Hi, Dylan. Hey, Manola. How you doing?

I'm great. How are you?

I'm good. I'm good. enjoying the summer. Yeah, so what's, uh, what do you, what do you have today?

So I got a voicemail a few weeks ago, and this one intrigued me because this is from a 16-year-old

who mentioned about a middle school project that he worked on.

And back then he was 14 years old.

And it's really Atlas of Secura-ish.

He talks about urban exploration, which you have reported on, right?

Yeah, this is very intriguing because my middle school projects were like an experiment to see the most efficient way to get ketchup out of a ketchup bottle.

This sounds like a much cooler middle school project.

Well, this is Milo, and he's from Lawrence, Kansas.

So I heard from a friend that their friend and their dad's friend had found a some sort of cistern, a brick cistern, under their house while remodeling their basement or something.

And they had no idea what it was.

And so I thought like any other middle schooler, I was like, man, undiscovered underground places, that's kind of tight.

So I spend the next couple months digging through newspaper archives like Kansas Memory.org, looking through library collections and asking around, looking for mentions of like ditches, caves,

drainage channels, and I found quite a bit all these locations that I discovered, you know,

that I got to discern a history behind them and find out why they were made in that sort of stuff.

So, yep, I'm Milo Bitters from Lawrence, Kansas.

And yeah, that's just a little interesting thing that my mom told me to let you guys know about.

Thanks.

That is awesome.

That is an amazing research project.

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