I wish the school's would have your passion for history teaching. It's truly amazing how you present your knowledge and I feel very fortunate to be a part of you're teaching. Thank you
Thank-you kindly! I know a lot about Indiana legends, History and tourist attractions, having lived here my entire life. I get the rest from research and talking to local historians / people I meet in these small towns. I can’t know it all, I will miss / fail to mention a fact that someone holds dear. But, for the most part, I end up knowing more than most local people do! 🙂
Having grown up near Brewersville Indiana, the local giants have always fascinated me. Having worked for Clark County EMS and being an experienced paddler, I can't stress enough how dangerous the Falls and the dam are! We frequently had to recover drowning victims because of those features. Even with decades of experience in canoes, I've gotten caught in eddy currents that were too powerful to outrun and have nearly been pulled upstream into the dam myself.
I tell people that the falls were a big reason why Louisville grew so fast. Boats had to stop at the falls, and people had to either get another ride, downstream, move the boat over land, or just decide it was where they were going to live! It’s fascinating how things work, out of sheer practicality!
I've been to the Clark cabin numerous times. But, it has been a few years. How sad to learn someone burned it down! Thank you for all your informative videos of our great state!
My Dad was born in nearby Georgetown Indiana in 1913. Both his parents had died by the time he was eight, so he was raised by his maternal grandparents. He quit school at the age of thirteen to help them make ends meet. He worked at a shirt factory and at the Colgate plant. (He learned to tell time by reading the clock from the backside).He told me one of the bridges to Louisville (K & I), charged a nickle toll for pedestrians. He would avoid paying the toll by slipping on to a girder under the walkway and going unseen from the toll booth. The only problem was one slip and he would have wound up in the Ohio. RIP Pop (1913 - 2008)
@@AdventureswithRoger Dad's expanded story (and he honestly thought he'd never accomplished much): "My Dad was born in 1913 and he died in 2008 at the age of 94. His mother died when he was five and his father when he was eight. He was raised by his maternal grandparents who were very poor. He quit school at thirteen and went to work to help them make ends meet by working in a shirt factory. Later he worked in a soap factory. At around twenty, he got a job with a crew building a road through his small southern Indiana town. By the time he was twenty-two he was running a crew of his own. He met my mother in 1942 and married her a week before leaving for Army basic training. He eventually went through Officer Candidate School and eventually attained the rank of 1st Lt. He was being mobilized to deploy to support the invasion of Japan when the bomb was dropped and the war ended. He left the Army in 1946 (stayed in the Reserves until 1960) and moved to help my Mom’s father on his farm. My Grandfather died suddenly in 1950 and my Mom and Dad took over the farm. There wasn't any thing my Dad would give a shot on the farm; cattle, hogs, chickens (1000 layers at one time), truck crops, such as tomatoes, turnips, and cabbage. We had seven acres of strawberries at one point. Dad cleared fifteen acres of woods and scrub ground by hand. He would throw nearly 100 pounds of feed on his shoulder and walk a half mile through the snow to feed hogs. Later, in the '60's, he and Mom rented the farm out and he sold insurance. He became one of the top salesmen in the company. He traveled all of Iowa and Illinois and would leave Monday morning and get back on Friday. He and Mom built a new house in '66. He got into land development and nearly lost everything due to several unscrupulous partners. He and Mom then got into Section Eight Housing and built four projects for the elderly and low income families in small towns. That saved them. We had started running the farm again in the early '70's, and Dad would plant or combine all day well into his '80's. Once, in his mid 70's he had surgery for rectal cancer. Two weeks later he was spending ten hour days sitting on a tractor planting corn. He never stopped busting his ass to take care of us" BTW, I remember Dad telling me about helping pull people out of 2nd floor windows in New Albany using a boat during the '37 flood.
@@gw5309 Simply amazing stories! “Hard times make hard men. Soft times make soft men.” Current generation has no idea what people had to do, just to survive. If you failed, you didn’t get a pat on the back and a reset, you died. If these stories aren’t told, what will happen when times get tough again?
I was born and raised right next to the widows walk ice cream place on riverside dr. It was a great place to grow up and I’ll always remember that great view of Louisville from the front door. It’s still my most favorite place. Thanks for making this as I’ve learned some things I didn’t even know.
My pleasure! I had collected all kinds of stories, from people, books and online articles, since moving to southern Indiana in 2009. Such a very interesting history that I wanted to preserve. I love driving along the waterfront or just parking the car and watching the world float by, thinking about all the hidden history.
If you ever want to read some good books on this time period, go read Alan W Eckert's Winning of America series which are all based on historical fact. I loved the Frontiersmen. He was a great story teller. I remember reading this and imagining I was back there in time with Clark, Simon Kenton and Tecumseh.
I live in Marion Indiana right outside of Wabash indiana, Muncie indiana, and Jalapa Indiana. I truly believe that our Past History definitely when it comes to Native Tribes has been not only White Washed but just absolutely deleted. Yes with today's tech we can obviously find anything with a few clicks but to actually see the evidence of a pre history civilization is widely unknown to many. Yes theres the Indian cemetery in Jalapa where theres a 1812 Mississinewa Reenactment every year but most people really dont realize they are standing and walking on Native American lands these weren't small tribes the Cherokee, Sioux, Miami, and even the Seminoles Tribes all lived in Indiana. These Tribes fought not only with each other but fought English settlers and skirmishes against the U.S Military right here in Indiana. There's a ton of Ancient Native Artifacts that get overlooked or they are on private or state run lands and we can't trespass to see them or dig them up but these artifacts prove not only that Indiana was occupied by Native Indian Tribes but also was occupied by really Tall White, Red, or Black Skinned Warrior Natives. My Family was started by Cherokee and Blackfoot Indians and theres an Old Story about how the Indian children weren't allowed to leave the Tribe and go play or Explore in the woods because either the Evil Spirits of the Forest would take them or the Tall White men with Hair like the Morning Sun would take them and Feed them to their Tribe. Now if this is a True Story or Real Account of Tall Giant White Cannibals idk but still kind of Weird when you see these Old Newspaper Articles of Giants Bones being Uncovered and how some of the Bones had Arrowheads still Stuck in them from a Battle they had Fought against fellow Native American Tribes.
There are lots of things in Indiana, that are partially hidden, or hidden on purpose. And, inconvenient histories, that throw long-known narratives into chaos. I know people that have found all kinds of interesting artifacts: what looks like rock carvings of tropical birds, in the Hoosier National Forest. A Viking rune stone. Roman coins. A stone tablet with ancient Welsh writing on it. If you call anyone of authority, the sites will be analyzed and taken away, never to be seen again.
I just watched you video, found it by chance. You did a good job researching. By any chance, through your research did you come across any cryptid legends & or info about the city being old than originally thought? I'm researching the history of the Falls of the Ohio & Louisville and it's a weird place. Great video!!
I’ve completed two Indiana cryptid videos and found nothing about the falls area. However, there’s lots of giant / ancient people legends on both sides of the river. 1800’s geologists E.T. Cox and William Borden found a 17 foot tall wall on the ridge at Rose Island, that was not natural. It was cut blocks of limestone. Local people took the stone for building houses, bridges and other structures. Over the years, legends of European explorers, before Christopher Columbus, have been told over and over, but it could very well be ancient Native Americans like the Adena.
@@AdventureswithRoger I appreciate the reply and will check out more of your videos. I've found information that has mounds in DT Louisville as late as 1836 & a cryptid story of a Giant "Bat-man" that had been seen lurking & flying off the top of the Walnut Baptist church circa 1919ish. This place has an interesting past. Thanks, great job.
Wow, you found out more than those of who were born there and grew up in Clark County ever heard about.GRC name is all over schools roads, etc but we never heard all this. Only about the trip he made with Lewis. I never even heard about Sand island! So what happened to those large skeletons?
As the story goes, large, ancient skeletons were found along the banks of the Ohio River. They were so old that the calcium turned to dust when exposed to air. There was another found in Louisville that did the same.
I would say yes, but Clarks men were rumored to have thrown skeletons in the river, as they cleaned a place for the fort. I never read if the army corps of engineers found any skeletons as they were demolishing it piece by piece.
The beginning you talk about the same I was told about Kentucky no natives would settle here only hunting ground as the orginal people before them still roamed this land and they wouldn't live here or it would become brother fight brother's interesting have the same for Indiana
@@AdventureswithRoger Lifelong Hoosier here, always something new to learn about, love History ! [and a number of studies] I look forward to checking out your channel some more ... all good things to you and yours ;-]
PRECISELY! There is supposedly a Viking artifact found near the Ohio River. It’s a small stone with rune writing. I’ve seen a picture of it, but can’t confirm authenticity.
“Witches Castle” was built by a guy for his wife, we even have his name on documents. It’s not all that old, was called “Mistletoe Falls”. Now above that though, some have said it was a lookout for Prince Madoc / the white Indians. I haven’t been able to determine where that came from, still digging.
I never thought of it that way, but you’re spot on. To add insult to injury, they weren’t skilled labor, and after work on the prison was well underway, it was deemed not up to code: it had to be torn down and done all over again.
We have many more monsters, there’s a legend that says if you’re on eastern blvd at the right time the entire Clark county cops will pull you over for a dirty car or some b s lol jk but this is awesome I’ve been looking where to go looking for some “scary” stuff, the real monsters are the meth heads tbh lol js
Let me throw you one. If you take I-64 to the Edwardsville exit, briefly go south on 62, then go east on a road called Corydon Pike, you unknowingly cross the largest train tunnel in Indiana. Trains disappear at Georgetown, go under I-64, and exit at the very bottom of the Corydon Pike hill: the Duncan Tunnel, you can look it up online. The legend for years is that the tunnel has an underground, secret storage facility, in the center, built by the government. I’ve heard everything from it being a Cold War bunker, in case of a nuclear attack, to storing top secret documents. Lots of stories and speculations. But what isn’t folklore, is that if you park at the pull off, and no one knows why there’s a pull off, a police car will be there in 5 minutes, or less, to ask you what you’re doing. Many people have told me this. My one friend parked there to test it, and confirmed it.
