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- 0:00Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share the story behind one of
- 0:02Speaker 1: the creepiest videos on the Internet. But before we get
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- 0:43Speaker 1: In the summer of twenty thirteen, a middle aged man
- 0:46Speaker 1: named Frank pulled into a tiny town in Nevada called Kingston. Kingston,
- 0:51Speaker 1: which is home to less than one hundred people year round,
- 0:54Speaker 1: is so small and desolate and cut off from the
- 0:58Speaker 1: rest of the state and really of the country, that
- 1:01Speaker 1: they don't even have stoplights. It's basically just a collection
- 1:05Speaker 1: of a handful of buildings like a laundrymat and a
- 1:07Speaker 1: saloon that are surrounded on one side by this huge
- 1:10Speaker 1: mountain range and on the other, just open desert. At
- 1:14Speaker 1: the time, there were really only two reasons you would
- 1:16Speaker 1: find yourself in Kingston, Nevada. One if you lived there
- 1:21Speaker 1: or were visiting someone that lived there, or two if
- 1:24Speaker 1: you were going to visit the abandoned mines up in
- 1:26Speaker 1: the mountain that are right near Kingston. Frank was in
- 1:29Speaker 1: Kingston for the latter. For the last five years, Frank
- 1:32Speaker 1: had been traveling all over Nevada, in California and just
- 1:35Speaker 1: the West Coast in general, exploring abandoned mines, and he
- 1:39Speaker 1: would film himself while he was in there, and then
- 1:41Speaker 1: when he got back to his house, he would upload
- 1:43Speaker 1: the footage to his YouTube channel. When he arrived in Kingston,
- 1:46Speaker 1: Frank had already uploaded three hundred and two videos to
- 1:49Speaker 1: his channel, But despite the very high number of videos
- 1:52Speaker 1: on his channel, his channel was still very very small
- 1:55Speaker 1: and it wasn't growing really at all. So for him
- 1:58Speaker 1: to be dedicating that much time, time and energy into
- 2:01Speaker 1: making these videos indicated that he wasn't really doing it
- 2:05Speaker 1: for YouTube fame. He was doing it because he had
- 2:08Speaker 1: a passion for exploring these minds and he wanted to
- 2:11Speaker 1: share it with the few people that subscribe to his channel,
- 2:13Speaker 1: and when you look through the first three hundred and
- 2:16Speaker 1: two videos on his channel, that passion of his really
- 2:20Speaker 1: comes through. He always knows the history of the mind
- 2:23Speaker 1: he's about to go into, and when he goes inside,
- 2:26Speaker 1: if he finds machinery or pieces of equipment that have
- 2:29Speaker 1: been left behind, he immediately knows what they are and
- 2:32Speaker 1: he speaks about them with relative sophistication. He has this
- 2:35Speaker 1: lingo that sounds like he understands minds on a really
- 2:39Speaker 1: granular level. So when Frank arrived in Kingston in twenty thirteen,
- 2:44Speaker 1: as far as we know, the only reason he was
- 2:46Speaker 1: there was just to do what he always did, which
- 2:49Speaker 1: is go explore a couple of cool minds, film it
- 2:51Speaker 1: and then put it on his channel. Except this time,
- 2:54Speaker 1: Frank's adventure into these mines right outside of Kingston would
- 2:58Speaker 1: be cut short by something he just could not explain. However,
- 3:01Speaker 1: he captured it on film and it's terrifying. The two
- 3:05Speaker 1: mines that Frank was intending to visit were the Victorine
- 3:08Speaker 1: Mine and the Horton Mine. The Horton Mine was constructed
- 3:11Speaker 1: first in the late nineteen seventies early nineteen eighties, and
- 3:15Speaker 1: when they built it They expected it to be a
- 3:17Speaker 1: gold mine, but there was no gold inside. So they
- 3:20Speaker 1: constructed another mine about nine hundred feet above where the
- 3:24Speaker 1: entrance to the Horton mine was. They built this other mine,
- 3:27Speaker 1: and inside of that mine there was gold. This second
- 3:31Speaker 1: mine they built was called the Victorian Mine. When they
- 3:34Speaker 1: built the Victorian mine, they bored this massive hole right
- 3:38Speaker 1: outside the entrance to the Victorian Mine that went straight
- 3:41Speaker 1: down nine hundred feet directly into the mountain. And this
- 3:45Speaker 1: big hole they drilled went right into the Horton mine.
