One thing that you can say is they built things to last back then. Can you imagine the labor it took to dig it and stack all that rock! Amazing! Thanks Beau! Happy travels! Beeps.
Beeps & Eat's Finding food & treasure ever hear the phrase "colder than a well-digger's ass" ? yeah, it was rough , dug a couple in the mountains with my grandpa when i was little, crazy what you find down there...
That's frigging amazing that some people built that well all the way down to the cave system . It's still hasnt collapsed either.! I am stunned by the craftiness and fortitude.
probably started out as a mine or some hole to hide their family during the war!! amazing how the whole land itself is covered with bushes, lush green ..maybe somewhere near that well there was a house and a garden and laundry house and clothing line, and outhouse and children running around etc ehehe...well I'm sure it used to be beautiful at one time, so sad!
7:54 Interesting even in very restricting environments like the bottom of a well with practically no sunlight, you can just find life just doing it’s thing.
add to that all the indian graves that are everywhere i look. dug up by road cuts, railroads, building foundations, parking lots, anything that digs in the soil likely will hit one. i have a family graveyard back in the woods with about 25 headstones going back to 1700's. many are just a rock sticking up like he mentions in the vid. it looks overgrown as well. i haven't seen it in 40 years, i don't think anyone has been buried there since my grandmother back in 1980"s. her son(my uncle) shot himself about 12 years ago, he was 83 at the time, don't have any idea what happened to his body, i heard about it a couple years after.
@@bobs5596 On my grandparents property years ago in Wisconsin had Indian Burial Mounds all over the place in the woods. As kids when we would see them we knew they were not natural at all. Glad my grandparents and parents told us what they were. We always respected them and never climbed or played around them. They could have been hundreds of years old.
How on earth would they build this well. I have a hard enough digging down 3 feet or more to bury electrical conduit nevermind digging this deep! Yikes!
Exactly how do you build a well like that with all the stacked rocks if its full of water?if it wasn't full of water how does that even make sense.....like ok release the water now we're done lol.
It is said that to this day on a clear windless night that , You can Still Hear that homesteader Screaming from the bottom of the Well , ( Boy !!! If You Drop One More Rock on my Head !!! I'mma Gonna Climb Out of here and Beat the Living Shit out of You !!!
@@johnbassett3188 having worked on a farm with guys, this observation sounds right. a little colour fleshing out the story. and those guys did what just needed to be done, not what they necessarily 'wanted' at the moment. there was humble submission by the workers, respect and great gratitude offered by the family, contributing to building a hopeful future on something so basic to life. And yet it was merely expected of one tp roll up ones sleeves and pitch in. These were defining experiences building a young man's character through pragmatic sacrifice, learning steadfastness, hard work, discipline, cheerful generosity building a community of cooperation offering what they had, their strong backs. they didn't have time to worry about distracting social media concerns, it was a head to head confrontation with survival.
That is an amazing well. It looked like the lowest portion was excavated through solid Limestone. Cave potential? Then there was the wooden shoring to support the dry laid rock lining. Beautiful! Loved the frog, and the leggy critters at the bottom. Yes, coolest well I've seen in a long while!
I was watching this thinking how Chiggs the only UA-camr who can go in the woods and not be hearing scary noises. That's when he started hearing coyotes 😄 Nice video, always enjoy his outdoors and underwater vids. Awesome old well
The clarity of your camera shots are incredible! The well water was so clean and the stones were so perfectly placed! Incredible! I do love the river hunts for the historical possibilities, but still a great vid! I love the Chigg!
They stacked and lined the well with the rocks as they dug down.. I'm not sure how they got those rocks to stay in place honestly, what a jumbled mess for the most part..
right on guy I have passed many wells like that in my travels and always wondered how they looked st the bottom I enjoyed your video very much you just helped me put to rest an age old wonder ty I am 63 and spentv25 yrs in the woods and also tripped over a few abandoned graves myself .
I've got to admit; it saddens me to see any graveyard that's been left to deteriorate and get overgrown like that 😞 That well was so cool to see into also. You can tell that it opens up at the bottom. The beans used down there for added support 👍 Great fun video. Thank you
Ohh! It makes sense! The water down there is so clear and the rocks so clean because little to no sunlight can make it deep into the well, preserving most organic things there for longer than normal.
Did anyone else notice the engineering of that well them timbers holding up the walls is old as the graves and still working he even used cross section diagonal timbers to keep the well from caving in I bet you that was a nice homestead
Beau, It would be really cool if during the underwater segments that you did some narration about how they built them and your general observations, you know, the only way the Chigg can do.
Excellent video.I have a Farm with a house that was built in 1871 and I have two rock wells just like this one.I marvel at how someone and probably a team dug a hole almost 150 years ago ,gathered the rocks and then filled in the walls and gradually moved up until the got to the top...and my foundation for the home is stone also.3 feet thick and just passed the home inspection for the insurance company.The place will last another 150 years at least...they really did know how to build them back t hen!!!!