@@cgraf69 this is the ghost of the one they call Chach, don’t go there 😂😂 jk I haven’t gone yet it’s too cold for my Texas ass lmmfaoooooo but if you’re in the area and wna go do some investigating I’m down
I have deleted my own insults so you don't have to. If you think Clarksville seems historic... Clarkdale Az. is even more mysterious. If Jesse James actually faked his funeral in St Joseph my great grandmother was at and grandfather was born there. Granny told me at 96 years old after the Jesse James show she hollered for the encyclopedia under J .. I was like 6-7 and she sat my brother and I on each arm if the chair and started her rant. She pointed to the official photo of the casket being carried. She was standing next to the photographer and she said this to me.... That Mr Howard carried Bix at Jesses funeral.... She had just told me in masonic code that Jesse James faked everything and spread some civil eat loot around and became Senator Clark Gold Mine Owner ... He became thee only mine owner who paid gold and cash for his rail spurs. One in Montana to the East West Rail.... One in Clarkdale Arizona from Jerome mines up to the Perkinsville station. Today you can ride the Verde Valley Excursion Train up the Verde River spur . Gramps retired stopped the East West and went and photographed the area... I was surveying that area with the West Yavapai County elevation and erosion survey 1972-73. I know every inch of that land . Gramps then painted oils and had hundreds of photos ... With one leg in a wheelchair I would give anything to retrace my steps.. as now I know what to look for and Gramps I still wonder if he weren't Jesse James son ... He became not a plainclothes man but an old clothes man. It would seem the law offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad all 32° or higher Masons and the higher you rise in the organization the older the suits. Those guys drove around in rusty Oldsmobiles never a Caddy and a JC Penny rack wool suit. Gramps thought. the president was Santa Clause and he told me he just jumps in the big guys lap just like me and asks him for what he wants. Richie Rich didn't have as many toys as my brother and I . It was a little much. But with an assassinated presidential candidate in the fam we were on the move hours after JFK. There's an old saying on the hill... If you want to be president you go to Prescott first. So Gramps grabbed his presidential candidates and disappeared to Arizona. I was cowboy on Az. largest ranch... Got a trickshot moniker and out of the marines Kissinger and. Chase flew in from China Accords. I was raised on Queen Elizabeth s Stienway she gave to us and I would play till I bled . Back in town my DeMolay group was getting shot up ... Yeah mom and the chief of staff Col. Whitman autopsied his son Roy. We had NASA contracts science awards galore and we had antigrav men in black twice and then Roy was murdered . I was guarding back door at autopsy when Col. Whitman told me himself.. Nice quiet mining ranching community... Then Councilman Patrick blew his brains out in front of 300 in council... Oh Jesus... Oh and my global perks ended when High Hefner handed this first year law student a blank check to the supreme court. Over 3 seeds. Not bad for a Republican Hunter Biden. Yeah my Uncle Russel was Senate Finance Chair 33 years. So I grew up next to the man who invented TV.. Next door to him Palmquist ...he invented NASA JPL SETI Goldstone Labs . I watched Neil from a NASA earth station and all I had to do was mash the mic and say hi. The original Betty Crocker 104 lived up the creek and Mrs Schwinn at the top of Circle P.. no shortage of Fame and heros and such as the town is 9% black all white except two families in the 60s... and 5000 of 6000 residents disappeared ...1967 out to Drake for the UFO landing.... Mom let a UFO report fly in the Newspaper... By the end of the week it was front page . Sunday every church was full and so we're the picnic baskets in the trunk as 12 o'clock hit Reverend James a fine lodge member looked at his watch and my brother and I snuffed the candles and suddenly 5000 people appeared in a field. And our small DeMolay NASA hi school science group watched as the scheduled time came the Indian said to commune with the star people 3 pm Sundays ...stepped out of his Hogan unzipped his fly and watered the shaggy bark juniper tree and went back inside. Everyone got insulted and left. Yup that's Prescott...
When I was a kid, our parents took us to see Jesse James Cave (Meramec) in Stanton, Missouri. They had some really interesting materials about Jesse James faking his own death and living to be an old man as “Frank Dalton”. I returned to the cave as an adult, and bought up everything the gift shop had on the subject! The picture of Jesse James in a casket does not look like his earlier pictures. I believe he somehow got to live a second life!
@@AdventureswithRoger was on a 6000 mile circuit of US on 10 speed 1979. They were tearing out the brickyards ... My grandfather Edgar Levi Moyer was born there married Huey Longs cousin and his Chicago boss was shot dead in the office by All Capones boys... He went from horse carts and ice to a mile a minute machines to a moonlanding .. he was born in St Joe after all this but he was a big shot and golfed with Ike and I have very interesting one off rail stories. He never put us on a train...his mom died 1974 at 104 and at 102 moved to Arizona with us... Not until I read the Dalton stories and the Clark stories did I realize what a convoluted history a little gold can make
Murphy the James gang couldn't hold a candle to the very first train robbers in southern Indiana,The Reno brothers made the James gang look like boy scouts,The Reno brothers was the baddest and meanest gang from long ago.Billy the kid lived in Indiana,Sam Bass was from Indiana and so was Johnny Ringo,And the most famous outlaw in the United States John Dillinger plus a whole lot more.James was way way overrated. Sorry to bust your bubble but truth is truth.
I live about 30 east of Indiana...really had zero interest in the state...but this has rapidly become my favorite channel and I really have a deep respect for Indiana history now.
I grew up at Greenwood, Indiana, lived there for over 30 years. Our parents frequently brought us to southern Indiana, and it was like a wonderland of exciting things! When I got a chance to live here, I took it and have never been sorry! 🙂
It's sad that many of our nation's heroes were treated somewhat poorly after they went through great hardship to help our nation. I've been to the Meriweather Lewis burial site on the Natchez Trace and he also died broke beset by alcoholism and creditors. Some say he died of his own hand others say he was murdered. It's a mystery that will most likely never be solved.
It really is a shame how our nation has treated our finest patriots, then and now. I’ve never studied Lewis’s life after the Corp of Discovery: that’s very interesting, as well as tragic! The one thing I’ve seen, is that if you didn’t have family, such as grown children, or couldn’t hire help, you were pretty much on your own. That could make a great man consider suicide, when thinking they’ll end up in the street and disgraced. So incredibly sad.
Let these lessons and countless more, stand as a record that the government, and all those in it, left/right, do not care about us. No good deed will go unpunished
I was going to mention this... it's a long standing tradition within our country that we seem to ignore, the more one gives for our country the more the government will take from them... unless of course you go directly into politics from whatever service you provided and bolster the fame to fan the flames of your own glory to bring in contributions and benefits building wealth and power... otherwise the government will just debt you into oblivion for the service that you gave... the Lucky ones can often be the soldiers who died in the heat of battle for they are the only ones who perish without owing the government their entire life... but then they gave their all to protect the people they love... I've been through the encampments of military soldiers who have come back from war to not have a home no money in the bank and no other place to be... some people would ever realize that there was veteran encampments hidden along some highways in the woods where these heroes live in tents surrounded by camouflage mesh pretty much living like they are stuck in a war... some might say they are stuck in a war... every day is a fight to stay alive and not become another one of the 22 a day that takes their own life... or fighting to get food, medicine, and the basic needs in which they need... struggling against PTSD depression anxiety and a host of other physical and emotional scars and trauma that they have endured. These men and women live on the fringe of society still forgotten and other times blatantly ignored... I've sat with many, ate with them, and discussed the things that they've gone through, cried with them and prayed with them... but there was nothing tangible I could do to help... I'm only one man... but if I could I would have... there's soldiers all over who just want to come home... some may be only a short walk from anyone at this moment... always thank a veteran but even more if you have a way talk to ones that you meet and take the time to truly listen to what they have to say...
Vincennes was founded in 1732. And was part of the reason that Fort Clark was established - GRC set up a base of supply and expansion in the push to take the Ohio and Wabash valleys…. Sorry, my inner nerd just needed to blurt that out.❤
My mom said we were related to General Clark and even desired one of her great grandchildren to have the middle name Clark. But I knew nothing of this history. She would have loved this video. Thank you for studying, researching and sharing 😀
Though the "dark history part" of famous Clarksville, IIndiana is terrible to acknowledge, the times I have traveled up to Indy on vacations...it's fun to me to always think in my mind since the fall of 1966, the famous rock tune: "Take the Last Train to Clarksville" by The Monkees ( which, you may know, as of lately [2022] there's only one Monkee left: Micky Dolenz) when ever I was on I-65. I didn't realize there some history to explore in Clarksville. One of my favorite UA-cam shows my wife and I enjoy watching is "Traveling Robert". His last episode of his was on the journey of discover of Lewis and Clark Expedition. Great series by Robert to watch. What a tragic ending to General George Rodgers Clark.
Both Lewis and Clark as a team, and General Clark, had some interesting journals about what they found on the frontier. Blue-eyed Indians that spoke Welsh, giant skeletons unearthed along the Ohio River, an ancient castle with 75 foot tall walls: were all journal entries that have disappeared.
Sitting across the river in Louisville watching your video. I used to live off Utica Pike, and I concour, it is mysterious over there. So much wonderful and dark history.
I had one viewer from Louisville, upset over this video. Said it made Clarksville look bad. It’s history, good or bad, and the stories are worth retelling.
Hey Roger, this is a really interesting place...but then you show us how fantastic a lot of places are in Southern Indiana. Videos like yours are some of the best available on UA-cam. Thanks for all your hard work producing these top notch videos. You should be writing books to go along with your love of the area. I would love to read all about some of the places you have filmed in a guide book.
Thank-you very kindly! My hope is to cover all the exotic, hard-to-reach places while I’m able, historical documentaries, and follow-up with fun travel guides and a book. Lots of behind the scenes things have happened on these journeys! 🙂
I’m always finding new stuff I didn’t know about. This channel was supposed to be a 4 month project, and I’ve now been at it 5 years! And the beauty of it: after I publish a video, people give me new ideas!
Allan Eckert wrote a book entitled~that dark and bloody River~ It is one of the best and most interesting books I have ever read ,Eckert wrote Wrote many books on French and indian War ,revolutionary War and Civil War He also wrote a book on tecumseh A sorrow in my heart and on Simon Kent called the frontiersman You will not be disappointed!
I'm 24, always lived in indiana. I always have had this adventurous soul and now I know why. There's so many things to see in indiana! Awesome channel!
I originally started the channel as friends at work were always asking me for southern Indiana weekend ideas. I thought I’d be done in 4 months, and I’m still going after 5 years! I’ve found lots of cool places, and people continue to send me more ideas. All I know is I never get tired of jumping in the car and exploring down here! 🙂
I’d heard lots of great stories over the years, and tried to pull them all together. The one story I wanted to tell, but didn’t, was the legend about the cave that went under the Ohio River, somewhere near the falls. I’d heard it and read about it over the years, how native Americans were using it to get to Indiana, from Kentucky. But could not find it online, when making this one. Hopefully I’ll run into it again!
I have several contacts with the southern Indiana grottos, all really good people. There are several caves downstream of the falls, on the Kentucky side. One called “Morgan Cave”, the other, “Daniel Boone Cave”. I’ve heard that both are on private property. But, I don’t believe they go back very far. A cave this fantastic would be a huge deal if it were found!
I’ve been very interested for the last 25 years about the legend of Prince Madoc and the Welsh settlement at the Falls of the Ohio. I’ve heard that when the dam was made workers found a lot of artifacts. There’s another location up river, Indiana side called “The witches house” or something like that and the place looks ancient. It’s said by some to have been a Welsh fortification from the 1100’s and it’s also said that the stones that hold up what’s now a walking bridge across the Ohio River were taken from the same place. The Falls of the Ohio and surrounding area are full of mysteries.
Well you are in luck, Mike: I’m working on the Prince Madoc movie! A man named Dana Olsen wrote a book on the subject, and was in negotiations with a film company, but something fell through a few years ago. Out of professional courtesy, I didn’t pursue it any further, thinking it would finally come to fruition. I didn’t want to steal his thunder. But, given many years of inactivity, I began filming. I touched upon the Madoc legend in the Rose Island segment, but there’s a LOT more to be told! 🙂 Mysterious Rose Island / Charlestown State Park (Charlestown, Indiana) ua-cam.com/video/aDOot4h2rVU/v-deo.html A friend of mine researched / visited the Witches Castle, near Utica. The truth behind it, to me, is much more interesting than the local legends. It’s the story about a man that truly loved his wife, and wanted to build her a castle, because she was his “queen”. He went to great trouble and expense to build it, but she would never live there. Maybe it wasn’t her style, too grandiose, she just liked modern places, or perhaps the house was a last ditch effort to save a troubled marriage, I haven’t found an answer. There was a grain of truth in stories that two elderly women lived at the castle, but the morbid stories behind it are probably fiction. For a fact, local kids have went there and spray-painted pentagrams and satanic symbols to make the once chapel look scary. A New Albany girl was tortured if not also murdered there, by girls she knew in school. Incredibly sad story. I wanted to do a segment, telling the tales and what we know, but it is on private property. I’ve done other abandoned property videos, but after people start watching and showing up to investigate, I get letters from attorneys. 😀 But, if it is clearly abandoned, and there are no posted “no trespassing signs”, Indiana law says that there is no laws broken. Like you, I love the history and legends of southern Indiana. I’m glad I’m not the only one! Will love to hear what you think of that Madoc movie, whenever I can get it together!
