Exploring a mysterious tunnel in the middle of Saddleworth Moor
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
- 0:00 Intro
7:27 Going inside
12:36 Something inside
This time I'm exploring a mysterious tunnel high above Chew Brook in Saddleworth that has been bothering me since childhood.
What is it for? What's lurking inside? More importantly, can I get out the other end?
Exploring an underground siphon high up on Saddleworth Moor is either an urbex dream or a claustrophobic nightmare. Or neither. Maybe its just boring. Maybe it contains a few mysterious treasures that you wouldn't expect to find.
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It's amazing how once upon a time, transversing this area was dangerious, life threatening in the winter, now we stroll up there for a walk on an afternoon.
I’m in my 30s now and friends my age still tell me, after I’ve been hiking this area for more than half my life, to take loads of provisions with me. It’s funny because There’s more chance of being mauled by a giant cat than getting lost up there.
Those moths look like butterflies - either red admirals or painted ladies: they hibernate in my woodshed.
You can tell because the wings are pointing upwards - moths rest with their wings flat (generally, i think there's exceptions as always) whereas butterflies tend to rest with their wings raised
The perfume bottle may just be there to reflect the candle light and look pretty. It is a bit drab in there. I suggest some brightly colored wallpaper, a couple of framed mirrors, and some nice curtains.
What? There is literally no way this is anything but people practicing magic. Just because its bullshit doesn't mean people don't believe it.
Is it an odd shaped butt plug ?
Might be Myra Hindley’s ?
"I took a day off work for this" I genuinely did LOL
Cast iron water main strength pipe, jointed with spun yarn and molten lead, still using that method when i started my plumbing apprenticeship , we used to test such mains to 200 lb psi.
butterflies if they are roosting with their wings shut together, moths lie with their wings out flat
Good to know thank you!
That's proper good knowledge, cheers for that!
Not quite true. Thorn moths (10 species of Thorn moth in the UK) rest with wings up, as do some others. A butterfly has small club like tips to their wings. Moths do not. That is the deciding factor in knowing which is which.
Just glad the gate was down ! Hope you tell your family or a mate where you're going when you set off on one of your adventures ? Keep 'em coming Ollie.
Brilliant. Huge thanks for video. I've seen the entrance so many times during my walks and runs. Now I need to find the exit and travel the tunnel 😎👍
Fascinating!
Had a very cold Christmas Eve wandering up that way years ago. But I have never noticed the tunnel portal so thanks for showing and explaining that.
Good stuff ! Walked past it three times and never dared to venture in it ! Well done !
No way I would have the balls to go in there, oh my days
Walked around Chew many times - normal route was up the Head from Sugar Loaf then head for the res on top, then either straight across heading for Crowden Great Brook or north towards the Trinnacle. Now it would be a major expedition just to walk from Dovestones car park to Chew Brook. Take care on your adventures!
Love your adventures!
Nice adventure and history.
Very interesting. As soon as I saw the dressed stone i realised what it was.
From the Derwent Dams there is a water main running from there all the way to Leicester again using a Syphon system with numerous gate valves along the way again dressed in the same stone. Amazing feat of engineering for the time
Oh Shit!!! Tell me my eyes lied to me and you didn't touch that perfume bottle?!?!? Good luck my friend 🤞👍
Novichok
When I saw that little perfume bottle I was thinking don't touch it!
Just reading about the guy who went up there and drank a bottle of poison and lay down and died by the track.
thanks for this - glorious views and interesting vid
I learnt to sail on Dovestones 44 years ago, climbed on Wimberry .....Happy Days.....
Super explore, Ollie! Wish I could have been there - and I'm six foot two!
Fascinating! Thanks
mate, great video. This is my no1 place to walk, run, cycle, explore, but never knew there is a tunnel on this side until your video. Next time will try to find it. Love your videos. Good work!
Bet you were glad the exit was clear and you did not have to return the way you came. Enjoyed this video and the Manchester canal video since finding your channel , very interesting, hope to see more.