Cemetery is say. The names worn a way, once a persons entire life. They had friends, family, hung out at taverns, made friends and enemies, an entire lifetime of memories, and were mourned at their passing. Now they're all forgotten like they never existed at all. Makes it all feel so pointless....
that's why you should live your life in a way that you'll be remembered, not as something bad, but as anything good, as someone that helped others in a way
We are alive untill we are remembered. Humankind has struggled with it from start and still is - story telling, songs, monuments, buildings, writings, paintings, photography, movies, internet.....
For anyone who wonders what these water bugs are, they are probably Asellus aquaticus (also called water louse or pond slater), although I’m not 100 percent sure since the video is blurry on them.
They look like they are adapted to the darkness being white and all. Whenever I see lifeforms in some unexpected place, I always wonder if it might be some undocumented thing. Maybe, in this case, some of those things you mentioned but maybe they evolved and adapted a but more for that well. It has been there a long time and may be connected to underground caverns, so, who knows. I've seen other videos in the past of people putting cameras down old wells and almost all of them have some kind of white bugs just doing their thing on or near the bottom.
I am Amazed, AMAZED I tell ya! At the ones who, stone by stone, made this! Who made it? How old is it? Has there ever been stories of making a well and someone having the walls cave in on them while they were working it? I am a person who truly is curious.
Those wells are all over the place in north Alabama. And yes they caved in while being built sometimes but not often. They knew what they were doing back in the day. I know of 6 of those wells within half mile of my house. My neighbor has one in his front yard
Props to this guy filming in this well due to the fact that you know a crap ton of the coyotes and bears and a bunch other animals in them woods drink the water out of that well .
Loved the old well, and felt sad about the abandoned cemetery. Looks like the frog had plenty to eat, with those creepy things swimming around in the well. Nice bug catcher! Glad you didn't get anything more than a good scare from the coyotes. They can be plenty nasty if you get near a den. You never cease to amaze with your woodland rambles and old home site adventures. Thanks for taking us along. It was wild! Have a great day!
It was a predator call he was using I have one that has that same program FoxPro Wireless call Coyotes I think it has 10 different coyote calls Preloaded
What the hey did that well start out in a cave looked like it opened up at the bottom! Hold your breath and go check it out! That well needs a cover so nothing can fall in! Good video brocephus later! 😎💨
Thank you so much! My grandpa built a rock lined well in the hollow and we carried our water from it when I was little. It was great to see the rock work of the walls all the way to the bottom. We had a concrete lid on ours. Thanks again. Love your videos.
I just love your videos! I really love your sense of adventure and unique perspective on exploration. I think you’re amazing in that you’re letting persons like myself who never could do what you do get a chance to escape our own lives and go with you exploring, something I admire in you very much! Thank you for what you do in sharing and adventure. Reminds me of my love of Harrison Ford movies Raiders of the lost arc! I loved the video exploring the well! It took my mind back to Colvin war days imagining that someone used to draw water from the well in uniforms or age old regalia? Colonial days! I just love it! I also liked the scare of coyotes and the grave yard. It did remind me of some vampire books I’ve read and that element of surprise! I very much enjoy all your videos! I hope you never stop doing them! Be safe and be blessed always! Keep posting! I can’t wait to see your next video!!!!????
One, or more, of those people in that cemetery built that well. It always amazes me how a settlement can just disappear. Thank you for showing us this.
Happy Father's Day to you Chigg. Truly amazing! Beautiful! I can imagine all the hard work it took to build that well and all the way down to natural bedrock! Thanks for these adventures.
No, definitely not deep enough to hit a water vein or aquifer. Like board wells, hand dug wells rely solely on the surface water that permeates through the soil & rests on the bedrock. All of this is water came from rain
I’ve spooked a pack of coyotes before and it’s no joke!!! One of the only times the hair on my neck has stood up!! It is very eery when they do their yelping & howling close to u!!!!! Great video!!! I wish they’d force those old wells & mine shafts to be securely covered or filled in. As a forester, I’ve found many uncovered out in the woods & there are always dead carcasses of animals that have fallen in & died b/c they couldn’t get out. I have rescued a few animals that were injured and/or near death, but they were super lucky I happened across the old well/mine shaft & had tools to make something to rescue them with. Most aren’t that lucky!!
For somebody who climbs in cracks in the ground to be afraid of what goes bump in the night amazes me. Those little hairs stand up to each his own. Love that chig. Interesting history. A lot of tombstones a lot of Life lost. Interesting to find out how long the cemetery was used. A lot was put into that well .....amazing work. I would like to say Well done well
👍Technology is great, we used a toy drone with camera to check out the condition of our roof. It’s pretty high way up on the second story gable & we didn’t want to go up there. Worked out great.
