Absolute jackpot found buried in the burned remains of an old hotel.
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Tom Askjem excavates the Hotel McKay site in Ayr, North Dakota. #archaeology #history #artifacts #mudlarking #digging #asmr #buriedtreasure #wildwest
Glad you are back. Miss the music from the beginning of your videos. You are still finding great stuff!
The sexy digging music😂
Glad to see you've got your own channel, Tom! Keep up the good work!
I wish I knew the details, I'm a Mushroom 🍄
Yeah what happened to below the plains? Why didn’t he tell anyone?
@@jimmylarge1148 No tellin'. I found out by accident
Another great dig. Found some cool things. Take care. 😊
Oh I am SO glad you are still making videos!!!
Awesome dig...wonderful finds and the history behind them...🥰🥰
Killer day thanks for taking us along. Your hard work is paying off. Have a blessed day.
Fabulous finds indeed. Sure wish I knew what you did with all the treasures you find!🥰👏🏻
It’s fun to watch you dig up these old things and tell us the history. So awesome thanks for sharing.
Happy to find the new channel. Need to get caught up with the videos. Also exciting to see something from where I'm from. Wichita KS. The building that houses the factory is still up and being used today. Not for mentholatum though it is now the spice merchant. They sell obviously spices, tea and coffee. Thank you for another awesome dig.
Still loving the history behind the finds
It's amazing what you can find I was taught everything about metal detecting and pottery glasses from the era. And you have some keepers for. Sure. We'll done and thanks for. Showing us!!!
The metal Lantern piece that you found could it possibly be a railroad piece what they call a smudge pot that set aside switches during cold weather to to keep them from freezing up??
It also looks like smudge pots used in orchards to keep buds and blossoms from freezing, when I was growing up anyway.
That w a s the first thing I thought of
It’s actually a tank for a Kerosene heater. In the middle is where the round wick goes. Most likely a Perfection heater.
Great video! Very interesting pieces uncovered!😊
You sound like you are enjoying the dig more😊
I’m so glad I found you again. 🙏
I have a working Waltham watch from that exact time and I still carry it today.
It’s an amazing time piece.
It was my grandfathers.
Thank you from Canada 🇨🇦 🙏
Great video as always! Out of curiosity-do you ever worry about the stuff you breathe in from all these digs?
I was gonna tell you how wrong I thought you were. I don't care for the taste of Crow, one Google search and wow, you're 100 % correct. Now I'm worried about our favorite digger. He must know the risk.
The piece you found in the first pit that you thought was a lamp was probably the bottom of a kerosene heater that they called a bathroom heater. It would have been inside it.
I appreciate the info!
Amazing dig Tom!!!!!
Hi Tom, amazing amount of finds, I was awe struck by the in tact crockery and amused by that piece if hotel crockery that you said was very durable but there you are with a broken piece, oh the irony, but even more surprising to me were the intact light bulbs, obviously much thicker glass than today, cheers buddy!!
You really hit treasure this time
Looks like a whole lot of drinking going on Thanks for sharing ♥️ I♥️♥️♥️🐓
Yeah! Go Tom!
I'm fairly new to your channel but I love watching you find your discoveries. I hope you are fully immunized. I wonder if you've ever found the remains of an unwanted infant? Do you have a museum somewhere?
WOW! Some great finds today!
Do you get to keep what you find? My favorite finds were the crock and the pitcher. Even though the bottom is rotting out, it's still completely awesome. I also like the little bottles that you find as well as the lightbulbs. You would have thought that they would have shattered when thrown into the pit. It amazes me that they can surrive and bottles dont. The chamber pot can be repaired with glue. It would make a great display as well as the crock and coffee pot after being cleaned. That creamer pitcher is amazing. 😮
Wow these videos are way better than Below the Plains. I honestly thought your old video editor must have been drunk or fucked up everytime he duct taped a video together
I always hate to hear “This pit’s done”.
Da Mother load!!!
Excellent video- great learning experience!
BEST BEST CHANNEL ON UA-cam ❤
That was another great dig to watch!
good stuff, Thanks for sharing
I bet the water back then tasted AMAZING. NO CHEMICALS. Wow can you imagine!
Just sewage! Yum. One major downer in wells then was typhoid. I lost a great uncle in Colorado and a great grandfather in Kansas to typhoid, neither one due to their own bad decisions. Typhoid Mary had nothing on the carriers who went west and didn't dig a well far enough from the outhouse, or whose city water wasn't pure. That doesn't say anything about cholera, etc. Don't romanticize the past. There's a reason people wanted things to change.
Wow good digging
Tom do you have a hepatitis shot? Are you ever worried about getting sick? Can you get sick from digging in old out house pits?
