I was born in a small town in Indiana was raised by my great-grandmother till I was 10 my mother took me to AZ but Indiana is and will always be my home. Plymouth Indiana was my home. Thank you for your videos I enjoyed them and know how you feel about Indiana as home.
Thank-you, Lorene! My parents loved Indiana and passed that onto me. My pleasure has been meeting good people as yourself, along the way! I’ve filmed a ton of things this spring and summer, lots to edit! ☺️
Thank-you, Rita! I love Martin County, and have really enjoyed filming there, the nice people I've met, not to mention the tenderloins. Hoping to get back this fall to complete the Shoals section of "Legend of the Lost Indian Silver Mine" and also do a few more tourist features. Many people have never heard of Shoals and have been delighted to learn about the hidden gems it offers, through this video: it hovers as either the #1 or #2 most popular Indiana videos I've ever posted to RUclips! It's been an honor and privilege, so glad people have gotten a lot out of it.
Incredibly muddy. Local legend has it that mobsters in the 1930’s had a safe house on top of the hill, tunneled down to this cave, so they could escape to the river if they had to. I went back in there a decent piece. I later talked to a member of a caving grotto, and he pulled the map: nothing but mud, and it terminates at a dead end. You should have seen me at the pizza place afterward! What mud dried, I flaked off and went anyway. The deep dish pizza at Chicago’s Pizza is that good!
Very interesting and beautiful scenery. I'm from Texas and have never been to Indiana. I was browsing through your content on your channel and saw many interesting videos that I plan to watch. I love to see old historical landmarks and architecture and especially ancient sites. Indiana seems to have an abundance of them. I have subscribed to your channel and will keep posting.
I moved to Orleans, Indiana and I went and found this spring and caves. I’m looking forward to watching more of your videos so I can explore more of southern Indiana.
I am literally putting the final touches on a movie, that covers Shoals in much more detail, as well as areas east. I think you’ll get a kick out of it! Check out mustering elm park, when you’re out and about in Martin County! A guy and his wife recently cleaned out that mineral spring basin and it’s beautiful. If you have an achy ankle or foot, I hear soaking in the spring helps. Bring a lawn chair and a towel!
Dude, good captures. We used to spelunk in Donaldson cave when I was a kid. Then we'd skip school and wash off in the cold spring from Hamer. The water before the dam. It was like ice swimming. Teenage days.
Really neat places. I remade my video about Spring Mill, the caves, and all it’s changes, including the ramp to Donaldson. Some people hate that ramp, saying it takes away from the caves beauty and wild nature. It does. But it also lets many families experience a wild cave for the first time, and I think that’s awesome! Spring Mill State Park 2023 Tour Guide (Mitchell, Indiana) ruclips.net/video/YdF2B7dxAPg/видео.html
I also did a deep dive about the Martin County silver mine legend: it’s a crazy interesting story! ruclips.net/video/MAtMmDfM1aw/видео.htmlfeature=shared
Seen the Jug Rox many times and drove the gravel by spring as well. My father would tell us of how when they were children they would walk to see "the slab". They're first vision of a paved road. They grew up in Northwest township in Orange
I fell in love with Martin and Orange counties, both have so many interesting things to see! I still have things I haven’t posted, about them. If this winters as cold and snowy as people are predicting, I’ll have time to edit all of it! 🙂
SpringMills State Park in Indiana is another awesome place to visit. They have stuff like an ironsmith, someone doing pottery, a watermill for grinding corn and for powering a sawmill and other things. They also have two awesome caves which feel like airconditioning in the summer.
Wonderful, when I was a teenager in the late 70's me and a buddy would drive down around that area, he knew where a few hard to get to caves were. I remember one was just a small hole covered with briers but once you wiggled in you went down a tube like tunnel and it opened up a little and then about a 8 foot drop. It went pretty far in until it opened up to a good sized room. Fun stuff back then.
I have footage of a cave I found, over there at the Bluffs of Beaver Bend. It looked like a sliver of an opening, 20 feet off the ground. Well, I nearly fell trying to go up: mud under leaves. But I made it. I could feel that cool cave air and cave smell, got really excited! And then it terminated to a pinch at about 7 feet in. I don’t do pinches! 😀 There’s also a bored out tunnel a little further down that trail. Some say it was made my gangsters that were making an escape route to a house above. Others say it was treasure hunters, mining for who knows what? Hope to see that one this fall.
