Cushman, AR and Blowing Cave's entrance to Teros

If anybody gives a crap, several of us from Underground Ozarks are headed down to Blowing Cave this weekend, partly for caving and partly to see if there's even a kernel of truth in the whole entrance to Teros thing. I don't think any of us really believe in it, but we're curious if there's some truth in it, like maybe a secondary cave under the main one or something. Some of us are even camping there.

So, I'll show some pictures or something come Monday.

[edit on 23-2-2007 by whiterabbit]

Okay, I don't know if I should bother from the overwhelming response, but here's some pictures of our trip.

This is the entrance to blowing cave:

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This is the breakdown area, where the entrance to the subworld was supposedly located. Note the flowing water in the right hand corner:

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Another shot of the breakdown room:

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Here's my thoughts, for anyone that might care. I didn't believe in this story in the first place, but having seen the place with my own eyes, I can now say that there's absolutely no chance it's true.

Any chamber below the breakdown room would almost certainly be filled with water. There's a heavily flowing stream that runs through the cave. While we were there, it rained, and we observed the stream rise a whole foot. Plus, further back in the cave, there are several chambers that sit lower than this one and they are all inevitably full of water.

It's just not true, guys. Any shaft leading four miles down would be well below the water table and full of water.

Plus, this cave is visited just about literally every weekend by locals and others. When we were there, there was another large group of people camping there, as a matter of fact.

People are in and out of this cave all the time. Every nook and cranny of that cave has had people in it one time or another. If there were an entrance to the underworld, somebody would have found it long ago.

[edit on 25-2-2007 by whiterabbit]

Honestly I can say I have never heard of the Teros story concerning the caves you visited, but I can thank you for taking the time to post your pics from your weekend, and thanks for giving me one more story to check out.


Regardless it seems like a great place to go for a camping trip....

I am A fellow Arkansasan and love to here about this cave expedition and of any truth about teros. I live in Jacksonville AR and would love to get some directions to where thats at, maybe i can coax my family " I have a 15 year old a 10 year old and a 18 mos old and a wife" to agree on a camping expedition to the caves. I think It would be cool to go and explore.

Some one a while back posted a cave expedetion here on the teros subject at blowing cave. said there was a huge manmade tunnel and beings that live in these tunnels. I am not sure what happened to that thread or if it was debunked but it does sound interesting.

I probably shouldn't post exact directions on the internet even though it's more or less a public place, but I'll PM you. Worst case, though, you could just go to Cushman and ask at the general store. Anyone there will be willing to tell you where it's at. It's considered public.

Well, NM. Apparently I can't PM until I get 20 posts.

PM me your email or something if you want directions.

[edit on 26-2-2007 by whiterabbit]

The blowing cave is not a dead cave. If there is any truth to the Shaver Mystery, one thing that is certain is that the cave now is different from the cave then. My father, grandfather, and his father before him, grew up in the collietown/painters bluff/cushman area and tell stories of when cars could be driven back into the cave to light dances (one of which supposedly ended with the floor cracking and caving in after the people cleared out, taking a model t or two with it). My grandfather (dead for nearly 20 years at 82) said you could easily walk a half mile into it before you had to start crawing and he had spent a couple of days in the cave without hitting the end. Nowdays, you start crawling pretty soon, within about 50 yards (at least that was the case back in the late 80s). Myself, I've been in the cave a couple times over the last 20 years, and its never the same.

Curiously, you'll not find locals who have ever heard of the shaver mystery.

Just a word to the wise:

DO NOT go caving unless you have at least read a primer on how to do it. Many people have gotten seriously injured or killed in caves because they didn't know what they were doing. Being critically injured and stranded in a cave, or heck, just being lost in a cave is not a fun way to go out.

Some people took me to Blowing Cave a few years ago...lets just say, that when I got home, curious of the history of the cave, I googled it on the internet and I had my 101 introduction to the whole Hollow Earth, grays, Dulce, etc!! Been hooked ever since. LOL

By the way, I took a friend out to Blowing Cave a month ago, and a spooky mist went by us. We didn't go far back---I never have--too chicken and not much light.

Funny thing, I never heard of the Shaver Mystery until very recently and I ended up running down all sorts of paths. This guy, Fred Crisman, turned up, and the going really got weird.

Thanks for investigating out the cave, though. Love checking out those strange sites with a sense of purpose...like Centralia, PA.

[edit on 11-12-2007 by JohnnyCanuck]