The ULTIMATE Abandoned Anthracite Coal Mine Shaft Exploration! The ASMR Experience! Don't Slip/Trip!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- Hello, & welcome to my channel. Please read the full disclaimer to this video. American Industrial History is my passion, it is my one calling in life. I absolutely love the historical anthracite coal mining era of Pennsylvania. I hold a bachelor's degree in History through Bloomsburg University, also a teaching degree through them (I do not use my teaching degree), I have also completed a good chunk of my master's degree with a concentration in American History specifically. I have not finished it yet because of finances! With this said, I have extensively researched the anthracite mining history of our region through not just print, but also physically as evident from this video. I started in 2003/2004 and it has become an expertise harnessed over decades (a life's work). There's always something new to learn, so please feel free to like & subscribe. FULL SERIES OF DISCLAIMERS IS BELOW, PLEASE CONSULT!
This mine like many others, has "slipped shut." This means that it has in a sense collapsed. Winters in PA are vicious as we know, and water freezes in the cracks of the roof & walls of these old mines. Decades upon decades of this causes the mines to seal themselves off. With this said however, YOU WILL NEVER SEE ME POST A LOCATION, A PICTURE OF A MINE (BOTH UNSEALED OR EVEN BAT GATED ONES) OR GIVE DIRECTIONS TO ANYONE & I MEAN ANYONE. I will not post the mine operation name, the CITY where it is, I will not mention the COUNTY NOR will I post what particular Anthracite Coal Field this is in (ex. Northern or Southern, etc.) With this also said, I formerly explored abandoned mines, I no longer do, everything you see here is "past tense" with old clips. When I took these videos, I had no forethought to think they'd be on TH-cam, so if they don't meet your expectations, this may be why. I didn't plan on these being professional grade, as I am a photographer, not videographer. ALSO, NO ONE POST LOCATIONS OF THIS MINE (if it is recognized) OR ANY OTHER MINE. IF YOU KNOW OF ANOTHER MINE, PLEASE DO NOT POST IT ON HERE, CHANCES ARE I ALREADY HAVE SEEN IT TO BE HONEST! I will have to DELETE any comments mentioning locations or even if you ask for locations, these too will be deleted. Sorry for the drama, but there is ENDLESS drama that goes with this hobby. I can write a novel and produce a miniseries on the drama that comes from attempting to be a historian, crawling into a hole in the ground that is abandoned & sharing the history with those that want to learn. It's ridiculous.
DISCLAIMER: Stay Out & Stay Alive!! As you can see from this video, abandoned mines are treacherous. I've worked with the Pa. DEP/Pa. Game Commission (civilian non-employee reporting dangerous mines) over the last 10 plus years to bat gate mines, backfill open vertical shafts that were threats to people & animals, etc.
STAY OUT & STAY ALIVE! I NO LONGER ACTIVELY EXPLORE ABANDONED ANTHRACITE COAL MINES. I HAVE NEARLY 2 DECADES OF EXPERIENCE AND AM TRAINED, HAVE OXYGEN, FLAME SAFETY LAMPS, MAPS, MEDICAL TRAINING FROM THE MILITARY, ETC. YOU CAN EASILY GET HURT OR KILLED IN OLD MINES! Black damp can kill you in mere moments & it is something you cannot smell or see, without training & proper equipment, you will succumb to this. No locations will be given or discussed anywhere on my channel; I will delete them if comments as such arise. I always carried a closed-circuit oxygen self-rescuing apparatus that miners carry. Always a had a ridiculous number of batteries & multiples of flashlights themselves, glow sticks, hard hat, tourniquet, maps of the specific mine, a safety party on standby should I not come out at a predetermined time, etc. I kept my explorations as professional as one possibly could. I also had an extensive knowledge as to how & why miners did what they did underground. I knew what could possibly happen to the roof/walls before it happened in a sense. My geology knowledge was something I worked hard at & most people could miss what I often saw thus resulting in collapses, etc. SO PLEASE STAY OUT & STAY ALIVE!
THANKS FOR WATCHING & ENJOY!
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Vintage full length tour of this mine, my first underground mine video shared on TH-cam.
