Undercountry Records

Undercountry Records digs into the forgotten corners of American history — sealed mine shafts, abandoned tunnels, and caves that were closed off and never spoken of again.

Every video traces a real thread: a 19th or early 20th century newspaper clipping, a county record, or an oral history passed down from tribes like the Nez Perce, Navajo, Ute, Paiute, and Choctaw — often a warning about a place long before settlers or miners ever got there.

From a marble floor struck by a Tennessee well crew in 1908, to a sealed passage in a Utah cave closed by the Forest Service within a season, to structures beneath Lake Michigan no engineer can explain — we lay out what was recorded, what was found, and what was never fully explained.

New stories from across the American underground, several times a week.