Interesting how the well was lined, can only imagine how long it took for the well digger to do all that work. How old do you think this well is? The sound was rather low, even with my system's sound turned to the max, there was some of what you said I could barely hear. - - - - - - A cute observation, when the coyote howl played, my cat that was laying here with me, jumped up, hissed and started to growl. - - - - - - Enjoy your videos on your river explorations for Civil War relics. Bought a new metal detector a few years ago and had used it only a couple of times, then I had a stroke, that has kept me pretty much bed ridden. So I really enjoy watching your videos, I sort of live the outdoor's experience through your videos and those of a couple of other posters who spend time in the outdoors and share their adventures. Thank You, and please be careful. - - - //es//A Proud Honorable Disabled American Veteran, 1965-1994; A 70y/o One Time Avid Outdoors Lady.
You crack me up Chig. Man, what you went through in that high growth would be tick city here. Big time. And some are not so nice. I seen you do it lots of times before. I learned a lot from you. Looking at a site and all that. You made me go out and buy an AT Pro a couple years ago. I love it. My little town. It has a lot of history. Just 2000 of us sprinkled over 34.5 square miles. Lots of woods. Thanks so much. And I do like your cave stuff too. Real good. But I have to say , the best was the Nome trip. That was really enlightening. Really great. Thanks so much. Ted from Connecticut
Beau I always enjoy the adventures , as a Kid I drew well water back in the 60's so cold the stainless dipper would frost over. A lot of good times , gone not forgotten .
Man that thing is real deep. Amazing to see so much life down there too with next to no daylight getting down there they must have thought it was summer with your light shining lol ATB GL & HH LittleJohn_MD 🇬🇧
First of all thank you for sharing this. How deep do you think the well is? And all those rocks?. Can you even imagine having to handle them to line your well? And a lot of them were huge! Must have weighed several hundred pounds. Makes one appreciate how hard our ancestors had to work so they could survive. Thanks again. God bless you.
Dude that well was deep and crystal clear, beautiful!!!👍 Did you guess at how much line you put down? Glad camera didn’t get hung up😁 Chigg I hope you pack when you out alone! I know many detectors do for safety!!! Amazing the hand work that went into that well👍👍👍 Keep “ holding your breath “ !!! Love it😁
Pretty area! I love the outdoors in the woods at sundown! I love how the orange of the sun and the green of the leaves comes together to make that bright lime green and orange touch.
You made it out so you didn't get your bits eaten by the coyotes. That's a neat well and the water is real clear too. You'd have to dig it out. There'd only be room for one person in the hole. You'd have to have a hoist set up to get the buckets of dirt out hopefully with a lockable ratchet, so you don't wear the bucket in case the guy pulling up the bucket is easily distracted. Then throw in the rocks in and climb down and stack them. Or rely on someone to throw the rocks in while you were down there. I bet they went through a lot of well diggers.
I am amazed at the work that went into building that well. How though, did they get the work done with all of that water, and I bet if you cleaned out about 2 feet of leaves you would find some "WELL" preserved artifacts! Those stones lining the wall are oddly clean. Great vid.
So am I right in thinking that this well was hand dug and lined with rocks all the way to the bottom? It seems as though in times past most men and women or superheroes! Thank you for showing us the foundings
Looks more like a mine shaft, wooden cribbings,timbers,cribbing,,, an axe, part of a metal hinge, and its way too deep for a well. Looks Ike it has side tunnels too.
They had deep mines in ancient times as well. They had animal powered pumps to keep the water cleared out. Mines used large numbers of draft animals in those times.
I don't believe it's any kind of mine shaft! If it were, you'd have significant structures around it as well as a "Tailings Pile".... "Tip" or "Gob Pile!" Considering the outter terrain, low flat and flood prone, you'd need the high outter walls, to prevent contamination with occasional floodwaters!" Before commercial drills, hand sinking a well could be a Major Undertaking, depending upon the location and geolog THIS, would've been a well for a large family & farm, in an area that was probably susceptible to long, hot, dry summers! It's also likely that the water table is significantly higher today, than when the well was first dug!
There is lots of bugs in there too. Johnny says trout would love that especially if the water was real cold. LOL! It looked like that opened up down deep there. Maybe they punched into a cavern or the aquifer?
i once stayed too long out in the woods and it got dark on me before i made it out. i was walking thru some weeds/briers that were chest high, pretty thick. at least 3-4 coyotes were running around me in a circle. it was spooky. it was a big circle they were running around me, i think they were curious. scared me to death tho. i didn't run, i just kept walking at the same pace, making noise as i went. cool video, mr frog at the end was hilarious!
the frog must have fell down there, and has been living off bugs that go in there ever since. sad but hes still alive eating bugs :o but HES STUCK THERE MOST LIKELY
One thing that you can say is they built things to last back then.