I’ve spoken with several doctors about this. The only thing they were concerned with was keeping up with my tetanus shot. Most viruses/bacteria can’t live outside of the human body for more than a few days. We’re talking 100+ years on most of these sites. For what it’s worth I’ve dug over 1,800 outhouse pits; the only times I was majorly sick after digging was from West Nile (mosquito bites) and one time from E. coli that was in the groundwater, likely washed in from a rainstorm
What exactly is a solid use layer? I think I know what you mean by that but just want to make sure
The layers created while the outhouse was in use. Mainly human waste and trash
so tell me is it full of ground water
Was the pocket watch real gold?
Yes, not solid gold but gold filled. Also known as “rolled gold”
@@TomAskjem. nice find bro!
👍👍!!
Digging late 30's in a place that stopped being used in the early 30's? I dug in a ghost town and found the last privy ever used there also.
P.S. I'm bailing on the old channel.
Do you take everything you find with you when you’re done?
For the algorithms ....
so you're digging thru 100 year old outhouse shit... nice
Tom do you still make videos on the other site Below the Plains?
We decided to shut down BTP due to ongoing disagreements. All new videos will be posted on this channel from now on.
That is a kerosene heater
Thanks!
❤Happy day‼️ Hi again from Arlington, Washington. I couldn't hit subscribe fast enough when your new channel came up. Just gave this old lady the will to live longer FAVORITE HISTORY HUNTER BOTTLE DIGGER MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE❣❤ Love ya dude❤
I really like your new channel. You talk more, giving us more information/history. Good stuff. 😀
I agree! Plus, I don't miss the music in the beginning. Just get to the digging! 😅
Enjoying the more detailed videos Tom. Great work!
The NEW Era Begins!
What a fantastic dig and vid, Tom! Alot of unique finds! Thanks for taking us on the dig with you!! Looking forward to your next vid !
Love the old/new channel.
You are so deserving you are very dedicated and experienced
Great dig Tom, awesome finds as well. Congrats on your new Channel. 👍
Love the new font for the descriptions! You're awesome, Tom!
I watched a couple other urban artifact digger channels and they do not compare to your knowledge and delivery. 100% informative!
Thank you!
@@TomAskjem.whoa u actually replied not that u got a new channel?! I like it!!!! 😂😂
I love how knowledgeable you are! Im loving these videos! Great work!
I'm glad I read through the comments, as I was curious what hppened to the old BTP channel.I'm enjoying this channel and looking forward to more vid's. I hope your dad will pluck a tune for you.
Yep, I wish I knew what happened too
Tom, you inspired me to dig down..while my spots were worthy, proving wood ash, glass/pottery shards, nails and everything but complete bottles, I still had fun and look forward to more prospects- keep bringing that history to us.
I’ve found four spots I’ve been digging in Michigan and have dug quite a bit and have only found maybe 10 intact bottles among literal billions of glass shards. 😂😂 keep at it you’ll find something. Remember this stuff was garbage/broken way back then so it’s no surprise that the stuff is mostly broken. We dig in the dumps. 😂
We found a old black Smith shop in our back yard ..horse shoes .hand shovels. In Joplin Missouri
I like the new font. Way easier to read for us older folks Tom. I also wish you could make the descriptions of the finds a little larger so us old folks can see it easier. I’m watching you on my phone so I’m sorry to complain about that. Good luck with the new channel . I’m subscribed and unsubscribing to the old channel. Keep up the good work Sir!
Hey, don't speak for me, I'm old but don't expect Tom to change anything. Take a trip to the dollar store, buy one of each power of reading glasses and you'll be enlightened. You young whippersnapers get off my lawn ! 🤣
I would take some of those undigested seeds out, place them in a container and moisten to see if they sprout. I am weirdly curious aboout stupid stuff like that.
It can be done. They did it with fig seeds from Egypt. You can find that video on UA-cam... they have to be stored a specific way under specific conditions. I don't know that the see a in the ground of an outhouse would fit those parameters.
I use to think 1920 was not that long ago, my dad was born in 1922, my mom in 1928, but 1920 was 124 years ago. Time sure does fly.
That American Bottle works with the stars is amazing
Metal lantern thing could be the kerosene tank for a perfection kerosene heater! We had one and the fuel gauge was the same
You sound and seem so much happier tom glad i found your new channel it will explode in no time you and your knowledge is what makes it addictive to watch 👍🏻
Thanks!
OMG I cant believe he's gone independent! Yay Tom! 🎉❤
Im curious if the pit your digging smells bad? Like an out house does.
Or if it just smells like dirt and old growth.
Id be very interested in finding out. Thanks. By the way , I love your videos. Cant seem to break away from them. They have become very addictive. I guess it could be worse though.
