Wild Cave, Wild Men

Unexplained
Written By Travis Hoffman

John Clinginsmith, the friendly Hermit of Burton Cave

You've heard about it, may have even visited it, but do you know the history of Adams Counties most well known cave? In this double feature episode, Chris gives a brief background into the history of the wild Burton Cave and Travis talks about the history of, for a lack of a better term, newspapers in the past called "wild men" in our last unexplained episode of season 6.

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