Can you imagine the labor it took to dig it and stack all that rock!
Amazing! Thanks Beau!
Happy travels!
Beeps.
Yep, things nowadays are crap.
@@snowballil3133 people are greedy, they make things shitty nowadays so when it breaks you buy another one so they can keep making money off you
How did they do that from the top down?
@@snowballil3133 That may be so, but I would climb down a modern concrete ring well any day. That thing, not so much.
Beeps & Eat's Finding food & treasure ever hear the phrase "colder than a well-digger's ass" ? yeah, it was rough , dug a couple in the mountains with my grandpa when i was little, crazy what you find down there...
The whole time I was thinking “boy, somebody worked their ass off building that well”.
@won doyouwant Carefully. 😜
So much work went into this thing
This was probably the work of a team of 3 or 4 men, or perhaps two men and two teenage apprentices!
Crazy how haphazardly its put together.
Yeah man... Phew... It sure is hard work building thiS
That's frigging amazing that some people built that well all the way down to the cave system . It's still hasnt collapsed either.! I am stunned by the craftiness and fortitude.
It’s not a well,it has shoring timber’s, it’s probably an old mine of some sort
probably started out as a mine or some hole to hide their family during the war!!
amazing how the whole land itself is covered with bushes, lush green ..maybe somewhere near that well there was a house and a garden and laundry house and clothing line, and outhouse and children running around etc ehehe...well I'm sure it used to be beautiful at one time, so sad!
It’s the same toughness and determination that built the country…
7:54 Interesting even in very restricting environments like the bottom of a well with practically no sunlight, you can just find life just doing it’s thing.
Isn't God good .
@@raylady0 god? Lol
What are they though?
they look kinda like centipedes
“Life…uh… finds away😏” Jeff goldblume
That frog was so cute!!!! He was like “You shall enter at your own risk”
Omg right!
time stamp please?
The frog, oh look bright light and rope.
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride !!!
Where is it
It’s sad when graveyards become forgotten and eventually lost.
From the dirt we came to dirt we will return.
It's actually quite fitting. Your memory will be forgotten and lost one day as well
There's an old graveyard not far from me, it has revolutionary soldiers in it. Some piece of garbage broke some of the headstones
add to that all the indian graves that are everywhere i look. dug up by road cuts, railroads, building foundations, parking lots, anything that digs in the soil likely will hit one. i have a family graveyard back in the woods with about 25 headstones going back to 1700's. many are just a rock sticking up like he mentions in the vid. it looks overgrown as well. i haven't seen it in 40 years, i don't think anyone has been buried there since my grandmother back in 1980"s. her son(my uncle) shot himself about 12 years ago, he was 83 at the time, don't have any idea what happened to his body, i heard about it a couple years after.
@@bobs5596 On my grandparents property years ago in Wisconsin had Indian Burial Mounds all over the place in the woods. As kids when we would see them we knew they were not natural at all. Glad my grandparents and parents told us what they were. We always respected them and never climbed or played around them. They could have been hundreds of years old.
Coolest thing I've ever seen thus far, and for the wood structures to still be there in the beautiful condition is astounding.
That frog was just like
“Bro no way. I’ve gotta tell Linda about this one.”
🤣🤣😂🤣🤣👌 Brilliant dude brilliant
Oh genius.
Linda Linda Linda
Frogs don’t speak. And who is Linda?
@@Joesmusclecargarage your mom
You should add in a commentary with the well videos of you explaining the well. how they would stack the rocks, how they built the well and so on.
Yeah I'd like that too
Me too
How on earth would they build this well. I have a hard enough digging down 3 feet or more to bury electrical conduit nevermind digging this deep! Yikes!
Okay, I got suckered in like everybody else. So what's so usual about a damn well from the 1800s. That's how they built them. They were Pioneers.
Exactly how do you build a well like that with all the stacked rocks if its full of water?if it wasn't full of water how does that even make sense.....like ok release the water now we're done lol.
lol, that frog, man, that was his UFO moment lmao he froze like wtf
Mr. Frog was not expecting visitors!
He’s probably thinking “I’m rescued!’ 😂
He looked awful lonely....
@@christopherleveck6835 imagine accidentally drop in the well.
Bro that frog looked like a secret NPC with a side quest
Frog: Damn yo about damn time!
Camera: byeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
I can't imagine the amount of physical effort it would take to dig and line that well.
I imagine that it would take 3 or 4 men, several months! It's definitely not something you begin in "late September!"
It is said that to this day on a clear windless night that , You can Still Hear that homesteader Screaming from the bottom of the Well , ( Boy !!! If You Drop One More Rock on my Head !!! I'mma Gonna Climb Out of here and Beat the Living Shit out of You !!!