- 3:49Speaker 1: This was on purpose. They were basically building the equivalent
- 3:51Speaker 1: of a laundry chute, except instead of tossing laundry down it,
- 3:55Speaker 1: they would toss the ore they drilled from inside the
- 3:58Speaker 1: Victorian mine. They would drop it down the shoot. It
- 4:00Speaker 1: would fall nine hundred feet all the way to the
- 4:02Speaker 1: Horton mine, and that would save them from needing to
- 4:05Speaker 1: carry all of this ore all the way down the mountain. Basically,
- 4:08Speaker 1: it was a short cut for the ore. And in
- 4:10Speaker 1: the Horton mine, they built this huge conveyor belt system
- 4:13Speaker 1: so that anything that came off of the choote would
- 4:16Speaker 1: land at the beginning of this conveyor belt, and it
- 4:18Speaker 1: would get brought all the way outside outside of the
- 4:21Speaker 1: mine where workers could process it and bring it to town. Finally,
- 4:24Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty nine, the Victory and Mine ran out
- 4:27Speaker 1: of gold, so they permanently shut down that mine as
- 4:29Speaker 1: well as the Horton mine. These two mines were located
- 4:32Speaker 1: about four miles to the west of Kingston's town center,
- 4:36Speaker 1: and so when Frank pulled into town, he moved to
- 4:38Speaker 1: the western side of town and then found the access
- 4:41Speaker 1: road that would bring him out to these mines. And
- 4:43Speaker 1: so if he just drove on this road that basically
- 4:46Speaker 1: shot straight towards this huge mountain range, and after traveling
- 4:50Speaker 1: about four miles, he reached this very sharp right turn
- 4:53Speaker 1: that basically went straight up a mountain. And at this
- 4:56Speaker 1: point there's no more pavement on the road. It's a
- 4:58Speaker 1: very narrow trail. It's hard to see, and so Frank
- 5:00Speaker 1: would have parked his car, grabbed his camera in his equipment,
- 5:03Speaker 1: and begun walking up this mountain. After quite a while,
- 5:06Speaker 1: Frank would have passed a couple of run down old
- 5:09Speaker 1: cabins that were kind of overgrown. These cabins were used
- 5:12Speaker 1: when these mines were in operation. They helped service the
- 5:15Speaker 1: workers while they were out there. But since the mines
- 5:17Speaker 1: were abandoned, so too were the cabins, and so when
- 5:20Speaker 1: Frank got to these cabins, that would have meant he
- 5:23Speaker 1: was very close to the entrance to both of these mines.
- 5:26Speaker 1: Frank first went to the Victorine Mine, which would have
- 5:29Speaker 1: been very easy to spot because right outside of its
- 5:32Speaker 1: small entrance was this huge piece of what looked like scaffolding,
- 5:36Speaker 1: and that was actually the opening to this huge shoot
- 5:38Speaker 1: that shot down nine hundred feet to the Horton mine below.
- 5:42Speaker 1: So Frank goes to the Victorine mine and he has
- 5:44Speaker 1: to look around. But either Frank didn't film his time
- 5:47Speaker 1: inside of the victory and Mine or he just didn't
- 5:50Speaker 1: upload it, because there's no video of him actually going
- 5:52Speaker 1: into the Victorine mine. His camera is turned on this
- 5:56Speaker 1: particular day when he's left the Victory and Mine and
- 5:59Speaker 1: he's walked all the way down to the entrance of
- 6:01Speaker 1: the Horton mine, and so we see this video. It
- 6:04Speaker 1: opens up with the camera pointing at the entrance to
- 6:07Speaker 1: the Horton mine, and the entrance to the Horton mine
- 6:10Speaker 1: is very bizarre looking. The entrance, which is twenty feet tall,
- 6:14Speaker 1: has all these long strips of metal plating that have
- 6:18Speaker 1: been kind of anchored up all around the entrance to
- 6:21Speaker 1: prevent the entrance from caving in on itself. But despite
- 6:24Speaker 1: whatever functional value these copper plates might have had, the
- 6:28Speaker 1: esthetic result is very creepy and makes you not want
- 6:31Speaker 1: to go in the entrance. Also, because this mine had
- 6:34Speaker 1: been shut down, there's a big gate right in front
- 6:37Speaker 1: of this already very foreboding entrance that warns people to
- 6:41Speaker 1: not go inside. But Frank seems totally unaffected by this
- 6:45Speaker 1: and just strolls right up to the entrance of Horton Mine,
- 6:48Speaker 1: and he kind of talks about its history, and then
- 6:50Speaker 1: he calmly steps over this warning gait telling people to
- 6:53Speaker 1: stay back, and he begins walking into this mine right away.
