Weird Strange And Dangerous Finds In The Mojave Desert
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- čas přidán 29. 12. 2021
- Wanna see some weird and things I came across when I was camping and traveling in the Mojave? If so, here are a few very strange finds I recently discovered on my journey.
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I enjoy metal detecting for historical items like gold coins, relics, silver coins, and other buried treasures. I also metal detect for gold and silver nuggets and even meteorites. I like to make videos that promote my choice of lifestyle that includes outdoor adventure,
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Just a short video tonight. I hope you enjoy it.
Always!
I wondered if that deep hole was caused by a mine collapse? The water container with concrete bottom was interesting. The splines leading from the runway, probably led to airplane hangers or airplane tie down areas. What happened to your truck that cost you $1,800?
Trying to follow your journey on Google Earth, I saw all sorts of strange things that look like solar arrays or water catchment, but when you go to Street View they aren't visible even though close to the road. Some of those metal can look like motor oil cans, they have that keyhole type slot that has a foil tear strip. So that video led up to the tow 😥😥
I bet that’s one time you’re glad you had cell signal
Oh my nenith Chigg, You found a samsqanches community swimming pool dude.
As a retired archaeologist who has worked in the Mojave Desert for nearly 30 years, I recorded a number of mining sites and features. The mining shafts and adits and some prospect pits are extremely dangerous to record and a number of people including hikers and dirt bikers have fallen into them.
I'm sure he knows.
Do you know anything about the legend of lost heads just south of the Mojave in Desert Hot Springs???
@@mandiemoore3272 No, I have not heard about them. Then of course there are a lot of old desert tales around. Also there were lot of things that were carved and set up in the region during the early 20s, such as a cross that was set up by a WWI vet to honor his comrades killed.
And yet another professional useless person
@@Germs4982 And another comment from an ignorant person, who's main contribution to society is appearing half naked and drunk at a Washington Commander's game. Don't tell you, are a carpet layer aren't you?
I was stationed at Edwards as a jet mech in the 80's.. Half our barracks had dirt bikes, I built a 4 seater sand rail.. We spent so many days and wasted nights playing and partying in the desert from Eddie's all the way to Mohave to down near Rosamond. The desrt at night was magical. Nursing a hangover sitting atop a rock formation as the sun rises, illuminating the 360 degree view as far as the eye can see- a holy experience!
My favourite part of working in an underground mine in Western Australia outback in 1974 was the night sky perfect visibility with no moon just starlight city dwellers have no idea of the stars the Milky way was like a giant fluro light across the entire sky .Magical indeed
If you don't mind me asking, what's a sand rail?
43151c, AFSC (1980), I was all over that desert only had a street bike but did a lot of hiking and target practice. most of the mine shafts were near the rocket labs south base.
Oh yeah, we know, rattlesnakes all around you below! Yummmm!!!!
@@avencannon9719 A dune buggy, but more powerful engine.
The giant can piles may be related to the training camp out in the Mojave during WW II. The soldiers were fed canned food and the cans had to go somewhere. At that time, the desert was seen as a lifeless place so dumping things was considered no big deal.
Didn't think of that. First thought I had was the large parties or festivals in the desert and over the years it just became a tradition of sorts to throw cans in that spot. Your suggestion makes more sense.
Exacty, General Pattons field office was in Needles California. Its now a Weed shop
@@colesdad2000oh shit which one I've probably been to it lol
I grew up in the Mojave desert. There is so much weird stuff out there. I've been to 3 different adobe style houses with no roof on them. I initially thought they were old settler or maybe native homes but when you get up close to them you can see modern piping and garbage on the ground that led me to believe that they were old cowboy movie props that the film makers just left behind because nobody really cared about cleaning up after themselves.
I have to see this, i hope one day to take a drive out to the mojave desert (which I'm not too far from since I'm in Riverside,CA).
yes butt i am amazon ! ,
YEP, just like Hollywood, create crap only to leave crap
ĢA ' gnarly 😮
Deserts are magical yet dangerous places. Watch out for Graboids.
I cannot explain how much I appreciate this video. From the perspective of someone that's always been fascinated with the Mojave but never managed to go there. This video is perfect by all means. Thank you!!!
patrolling the mohave almost makes you wish for nuclear winter
patrolling the mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
Yeah. It's a dump
What happens in the Mojave stays in the Mojave.