Ikr
@@johnbassett3188 having worked on a farm with guys, this observation sounds right. a little colour fleshing out the story. and those guys did what just needed to be done, not what they necessarily 'wanted' at the moment. there was humble submission by the workers, respect and great gratitude offered by the family, contributing to building a hopeful future on something so basic to life. And yet it was merely expected of one tp roll up ones sleeves and pitch in. These were defining experiences building a young man's character through pragmatic sacrifice, learning steadfastness, hard work, discipline, cheerful generosity building a community of cooperation offering what they had, their strong backs. they didn't have time to worry about distracting social media concerns, it was a head to head confrontation with survival.
4:00 "Good Evening, mister Bond"
Lol
That is an amazing well. It looked like the lowest portion was excavated through solid Limestone. Cave potential? Then there was the wooden shoring to support the dry laid rock lining. Beautiful! Loved the frog, and the leggy critters at the bottom. Yes, coolest well I've seen in a long while!
Yes, was definitely more than just a well
There is definitely a cave down there.
If you put one of those scary screaming clips in this video you would give half your subscribers a heart attack.
That’s exactly what I was thinking .. and trying to prepare for it ! Lol had my volume up full as Chiggs videos are always quiet.
William hatten yes he would he has jumped before. I was close to the screen about lost it lol
I was waiting for it, but it never came.
I hear them all the time. They aren't interested in me and don't bother the horses.
I was watching this thinking how Chiggs the only UA-camr who can go in the woods and not be hearing scary noises. That's when he started hearing coyotes 😄
Nice video, always enjoy his outdoors and underwater vids. Awesome old well
I like the way he whispers like there are people around. In reality, there is no one within 50 miles of him.
That is the coolest hand dug well I've ever seen.
I was going to search out some hand dug wells, but I've just seen the coolest one I will ever see, so there's no point anymore.
OMG! I can't belive there was rocks n logs n water in that well! You gotta be kidding me! That jus blew my mind man...
The water is so clean, deep and old with their own wildlife lol
The clarity of your camera shots are incredible! The well water was so clean and the stones were so perfectly placed! Incredible! I do love the river hunts for the historical possibilities, but still a great vid! I love the Chigg!
3:31 when he actually starts lowering the camera
Thanks
Could you do this for all his videos please?
Thank you lol
@@richardroman9280 ok
Thank you
I don’t know how they dig a well that deep without the dirt collapsing on them. OSHA would have a fit !
😂
They stacked and lined the well with the rocks as they dug down.. I'm not sure how they got those rocks to stay in place honestly, what a jumbled mess for the most part..
@@destinationunknown7857 ya imagine a wall of rocks falling on your head
OSHA would have a fit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cribbing as they went slowly down. once they were done they just hoisted pcs. out bit by bit and yeah shit could have fallen on your head.
For me, the best about this is that you explore alone, like I do too. It keeps you focused and enhances the experience. Great video.
Same here except I take my golden doodle when I camp, great for preditors. She chase off a wolf
@@backwoodsjunkie08 my dog is too small. He would pick all the ticks around.
right on guy I have passed many wells like that in my travels and always wondered how they looked st the bottom I enjoyed your video very much you just helped me put to rest an age old wonder ty I am 63 and spentv25 yrs in the woods and also tripped over a few abandoned graves myself .
I really enjoy these well videos, because you bring us into a quiet, untapped video of a world that has never been explored before. Great video!
I've got to admit; it saddens me to see any graveyard that's been left to deteriorate and get overgrown like that 😞
That well was so cool to see into also. You can tell that it opens up at the bottom. The beans used down there for added support 👍
Great fun video. Thank you
I assume everybody saw that bullfrog sitting there
I think that's jeremiah the bullfrog... 😉
@@snowballil3133 You mean Jeremiah was a bullfrog. Was a good friend of mine. lol HI
Where?
@@HellfireHeather Honey Bunches of oats and waffle bunny monkeys😁
@@dorfsteen I like cinnamon toast crunch 😆 a honey bunch of wafflemonkey crunch next to bunny buns and some toasted cinnamon fun
Ohh! It makes sense! The water down there is so clear and the rocks so clean because little to no sunlight can make it deep into the well, preserving most organic things there for longer than normal.
Did anyone else notice the engineering of that well them timbers holding up the walls is old as the graves and still working he even used cross section diagonal timbers to keep the well from caving in I bet you that was a nice homestead
The frog was like, "Admission fee, twenty bugs!"
Beau,
It would be really cool if during the underwater segments that you did some narration about how they built them and your general observations, you know, the only way the Chigg can do.
