Took a step backwards

[Lowbatts]

when I walked up on this well. My buddy Mike and me saw this the other day and it spiked our interest. Not sure if I want to hop in the four foot depth there and start shoveling, but the stones lining the sides are mighty inviting!

Anybody got an idea on the age of the knife from it's shape? Also nearby were a broken Elgin Eagle beer bottle, circa 1890's and a large horseshoe, draft or working horse for sure. One end piece from an old two-man saw and a few whats-its of hand-forged origin.

 

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[kimsdad]

Wow, does that look inviting!

How about a long handled scoop? Sounds like there might be a nice old coin or few down there!

No idea on the knife, but I found its twin in the woods this year all bent out of shape. No markings, either....

Mine looks like it was buried with coal or tar, and some of it fused to the handle.



I didn't straighten it, because I'm always in a hurry, and it looks like it would be good for cutting corners.

 

[treasurefiend]

Don't be to quick to jump inside that old well as it could just have an old rotting wood platform just under the dirt that you see. I would sure hate to have to form a "Lowbatts Search & Rescue Party".

 

[Lowbatts]

Ah, Kermit always the worry-wart! Okay, I'll only jump in with one foot....

Another thing in these woods, far from any road and any other structure is a bit of an enigma. It's a furnace, but not like any you've seen before. It's two stories high, 20 feet long and 8 feet wide with six double doors. There's no other structures or remains of structures anywhere nearby. The creepiest thing was inside, a beanie baby birthday bear with a small animal skull next to it. We went on high alert when we found that quite a way off the beaten path. I think I located the furnace on the old aerial, again, with nothing else in the vicinity even back in the '30's.

 

[Mayo South Elgin]

Glad to hear you didn't walk into the well and break a leg or something.
The huge furnace thing does sound weird. Any sign of missing trees that may have been used to fuel it? Or cinders if it was coal fired? Could it have been a brick making plant ? Any excess broken bricks or pottery? Maybe Haeger brickworks / Haeger Pottery ?
http://www.haegerpotteries.com/haeger.php?section_id=3#1871
Or maybe it was area 50 . . .

 

[Silvergurl]

Anyone get flashbacks from the movie The Ring? That aside, very interesting.

 

[Brett]

Anyone get flashbacks from the movie The Ring? That aside, very interesting.

YES! That and The Blair Witch Project. I hate those movies!!!! Forever they will be burned into my brain though.

Very cool stuff Tim! I would like to see a picture of one of you guys next to this furnace... or it doesn't exist!

You can call me a worry wort too, but I would definitely stay out of that well... at least, without a harness on.

 

[Lowbatts]

I'll get a shot for you Brett, if I get armed up with holy water and silver bullets and make it back out there. The furnace is creepy-ville plus. Talked to a local historian about it, he remembered others asking about it over 20 years ago and no one has been able to explain it's presence.

Hey Mary, why watch movies when you can live them with a short drive into the country?!?

I put these two on my things to places to hunt on Halloween. They fit well with the hidden fountain in Trout Park, which is comprised of old quart milk bottles concreted together and might have served in some sort of temple to some kind of bovine diety.