😉
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
Literally
Yep!!
Spent a lot of time there.
Get a dirt bike, and head out.
All kinds of strange stuff, all over the Mojave.
Love it out there!!!
Not true I moved 10 years ago
I came across one of those concrete bowls riding my dirt bike in the Mojave desert when I was a kid.. Always wondered what it was. We had 11 acres not far from onyx/lake Isabela. The good ol days. I used to find strange twisted bits of aluminum, gauges, bits and pieces. They were parts from plane crashes. I did not now what it was @ the time. I could spend my whole life exploring that place. So much to see and so little time.
Gross Papa ; Many years ago, 1963-64, my father, brother and I joined some co workers out a ways from Lake Isabella. Years past an old mining town was at the location where we were hunting Quail and Squirrels. It was a wooded area and, IIRC, a branch of the Kern River flowed through the area. The name Kernville comes to mind. Lots of old abandoned Ore Carts, wood cook stoves etc, etc. I took some 35 mm slides of the area but 🤷♂️.........?
I'd love to go back there but I'm up in Idaho now. Much too far to even think about a trip like that.
@@harrisonmantooth3647 ah, my family had a cabin they built 45mins up the mountain from Lake Isabella. Apparently when they moved there and purchased that land, they also bought the rights to a couple of mining areas. The cabin was fairly close to Shirley Meadows.
@@aliciaevans2012 the
@@aliciaevans2012 my job sends drivers to Lake Isabella often. The lake is losing a lot of the water. Looks bad.
@@lashturner yeah, they've been draining it for years
You need to check out Bob Manns book collection, This guy traveled about every square inch of the mojave and documented it all.
My late husband was raised in the Mojave Desert (Palmdale) starting in the mid 50's and the desert was his playground. Many years later we moved there and I remember driving to Vegas and it was required to stop along the road to run out and pick up lava rocks. Much cheaper than the home center
Weird Strange And Dangerous Finds In The Mojave Desert. how do you prove to the boss that yer putting yer hours in when yer erecting telegraph poles in the desert????
So the little fingers sticking off each end of the runway ending in circles were revetments where aircraft we're parked at one time. General Patton had his own private plane out there when he was commander of the desert training area and would fly his plane from to Camp to camp regularly so the odds are really good that he flew in and out of that Airfield a number of times.
Coll piece of history you shared! Thanks Bro
and then he figured out we fought the wrong people
@@spencerm5913 with free camping and a really nice on site manager, and the Chevron is open 24 hours to you have a large BATHROOM. I stayed in my big block Olds there in the fall of 2019 before returning to Canada. It was dad's last restoration. Saw a Road Runner there (the desert bird) and it's as big as a chicken, but with longer legs. mOst I'd seen were small. !!
John 3:16 NIV
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 🙏!!
I love when kids say this, like it some universal truth lol, guy hated communists but nazis were literally sending people to death camps, wake the fu*k up 😅@@_Patton_Was_Right
What freaks me out the most is the fact that you're out there in exploring the desert in a ticking time bomb 6.4 Powerstroke.
😂
was thinking the same thing... and no monitors or gauges!
Thinking the same thing!
Ouch
As a long-time viewer of your channel and first time commenting here, I just wanted to say the WWII in America series has been extraordinarily insightful and inspiring. As a veteran and history enthusiast myself, these discoveries of Patton's camps have been really enjoyable and I'm surprised to see the lack of footprints as well. Thank you for all your efforts that you put forth on this excursion. Keep up the great work you're doing here Chigg!
May have been far deeper than 100 feet. Our house I lived in growing up in Red Mountain on 395 sat behind a 1600 foot vertical shaft, deepest in the area.
Red Mountain; went to the Museum and they had these incredible carved "art" spear points from some local guy? Never seen anything like them.
Growing up in Joshua Tree and always exploring the desert, it would baffle me the amount for trash that had been left through all the years
There are an awful lot of subhuman dirtbags in Cali.
OMG! That amount of tin cans reminds me of the fact my Mother could not cook! Until My brother and I went rogue and took over the kitchen! 😀
Awww, bless her. I hope you showed her how.
