Strange Fragments Found in the Garden Lead to the Discovery of an Underground Structure
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- Опубликовано: 6 янв 2025
- Tom Askjem excavates the former lot of the Joseph Dam Hotel in Sanborn, North Dakota. #history #treasurehunting #vanlife #asmr #archaeology #wildwest #bottledigging #artifacts #metaldetecting #magnetfishing #mudlarking
Love your excitement Tom when you find something you’ve never seen before 😊
I get so bummed out at the end of these videos - I'd happily watch the discoveries all day if I could. ❤
Another fantastic video Tom! Every dig is different and so interesting! Thanks for taking us on the dig with you!
What would the ancestors think of all you diggers and all of us watchers interested in what was in their toilets. 😂😂
I often wonder what they would say if told in 100 years from now ppl will dig out your outhouse just for the bottles
@@sherimiller5857 Haven't had an outhouse for years.
Maybe 150 years from now people digging in our land fills. Snickering about our electronics.
😂I think about it too.😂
I always wonder what people will think when they dig up our stuff too!
It's a drag when you hear the words" This pit is done' but I know it's got to come to a end, great video
Just looked up Phosphene Gas .
If you'd have broken one of those . You might have been a Gonner !
Absolutely terrifying that somebody threw that out in 1890's and in 2024 you dug it up .
* shudders *
What treasures you found on this dig Tom. These glass containment’s were just part of every day life then, just tossing in pit when broken or of no further use. Little did the know what would happen when our Tom came a digging. Thanks for these wonderful digs you do and for sharing. x
Love your program. You have a voice that is very calming to listen to. No matter what you find I enjoy hearing you
Thank you!
I watch British mudlarkers who salvage bottles from estuaries and dumps. Colors and sizes are quite varied. Most favorite are the stone mineral water and beer bottles as well as the master inks and inkwells. Really enjoy learning how far and wide different bottled patent medicines and foods have traveled to reach the Old West. Be safe in the dig.😊
So excited to watch your new adventure!
“Sig fyrup” 🙈 sounds like something Northern Mudlarks would say 😂
Love your videos. They are my go to when I just want something chill to watch. I like the older pits the best 👍🏻
That was a very exciting and refreshing dig. I loved all the different bottles that we have never seen before. I bet you loved it too. Awesome video thank you.
The tiny bottles are my favorite. Vintage baby food jars were cool too.
I know a couple people who collect tiny bottles. My ex actually had a tiny curio cabinet full.
Awesome silver quarter 🇨🇦. Fantastic dig as usual. Nice job Tom.
Awesome! Dig buddy dig!! Love the show! Rk.
Great finds Tom, very early. Great dig. Take care and stay safe 👍
I just came across your channel and now I'm a binge watcher 😃 I love the amazing finds and glassware! Keep them coming, great work! I like that you put up the description of the company on each find.
Welcome! Thanks for watching!
I really dig into digging into history bud. Keep it up pal! I myself dig for history to preserve.
Wow, great pits full of treasures!! Love your vids🤩
Always a good episode with ya Tom. Thanks for bringing us along for the dig and all you're hard work putting the research and details together....great stuff!
I love your videos, it's something peaceful to watch. In my area there's lots of surface pits. I have a lot of nice bottles that I have taken out of surface area discard pits
Thanks for watching!
Love your videos and the tiny bottles
Thanks for watching!
Great to see something that has a connection to Australia!
Thank you again Tom! Your videos are such fun to watch, i watch half and save half for the next night!😂❤❤❤
Thanks brother! The phosgene in the first pit was a little disconcerting, but I loved the Elepizone piece in the second pit! ♥
Awesome video Tom. So many beautiful bottles. Mason jars are so pretty ❤❤❤❤❤
Please extend the cleaned up items gallery at the end of the videos to show more of the collection found from the digs. It's great to see them be found, but better to view them all shiny and lit up. Superb digs in this outing. Always better when the soul is dry. For informational data sake, it would be very good to have sealed bottles with contents tested to see what was actually in them that people thought was healthy. Having that info. to accompany bottle knowledge would be very beneficial for those desiring to know.
Thank you great finds as always ❤🇨🇦
Nice work, Tom. I see your posts on FB as well.
Thanks Tom (Sun. morn.) 😊 UK.
Good job 👍,Tom.... You're blessed with loyal followers who are enjoying your adventures... You are the most prolific and easy to watch glass digging site here on RUclips... Took a little research but, I found your new site on RUclips!!! Can you dig it???😎🌹 Don't know what happened with the people from the "under the plains" 🤔 it's none of my business.. I watch because I am like the rest of your RUclips following: your down to earth and calming demeanor. I'm wondering what your efforts produce cash for keeping you going...I have respect for your privacy outside of the pits... Be BLESSED and safe travels....🕊️🙏
Welcome back! We shut down BTP due to ongoing disagreements. All of my new videos will be posted here.