@@AdventureswithRoger The girl is Shanda Sharer, she's from Jeffersonville, and she was not murdered at the witch's castle. Yes, she was taken there before her murder, but she was killed in Madison
I was stunned to learn that Clark's cabin at Clark's Point had burned down last May! Somehow I missed that story when it was in the news. I live about an hour from Louisville and had visited that cabin one three occasions, the last time in March of 2020, and I took many pictures there. I know it was a vintage cabin relocated there and not the 1803 original, but it is very sad that someone would do that to a piece of our history. I wonder if the guy arrested for the arson was a random pyro-pervert or was motivated by "woke" ideology against G.R.C.? I am very glad I visited the old cabin while it was there.
I don’t understand why someone would want to destroy any remnant of history, even if it was just a symbol and not the original. The arsonist set fire to several places along the river, it’s unclear what his motive was.
I lived 50 feet from that Cabin. It was a homeless guy running from cops he had several warrants for other things he had down. I believe he was on drug's at the time. I lived right next to flood wall and I would see him walking back and forth constantly. I also went to George Roger Clark elementary school. My oldest daughter did to. But good ol Clarksville.. HUH. Shut school done and tried a daycare and then office buildings or something. It didn't work. It sits empty
Hey Roger.. Did you know us people that grow up/live in Old Clarksville right next to River are called???? We are (River Rat's). LOL. I went swimming in that river, too many time's to count. Fished there, skipped school on the banks of the river on the fossil beds. Did alot of bomb fires and parting back then in the 80's. Good ol time's!!
@@christinedowdle5721in my travels I met a great fella that called himself a river rat! He lives down in Harrison County and collects arrowheads and strange rocks. One I have to agree looks like a parrot and definitely man made.
„Take the last train to Clarksville“. What a nice music hit of the sixties! By the way: What’s about Sasquatch there? Greetings from Linz Austria 🇦🇹 Europe!
Sad to see that someone burnt the cabin down and its gone now, seems kind of senseless… I am from Indiana and have lived here my whole life but I live in northern Indiana just north of Fort Wayne so I don’t get down that far south very often, but definitely would like to go someday to see all the cool history in that part of the state! Very cool video!
From what i got from different folks and for Kentucky was a bad place to hunt there. Because of the indigenous people as say that land there was a bad place to hunt. And Kentucky has been a cuse place with Spirits. Many battle and blood flow in Kentucky. As from what i have understand to there history. Not the white man history. But the natives of Kentucky.
To follow up on the Sand Island giants, why don't you do a story about Prince Madoc from Wales? Those were his people that were found there. They also inhabited Rose Island up river, near Charlestown Indiana. As a matter of fact, there is a statuette of him at The Falls of the Ohio Museum.
We think alike! A Prince Madoc video is in the works. I briefly touched on it, in the Rose Island video, but there is much more to tell! I was able to film one of the artifacts, earlier this year, and someone has offered me a second, whenever I can get there. There's also a weird place in Perry County, under negotiation, but it may not happen. I try to be discreet on private property videos, but one person watches my video, figures it out,, tells 100 people, and then I get hate mail. So, landowners are often hesitant to let me film, knowing it could bring them unwanted traffic.
@@AdventureswithRoger I haven't seen the Rose Island video yet. I will have to look at it. I did get a chance to see the Brandenburg Stone at the Charlestown library. Maybe you cover that in the Rose Island video. I'll check it out. Thanks
They're developing a new downtown Clarksville on the other side of the floodwall thats in your thumbnail. I always thought they could put a ice cream parlor or something along that idea where that structure is that holds up the train bridge by the dam.
Hello Roger! My name is Paul and I live around the area and just want to say you've done an awesome job with this video and the dark silver one!!! I've always been intrigued with this areas history and along with the purchase of my new metal detector I'm excited to get out and about and just explore and learn! I wish there was more info on Sand Island...Is it completely underwater? Also learning more about the history of Clarksville a early African American settlements would be cool...I could go on all day about this stuff! Lol
Hi Paul! Thank-you for your kind words! Sand Island isn’t underwater, although it does flood. Someone said that when they were a kid, the water was once so low that they just walked to it. I don’t know how sketchy it is to hop a boat and explore it, with the flood gates opening and closing upstream, but can you imagine a metal detector finding?
@@AdventureswithRoger Oh I can! I was just telling somebody I'd love to take a boat out there when it seems safe! I also think I have the silver fever now after your video 😅 I can't wait for the weather to cool down and explore some spots around here, especially New Albany and further out towards the boat.
I remember a friend calling me and saying they’d got a new metal detector, and asking if I’d like to go prospecting! So I went along, and ended up being the guy that helped dig every time that device went crazy! Old wire. Junk. Then we found a sterling silver fork! So technically, I have found silver in Indiana! 😀
Fascinating history of an area I used to live at. As an "Original Transcon RR" fan, these facts you uncover, right in front of our eyes, bear thinking of'. Another area of interest, Civil War era, much to ponder. Reading material: Bret Baier's "To Rescue the Republic", tells of Grant, his history, and the crisis of 1876...quite deep in details. Thank you for an excellent story. Darrell. PS: Pappa John started his franchise near here...I can almost smell his original recipe, before corporate got a hold of it. LOL. 😇
There was both a fort along the river, (next door Jeffersonville) and where confederates made a crossing. Seems like both had historical markers at one point, but have been removed since the waterfront revitalization. I’m working on the screenplay of Morgan’s 1863 raid, am reading Lester Horwitz’s “The Longest Raid of the Civil War” to confirm I don’t miss anything. Really well done text.
I’d read that it wasn’t original, but it was sketchy how old it was. One source sounded like it was practically new, and another said it was circa 1856 and moved there. To me, the cabin was a symbol, and the arson was an affront to a great patriot, trying to erase his very memory. If you go to the Lincoln birthplace in Kentucky, there’s a huge shrine on a hill with a cabin inside. It’s been proven that Abraham Lincoln nor his family ever lived in that cabin, but it is on the site where their home did stand. If a person burned that symbolic cabin, it would be a similar disrespect to a great person.
I only wonder if they’ll ever build it back, especially if that was the third one! It’s so far away from town, somewhat remote, that I’m not certain they’ll do it again. I’m a history lover though, would love to see something more grand, even if it required a gate.
@@AdventureswithRoger Agreed, I'd heard shortly after the fire that there was a group "looking for a cabin" to place there. Who knows, it was great to have stood on the front porch of it and looked across to Louisville. Gave you a better understanding of what he was doing, especially while reading a couple of books about him last summer.
You’re spot on! Here was a guy chased by debt collectors, dirt poor, staring at the island where he trained his men for a glorious mission. He really was wronged.
The falls area from the second street downstream to New Albany was my playground as a youth. Going out on logjams fishing and exploring were huge and truly a treasure to preserve and enjoy. Hard to believe the cretins burned the cabin.
Bring back these kind of prisons today. Prison isn't supposed to be a summer camp you never got as a child, it's supposed to be hell. I have no sympathy for prisoners.
White giants or Vikings possibly? Why must great men die before they receive what they deserve after death? When their bodies have given out and they die of shame and alcohol? That's incredibly sad. What incredible lives men like Clark lived! Lives of adventure, hard work and wonder, but also horror and blood shed! You said it all , He gave his life for his country . I will never see Clarks cabin... alas. Another fantastic video. I learned so much! I thank you for that!
There are many interesting legends about possible early European contact, from Welsh to Viking explorers. It could be both! History is often complicated. 🙂
European Indians: Utah and several other states have similar stories about blue eyed giants which were attacked and killed by the other natives.The Utah giants were also cannibals.
I had briefly read some of that. Really interesting stories from old newspapers! At some point I’m going to dig deeper into the Indiana giant stories, as there are quite a few.
Sadly, I don’t know of a single one. Lots of people have done a video or two about downtown Indy, Turkey Run, or such, but move on. I might try a few next spring.
Two things that could have been added. First was the Buffalo herds following the "Buffalo Trace" and crossing the Ohio River at the falls. Second was the Canals built to bypass the rapids.
Tons of history and legends in that area. Could have easily been a two-hour segment! Just the engineering behind how the Army Corp of Engineers tamed the falls is a marvel.
I grew up in Floyd county... tons of history... known and hidden... along the Ohio river banks... few people know that Indiana once was claimed by the British empire and was officially part of what is now Canada... or that it has the American Revolution connections and US Civil War history... excellent work on your video's... you obviously take great care in research and production! I subbed.
I’ve loved this area since Dad took us here, on day trips, from central Indiana. When I got a chance to move to Floyd County, I took it! During the Bicentennial, in 1976, this was where even the schools were taking us, to teach us about our pioneer past, but especially George Rogers Clark!
We have a nice Devonian collection from The Falls when it was still allowed to bring your Estwing and chip specimens out. Really enjoy your work. I wish I had more wherewithal to study local history while growing up in the Highlands.
@@AdventureswithRoger I barely scratched the surface…thank you so much for delving into the historical significance and sharing it in such an engaging way.
@@ehrenbowling my pleasure! Just so much history that’s no longer being taught. My hope is that these humble films interest people enough to explore and learn a little more! 🙂
@@AdventureswithRoger your hope is realized, Roger. I have been sharing your videos with my nephew who’s still in the Bluegrass and he’s been captivated. I thank you and will keep in thanking you for the work and generosity in sharing it freely. Very grateful for you!
Every city is a city of the dead, it's why I don't believe ghost stories. Over 100 billion people have died on Earth. It's difficult to go to any established area, and not stand close to where someone has died.
Good point. I’m no ghost chaser, have no desire to be one, but after filming old places for the last five years, and talking with “sensitive” people, I’m a believer. You don’t have to be, and I’m not recruiting, but here’s what I know. Some people don’t experience anything paranormal, even where everyone else does, because they have no spiritual sensitivity. The best way to describe it, is it’s like the phenomenon in which women can see more colors, and hear a wider frequency of sounds, than men do. Example: I took a picture of an old cabin, built in 1856 by my ancestors. I took it to the family reunion and a woman says, “Oh my goodness! There’s an old man, woman and little boy on the porch!” I look at it again, see nothing. Another woman walks up, and she also sees the three ghostly figures. Skeptically, I sent the picture to a friend of mine, who is a sensitive. “Just tell me what you see here.” She replied, “An old woman, old man and a little boy on the porch.” And I still can’t see it. The same friend went to a place that was haunted, and told the owners it was haunted by an elderly woman with a first name that started with a “O”. The owners told her that no one by that description ever lived there. But a few weeks later, they called my friend, and said that they’d found an old Bible and the name “Ophelia”, whom has lived at the house in the late 1800’s. At the Tunnelton Tunnel, I caught the phantom lantern on film. No one is holding it, and if they were, they’d have to be 8 feet tall. At the mansion at Vevay, in the haunted room, my camera went crazy trying to focus on something that was not there. It has never done that before or after. I’ve since taken my sensitive friend to haunted or cursed areas. She gets vibes and tells me all about it, I feel absolutely nothing. Because I’m not sensitive. And frankly, I’m glad I’m not. But I absolutely believe in the unknown.
7 foot tall, white skinned, blonde haired, blue eyed giants, that existed long before Christopher Columbus, vikings weren't 7 feet tall. I know it's crazy, but it kind of sounds more like Lumerians. Hearing these Indian legends about these light skinned tribes makes me wonder if there isn't something to the story of the Lumerians.
Much of Southern Indiana, south of Brown County, is a mystery to most people. Our parents used to take us on road-trips from Greenwood, and I thought it was the coolest place in the world!
