Planning on going camping and mine exploring in calico mountains. It looks like an ant hill from above with how many adits and shafts there are. However, for an area that seems very accessible and with so much available, I can’t find that many videos online compared to other more obscure places. Has anyone here been out there exploring before? Is there a catch?

Original from the mine. Toilet seat was bolted on a collar of sorts.

Hey everyone, forrest from ghost towns and Mines of Washington. This was an awesome exploration with incredible artifacts left behind in this 100+ years old mine! Video linked in here!

https://youtu.be/USv6hHPEzeM?si=3okGirqnOJmRakru

Found a ice covered pool of water in an abandoned mine recently. Very nice to look at, but unfortunately too thin to walk on. Thought I would share the picture here at least. Video of the entire mine is attached if anyone is interested 😊

Video: https://youtu.be/uWZ1X_90DlY?si=_sR2wEbHHwh4yuOF

Hey, new to the group, but very experienced in the dark realm of hard rock mines.

Lately I’ve been encountering more and more uranium mines in the Rocky Mountain region that I’d like to document. So was curious what type of respirator you use or would recommend? I don’t want to be inhaling the dust in these mines as they’re usually extremely dry.

Additionally, what radiation monitor/radon detectors do you recommend? Again, I have a basic Geiger Counter, but would like an accurate idea of exposure levels while underground.

Thanks for any recommendations and I look forward to sharing my findings with you all.

Hi!

Me and a couple of colleagues are planning a semi-official trip to a bunch of abandoned uranium mines to take measurements and samples.

I've read about many odourless and inert glasses that could pose a threat, and we have access to dosimeters and other devices to detect such dangers, but I'm wondering if we should invest in closed circuit breathing systems, considering we'd be spending up to 1 hour in shifts while we take the samples and measurements. And I fear that we'd come into contact with gasses that would freely pass through any of our filters.

Thanks!

My memory as a child is quite blurry and find myself remembering things out of no where. I was three years old, when I came to the United Stated from Mexico. I don’t know anything about my family history unfortunately to understand the move. I remember reuniting with my parents in Los Angeles and moved to a small house in Stockton, CA.

As a child, I remember the back of my house had a grassy alleyway. It was wedged in between the house behind us but gated but connected to my neighbors house. One day I hopped the fence to find “treasure” in the grassy area when I discover a wooden bedroom door in the dirt ground. My dad was a mechanic so I used of his crowbars to lift the edge and I could vividly see steps leading down out a large open space connecting the houses around. I confirmed when I found out we had a basement but could never find the entrance to it. We rented so we couldn’t destroy the property.

It does not end there, when I started elementary school. My school was down the street from where we lived. About a 5 minute walk.

In first grade, there were rumors of men hiding in the restroom. One day, girls came out screaming saying they saw someone in the girls restroom. I remember this because I would refuse to use the restroom in schools and would often hold it in until I got home.

Another rumor spread that they saw the exact same man hiding behind a shack located in the far back of the baseball field. My friends said to stay away from there because it goes underground and a “monster” would get you.

There’s more,

I attended a new high school called Health Careers Academy that was opened on the year I “graduated” elementary school in 2010. It was located in Downtown Stockton. It was apparently built over an old mental intuition and our classes were and hallways looked like a hospital. There were hidden doors and secret passageways that were locked. Each year the school would expand and open another small section of the hospital and covert it into classrooms. The school is finished now but only makes up about 40% of the entire building.

In my freshman year, my friend an I were walking around campus and found a hidden door behind a the gymnasium which was actually an old theater. There was another old building on the school grounds that resembled a church but it had a fire place. My friend and I look around the building and find an basement open door, we were so curious we crawled in. Inside was a tunnel, dirt ground but brick walls, it led to an intersection with more tunnels, at this point my friend was scared. I ran down one of the tunnels and it led me to another intersection. I knew I was going to get lost so we returned back. We were arrested by police.

You see the thing is the tunnel system went for miles, connecting our school with the building around us.

This makes me wonder, is there something under the city of Stockton CA?

It’s funny, I didn’t think much of it growing up. Until I came across a video talking about the GATE program and a few others I participated in growing up and I started thinking about my childhood and how I don’t remember much of it but the memories that do surface always give me a sensation of nervousness and leave me with more questions.

Has anyone experienced this? Sometimes I feel like reconnecting with my childhood friends and talking about our experiences.

One of my favorite shots from the depths