A Strange Sink Spot by the Train Tracks Leads to a $16,000 Find
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Excavating a privy at the former site of the Great Northern Railroad Depot in Everest, North Dakota.
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Dude it would be fascinating to see what the bottles look like cleaned up from the mud , can you do a post dig summary with a breakdown of values rarity ect, it would be great to see the true beauty of these artifacts and learn a little more of the history
They are not cleaned up at all at the end. Yes he lines up all that he found but they still are dirty. I would love for him to do an add on every now then at the end of his videos showing all that he found washed up and clean and shiny!!!
@@WonkzzillaI think they mean a more in-depth look.
Maybe you didn’t watch to the very end? The soda bottles are a lovely blue, and the
telegraph glass was a subtle green. He didn’t show all the bottles, but it was nice to see the best ones! Thank you!
Steam. Cleaned.
I agree , it would be very interesting to see some of them cleaned up and valued in a rarity prospective.
Have you ever thought of taking the bottles full of contents to a lab, to see what the chemical components are? I think it would be fun to find out what that stuff really is.
I was thinking the same - I'd be fascinated to know all the ingredients in that cough medicine - alcohol & opium is laudnum - but it's what other garbage was also in - so many nasty, unhealthy ingredients back then - arsenic, coal tar etc etc
Interesting idea!!
I'd bet some bureaucrat from the DEA would be interested in what you were packing around as well.
That would be very interesting
Yep! I'm sometimes worried they'd come after me for the dried out residue at the bottom of some laudenum we found stashed in the attic stairs of our 1838 house.@@jimnorthland2903
Congratulations on the rare finds in this pit. I am glad to see you enjoy your digs so much. You surely work very hard for every bottle. Thank you for taking us all along. It is exciting to see you find the things you find.
My Uncle, Augy, was born in 1912 in Fargo, North Dakota. He was the youngest child of a large German family. His parents owned many acres of land for raising crops, cattle, milk cows etc. He told me used bottles and such was buried on a distant part of the property. When I bought an antique bottle, he said he would write to his brothers and sisters to ask if they had such things. Some of them they sent are similar to what you are finding. I love what you do. So exciting!
Maybe some of these bottles were his
The amount of knowledge you have on every piece you did is amazing. Really enjoy the history.
I collect Insulators and have many telegraph insulators, my collection began in 1963, many of mine are bubbled glass. Their worth has tremendously gone up. I did find many of my insulators. I remember looking up while riding in the car with my parents, seeing the stunning colourful insulators glistening in the sun.
gone up tremendously.
Congratulations on the rare soda bottles. Awesome dig Tom. 👍
A store at depot probably didn't sell unopened stuff and threw them away
so proud for you Tom, 11:52 timestamp will go down in history!! Congratulations.
Unbelievable Rischard sodas!!! Now that is the description of an old pit! Great digs!!!
have to wonder if the wooden plank indicates that there was a wooden crate of the egyptian cement and baby stuff were being carried as freight on the train and it was dropped so the "evidence" was dumped down the privy.
I just ran across your channel. It is awesome!! It does my heart good to see young people interested in and knowledgeable about history. Thank you!!❤
What a fricken haul. Quantity was good, quality....@$#%!!!!!
Wow, I can only imagine how you transported those finds home, hope you had tons of bubble wrap 😂 To see your moment was the best, well deserved finds. Thank you so much for the upload guys.
It's always so neat to see a picture of what the plot looked like when it was up and running in it's hey day compared to what it looks like now. Awesome job guy. Cheers.😊
Nice finds! The Engine will come next! ! Regards UK.
Well Done ! Seems like the harder You work the luckier You get !
Great Channel, the old glass tells a bit of the tale.
That's pretty much a rule of thumb in life. You work hard to put yourself in a position where opportunities will come knocking, or in his case, find treasure.
Maybe when digging show photos of it cleaned up after along with estimated $ value
I grew up in Wahpeton, ND! So cool to see what treasures you've been able to unearth throughout the upper great plains! I think so many Americans are quick to overlook the amount of history and influence that area of the country truly had. Awesome dig. Love the channel!
is the plumbing object at 13:16 Mabey a barrel tap? it kind of looks like one
Would love to see some of the items after they are cleaned
It's amazing what history has been buried just a couple feet underground across this great country of ours. Also, finding still full bottles of nearly 150 year old elixirs shows how high the quality of the bottling was back then. These days they make every container as thin as possible and they leak before you even get them home! This is outstanding stuff my friend!
