A Life-Altering Arrowhead Hunting Experience - The Shop Series

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In April of 1994 the Nolichucky River flooded away a thousand acres of freshly-plowed topsoil and exposed the remains of a complete pre-historic Native American village. Here's my story of how I spent a day and a night there before the site was destroyed by earth-moving equipment.
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  • @anneglass8084
    @anneglass80845 ай бұрын

    I would love to hear details about your night in the field

  • @C.M.R.Artifacts-qu1ey
    @C.M.R.Artifacts-qu1ey5 ай бұрын

    We want to hear about your experience sleeping out there in that village site.

  • @williamburdon6993
    @williamburdon69935 ай бұрын

    great story , I would love to hear about the night you slept out there.

  • @chriskeenumhighhopesoutdoors
    @chriskeenumhighhopesoutdoors5 ай бұрын

    Hey Shaun, I'm an arrowhead guy, this video came across my feed. Thought I'd give it a look. Glad I did,introduced me to your channel. Me and a cousin got in a a similar experience last year. We got in on a pasture that hadn't been plowed since to 60's. They turned it to put it in crops. The three of us found around 1,000 artifacts and around 6 gallon jugs of pottery. Once in a lifetime experience. My wife wants to hear more about the night you slept in the sleeping bag on the camp sight. Really enjoy your stories, thanks for sharing.

  • @ShawnKimbro

    @ShawnKimbro

    5 ай бұрын

    I was just commenting on my threads account about that. Will say more about it for sure. Thanks for the comments!

  • @tonjawilson4806
    @tonjawilson48064 ай бұрын

    Tears and Goosebumps. So glad you shared your story.

  • @JuniorFarquar
    @JuniorFarquar5 ай бұрын

    East Tennessee here too! Sullivan County. Spent lots of time in Unicoi County ...stuff is everywhere. Down on 107 a lot. Friend Gerald used to camp on an island in the Chucky...tells same "ghost" stories. There was a chief buried on his horse on his grandpaw's land. No-one tells anymore so the govt doesn't come in and claim it.

  • @CreekInTheOzarks
    @CreekInTheOzarks5 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this experience. I couldn't imagine seeing something like that. The tape would be an awesome video to see.

  • @clodhopper5892
    @clodhopper58925 ай бұрын

    That sir, is excellent! Would have been interesting to hear about what you saw and experienced the night in the field, but sometimes those are only meant for one's self. The connection with the history, the land, camp site, artifacts and all the way down to the fingerprint, to me, very impressive. Thank you for this.

  • @ShawnKimbro

    @ShawnKimbro

    5 ай бұрын

    I appreciate your thoughtfulness, Clodhopper.

  • @walker9379
    @walker93795 ай бұрын

    Wow what an awesome story and artifacts. Would really love to see you post that vhs tape and hear more about the overnight… thanks so much for sharing this story.

  • @comfortablynumb9342
    @comfortablynumb93424 ай бұрын

    Those are great finds! I've never had any luck finding points or tools, but in Costa Rica I found lots of pottery shards from the indigenous people. You might find shards anywhere there, I found them in the north near the Arenal volcano and way down near the border with Panama in the mountains. I'll have to check out your channel some more. I'm a lifelong fisherman from Florida and I fished in Central America for years. Now I live by the Chesapeake Bay in VA and I fish in the saltwater. I'd love to find some spots for hunting Indian artifacts.

  • @lelandshanks3590
    @lelandshanks35905 ай бұрын

    Good story, and yes the turtle was sacred to the natives.

  • @jasongreen3434
    @jasongreen34344 ай бұрын

    Best story on youtube I've heard to date. As a fellow colleague of the artifacts, a lot of energy went into making those arrowheads I knapp now and man it's still one of the hardest things I've learned to do in life to date Thanks brother!

  • @ShawnKimbro

    @ShawnKimbro

    4 ай бұрын

    Thanks for watching, Jason and I very much appreciate your comments.

  • @blueboy450
    @blueboy4505 ай бұрын

    Wow! What an interesting story. I would love to set down with you and listen to the “ extended “ version of that trip. I came across a story a few years ago, about a farmer that lived out in the mid west and owed a bunch of property. He said one day he came across a site that looked like the natives just, I guess took the tee pees , animals etc. but left everything else. Wish I knew what happened to the site. Thanks for sharing!