Nice one mate, enjoyed that.
Another great vid
Loved it ⭐️
Buzzin I’ve found this channel and thank you so much for those videos on Peterloo, far too many have no idea about it at all
Great comment…..
4th video of the day. Stumbled on your channel. Now a new subscriber and hooked. Brilliant work hope there's a lot more to come 👍👍👍
Yeah me too, brilliant
Another great video mate! Keep it up!
Cheers pal! I'll try!
Like the video very much.Take care
Brilliant video. You are very brave Ollie. Love your videos.
The two sludgey bits on the wall with the water dribbling out were probably there to allow the water to escape taking pressure off the lining of the tunnel. Common practice in railway and canal tunnels
7:59 its a air catch. separates the air from the lines at the highest point. also provides cushion against water hammering.
Very interesting that mate! Keep up the good work 👍🏼🐒
Cheers pal!! 🤜🤛
Quality Olly lad!
Most likely Red Admiral Butterflies. I get loads hibernating in my loft.
Your channel is a great discovery 👍
Just come across your channel interesting content I remember going up that utility road years ago thinking it would be a good road to stake board down. But didn't notice that tunnel on the opposite side. I have subscribed to see what else you get unto stay safe.
Candles and bottle looks like witchcraft to me.
Whereas crisp packets and snickers looks like type two diabetes to me
Me too. I thought there was something "Lord of the Rings" about the tunnel, the witchcraft, and then........ The Ring find! Most enjoyable vid., 1st Bee Here Now I've watched. Cool.
I would call that occultism. Nothing against that, though I would left those symbolic offerings well alone.
Brilliant, think you didn't want to go through it but curiosity 😁. So many times I've been round dove stones and just once up to Chew res, gets steep going round, I got up there was foggy ,feel like your on top of the world. Great place for exploring and getting healthy. Thanks for this I' will watch your others too. 👍
Came across this yesterday and wondered what it was. Glad I did a you tube search
I was waiting for the candles to be alight when you walked back...
Jeez imagine lol.
Very interesting, thank you. What you brought out was a ring for a lady's scarf.
loved it .... being an ex miner i love old tunnels and there history
Fascinated by those months just chilling in the dark
Straight and featureless admittedly, however, the remote location, and unexpectedness does make it pretty interesting. Thanks.
Love your content. I think this channel will blow up to have many subscribers!
I have a few cherokee friends and every one of them tell me indian is fine in fact they prefer it.
I don't know about the other tribes.
Just found your channel and many thanks for your take on our history. Only been to Manchester once By canal and loved it.
Another really good one. Love your enthusiasm. Also.just watched canal city. That got confusing..SO MANY RIVERS LOCKS etc. Used to live in the city centre and didn't know hardly any of it. Shame on me
Walked past this a couple of times. Always wondered what it did. Cheers
Thank you!
Great Pal.first time I’ve seen you.but not the last.stay safe ( Doug Yorkshire malton)
I'm glad i found your channel, i love stuff about Manchester, quite an interesting historic place for a while, and yes you look and sound like my son would have if we'd stayed in Reddish
Haha thanks very much, much appreciated!
Nice upload Ollie, glad to have found your channel, was that a dead sheep on the exit gate? you should take those things back to where you picked them up though, stay safe mwaaaaaah.
Why should he take the things back? They were just laying in sludge.
Great video cheers , that chew road is it allowed for push bikes to go up the dam from the car park at the bottom ? Thanks
I went up a couple of weeks ago, there’s a styal half way up but you’ll get your bike through no probs
Very brave of you entering a tunnel with what could have been a dead end, I remember findind a dead sheep at the end of one once.
I was reading a comment on fb about a guy that found a dead sheep in an old railway tunnel in the centre of Glasgow back in the 60s or 70s 😂
Like and comment pal. Great bit of exploration. Go forward with an open mind dude.
Hah, I was wondering if there'd be a grille or gate at the far end, lucky.
The syphon tube tunnel. Seems such a strange place for such a well built bit of history.