Excellent video.I have a Farm with a house that was built in 1871 and I have two rock wells just like this one.I marvel at how someone and probably a team dug a hole almost 150 years ago ,gathered the rocks and then filled in the walls and gradually moved up until the got to the top...and my foundation for the home is stone also.3 feet thick and just passed the home inspection for the insurance company.The place will last another 150 years at least...they really did know how to build them back t hen!!!!
Amazing! The water was still crystal clear water! It was soooo well built and super duper deep!
I was half expecting to find a little girl telling me I would die in seven days but I am quite pleased with the frog friend chilling there instead.
Cemetery is say. The names worn a way, once a persons entire life. They had friends, family, hung out at taverns, made friends and enemies, an entire lifetime of memories, and were mourned at their passing. Now they're all forgotten like they never existed at all. Makes it all feel so pointless....
that's why you should live your life in a way that you'll be remembered, not as something bad, but as anything good, as someone that helped others in a way
@@taimurayub5806 It wouldnt matter. Just like those faded stones, we're all going to be forgotten.
You think it stops there???
@@thatman4853 I hope not, if it does, then all of this is meaningless.
We are alive untill we are remembered. Humankind has struggled with it from start and still is - story telling, songs, monuments, buildings, writings, paintings, photography, movies, internet.....
For anyone who wonders what these water bugs are, they are probably Asellus aquaticus (also called water louse or pond slater), although I’m not 100 percent sure since the video is blurry on them.
They look like they are adapted to the darkness being white and all. Whenever I see lifeforms in some unexpected place, I always wonder if it might be some undocumented thing. Maybe, in this case, some of those things you mentioned but maybe they evolved and adapted a but more for that well. It has been there a long time and may be connected to underground caverns, so, who knows. I've seen other videos in the past of people putting cameras down old wells and almost all of them have some kind of white bugs just doing their thing on or near the bottom.
I am Amazed, AMAZED I tell ya! At the ones who, stone by stone, made this!
Who made it?
How old is it?
Has there ever been stories of making a well and someone having the walls cave in on them while they were working it?
I am a person who truly is curious.
Those wells are all over the place in north Alabama. And yes they caved in while being built sometimes but not often. They knew what they were doing back in the day. I know of 6 of those wells within half mile of my house. My neighbor has one in his front yard
Props to this guy filming in this well due to the fact that you know a crap ton of the coyotes and bears and a bunch other animals in them woods drink the water out of that well .
Loved the old well, and felt sad about the abandoned cemetery. Looks like the frog had plenty to eat, with those creepy things swimming around in the well. Nice bug catcher! Glad you didn't get anything more than a good scare from the coyotes. They can be plenty nasty if you get near a den. You never cease to amaze with your woodland rambles and old home site adventures. Thanks for taking us along. It was wild! Have a great day!
It was a predator call he was using I have one that has that same program FoxPro Wireless call Coyotes I think it has 10 different coyote calls Preloaded
I love the frog j chillin at the waterline. cute lil homie
4:01 Hes the final boss
Good video, the grave sites are the stone workers who dug and built that puppy!! America has fantastic history.. thank you for sharing.
What the hey did that well start out in a cave looked like it opened up at the bottom!
Hold your breath and go check it out! That well needs a cover so nothing can fall in!
Good video brocephus later! 😎💨
lmao the frog at 4:03
Imagine as the camera is panning around, and suddenly a webbed humanoid hand reaches out from an opening in the rocks and grabs at the camera!!!😵
I was waiting for that
I thought that is something like that what they was talking about
I was thinking about an eyeball, yikes!
Hoffa...
so perfectly placed it was almost unreal. I watched it over and over to make sure I wasnt trippin'.
It's amazing there's life going on down there by itself not caring about anything going on up here
Best thing about this entire video is the frog that was just chilling
SAME
What really impresses me is the fact someone went all the way down there and stacked those rocks
I agree! Man that musta been an easy way to die back then 💀
How frightening that had to of been!
Me too!
Thank you so much! My grandpa built a rock lined well in the hollow and we carried our water from it when I was little. It was great to see the rock work of the walls all the way to the bottom. We had a concrete lid on ours. Thanks again. Love your videos.
I just love your videos! I really love your sense of adventure and unique perspective on exploration. I think you’re amazing in that you’re letting persons like myself who never could do what you do get a chance to escape our own lives and go with you exploring, something I admire in you very much! Thank you for what you do in sharing and adventure. Reminds me of my love of Harrison Ford movies Raiders of the lost arc! I loved the video exploring the well! It took my mind back to Colvin war days imagining that someone used to draw water from the well in uniforms or age old regalia? Colonial days! I just love it! I also liked the scare of coyotes and the grave yard. It did remind me of some vampire books I’ve read and that element of surprise! I very much enjoy all your videos! I hope you never stop doing them! Be safe and be blessed always! Keep posting! I can’t wait to see your next video!!!!????
One, or more, of those people in that cemetery built that well. It always amazes me how a settlement can just disappear. Thank you for showing us this.
