolated part of the mine with no one else in the area.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing that my friend.
🎭My grandfather was a miner; hard work, with little or no thanks...Thank you for your stories, I do hope there is life after this place...Sry about your friend who was in the wrong place at the wrong time...Take care
There is my friend. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend
No doubt! We've been indoctrinated into a religion. Most just dont realize how dogmatic SCIENCE really is....
Thank you Mr. Laws. My mothers dad worked coal in W. Virginia when moma was a girl. A woman had a dream that her son got struck by lightening so she had the boy's daddy take him down with him--for protection. Lightening ran in the mine and killed the boy--and only the boy! They all said it was true. This would have been in the late 1940's.
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend
Back in the old days those older folks had more of a spiritual connection than the people of today witch is sad to say but one day in the near future the good book said there will be miracles like never before I hope it wakes up these nonbelievers
Back in the old days those older folks had more of a spiritual connection than the people of today witch is sad to say but one day in the near future the good book said there will be miracles like never before I hope it wakes up these nonbelievers
About 50 years ago I worked at a pit in Staffordshire, UK and once when doing my monthly statutory inspection of a very old 'second means of egress' tunnel I came up to a long abandoned derelict Tredomen haulage engine and stopped dead. Sitting at the engine with one hand on the brake lever was an oldish man with a large moustache in a waistcoat and wearing a flat cap. I stood gobsmacked and stared and after a few seconds he just vanished. I told my overman and in a very abrupt manner, he said in the local dialect 'Way dunna towk abite 'im and theyt do rate t'kape thee gob shut anow Surree' [We don't talk about him and you'd best keep your mouth shut too Mister] ... and I did ! ....Turns out there was some sort of family feud still going on, that had started with something this man had done some eighty years before. More than that I never learned from anyone.
Long retired now, but I loved the job and still miss the pit and all the down to earth guys I worked with.... salt of the earth !
WOW, what a story my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Great video. I believe you 100%. I enjoyed the pictures of the inside of the mines. I didn’t know what it actually looked like in there and to be honest, it’s very unsettling to imagine what it must have been like. I thought mines were big cavernous areas. Thank you for your hard work and enduring such harsh conditions.
The Zinc mines are. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend
I could be wrong here or there but I heard our ancestors in Ireland and UK walked miles underground to work every single day. Maybe Donnie's area too, don't know. But I read people died in them constantly and got paid nothin. God Bless the common working man.
If you're curious check out m.th-cam.com/users/GhostTownLiving
He's in those old silver mines constantly.
@@gaiasguardian205 Thanks, went to see and I’ll definitely enjoy looking around 👍
I've had some weird things happen to me in the anthracite mines here in PA. Heard an electronic voice, sounded like a voicemail machine. Thought it was a prank. Nope. I've been touched on my back a few times now. 3 different times myself and others have smelled cherry pipe tobacco smells. Mines are definitely haunted. Haha. It's wild.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hi Donnie I started working under ground in Harlan in 76 I work for 18 years. I run a 265 lee Norris I never seen anything but I hard a few things in my time. I miss working under ground.got black lung now. Hope you and the family are well . have a blessed day.
I hate to hear that my friend. I have a touch myself, but it wasn't got me down just yet. God bless you.
Mr. Baker: Hope each day is good to you. Thanks for your service so the rest of us could have coal.
@Pat LuxorWOW! Thanks for sharing my friend.
I really like the old stories of past. Had few weird things happen around too & it weird feeling for sure!! Thanks Mr Donnie
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend
Grandpa used to tell us stories all the time of stuff he saw like this underground back when he used to work underground. He started working underground as a boy, as a slate picker, then did just about everything underground I think his last job in the mines before he retired was the mines blacksmith. He used to call ghosts/spirits "Haints". Boy he had some good ones.
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you so very much for this Donnie. This is a wonderful channel. I enjoyed this account all the more because my grandfather, Konstanty Mierzejewski, worked the Coal mines in Poland in the very late 1800's, and then again in western, PA (GALLITZEN), when he immigrated to the USA in 1916 to marry my grandmother. He died young at the age of 53 from black lung disease. My dad always told me many stories of the coal mines that my grandfather would relate to him when he was a little boy. I believe that some were the stories of the "Tommyknockers," but other stories were much, much more creepy. This story you told here has an extreme creep-factor for me and I'm super glad you shared it. I believe every word of it. I look for your stories of Appalachia every time I get on my phone. Please, keep them coming!