@@TomAskjem.LostHorizons Thanks again 👍🕊️
Awesome video. I loved the baby food bottles .
Enjoy your video thanks
So glad you didn’t have to be soaked in mud this time!
I’m not sure what’s worse, the mud or the dust haha
@@TomAskjem.LostHorizons you can wear things to help deal with dust. Lol
Sweet digs!
Wow,the treasures that you're finding,after you have researched and found an old map and was able to find what you were looking for
Great dig as always Tom!
I think those two dyed oblong objects might have been something that would be applied to wounds. My dad used something like that on me from his first aid kit when I had a broken blister on my foot from new shoes only his was a bright pink, I'm thinking that that was mercurochrome. I am nearing 80 yrs of age.
Amazing dig...awesome to see the 1800s bottles...til next time ..🥰🥰
Another incredible dig, seems like with every dig the gems found are more and more incredible.
You know your stuff young man👍
Just got home from fishing and caught your video of treasure hunting. 💪😎
Thanks for taking us along, have a great weekend
My wife is from dickey north Dakota. Very small farm town. Her childhood house, is still standing, and abandoned. You should go there. She attended a k-12 school on building. Nearest town 15 miles. Her school is still active today
That's really cool.
Wow I would love to see it up close. I am a coin collector and from Canada. Never saw that old of a coin. Wow .
Tom, two amazing digs at that location. Your back story research is always amazing. Loved the hero’s mason jars and the Mel lens infant formula. A lot of prescription little bottles. Great fun to watch.😀👏👏👍
would love to do this adventure, would be so much fun to find some of these bottles
Not a lot of finds today but still an awesome dig. Turning up history. Your knowledge is exceptional. Definitely dome quality pieces
Wow! Quite the pits to have you stumped on a flask style and to never have seen some of the bottles before, because you know your stuff! Great dig! Keep on digging!
Loved the baby jars with tops ... its always sad when you say this pits done. 😢 as I want to keep watching new exciting finds
Many vids to come!
@@TomAskjem.LostHorizons I'm in the UK fascinated .
Awesome finds! I found a side panel of that cuticura bottle, and thought it was pretty neat.
Very nice finds! See you next round!
Tom, if you're ever in Queens, N.Y., I recommend you find a dig in Flushing.
California Fig Syrup was popular in Britain too. I’ve seen plenty of videos of people digging California Fig Syrup bottles out of old bottle dumps there.
I appreciate the info!
Thank you for the videos. I look forward to each one!
Many more to come
It was exciting to see you so close to our neck of the prairie (Leal, Rogers, Dazey)! And finding that cistern was a bonus this morning! What is your plan for those 'exotic' bottles?
Definitely a good bottle dig Tom 👌 really early bottles 😊more to come Tom 😊have a good week 😊Andrew south wales uk 👌 👍 👏 😀
as a 75-year-old woman, I have to admit I'm not excited about the bottles, but I do like it when you find porcelain and ornate dishes, especially that are in one piece. I also like the old mason jars. by the way, what in the world do you do with all of these bottles???
I love your channel!! Those ampoules are bad juju!! Hope you didn't get into them! Whoever threw them away thought no one would ever find them way down in the ground!! They didn't know Tom Askjem!!!
Hooray !!! -- A dry one finally !
Good dig I don't remember seeing that much ash it looked like alot to me anyways, ready for the next dig, thank you it is so much fun to see what comes up, cool!!
There was a lot more ash in this one. It was likely due to the space that needed to be filled and the surplus of ashes from stoves during those times. Thanks for watching!
Thanks Tom
Can't wait for the weather to cool off here in Nevada (Las Vegas) to do some digging!! Video was amazing like always💜
OOOOH, I'd love a chance at that Canadian quarter Tom!!!! Still curious about that skate you dug up too!! =D
WOW, A COIN LOVE IT
Great job
Nothing like finding them mason jars great video buddy 😊
Thanks!
The first recorded uses of pharmaceutical ampoules were around 1840, with the aim of storing chloroform, one of the first known anaesthetics.
Canadian quarter cool. I really liked the shot glass.
thank you
Lots of good fines was going to ask if you ever found any coins good dig❤
Dry pits for once! Nice job guys!!
Phosgene gas, also known as mustard gas (because of its color). Gained its deadly notoriety in the fields and trenches of WWI. Your small ampoule where possibly used for killing gophers? Handle with care.
NICE OLD PIT
Hi Tom, May I ask what do you do with all the bottles, etc. that you excavate? 😊
Some are kept, sold, given to the property owner and donated to museums. A case by case scenario. If no one is interested we throw them back.
Tom -- always curious what you do with all those unembossed bottles?