I’ve passed Bo Macs many times, but always early spring or fall when they’re closed. Maybe I can catch it this year. I love roadside places like that. We have one at Edwardsville called “Polly’s” that I visit every season .
I love Shoals as it was a place I’d never heard of until I was researching a story. I found amazing pictures on the internet, and there was no question: I was going! And I found so much more than even the internet provided. Amazing beauty. Much later, I was going through my parents old photos and found they’d been to Shoals in the 1950’s: that was very special to me. But what’s even more special, is I always meet nice people every time I go.
Good job pointing out “outta the way” places to see. I’m a native of southern Indiana. Enjoy your stuff. If you would include a road/topo map marking the locations, I think they would be a worthwhile addition. Keep up the good work, really enjoy.
Thanks, Daisymae! I put a location identifier on all videos, in the description, but I can only choose one (some videos have numerous locations). If RUclips knows the location, it will provide a link you can click, and it will take you to Google maps. I wish I could say I thought that up on my own, it’s pretty genius! 🙂 If the channel ever takes off, and can pay for it, I’ll create a separate website with an interactive map. That would be absolutely cool stuff!
I grew up near bristow Indiana! People don't understand how wild and rugged Indiana really is. There's so much native American history there. I absolutely LOVE your videos. I love nature. And just the rugged landscape. Now I see why I never feel quite at home in the woods elsewhere. It's similar in places. But it's just one of a kind out there. Wild Indiana.. is my home.
Thank-you, Brandon! I spent three months researching and traveling across Indiana, to tell its Native American story in one film. I really enjoyed that time, and will remember it forever! Footsteps of the Ancestors ruclips.net/video/__CFihhfxIs/видео.html
The Indian Cave I showed was at the end of McBrides Bluff, not far from where the last houses are on the left, but before where the road turns. it is incredibly well hidden: you cannot see it from the road. I’ve been to it twice and end up climbing up at the gully, about 30 feet up, and walking across until I get lucky! However, At the Bluffs of Beaver Bend is a good sized bear cave, right across from the parking area, about 6 feet from the ground. Usually slippery wet and mossy, enter at your own risk! There’s also one about 12 feet above the ground, after that one, but I found it doesn’t go but 10 feet and terminates at a pinch. If you keep walking passed the Bluffs of Beaver Bend, that’s Nubbins Ridge, and you’ll find what’s been described as a miners tunnel: it’s not a natural cave. Folklore has it as a place where silver was mined, to a gangster tunnel that was cut to store illegal alcohol.
Fantastic! I may try to find it after Bluffs of beaver bend. Thank you! Videos are great, you've added Alot more local trips for the kids and I to take that I never knew existed!
Brian watson the place is peppered with caves. But, I was at the gas station casually talking about it and one guy spoke up pretty loudly, “there ain’t no caves here!” I can only guess he was a local guy that was sick of treasure hunters asking about the Indian cave legend. 😀 I’ve done extensive research on that legend and have concluded there was something there, but the Indians came back and got it, several good stories back it up. And the stories travel west.
@@AdventureswithRoger I've read on some treasure blogs about treasure being hidden in several places in Indiana. It is interesting to read about them. I'll have to visit Shoals once it starts warming up.
Brian watson that cave I crawled through is a dead ender after a miserable way back. The low crawl to the right opens up into a dome but also goes to nowhere. My great grandmothers story closely coincides with the cave but everything that was ever in it is long gone. Bluffs of Beaver Bend supposedly has a cave that can be entered from someone’s basement and was a storage place for bootleggers. One legend says Charles Lindbergh’s baby was held there, but I think that’s a pretty tall story. If you go to Bedford that entire town is on top of a massive cave system and one part even serves their public drainage system! And one house really does have a basement that goes to a cave!
@@AdventureswithRoger that would be the Donnehue/Doghill cave system. Been through Donnehue many times, but never done the Doghill side. Theres a lot of deep holes that would be over my head, and I don't float lol
There’s a 50’ cliff/bluff behind my house with what appears to be a man made squared off area directly under it, maybe some sort of quarry or mine idk. I’m just down the road between Paoli and French Lick
Three peculiar things I’ve came across in Indiana: old quarries in which no one remembers whom built them, fake silver mines built to get investors, prehistoric earth and stonework’s. All are pretty fascinating. I had a hunter from the Paoli area that wanted to show me an abandoned mine, but I’ve never made it over there.