Always a pleasure! Here's to our grandfathers! My Dad, who passed in 1987, would have loved to see this. After returning from WWII, he wanted nothing to do with the coal-mining industry, given his Dad's (my Grandfather,) succumbing to Silicosis, but he lived with this all through his formative years with my Grandmother, but they never got to see what is was really like day to day. Thanks again, always enjoy!
Amen brother! To them! Appreciate your story and your watching this.
This one always leaves me speechless. An absolute thing of beauty. The locomotives are the icing on the cake.
Thank you. They are spectacular. This mine is in its own league.
Looks like the #9 tour. COOL!
This one is better, it was free & no other people....plus I was my own tour guide, hahahaha! Thanks though for the comment and watching.
Just amazing! Man this is hard put words on it! Incredible!
Hell ya!
Thank you btw
This made my night man, well done stay safe
Thank you!
Dude your channel is one of the best. This mine leaves me speechless. Urban explorer here from ohio. I have had the opportunity to explore out west, not a lot, but fun. I think what grabs me the most is the region. Both sides of my family were coal miners from years ago. But kentucky and Tennessee areas. Appalachia, bell County, ky and clairborne and Campbell Counties in TN. Different coal there. I bet old bearded crazy frank from exploring abandoned mines would rappel down that shaft. Crazy man I tell ya. Thanks for sharing this. Stay safe.
Haha yeah you're right that guy would repel down! Thanks for the kind words man. I watch his channel too, the problem with this one is the 2, maybe even 3 (if there's a third) levels are flooded. He'd have to ascend a level! The top level isn't explored from what I heard. You're in soft coal country out in Ohio. Appreciate you watching and commenting.
@@577buttfanya, bad black damp at the bottom of that shaft...
Nice still shots in this one. Really captures the atmosphere of the mine which is hard to do. This one has to be one of my favorites you’ve done. I still wonder why they left those locos down there. They must have been worth something to the coal company when they still ran.
Thanks man, it does capture the atmosphere. You're right too, it is hard to capture that. I agree about the locomotives, I was told that it had something to do with bankruptcy, I would imagine they just thought they were coming back the next day and never did!
Love this mine. Really looks like it could be reopened in short order as it seems barely affected by time. Is this northern field? Thanks!
Hey Chris,
Are you able to watch this? Won't load on my end.....others are having issues too. This is the 3rd upload I've done of this today..hahaha. This one is not in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area.
Yes, works just fine for me.
@@chrisl9466 weird man. Not working on anyone's cellphones that I know. I asked a few people....
That is strange I was using my iPhone watching TH-cam on DuckDuckGo browser. I don’t like the TH-cam app.
Great video thank you for sharing. I'ts a shame you can't get the old artifacts out and preserve them for prosperity
Thank you. I agree totally. What a waste. Those locomotives are stellar. I'm sure that wood lining the shaft is worth money too. Bet that wood grew in the 1600s, etc.
Do any of your crew have a ticket in rope access? If anyone is trained, that shaft would be insane to rappel down!
We're not. Lol. There's a level above that no one has accessed...you can't get to it from within the mine itself unfortunately due to collapse.
@@577buttfanya, if you went down, you wouldn't come back up in this one. The DREADED black damp.
It's working!!!
Thank you. Must have been an error on TH-cam's end. Lol.
Thought it was just my phone buffering
I know, right? This is the 3rd upload too! Hahaha. Outrageous. Sorry for this.
It's working now.
What did those two levers next to the shaft operate?
The side by side ones in between the shaft themselves at the center beam divider?
Hey I emailed you! Let me know if you’ve received it thanks!
Its just buffering uhhhh
Buffering on my end still too. How about now?
Hello from hell🎉🎉🎉🎉
Hello there!
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories 👻👻👻👻
Why doesn’t this have a million views? Probably because nobody understands the word anthracite. You use that word more than ANY old time miner in history 😂😂😂
This video is ridiculous though. Hope lots of of pictures were taken and given to historical societies and museums
Thanks buddy. This is just the tip of the iceberg for epic pictures and videos. I haven't really released my good stuff yet 😉!
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories really?? nice!