We usually throw them back
I'm not sure if I believe ya after contemplating your response
I believe it because we've dug hundreds of unembossed prescription bottles from trash pits and covered them back up taking only the unusual, unique and embossed bottles
@Steve-Pitt i would keep/hoard all of them lol. I wasn't trying to sound rude i just shouldnt have thought he was kidding. Love your videos, Tom!
Awesome pit
Could you glue back the broken Valley City bottle for display?
Definitely. My buddy ended up with it. I think he pieced it back together
there is a cricket on the audio. I thought it was in my house.
Is there some kind of preservative spray you can put on paper labels to keep them from drying and flaking off?
Phosgene! Wow I wonder if there was a mysterious unsolved death at the hotel ….
I've heard you mention types of bottles you've found in Maine in previous videos, Eastport being one of them. Do you have any videos from Maine? I reside in Maine and have frequented Eastport a few times. Great finds as always!
No full length vids from Maine. I wasn’t regularly filming then. I may have some clips from Maine, though. I’ll have to go through some old footage. If I find any I may post it here or on my Facebook
@@TomAskjem.LostHorizons perfect, I certainly appreciate it! Happy digging!
That big old pumpkin seed flask love oit
Question: why would they throw all these bottles down the outhouse pit? Wouldn’t that shorten the life of the pit? Thank you. I new and I love these videos
I’ve heard that many times. The outhouse was basically a convenient place to throw trash. I was told sometimes people would throw “contraband” down them.
the cast iron piece with holes looks like the top to a wood stove.
The squat,fat bottle very interesting
I’d be interested to know who you sell these bottles to and if you have an online shop. What is the value of these bottles? I’m sure the “holy grail” pieces must be of great interest to collectors…
I don’t have an online shop (yet) but am planning to get one started at some point. I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had much time for anything. Maybe once the ground freezes and I get caught up on some books/videos I’ll have some free time to get the site running.
@@TomAskjem.LostHorizonsExcellent. I went to EBay to scroll through antique bottles and some were quite expensive. But I think if you created a shop called The Bottle Museum people would flock to it. There you can educate people in more depth about our shared past. Good luck!
I think a shop that both sells and educates could be very successful. You could call it “The Bottle Museum”. 😉 Good luck!
Maybe a Wiederman brewery, it's got an eagle 🦅
Is the little flask, called a pumpkin seed?
What was Phosgene Gas used for in that period of time?
An ampule, available for purchase?
We put them back. I was told they were used to deter thieves by placing them in safes. If the door was broken open they would break, potentially poisoning them.
What did you do with the phosgene? Dangerous stuff. The cassia oil in elepizone may have been used solely as a flavorant; ground cassia bark is what almost all modern cinnamon products - including ground 'cinnamon' are made from.
I just bought my first bottle: turn-of-the-(LAST)-century Liquozone. Not too old, not too rare, not gonna say how much I paid for it (seems to be typical market value). Just spotted it in an antique store and grabbed it on impulse. I'm too physically stove-in to dig my own, and it's a great tactile object just to hold in the hands.
The ampules had already been broken open so we just threw them back at the end of the dig.
@@TomAskjem.LostHorizons I guess it was used for agricultural chemicals. Have you come across them, before?
Phosgene is one of those run for your life chemicals. You'll feel fine for a day, maybe with some slight irritation. Then you die.
link to your shop please, thank you
No shop. Hoping to start an online site but haven’t had the time.
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I know you take precautions, but have you ever opened a bottle and it smelled like the contents on the label? ❤ 😊
I’ve pulled up many bottles with contents. I’d say 99.9% of the time they smell terrible. Every once in a while we get a perfume bottle that smells decent though.
@ Thank you! I really like your videos!!! I even asked my older brothers if they remembered where our great great grandfather’s outhouse stood. Instead of an outhouse they said he threw away glass and metal in one part of the woods. I plan to go there and see what I find.
???Tom, why are Shoofly bottles called Shoofly???
Have you ever tried to grow the seeds you find? I’m sure they’re berry or tomato seeds. Just wondering if 100 plus year old seeds could be germinated.
I have a friend in Kansas who is trying to grow some. I’ll post an update if it works
@@TomAskjem.LostHorizons Growing up in the country, our septic spilled out down over the hill. We were warned to never eat from the tomato plants that grew down there. But those seeds weren’t 100 years old. It’ll be fascinating to see if he can get them to sprout.
@@ivcmom75but be honest. Did you eat any of them? Lol 😅😂
@@cathifamjourney469 nope, we put out a huge garden every year. We snacked on raw vegetables and drank well water. So far I’m still alive.🤣
@@TomAskjem.LostHorizons I would love to try growing some seeds I can send money for your time and postage thanks,
If you dig up a Mason Jar, make sure you have the right size Fez.
I wonder if the ampules were smelling salts?
Apparently if you smelled these you would die, mustard gas!
You should detect for coins in some of these.