Groundhog unearths Louisville's centuries-old trash leading to treasure 

What a great story. RIP Phyllis.

The photojournalist on the groundhog/digging project is named Burrow? Perfect!

Some of those old embossed bottles can be very valuable if they're in good shape. Something most people don't know? People didn't always have to buy stamps to mail letters and packages. They could put the letter in the mailbox with enough change to cover the postage, and the carrier would take the money and the letter, putting a stamp on it when he got back to the office. Many times the money would fall on the ground, and especially in the winter, rather than digging through the snow, he would simply leave it and put the stamp on it when he got back to the office I used to take my metal detector on rural dirt roads and find many old coins along the edges where the mailboxes used to be. Lots of old quarters and dimes.

I have this!!! But its moles. My home was built as a small farmstead in 1918. The moles bring up all matter of things from the 20’s-70’s

Terrific story! Thanks, Phyllis, for helping the humans find some history.❤

This is the content I'm looking for. 😊

Thank You WHAS for doing this story it made my day watching

I understand this man. Lol. I love finding history.

Great job Phyllis! And great job to this guy for keeping the history alive. There are TONS of YT channels that spend hours and days and weeks digging up this kind of history around the country.

That's so cool! It's very nice to see some happy news for a change!

I took out the history this morning.

Very neat, great story! And I'm sorry to hear Phyllis has passed on ❤

Bless little Phyllis. Rest in peace sweet furry digger.

What an interesting story and what great finds!

Ha Ha, wonderful to see this is being rediscovered and shared. Charles

Love these kinds of stories!! Wish I could stumble on a treasure trove like that!♥

Wow,that’s really cool ,it’s a labor of love for him ,fascinating.

Absolutely love this! Incredible what Patrick has accomplished with this project. Can't wait to visit.

I'm a Californian and I love all the states. ⭐ Imma come visit your channel a bit. Oh, and Happy Independence Day, dear compatriots. 🇺🇸

Well, this guy has found himself one very tedious, interesting and rewarding hobby. I wonder if it all comes together in the museum he has in his mind’s eye?!?! Good luck with your projects!

I love every facet of this report and his museum project🫂❣️❣️❣️❣️

I spent many years digging for bottles in old dumps but how lucky can someone be to find one underneath their own home!

Bottle dump behind my family home in CT. Love the treasure.

Gotta love groundhog archeology

Loved this! Hope his museum succeeds.

Such a great story! Rip Phyllis 🤍🙏🏼

Groundhog helps prove old saying true. One man's trash, is another man's treasure. This is one of those it sounds fake, but it's actually true stories. R.I.P. Phyllis

So interesting. Thank you for this story!!

Hidden treasure isn't always gold and silver! ❤❤❤

This guy seems really cool ...best of luck with everything !

Always find old dumps that way.... It's pretty normal. 👍😎

FANTASTIC! +++++

This was so much fun!

I love this story!!!!

Inspiring... I've found some of my best items at the local "transfer station"...

I have lived in my community for over half a century. I know as a fact, there are city athletic facilities and neighborhoods built on top of dumps and land fills from the 1950’s-1980’s. I have heard many buildings are sitting on city dump sites from the 1860’s-1900’s. Human trash is everywhere.

I love all kind’s of stuff like that it’s so interesting to think about who was using what and what their life was like in their time 👍🏻

I have been to trash dumps in the woods of the UP Michigan from the early logging era always interesting but medical risks always have to be considered when logging camps were shut down due to Cholera.

I can see local actor Steve Zahn going here. He loves this stuff. Get him to do a promo for the place.

Fabulous story.

That's so amazing! ❤❤❤❤

Who's the stud muffin Realtor they interviewed toward the end?? Oh wait .. that's me!!

That’s so cool 👍👍

This is so cool! Love it!

(holds out a pocket watch) "It's worthless. Ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless..." Belloq, Raider of the Lost Ark...

Nice work.

Super cool story ❤

At one time you could get holy water from the church to put into your font in your home. It didn't necessarily have to be a nun.

My great uncles had a root cellar in their two apartment home, once the family pharmacy. We never searched underneath the dirt so who knows what is underneath it.

Wow. I love this!

I wonder if all the plastic stuff we throw out today will still be around a hundred+ years from now.

The word is "midden", not "mitten".

Pretty cool!

This is fascinating!

Awesome

after 100 years. someone will find the famous jar of "one guy one jar" video and will make a museum about that amazing achievement

I love it

Incredible

Wow, what a find!!

I want some bottles!!!!!!!love

Good story. small correction. It's a midden not a mitten.

Awsome fine. R.I.P. Phyllis

So very cool!

So cool.

I hope he is collaborating with someone with earthwork/mining and foundation support experience. A building built on unstable midden, and he is excavating. A recipe for disaster.

Wonderful. Idea

1:20 2,000 tons of broken glass ? Is this guy running for President ? Maybe 2,000 Lbs...

THERE IS JUNK AND THEN THERE IS JUNK.THIS STUFF IS GOOD JUNK

I bet this guy is an awesome puzzle doer!

Isn't the building going to collapse after all that digging??

So is there anything under the other houses next to his?

I wonder what years trash went from porcelain, glass, wood and cloth, to plastic, styrofoam, vinyl and presswood.

Wow!

He should give the donation jug back to the church.

Give the collection bottle to the church

What a colossal waste of time to put junk back together!

Ahh teeth!

don"t dig too close to those column piers!

How much trash could a trash panda turn to treasure..........

grave yards - treasures under them for sure

Cool story! Makes me wonder what someone might think in 100-200 years if they excavate what is a dump in our time?

Far out!

Oh go no... The drawer of doll heads....

🌞SWEET🌻

THIS GUY BETTER BE CAREFUL HE DOESN'T DIG TOO DEEP OR THE FRACKING IN THE AREA WILL CAUSE THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD TO COLAPSE!

That which survives...

3:35 Nice cyanotype!

Amazing!

HAIL Phyllis! 🇺🇸 she knew. _rip_ *Thanks Patrick Donnelly,* This was Great to see! I have [T]rolls, Armadillos, or some other critters digging down, around and frustratingly, under house, only received a Marble so far. : } Tho, discovered past early 1900's residents buried their 'Trash' in yard. Always Probe before digging, use Fork, then shovel. Quite Fun, but i'm nowhere near organized as i see here, and sadly seem to Lack knowledge how.

Very cool!!

RIP Phyllis.💐💐💐🌈

Kentucky.....let's dig up trash to make money. 🤣🤦🏻‍♂️

That scraping sound... People need to ne more aware of misophonia. I have it and it SUCKS! It's a disorder where some sounds affect your brain. The best way I can explain it is you know how you feel when someone scrapes their nails on a chalkboard? Imagine that feeling times 100 trapped in your brain... Certain sounds make it feel like someone's running a cheese grater on my brain. And sometimes it's sounds that didn't bother me before. It even affects my job because I was a rideshare driver but people like to have windows open, even on the highway, and the sound of the wind coming through the windows completely disorients me. I'm just saying this because that clip started with such an atrocious sound that I literally doubled over in convulsion... But the rest of this is freaking awesome!

I'll give you 3.50 for the lot

Hope he gets compensated for his time.

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Phil Burrow??? C'mon!

Very clever

Stud muffin 😂😂😂

An important piece of history more relevant than all the presidents put together, especially recently ! 🔵🇺🇲1775🇺🇲🔵 and continue the American experiment.