Mysterious Cave Caskets

Expanded Perspectives

Science, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, the guys start the show-off talking about some new summer blockbusters that are coming out soon and Kyle's recent trip to the theater to watch the new Transformers movie. Then, a bizarre pale crawler is seen and a listener writes in with a strange sighting of both a woman in white and a shadow being.

After the break, Cam brings up the mystery of Alabama's ancient case caskets. In 1840, when he was 22 years old, the Rev. William N. Crump settled outside Oneonta in Blount County and built a farmhouse. He began farming the land and, in 1858, bought 246 acres from the U.S. government. The land included entrances to five caves, according to a 2005 newsletter of Birmingham Grotto: Crump Cave, Second Cave, Horseshoe Cave, Bishopella Cave and Sewer Cave. Crump and friends were hunting in 1840 when they discovered Crump's Cave, which geologist Frank Burns would later describe as having an "opening so small that a man could scarcely crawl through it." Inside, Crump found Native American artifacts including beads, arrows and spears, copper items and stone axes. There were also more than 200 pounds of galena, an ore used in lead and silver. Most surprisingly, he also found skulls and wooden coffins that had been hollowed by fire and stone implements. Who built them and were they really coffins?

All of this and more on this installment of Expanded Perspectives!

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0:00.0	Как Ми
0:30.0	What is going on out to everybody and thank y'all so much for joining us here on expanded perspectives with me cam
0:43.0	Hail sweat and a death down here as summer has fired up but I'm not the only one down here the man the myth of the legend the fella that hates the heat as much as me
0:52.9	Calphills how's it going everybody? Yes, it is blistering here quickness
0:57.5	Skeleton studios, but you know, I'm ready for it because it's June. I mean better than last year everybody complains on like look
1:03.7	It's June and Texas. This is normal. This is the way it's supposed to be
1:07.6	We've actually it's a lot greener than it normally is this time of year
1:10.6	I'm enjoying it before it gets all burnt up and everything's brown, but yeah, no, it's doing good
1:15.2	Kids are at a school me and Luke and the wife went and watched the new Transformers movie you were bragging about how good it was listen
1:23.6	Just stop. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, they didn't tune in to get into your movies
1:28.4	I'm just gonna do thumbs up if you want to save your money. I would go see something different. That's what I'm saying that hey
1:33.5	I'm proud of you for that. Yeah for what you told me I'm very proud of you for saying just put it that way look like
1:41.1	So I'm glad he enjoyed it, but and you know, and there's another Pixar movie coming out elementals
1:45.5	I'm gonna go see that because I enjoy the Pixar too. I think they're good, you know
1:50.1	I think sometimes that Hollywood like takes a series and just keeps going a little bit too long like I like Transformers when I was a kid
1:56.7	When I was a kid
1:58.8	There was not just Transformers there was go bots remember go bots like go bots were if you were broke
2:03.6	Right, my hands didn't have much money. I had go bot. We had go bots and then later I got Transformers
2:08.1	Yeah, Transformers were like big holidays like Christmas. I remember my favorite was sound wave right because you could put the different cassettes
2:13.7	I don't know for those the all don't know what kids us cassettes are I can't talk
2:17.7	Used to play music before you know MP3s and CDs are a cassette when we had to wind them up with a pencil
2:23.7	Yeah, that was my favorite back in the day, but yeah
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