The article says: "As the cave does not branch, there's no chance of getting lost, though it is absolutely dark inside when out of sight of the entrance."
IF I am understanding this correctly the author is saying that the cave does not branch as in it's just one passage from the entrance to the "end". It's not. At a certain point it splits off into two passages. A passage that veers off to the right and a passage that veers off to the left. When I went there as a child there wasn't any graffiti in there that I remember seeing either. It is called SEVENTEEN MILE cave for a reason. I was told that the passage we did not take went on for miles and miles. We reached the end of the passage that we DID take in a short amount of time. However I discovered something there that nobody else present seemed to take any interest in.
In the side of the cave wall there was a hole with lantern light streaming out of it. It was big enough for me to crawl through. I poked my head in to look but there was a stone overhang on the other side of the hole that blocked the view into the lantern lit chamber.
I could see down on the ground though and I saw blue plaid cloth material like a sleeping bag or clothing. At the same moment I looked down at the cave floor on the other side of the hole, I heard what sounded exactly like the rattling of a rattlesnake. Meanwhile the others I went there with were all heading back toward the entrance since we had made it to the end. Of course the light filled chamber on the other side of the hole proved to me that it wasn't really the end at all.
I had to go after them before I was all by myself there with what sounded like a rattlesnake in the chamber I couldn't see into. They were moving off so quickly that I was sure they would have just left me there alone. I never saw a rattlesnake. The fact that there was light coming from the chamber on the other side of the hole and that I saw cloth material on the floor of the chamber says that there was someone in there.
Either there was somebody on the other side shaking a snake rattle or there was really some monstrous rattlesnake in there that had killed the person on the other side of the hole. The live rattlesnake theory seems very unlikely. Even comical to me. It would seem to me that someone was trying to scare me off.
Why is the author of the article saying the cave does not branch if he's being honest and I'm understanding him correctly? His description of the cave sounds nothing like the cave I was in. It is the same "17 mile cave" though.
Either I misunderstand his description, the left passage has been hidden somehow or he is lying.
(Does this name mean that your wife knocks you around at home? Pots and pans, rollers?)
I had never heard about this cave. It almost seems like a tunnel. Does it meander much, or is it rather straight?
Whether or not the tunnel has it, grafitti does fly in the face of sterile, doctored up corporate-news type of history. The rune inscriptions in eastern Oklahoma, for example, tell of a Scandanavian connection. You won't find that in any textbooks.
The article says: "As the cave does not branch, there's no chance of getting lost, though it is absolutely dark inside when out of sight of the entrance."
IF I am understanding this correctly the author is saying that the cave does not branch as in it's just one passage from the entrance to the "end". It's not. At a certain point it splits off into two passages. A passage that veers off to the right and a passage that veers off to the left. When I went there as a child there wasn't any graffiti in there that I remember seeing either. It is called SEVENTEEN MILE cave for a reason. I was told that the passage we did not take went on for miles and miles. We reached the end of the passage that we DID take in a short amount of time. However I discovered something there that nobody else present seemed to take any interest in.
In the side of the cave wall there was a hole with lantern light streaming out of it. It was big enough for me to crawl through. I poked my head in to look but there was a stone overhang on the other side of the hole that blocked the view into the lantern lit chamber.
I could see down on the ground though and I saw blue plaid cloth material like a sleeping bag or clothing. At the same moment I looked down at the cave floor on the other side of the hole, I heard what sounded exactly like the rattling of a rattlesnake. Meanwhile the others I went there with were all heading back toward the entrance since we had made it to the end. Of course the light filled chamber on the other side of the hole proved to me that it wasn't really the end at all.
I had to go after them before I was all by myself there with what sounded like a rattlesnake in the chamber I couldn't see into. They were moving off so quickly that I was sure they would have just left me there alone. I never saw a rattlesnake. The fact that there was light coming from the chamber on the other side of the hole and that I saw cloth material on the floor of the chamber says that there was someone in there.
Either there was somebody on the other side shaking a snake rattle or there was really some monstrous rattlesnake in there that had killed the person on the other side of the hole. The live rattlesnake theory seems very unlikely. Even comical to me. It would seem to me that someone was trying to scare me off.
Why is the author of the article saying the cave does not branch if he's being honest and I'm understanding him correctly? His description of the cave sounds nothing like the cave I was in. It is the same "17 mile cave" though.
Either I misunderstand his description, the left passage has been hidden somehow or he is lying.