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend
Hey Star, Did Grandpa's house have a cement basement floor? I heard that the company houses had those to prevent the people from digging up their own coal.
Those mines are unbelievable. What a difficult job you men have. Had no idea what the mines look like. Thanks for the video.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Both my grandfathers worked in the mines. One died when a slate fall crushed him at the age of 38 in 1953. All that unfinished business and tragedy….if there’s any place that could be haunted it’s a coal mine.
That's so sad my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 Thank you. I never met him. My mother mourned for him her whole life and had a hard time hearing Coal Miner’s Daughter without getting emotional. My grandmother went to get her teaching degree and taught 40 years, till she was 72. Every family has their stories with all that comes with it but I wouldn’t trade mine for a Rockefeller’s.
@@kd6836 Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend
My grandfather died in the mines before I was born. Never got to meet him. Most all of the family worked in or around the mines back in the day.
Used to work in an old nursing home....one of the 6 floors housed the mentally I'll patient's in days gone by.
Used to hear foot steps, doors opening and closing and voices in the middle of the night.....yet everyone was fast asleep.
So, l don't doubt your stories one bit.
Enjoyed your video and keep them coming.
WOW, Thanks for sharing my friend
Great lessons for me about mining, having no experience or having known someone who had. The map and the pictures help to visualize some of the conditions you experienced. A black shadow in my former home basement, sure made a believer out of me. You carry that always.
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend
Thank you Very much for Sharing your personal experiences that few people may never see or hear.
You sound like a very kind man,and dedicated mine worker too.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you Donnie that was awesome!! I'm sitting here at the beach by myself in the dark listening to the waves crash I know you put in a lot of hard work back in them days!!
That sound so great my friend. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing.
I work in construction and have more than a few stories from that. One project was so bad, the GC hired an exorcist. And then there was the hospital, where everyone's tools would disappear and reappear 3-4 days later in the hallway around the ER area. I hope I never need to go to that hospital!
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend
Thanx Mr. Laws for sharing. I won't go into detail on a public forum, but the Bible tells us about familiar spirits. That is probably what you saw. In my Christian ministry I have heard dozens of similar witnesses from people for the last 60 years. Keep the Faith brother, that is our protection. God bless.
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend
The only paranormal experiences I’ve had was at a cemetery in south Cherokee WMA in Polk county, it was a old settlement cemetery. I had a brand new camera with new cards and batteries, after I got home and was looking at the photos, every photo had a hazy figure in them. This wasn’t far from the Dutch Settlement cemetery. The second time was when my cousin and I were just out walking around and deer scouting, miles from the road on the same WMA, came to the top of a cleared ridge and smelled a woman’s perfume, but my cousin and I were the only ones there for miles.
WOW, Thanks for sharing my friend
@@donnielaws7020 welcome and thank you for the content, I love the old stories about life back in the day. Reminds me of listening to my grandparents old stories
Good possibility you were very near the dumping site of a woman’s body, or the part if the road where she was picked up and taken away. Very good possibility.
my dad worked those mines as did my grandfather and my uncles....i remember these stories that they would tell of "things " happening down there.the uncles and grandfathers on moms side had some on the raliroad that carried that coal too..i've had a few things happen on the tracks we walked myself...
WOW, Thanks for sharing my friend
I saw spirits ever sense I was a child Donnie. Some good. Some bad. I believe you. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. I am a big fan of yours.
WOW Thanks for sharing my friend.
Never went down in a mine. Mostly above ground strip mines near me when I was young. A few underground ones now.
I am a pretty strong minded lady,but get almost claustrophobic just looking at the pictures.
My brother worked for the UMWA and went to a bunch of mines back in the 70's. He was always for the working man at heart. Was arrested in several states. Those were the good old days...lol.
Thanks for sharing my friend
I think I would literally have a heart attack. I have claustrophobia so bad, I can't stand it.