My late grandmother, born April 1903, she was first married in 1920, right after she turned 17. Her husband was a 20 yr. old U.S. Navy fireman, so he must have been in good health. He died in the 3rd ( last?) wave of the Spanish Flu epidemic, within weeks after their wedding. My grandmother apparently survived unscathed. That was what was so strange about the Spanish Fu.
I watched a fascinating documentary about what scientists now believe happened then. They believe it originated in birds, morphing into a lethal virus to humans when it mutated. They belive that the strain was similar to an epidemic that took place one hundred or so years previous, due to how rapidly otherwise young and healthy people like my grandmother's new husband, died so fast. Apparently it was not killing elderly people like it killed younger healthy people. Scientists believe older people then may have had antibodies present in their systems that protected them somewhat.
You mentioning in this video of the possibility that the pit was covered in an effort to avoid contamination, those days must have been terrifying for people. I cannot imagine how scary it must have been.
My grandmother was born in 1896 she lost her first husband and one child from the flu. So my mother was born in 1936 when she was little she thought her half sister was her mother. 😂😂
You can't imagine it? You were how young during our own pandemic?
You found a ton of good stuff here. Im amazed how many things were intact.
Some very nice stuff there, intact no less! I’m glad summer is here!
Hot dog! I've been looking forward to new videos from you 😊
ya know for that watch, there's a guy on youtube by the name wristwatch revival. hobbyist takes on some huge tasks, if you have a mind to he possibly could at least clean it up, maybe even further, who knows.
@@kevinwilliams9380 yes his channel is great. It would be a fun collaboration to see
You could ask your uncle, the guitar playing singer one, to provide you with some original music for your videos. But really, I watch your videos for your fantastic finds! It's like Christmas on Saturdays!
Eric is my Dad. I’ve brought up the idea before. That may happen in upcoming vids!
@@TomAskjem.If so and his guitar is not out of tune I'm unsubscribing!
New subscriber 6/26/24❤❤❤
Great day of digging finding amazing bottles and relics!
Awesome dig
Gosh, surprised to find you!! Congratulations on your channel I just discovered yessss!!!🎉🎉❤
It would be cool to see you take a metail detector and sifting box with you on these excavations. 😉
came over from fb, nice to see you in action. love the finds. where can we buy probes? ty congrats!
Opium was a waxy tar like substance and would never had been sold in a small bottle.😊
The gold watch reminded me of an old joke:
1: "I was using the outhouse the other day and a quarter fell out of my pocket and went down the hole."
2: "That's too bad."
1: "It made me so mad that I threw a $20 gold piece in after it."
2: "Why in the world did you do that?"
1: "You don't think I'd go down there just for a quarter, do ya?"
I’d heard that somewhere haha
Loving your new channel! I like the fonts you're using for the descriptions. They're easy to read. I don't miss the music in the intro like some people do though.. I think it's fine with you just talking. 😅
Great to see you have your own channel. Enjoy the info you add to your finds, thanks
let's go let's go treasure and adventure ✌👵
Awesome finds😃
Loving the new channel Tom, just catching up with the first episodes. Ayr is a town in Scotland and McKay is a Scottish surname so I'm assuming it was founded by Scots immigrants. You called a bottle "an English whiskey " sic. England does not make whisky - in a town founded by Scots it's reasonable to assume it's a Scottish Whisky (no e) bottle or possibly Irish Whiskey (with an e). Whisky is Scotland's national drink along with Irn Bru (pronounced Iron Brew).
I appreciate the info!
3:30 Kerosene heater fuel tank.
Awesome Dig ...Love the history behind the items u find. Always excited when u come across something from Kentucky.. coming from the Bourbon capital lol. Really enjoy ur channel.
Tom, have you ever tried to sprout any old seeds? You might rediscover an extinct variety. You never know.
I sent a couple bags of seeds a friend in Kansas. He’s going to try getting them going. If it works out I’ll make a post about it
I like the font you are using for this video!!
Hey I recognize you! Aren’t you… you… um… that guy from… hummmm yeah yeah…. it IS you! Cool!
Wow incredible dig. All of those sodas are amazing. Looking forward to the next one!
I want a T-shirt that sez that Tom
Tom, what an exceptional dig, great soil. Incredible embossed bottles. I can take those Minnesota bottles off your hands😜. Cool chamber pot, loved the crock and enamel coffee pot. My goodness, I can’t list them all. So happy for you.👍😀👏
That was an awesome haul!
Tom you share your passion for your work in a marvelous teaching and learning experience for me as a viewer, Thankyou . Should anyone doubt your knowledge i suggest they attend your future lecture and buy the book .
What a fabulous pit with fabulous finds!!!
Came here from Facebook!! Subbed :)
Welcome!
All that stuff in there no room for poo.
Thanks Tom! That art deco bottle was fabulous!