My 1985 visit to Shoals included Jug Rock and the County Courthouse (my grandparents married at the Martin Co. Courthouse in 1935). I did not hear about the caves, pinnacles and other rock features. Maybe I will travel there again.
It’s a very cool place with many hidden features. The Bluffs of Beaver Bend are really nice, with caves along the river. Hindostan Falls and Trinity Springs are also good places to visit.
I just introduced my dad to your channel today. He's 67, so he started telling stories. Apparently there is a sphinx and pyramid carved in the woods northeast of shoals schools. He revealed things about the silver that I didn't know. You gotta do bear hill/mountain video, that's where no one would coon hunt, also 10 minutes from the 1979 Keith bigfoot sighting
Tell your Dad I said “hello” and “welcome”! I was told about the sphinx, looked for it, could not find it. Have also heard about bear hill, but I don’t have any lengthy folklore yet. I feel like there’s a few more Shoals stories to tell, but I haven’t got much to go on at the moment.
Grew up in Martin county IN, Loogootee to be exact, this area is great cause of the overall low crime rate, and the beautiful scenery during the seasons, and changing of seasons, definitely need to get out in the country side more, but hindostan falls is one of my favorite spots to fish/explore
I just bought land in Washington county Indiana and can not wait to discover all of its beauty. Would love suggestions on things and places in Washington county
I’ve got you! HIDDEN WORLDS: Exploring Salem, Indiana ruclips.net/video/oZw9e4L-5zA/видео.html Nearby Crawford County is pretty great too: HIDDEN WORLDS: Exploring Ancient Crawford County Indiana ruclips.net/video/eAx30PfPWkE/видео.html Not to forget, Corydon / Harrison County! HIDDEN WORLDS: Exploring Corydon and Harrison County Indiana ruclips.net/video/C_PxFgaexw8/видео.html
Yeah I've noticed around there your best bet is to stop in town and ask some locals. Loads of hidden gems in those woods and they're always glad to share what information they can. I was always told that the last glacier melt is what carved up that valley so much
Always carry three flashlights, never go alone. I’ve found some tantalizing caves when exploring alone, but the voice, in the back of my head, reminds me how people die doing that.
I was born in a small town in Indiana was raised by my great-grandmother till I was 10 my mother took me to AZ but Indiana is and will always be my home. Plymouth Indiana was my home. Thank you for your videos I enjoyed them and know how you feel about Indiana as home.
Thank-you, Lorene! My parents loved Indiana and passed that onto me. My pleasure has been meeting good people as yourself, along the way!
I’ve filmed a ton of things this spring and summer, lots to edit! ☺️
you have done a great job there are so many many places here to see We love our little Martin co IN
Thank-you, Rita! I love Martin County, and have really enjoyed filming there, the nice people I've met, not to mention the tenderloins. Hoping to get back this fall to complete the Shoals section of "Legend of the Lost Indian Silver Mine" and also do a few more tourist features. Many people have never heard of Shoals and have been delighted to learn about the hidden gems it offers, through this video: it hovers as either the #1 or #2 most popular Indiana videos I've ever posted to RUclips! It's been an honor and privilege, so glad people have gotten a lot out of it.
Omg Roger. My heart was in my throat when you got deeper and deeper in the cave!
Incredibly muddy. Local legend has it that mobsters in the 1930’s had a safe house on top of the hill, tunneled down to this cave, so they could escape to the river if they had to.
I went back in there a decent piece. I later talked to a member of a caving grotto, and he pulled the map: nothing but mud, and it terminates at a dead end. You should have seen me at the pizza place afterward! What mud dried, I flaked off and went anyway. The deep dish pizza at Chicago’s Pizza is that good!
Very interesting and beautiful scenery. I'm from Texas and have never been to Indiana. I was browsing through your content on your channel and saw many interesting videos that I plan to watch. I love to see old historical landmarks and architecture and especially ancient sites. Indiana seems to have an abundance of them. I have subscribed to your channel and will keep posting.
