Searching for WW1 relics on the Verdun battlefield
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- WARNING please do NOT attempt to do this. Handling munitions, even those from the Great War, had been fatal even for those trained to do so.
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It’s crazy to me that over 100 years ago people lived, and died at the very spot you’re standing at. More-so is how you can touch things that possible killed people in that war. This is why i love history so much.
The ww1 museum in verdun is also a good visit.
You take a small cart through the original tunnels that were made inside an old fort. While wearing vr glasses you follow some french soldiers.
Really well put together and tells the story quite well how live was for the soldiers.
That sounds excellent
@@Useaname Just dont forget to bring something of a jacket. It gets surprisingly chilly.
@@VeryFastRodi cheers
That sounds amazing
“Throw it” - you mad man
Yeah, and that turned out to be a rifle grenade.
i saw remainings of ww1 battle here in Serbia,huge crater still there,surreal expiriance,it blows my mind how many people have died in these battles
Best vid yet,, When i lived in Dover England ,,, 22 miles from there, i did the same thing,, we found shell,s and knifes, lots off stuff,,, alas custom ,s would not let us through the tunnel,,, lol, but we got some empty shells,,, i used them to grow poppies, in,,
It’s crazy. In the US relic hunting is frowned upon or illegal due to most major battle fields being national landmarks. In Europe relic hunting is unavoidable.
Yes I live in Aachen(you know americas stalingrad) and its sich to see the remains of the fightings all over the streets I walk along every day
I'm a metaldetectorist from Flanders, 90% of what I dig is WW1 related, no way around it. Mostly shrapnell lead and copper driving bands. Luckily I can use settings to ignore most of the iron :).
Respect to the farmers who plow and sow those fields every year despite the shells. I’ve already unearthed two myself, and I was like, ‘Oh, sh..!’”
TERRIFYING and at 2:08 it reminds me of 3 days ago, I checked a suspected mortar again, after recently finding it in a safe place very far away from residential estates.
Thank you for your care and caution! There are some videos out there where people go around, pick up live shells, and act like they're nothing. You are doing it the right way!!
While working at a zoo in Belgium in the 80s, I had to help evacuate animals from part of the site after a mole had thrown up a hand grenade that looked very live. The experts ( DOVO ) came to deal with it and it turned out to be safe as it had no detonator and there was no explosive inside. You couldn't see it was empty without picking it up and nobody was foolish enough to try that. As I was the one who spotted it, I was given it as a souvenir - and I still have it.
Wow! I’m in awe at how easy it was to find all that shrapnel. A brief snapshot as to just how much was flying through the air during the battle. Awesome video.
110 years later, ther's still so many metallic things out there on the fields...
I lived in Verdun in the 60s when my US Army family was stationed there. We knew not to touch unexploded ordnance but picked up bayonets, helmets, bullets and other stuff.
Ever spent a night out there? I wonder...these places can't be ghost-free. No way.
I literally live on a former trench and I have yet to see a ghost. ;)
@@DiggersDatabase where is that? Ypres?
@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 That region yes, it was a german trench in the backlines. Did not see heavy fighting until 1918 but there were artillery batteries around it troughout the war as I still find lots of cordite scattered around on the plowed field next to my house.
@@DiggersDatabase I lived in Ypres from 2001 until 2014. Also had a house up in Sint Elooi, right on top of the british lines. Some mine craters further down the road. Found loads of stuff there. And for ghosts, absolutely yes.
@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Just curious, what makes you say there are ghosts?
That is wild.
This is the best video on youtube
Really?
In ypress you can find live shells next to the road of the farmers field its almost unbelievable how deep the scars of war are in thise regions
Wow we found some crazy stuff out there, The Great War is truely all around you in Verdun
I live in France.. it is illegal as well as most assuredly dangerous to forage at Verdun.. The police check regularly and signs are there to see not to do it. The fines are very large if you are caught.
I hope one day you'll be able to visit Poland to tell the tale of Eastern front.
Osowiec, Przemyśl and even my home village are a part of it.
Those are places I definitely want to visit as soon as I am able
Youngstown in the house !! Love the history respectn
That whole area would also be a grave for many soldiers that fell in battle so sad R.I.P
Been there last oktober. Shrapnel everywhere! E V E R Y W H E R E. Also found bullets, shells, fuses everywere. The most unreal place ive ever been to.
Wow, I knew that they fired loads of artillery but after 100 years still finding shrapnel and bombs is crazy.
I remember sometime in the 1960’s Life magazine wrote an article on battlefield remains. A picture showed a mound skulls collected.
Sad truth, as a Belgian metaldetectorist in Ypres I can confirm. Makes for good videos of ww1 metaldetecting though.
Go to the corner of the fields where you see a growth of bushes. Can fill a backpack there in 20 minutes just using your eyes. Was trooping all around there in the 1980's.
I live in the south part of the country, too bad there aren't any interesting battlefields here, i would've bought you a drink !
قتل اكثر من مليون رجل من الجانبين الالماني والفرنسي.. كانت مذبحة لايتصورها العقل...