How old does it have to be before digging up an outhouse pit seems like an ok idea?
Yay! A new one! ❤ still want you to visit Oakland Oregon :)
The day the Begg's drummer said I'm done and tossed it all down the privy hole😟
Great dig! Get some knee pads though…Look after your knees too! 💪
I'm 62 but when I was a young lad like 12 or so me and a friend use to ride our bikes and find old fire pits and dig up old bottles, this was back in the 1970s, we would find stuff from the 30s through the 50s for the most part so nothing super old, especially then but it was fascinating to me back then. I had a pretty good collection of bottles but not sure what I did with them. I remember embossed dr pepper good for life bottles, some marble stop bottles and the like. Good times.
OK, call me a pessimist but if you notice, at 6:40 - 6:43ish, in this so called “old $#!T hole” that they found, he digs up a nice bright green new leaf.
I call this a B.S. set up video for RUclips.
Come on people.
The Beggs Soothing Syrup could have been outlawed for some reason, which would explain bottles with the content still in them.
So, what is $16,000? How do we know this? Who bought it? Mud and dirty bottles with no follow-up, I'm out. Unsubscribe.
What diseases R U digging up when U dig up toilet Po-po even if it is very very old- Do U know what bacteria etc survived in soil???? I wonder when they dig for old cities what R they exposing to the air?????
So freaking happy for you, finding those Dakota Territory sodas. What a day!😊
Tom, I am so happy for the two of you finding such great soda bottles!
Im surprised Jake didn't give out a hoot n holler 😅
Your good at this! You could use same skills for other historic stuff, but seeing a bottle noone has seen in over a hundred years is impressive
Could that big brass bar thing be part of a bar rail out of a saloon? ?
Hi Tom 👋 👋 and 👋 jake well done I'm glad for you Tom to find one rare soda bottle but to find a second one is pretty amazing 👏 all the best Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧
Nice finds. You know your bottles and seems you have fun digging them up.
WOW. What a find. So happy for you. ❤
Out where it's hard to get to along rail road tracks is alot of buried stuff for over a hundred years when they would have a derailment they would just dig big holes and bury averything it's a insurance write off.
When I see videos in the water I always think of that exploding bottle incident.
I was always under the impression that these outhouse pits break down to nothing but soil over time. When he said that it definitely smells like an outhouse...it made me rethink my desire to dig up outhouse pits! Whats the general consensus on whether or not your digging through something closer to doody than dirt? Genuine question
Great soil though!
I do not know much about bottles ... Was the entire dig worth that much or was there one item that was worth the $16,000?
I'm not seeing $16,000 on the video? Did I miss something? I'm presently dumping video makers who resort to clickbait in their titles, please tell me you haven't become one of them!
Thank you! I've been saying it in the comments every video. Every video this guy puts out the title is clickbait bullshit. I'm with you about dumping them. They're known to me as click whores
Another bottle digger I watch has repeatedly said a rare, embossed "hutch" will easily bring $5,000 dollars. He just found 2 hutches that were unknown before now. Guessing they could each be worth $8,000.
These are interesting finds indeed. Maybe there was a little kiosk since it was a train depot, and that might explain all the little syrups and other smaller bottles. Like at smaller stations today, people might have bought newspapers and other things before their trip. If the town burned down, all that might have been thrown down the pit if no one wanted it? Fun to imagine why full bottles of "soothing syrup" would be there.
Congratulations on your finds. The first thing that came to my mind is I hope your shots are up to date you know tetnus and things. Happy digging and have a great day
do I see a few wood pieces around the beggs bottles? did you?.. maybe a box was dropped while being unloaded ..🤷 you did!! a minute or so after I hit send😀
Are you in human feces 💩 when you say undigested seeds , i love bottle digging but thats intense.
There ya go again Tom with a you rockin everything once more man!!
Great score. It is possible that they just grabbed all the stuff laying around and threw it into the pit when the depot shut down. The pit seemed a little shallow for aenterprise such as a dpot as there would have been a lot of people in and out of there. Maybe this was like many of your other dig sitesand there were multiple pits over time.
Congratulations on your rare finds!! That's awesome!! 😊
I love the look of the Hutch sodas. Something about the aqua color and shape looks amazing
Career? Lol to funny callin a hobbies careers these days
$16,000! Very nice!
Can you make a video showing how to probe out a pit
“We’re definitely on the “right track””. Lol
Too puny.
