So about a year back I was fortunate enough to be able to travel to Indiana and photograph this beautiful untouched cave. A friend of mine told me his parents apparently found this cave when they were kids when a sinkhole opened up the entrance under a tree in the middle of some farmland. The property this lies on is currently being sold from my understanding.
Only his family knows about the cave, and I am the only one to have ever photographed it.

It took us about an hour to find the entrance, and it felt like the scene in harry potter where they slide into the tunnels of the Whomping willow.
Inside the cave we found remains of some type of canine and cow/ deer bones. (they probably wondered in a long time ago) it goes down maybe 100 feet or so, and had many chambers hidden all over. I actually discovered a few new areas of the cave while taking photos over the course of a day. When I was leaving Indiana I heard that apparently on the same property a new sinkhole revealed a new cave that no one has yet explored. Might go back this next summer for more explores.
If there is any interest I have a few hundred more photos of this location as well!

Claustrophobic.

You don't have space between your photos. Makes viewing a little 😓

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Cool photos! I'd love to see more. Good job on "finding" it, if you can call it that. It's cool to be the first one to explore or photograph something. I'd love to find an undiscovered cave and explore it my self instead of having like a tour.

Posted by randomesquephoto Claustrophobic. You don't have space between your photos. Makes viewing a little 😓

Yeah still figuring out best formatting on here, should be a bit better now!

Posted by ryanpics Cool photos! I'd love to see more. Good job on "finding" it, if you can call it that. It's cool to be the first one to explore or photograph something. I'd love to find an undiscovered cave and explore it my self instead of having like a tour.

Thanks! I will have to do a follow up post soon. I was able to actually discover a few new chambers, so that was pretty awesome. I want to actually join my cities Cave society after this one. Caving seems really cool.

This is rad as fuck, definitely not the kind of space that most people get to lay claim to as the first to document.

I for one would be very interested in seeing a lot more of the images you took here.

Cool cave pics! Loving the last shot especially! Thanks too for noticing the B&W thread and posting one of your pics

Posted by Baldran This is rad as fuck, definitely not the kind of space that most people get to lay claim to as the first to document. I for one would be very interested in seeing a lot more of the images you took here.

Yeah It was 100% worth the over 20 hour drive/ cramped road trip from Colorado to Indiana haha. I am glad you liked them! I will post some more as soon as I finish going through them!

Dude. Not sure I can articulate appropriately how kick ass this is.

Posted by Baldran This is rad as fuck, definitely not the kind of space that most people get to lay claim to as the first to document. I for one would be very interested in seeing a lot more of the images you took here.

Right?

Not only is this a virtually zero traffic cavern with a great discovery story, but it sounds like you may have been the first human being to enter some of those chambers. That's heavy. I've been through a fair amount of underground, and I can't make a single claim that approaches this. Would love to see more!

Nothing like the karst of Indiana and Kentucky of course, but we do have a handful of caves in Colorado. Thing is though, the Grotto here is incredibly secretive and I sincerely doubt they'd be willing to enlighten any of us heathens without a lengthy trial, haha.

That's awesome

IMO I'd consider picking up a decent gas meter if you're going into unexplored caves though. Bad air can kill you in a heartbeat if you hit a pocket of certain gasses. Won't even smell it. BUT caving isn't my experience set so take the above with a grain of salt.

That said, I personally side with paranoia on those things. YMMV. Either way, awesome photos.

Posted by Akron Dude. Not sure I can articulate appropriately how kick ass this is. Right? Not only is this a virtually zero traffic cavern with a great discovery story, but it sounds like you may have been the first human being to enter some of those chambers. That's heavy. I've been through a fair amount of underground, and I can't make a single claim that approaches this. Would love to see more! Nothing like the karst of Indiana and Kentucky of course, but we do have a handful of caves in Colorado. Thing is though, the Grotto here is incredibly secretive and I sincerely doubt they'd be willing to enlighten any of us heathens without a lengthy trial, haha.

Dude Im so glad to find someone else in Colorado! I am in Denver, and I have actually been meaning to go to the Colorado caving Grotto meetings so bad! From my understanding you need to come to a few meetings to meet people but from there not sure what they require. I know a girl who has done it before through school of the mines. Also I think they meet once a month.

Posted by DarkAngel That's awesome IMO I'd consider picking up a decent gas meter if you're going into unexplored caves though. Bad air can kill you in a heartbeat if you hit a pocket of certain gasses. Won't even smell it. BUT caving isn't my experience set so take the above with a grain of salt. That said, I personally side with paranoia on those things. YMMV. Either way, awesome photos.

Dude thanks for the advice, I am trying to figure out which one I need as I plan to start hitting up mines and caves more anyways at some point!