Crawling Into the Unknown. Could You Handle this Environment?! We Weren't Alone it Turns Out...🚷⚠️🇺🇲
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- Hello, & welcome to my channel. Please read the full disclaimer to this video that follows below.
In this video from several years ago, we went looking for a "lost" Gangway deep within this abandoned Anthracite Coal Mine Slope. It looks like we weren't alone down here too....
YOU WILL NEVER SEE ME POST A LOCATION, A PICTURE OF A MINE PORTAL (UNSEALED, SEALED 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 a 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. Scroll down for FULL DISCLAIMER, PLEASE:
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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I love the description you wrote, a lot people who never grew ip in the coalfields don't know the dangers and curiosity will get the best of you. It still amazes me how those old wood timbers still hold the top. I don't see any bolts and plates in the top. Is that an old pillar line at the first few minutes or not?
Hi. Thanks. No roof bolts were used in most of the historic era anthracite mines here. That practice of roof bolting came after their demise. Most mines here closed in 1960, some a few years later. The timbers actually are just an early warning device to show if a roof is taking weight. Most of these timbers you see are rotted and balsa like now. What sequence time stamp wise are you inquiring about with the pillars? This mine was "robbed out", meaning they took most of the pillar supports when they were closing the mine.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories I meant was it pillared out as there was no cross cuts. The first couple of minutes of the video. I remember being underground and we was long walling a section which is a block of coal 1000' by 1000' and the roof had not fell in behind the shields for almost 500' no timbers nothing. 1000' across and 500' back. The boss was on the phone and the roof was popping like thunder. I told boss I was heading out to the first inby crosscut and wait. He said in a sarcastic voice what are you scared? I made my way toward it and just as I got there the roof started falling and it was like a hurricane force wind came thru. When the dust settled the boss man was standing beside of me holding the phone with the cord hanging off it. I looked at him and said what happened did you get scared. It stopped at the shields and that was it. Scary as hell but those shields are massive if you haven't ever seen them. I think they could pick the top up 6" to 1' foot if you wanted them to. The jack cylinder is about 3 or foot diameter. It's a site to see a long wall run.
@@t.r.4496 that's an epic story! Unreal man. Nerves of steel required to rob those pillars out man. I can only imagine the air pressure and wind from that....ya, this once pillared out. Most pillars were pulled though or are severely depleted.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories I didn't mention that the seam of coal was 6ft to 7ft tall. We had another mine that had a 26ft high seam where two seams ran together about a mile in. The rider seam came together with the main seam. You had to ramp up and cut it back out and bolt it then cut again because the head on the miner couldn't reach the top. When the rib rolled it would go across the travel way. No where to go because we were on a 20ft cut plan. A lot of side bolting with fence and plates was used but still had people get covered. It was mined for 50 years some of the guys retired from the same mine they had started. It's still open and hasn't been sealed. It's just you can't find anyone willing to go back in it. There's still big blocks left in there. A lot of it has to do with the Union. They won't let a contractor portal thru the same portal if it was a Union mine at one time. So all new belt entrance and fan entrance would have to be put back in. We have one mine left in the town. And the guys said it's almost an hour ride on the mantrip to get to the face. I think they said they are 17 miles from the portal on the block they are mining. Not a lot of mining happening now.
@@t.r.4496 Wow! That's awesome man. Obviously Bituminous you're talking of? That's one hell of a commute to the face. What state are you in?? I know, mining isn't doing the best these days. People always cry that coal is a thing of the past...well, they like Steel, don't they?
This video was pretty amusing lol
Thanks man.
Good stuff. Just a couple suggestions. Show us a map of your journey and definitely dumb it up a little more for us. Thanks
I can't. This would give out the location and I don't do this for a variety of reasons. I'm sorry. Check out my friend's channel who was in the video with me. His videos are great. His channel is "Amazing Pennsylvania"
Another wild crawl! When one of you gonna put a trail down in one 😂
Hahahaha. We had the twine! It was severed at the end which spooked us.
Bah I can't type. I meant a trail camera 📸
Some of us call this a good time. Others call it crazy. I call it "yep"
Hahahaha. Yup! This mine is a scary one though....because of the energy! Super safe mine, but this one terrifies the shit out of me.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories I'm not saying I wouldn't do it again. I'd definitely do it differently.
@@MikeOrkid That's what she said!!
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories Ha!