Ahh there area near Tucson we as locals all used to go out and shoot when ever someone got something new... box canyon.area you fired from couldn't see soil was all shells/brass was a unwritten rule to leave it ...remember once as a kid guy was playing rat patrol had machine gun mounted on his jeep chasing coyotes...back then seemed normal
Used to live north of Phx, AZ. Alot of old mine shafts & tunnels. Seems at least twice a year, dirt bikers & individuals would ride or fall into an abandoned shaft. A few died. I always stood back away from shafts due to loose gravel at the top edges. To this day they can be very scary/intimidating to say the least. Most tunnels were always filled with Cholla cactus, scattered in there by pack rats to keep predators out. Made it impossible to walk in. Bat's would fly out sometimes, but that never bothered me.
@luca fresh lived in phoenix ove 20 years havent ever heard of a single person falling into a mine shaft.
Some of the people are going in the old mines and they are finding old Levis jeans worth a bunch of money..
@@DieselRamcharger lived there over 40 yrs. 60's-2000's. May not be to many recent reports, but local news stations/newspapers would report on these types of incidents on a semi - regular basis during 60's and 70's. Alot of these shafts have been fenced off or covered due to these incidents. There are still alot of open shafts, but are way off the beaten path. Some are right in the middle of old roads with no fence or signage to warn you. I know this first hand, as I have explored off the beaten path and have had to slam on the brakes to not drop-off into one. It's quite a heart stopping experience.
@@randalmorris1772 ive heard of 4wheelers and offroaders falling in.....but never just folks out walking around in the desert.
Yes, same here. A few years back fell in a shaft in the Cottonwood Canyon area. It was a thirty-foot vertical hole inside of a tunnel that most of us were aware of. I hear she broke both legs. But SAR got her out okay. Those shafts are pretty common.
I did many years of exploring until my partner was killed in a Jeep rollover last year. That was one of the rare times that he went out alone. I guess someone was looking out for me.
Stationed at Edwards AFB, 1963-67. Lots of memories made in the Mojave. Enjoyed reading similar experiences.
I love checking out the desert when I fly. I see the strangest things.
Seeing that "for sale" sign out there. There are people who have a set income or retired or whatever that own patches of desert out in the middle of this abyss. They stock up on supplies and water and just live. It's quite an amazing place out there.
Like slab City
Thinking about Tremors, the film!
I grew up in Victorville. We used to find stuff like that all the time in the desert!
Those California gophers are getting huge! 🤯😁
🦫
Send in Carl the green keeper from the Bushwood country club 😂😂
They're mutant Canadian gophers taking advantage of our open borders.
It's also a dang good reason not to walk the desert at night... that next shadow could be a mine... Apparently a lot of old mine entrances in Arizona have been half-a** covered with shrubs, sticks and stone. You might not even see them in the daytime, unless you're really paying attention.
There are over 100,000 abandoned mines in Arizona. Yes, really.
shame on our governments for their negligence. likely many animals have died as a consequence, if not people.
Lots of illegal aliens wandering around lost, maybe....hmmm?
@@sardonyxsky It's not the governments job to save you from everything. Most those abandoned mines are from before California became a state and MSHA .
Thats true for and mining areas, especially old gold camp/town areas.
I went to MOS school in 29 palms but never made the time to explore. Thanks for sharing! This was fun to see.
I was with 3/7 all 4 years. I didnt want to explore it at all . I lived out there.
Same. We did explore some, but not quite like the chigg is doing. I did explore JT a lot more my second time there. Lots of mines up in those hills.
Same here, quite unfortunate. Really wish I had taken the time to hike around Joshua Tree more as well while I was nearby.
I was on board a buoy tender out of Guam, we island hopped..
It was a working vacation..
Been from Japan down to Australia over to Kuwait..
Dumbass me never thought about exploring for war relics.
My enthusiasm was in taking pictures of the islanders, scenary and scuba diving.....
Lived in the Nevada desert (literally) for many years. So pretty and peaceful with no people around.
lucky you i worked in a big city for years . endless noise not good for nerves!
Wow, driving headlong into that hole in the road would have cost a lot more than engine work. Cool vid, Chigg.
We got similar open shafts here in Australia. No taking a short cut through the grass round those places. Locals still tell a story about the dirt bike rider who "found" one. As the story goes he made it over the pit but the bike did not. Never did find out if they got the bike back !
@BreatheScotland There's a geological fault on the hill behind my house (Wales UK) that's open at the top and very deep. It was caused by dodgy mining work apparently. People have lost dogs and livestock down there and it still remains uncapped. The local farmer told me he's been down there with the cave rescue people to get one of his sheepdogs back. There's not even a caution sign up there.