I'm from Indiana and my husband and i like to explore I just found your show nice now we can go places in Indiana instead of out of state to explore thank you
, The bodies were found lying open on the ground, between those of the so called White Indians and those of the Red Indians. Apparently it appears to of ended with neither side being victorious, as no one was left to survive to bury their dead. In the history of Clark County, Indiana it mentions the Red Indians and the White Indians and those of a third type of "special people" ... A race of red haired Giants, who practiced Serpent Culture worship, known as Adena Culture in Anthropology. During later Archaeological digs there on a Island 15 miles north of Louisville KY they unearthed a brass breastplate with a Welsh coat of arms on it... What many don't know is the Connections to the Adena Culture, a race of red haired Giants, and the so called mentioned "Special People" with those of the White Indians with those earlier Welsh settlers and explorers from 1170AD. Here in East Tennessee the connections to Bigfoot and those red haired giants of Adena Culture continued to connect with those earlier Welsh settlers who became a mixed race of so called White Indians, as people known locally by the Cherokee tribes as the "Moon Eyed People" But it's the discovery yet again by Archaeologists of yet another brass breastplate with an identical Welsh coat of arms on a island in East Tennessee, Hiawassee Island, that connects with the area of White Indians, with early Welsh settlement site locations throughout the Appalachian Mountains, where many sites have connection with Serpent Culture, as is the case at Ft Mountain State Park in Georgia where its believed by archaeologists to be so called stone" walls "of a fort, but what's actually there is the Serpent Culture of Anthropology, and the stone effigy of serpents it represents, along with astrological alignments like many primitive sites of stone megalithic monument sites. The Bigfoot here directly trace back to albinism of the Welsh having seen the Moon Eyed people myself, their Blonde haired, and butterscotch colored even white haired Bigfoot here, who's eyes light up bright like a cars headlights, those thought to be Moon Eyed, having fair skin and eyes sensitive to sunlight came out at night according to Cherokee lore, likely do to being a mix between the so called Adena Culture and those mixed of the White Indians from the early Welsh settlers who were outcasts for being albinos. When you look at other examples of the native Panamanian Indians called the KUNA people for example, they look very much like the living ancestral Bigfoot here in East Tennessee I've seen . It's interesting too that the KUNA people of Panama have a gene linked to albinism and also claims ties to the early Welsh explorers also.
Right now, I’m looking for a legend about a cave tunnel that went under the Ohio River, between Louisville and Clarksville. I’d read it once, years ago, but cannot find it anywhere.
@@AdventureswithRoger , there's a large underground cave, in Louisville KY, that the city stores supplies inside of. Its big enough that they have tractor trailers inside of it, and one truck driver told me about turning around inside of it with a truck and trailer even its that big. I bet it's likely that there's underground passages all the way to Ft Knox, and to Mammoth Cave also. Just about a year ago , the Louisville Zoo had a huge cave collapse on their property, but no animals were injured. It was absolutely huge collapse as the ground just opened up. Lots of caves in the area, and they say there's something like 600 miles of caverns underground at Mammoth cave in Kentucky. There's also stories of a cave that goes underneath a river here in East Tennessee. TVA sealed the entrance to it, but I was told it's floor is sand covered and you could ride two motorcycles side by side, through it under the river.
@@ninjadave1970 It could be I’ve confused the story with one in Tennessee, but I was certain it was Kentucky to Indiana. As the tale goes, Daniel Boone saw an Indian across the the river, and about 30 or so minutes later, the same one, bone dry, appeared on the Indiana side. No canoe, no boat. He asked the Indian how he got across. The Indian said he didn’t, he went under the river, taking a secret Indian cave. The only known nearby caves in the area are downstream of Clarksville and on the Kentucky side: Daniel Boone cave, and Morgan cave. Morgan cave is gated by the owner, Daniel Boone cave has an owner that’s been known to shoot at curious hikers.
@@AdventureswithRoger , That's very interesting, as there's also a Morgan cave in Northern Kentucky where I had found signs of Bigfoot... I've found traces of artifacts from the Adena Culture of Anthropology there, and a clay tobacco smoke pipe from the Civil War with a effigy of a mans head on it. I also saw from where a large tree with its trunk about a full foot thick was moved from where its rootball was located in the ground from , as the dirt was laying on top of the bent grass on the ground five feet away from where the tree came from. I just assumed it must of been a heck of a kickback, from where the tree stood there the day before. When I returned later that next day, this tree was completely gone, removed from the location with no signs of a 4 wheeler , or drag marks or any other signs like saw dust or how the tree had been moved , as I returned to take photos , but It was as if the tree just got up and walked off, or disappeared completely without leaving any trace. I discovered the tree, laying on the ground during that night with night vision goggles searching the area where a previous Bigfoot sighting occurred. This cave nearby was said to be the hideout of a Confederate, named John Hunt Morgan I believe, who was said to of hidden supplies in this cave as the start of his northern invasion of the Civil War to try and relieve the battlefield at Gettysburg by cutting off the Union supply lines and cause them to pull troops from the battle to defend against his attacks clear across Indiana, Ohio and into Pennsylvania. I bet the other Morgan cave has similar connection to the history of the area and I'm wondering how far away the two caves are, on opposite sides of the Ohio River from each other I'm sure. The Morgan Cave in Kentucky is in Meade County, at a place called Otter Creek Park and Recreation Area. Seems there's alot of Bigfoot in that part of the Country in isolated areas of the Woodlands of that region. I also learned from Janice Carter that the Dogman here were also building structures with the trees.
My genuine pleasure! I started the channel after co-workers, both single and with families, asked me what were places to see and do on the weekend. I thought it would take a few months, tops, to capture all of southern Indiana, but I’m going on 5 years now! I’ve really enjoyed meeting nice people in the small towns, hearing stories, and learning new ways to make these videos. And it seems, I still have more stories to tell! It’s a cool hobby that gets me out of the house. 🙂 Thanks for coming along for the ride! This season is starting out with some awesome finds, and I hope you’ll get as much a kick out of them, as I do!
Clark was an incredibly interesting man to study, a combination of verifiable accounts of his exploits, and legends. There have long been stories of fantastic things “ripped” from his memoirs, as an attempt to solidify his image and separate it from tales meant to sell books. The Filson Society in Louisville, Kentucky has a great deal about him.
I grew up in Jeffersonville.Indiana.I went to Jeffersonville high.we would go shopping in Clarksville .my mom and sister still lives down there.we would sit by the Ohio river and have picnics and watch the barges go by.there's a lot of parks down there.every Sunday after church we would go get food and have picnics and spend half of the day at a park then we would get ice cream them we would get ready for church. They had a ROTC we don't have it where I live here.my daughters didn't get a chance to experience it.I'm glad I have one of my grandsons is going in the military. I love visiting southern Indiana thank you for sharing this vidio
Lots of good memories along the Ohio River! I didn’t grow up here, but have certainly enjoyed spending time along the river this last decade, since moving here. There’s a peace along the river that is simply wonderful! 🙂
When I was in high school in 1970 in Whiting, Indiana, I attended George Rogers Clark High School. I hope they find the lunatic that torched his cabin and put him/her in jail for arson.
My Beloved Mother grew up in Brown County....I remember when I was in my early teens my mom took me and my three brothers to her aunt's house... My great aunt lived in a two story log house... There's a couple of small towns with funny names...(Gnaw Bone and Bean Blossom,) the Sad part of my little story was my last visit about twenty years later, it's all gone... There's strip malls and motels where the trees and creek used to be.💔😞
As I was telling my brother about Greenwood, where we grew up, “If our parents came back today, they wouldn’t know the place.” Sometimes the changes mean progress, and sometimes it’s only a revision on something that was fine to begin with.
I wish the school's would have your passion for history teaching. It's truly amazing how you present your knowledge and I feel very fortunate to be a part of you're teaching.
Thank you
Thank-you kindly! I know a lot about Indiana legends, History and tourist attractions, having lived here my entire life. I get the rest from research and talking to local historians / people I meet in these small towns. I can’t know it all, I will miss / fail to mention a fact that someone holds dear. But, for the most part, I end up knowing more than most local people do! 🙂
the school's objective is to brain wash with watery thin history and tall tales of their own lies.
Amen
Having grown up near Brewersville Indiana, the local giants have always fascinated me.
Having worked for Clark County EMS and being an experienced paddler, I can't stress enough how dangerous the Falls and the dam are! We frequently had to recover drowning victims because of those features. Even with decades of experience in canoes, I've gotten caught in eddy currents that were too powerful to outrun and have nearly been pulled upstream into the dam myself.
I tell people that the falls were a big reason why Louisville grew so fast. Boats had to stop at the falls, and people had to either get another ride, downstream, move the boat over land, or just decide it was where they were going to live! It’s fascinating how things work, out of sheer practicality!
I've been to the Clark cabin numerous times. But, it has been a few years. How sad to learn someone burned it down! Thank you for all your informative videos of our great state!
I enjoy these deep dives on history!
I live here. Live two blocks away. Have a bike trail that takes me right to it. It was hard to see it get burnt
Senseless crime, and a shame
@@a_g8751 Makes no sense! 🤬
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I didn't know Clark's cabin was burned! 😡😤 I'm glad I visited it before that happened but... dammit!! I'm so tired of our history being erased!
Sweet name brother
Yeah, its crying shame how the mounds and sacred burial grounds of the First Nations people have been bulldozed and destroyed by colonizers.
My Dad was born in nearby Georgetown Indiana in 1913. Both his parents had died by the time he was eight, so he was raised by his maternal grandparents. He quit school at the age of thirteen to help them make ends meet. He worked at a shirt factory and at the Colgate plant. (He learned to tell time by reading the clock from the backside).He told me one of the bridges to Louisville (K & I), charged a nickle toll for pedestrians. He would avoid paying the toll by slipping on to a girder under the walkway and going unseen from the toll booth. The only problem was one slip and he would have wound up in the Ohio. RIP Pop (1913 - 2008)
Write these awesome stories down! 🙂
@@AdventureswithRoger Dad's expanded story (and he honestly thought he'd never accomplished much):
"My Dad was born in 1913 and he died in 2008 at the age of 94. His mother died when he was five and his father when he was eight. He was raised by his maternal grandparents who were very poor. He quit school at thirteen and went to work to help them make ends meet by working in a shirt factory. Later he worked in a soap factory. At around twenty, he got a job with a crew building a road through his small southern Indiana town. By the time he was twenty-two he was running a crew of his own. He met my mother in 1942 and married her a week before leaving for Army basic training. He eventually went through Officer Candidate School and eventually attained the rank of 1st Lt. He was being mobilized to deploy to support the invasion of Japan when the bomb was dropped and the war ended. He left the Army in 1946 (stayed in the Reserves until 1960) and moved to help my Mom’s father on his farm. My Grandfather died suddenly in 1950 and my Mom and Dad took over the farm. There wasn't any thing my Dad would give a shot on the farm; cattle, hogs, chickens (1000 layers at one time), truck crops, such as tomatoes, turnips, and cabbage. We had seven acres of strawberries at one point. Dad cleared fifteen acres of woods and scrub ground by hand. He would throw nearly 100 pounds of feed on his shoulder and walk a half mile through the snow to feed hogs. Later, in the '60's, he and Mom rented the farm out and he sold insurance. He became one of the top salesmen in the company. He traveled all of Iowa and Illinois and would leave Monday morning and get back on Friday. He and Mom built a new house in '66. He got into land development and nearly lost everything due to several unscrupulous partners. He and Mom then got into Section Eight Housing and built four projects for the elderly and low income families in small towns. That saved them. We had started running the farm again in the early '70's, and Dad would plant or combine all day well into his '80's. Once, in his mid 70's he had surgery for rectal cancer. Two weeks later he was spending ten hour days sitting on a tractor planting corn. He never stopped busting his ass to take care of us"
BTW, I remember Dad telling me about helping pull people out of 2nd floor windows in New Albany using a boat during the '37 flood.