- 6:57Speaker 1: Frank notices there's quite a bit of water on the ground,
- 7:00Speaker 1: and that's cause for concern.
- 7:02Speaker 3: Okay, we can go in here and just take a
- 7:03Speaker 3: quick look. I don't think I'm going to explore this
- 7:05Speaker 3: particular mind. There's a little bit too much water in here,
- 7:08Speaker 3: and I know this mine is really old, but I
- 7:12Speaker 3: just don't think it's wise to go in here when
- 7:14Speaker 3: there's water. Try to avoid this if I.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Can Frank's not concerned that there is water, it's that
- 7:20Speaker 1: the water might be stagnant water. In these abandoned mines,
- 7:24Speaker 1: there can be poisonous gases that accumulate, and when there
- 7:28Speaker 1: is stagnant water, those gases get absorbed into the stagnant water.
- 7:33Speaker 1: And so if Frank were to step into one of
- 7:35Speaker 1: those puddles of water, he would release those gases from
- 7:39Speaker 1: the water, the so called bad air, and that can
- 7:42Speaker 1: actually be deadly. But as Frank is standing there wondering
- 7:45Speaker 1: if he should proceed, he looks down off to the
- 7:48Speaker 1: left side, right inside the entranceway, and he notices there's
- 7:51Speaker 1: some footprints, so somebody must have come in here recently.
- 7:54Speaker 1: And so Frank decides, you know what, I'll go a
- 7:56Speaker 1: little bit further in. I'll just be really careful of
- 7:58Speaker 1: the water. Frank makes it about ten feet inside of
- 8:01Speaker 1: the entranceway when he lifts his camera up and he
- 8:04Speaker 1: looks straight down into the mine, and you get your
- 8:06Speaker 1: first look at really what the inside of this mine
- 8:09Speaker 1: looks like. And right away you notice there's this yellow
- 8:12Speaker 1: kind of collapse looking tubing that's hanging down from the ceiling,
- 8:16Speaker 1: and that's the old air filtration system, and then when
- 8:19Speaker 1: Frank moves maybe another five or ten feet farther into
- 8:22Speaker 1: the mine, you see, in addition to this air filtration system,
- 8:26Speaker 1: there's also all these metal chains that are just kind
- 8:28Speaker 1: of dangling from the ceiling, and they're all over the place,
- 8:31Speaker 1: and both the tubing and the chains seem to extend
- 8:34Speaker 1: all the way into the tunnel out of view. Those
- 8:37Speaker 1: chains were previously used to hold up the conveyor belt
- 8:41Speaker 1: that stretched the entire distance of this mine, which is
- 8:44Speaker 1: six hundred feet long. They held that conveyor belt up,
- 8:47Speaker 1: which carried all of the ore from the shoot out
- 8:50Speaker 1: of the mine. Even though Frank has seen similar setups
- 8:53Speaker 1: in other mines he's been into, he would say on
- 8:56Speaker 1: camera that there's just something really off about this mine.
- 9:00Speaker 1: It was really sketching him out, and he wasn't really
- 9:02Speaker 1: sure if he should keep going. Yeah, this looks pretty sketchy.
- 9:08Speaker 3: I'll go a few feet further in and check it out,
- 9:10Speaker 3: but I think I'm going to pass on this one.
- 9:12Speaker 1: He would later reflect on that feeling he had inside
- 9:15Speaker 1: of the mine, and he would say, you know, it
- 9:17Speaker 1: felt like there was somebody else in that mine watching him.