Welcome, Gilda! I’m working on one about my favorite, historic, Indiana town: Corydon. Lots of 1800’s era buildings and history.
I moved to Orleans, Indiana and I went and found this spring and caves. I’m looking forward to watching more of your videos so I can explore more of southern Indiana.
I am literally putting the final touches on a movie, that covers Shoals in much more detail, as well as areas east. I think you’ll get a kick out of it!
Check out mustering elm park, when you’re out and about in Martin County! A guy and his wife recently cleaned out that mineral spring basin and it’s beautiful. If you have an achy ankle or foot, I hear soaking in the spring helps. Bring a lawn chair and a towel!
@@AdventureswithRoger look forward to seeing it!
Thank You!
My pleasure to show people lesser known parts of Indiana!
Dude, good captures. We used to spelunk in Donaldson cave when I was a kid. Then we'd skip school and wash off in the cold spring from Hamer. The water before the dam. It was like ice swimming.
Teenage days.
Something good out of Martin County!
Really neat places. I remade my video about Spring Mill, the caves, and all it’s changes, including the ramp to Donaldson. Some people hate that ramp, saying it takes away from the caves beauty and wild nature. It does. But it also lets many families experience a wild cave for the first time, and I think that’s awesome!
Spring Mill State Park 2023 Tour Guide (Mitchell, Indiana)
ruclips.net/video/YdF2B7dxAPg/видео.html
I also did a deep dive about the Martin County silver mine legend: it’s a crazy interesting story!
ruclips.net/video/MAtMmDfM1aw/видео.htmlfeature=shared
Seen the Jug Rox many times and drove the gravel by spring as well. My father would tell us of how when they were children they would walk to see "the slab". They're first vision of a paved road. They grew up in Northwest township in Orange
I fell in love with Martin and Orange counties, both have so many interesting things to see! I still have things I haven’t posted, about them. If this winters as cold and snowy as people are predicting, I’ll have time to edit all of it! 🙂
SpringMills State Park in Indiana is another awesome place to visit. They have stuff like an ironsmith, someone doing pottery, a watermill for grinding corn and for powering a sawmill and other things. They also have two awesome caves which feel like airconditioning in the summer.
Love Spring Mill! I’ve did several videos about it, but keep coming back! 🙂
@@AdventureswithRoger Went there when I was a kid. Went later and was very tired.
Wish I was more enthusiastic when I was younger. And more tired.
Southern states have more energy! They have more hills, mountains, and places, ...
Wonderful, when I was a teenager in the late 70's me and a buddy would drive down around that area, he knew where a few hard to get to caves were. I remember one was just a small hole covered with briers but once you wiggled in you went down a tube like tunnel and it opened up a little and then about a 8 foot drop. It went pretty far in until it opened up to a good sized room. Fun stuff back then.
I have footage of a cave I found, over there at the Bluffs of Beaver Bend. It looked like a sliver of an opening, 20 feet off the ground. Well, I nearly fell trying to go up: mud under leaves. But I made it. I could feel that cool cave air and cave smell, got really excited! And then it terminated to a pinch at about 7 feet in. I don’t do pinches! 😀 There’s also a bored out tunnel a little further down that trail. Some say it was made my gangsters that were making an escape route to a house above. Others say it was treasure hunters, mining for who knows what? Hope to see that one this fall.
I live 8 miles from shoals it's truly God's country. If you come through in the summer you gotta stop at Bo-Macs drive in also
I’ve passed Bo Macs many times, but always early spring or fall when they’re closed. Maybe I can catch it this year. I love roadside places like that. We have one at Edwardsville called “Polly’s” that I visit every season .
I love Shoals as it was a place I’d never heard of until I was researching a story. I found amazing pictures on the internet, and there was no question: I was going! And I found so much more than even the internet provided. Amazing beauty. Much later, I was going through my parents old photos and found they’d been to Shoals in the 1950’s: that was very special to me. But what’s even more special, is I always meet nice people every time I go.
Good job pointing out “outta the way” places to see. I’m a native of southern Indiana. Enjoy your stuff. If you would include a road/topo map marking the locations, I think they would be a worthwhile addition. Keep up the good work, really enjoy.