@@gw5309 Simply amazing stories! “Hard times make hard men. Soft times make soft men.” Current generation has no idea what people had to do, just to survive. If you failed, you didn’t get a pat on the back and a reset, you died. If these stories aren’t told, what will happen when times get tough again?
Great job! Thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated! 💞👍🏻🤗
I was born and raised right next to the widows walk ice cream place on riverside dr. It was a great place to grow up and I’ll always remember that great view of Louisville from the front door. It’s still my most favorite place. Thanks for making this as I’ve learned some things I didn’t even know.
My pleasure! I had collected all kinds of stories, from people, books and online articles, since moving to southern Indiana in 2009. Such a very interesting history that I wanted to preserve.
I love driving along the waterfront or just parking the car and watching the world float by, thinking about all the hidden history.
I was raised in Charlestown, Indiana but live in Clarksville now. Thanks for the video!
Super interesting! Thanks for sharing, my friend.
Thanks Kelly! I love a good, hidden history!
If you ever want to read some good books on this time period, go read Alan W Eckert's Winning of America series which are all based on historical fact. I loved the Frontiersmen. He was a great story teller. I remember reading this and imagining I was back there in time with Clark, Simon Kenton and Tecumseh.
I live in Marion Indiana right outside of Wabash indiana, Muncie indiana, and Jalapa Indiana. I truly believe that our Past History definitely when it comes to Native Tribes has been not only White Washed but just absolutely deleted. Yes with today's tech we can obviously find anything with a few clicks but to actually see the evidence of a pre history civilization is widely unknown to many. Yes theres the Indian cemetery in Jalapa where theres a 1812 Mississinewa Reenactment every year but most people really dont realize they are standing and walking on Native American lands these weren't small tribes the Cherokee, Sioux, Miami, and even the Seminoles Tribes all lived in Indiana. These Tribes fought not only with each other but fought English settlers and skirmishes against the U.S Military right here in Indiana. There's a ton of Ancient Native Artifacts that get overlooked or they are on private or state run lands and we can't trespass to see them or dig them up but these artifacts prove not only that Indiana was occupied by Native Indian Tribes but also was occupied by really Tall White, Red, or Black Skinned Warrior Natives.
My Family was started by Cherokee and Blackfoot Indians and theres an Old Story about how the Indian children weren't allowed to leave the Tribe and go play or Explore in the woods because either the Evil Spirits of the Forest would take them or the Tall White men with Hair like the Morning Sun would take them and Feed them to their Tribe. Now if this is a True Story or Real Account of Tall Giant White Cannibals idk but still kind of Weird when you see these Old Newspaper Articles of Giants Bones being Uncovered and how some of the Bones had Arrowheads still Stuck in them from a Battle they had Fought against fellow Native American Tribes.
There are lots of things in Indiana, that are partially hidden, or hidden on purpose. And, inconvenient histories, that throw long-known narratives into chaos. I know people that have found all kinds of interesting artifacts: what looks like rock carvings of tropical birds, in the Hoosier National Forest. A Viking rune stone. Roman coins. A stone tablet with ancient Welsh writing on it. If you call anyone of authority, the sites will be analyzed and taken away, never to be seen again.
Fascinating!
This was a weird fact / folklore bonanza 😀
@@AdventureswithRoger Indeed, it was. So sad about the cabin arson.
I often can’t understand why people do what they do, particularly to historical places.
I just watched you video, found it by chance. You did a good job researching. By any chance, through your research did you come across any cryptid legends & or info about the city being old than originally thought? I'm researching the history of the Falls of the Ohio & Louisville and it's a weird place. Great video!!
I’ve completed two Indiana cryptid videos and found nothing about the falls area.
However, there’s lots of giant / ancient people legends on both sides of the river. 1800’s geologists E.T. Cox and William Borden found a 17 foot tall wall on the ridge at Rose Island, that was not natural. It was cut blocks of limestone. Local people took the stone for building houses, bridges and other structures. Over the years, legends of European explorers, before Christopher Columbus, have been told over and over, but it could very well be ancient Native Americans like the Adena.
@@AdventureswithRoger I appreciate the reply and will check out more of your videos. I've found information that has mounds in DT Louisville as late as 1836 & a cryptid story of a Giant "Bat-man" that had been seen lurking & flying off the top of the Walnut Baptist church circa 1919ish. This place has an interesting past. Thanks, great job.
Wow, you found out more than those of who were born there and grew up in Clark County ever heard about.GRC name is all over schools roads, etc but we never heard all this. Only about the trip he made with Lewis. I never even heard about Sand island! So what happened to those large skeletons?
As the story goes, large, ancient skeletons were found along the banks of the Ohio River. They were so old that the calcium turned to dust when exposed to air. There was another found in Louisville that did the same.
Thank you, Roger! I will be sure to stay out of Southern Indiana!
The irony is that while I often cover scary history and legends, I’m not a ghost chaser, and generally avoid the paranormal. 🙂
4:43 my dad worked here. Spooky
Tragedy that such an island totally demolished. Native American people most likely had ancestors buried there.
I would say yes, but Clarks men were rumored to have thrown skeletons in the river, as they cleaned a place for the fort. I never read if the army corps of engineers found any skeletons as they were demolishing it piece by piece.
I live in Clarksville
I live right next to that area!
Any surprises from the film? I tried to pack in as many as I could, from the rich folklore and local stories.
The beginning you talk about the same I was told about Kentucky no natives would settle here only hunting ground as the orginal people before them still roamed this land and they wouldn't live here or it would become brother fight brother's interesting have the same for Indiana
Very cool thank you! Amazing history please in the future, show a map where the cities and towns are located. Thank you
Even though that clock and the end of the bridge is In Jeffersonville
I-64 divides Clarksville and Jeffersonville, the clock has always been in Clarksville.
TYVM, very well done ... you got 10lbs worth in the 5lbs bag ;-D
Excellent content !
Thank-you!
Totally packed! There were legends that I didn’t use, as I just didn’t have enough information to go on. 🙂
@@AdventureswithRoger Lifelong Hoosier here, always something new to learn about, love History ! [and a number of studies]
I look forward to checking out your channel some more ... all good things to you and yours ;-]
Well you have came to the right place! It’s a constant chase for Hoosier history, legends and things to see! 🙂
Always love the story behind the arch it was symble of men enhabating the canter of the country
Take the last train to Clarksville!!!
Ever thought about going to the northern part of Indiana. I think we’ve done enough research on the south end of Indiana.
I’ve done a few northern Indiana videos, but they usually don’t get nearly the views as Southern Indiana.
Yellow Hair and Blue Eyes, sounds like Vikings to Me.
PRECISELY! There is supposedly a Viking artifact found near the Ohio River. It’s a small stone with rune writing. I’ve seen a picture of it, but can’t confirm authenticity.
Name after lewis and Clark
Sounds like a very sick place to go . God only knows how many children were molested and or murdered there
Truly a dark place with a horrible reputation.
Sand island wouldn’t be too terribly far from witches castle. Very well could have been “white Indians” that built it
“Witches Castle” was built by a guy for his wife, we even have his name on documents. It’s not all that old, was called “Mistletoe Falls”. Now above that though, some have said it was a lookout for Prince Madoc / the white Indians. I haven’t been able to determine where that came from, still digging.
You need to tell me these people even though they did a crime and they was doing any time they built their own death chamber this is crazy
I never thought of it that way, but you’re spot on. To add insult to injury, they weren’t skilled labor, and after work on the prison was well underway, it was deemed not up to code: it had to be torn down and done all over again.
I meant they was doing a time and building a death chamber
We have many more monsters, there’s a legend that says if you’re on eastern blvd at the right time the entire Clark county cops will pull you over for a dirty car or some b s lol jk but this is awesome I’ve been looking where to go looking for some “scary” stuff, the real monsters are the meth heads tbh lol js
Let me throw you one. If you take I-64 to the Edwardsville exit, briefly go south on 62, then go east on a road called Corydon Pike, you unknowingly cross the largest train tunnel in Indiana. Trains disappear at Georgetown, go under I-64, and exit at the very bottom of the Corydon Pike hill: the Duncan Tunnel, you can look it up online. The legend for years is that the tunnel has an underground, secret storage facility, in the center, built by the government. I’ve heard everything from it being a Cold War bunker, in case of a nuclear attack, to storing top secret documents. Lots of stories and speculations. But what isn’t folklore, is that if you park at the pull off, and no one knows why there’s a pull off, a police car will be there in 5 minutes, or less, to ask you what you’re doing. Many people have told me this. My one friend parked there to test it, and confirmed it.
@@AdventureswithRoger wow thanx, I’m most def gna try this lol thank you kind sir indubitably.
@@chachi-da-juicaaayso please tell. what happened?
@@AdventureswithRoger my grandfather told me that one of our relatives worked for the railroad and used to walk the tunnel to keep it clear of cattle
@@cgraf69 this is the ghost of the one they call Chach, don’t go there 😂😂 jk I haven’t gone yet it’s too cold for my Texas ass lmmfaoooooo but if you’re in the area and wna go do some investigating I’m down
I have deleted my own insults so you don't have to. If you think Clarksville seems historic... Clarkdale Az. is even more mysterious. If Jesse James actually faked his funeral in St Joseph my great grandmother was at and grandfather was born there. Granny told me at 96 years old after the Jesse James show she hollered for the encyclopedia under J .. I was like 6-7 and she sat my brother and I on each arm if the chair and started her rant. She pointed to the official photo of the casket being carried. She was standing next to the photographer and she said this to me.... That Mr Howard carried Bix at Jesses funeral.... She had just told me in masonic code that Jesse James faked everything and spread some civil eat loot around and became Senator Clark Gold Mine Owner ... He became thee only mine owner who paid gold and cash for his rail spurs. One in Montana to the East West Rail.... One in Clarkdale Arizona from Jerome mines up to the Perkinsville station. Today you can ride the Verde Valley Excursion Train up the Verde River spur . Gramps retired stopped the East West and went and photographed the area... I was surveying that area with the West Yavapai County elevation and erosion survey 1972-73. I know every inch of that land . Gramps then painted oils and had hundreds of photos ... With one leg in a wheelchair I would give anything to retrace my steps.. as now I know what to look for and Gramps I still wonder if he weren't Jesse James son ... He became not a plainclothes man but an old clothes man. It would seem the law offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad all 32° or higher Masons and the higher you rise in the organization the older the suits. Those guys drove around in rusty Oldsmobiles never a Caddy and a JC Penny rack wool suit. Gramps thought. the president was Santa Clause and he told me he just jumps in the big guys lap just like me and asks him for what he wants. Richie Rich didn't have as many toys as my brother and I . It was a little much. But with an assassinated presidential candidate in the fam we were on the move hours after JFK. There's an old saying on the hill... If you want to be president you go to Prescott first. So Gramps grabbed his presidential candidates and disappeared to Arizona. I was cowboy on Az. largest ranch... Got a trickshot moniker and out of the marines Kissinger and. Chase flew in from China Accords. I was raised on Queen Elizabeth s Stienway she gave to us and I would play till I bled . Back in town my DeMolay group was getting shot up ... Yeah mom and the chief of staff Col. Whitman autopsied his son Roy. We had NASA contracts science awards galore and we had antigrav men in black twice and then Roy was murdered . I was guarding back door at autopsy when Col. Whitman told me himself.. Nice quiet mining ranching community... Then Councilman Patrick blew his brains out in front of 300 in council... Oh Jesus... Oh and my global perks ended when High Hefner handed this first year law student a blank check to the supreme court. Over 3 seeds. Not bad for a Republican Hunter Biden. Yeah my Uncle Russel was Senate Finance Chair 33 years. So I grew up next to the man who invented TV.. Next door to him Palmquist ...he invented NASA JPL SETI Goldstone Labs . I watched Neil from a NASA earth station and all I had to do was mash the mic and say hi. The original Betty Crocker 104 lived up the creek and Mrs Schwinn at the top of Circle P.. no shortage of Fame and heros and such as the town is 9% black all white except two families in the 60s... and 5000 of 6000 residents disappeared ...1967 out to Drake for the UFO landing.... Mom let a UFO report fly in the Newspaper... By the end of the week it was front page . Sunday every church was full and so we're the picnic baskets in the trunk as 12 o'clock hit Reverend James a fine lodge member looked at his watch and my brother and I snuffed the candles and suddenly 5000 people appeared in a field. And our small DeMolay NASA hi school science group watched as the scheduled time came the Indian said to commune with the star people 3 pm Sundays ...stepped out of his Hogan unzipped his fly and watered the shaggy bark juniper tree and went back inside. Everyone got insulted and left. Yup that's Prescott...