While I was stationed at GAFB in the 80's I went exploring. Found a car, 50's model, down one shaft, it was completely rusted, and look like it would break if tried to use it for climbing. And another shaft nearby had a newer car, maybe 60's model, shape of a Ford fairlane, but it was folded in half, about 50 feet down. It was in slightly better shape, still had some blue paint on it. I thought, "Damn, might ride right into one of these. Better leave before it gets dark. Later, at home, I thought how the heck do you get a folded car in the shaft?" Then I thought, "How'd you get a folded car out here? Miles from anything?" Then I thought, "What folded the car if it drove out here?"
Imagine the tow bill
@@dr.robertjohnson6953 maybe someone make that
The hole, water collection site, & can dump are all crazy finds out there in the desert. Sorry about the truck trouble. So interesting seeing this place.
Every time he threw a rock down into one of those holes, I kept expecting a very angry giant spider to come out. Or a giant ant, like in the movie "Them".
Thank you for exploring the desert. I went out in the desert a short way once and I am a city kid and OMG I was scared to death. So I am fascinated by your exploration video. Thanks so muchfor this.
In the early 80s, we found a verticle shaft like that at the top of a hill in Anza Borego desert. We lowered a guy into it and he yelled up to us "I'm standing on the ass-end of a jeep!"
Was there a Skeleton there too?
@@barrywainwright3391 haha, no - but we found out later it was 2 marines - 1 died. It apparently had happened only weeks prior to us being there.
@@rayss3323 Wow, that's crazy!
Have traveled the Mohave trail several times. There are stories of a large underground river system in mojave
you guys make this place seem like an area 51 for some reason. all kind of mysterious
@@BlueRice it's a lot of strange still out there....Mormon trail went through there, many unmarked graves there too...
@@BlueRice they want it to be something it’s not for conversation purposes.
@@Justshredman that’s a weird thing to say….🧐
Buried beneath the east side of Nevada & western Utah from their northern borders down into California is a feature named the Deep Carbonate Aquifer. Devil's Hole, near Pahrump, Nevada is a noted bottomless spring or solution cavity. Legend says someone dove deep and never returned.
Prehistoric guppies live there.
I live in a small California desert town and there are many dangerous random mineshafts in people's back yards and vacant lots.
There are huge piles of cans like that in the Northwoods of Wisconsin from where the logging camps were back in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Just carpeted with rusty cans, mainly beer cans. Seeing the mix here I suspect this was where a mining camp was for many years.
I'd metal detect around, those cans may have been used for leeching copper ore.
Obviously they are steel, rusted - not aluminum like more recent cans, probably like Medic642 said - from long ago.
I wonder if it’s all cans or if there’s other trash mixed in?
@@Bardmusic66 likely nearly all cans. they didnt have much other trash in those situations, the rest would be burned
Be careful, slip fall, nobody find you. I lived in New Guinea, 60's, 70s, Americans built their airstrip using Marsden matting. Back there in 2017, still there. Reckon rusted cans/tins from war time, rations. We found same in New Guinea dumping areas, left behind. We'd scout surrounding areas find helmets, bayonets, eating utensils, water bottles, fuel cans, live grenades, rifle & pistol rounds both live & spent. My buddy found thompson machine gun, timber parts rotted away. Father & I also found an American aircraft crash landed few miles short of their airstrip on one of our hunting trips.🖐🇦🇺
As a hobby I look at satellite imagery and identify abandoned mines and other interesting things, mostly in Arizona. I've found a lot of cool stuff and learned a lot through this hobby. I found your channel/this video, pretty cool stuff, in line with what I like. EDIT: For example, Corona Satellite Calibration Targets all over the desert south of Casa Grande, AZ. There's so many cool things just left in the middle of nowhere with stories to tell.
Yeah, I live in a similar area. Using Google Earth I've been able to see Indian ruins and religious sites. Most people have no idea they are there.
I live in Arizona as well. Anyway to maybe get some info from you to visit these ?
@@redbaronrefining5322 What area are you looking to explore in or around and what kind of objects are you interested in?
@@Crismodin I love seeing old gold mines, or uranium mines would be cool, but from what I’ve read they’re more in northern Arizona.
I’m in santan valley, so anything between santan and Tucson maybe?
