Secret California caverns open up (video)

Mystery mountain: cave find and spelunking

A privately owned California cave, kept secret for decades, now shares its mysteries

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(SF Gate) A visit to Black Chasm Cave promises history, rarities, and maybe a spider. Look inside this privately owned site in Volcano, California.

SF Gate Managing Editor Katie Dowd, June 16, 2024: The first person to peer into the 18-inch crack in an Amador ["Lover"] County hillside got quite the surprise. The gap swallowed the sunlight, exhaling sweet, cool air.

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Translucent pillars flushed orange in the glow of weak candlelight. Deeper inside, the cavern held secrets, treasures, and creatures that would be found — and forgotten — over the next 170 years.

Black Chasm Cavern is one of Earth’s rarest creations full of gems. Although the Indigenous people of California likely stumbled onto it long before, the first recorded sighting was in the 1850s when the hills around Volcano, a hamlet about an hour east of California's capital, Sacramento, were crawling with gold miners.

What did cavemen do in caverns? Dream?

One of them stumbled onto that 18-inch crack. After the disappointment that it held no gold subsided, he saw a new opportunity: tourism. [Why should everyone be limited to Calabasas Caverns?] 

• Early goldminers became tourist guide, giving candle tours for a "pinch" of gold. But it was a scam: Midway, deep in the cave, they would blow out the candle and demand another pinch to guide adventurers to the exit.

Guides at Black Chasm Cavern today tell visitors the story of how the first chamber ended up in its present state. After descending a tight, steep set of stairs, explorers find themselves in a space filled with blunt stalactites.

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Each stalactite takes thousands of years to form as water slowly drips down [depositing minerals in their wake]. In a moment, gold miners destroyed them, chipping off the tips to take home as souvenirs.

Those stalactites will never grow back [not even in millions of years]. Privately owned California cave, kept secret for decades, shares mysteries (sfgate.com)

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Explore natural cave, Black Chasm in Volcano, California | A Bartell's Backroads Pit Stop

(ABC10) Sept. 27, 2019: National Natural Landmark Black Chasm in Volcano, California, is a great pit stop to make during a road trip. An hour east of Sacramento, go caving – known as spelunking – at this natural cave. ABC10's John Bartell visits this underground wonder on at journey to the backroads.

Destination California: Back to Black Chasm Cavern

(FOX40 News) June 14, 2022: Fox40's Melanie visits Black Chasm Cavern in the woodlands and wine country of Amador County, northeast California, Land (and Underworld) of the Miwa Tribe.

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(Through My Lens) Nov. 29, 2020: Boyden Cavern is located deep in the heart of Kings Canyon National Park. We got a chance to visit the cave in 2020, and it was a really fun experience. The cave is only open seasonally but make sure to do the tour if you get the chance. Read more about it here: californiathroughmylens.com/b...

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Did Ancient Egyptians use Helicopters and Jets?

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It was even before Christ that Greeks took a keen interest in the culture and history of people living on the banks of the Nile River. In 1848, one of numerous archaeological expeditions working in Egypt discovered strange hieroglyphs at the height of about ten meters [30 ft] right above the entrance to the Seti Temple in Abydos. The walls were covered with the strange signs that greatly puzzled researchers. The only thing the researchers realized at once was that they had discovered some images of strange mechanisms that nobody ever saw before.

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It is still unknown what exactly an artist living about 3,000 years ago engraved on the walls. The archaeological expedition carefully copied the mysterious signs on the temple walls, and the hieroglyphs gave rise to endless disputes and heated debates among Egyptologists.

As a result, a majority of Egyptologists arrived at a conclusion that there were just four strange objects drawn in different variations. Unfortunately, researchers of the 19th century failed to understand what ancient Egyptians actually drew on the temple walls. Like any sensation the mysterious Abydos hieroglyphs were absolutely forgotten some time later.

In about 150 years, the respectable Arab newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published several sensational photos taken in the Amon Ra Temple in Karnak. At that, the newspaper asked its readers whether they believed that ancient Egyptians knew about battle aviation. The question would have seriously puzzled readers under some different conditions. But the photos the newspaper published demonstrated the bas-reliefs of an ancient temple built under Seti I, who ruled 3,000 years ago.

And on the bas-reliefs an ancient artist engraved a battle helicopter with a distinct rotor and a tail unit. Nearby, the artist depicted several other aircrafts astonishingly resembling contemporary supersonic fighters and heavy strategic bombers!

After the sensational publication of the photos it became clear why Egyptologists of the 19th century could not tell what was depicted on the walls of the temple in Abydos. Indeed, the researchers did not know how helicopters and aircrafts look. More>>

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