Thanks a bunch 🙏
I really felt glad for you, Tom, and your rare find ! -- Congratz
I have never heard you so animated. You sounded like a kid at Christmas 😂.
I would have loved to see your face on this one because I know you were lit up like a Christmas tree 😂. Great haul there! I think this was the best one yet. That I have seen anyway..
Tom,
I watch you comment about your finds and then post production, it confirms what you said.
You must have developed a really good knowledge to know, off the top of your head,
what you've found...ally impressive!!
Congratulations on the awesome hutch man, everyfhing ekse you found was amazing as well.
Awesome dig! Thank you for sharing.
I thoroughly enjoy your videos.
Each bottle holds a special story.
Sometimes you say, when those pits smell like a outhouse, I wonder how you don’t get dysentery.
It would also be cool if you found an applied top Coca-Cola bottle from the late 1880’s or 90’s.
Congratulations! Amazing once in a lifetime dig!
What a pit,great dig guys!
I am 67 years old and have loved antiques since I was very young. Therefore, your videos are fun to watch. I am amazed at your knowledge of all the bottles as well as the dishes.
Just out of curiosity, what do you do with all the items you find??
How often do you get cut on broken glass???
What do you do with all your finds... Im guessing, keep the rare ones, and put all the others back in when you restore the site.. ? Really enjoy your channel.
Thank you for interesting videos 👍🙏❤️
so pleased for you
Congrats on such RARE finds!!!!!!
Will you be keeping the unopened bottles intact with corks and all? They would be a killer display.
Oh wow.. wonderful finds.. I love when your voice gets all excited about a find.. it gets me excited for you.
Love the way you honour your Patreon members so that their names are legible. Thanks for a very cool video
Awesome !!! Congrats on the soda bottle!!! 💙🤣
For the most deserving digger...so glad that you found the 2 soda bottles..love your videos...🥰🥰
Congratulations to you‼❤🍂🍁 Great work.
Congratulations on the rare finds. Likewise, on the continuing growth of the channel, which is about to turn 100K subscribers.
I've been a viewer, subscriber and commentator since about the second or third episode of the first season. I did quit watching for awhile about three or four months ago because I tired of investing the time in watching only to discover part way through that I was viewing a reedit of previous digs' video content. I understand that it is beyond challenging to find a new and productive prospect every week. I would not complain if the reedited and/or compiled previous digs were always clearly identified as such in the title and/or thumbnail image.
I'd still like to see more of the research, the exploration and probing process that you gentlemen go through on the way to identifying a pit before digging. You might weary of reading the requests, but I will point out that others have asked for the same type coverage, together with more photos of the cleaned artifacts post-dig. It was your incorporating vintage maps, zoomed-in satellite imagery and the grid layout and probing processes in the early episodes that made your channel stand apart from the content posted by others who hunt for antique bottles in creeks, old landfills and privy pits; and that is why I subscribed! I do appreciate that you have continued to include period photos of the locales dug together with vintage advertising images to supplement the product information you display on screen--well done!
thanks. and sorry about that. we were posting at the top of the comments about a year ago that when we release videos on friday, saturday, sunday. those will always be new videos, and when we finish all the videos from a site, we combine it together and release it. but we said we would release those on weekdays (almost always wednesdays)... and we try to use one of the thumbnails from the video (usually the one that did the best)... i know most people probably dont read the comments, but i was pinning it to the top so it'd be most visible. Yeah, i wasnt trying to confuse people, but i know some people like to see all the digs in their entirety, and then we get a surprising amounts of ppl asking to make longer videos because i guess we have a lot of ASMR viewers... sorry about that, ill try to mark them, but usually we use nearly all 100 characters you are allowed to put in the title of the video.
@@BelowthePlains I much appreciate the reply. I did notice reedits with "color grading" comment appended to titles of a couple videos quite a while back, though I surely missed comments referencing the relevance of the day-of-the-week when a video posts. I'll watch for that in the future.
I was making an effort to watch every "Below the Plains" until the reedits began appearing. I had no idea about the demand for ASMR content; nor did I realize RUclips titles are restricted to 100 characters! I learn something new almost every day; two things on some days such as this one! Thanks again.
Your title was intriguing but I don’t believe you told us which bottles were worth $16,000. A little more explanation would be appreciated.
How exactly did the bright green leaf end up buried???
if you watch the beginning it says "we dug a test hole the day before to figure out the age" then we filled it back in so no one snooping around came across it and came back the next day and thats when we started filming... i think thats what you're talking about, otherwise id need a timestamp.. but it could have just been from someone getting in and out of the pit.... im not sure if you're alluding to the video being fake but i assure you its not. thanks for watching tho!!!!!!