When I was a kid, our parents took us to see Jesse James Cave (Meramec) in Stanton, Missouri. They had some really interesting materials about Jesse James faking his own death and living to be an old man as “Frank Dalton”. I returned to the cave as an adult, and bought up everything the gift shop had on the subject! The picture of Jesse James in a casket does not look like his earlier pictures. I believe he somehow got to live a second life!
@@AdventureswithRoger was on a 6000 mile circuit of US on 10 speed 1979. They were tearing out the brickyards ... My grandfather Edgar Levi Moyer was born there married Huey Longs cousin and his Chicago boss was shot dead in the office by All Capones boys... He went from horse carts and ice to a mile a minute machines to a moonlanding .. he was born in St Joe after all this but he was a big shot and golfed with Ike and I have very interesting one off rail stories. He never put us on a train...his mom died 1974 at 104 and at 102 moved to Arizona with us... Not until I read the Dalton stories and the Clark stories did I realize what a convoluted history a little gold can make
@@davidmurphy619 Wealth can ruin even the best of people, a story that repeats over and over.
Murphy the James gang couldn't hold a candle to the very first train robbers in southern Indiana,The Reno brothers made the James gang look like boy scouts,The Reno brothers was the baddest and meanest gang from long ago.Billy the kid lived in Indiana,Sam Bass was from Indiana and so was Johnny Ringo,And the most famous outlaw in the United States John Dillinger plus a whole lot more.James was way way overrated. Sorry to bust your bubble but truth is truth.
@@markstaggs7342I keep kicking around the idea of a Reno Gang segment
I didn't know there was a Clarksville Indiana. l understand why the monkeys kept wanting to take the last train there. 🙊🙊🙊🙊🙊
I live about 30 east of Indiana...really had zero interest in the state...but this has rapidly become my favorite channel and I really have a deep respect for Indiana history now.
I grew up at Greenwood, Indiana, lived there for over 30 years. Our parents frequently brought us to southern Indiana, and it was like a wonderland of exciting things! When I got a chance to live here, I took it and have never been sorry! 🙂
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It's sad that many of our nation's heroes were treated somewhat poorly after they went through great hardship to help our nation. I've been to the Meriweather Lewis burial site on the Natchez Trace and he also died broke beset by alcoholism and creditors. Some say he died of his own hand others say he was murdered. It's a mystery that will most likely never be solved.
It really is a shame how our nation has treated our finest patriots, then and now.
I’ve never studied Lewis’s life after the Corp of Discovery: that’s very interesting, as well as tragic! The one thing I’ve seen, is that if you didn’t have family, such as grown children, or couldn’t hire help, you were pretty much on your own. That could make a great man consider suicide, when thinking they’ll end up in the street and disgraced. So incredibly sad.
Sadly not much has changed today in the treatment of veterans.
Let these lessons and countless more, stand as a record that the government, and all those in it, left/right, do not care about us. No good deed will go unpunished
@@AdventureswithRoger Sadly great men commit suicide often, even now. That is sad.
I was going to mention this... it's a long standing tradition within our country that we seem to ignore, the more one gives for our country the more the government will take from them... unless of course you go directly into politics from whatever service you provided and bolster the fame to fan the flames of your own glory to bring in contributions and benefits building wealth and power... otherwise the government will just debt you into oblivion for the service that you gave... the Lucky ones can often be the soldiers who died in the heat of battle for they are the only ones who perish without owing the government their entire life... but then they gave their all to protect the people they love... I've been through the encampments of military soldiers who have come back from war to not have a home no money in the bank and no other place to be... some people would ever realize that there was veteran encampments hidden along some highways in the woods where these heroes live in tents surrounded by camouflage mesh pretty much living like they are stuck in a war... some might say they are stuck in a war... every day is a fight to stay alive and not become another one of the 22 a day that takes their own life... or fighting to get food, medicine, and the basic needs in which they need... struggling against PTSD depression anxiety and a host of other physical and emotional scars and trauma that they have endured. These men and women live on the fringe of society still forgotten and other times blatantly ignored... I've sat with many, ate with them, and discussed the things that they've gone through, cried with them and prayed with them... but there was nothing tangible I could do to help... I'm only one man... but if I could I would have... there's soldiers all over who just want to come home... some may be only a short walk from anyone at this moment... always thank a veteran but even more if you have a way talk to ones that you meet and take the time to truly listen to what they have to say...
Vincennes was founded in 1732. And was part of the reason that Fort Clark was established - GRC set up a base of supply and expansion in the push to take the Ohio and Wabash valleys…. Sorry, my inner nerd just needed to blurt that out.❤
I’m a history junkie, you’ve came to the right place!
My mom said we were related to General Clark and even desired one of her great grandchildren to have the middle name Clark. But I knew nothing of this history. She would have loved this video. Thank you for studying, researching and sharing 😀
George Rogers Clark was a patriot, leader and explorer that I’ll always admire. It was a pleasure bringing his story to life!🙂
Though the "dark history part" of famous Clarksville, IIndiana is terrible to acknowledge, the times I have traveled up to Indy on vacations...it's fun to me to always think in my mind since the fall of 1966, the famous rock tune: "Take the Last Train to Clarksville" by The Monkees ( which, you may know, as of lately [2022] there's only one Monkee left: Micky Dolenz) when ever I was on I-65.
I didn't realize there some history to explore in Clarksville. One of my favorite UA-cam shows my wife and I enjoy watching is "Traveling Robert". His last episode of his was on the journey of discover of Lewis and Clark Expedition. Great series by Robert to watch.
What a tragic ending to General George Rodgers Clark.
Both Lewis and Clark as a team, and General Clark, had some interesting journals about what they found on the frontier. Blue-eyed Indians that spoke Welsh, giant skeletons unearthed along the Ohio River, an ancient castle with 75 foot tall walls: were all journal entries that have disappeared.
Sitting across the river in Louisville watching your video. I used to live off Utica Pike, and I concour, it is mysterious over there. So much wonderful and dark history.
I had one viewer from Louisville, upset over this video. Said it made Clarksville look bad. It’s history, good or bad, and the stories are worth retelling.
Hey Roger, this is a really interesting place...but then you show us how fantastic a lot of places are in Southern Indiana. Videos like yours are some of the best available on UA-cam. Thanks for all your hard work producing these top notch videos. You should be writing books to go along with your love of the area. I would love to read all about some of the places you have filmed in a guide book.
Thank-you very kindly! My hope is to cover all the exotic, hard-to-reach places while I’m able, historical documentaries, and follow-up with fun travel guides and a book. Lots of behind the scenes things have happened on these journeys! 🙂
Ive lived here in southern Indiana all my 50 yrs of life. Some of your adventures are minutes away from where I live
I’m always finding new stuff I didn’t know about. This channel was supposed to be a 4 month project, and I’ve now been at it 5 years! And the beauty of it: after I publish a video, people give me new ideas!
Roger, another great video! I truly enjoy the southern Indiana history that your showing. Thank you very much. Blessings!
Allan Eckert wrote a book entitled~that dark and bloody River~
It is one of the best
and most interesting books I have ever read ,Eckert wrote
Wrote many books on French and indian War ,revolutionary War and Civil War
He also wrote a book on tecumseh
A sorrow in my heart and on Simon Kent called the frontiersman
You will not be disappointed!
Very well done. Thank you for an enjoyable history lesson in this area.
- Robert
My pleasure! I’d heard these interesting stories for a long time, hoped to pull them together for everyone else.
it feels so nice to see a popular video with footage of somewhere you have been at before.
I'm 24, always lived in indiana. I always have had this adventurous soul and now I know why. There's so many things to see in indiana! Awesome channel!
I originally started the channel as friends at work were always asking me for southern Indiana weekend ideas. I thought I’d be done in 4 months, and I’m still going after 5 years! I’ve found lots of cool places, and people continue to send me more ideas. All I know is I never get tired of jumping in the car and exploring down here! 🙂
@@AdventureswithRoger I'd love to know more on the history of mccormicks creek if you ever have time to cover it! It's beautiful!
@@xXcandieraindropsXxI was at McCormicks creek filming last fall. I don’t quite have a story, need to return for additional shots.
I'm a local photographer, so if you ever need some cool photos let me know! 😊
I've lived in that area most my life and didn't know many of the things you spoke of. Really enjoyed it!
I’d heard lots of great stories over the years, and tried to pull them all together. The one story I wanted to tell, but didn’t, was the legend about the cave that went under the Ohio River, somewhere near the falls. I’d heard it and read about it over the years, how native Americans were using it to get to Indiana, from Kentucky. But could not find it online, when making this one. Hopefully I’ll run into it again!
@@AdventureswithRoger check with the local caving grottos. Surely someone in those circles has heard that one.
I have several contacts with the southern Indiana grottos, all really good people. There are several caves downstream of the falls, on the Kentucky side. One called “Morgan Cave”, the other, “Daniel Boone Cave”. I’ve heard that both are on private property. But, I don’t believe they go back very far. A cave this fantastic would be a huge deal if it were found!
I too was born and raised in that area and never heard half of these stories.
are you related to Ryan?
I’ve been very interested for the last 25 years about the legend of Prince Madoc and the Welsh settlement at the Falls of the Ohio. I’ve heard that when the dam was made workers found a lot of artifacts. There’s another location up river, Indiana side called “The witches house” or something like that and the place looks ancient. It’s said by some to have been a Welsh fortification from the 1100’s and it’s also said that the stones that hold up what’s now a walking bridge across the Ohio River were taken from the same place. The Falls of the Ohio and surrounding area are full of mysteries.
Well you are in luck, Mike: I’m working on the Prince Madoc movie! A man named Dana Olsen wrote a book on the subject, and was in negotiations with a film company, but something fell through a few years ago. Out of professional courtesy, I didn’t pursue it any further, thinking it would finally come to fruition. I didn’t want to steal his thunder. But, given many years of inactivity, I began filming. I touched upon the Madoc legend in the Rose Island segment, but there’s a LOT more to be told! 🙂
Mysterious Rose Island / Charlestown State Park (Charlestown, Indiana)
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A friend of mine researched / visited the Witches Castle, near Utica. The truth behind it, to me, is much more interesting than the local legends. It’s the story about a man that truly loved his wife, and wanted to build her a castle, because she was his “queen”. He went to great trouble and expense to build it, but she would never live there. Maybe it wasn’t her style, too grandiose, she just liked modern places, or perhaps the house was a last ditch effort to save a troubled marriage, I haven’t found an answer.
