TDW 1718 - Ghost Town Remains Of First Alabama Capital
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here it's
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my second channel daily Vlog channel
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it's the daily
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woo it's like an old church building
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here pretty awesome looking I tried
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opening the front door to go in but it
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wasn't
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accessible the name of this area is old
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kahaba and it's the original state
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capital of Alabama these blue bottles on
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the tree according to Joey you were what
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was the reason you were saying the blue
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bottles were for keep Spirits away they
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get in the bottles and they don't go in
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the house we got a couple tour guides
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local tour guides from this neck of the
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woods not all the historic roadways are
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opened only the roads in brown are
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opened and for the most part they're
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dirt roads as you guys know you can
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drive on them walk on them I've seen
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horseback Riders on the weekends shows
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the largest city our Capital was carved
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out of the Wilderness completely built
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from scratch and 1817 is the earliest
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map we have this area and that lays out
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the case pretty clearly brick recycled
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taken away like so many other structures
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and only the columns were left now the
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air conditioning part is the artisian
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well out back and you can see from the
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brick Rubble the well was literally
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Steps From the building in fact that
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Wellhead is sitting up front here what
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out the window yeah that's the one right
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there it is pretty cool that they have a
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chunk of the piece of metal
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itself still here a little piece of
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history there's a marker here in the
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middle the inscription says Kaba first
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state capital and you'll notice
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sometimes it's spelled without a w and
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sometimes with a W and it was only the
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capital for about 7 or 8 years welcome
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to downtown and none of these structures
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really remain anymore but they would
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have stood right in this area here
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Alabama's first state house built in
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1819 and destroyed in 33 stood right
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here and there's no photos of it but
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there is a little Relic looks to be the
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old
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well it has a
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mesh metal gate over the top of it that
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someone has ripped
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through the church that we saw when we
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first entered the property used to
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reside in this spot here and they have
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marked it with these boards
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showing where it used to sit I noticed
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there is a metal
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railing here tucked away in the woods
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curious what this might be oh wow it's
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an old
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grave check this
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out the
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grave of Mary
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Eliza perin she passed away in
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1838 it's inscribed all that's bright
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must fade one of the old
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chimneys still out here the rest of the
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building
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gone the chimney Still Remains and if
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you look through the
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trees you can barely see some water back
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there that's the Alabama River you can
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see the foundation there underneath the
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soil there's a brick and over
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here see a little concrete oh wait
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that's not concrete that's a tree stump
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you have to look very closely to find
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some of the remains but it is pretty
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fascinating to
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stumble on this stuff and here's a
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better view of the river on January 20th
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1865 major
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hit led a daring but unsuccessful escape
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from the military prison that was
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located on this very spot they later
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found him while he was eating breakfast
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murdered him and his body is out here
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somewhere never found also from this
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spot some of the prisoners were
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released right from this area and they
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boarded this boat which
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tragically was referred to as the sultan
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disaster a
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steamboat and look what
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happened you get out of you get out of
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prison and you're basically rewarded
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with
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that that's no good still considered one
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of the worst maritime disasters in US
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history I bet you're wishing you had a
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hoodie on right now aren't you don't you
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this a little chilly not quite it's a
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little cold it's a little cold out here
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I'm enjoying my hoodie most of the roads
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out here are unpaved at Alabama Clay the
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hole that was once a row which is
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another word for basically a shopping
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center
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1822 and directly above it you can see
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the pillars there
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of one of the former structures look at
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those very
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fascinating and look at all the the
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rubble down here look at all the
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bricks this is pretty
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cool wow all the history oh check out
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this
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wow that is pretty neat this was known
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as The crocheron Mansion I think I'm
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pronouncing that correctly and you can
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see the pillar
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that are still standing here all these
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years later this is also where two
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separate rivers meet this is the Kaba
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and this is the
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Alabama and this is where they connect
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right
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there what' you say you can just hear
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the banzz yeah did you bring a banjo
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with you no I did spell and drink us a
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mint julip that's a sweet tea if they
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had mint julips here that would really
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that would seal the deal for me this
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would this would make it a day never to
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be forgotten sit on the porch and smell
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the Old Magnolia this door is awesome it
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even has the Ambiance of the creaking
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sound if this house isn't haunted is
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missing a good
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opportunity can feel it getting colder
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by the
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minute another fireplace there off in
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the distance
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and also speaking of fire looks like one
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was started right
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here think there's some I got to be
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careful though I think there's some wild
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animals out here if you listen closely
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you can hear them
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listen you guys hear those wild animals
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did you guys hear the wild animals out
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here let's get out of here I think if
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you look really closely you can see a
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little embankment there the tracks are
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gone but that's where the railroad used
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to roll through town
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right there in that wooded area they had
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a white car and they were they parked
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they were looking around Cemetery they
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heard children laughing and when they
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came back to their car there were hand
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friends all over the car oh my
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gosh that's creepy mhm there are a
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couple of cemeteries here in town they
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refer to this one as the new cemetery
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and by new created in
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1851 you see a lot of the gravestones
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deterior reated that one has no top on