Awesome haul Tom. Those aqua bottles are beautiful. Awesome video.
Amazing finds Tom, you sure are good at finding these treasures!
What was the $16k find?
That cat looked ZONKED, don't drink that sheite! XD_ _ _
I lose a lot of respect with people putting dollar amounts in front of hobbies they like. I will be unsubscribing.
Congratulations on the first of its kind bottle find❣️❣️❣️
Very nice find of old bottles
Congrats on your holy grail finds. How did you learn so much about the different bottles and tops etc?
Im happy for you on your find! I bet your heart was racing! Congrats and thanks for sharing.
So cool' reminds me of a cash of 1870 - 1880s bottles I found in 1980.. in canada' I still have close to hundred if the bottles I dug' same flasks, medicinals' beer' whiskey' food bottles' midland vinigar' three different sizes imperial cheese bottles, lea and perons, ink bottles' eclectric oil' glass battery cells' etc' Chinese ceramics' various coins going back into the 1840s even... still lots of stuff there... all built over' i didn't find unknown territory bottle' I would love to go back to that spot again.. you should be using plastic digging tools' take your time and enjoy' this is a great pass time.. hobby'
Wow. What do you do with these bottles?
Those Beggs, soothing syrup, may have been knock offs of Mrs. Winslow’s soothing syrup, and by law may have been a copyright infringement and been ordered destroyed. I couldn’t find anything on them online.
First let me say I love watching the show. Your knowledge of Historical art effects are really admirable. Second I Totally agree with Southendmassives comment it would be really nice to see the items in their final cleaned version. I would love to see your complete collection of all the stuff you collected. Maybe you can do a separate show just for all of us to see your collection all nice and clean. Lastly I don't understand something. When you find a half or 3/4 beautiful porcelain item either a plate or teapot or cup why are you tossing around the smaller porcelain chips and broken parts. You could find the other half or missing parts of that plate or cup whatever. Then you can glue it back together it would still look awesome and a historical piece. Like in this video you found a teapot and even the lid, it was gorgeous I bet you you could have found the spout as well but you don't look at the smaller pieces you toss them aside. Perhaps collect them in a separate bag and at home you can sort it out and see if you can find the missing parts. Just an idea. But it has been bothering me for a while, so I had to mention it to you. But congratulations for your tenacity your patience and all the research you do to know where to look and of course it must not be always very pleasant to dig through an old outhouse. Cheers, Agi from Princeton, IL
Omgosh those soothing syrups were used on babies and children for teething and other pain. If they still have it's original content, that content is a sugar water mixed with pure morphine and alcohol. A lot of babies and children died when they used it. That's probably why it was dumped. Because of the uprising of people from poisoning, Congress passed a law in 1906 that all medications and food products be patented and ingredients listed. Awesome soda bottles. Nice score!!! 👍
Great job. Awesome video
That large semi circular metal object was a pre 1887 link from a link and pin setup. It attached two train cars together before the knuckle coupler was invented. Many train workers lost fingers with the link and pin setup, very unsafe!!
The small bottles look like Winslow's soothing syrup, from early 1900s. Contains morphine, used to sooth toothaches, freshen breath ,was considered a cure all for fussy babies
I would like to dig with you. I'm in central PA. I could travel if necessary, I am older (52) but not to bad of shape. I use to be huge into bottles seems milk bottles were always most valuable, ok let me know. Thx. Either way enjoy your videos
Would you ever consider telling about your busines? Where, what, and why of your hard work. You are a mystery and finding out about more of your story would be very interesting to me and perhaps others. Please consider sharing. Also my sons name is Brecht and I would love to buy one or two of your bottles with that name for him. Please let me know😊 Granny from Mio, MI.
Man, when you dig you're missing so many bottles. And it seems like you scrape or break a few too. Slow down dude. And I do wish you'd look a little deeper before you finish a hole. Congrats on the rare soda - there should be more than one.
I live close to Massillon and my husband grew up in and around Massillon. Back in the 50's my husband and his friends used to play in the old beer caves and run around the railroad with their 22's shooting the insulators from the electric poles! It's crazy to think you pulled up a bottle that could have been in one of those caves.
I love watching your videos but my heart drops to my stomach every time I hear your trowel ping against glass or china. 😳
How did you dispose of the contents of the Begg's Soothing Syrup? Were you required by law to forfeit the bottles or just the contents?