Happy Father's Day to you Chigg.
Truly amazing! Beautiful! I can imagine all the hard work it took to build that well and all the way down to natural bedrock!
Thanks for these adventures.
Happy father's day
The water is so clean.
So pure.
Looks like they might've dug down into a flooded cave system.
I said the same thing, above! Near the bottom, there are large sections of smooth walls, instead of stacked rubble!
No, definitely not deep enough to hit a water vein or aquifer. Like board wells, hand dug wells rely solely on the surface water that permeates through the soil & rests on the bedrock. All of this is water came from rain
@@Johnysoutherner Explain the sections of smooth walls then
@@woooose pinpoint a time in the video of what your referring to
I’ve spooked a pack of coyotes before and it’s no joke!!! One of the only times the hair on my neck has stood up!! It is very eery when they do their yelping & howling close to u!!!!! Great video!!! I wish they’d force those old wells & mine shafts to be securely covered or filled in. As a forester, I’ve found many uncovered out in the woods & there are always dead carcasses of animals that have fallen in & died b/c they couldn’t get out. I have rescued a few animals that were injured and/or near death, but they were super lucky I happened across the old well/mine shaft & had tools to make something to rescue them with. Most aren’t that lucky!!
WELL... this sure does look like fun! Might have to explore some wells myself looks awesome down there! Thanks for sharing - GNG
I've got one in my front yard you can explore, help yourself...
Well made well ! What a great way to show it off. The frog was cute, but I really didn't expect to see isopods down there ! Thanks
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Very Cool Well, I admire how you make life into an Adventure.
Thanks
For somebody who climbs in cracks in the ground to be afraid of what goes bump in the night amazes me. Those little hairs stand up to each his own. Love that chig. Interesting history. A lot of tombstones a lot of Life lost. Interesting to find out how long the cemetery was used. A lot was put into that well .....amazing work. I would like to say Well done well
4:01 frog or toad looking at the light on the go pro before it submerges into the well water. Hilarious expression, " what the h**l is that?"
Toad
Toad: Hello!!
DON'T LIE IT'S NOT THERE
👍Technology is great, we used a toy drone with camera to check out the condition of our roof. It’s pretty high way up on the second story gable & we didn’t want to go up there. Worked out great.
Interesting how the well was lined, can only imagine how long it took for the well digger to do all that work. How old do you think this well is? The sound was rather low, even with my system's sound turned to the max, there was some of what you said I could barely hear.
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A cute observation, when the coyote howl played, my cat that was laying here with me, jumped up, hissed and started to growl.
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Enjoy your videos on your river explorations for Civil War relics. Bought a new metal detector a few years ago and had used it only a couple of times, then I had a stroke, that has kept me pretty much bed ridden. So I really enjoy watching your videos, I sort of live the outdoor's experience through your videos and those of a couple of other posters who spend time in the outdoors and share their adventures. Thank You, and please be careful.
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You crack me up Chig. Man, what you went through in that high growth would be tick city here. Big time. And some are not so nice. I seen you do it lots of times before. I learned a lot from you. Looking at a site and all that. You made me go out and buy an AT Pro a couple years ago. I love it. My little town. It has a lot of history. Just 2000 of us sprinkled over 34.5 square miles. Lots of woods. Thanks so much. And I do like your cave stuff too. Real good. But I have to say , the best was the Nome trip. That was really enlightening. Really great. Thanks so much. Ted from Connecticut
Those isopods probably made their own kind of evolution
Beau I always enjoy the adventures , as a Kid I drew well water back in the 60's so cold the stainless dipper would frost over.
A lot of good times , gone not forgotten .
I've always wanted to know how do they make old Wells like this.
TNT
One rock at a time...
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See, this is a perfect example of a non-river video where I hold my breath and just hope and pray you will be okay!!!! Love you, Chigg! 😊💜💜💜
Man that thing is real deep. Amazing to see so much life down there too with next to no daylight getting down there they must have thought it was summer with your light shining lol
ATB GL & HH
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Lost and forgotten graveyards are so sad!💔🙏🌺🇺🇸
But your little adventure of the well was exciting! Very clean water! Beautiful!
Thank you!👍
Can you drop camera in Yamen well too?i really excited to see!!
That's a beauty of a well still Crystal clear deep hell that's a gold mine
frog “all the bugs below are belong to us”
First of all thank you for sharing this. How deep do you think the well is? And all those rocks?. Can you even imagine having to handle them to line your well? And a lot of them were huge! Must have weighed several hundred pounds. Makes one appreciate how hard our ancestors had to work so they could survive. Thanks again. God bless you.