I truly love to visit places and even better if I can find the history on it with some historic photos to identify stuff.
I actually just came back from Bodie mine in California and man, I was in heaven! Even got my own private tour by a nice ranger!
Maybe you two could do a collab?
I spent a week in Mojave with some people I met 2 days before. Best week of my life. One of the guys told me to read this book which reminded me of The Matrix movie but with more information. And it changed my life…so I’m paying it forward: “Man Being Volume 1: The Transmission”. It covers everything from time travel, dreams, death, the afterlife, reincarnation, extraterrestrials, portals and gateways, Vatican and Renaissance secrets, Ancient civilizations, Lemuria, Atlantis, Jesus, Sinai, Egyptians and the Pyramids, Hebrew letters, etc. Wild read. Best I’ve had in years. Highly recommend it.
I’m camping here now. It’s amazing.
The milky way....🏜️
Me too. I'm right behind you.
Plenty of public land out there for you to use
My parents, cousins and I explored the Mojave and Saguaro deserts a lot when I was a kid. We saw a lot of weird stuff.
Please elaborate! What kind of weird stuff?
By Saguaro, you mean Sonoran
@@Chevelle602 yes that's correct. Please excuse me as I have old timers. Haven't been there in over 40 years, I'm just happy I remember being there!
@@raiderjohnthemadbomber8666 what do you mean by weird stuff?
Maybe that guy everyone is looking for fell into one of those mine holes? Scary thinking about it!
kenny veach
maybe, who knows....
What guy ?
@@alanjones9093 kenny veach
Yeah they should look inside.
What do they say, a bad day exploring the desert, is still better than any day setting home.
From southern England. You showed a shot of a big concrete-lined pit on an old USAF air-base. Here all over Britain we find similar, smaller places, some recent, some dating back 3 to 4 thousand years, clay-lined pits atop chalk hills, built & used by herdsmen to gather water for their flocks. No sweat!
Love the video , thanks for letting us all tag along!!
@1:43 My heart sank thinking of that edge slumping off!!
Ive been to that area @3:09 The other sides of those hills have little mines cut into some of those baby hills!
Always enjoy your content.Thanks for your passion to show us the finds👊
This was so cool. We went through Barstow many times on our travels. You might say I am a Desert rat. I still live in the Desert, but it looks like it will look like San Bernadino if it is up to the powers that be! We don't have fringe toed lizards anymore, but they were here 53 years ago when we moved here. It used to be very quiet and lucky if you saw a car traveling on Hwy 10 but not anymore. It is a very noisy freeway. Oh well I think they call that progress.
You sir are a inspiration to many. Don't stop.
You should buy a underwater fishing camera and a rc crawler....would make exploring those deep holes interesting
I remember being with my Uncle on his farm in Ireland. In the upper fields were open shafts from the Copper Mine.
No signs, no fence, just a dark hole in the earth that nightmares are made of...
It's great you are taking us along. I like the way you do your videos.
Reminds me of exploring the desert east of San Diego in early 80s just me and my truck. Couldn't do the walking now so tagging along with you sure is nice brother.
That was awesome Chigger! Love watching your content man, its an adventure taking us to some strange places in the great US desert. Always fascinates me what is out there. Love from Australia!
Ever looked at Western Australia with Google Earth? There is some strange terrain out there.
@@modernarchive7502 oh I know someone who was a geologist.. some weird stuff out in the desert of Australia…. very spooky!!
You haven't seen a large hole in the ground with giant ants going in and out have you?
THEM!
...uh-huh. In a California produced film. I enjoyed watching US Army jeeps
driving underground to locate giant ants. Elsewhere, I paid for a jeep ride
into another hole, just so I could sense what a search for giant ants would
sound like.
Dang, beat me to it.
I was going to suggest tossing in a Thermite grenade rather than a rock...
THEM!!!
OH that Corny Ass C movie from the 1950s, with the Good Looking Nice, of the Old Fart Professor !!! What a Joke that movie Was !!!
patrolling the Mojave desert almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter🤠
we won't go quietly, the Legion can count on that
I’m playing that now. Lol
"The House always wins!" -Mr House
Ave, True to Caesar. 😏
In the shadows of the mountains
Can dumps are historic, archeologists can tell how people lived, the products they used, etc. It's pretty interesting, as you can date sites from the canning technology used.