Thanks, Daisymae! I put a location identifier on all videos, in the description, but I can only choose one (some videos have numerous locations). If RUclips knows the location, it will provide a link you can click, and it will take you to Google maps. I wish I could say I thought that up on my own, it’s pretty genius! 🙂
If the channel ever takes off, and can pay for it, I’ll create a separate website with an interactive map. That would be absolutely cool stuff!
Nice ty 👴🏆🏆🙏
One of my early ones! But man was I ever excited about this place!
Massive Dolmen! New Engkand is full of them but not that tall!
Interesting, never been there!
I live here and haven't been to some of these places. Lol
More to come Cindy! I've been filming all over southern Indiana this year, am just now editing.
Man it's disgusting how people can't respect nature and just graffiti all over everything
Tempting to spray it down with vandal mark remover, but it's part of a legacy: people have been leaving their mark for about 200 years or so.
nice video
Thanks Jerry!
I live on in shoals
THE HILLBILLY KID I love it over there! Going back this fall to film a few more places.
Adventures with Roger I am bill Hopkins’s son off of face book
@@wjwarrior9639 is this Liam Hopkins
SHOALS AMERICA chainsaws,sack-crete,Beer and Catfish
You didn't talk about the flag in the water
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Your channel is really helping me find places I want to visit down here in southern Indiana. Thanks
My pleasure, Adrian! I like to think this channel has started many fun adventures!
I grew up near bristow Indiana!
People don't understand how wild and rugged Indiana really is.
There's so much native American history there.
I absolutely LOVE your videos.
I love nature. And just the rugged landscape.
Now I see why I never feel quite at home in the woods elsewhere.
It's similar in places. But it's just one of a kind out there.
Wild Indiana.. is my home.
Thank-you, Brandon! I spent three months researching and traveling across Indiana, to tell its Native American story in one film. I really enjoyed that time, and will remember it forever!
Footsteps of the Ancestors
ruclips.net/video/__CFihhfxIs/видео.html
Awesome. We are checking out Bluffs of beaver bend this week. Was "Indian Cave" in that conservancy as well?
The Indian Cave I showed was at the end of McBrides Bluff, not far from where the last houses are on the left, but before where the road turns. it is incredibly well hidden: you cannot see it from the road. I’ve been to it twice and end up climbing up at the gully, about 30 feet up, and walking across until I get lucky!
However, At the Bluffs of Beaver Bend is a good sized bear cave, right across from the parking area, about 6 feet from the ground. Usually slippery wet and mossy, enter at your own risk! There’s also one about 12 feet above the ground, after that one, but I found it doesn’t go but 10 feet and terminates at a pinch.
If you keep walking passed the Bluffs of Beaver Bend, that’s Nubbins Ridge, and you’ll find what’s been described as a miners tunnel: it’s not a natural cave. Folklore has it as a place where silver was mined, to a gangster tunnel that was cut to store illegal alcohol.
Fantastic! I may try to find it after Bluffs of beaver bend. Thank you! Videos are great, you've added Alot more local trips for the kids and I to take that I never knew existed!
I love showing people all the hidden gems, right here in Southern Indiana! Best of wishes and safe travels!
Looks like I need to pay attention to Shoals more often to fulfill my caving fix
Brian watson the place is peppered with caves. But, I was at the gas station casually talking about it and one guy spoke up pretty loudly, “there ain’t no caves here!” I can only guess he was a local guy that was sick of treasure hunters asking about the Indian cave legend. 😀 I’ve done extensive research on that legend and have concluded there was something there, but the Indians came back and got it, several good stories back it up. And the stories travel west.
@@AdventureswithRoger I've read on some treasure blogs about treasure being hidden in several places in Indiana. It is interesting to read about them. I'll have to visit Shoals once it starts warming up.
Brian watson that cave I crawled through is a dead ender after a miserable way back. The low crawl to the right opens up into a dome but also goes to nowhere. My great grandmothers story closely coincides with the cave but everything that was ever in it is long gone.
Bluffs of Beaver Bend supposedly has a cave that can be entered from someone’s basement and was a storage place for bootleggers. One legend says Charles Lindbergh’s baby was held there, but I think that’s a pretty tall story. If you go to Bedford that entire town is on top of a massive cave system and one part even serves their public drainage system! And one house really does have a basement that goes to a cave!