War is such a waist of everything - people, resources, manufacturing, everything. So sad
*waste
I wonder what the level of contamination is in those fields.
You all looked like you had a big time. I can’t believe so much is left over 100 years later. That’s wild to me. Unfortunately, there’s no way to identify any remains found. What’s ďone with them? Buried with their brothers in war or some local cemeteries?
Remains are found often. They’re reburied in the closest military cemetery (which are all over the place).
Gekende plek om te wandelen, heb daar een zilveren zakhorloge gevonden 3 jaar geleden
I believe there is an shrine or maybe more than one close to the farmland where farmers can deposit bones they find while farming.
The Douamont Ossuary, it's a huge building, and the vaults beneath it are filled with the mortal remains of the fallen, I recommend a visit before you go digging around the countryside!
Wow guys i always tried ro search for relikvies from the first and second war but i never found anything. You must be know the places. Congrats
appreciate you!
It’s upsetting to hear comments like ‘it’s cool’ when exploring these sacred places. A little more respect wouldn’t go amiss. It isn’t ‘cool’ and it never was.
If you set off a grenade or other explosive, would you be considered a casualty of WW1?
LOL how to even assess if it was WWI or WWII?
How did you get permission to search? Ask the land owners? Also I’ve found and bought old ammunition before and it was confiscated in England even thought it’s never able to be used again, such a shame
You dont need a permission to walk around and pich things up you see randomly
This is forbidden, i knew some americans that took 10 years of jail for that in normandy. i am a detectorist, the laws are very strict in france, but a lot of americans keep flooding our passion by this acts
Why is it
How many artillery shells were fired in Verdun? How many bullets?
Nice WW1 parts
So in some places in Europe I am sure WW1 and 2 can be found mixed in Napoleon battles.
Millions of shells were fired by the British, and it's reckoned around 30% never went off.
The Bunker looks more like WWII.
That one guy that picked up the bomb almost became victim #301. Wow that was stupid.
He's a retired Dutch marine veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan.
@@StoriesoftheGreatWar No disrespect intended but I do believe it was ill advised, am I wrong?
@@srf2112 Oh I wouldn't have done it. I wouldn't say you're wrong at all.
@@srf2112if you know what you’re doing, then it should be fine, emphasis on if you know what you are doing. That one clearly didn’t have a fuse on it, could still have some explosive material in it, but still a slight chance it can go off. A very slight chance but still. Farmers pick these things up all the time to put them beside the road. This one was by the edge of the field, so probably placed there by the farmer. And it was put down straight away after checking it.
@@HistoryWarCinema I had a close family member who worked in UXB, disposing of unexploded ordinance. He told me stories about mistakes made by experienced technicians. I wouldn't dare touch anything that's possibly still live.
L’artillerie française a elle seule a tirée au cours des 7 premiers mois 23 millions d’obus de tout calibre.............le 24 octobre 1916 nous avons tiré 240.000 obus ( que du côté français)
Never never go in these woods after dark never.
Why
@@spanishroyalty1254 Because they are haunted no one goes in after dark the locals keep well away.You go in at dark you will not survive.I know.Keep out please.
3:06 wie lange werden denn Granaten dort noch gefährlich sein mögen?
Ich weiß es nicht, aber ich möchte lieber auf Nummer sicher gehen.
@@StoriesoftheGreatWar Always!
In der Rote Zone (verbotene Zonen) denken die Gehörden, dass es noch 200 bis 300 Jahren dauern wird, bis es wieder "sauber" ist.
Wow....
Some of this is still British government property. I've often thought this should be returned 🤣
Epic 🇨🇦🤝🇫🇷 🫡
The music is annoying unnecessary and unrelated to the video
None of that stuff is going to blow up😂 it's been plowed by farm machinery for over 100 years😂
Except it does, all the time. And it continues to kill people.
🤣 "promosm"
Shell splinters NOT Shrapnel . Shrapnel is round lead balls from an airburst munition .
You are referring to an older, historic definition. The meaning and usage of words change. Today, shrapnel is, by definition, "fragments of a bomb, shell, or other object thrown out by an explosion."
But the lead balls are also everywhere, found 9 of m last october.
@@gewoonsanne8589 It's 90 % of what I dig as a metaldetectorist from near Ypres. I do keep them in a big 30L jar. Almost full after 2 years of regular detecting :)
If you wish to take a discerning interest in what you are picking up then it is absolutely right to distinguish between HE (high explosive) and shrapnel. The former has a thick casing which breaks directly into shards. The latter has a thin casing which cracks apart through a bursting charge and scatters anti personnel balls, probably through an air burst. The reasonably intact nose cap accompanied by a large part of the shell body was probably part of a fired shrapnel shell, which has not disintegrated like HE. Be aware of gas shells, which can still have toxicity.
Do they grow good crops in these fields how did they treat the fields
This was in winter.
All that blood and bone not to mention aeration of the soil. I bet the crops are awesome!! 😢