LOVE THIS VIDEO, LIKE ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS. I BELIEVE THE STORIES YOU TALKED ABOUT. IM 71 YRS OLD. AND SINCE I WAS A KID I SAW AND HEARD SOME STRANGE THINGS. SPIRITS NOISES, IVE HAD THINGS FLY OFF THE WALLS AT ME...EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE I GET MY ANOINTING OIL OUT AND GO THROUGH THE HOUSE AND PRAY IN THE NAME OF JESUS, THAT ALWAYS STOPS IT. I VE SEEN UFO s. STRANGE LIGHTS IN THE WOODS TOO. IM GLAD YOU DID THIS VIDEO, YOU CANT TALK ABOUT THIS STUFF TO EVERYONE. THANK YOU.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Our farmstead is over top of old mine shafts and the area was known for Native settlements in the very old days, as we're just up from the river. Sometimes we hear voices outside when there's no one around, feel shaking now and then and my trail cams will pick up orbs with regularity down in the creek bottom. My Grandad worked these mines and we joke he's saying howdy now and again. The old cuts across the roads fell in in a couple of places many years back when they were trying to level it for houses and the developers' told stories of hearing voices while they were running their machinery. I'm convinced there's much we don't know and until the good lord clues us in we won't. Great story and I don't doubt you for a minute.
WOW. Thanks for sharing my friend
My uncle Bill died with black lung. Coal miners are a strong breed. I will say this, there is things that are real even though we can't see 'em. A spirit world, I guess. I do love your channel, sir. Your voice reminds me of my kin down home, and for the nostalgia I thank you.
Sorry to hear that my friend. Thanks for sharing my friend.
All my life I have seen things, heard things and I am very sensitive to buildings and places. Sometimes when I meet a person for the 1sr time and I get a sick feeling I know that I don't to be around them or trust them. This ability came down my granny's side of the family from KY. My mom told me that she had an old aunt that they called a mountain witch. I never met her while she was alive but I DEFINITELY met her.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I can't say I have any mine stories of my own..but I've heard things in the hollers and hills of rockcastle co ky that simply make no sense.
God bless everyone and Mr Laws you've created a great channel.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
All of us who live long enough are going to encounter these strange experiences of the spirit world, there will always be those who don't believe our story,many folks just have to experience these things for themselves to become believers.thanks Donnie for sharing your stories.
Well said. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I operate dump trucks in a open cut coal mine here in Australia. I have huge respect for all miners underground or open cut. Dangerous way to make a living. Im still very new to the industry. I learn something new everyday at work.
Watching your videos makes me appreciate the level of safety we have nowadays. Thank you for making these videos. I enjoy each and every one of them. Thank you sir.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. Yes it can be very dangerous work. I often think of how rough it was in early years. Thanks again my friend. Glad you enjoyed it.
Loved the video, both my grandfather's, and most of cousins were coal miners. Alot of strange things in general happen in the hills of Appalachia. They have personally happened to me, In the Kentucky hills of Harlan County.
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend
I love the song "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive".
I’m also in harlan county I’ve experienced paranormal activity and ufos since my childhood and experience it now wish I could show the photos and videos I have I put one on TH-cam call paranormal bottle challenge the house had many strange things going on so they installed cameras and it’s amazing what they caught zoom in and slow down it wasn’t her and it lands on it’s lid
This makes so much sence, I am a great granddaughter, granddaughter, and daughter of coal minors my Dad, and grandpap died relatively young. Wish I could have picked their brains more.
WOW! The tales they could tell you. Thanks for sharing my friend
My dad who worked for RBM enterprise has worked in really low coal had told me of phantom knocking voices that came from nowhere and everywhere. He also seen a young girl in a green dress at the mouth of the mines and come to find out in the 1800s there was a young girl who followed her dad into the mines and ended up getting covered up by bad top. The Appalachian hills has many secrets
WOW, Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hey Donnie. Poor wanderin souls I believe. Heartbroke that they can't stay at the only home they knew in their cherished mountains. I think they'll eventually find the peace they deserve and earned. Thank you my friend.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend.
Another great video Donnie! Now I know what the inside of a coal mine looks like. Never encountered what you did, but I've been in places that gave me a creepy feeling every time I went through.
Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend
I do believe You.I have also seen several strange things ,not in a mine,never worked in a mine.Thank you for sharing.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend
So happy to have found your page Mr Donnie.
I’m a young man 👨🏾 from Philadelphia out here in Los Angeles.
So many of these pages have coastal people and even British scholars talking about them mountains.
It’s so refreshing to hear your voice and to hear all tales from someone who’s actually from there.
Subscribed!
Stay healthy and stay with us, Mr. Donnie.
Also think it’s safe to say we’d all probably like more of the mining stories.
Whether unexplained or not.
I really enjoyed just listening to explain how mining works like the belt and something you said about brass being near a brake stop. (I’m butchering it. It was star story where you saw the light)
Awesome! Welcome friend. Thank you! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing this.