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it
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whatsoever rod iron fence around this
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section and this
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entire this entire headstone has fallen
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and broken it almost looks like the
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caskets have been
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removed from here and I'm wondering if
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when they did that if there were some
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Spectators because they have some
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bleachers over here it's very unusual to
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see bleachers in an old Cemetery like
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this I was just informed that they do a
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haunted ghost tour and that's what the
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are you are you enjoying the haunted
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ghost tour one thing I really love is
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old rot iron fence oh check it out looks
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like that tree was struck by lightning
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survivors were exonerated in court of
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law but judging from the inscription not
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in the eyes of the Bell family oh right
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here down here something about a
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murderer murderer no no murderer hath
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eternal life so they're basically that's
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their way of saying he's guilty fing in
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time that's not something you want on
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your on your gravestone now this
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particular
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well has been decorated with bricks all
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around it and you can see the stream
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that
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flows from right down there oh wow so
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this is where that pillar back there at
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the entrance was yeah that that that
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metal pillar that's where it stood
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that's where it it was sted right there
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and this is the this is the the remnants
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of his home and he had lined his home
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with pipes with the water that stayed
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constant 74° and that's why they say
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this was one of the first air
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conditioned homes in Alabama yeah it's
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not cold it's cold it's not hot but it's
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not cold it's kind of lukewarm take a
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dip in there I didn't bring my swim
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trunks another
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impromptu Spirit Bottle Tree tucked away
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in the corner here as
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well oh that's just you you were making
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that animal call earlier too weren't you
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the you fooled me you fool me once fool
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me what's the saying fool me once fool
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me twice
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fo man you're such a trickster and
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according to the sign when it was built
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when it was drilled it was the deepest
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known well in the world an estimated
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1250 gallons per minute from a depth of
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7 to 900
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ft this is the old Methodist Church
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built in
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1849 you want to shove a stick in there
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put the stick in this thing oh
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yeah that' be too
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cold they're filling a draft
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now proba an oh yeah that's definitely
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ants you can see where they have dug
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through it but they're way deep down in
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the ground under the ground too cold too
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cold for the ants this was at one point
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the one room
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Schoolhouse Little House on the Prairie
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style whoa the spider dangling right
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here you think they would have used
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McGuffy readers in here did you ever use
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McGuffy readers McGuffy readers are you
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just saying you know what that is or do
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you really know what it is no idea parts
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of an old Hornet's
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Nest definitely keep that away from a
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colly caulin he does not like those
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things did you just find the uh the
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natural ouse I did
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so that was where that's where they use
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the facilities yep right in there right
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in there well that looks painful someone
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has
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emitted a stick from there from their
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from their nether regions we're going to
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get a little bit better
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look this camper tucked away back here
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I'm not sure if anyone's living in it
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currently or
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if you look closely on the ground you
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can see the foundations of a house that
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was here and the guy that lived here was
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nicknamed the Duke of
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kahaba and you could see what it looked
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like back in its Heyday that's him doing
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some peacon farming and here's an artist
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rendition of
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again I'm not hearing anything I didn't
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hear it that time he's gobling from over
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there do it one more
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time you're just messing with me now
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you're just you're just messing with my
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head but there is a buzzard up there in
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that tree what are you doing up
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there what are you doing up
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there I see
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you I'm watching you I think he's
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probably watching me more than I'm
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watching him though he's got the oh
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there he goes there he goes there he
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goes Hitchcock would be proud check out
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these Thorns right here this bush very
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prickly bush
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with very intense
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Thorns might be to see it on video but
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this whole Center section next to the
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pathway 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 probably a dozen
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unmarked
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graves right in here and then where
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there are
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markers completely
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unlegible this looks like another tree
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that was struck by lightning you can see
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how it's been charred and burned out
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down the middle and this is uh Spanish
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moss this is areas black belt area of
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Alabama known for the Spanish moss I've
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heard that you kind of use that as like
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it to to cure ailments right you take
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that and you rub it on your face rub it
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on your face rub it on your face show me
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how kills yeah I'm not doing what do you
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think is more dangerous the Moss or
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those Thorns I would say the Moss I
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think you're right seems legit this is
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what is known as the face well because
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if you look very closely where the
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little spet area is there's a f face
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engraved on it and a date
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stamp of
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1852 what the heck why is there a face
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on this well any idea why it's called
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the face well besides being a face on
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there it was a Mystic Cedar Maze and
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supposedly it was haunted by a ball of
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light and you can ride out here at night
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time and see a ball of light so if you
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were out here at night on the horizon
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you would see a ball of light an orb
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like a a orbey light like an orb yes out
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here in the tree
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it's a pretty famous ghost story in this
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neck of the woods right mm you said it
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was mentioned in a book that you have
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book 13 Alabama GH ghost never seen
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anything like this especially out kind
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of in the middle of
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nowhere a face in a well I got to get a
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selfie I just got to get a selfie with a
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I got to get a selfie there with oh it's
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got like an echo when you get close to
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him that's kind of creepy you can hello
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oh there's the light right there your
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phone's haunted your phone's haunted
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there's an owl up in the tree there he
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goes he scared him off sorry call him
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again call him one more
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time one more time shut up