Phil and you make amazing videos
Thanks. Tommy does too! Appreciate it Dave!
I’d hang out in there w/ you guys ALL DAY.
Hahahaha, you don't want to do this, trust me. I wouldn't do this anymore myself even tbh!
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories ya know those random holes that Phil finds in the middle of nowhere, then crawls in them? I know where there are some of those you guys have never been in. I’d bet money on it. PA coal territory is a big place, and you guys documented a drop in a bucket. I know of 1 specifically that has a car in it right as you climb in. Like you’s though, I also don’t kiss and tell…
can't even imagine working in that 36 inch environment day in, day out! No wonder my grandfather was such a hard drinker!! I like when you & Phil collaborate! You guys need one of those paranormal meters when you're down there. It would be interesting getting paranormal readings from past miners spirits. Well done as usual.
I fear that wasn't a miner! Ya, sucks about your grandfather. Poor guy. For real. Hard lives.
Wow Jude! Awesome video!
Thanks Mr. Crowley! *insert Ozzy music*
Lol!
@@mattcrowley3075 sorry man, I'm sure you're sick of that, just like I'm sick of hey Jude. Lol
Never gets old Jude! I have several shirts that say Mr. Crowley on them.
At a previous job. The Ozzy song even got a drunken coworker of mine fired. We were working at a warehouse job with about 50 people. We had our morning startup meeting when the guy starting singing Mr. Crowley out loud, I tried to quiet him down but he kept going. As soon as the meeting was over, management fired him.
Some of my coworkers refer to me as Mr. Crowley. What’s great is people that don’t know the song always ask
Why they don’t use my first name.
My son who is 17, came home from school the other day and said his teacher referenced the song the other day. I told him to get used to and enjoy the fame of our last name.
@@mattcrowley3075 ahhhh hahahahaha. I love it! Ozzy never gets old too. Always reminds me of camping and sitting by the campfire listening to classic rock. The Hey Jude thing gets sooooo old. I haven't heard it in a while to be honest. I've been pretending like I've never heard the song before so they'll sing it and look like fools. 🙂
Awesome! This one is really a beauty. I’ve seen videos of this one and I always wondered what was underneath that water. If only one could explore!
Ya....just a cursed mine though...
Underwater ROV!!
@@Sleezax hell ya!
WAAAYYY too low of a ceiling!! Maybe at an entrance but after that it had better open up.
Hahaha, the Gangway was high, just the "workings" are short.
Remember to "Stay Out & Stay Alive" or you might run into FRIKEN demons in these mines as possibly evident from this video!
Nice footage! I've watched Phil's video from a few years ago in that slope with the stuffed animal, etc. with his girlfriend. They certainly didn't get into those 18" workings though! I can sure imagine the history of that mine did produce some ultimate casualties? Any Idea how many? I have been reading a lot about the Darr Mine South of Smithton, Pa. Seeing the maps of that place and where the actual explosion occurred, and how far the away in the tunnel that those poor guys met their end is absolutely incredible. I guess when you are deep underground and something of that magnitude happens it's just like air or water, it follows the shaft? I love the anthracite mine videos because of the color and how it shows up on video. The Bituminous mines are just a creepy flat black as you've witnessed yourself.
Hey man. These are pretty dimly colored to an extent too. I actually enhance the videos and photos with color filters 🤫 lol. Lots of people perished in this one unfortunately. Many dozens (just from a small amount of looking on my end, can be a lot more than that). Ya, when something bad happens, the portals become death zones at times. I'll look up the disaster you mentioned. Thanks for watching Dave!
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Just to give an idea of the Coal mines on Vancouver island... I haven’t seen even 20% of the amount of Coal just in this video up here EVER. LOL
That sucks! Bituminous out there I assume?
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories I have no idea, most of the deeper main workings where the coal would be extracted from is usually either collapsed or flooded.
If you look into Wyoming Valley Wilkes-Barre the town was built around the coal industry and there is small towns all around it…. Much of it went to Philly and Coal Barron’s lived around what they called the Philadelphia main line
@@katadam2186 yes, that was the early days though. Post 1920s the Barons were largely gone. We powered the American Industrial Revolution via our hard coal.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories Interesting how the Coal and Iron Police were created for a dollar a piece and police didn’t exist beyond the sheriff
Amazing footage. Respect to you.
Thank you
This was a really good one!
Thanks buddy!