Great video, and I love your descriptions of things. I worked in an aquatic centre here in South Australia for a few years, doing the 5am Saturday shift. Things would jump out of cupboards, individual keys would swing by themselves when the others all round it stayed still. At 5.20am almost every Saturday morning as I was doing the water quality tests I would feel someone standing behind me. Never see anything there. I became so used to it, I used to call out 'morning. We all thought it was an older guy who had passed and had been very attached to the place. He was just making sure I did the job properly.
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend.
I was a coal miner here in Australia ,44 years, often has strange and eerie feelings, and all miners have seen images created buy the stone dust and coal i bet. Very lonely place being in a return airway hot and hardly any air movement, rotting timber smell and mould, 400 feet down and 14 kilometre's to the surface, and all alone.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I can agree with Ya their Donnie. I got my start at the ole Biloxi mine 740' down second week there when I suddenly felt a tap and a tug on my shoulder. Scared the wits out of me. will never forget
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I certainly believe you. I've never been in a mine in my life, but, I've seen strange things elsewhere.
An old house one night, a friend and I seen a shadow figure and at first we thought someone was standing outside and the security light was creating the shadow onto the window shade but, after a moment, we realized the shadow was 3-d and standing in the room. We could tell because as we shifted left and walked slowly trying to make sense we could tell then it was standing in the room freely and not a 2-dimensional silhouette against a wall or other surface.
But I did not have feelings of eeriness, fear or anything at that moment, I just remember being confused and trying to understand what I was seeing and then being amazed.
I also want to mention that this home is popular in the area and I had heard many stories before. I was always a believer in ghosts and never doubted what I heard but I now have experience knowledge that those stories are true.
I'm not trying to compare or compete stories; I'm just letting you know that I do believe you, and also that you are not alone. Others, such as I, also have seen such things. We know you are honest.
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend.
I don't know if I ever said that I love your videos they are very down to earth. Keep them coming.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I moved to an old mining town in PA and these stories and pictures really help me understand what mining is actually like. I'm from Philly but I have a ton respect for this community. Plus I love a good ghost story. Thank you for sharing 💝
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I do believe you. We do not know everything about this earth or even life itself. Y’all are brave men to have worked down there. Brave men. Love and blessings your way! Oh, yeah, and Thank You for sharing these stories! Great!
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
One year before the covid pandemic, late at night I was walking along a side road off the main street and decided to take a short cut. I walked through the grounds of a nursing home. The building was very old and dark. I heard loud shouting and deep cries coming from within. I peaked into a window and the desperate cries got louder and louder. I was a bit scared but I was curious as to why all these sounds were coming out of there. It was the sound of death crying for help. A car drove by me and I stopped it. A man was driving the car and I asked him to listen to the desperate crying voices and sounds. He told me that he couldn't hear anything and then he drove off into the night. I couldn't understand why only I could hear the crying and not him. One year later, the covid pandemic happened and that nursing home was on the news reporting that over 30 seniors had died in there. Was I hearing their cries before they departed? I told this to my mother and she asked me to pray for them.
WOW! Thanks for sharing that my friend.
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That sounds more like a banshee.
This stuff is for certain real. I Have seen things myself and i know that feeling you're talking about, every hair on you stands up sometimes. I've seen the good side and the bad side of things like this. I don't understand it all the way and don't often talk about it but i figure one day like the song says we'll understand it all by and by. Good stories buddy!
Exactly!! Thanks for sharing my friend
Good Day Donnie, I'm glad you shared that with us, there must be spirits of old and young miners that lost their lives below ground. I've seen a spirit myself when I was young so I know how you feel about them. Anyways thanks again for the great tales of the past. Have a great week.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend
freaky stuff Donnie, been too long since I stopped in👍🙂
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I had a similar experience in the navy. I was in a pump room on a aircraft carrier. I could hear someone and feel someone was watching. I found others had the same thing happen to them
WOW, Thanks for sharing my friend
Hi Donnie. I enjoy your videos very much and this one especially. I grew up in a coal mining camp. My grandfather was the camp dr. for almost 50 yrs. He had a lot of interesting stories of things that he had experienced. It was a hard life. Back in early days of the coal camp where he was at, many miners would loose fingers in mishaps at the mines. If they complained about their accident they would be fired. So they would put the fingers in their pocket and go to my grandfathers office. He would sew their fingers back on and they would actually regain function of those fingers. He said he only had a stethescope and a microscope, no antibiotics back then. No xray machine, except in the hospitals, and nobody working in the mine could afford to go hospitals. It was his job to go in the mines when one of the men were injured or killed, and I do remember him talking about weird things happening while he was in the mines. I am getting older and having trouble remembering details of stories he told, and have great regret that I didn't record him or at least write his stories down.