I live by pyramid lake near Reno and there is hundreds of mine minutes from my house, most of which are closed off, but me and my friends like to explore the “safer ones”
From Reno too. Seen anything unorthodox out there?
Our Mohave desert is incredible! So many hidden jems and history. You’ll be here for a long time searching all the old mines and volunteer cabins hidden in our mountains! They are everywhere! Happy searching Chigg!! And Happy New Year Sir !!! ❤️❤️❤️ stay safe.
What are volunteer cabins? Please
My most favorite place on earth. My other half hates the desert. I hope to have my ashes scattered there.
My Dad loved to take us out camping out there. My entire childhood and life was shaped and influenced by that.
Rule #1, never try to take a nap in a old mine around chigg, he will drop a rock on your head!! 😆
Sounds kinda ridiculous but yer supposed to hollar down before ya chuck a Boulder down a mine shaft
Great vid! That was a fun watch! Thanks for posting.
What an awesome place to explore. I always love finding a fellow adventurer. ☀️
This must be the legendary Mel's Hole Art Bell talked about. Its location was never revealed on his show.
That air strip might of been a reserve action base to protect L.A. during WW2 , doesn't seem to be any old building foot prints showing base support , very interesting .
Really cool- also appreciate that the video actually had the item in it that I saw before I clicked on it. Also interesting that water was where you found it.
Great video, that was really fun. Thank you
OK TIME TOO GET HOME ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR GO GET A SERVICE FOR THE TRUCK AND YOURSELF EVERYONE HAVE A BETTER NEW YEAR FROM SCOTLAND .
I think those "spokes" off of the air strip are where they parked the planes. That round shape in the ground might be where they put the radar.
I am from Palm Springs and used to go out there all the time. Well I met an old timer who lived in that desert and told me when WWll started Paton left all the training equipment in that desert. I was told there are Harleys with side cars and weapons still packed in grease and everything you would think our military trained with all out there buried somewhere. I don't know because I never got a good chance to explore. But I will say this the guy who told me was absolutely sure it was there. He may have been crazy but all these years later I still think about it
Aww the song at the end 💚🌎 love it !
Rode down one near Barstow (Owl Basin Campground) on my friend's motorcycle. Luckily, I didn't get hurt because it was only ten feet deep, and the bottom was shaped Like pill. The weight of the motorcycle was totally absorbed. I was unscathed except a few scratches. My friend saw it happen right in front of him.
If that happened while I was alone, I would have been left for dead.
I lived in Boron for a short time and a couple of trailer parks near Edwards in the 50's when my Dad worked at Edwards AFB. In the Boy Scouts we hiked throughout the Hinkley area and loved finding 50 caliber shell casings from strafing runs made by fighter planes years before.
We were driving up 395 at night and stop to eat dinner off the side of the road in our trailer. All at once the sky was lit up like day time and this loud roar shook our table. On the other side of the road some sort of rocket motor with horizontal flames 100 feet long blasted away for 30-40 seconds.
Very intriguing! I'd LOVE to explore some of those old mineshafts! Well, the safer ones, anyway.
I'm a new subscriber, thanks for taking me on this trip. Love the western landscape. 👀❤️
Awesome! Thank you!
This reminds me of a story a coworker told me 40 years ago. He and some buddies had been doing some major 4-wheeling around Nederland, Co (lots of silver mines). They roared up a hill, topped it, and barely stopped just in front of a timber-lined 12’ X 12’ shaft! They could see ~100’ down it before mist got too heavy. After numerous tries to loft a big rock down the center, one finally went straight down without hitting the sides…they never heard it hit anything! (Some of the shafts there went down 2500 feet). Good thing they got stopped…
I dropped a rock.. counted to 18 or something like that before it hit. Top of a hill. California desert. Old Mining town. Ridgecrest area.
@@jiphy Cool!
As a reference, I think it takes 17 seconds for a rock to hit the water 400' down one of my well. It usually hits the sides a bit.
I love watching the places you go. I've never been anywhere to see all this stuff. Very interesting. If you find something you want to keep are you allowed to keep it? I've seen some videos where there's everything left behind.
I didn't know the Mojave desert carried such secrets. That's kinda cool
Yikes on the holes, and your vehicle! Thank you!