- 9:20Speaker 1: It was just very, very uncomfortable, and so as Frank
- 9:23Speaker 1: is debating whether or not he should continue, just based
- 9:26Speaker 1: on this kind of bad vibe he was getting, he
- 9:28Speaker 1: looks down and notices there's actually running water now. Before
- 9:32Speaker 1: at the entrance it was stagnant, but now he can
- 9:34Speaker 1: see the water inside of this mine. It's not stagnant,
- 9:37Speaker 1: it's running, and so the risk of breathing in any
- 9:40Speaker 1: bad air is pretty much gone, meaning this mine is
- 9:43Speaker 1: relatively safe. But despite this supposedly positive development for someone
- 9:47Speaker 1: who wanted to explore a mine, Frank is still not
- 9:50Speaker 1: sure if he should continue.
- 9:54Speaker 3: This is one of the uh creepiest mind tunnels I've
- 9:59Speaker 3: ever been in, just because of how dilapidated it is,
- 10:02Speaker 3: and all these chains hanging down from the overhead, and
- 10:05Speaker 3: there's a shot looking down the tunnel even further a bit.
- 10:10Speaker 1: But despite his apprehension, Frank ultimately decides, you know what,
- 10:14Speaker 1: he'd come this far, I'll just go a little bit farther.
- 10:16Speaker 1: And so Frank makes it to about one hundred feet
- 10:18Speaker 1: into this mine when he turns around and he films
- 10:21Speaker 1: the opening the entrance to the mine, which is all
- 10:24Speaker 1: lit up with sunlight, and he films it kind of
- 10:26Speaker 1: to give the audience a sense of just how far
- 10:29Speaker 1: he had come into the mine. And so then after
- 10:32Speaker 1: filming the entrance, he turns the camera and he films
- 10:35Speaker 1: back down towards the back of the mind, towards the
- 10:38Speaker 1: actual end of the mind. Now, at first you don't
- 10:41Speaker 1: see anything unusual. You just see the chains, and it
- 10:44Speaker 1: looks kind of like it had for the first couple
- 10:46Speaker 1: of minutes of this video. But then Frank pulls his
- 10:49Speaker 1: flashlight out and he shines it down the hall.
- 10:54Speaker 3: Looking down the tunnel here. I don't know why that
- 11:16Speaker 3: one chain is swinging back there.
- 11:24Speaker 1: As we saw, Frank's initial reaction to this swinging chain
- 11:28Speaker 1: is speechlessness, and then just sort of this weird statement
- 11:32Speaker 1: of fact that he's like, I don't know how that
- 11:35Speaker 1: chain is swinging. And then after staring at this chain
- 11:38Speaker 1: and even zooming in on it trying to kind of
- 11:40Speaker 1: figure out what he's looking at, Frank eventually would just
- 11:42Speaker 1: turn off his camera, turn around and leave very quickly.
- 11:45Speaker 1: And when he got back to his house, he uploaded
- 11:48Speaker 1: this video to his channel with virtually no context. He
- 11:51Speaker 1: just said, you know, this is what I saw inside
- 11:53Speaker 1: of the hoart and mine, and nothing happened. It didn't
- 11:56Speaker 1: go viral. It isn't like everybody went crazy when they
- 11:58Speaker 1: saw this footage. Instead, I think his audience they saw
- 12:01Speaker 1: this video and didn't really know what to make of it,
- 12:03Speaker 1: and then very quickly his audience and Frank just kind
- 12:07Speaker 1: of forgot about it, and Frank got back into making
- 12:10Speaker 1: his kind of traditional videos. Then about a year later,
- 12:14Speaker 1: the YouTube algorithm kind of noticed this Horton mind footage
- 12:17Speaker 1: that he had uploaded back in twenty thirteen, and it
- 12:20Speaker 1: went crazy viral. And immediately this video was put under
- 12:25Speaker 1: the microscope by YouTube personalities, by TV personalities, I mean,
- 12:29Speaker 1: everybody was just kind of taken aback by this footage.