WOW, Good story. Thanks so much for sharing this my friend.
I believe you. All of it. My husband and I lived in an old Victorian house in Kentucky. I was open minded about the paranormal. My husband thought it was all nonsense.Within one month of moving into this house, he had become a believer so much so that he would tell people what was going on in that house but would always end by saying, "I don't care if you believe me or not. This place is haunted." LOL! It was truly frightening for the first year but we learned to live with them. We were there 5 years. We were very sad to leave. Thank you for your story. I really enjoyed it.
WOW! Thanks for sharing that my friend. I believe!
Mr. Donnie sir, I could sit and listen to you speak and talk about life experiences all night. God bless you and your family, my friend 🙏
Wow, thank you so much my friend.
Whew Donnie.....there was definetly something other worldy going on down in there......have had a couple times myself...
..Great video brother...
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend
Hello Donnie I haven't been on for a while I've missed watching your videos I like this one a lot but I tell you one thing no matter how much I'd need a job I think after anyone of those things I'd be coming out of there and never go back you are a much braver man than I am I hope you've been doing well I'm getting back to watching your videos
Thank you. Them days are behind me. Thanks for sharing my friend
This one brought back some good ol memories. I worked over in Man West Virginia at Rockhouse #2 mine, low coal. I also worked over in Pike CO.Kentucky at Massey mine. I loved working in them mines. The people that I worked with were like family. Thank you for the memories and the video. GOD BLESS 🙌🙏
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hi Donnie, I watched this with someone, your voice brought back good memories of my Mama and how she use to sit back and tell us when we were kids true stories that made us think twice. Thank you. :)
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
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I've seen some things that can't be explained except that it was spirits. I believe every word you said, there's a lot in this world that we can't explain. Thanks for sharing!
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend
Hello Donnie, Thank You for sharing your personal experiences. I believe you. I am from New Brunswick Canada. I'm a 65 year old (Retired) commercial poultry farm worker (over 40 years). Sir.. you have my utmost admiration for bravely risking your life each day, to provide for your family in such a dangerous occupation. Just seeing the photo's of those leaning partly crushed support beams, gives me goosebumps! Glad you don't do that job any longer. You can still get hurt with any farm machinery, but raising chickens was never "That" risky! Stay Healthy! 😊🙏
Hello my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. I sometimes look back and think how many times the good lord has saved me. God bless you my friend. Your very welcome.
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Good video, Donnie! Been hoping you'd do some videos about your time in the mines!In my 20's, I worked in an old rendering plant where a couple of guys had been killed a while before I hired on. When that plant was shut down and quiet, there'd be different noises sometimes, even though nothing was running. Some of the older hands would say the noises were just like certain sounds those two guys used to habitually make while they'd been working. On those quiet nights, there were a few of those old hands that wouldn't go alone into the area those guys had been killed in...and a couple that wouldn't go, period.
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend.
a place of horror at best...
Ok. That was a helluva lot better than I expected. The old pics of miners and the tunnels was very interesting.
Well done.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My grandmother’s father was a blacksmith in a mine in SW. Pennsylvania. He was killed when he was run over by a coal car. My grandmother was a wonderful person who loved the Lord.
That's so sad. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I could listen to this you tell stories for hours, especially on a cool fall night round a camp fire
Awesome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Wow, Mr. Laws, those are some eerie experiences, for sure, that you encountered! Your job was hard enough without these strange anomalies, and here you are dealing with trying to explain the unexplainable on three occasions. And allow me to say that I have a lot of respect for all your hard work and fortitude in working such a dangerous job while being a good husband and father supporting your family - well done!!
And I have no doubt what you witnessed in these mines is true and I thank you for the creepy but fascinating bedtime stories!! I will share this video with my girlfriend who loves these kind of spooky stories, yes sir!!!
You channel has a lot to offer, sir, and I really appreciate your efforts in all your videos!! There is a lot one can learn from you.
I'll be talking to you soon. Much respect!
Very Sincerely,
Martin
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I love your stories. I am new to east Tennessee transplanted from Atlanta GA and am soaking up this history like a sponge. You're a wonderful story teller in the tradition of real story tellers I recall from childhood in Alabama. Thank you for taking the time to ensure this oral history survives. ❤
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.