Wow you need to call Martin Zero he loves jumping into moleholes and underground rivers
Martin Zero... loves places like this
No he likes to be took around places by other folk...
@@mickbaker9852 Nope he does plenty of solo stuff.....
Probably witchcraft. You're brave to be in that tunnel. I would have said a prayer.
nice stonework
Witch craft horcrux perfume bottle thing used for spells and summoning spirit other bits as gifts to earth spirits for whatever reason asked for.
Martin Zero (Martin) and Adventureme (Darren) recently came here. They took the long route. Later, Darren said he wished he'd seen your explore, Ollie.
Yeah I saw that the other day. Shame, I could have given them a tour! 😅
Humorous, informative, FUN. You mentioned Brushes res. Are they the ones in Stalybridge?
People come into the beautiful countryside and then leave their rubbish. i just don't get it.
Uncaring laziness
I can't stand idiots who do that.
Ignorant lazy pigs, their homes are prob no better, uneducated lowlife !!!
It was fairly interesting considering there's nothing in there! I might come and have a look around Dovestone, I've never been and its only about an hour from me. Won't be doing the tunnel though, not very fond of moths...
Love your videos ..I dont know what you do for a living ..but you'd be a great teacher ..
If he was a teacher he wouldn't just take a days holiday at will.
Have you been down the (Blue John mines)? the boat trip is fascinating
The catacombs of Paris would be one to do 😎
I sat on Indians head a few times,great view.Had a meal at the Cross Keys last weekend.
I've been through the Orongaoronga tunnel 4 times. You do need a key to get through the entrance at the Wainui end and I think its unlikely to be allowed these days but the glowworms!!! it could be a great tourist attraction.
i live very close to saddleworth,we go there lots of times & i have never seen this. so thanks for sharing this
Is this moor located in Yorkshire?
@@warriorprincess3360 yes it is on saddleworth moor.i live just below it i go there lots of times i love it up there
@@rozbeaumont4587 Thanks for letting me know. I thought it was Yorkshire some people seem to be suggesting it is Manchester
@@warriorprincess3360 some say manchester but its definatly yorkshire side.i was born here & i,m 65 yrs old
@@rozbeaumont4587 Aww thanks for clarifying. Yes I had always known it to be Yorkshire.
Syphon... wonder if they could use such to drain water out of the end if Queensbury tunnel that is flooded at one end where a cutting has been filled in. There's been a fair bit of debate over whether the tunnel would dry out naturally were that water not there.
Rather you than me! I’m from Oldham, and have spent time around Ripponden, Delph, Diggle, Dobcross, Uppermill, Greenfield etc. Great vid and I have subscribed. 👍
What's the best way to Oldham ?
@@Tonys-Adventure 🤲
@@chickenandmushroompotnoodl3180 😂👍
I hope you have kept the ring because a small guy called bilbo was spotted looking for one that he had dropped earlier that day. perhaps you can help?.😉
Always have a few of those thin fruit/veg-bags, 'borrowed' from any supermarket. Among any number of uses, you can whip them over your socks and you've got comfortable, cheap water-proof boot-liners for short distance. Use them too long and your toe-nails may fall out...
Back in the early 80s my wife to be and I had backed the car right along the dam wall at Dovestones on Halloween, as we sat there enjoying the night air (about 11pm) there appeared from up the road towards the sugar loaf rock, about a dozen people dressed like the Ku Klux Klan, full white robes and pointy hats, they got into their cars in the car park and drove off, very weird behaviour even for Saddleworth, this was around the time that "satanists" had been using some of the disused railway tunnels for their ceremonies (dead chickens and candles etc), all good fun.
@John Price The tunnels were at Diggle and went under Standedge. I remember the Oldham Chronicle doing an article about the rituals etc. I later (early 90s) knew someone who had been involved and said they were just mucking about as teenagers and not really occult related but after it had been in the paper, no-one wanted to own up to it being a hoax.