There was a grain of truth in stories that two elderly women lived at the castle, but the morbid stories behind it are probably fiction. For a fact, local kids have went there and spray-painted pentagrams and satanic symbols to make the once chapel look scary. A New Albany girl was tortured if not also murdered there, by girls she knew in school. Incredibly sad story. I wanted to do a segment, telling the tales and what we know, but it is on private property. I’ve done other abandoned property videos, but after people start watching and showing up to investigate, I get letters from attorneys. 😀 But, if it is clearly abandoned, and there are no posted “no trespassing signs”, Indiana law says that there is no laws broken.
Like you, I love the history and legends of southern Indiana. I’m glad I’m not the only one! Will love to hear what you think of that Madoc movie, whenever I can get it together!
@@AdventureswithRoger The girl is Shanda Sharer, she's from Jeffersonville, and she was not murdered at the witch's castle. Yes, she was taken there before her murder, but she was killed in Madison
I took my 5 kids there recently, to the dam, and I had to take a kind of weird path to get to it. I was creeped out the whole time.
I was stunned to learn that Clark's cabin at Clark's Point had burned down last May! Somehow I missed that story when it was in the news. I live about an hour from Louisville and had visited that cabin one three occasions, the last time in March of 2020, and I took many pictures there. I know it was a vintage cabin relocated there and not the 1803 original, but it is very sad that someone would do that to a piece of our history. I wonder if the guy arrested for the arson was a random pyro-pervert or was motivated by "woke" ideology against G.R.C.? I am very glad I visited the old cabin while it was there.
I don’t understand why someone would want to destroy any remnant of history, even if it was just a symbol and not the original. The arsonist set fire to several places along the river, it’s unclear what his motive was.
I lived 50 feet from it. It was a homeless guy believe to been on drugs. He had a warrant on him for other stuff he had done too
I lived 50 feet from that Cabin. It was a homeless guy running from cops he had several warrants for other things he had down. I believe he was on drug's at the time. I lived right next to flood wall and I would see him walking back and forth constantly. I also went to George Roger Clark elementary school. My oldest daughter did to. But good ol Clarksville.. HUH. Shut school done and tried a daycare and then office buildings or something. It didn't work. It sits empty
Hey Roger.. Did you know us people that grow up/live in Old Clarksville right next to River are called???? We are (River Rat's). LOL. I went swimming in that river, too many time's to count. Fished there, skipped school on the banks of the river on the fossil beds. Did alot of bomb fires and parting back then in the 80's. Good ol time's!!
@@christinedowdle5721in my travels I met a great fella that called himself a river rat! He lives down in Harrison County and collects arrowheads and strange rocks. One I have to agree looks like a parrot and definitely man made.
„Take the last train to Clarksville“. What a nice music hit of the sixties! By the way: What’s about Sasquatch there? Greetings from Linz Austria 🇦🇹 Europe!
Rodger all I have is accolades for your research and tenacity and digging out the truth. The entirety of the area is rich in American history.
I give it my best and truly appreciate your encouragement! Some of these segments eat up weeks if not months of research time. 🙂
Home town ❤
makes you wonder what was actually on that island they blew up...probably a starfort
I was BORN in clarksville Indiana 1961 grew up in Charlestown ,jeffersonville.
The warden of the prisons house was directly behind the facility right beyond the railroad tracks. Very haunted as well.
I guess things still haven’t changed. Veterans are still treated like crap!
Yes they are. Things need to change.
Sad to see that someone burnt the cabin down and its gone now, seems kind of senseless… I am from Indiana and have lived here my whole life but I live in northern Indiana just north of Fort Wayne so I don’t get down that far south very often, but definitely would like to go someday to see all the cool history in that part of the state! Very cool video!
It is a vast wonderland of history and legends!
Probably part of the liberals design to destroy history, by one of the antifa type arsonists.
The bones found there wher burrìed during noahs flood. @ 6500years ago.
From what i got from different folks and for Kentucky was a bad place to hunt there. Because of the indigenous people as say that land there was a bad place to hunt. And Kentucky has been a cuse place with Spirits. Many battle and blood flow in Kentucky. As from what i have understand to there history. Not the white man history. But the natives of Kentucky.
Typical of our government. Shame people often don't get their roses while they're alive. And vibrant enough to enjoy them.
To follow up on the Sand Island giants, why don't you do a story about Prince Madoc from Wales? Those were his people that were found there. They also inhabited Rose Island up river, near Charlestown Indiana. As a matter of fact, there is a statuette of him at The Falls of the Ohio Museum.
We think alike! A Prince Madoc video is in the works. I briefly touched on it, in the Rose Island video, but there is much more to tell! I was able to film one of the artifacts, earlier this year, and someone has offered me a second, whenever I can get there. There's also a weird place in Perry County, under negotiation, but it may not happen. I try to be discreet on private property videos, but one person watches my video, figures it out,, tells 100 people, and then I get hate mail. So, landowners are often hesitant to let me film, knowing it could bring them unwanted traffic.
@@AdventureswithRoger I haven't seen the Rose Island video yet. I will have to look at it. I did get a chance to see the Brandenburg Stone at the Charlestown library. Maybe you cover that in the Rose Island video. I'll check it out. Thanks
@@randallhoward3231 Haven’t published anything about the Brandenburg stone, but I have the footage.
Is the place you’re talking about in Perry County Flint Island?
Your stories are a treasure. I can listen to them day and night.
Thanks Steven! I keep looking for more!
My grandson used to live ther with his wife. They moved away from there closer to his Mother and family.
Roger George Rodgers Clark gave so much and in the end was recognized in a fitting way. what a difficult health and circumstance in between
He was a true patriot and treated like a pauper until the end of life.
We are from the Government and are here to help you! Yeah.
I almost married a Clark. They live right down the road from me.
They're developing a new downtown Clarksville on the other side of the floodwall thats in your thumbnail. I always thought they could put a ice cream parlor or something along that idea where that structure is that holds up the train bridge by the dam.
Lots of good stuff could go there as a draw. The Ohio River just gets cranky every few years, and floods more than anyone expects.
Hello Roger! My name is Paul and I live around the area and just want to say you've done an awesome job with this video and the dark silver one!!! I've always been intrigued with this areas history and along with the purchase of my new metal detector I'm excited to get out and about and just explore and learn! I wish there was more info on Sand Island...Is it completely underwater? Also learning more about the history of Clarksville a early African American settlements would be cool...I could go on all day about this stuff! Lol
Hi Paul! Thank-you for your kind words! Sand Island isn’t underwater, although it does flood. Someone said that when they were a kid, the water was once so low that they just walked to it. I don’t know how sketchy it is to hop a boat and explore it, with the flood gates opening and closing upstream, but can you imagine a metal detector finding?
@@AdventureswithRoger Oh I can! I was just telling somebody I'd love to take a boat out there when it seems safe! I also think I have the silver fever now after your video 😅 I can't wait for the weather to cool down and explore some spots around here, especially New Albany and further out towards the boat.
I remember a friend calling me and saying they’d got a new metal detector, and asking if I’d like to go prospecting! So I went along, and ended up being the guy that helped dig every time that device went crazy! Old wire. Junk. Then we found a sterling silver fork! So technically, I have found silver in Indiana! 😀
Fascinating history of an area I used to live at. As an "Original Transcon RR" fan, these facts you uncover, right in front of our eyes, bear thinking of'. Another area of interest, Civil War era, much to ponder. Reading material: Bret Baier's "To Rescue the Republic", tells of Grant, his history, and the crisis of 1876...quite deep in details. Thank you for an excellent story. Darrell. PS: Pappa John started his franchise near here...I can almost smell his original recipe, before corporate got a hold of it. LOL. 😇
There was both a fort along the river, (next door Jeffersonville) and where confederates made a crossing. Seems like both had historical markers at one point, but have been removed since the waterfront revitalization.
I’m working on the screenplay of Morgan’s 1863 raid, am reading Lester Horwitz’s “The Longest Raid of the Civil War” to confirm I don’t miss anything. Really well done text.
The Clark cabin that was burned was a reproduction and was originally built in the 70's. I believe it was the 2nd or 3rd cabin at the site.
I’d read that it wasn’t original, but it was sketchy how old it was. One source sounded like it was practically new, and another said it was circa 1856 and moved there. To me, the cabin was a symbol, and the arson was an affront to a great patriot, trying to erase his very memory.
If you go to the Lincoln birthplace in Kentucky, there’s a huge shrine on a hill with a cabin inside. It’s been proven that Abraham Lincoln nor his family ever lived in that cabin, but it is on the site where their home did stand. If a person burned that symbolic cabin, it would be a similar disrespect to a great person.
@@AdventureswithRoger Very much agree with you. Either way, great video!
I only wonder if they’ll ever build it back, especially if that was the third one! It’s so far away from town, somewhat remote, that I’m not certain they’ll do it again. I’m a history lover though, would love to see something more grand, even if it required a gate.
@@AdventureswithRoger Agreed, I'd heard shortly after the fire that there was a group "looking for a cabin" to place there. Who knows, it was great to have stood on the front porch of it and looked across to Louisville. Gave you a better understanding of what he was doing, especially while reading a couple of books about him last summer.
You’re spot on! Here was a guy chased by debt collectors, dirt poor, staring at the island where he trained his men for a glorious mission. He really was wronged.
The falls area from the second street downstream to New Albany was my playground as a youth. Going out on logjams fishing and exploring were huge and truly a treasure to preserve and enjoy.
Hard to believe the cretins burned the cabin.
Sounds like good times!
Bring back these kind of prisons today. Prison isn't supposed to be a summer camp you never got as a child, it's supposed to be hell. I have no sympathy for prisoners.
White giants or Vikings possibly?
Why must great men die before they receive what they deserve after death? When their bodies have given out and they die of shame and alcohol? That's incredibly sad. What incredible lives men like Clark lived! Lives of adventure, hard work and wonder, but also horror and blood shed! You said it all , He gave his life for his country .
I will never see Clarks cabin... alas. Another fantastic video. I learned so much! I thank you for that!
There are many interesting legends about possible early European contact, from Welsh to Viking explorers. It could be both! History is often complicated. 🙂
@@AdventureswithRoger always complicated! So many questions...?
European Indians: Utah and several other states have similar stories about blue eyed giants which were attacked and killed by the other natives.The Utah giants were also cannibals.
I had briefly read some of that. Really interesting stories from old newspapers! At some point I’m going to dig deeper into the Indiana giant stories, as there are quite a few.
That’s perfect .
How does one get there? Take the last train to Clarksville. I'll meet you at the station.
Just discovered your videos. Love them! Great work!!
Thanks Christopher! More fun ahead, as I pull together many loose ends!
Anyone know of any channels that deal with northern Indiana, by chance?
Sadly, I don’t know of a single one. Lots of people have done a video or two about downtown Indy, Turkey Run, or such, but move on. I might try a few next spring.
@@AdventureswithRoger please let me know if and when you do. I just came across your channel last night and have been binging.
Two things that could have been added. First was the Buffalo herds following the "Buffalo Trace" and crossing the Ohio River at the falls. Second was the Canals built to bypass the rapids.
Tons of history and legends in that area. Could have easily been a two-hour segment! Just the engineering behind how the Army Corp of Engineers tamed the falls is a marvel.
I grew up in Floyd county... tons of history... known and hidden... along the Ohio river banks... few people know that Indiana once was claimed by the British empire and was officially part of what is now Canada... or that it has the American Revolution connections and US Civil War history... excellent work on your video's... you obviously take great care in research and production! I subbed.
I’ve loved this area since Dad took us here, on day trips, from central Indiana. When I got a chance to move to Floyd County, I took it! During the Bicentennial, in 1976, this was where even the schools were taking us, to teach us about our pioneer past, but especially George Rogers Clark!
@@AdventureswithRoger I grew up in New Albany, near IUS, base of the Knobs. A very beautiful scenic area.