That hole where the road ends --- looks a lot like some of the potholes in our roads here in Michigan. =/
lol,,yep. Pure Michigan
avoid potholes
Lol
Wow!!! A really good reason you don't drive around at night in the dark in an unfamiliar place. It could be your last ride. Glad you set up camp before night fall chigg. Lol. 😁👍👍
I love the activities you mentioned here! Hopefully will have some time for metal detecting in Mojave desert!
Take one of those Magnets with you! Yo can drop it in a mine shaft and maybe pull up a gun! 🤷♂️ 🤞 🍀
My father was stationed in the Mojave for a year. .He was being trained & experment by Gen Patton.
The American Army had never fought in the desert.
So the Army wanted to know what the soldiers could take and survive in the desert.
My father told me that they were limited to about a quart of water a day. (I don't remember the exact amount).
He said that they had to drink, prepare meals, and wash.
As I said before the Army was trying to find out what the troops could take
My father survived, but was disappointed, because he couldn't go to North Africa with Patton. Instead he went to the Pacific, and ended up in Siapan and Okinawa to name a few
I seen someone say in the comments Gen Patton flew his Personal plane their, by the way did you hear anything else about Gen Patton?
@@abrahamgarcia1640 I read the book "Patton A Genius For War" by Carlo DeStefano.
It was a great book. Patton is a very interesting person. He is also a dynamic person. He knew ever detail of his Army. He got in trouble for the slapping of a soldier.
He was actually stressed out from the Sicily Invasion. Also this soldier was moaning from shell shock. Patton felt it was unfair to the really injured and dying soldiers.
There used to be a couple of abandoned M3 Lee Grant tanks sitting out there that were buried where they stood after they developed engine problems. Years later, they were rediscovered and dug-up by dirt bikers in the 1960s after one of them hit part of one of them that was sticking up and became something of a local landmark. My parents grew up in Tehachapi and they and other local kids used to go out there and climb around on them in highschool. Sadly, sometime in the late 70s, a scrap dealer from LA came in and cut them up.
Yep. The Army did "experiment" with soldiers. Have you ever seen the video of soldiers who were standing in a trench with goggles, looking at an atomic weapon going off? They wanted to know what an atomic weapon did to human flesh. Easiest bunch of flesh around were low rank soldiers who were ordered to do this. Of course, they were told it was perfectly safe...
@@moodberry My father was luck, he was before the Abomb.
The Army was trying to figure out how much or how.little water a soldier needed to function in the desert
He had pictures of frying an egg on the outside of his tank.
He said that he was given a gal of water for drinking, cooking, and washing.
I am not sure of the gallon of water. He told me about it when I was a boy.
I am sure that it was not a lot.
He survived. I read accounts of the year in the desert. Only one GI died.
Those tests were done under Patton command.
My dad thought Patton was the greatest. After his year in the desert, my dad was disappointed, that he did get to go with Patton to North Africa.
Instead he went with the 27th Army Div to the Pacific.
There is a can pile out my way like that as well. Mines in the area. Not sure why they piled them up like that but it sure makes a good place to find some rattlers in the summer.
landfill from the 1950s. everything else rotted away except the metal
Yup an old dump.
Someone commented that the can metal was used to extract copper from a solution for mining.
A factory must have dumped all those boxes!! Scaring with that big hole and no fence around it or warning-signs!!
Another abandoned government site.
Love your sweet pets, the video was good too !
Incredible! Almost 3.5 MILLION views. And foreshadowing the $1.8k breakdown. I love your SW/desert videos as you show it's more than cactus, sand, and high temps.
I appreciate the kind words and am happy to know you like my videos. Ther donation is great too!
Brother just be careful man. This is how people disappear :( we can't lose ya brother. I don't want to have to make a video of the last place anyone seen the chigg :(
My old neck of the woods.
There's something magical about the Mojave, especially out on the 40 between Barstow and Needles. Between the ancient volcanic geology and mineral rich mountains; it's one of my favorite places on earth.
I kinda miss it, but going back entails living in a town like Barstow, Needles, Topoc, Bullhead, or the Victor Valley. I don't miss those places at all. Nah, as soon as I get things working, it's back off to Utah for me.
