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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Milo Bitters

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A listener in Lawrence, Kansas takes us on his journey of discovering the secrets of his hometown.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm great. How are you? I'm good. I'm good during the summer. Yeah, so what's what do you what do you have today?

0:12.5

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

0:21.4

mentioned about a middle school project that he worked on and back then he was 14 years old and it's

0:27.3

really Atlas Obscura-ish. He talks about urban exploration which you have reported on, right? Yeah,

0:35.2

this is very intriguing because my middle school projects were like an experiment to see the most

0:39.5

efficient way to catch up out of a catch up bottle. This sounds like a much cooler middle school

0:45.6

project. Well, this is Milo and he's from Lawrence, Kansas. So I heard from a friend that their

0:53.7

friend and their dad's friend had found a some sort of sister, a brick sister and under their

1:02.2

house while remodeling their basement or something and they had no idea what it was. And so I thought

1:08.8

like any other middle schooler was like, man, undiscovered underground places. That's kind of tight.

1:15.1

So I spent the next couple months digging through newspaper archives like KansasMemory.org

1:22.6

looking through library collections and asking around, looking for mentions of like ditches, caves,

1:29.6

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

1:35.8

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

1:41.9

stuff. So yep, I'm Milo Bitterth from Lawrence, Kansas. And yeah, that's just a little interesting

1:50.8

thing that my mom told me to let you guys know about. Thanks.

1:59.2

That's that is awesome. That is an amazing research project. That's really cool. I'm curious

2:05.1

to know more about what what Milo found out about, you know, the history of of this sister or

2:11.3

or the other stuff underground. Yeah. And I got in contact with him and we have him on call. Hello.

2:19.6

Hello. Milo. Hello. How are you? I'm great, Dylan. How are you? I'm good. What an amazing

2:27.3

project. What a cool thing to do. Yeah. Tell me about it. Well, I mean, I was just sitting in one

2:32.8

of my classes and my friend, you know, he told me about what his friends, his friend's dad had

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