@@AdventureswithRoger that would be the Donnehue/Doghill cave system. Been through Donnehue many times, but never done the Doghill side. Theres a lot of deep holes that would be over my head, and I don't float lol
The guide I met at Indiana Caverns said he’d been in caves with only 3 to 5 inches of air space above water. Not my cup of tea!
There’s a 50’ cliff/bluff behind my house with what appears to be a man made squared off area directly under it, maybe some sort of quarry or mine idk. I’m just down the road between Paoli and French Lick
Three peculiar things I’ve came across in Indiana: old quarries in which no one remembers whom built them, fake silver mines built to get investors, prehistoric earth and stonework’s. All are pretty fascinating. I had a hunter from the Paoli area that wanted to show me an abandoned mine, but I’ve never made it over there.
My 1985 visit to Shoals included Jug Rock and the County Courthouse (my grandparents married at the Martin Co. Courthouse in 1935). I did not hear about the caves, pinnacles and other rock features. Maybe I will travel there again.
It’s a very cool place with many hidden features. The Bluffs of Beaver Bend are really nice, with caves along the river. Hindostan Falls and Trinity Springs are also good places to visit.
I just introduced my dad to your channel today. He's 67, so he started telling stories. Apparently there is a sphinx and pyramid carved in the woods northeast of shoals schools. He revealed things about the silver that I didn't know. You gotta do bear hill/mountain video, that's where no one would coon hunt, also 10 minutes from the 1979 Keith bigfoot sighting
Tell your Dad I said “hello” and “welcome”!
I was told about the sphinx, looked for it, could not find it. Have also heard about bear hill, but I don’t have any lengthy folklore yet. I feel like there’s a few more Shoals stories to tell, but I haven’t got much to go on at the moment.
Grew up in Martin county IN, Loogootee to be exact, this area is great cause of the overall low crime rate, and the beautiful scenery during the seasons, and changing of seasons, definitely need to get out in the country side more, but hindostan falls is one of my favorite spots to fish/explore
I’ve spent a lot of time in Martin County, especially along the river. Simply a wonderful place for nature and legends!
I just bought land in Washington county Indiana and can not wait to discover all of its beauty. Would love suggestions on things and places in Washington county
I’ve got you!
HIDDEN WORLDS: Exploring Salem, Indiana
ruclips.net/video/oZw9e4L-5zA/видео.html
Nearby Crawford County is pretty great too:
HIDDEN WORLDS: Exploring Ancient Crawford County Indiana
ruclips.net/video/eAx30PfPWkE/видео.html
Not to forget, Corydon / Harrison County!
HIDDEN WORLDS: Exploring Corydon and Harrison County Indiana
ruclips.net/video/C_PxFgaexw8/видео.html
Yeah I've noticed around there your best bet is to stop in town and ask some locals. Loads of hidden gems in those woods and they're always glad to share what information they can. I was always told that the last glacier melt is what carved up that valley so much
I fell in love with the area, many years back! I’d also heard of Indian mounds, in the Martin County woods, but have never seen them.
Beautiful video of nature that surrounds Shoals! Thanks for another one of your excellent videos!
That is a very nice park with some at people’s backyard. Too bad the graffiti spoiled some parts of the park.
Most of what you showed here is not natural but evidence of our ancient builder race.
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I’ve taken a month off, but have about 3 months of editing of all the Indiana sites I filmed this spring! Each time I think I’m done, I find more! ☺️
I used to explore these places when I was a teenager. Fond memories. Used to fish the white river.
Was never a fisherman, but would love for someone to take me on a boat ride, on the lower White River.
Your worst nightmare. Your all the way back and the light FAILS And everybody else has left for the day. Right when the bats get active.
Always carry three flashlights, never go alone. I’ve found some tantalizing caves when exploring alone, but the voice, in the back of my head, reminds me how people die doing that.
We stopped to see jug rock on a road trip last year. Was very cool.
Just across the river is Beaver Bend, also very pretty in the spring. Huge rock formations and caves above the river. I only fell out of two! 😀
How far does indian cave go?
I went in about halfway. A grotto member later sent me a map: I only missed about 150 feet of a muddy passage .
Thank-you!
Espy you are very welcome! Thanks for watching, many many more to come!