I’m offended by sugar lump.Can we call it a sugar feature,FFS.
This guy enters a scary tunnel with his high quality hiking gear consisting of t-shirt, knee length shorts, dodgy torch and flip flops (tiny exaggeration) - nothing can go wrong !!!
Put that way, it sounds like something out of a found footage horror movie.
He’s from up’north hard as fuck, overdressed if you ask me!
Oh wow ! Those moths were amazing. At least they weren't bats!
I worked close by at the papermill , which had the water rights to the water at Dove stones.
I am surprised that no one has mentioned the Moors murders. This is what Saddleworth was infamous for several years ago. Ian Brady was one of the killers. google the names. Horrifying.
Is there a Mrs or Mr 'Ollie' supporting your explores? Wouldn't want to imagine what would happen if your video equipment was found at the bottom of a revine.
Lol @ 12:30 ... I now wonder what 3 candles, an empty perfume bottle and a ring were doing half way into a 500m tunnel on Saddleworth Moor?! Great video
I know right!! Very strange. Not what I was expecting!
Brady and hindley 🤔 😐
@@cabbagehead31 Maybe🤔
They were regulars there & use to picnic there. They knew that moor like the back of their hand. The police did find a TON of wine bottles on the moor back in the 70s & Brady confirmed that they were his.
@@cabbagehead31 my thoughts too , someone lighting candles and incense ,think one little mite has yet to be found after all these years and still lies in the moor somewhere .
Was that a dead sheep under the grille at the end?
Was that a dead sheep lying over the gate at 17:59 where you came out?
Oh yes! Dead for quite a while I think
That "valve" at the beginning looks like a pressure release point. I once translated some technical documents for a French company called "Vanatome" that made these for the nuclear industry. Basically if the pressure in the system gets to high the domed disc on the top which is made from thin metal will rupture and release the pressure from the system.
It’s for automatic de-airing the pipe. Overpressure valves don’t make sense when we only have static weights and hydraulic pressure and you would se a bigger tube where the water comes out in case.
Love your videos but ive got that bloody runcorn song stuck in my head now
thank you for sharing that was intresting from an exubex person who hurt there leg baddyand can't take part anymore
Sorry to hear that. Thanks for watching though 😊
old drainage tunnels are awesome
After I watched the film 'The Boarderlands' I think that would be too claustraphobic for me now
The perfume bottle would have been filled with petrol/lighter fuel. It's for air-rifle target practice! light candles, retreat down tunnel and snipe at the bottle - when u hit it the petrol ignites, lots of fun. I used to do this myself. marksmanship practice in a straight, wind free tunnel makes a lot of sense .
Ah not thought of that!
Good job that gate was down at the end. Would have been a killer to have to walk back.
Is that a Brady joke?
@@YTPEXPERT not until you made into one. 🤣
Adorable! Kudos to you for your educational adventures! I appreciate it so much.
We name things here in the US (NNJ)...in fact, there is a great magazine (periodical?) called “ Weird New Jersey” and they cover all the strange & intriguing sites all of us urban explorers relish...
Hey thanks! Glad you liked it. Never thought it would be even remotely interesting to anyone outside the UK so thank you. That magazine sounds fun!
And I thought that it was creepy going through the Falkirk Tunnel.
was that a dead sheep stuck on the gate
I wouldn't worry about the name of the rock formation. It's too far away from a Starbucks for the SJWs to have a protest.
no you fucking idiot theyre literally just not indians, they're not from india. its not an SJW thing its just inaccurate and thus disrespectful.
In the tunnel, maybe there was oil in it for the candles(?)
Mate, do a video of only peak District starting from Roman and Vikings
That is something I'd like to do actually 👍
@@BeeHereNowuk Did you know about the Viking ring that was found in Chew Brook, long before Dovestones reservoir was constructed? It's in the British museum.
@@nforne no that sounds v interesting
@@nforne I've not heard about that either.
@@bill-2018 There's a picture of it on the British Museum images site. Reference number 01128729001.