We have a nice Devonian collection from The Falls when it was still allowed to bring your Estwing and chip specimens out. Really enjoy your work. I wish I had more wherewithal to study local history while growing up in the Highlands.
So many great places along the falls!
@@AdventureswithRoger I barely scratched the surface…thank you so much for delving into the historical significance and sharing it in such an engaging way.
@@ehrenbowling my pleasure! Just so much history that’s no longer being taught. My hope is that these humble films interest people enough to explore and learn a little more! 🙂
@@AdventureswithRoger your hope is realized, Roger. I have been sharing your videos with my nephew who’s still in the Bluegrass and he’s been captivated. I thank you and will keep in thanking you for the work and generosity in sharing it freely. Very grateful for you!
Every city is a city of the dead, it's why I don't believe ghost stories.
Over 100 billion people have died on Earth.
It's difficult to go to any established area, and not stand close to where someone has died.
Good point. I’m no ghost chaser, have no desire to be one, but after filming old places for the last five years, and talking with “sensitive” people, I’m a believer. You don’t have to be, and I’m not recruiting, but here’s what I know.
Some people don’t experience anything paranormal, even where everyone else does, because they have no spiritual sensitivity. The best way to describe it, is it’s like the phenomenon in which women can see more colors, and hear a wider frequency of sounds, than men do. Example: I took a picture of an old cabin, built in 1856 by my ancestors. I took it to the family reunion and a woman says, “Oh my goodness! There’s an old man, woman and little boy on the porch!” I look at it again, see nothing. Another woman walks up, and she also sees the three ghostly figures. Skeptically, I sent the picture to a friend of mine, who is a sensitive. “Just tell me what you see here.” She replied, “An old woman, old man and a little boy on the porch.” And I still can’t see it. The same friend went to a place that was haunted, and told the owners it was haunted by an elderly woman with a first name that started with a “O”. The owners told her that no one by that description ever lived there. But a few weeks later, they called my friend, and said that they’d found an old Bible and the name “Ophelia”, whom has lived at the house in the late 1800’s.
At the Tunnelton Tunnel, I caught the phantom lantern on film. No one is holding it, and if they were, they’d have to be 8 feet tall. At the mansion at Vevay, in the haunted room, my camera went crazy trying to focus on something that was not there. It has never done that before or after.
I’ve since taken my sensitive friend to haunted or cursed areas. She gets vibes and tells me all about it, I feel absolutely nothing. Because I’m not sensitive. And frankly, I’m glad I’m not. But I absolutely believe in the unknown.
I visited Clarksville back in 1995. It's well worth it. The views of Louisville are great. So is the museum.
Totally agree. And, Jeffersonville / New Albany attractions are only minutes away.
7 foot tall, white skinned, blonde haired, blue eyed giants, that existed long before Christopher Columbus, vikings weren't 7 feet tall. I know it's crazy, but it kind of sounds more like Lumerians. Hearing these Indian legends about these light skinned tribes makes me wonder if there isn't something to the story of the Lumerians.
Never heard of Clarksville I’m in Fort Wayne
Much of Southern Indiana, south of Brown County, is a mystery to most people. Our parents used to take us on road-trips from Greenwood, and I thought it was the coolest place in the world!
Sad that the Clark cabin was burned down this year.
It was a senseless crime and loss to history
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I never knew this about Clark. Thanks for delving into this history. Great video.
I'm from Indiana and my husband and i like to explore I just found your show nice now we can go places in Indiana instead of out of state to explore thank you
So many great places in Southern Indiana alone!
, The bodies were found lying open on the ground, between those of the so called White Indians and those of the Red Indians. Apparently it appears to of ended with neither side being victorious, as no one was left to survive to bury their dead. In the history of Clark County, Indiana it mentions the Red Indians and the White Indians and those of a third type of "special people" ... A race of red haired Giants, who practiced Serpent Culture worship, known as Adena Culture in Anthropology.
During later Archaeological digs there on a Island 15 miles north of Louisville KY they unearthed a brass breastplate with a Welsh coat of arms on it... What many don't know is the Connections to the Adena Culture, a race of red haired Giants, and the so called mentioned "Special People" with those of the White Indians with those earlier Welsh settlers and explorers from 1170AD.
Here in East Tennessee the connections to Bigfoot and those red haired giants of Adena Culture continued to connect with those earlier Welsh settlers who became a mixed race of so called White Indians, as people known locally by the Cherokee tribes as the "Moon Eyed People"
But it's the discovery yet again by Archaeologists of yet another brass breastplate with an identical Welsh coat of arms on a island in East Tennessee, Hiawassee Island, that connects with the area of White Indians, with early Welsh settlement site locations throughout the Appalachian Mountains, where many sites have connection with Serpent Culture, as is the case at Ft Mountain State Park in Georgia where its believed by archaeologists to be so called stone" walls "of a fort, but what's actually there is the Serpent Culture of Anthropology, and the stone effigy of serpents it represents, along with astrological alignments like many primitive sites of stone megalithic monument sites. The Bigfoot here directly trace back to albinism of the Welsh having seen the Moon Eyed people myself, their Blonde haired, and butterscotch colored even white haired Bigfoot here, who's eyes light up bright like a cars headlights, those thought to be Moon Eyed, having fair skin and eyes sensitive to sunlight came out at night according to Cherokee lore, likely do to being a mix between the so called Adena Culture and those mixed of the White Indians from the early Welsh settlers who were outcasts for being albinos.
When you look at other examples of the native Panamanian Indians called the KUNA people for example, they look very much like the living ancestral Bigfoot here in East Tennessee I've seen . It's interesting too that the KUNA people of Panama have a gene linked to albinism and also claims ties to the early Welsh explorers also.
Right now, I’m looking for a legend about a cave tunnel that went under the Ohio River, between Louisville and Clarksville. I’d read it once, years ago, but cannot find it anywhere.
@@AdventureswithRoger , there's a large underground cave, in Louisville KY, that the city stores supplies inside of. Its big enough that they have tractor trailers inside of it, and one truck driver told me about turning around inside of it with a truck and trailer even its that big. I bet it's likely that there's underground passages all the way to Ft Knox, and to Mammoth Cave also. Just about a year ago , the Louisville Zoo had a huge cave collapse on their property, but no animals were injured. It was absolutely huge collapse as the ground just opened up. Lots of caves in the area, and they say there's something like 600 miles of caverns underground at Mammoth cave in Kentucky. There's also stories of a cave that goes underneath a river here in East Tennessee. TVA sealed the entrance to it, but I was told it's floor is sand covered and you could ride two motorcycles side by side, through it under the river.
@@ninjadave1970 It could be I’ve confused the story with one in Tennessee, but I was certain it was Kentucky to Indiana. As the tale goes, Daniel Boone saw an Indian across the the river, and about 30 or so minutes later, the same one, bone dry, appeared on the Indiana side. No canoe, no boat. He asked the Indian how he got across. The Indian said he didn’t, he went under the river, taking a secret Indian cave. The only known nearby caves in the area are downstream of Clarksville and on the Kentucky side: Daniel Boone cave, and Morgan cave. Morgan cave is gated by the owner, Daniel Boone cave has an owner that’s been known to shoot at curious hikers.
@@AdventureswithRoger , That's very interesting, as there's also a Morgan cave in Northern Kentucky where I had found signs of Bigfoot...
I've found traces of artifacts from the Adena Culture of Anthropology there, and a clay tobacco smoke pipe from the Civil War with a effigy of a mans head on it.
I also saw from where a large tree with its trunk about a full foot thick was moved from where its rootball was located in the ground from , as the dirt was laying on top of the bent grass on the ground five feet away from where the tree came from. I just assumed it must of been a heck of a kickback, from where the tree stood there the day before. When I returned later that next day, this tree was completely gone, removed from the location with no signs of a 4 wheeler , or drag marks or any other signs like saw dust or how the tree had been moved , as I returned to take photos , but It was as if the tree just got up and walked off, or disappeared completely without leaving any trace. I discovered the tree, laying on the ground during that night with night vision goggles searching the area where a previous Bigfoot sighting occurred.
This cave nearby was said to be the hideout of a Confederate, named John Hunt Morgan I believe, who was said to of hidden supplies in this cave as the start of his northern invasion of the Civil War to try and relieve the battlefield at Gettysburg by cutting off the Union supply lines and cause them to pull troops from the battle to defend against his attacks clear across Indiana, Ohio and into Pennsylvania. I bet the other Morgan cave has similar connection to the history of the area and I'm wondering how far away the two caves are, on opposite sides of the Ohio River from each other I'm sure.
The Morgan Cave in Kentucky is in Meade County, at a place called Otter Creek Park and Recreation Area. Seems there's alot of Bigfoot in that part of the Country in isolated areas of the Woodlands of that region. I also learned from Janice Carter that the Dogman here were also building structures with the trees.
The way Lewis died was awful too
I’ve watched every video you have put out now, I think. Amazing content!! Thank you!!
My genuine pleasure! I started the channel after co-workers, both single and with families, asked me what were places to see and do on the weekend. I thought it would take a few months, tops, to capture all of southern Indiana, but I’m going on 5 years now! I’ve really enjoyed meeting nice people in the small towns, hearing stories, and learning new ways to make these videos. And it seems, I still have more stories to tell! It’s a cool hobby that gets me out of the house. 🙂
Thanks for coming along for the ride! This season is starting out with some awesome finds, and I hope you’ll get as much a kick out of them, as I do!
A great video! Makes me want to do more research on Clark's life here in Virginia.
Clark was an incredibly interesting man to study, a combination of verifiable accounts of his exploits, and legends. There have long been stories of fantastic things “ripped” from his memoirs, as an attempt to solidify his image and separate it from tales meant to sell books. The Filson Society in Louisville, Kentucky has a great deal about him.
The whole area of Kentucky was considered a land of the dead by the Shawnee. You could hunt there but no one was ever suppose to live there.
I grew up in Jeffersonville.Indiana.I went to Jeffersonville high.we would go shopping in Clarksville .my mom and sister still lives down there.we would sit by the Ohio river and have picnics and watch the barges go by.there's a lot of parks down there.every Sunday after church we would go get food and have picnics and spend half of the day at a park then we would get ice cream them we would get ready for church. They had a ROTC we don't have it where I live here.my daughters didn't get a chance to experience it.I'm glad I have one of my grandsons is going in the military. I love visiting southern Indiana thank you for sharing this vidio
Lots of good memories along the Ohio River! I didn’t grow up here, but have certainly enjoyed spending time along the river this last decade, since moving here. There’s a peace along the river that is simply wonderful! 🙂
I grew up in Louisville and didn't know many of these things. Thanks for the video.
When I was in high school in 1970 in Whiting, Indiana, I attended George Rogers Clark High School. I hope they find the lunatic that torched his cabin and put him/her in jail for arson.
The arsonist was arrested the day it happened, and is now on parole.
Take the last train to Clarksville and I'll meet you at the station.....
My Beloved Mother grew up in Brown County....I remember when I was in my early teens my mom took me and my three brothers to her aunt's house... My great aunt lived in a two story log house... There's a couple of small towns with funny names...(Gnaw Bone and Bean Blossom,) the Sad part of my little story was my last visit about twenty years later, it's all gone... There's strip malls and motels where the trees and creek used to be.💔😞
As I was telling my brother about Greenwood, where we grew up, “If our parents came back today, they wouldn’t know the place.” Sometimes the changes mean progress, and sometimes it’s only a revision on something that was fine to begin with.
First the borden mesuem now the bridge my delinquent ass used to get stoned under as a teen. Bro love this channel
It was named after a dude named "Clark". He opened a bar. Yup. Clark bar.
“Ladies and gentlemen, Karl will be here all week!”