- 12:32Speaker 1: And what was determined fairly early on was the actual
- 12:35Speaker 1: video itself was authentic. Frank really did film a swinging
- 12:40Speaker 1: chain in the Horton mine in Nevada. The question became
- 12:44Speaker 1: who swung the chain. There are many people that believe
- 12:47Speaker 1: Frank swung the chain and this is all just one
- 12:50Speaker 1: big hoax, and they point to some of his newer
- 12:53Speaker 1: videos after this video went viral, where it appears that
- 12:56Speaker 1: Frank is kind of actively going out to find paranormal
- 13:00Speaker 1: activity versus just going out and exploring minds, and so
- 13:03Speaker 1: they point to that and say, look, he's looking for
- 13:05Speaker 1: this stuff. This can't be authentic. This video has to
- 13:07Speaker 1: be fake. But others say, look, Frank is just a
- 13:10Speaker 1: guy who likes going into minds and he films the
- 13:13Speaker 1: inside of these minds. He's been doing it for years
- 13:15Speaker 1: and years, and he just happened to be in one
- 13:18Speaker 1: when something unexplainable happened and he happened to catch it
- 13:21Speaker 1: on film. And the only reason he began kind of
- 13:23Speaker 1: actively looking for paranormal activity after it went viral is
- 13:28Speaker 1: because kind of overnight his channel exploded and he suddenly
- 13:32Speaker 1: had hundreds and hundreds of thousands of subscribers that all
- 13:36Speaker 1: came from that swinging chain video, and they all wanted
- 13:39Speaker 1: the same thing, more swinging chain videos, more paranormal content,
- 13:43Speaker 1: and so seeing a great opportunity, Frank went out and
- 13:46Speaker 1: began looking for paranormal content. That's why most of his
- 13:50Speaker 1: videos after that video where the swinging chain happened are
- 13:53Speaker 1: kind of geared towards fishing for that kind of stuff.
- 13:56Speaker 1: But that first video, that swinging chain video, there was
- 13:59Speaker 1: a really a good incentive for Frank to fake it.
- 14:03Speaker 1: At the time he uploaded it obviously. Now you can say, oh, well,
- 14:06Speaker 1: you know he staged it because he wanted it to
- 14:08Speaker 1: go viral and he wanted to become famous and then
- 14:10Speaker 1: have this great YouTube career. Look, it's all in front
- 14:13Speaker 1: of us. It's so obvious. But how could Frank have
- 14:16Speaker 1: possibly predicted that that video would go viral? Going viral
- 14:20Speaker 1: is so hard, and it happens so rarely, and it's
- 14:24Speaker 1: nearly impossible to predict. And so how could Frank, who
- 14:27Speaker 1: had uploaded hundreds and hundreds of videos before and none
- 14:31Speaker 1: of them had come anywhere near virality, how could he
- 14:35Speaker 1: have said this one, this is going to go viral.
- 14:37Speaker 1: It's just such a long shot. It also seems very
- 14:41Speaker 1: uncharacteristic for Frank to have been diligently uploading on this
- 14:45Speaker 1: YouTube channel, which was basically a passion project, for five years.
- 14:49Speaker 1: He's uploaded three hundred and two videos, and all of
- 14:53Speaker 1: them are the same. He's posting the same type of
- 14:56Speaker 1: content very consistently for the same small loyal following, and then,
- 15:01Speaker 1: out of left field, he uploads his ghost video with
- 15:04Speaker 1: no context. Even if he was trying to go viral
- 15:07Speaker 1: with this video, he would have known that the most
- 15:10Speaker 1: likely outcome would be that the video did not go viral,
- 15:14Speaker 1: and instead, his small loyal following that was used to
- 15:18Speaker 1: a particular type of content would see this video and
- 15:21Speaker 1: be like, huh, why did he upload that? Or worse,
- 15:24Speaker 1: they would think, is he faking this? Is this a hoax?
- 15:27Speaker 1: And if so, that would totally tarnish his reputation and
- 15:30Speaker 1: he'd lose probably some of his precious few subscribers. I mean,
- 15:34Speaker 1: it just didn't feel like the juice was worth the squeeze.
- 15:37Speaker 1: But regardless, even though lots and lots of people have said,
- 15:40Speaker 1: you're lying, Frank, You're lying, Frank, You're lying, Frank, he said,
- 15:43Speaker 1: I'm not lying. I was in the Horton mind. I
- 15:46Speaker 1: filmed what I filmed. It's up to you what you believe.
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