Awesome place. I love the southwest. I've stayed in Needles a few different times
Lived out in Joshua Tree, Landers & 29 Palms for 10 years spanning the early 80's and 90's. Now I'm 60 retired on the beach in Florida, and yet the desert still is and was my favorite place and time I ever had. I miss it very much (I would never go back. Too sad to see how it's so overdeveloped now)
Utah is an amazing place to explore too
Really? I'm getting rather sick of things here in Utah. At least in and around Salt Lake City. The cost of living will be on par with San Francisco very soon. Unless I overhaul my life drastically I will never be able to afford to buy a home in the place I was born and raised. I simply don't make enough money.
My home town Is Barstow , I do miss the desert , but not California..
Had a good childhood friend of mine who wound up a quadriplegic due to riding his dirt bike into one of those vertical mine shafts
Very interesting thank you!! That Mojave desert so full of freakish and dangerous things !! All those cans..from the air base? ...weird weird water containment basin? Or ufo docking area? Wow! Thank you Chig!
I was scrolling down saw a mention of the strange things found on the desert. Had to stop in as I am from the desert SW. I’ll be watching. 😁
I drove my dad's 68 bronco into mine shaft at 7th st. And Beardsley when I was 16 years old, back in 74" . Fortunately it was only about 12' deep. I was able to get out thru the tail gate and found a 4x4x10 and was able to rock the vehicle till back tires touched. My old man punched it and somebitch flew out of that square hole. Had it been any deeper we wouldn't have been so lucky. If you see one there's probably more. This one was partially hidden by brush. Lesson learned, get out and look first when you see the tailings. That are has been devopeloped long ago but my brother and I still find open abandoned mines everywhere all around outskirts of phoenix.
Cans probably from a kitchen for early military camp! There’s lots I
Of them in the Mojave.
Yep, a field kitchen.
Patton trained There..
Thanks for the fun facts, really quite interesting
This was cool! Thanks!!
Love your work. Fantastic.
Thank you! Cheers!
There are so many things hiding right in front of you in the Deserts, that you don't see passing by on Highways! You never know what you can find while exploring, not to mention all the bodies!
I hear people go missing out there I used to ride my road king from DHS to Vegas through kelso and amboy it was a little spooky at night by myself I was an iron worker on the volcano at the mirage hotel and made the trip every weekend it’s hot as hell don’t miss California either
10 bodies were found in the lower Buckeye area last year in the search for one missing person. This is along the Hassayampa river.
As an older teen, I found one of those mines and crawled down the wooden ladder. Got to a ledge and found some "sweating" dynamite. That convinced even that teen brain I should get out of there! The rusting tin cans is weird, but as close as it is to I-40, I would say it is likely a dump site of food cans for the workers who built the interstate.
Good chance the cans are from the big 'tin can' recycling drives they used to do in the big urban centers in the 70's and 80's to make the tree huggers feel like th eir crying mattered.
The sad reality was that metal is the lowest grade junk and near useless and worthless for melting down to make anything from, so most of it just got quietly dumped in rural landfills and remote areas like this video shows.
Same game we play today with most recyclables that are worthless to make the same fools shut up and leave normal people alone for a while. 😋
@@tcmtech7515 sad
@@tcmtech7515 they were steel in the 70s, not tin. If they didnt use tin back then, it wouldnt have been such a crap product, but thats the corrupt metals industry for you! Lotta talk, no substance!
@@tcmtech7515 So you don’t believe in recycling. You don’t either. Moron.
@@tcmtech7515 Not really foolish to want to make things better but you are absolutely right that recyclables are usually not recyclable.
I saw those when checking google maps after a previous video. Thanks for being our "Man on the Ground" to figure out what the heck is out in the desert.
I really enjoy your videos with the history lessons 👍😀 Hope your truck is ok.
that first pit looks similar to the tin mine entrances in the hills around herberton far north queensland..... real dangerous at night if youre out bushwalking... not many are grille covered either.... you should try and put large rocks in the vehicle approaches.... good vid thanks for the upload
You have one of the most pleasant personalities and your videos have great content. The cans give me the military vibe.
I was stationed at Edwards AFB and there is so much the desert has to offer. So much history out there.
Would you happen to have a location of some good spots to explore. My friends and I love looking at stuff like this. We still go to the busted dam every now and again
@@sefan1317 I know there was an abandoned mine somewhere in Rosamond but I never went to it. I hear there's a lot of abandoned stuff south of where the base gate is too.
@@ladylathe2122 I'll try Google mapping it and checking it out, thanks!
Well that air strip and the cement hole in the ground ... looking like alien landing sites LOL .