FREAKY California Cave // Mt Shasta's Pluto's Cave - Part 1

EP42: Pluto's Cave - Mt. Shasta Part 1

Every day in California provided new surprises and so much natural beauty. As a local put it, Mt. Shasta isn’t the place you come to just “pass through” it’s a place you come and stay awhile. We were in town for just a day and like many other places we will have to come back one day. On this visit we decided to check out Pluto’s Cave, Faery Falls and downtown Mt. Shasta. Part one join us in this video as we explore one of the best conserved lava tube caves. A mile long underground and off the beaten path. You drive seemingly in the middle of no where, get out of your car and hike through the unmarked desert land. Having a GPS app is a must - eventually the ground just opens up in a gaping hole. Different parts of the cave have different amounts of light. At the beginning of where we came in there were sky lights along the way. The section that goes to pure darkness looks like the beginning of a horror film and is pretty eerie once you get far into the pitch blackness. Wearing proper closed toe shoes, bringing enough light, water and batteries is key. At one point I got totally scared we had gone too far for our batteries to make it in and out on our headlamps. Hiking in the dark is not an option due to the jagged lava rocks you are traversing. It’s a fun hike but not if you’re afraid of the dark. We were all alone for the majority of our hike and all you can hear is the quiet drips coming from the 50’ cave ceilings. The cave is full of graffiti and a chilly contrast to the hot desert landscape above - it all adds to the wild feeling of being completely underground.

One lava tube system near Mount Shasta is Pluto’s Cave. This hike is both easy and challenging: you’ll be hiking and climbing up and down into the lava tube from points where the roof of the cave has collapsed, and you can choose how far you want to hike. At the last part of the cave, the cave extends over a mile underground and is pitch black. Be sure to bring water, snacks, and lights if you plan to go back into that part of the cave.

[JustAdrift]

Have you ever been in a cave like this?! It's hard not to let your mind wonder . . . in weird ways.

[Wise-Lady-La-Aura]

Great video! You two are very brave cave explorers! I was just reading where Mt. Shasta has been legendary for many centuries before California even had settlers. Mt. Shasta has been the subject of an unusually large number of myths and legends. In particular, it is often said to hide a secret city beneath its peaks. In some stories, the city is no longer inhabited, while in others, it is inhabited by a technologically advanced society of human beings. Pluto's Cave  was named  for the god of the underworld, Pluto. people report it as being a frightening experience. I also read that it is only accessible by foot!  We are all so lucky that you two amazing hikers and spelunkers filmed your adventure for the world to see! I am so impressed. I am glad that you keep a close eye on each other because people go missing up on and around Mt. Shasta. Also, you were walking among boulder fields in the cave and that is also where people go missing, in boulder fields. I was concerned for the two of you, but you pulled it off and it was a beautiful experience, especially when you got to the part where the sun shone through into the cave, before you hit the boulder field and the very dark and sinister looking recesses of Pluto's Cave. People who have spent the night in those caves have had horrific experiences, and some have been said to have gone mad after spending the night in the cave, so I do not recommend going at night at all. You both got there at the perfect time, in the middle of a sunny day, with lots of daylight left. If both of you could purchase and wear personal locator beacons, to put on, that would add to your safety precautions and keep you both safe. Remember, please, never have a point of separation on your wilderness voyages. Always stay together, because it keeps the two of you safe to stick together. I hope the man will let the woman lead instead of her trailing behind. Take turns leading and please continue to watch out for each other very carefully.  This might be one of the very few available videos posted showing actual footage of Pluto's Cave. You are a very cute couple, you are both very healthy and you have a very positive spirit around you both. Thank you for your bravery and the goodness that surrounds you. Bless you both.

[whiskeyrichards]

As a local (and by local I mean a few miles down county highway A-12 as the crow flies) I can tell you that Pluto's Cave is quite tame and reasonably safe as cave explorations go. In the area of the Juniper Flat lava tubes where this was filmed, there are countless other caves, tubes and deep fissures that are far more dangerous and not nearly as well known. Some of these tubes are massive, beyond imagination. The Skull Cave located in the Lava Tubes National Park forty five minutes to the north east of Pluto's Cave for instance is so huge that a hay barn could easily be built within. As for mysterious or creepy things, the Whitney Glacier is composed of a mixture of ice and volcanic ash. Late in the summer, usually around the end of July, the runoff of this ancient Glacier makes it's trek down the slopes of Mt. Shasta, but not as you might imagine. It takes all day for the melted runoff to get from the point of origin at the Glacier, down to the foothills and eventually highway 97. Here it passes beneath the highway through a large corridor but not in the form of water. It arrives in the Shasta Valley as a thick, heavy, gray mud. This mud is so thick and viscous that it can literally roll massive boulders downstream for miles, creating an eerie grinding sound as the rocks contact each other on their voyage. Eventually all this mud and volcanic rock find their way to a large gaping maw within the earth. It is here where this glacial runoff and ash pour into huge lava tube opening and never re-emerges above ground. In summers past, the runoff has at times been so heavy and fast that it has overrun the established banks and caused devastation and damage throughout the rural community.

[jitmagar]

hi hello dear friend maison and shaly, have a wonderful time their for both of you👌very nice video for cave👍️🙏

[kenny_]

I lived within eyeshot of my Shasta for half my life. Its a magical place

[maxbrandt]

Mt. Shasta is reported to have very strange things happen around it, a lot of people have gone completely missing there and yet you two are happily wandering about! Brave! I think this and the Borrego National park (triangle) is the only reason I'd ever visit California, we have nothing like this in swamp ass Florida.

[ByGraceIGo]

I liked and subscribed! That food looks good and it look like you had a fun day!

[isaacgriego]

That's very Brave I would have turned back along time ago... ❤️💪👍

[propar_]

I remember my dad taking me to Plutos Cave (among countless other lava tubes all around haha) a looong time ago, and I just remember it being such a huge entrance and it was soooo long, I think we reached the end, if not dang near. Awesome video you guys! It really made me relive that day with my dad.❤️🤘🏼

[ertaitai]

I visit the cave today. Visit the most parts except the long chamber. It needs full equipment as many places are not easy to access. Thank you for the video.

[samuelboles]

I was brought to a cave in mount Shasta by a local who lived there who knew exactly where it was when we came to this large depression into the ground There was a very very weird and I'm telling you people weird smell I am born and raised from the state of Alaska and I have been around grizzly bears brown bears black bears every kind of bear and I have never smelt anything like this in my life ever it was very very strange And it permeated the whole cave it was Very creepy

[skymeadow]

Awesome, I was just at Shasta yesterday, next time I'm finding the cave

[lupummoon]

Have you been to the cave that the john doe boy supposedly saw his robot grandmother?

[beaujohnson]

Used to party in the caves back in highschool!good times !!!

[edbaiza]

"This is how Horror Stories Start"! LOL. INDEED

[mmakshak]

This is an interesting view of the cave. If you had gone elsewhere in the cave, you might have come across the big Indian who guards it. He's a pretty serious person-serious enough that I won't go back again.

[ryanciantar]

Been here twice, going back in a couple weeks. GF and I want to go to end of the cave.

[jorgegonzalez-larramendi]

paper maps and compass, kids
your luck might run out...
and you could find yourselves on a knife fight over the last piece of chocolate...

[nicolecatlin]

You guys really need some bigger brighter flash lights. I think it looks like it's big enough for a small UFO to fly in and out of.

[santiagopollocko]

You really did not think we would make easy to find Telos.