Dude that well was deep and crystal clear, beautiful!!!👍 Did you guess at how much line you put down? Glad camera didn’t get hung up😁 Chigg I hope you pack when you out alone! I know many detectors do for safety!!! Amazing the hand work that went into that well👍👍👍 Keep “ holding your breath “ !!! Love it😁
Pretty area! I love the outdoors in the woods at sundown! I love how the orange of the sun and the green of the leaves comes together to make that bright lime green and orange touch.
Thril factor 10/10
The Frog at the 4:03 second mark is like: Greetings traveler.
When you cross the tree line and steps into the forrest, you are not the top of the food chain anymore.
That is why God created the AR 15. It is the great equalizer. Makes a 4'9" 90 lb. woman equal to a 6'3" 300 lb. man.
@@annieroberts1204 AND 300lbman Equal A bear..
Those aquatic centipedes were extremely cool. I've seen them in my closet. They can exist at the bottom of a filled well too.
That was cool underwater! But I was expecting to see something particularly unusual.
There's a tunnel system at the bottom of that..
AT 8:22 IT LOOKS LIKE SOME ONE WROTE HELP.
@@oscaranderson1822 THAT WAS A CREEPY WELL.
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You made it out so you didn't get your bits eaten by the coyotes. That's a neat well and the water is real clear too. You'd have to dig it out. There'd only be room for one person in the hole. You'd have to have a hoist set up to get the buckets of dirt out hopefully with a lockable ratchet, so you don't wear the bucket in case the guy pulling up the bucket is easily distracted. Then throw in the rocks in and climb down and stack them. Or rely on someone to throw the rocks in while you were down there. I bet they went through a lot of well diggers.
3:00 Don't you think that tree that is snapped in half and bent over, almost like the letter A is a bit strange? Looks a bit unnatural to me..
I loved the view from down in the leaves at the bottom looking up at the opening of the well!
I am amazed at the work that went into building that well. How though, did they get the work done with all of that water, and I bet if you cleaned out about 2 feet of leaves you would find some "WELL" preserved artifacts! Those stones lining the wall are oddly clean. Great vid.
So am I right in thinking that this well was hand dug and lined with rocks all the way to the bottom? It seems as though in times past most men and women or superheroes! Thank you for showing us the foundings
Looks more like a mine shaft, wooden cribbings,timbers,cribbing,,, an axe, part of a metal hinge, and its way too deep for a well. Looks Ike it has side tunnels too.
They had deep mines in ancient times as well. They had animal powered pumps to keep the water cleared out. Mines used large numbers of draft animals in those times.
Oh yeah definitely a mine shaft
I don't believe it's any kind of mine shaft! If it were, you'd have significant structures around it as well as a "Tailings Pile".... "Tip" or "Gob Pile!" Considering the outter terrain, low flat and flood prone, you'd need the high outter walls, to prevent contamination with occasional floodwaters!"
Before commercial drills, hand sinking a well could be a Major Undertaking, depending upon the location and geolog THIS, would've been a well for a large family & farm, in an area that was probably susceptible to long, hot, dry summers! It's also likely that the water table is significantly higher today, than when the well was first dug!
I hope you know I was being facetious
Native American mushroom caves i hope....
After working twelve hrs. Today it was great to fall down the well great vid chigg,HAPPY FATHER'S DAY
Wow that’s an amazing well & a beautiful area you are in, definitely spooky though! Thanks for another great video Chigg! 😁
The frog just be chilling
There is lots of bugs in there too. Johnny says trout would love that especially if the water was real cold. LOL!
It looked like that opened up down deep there. Maybe they punched into a cavern or the aquifer?
So awesome ! It's like time slows down in the water. Pretty cool to see!
There is one underwater rock that looks like a chicken.
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Or is that wood??🤔🤔
i once stayed too long out in the woods and it got dark on me before i made it out. i was walking thru some weeds/briers that were chest high, pretty thick. at least 3-4 coyotes were running around me in a circle. it was spooky. it was a big circle they were running around me, i think they were curious. scared me to death tho. i didn't run, i just kept walking at the same pace, making noise as i went. cool video, mr frog at the end was hilarious!
Kinda what I expected to see in an old well. Water rocks and sticks.
That's really amazing, like the silence, no music or narrowrating just enjoy the video.
the frog must have fell down there, and has been living off bugs that go in there ever since. sad but hes still alive eating bugs :o but HES STUCK THERE MOST LIKELY
Why would he ever want to leave? He's safe. Lots of food. Clean water. It's frog paradise! He's living in the frog equivalent of Beverly Hills!
@@cheechicana 4:04 u can see him a bit at like 4:00 too
That's one deep and relatively clear well. Clearing up the tombstones for dates would have been cool. Appreciate the effort and great job.
How deep was that well? Looked a good 35+ ft
I want to know too!!!!
It amazes me somebody dug and stacked rocks deep into the ground and not fear a cave-in. Had to be somebody desperate for a sip of water.