  • @ShawnKimbro

    @ShawnKimbro

    5 ай бұрын

    Thanks for sharing that. I wonder if there are more sites like these to be discovered. There must be.

  • @coachkevinwilson1958
    @coachkevinwilson19585 ай бұрын

    Awesome story Shawn!!! Thank you for sharing!

  • @TurnRocks
    @TurnRocks5 ай бұрын

    Great. Collection. I have had something happen just like you experience you had while coyote hunting here in one of our fields in Ohio. I was walking a drainage that runs by the mounds and started picking up points with head lamp. I ended up leaving early because of what was going on around me

  • @SethDunbar123
    @SethDunbar1235 ай бұрын

    Thank you Shawn - now that I’m retired I’ll have more time to fish and “hunt rocks” as one of your fellow Tennessean brothers taught me. I’ve yet to find any artifacts on my own in Md but fingers crossed. There’s also so much history under our feet, I believe, generations of people through the millennia, that shared this Great Rock of ours.

  • @ShawnKimbro

    @ShawnKimbro

    5 ай бұрын

    Once you solve the riddle of predicting low tides, I bet your finds will come. Thanks for the comments.

  • @jamiephillips887
    @jamiephillips8875 ай бұрын

    We have quartz crystals here in Indiana. Although very small and found within nodules called geodes, we have them. Almost every N/A , site I find, even the smaller nodules have been broken, revealing their crystalline structures. Yes, they valued the optics of crystal even in its minuscule amounts. Field finds, are mine. Also hunted Northern Indiana for most of my years. It seems they still valued crystals , as I would only find smaller pieces, with the outer cortex. That was much further from the source in South central Indiana. There were also very large geodes that yielded much larger clear crystals . However in this region, I believe they used them much like the Vikings did. Very nice video I will be subbing!

  • @ridgeraider1
    @ridgeraider13 ай бұрын

    Such an amazing story! thank you so much for sharing… i’d love to hunt a few points with you not because of what may be found, but just to hear another story🏆

  • @toshow237
    @toshow2375 ай бұрын

    Man what an awesome story, I greatly enjoyed listening to it. Its a great tragedy that so many valuable sites are destroyed many without being documented at all, I hunt artifacts and fish the Potomac and have seen many a spot be destroyed by rapid development just in the past 10 years. Unfortunately there just isn’t the public interest in native history to fund much meaningful research or archaeological digs. Reading even the most up-to-date literature makes you realize how little we still know about native history.

  • @ShawnKimbro

    @ShawnKimbro

    5 ай бұрын

    I've thought about that often, we don't even know what we don't know. I agree that there should be more focus on American prehistory. Thanks for your thoughts.

  • @michaelpollock7478
    @michaelpollock74785 ай бұрын

    I believe what you experienced that nite without going into detail..my cousin saw the same thing at the farm I was raised on..sacred ground..enjoyed the video.

  • @landanwoodard7569
    @landanwoodard75695 ай бұрын

    I used to hunt the fields in close proximity to the Castalian Springs Tn salt lick which attracted big game. Jet black flint serrated pine trees. Beveled Lost Lakes, Huge Bentons, Broad base Big Sandy's by the bucket. These points were made of every type of flint you could imagine even some made of coral.

  • @ShawnKimbro

    @ShawnKimbro

    5 ай бұрын

    Wow! Love to see some of that stuff.

  • @thomasdykstra100
    @thomasdykstra1005 ай бұрын

    After all that ham-handed, earth-moving nonsense, an act of God discovers for you the fingerprint of a child...sweet serendipity! And so it goes with us "mere men"... Except for the Heart and the Mind of our Father in Heaven Come Down, we would ALL be lost, unloved and forgotten; praise our Maker for seeing us in life, for hearing and remembering EACH who recall His voice from that bottomless well of eternal hope with which He refreshes every heart...don't ever lose hope, don't ever give up! Touch everything around you, Shawn, and live with the faith of a child!

  • @melvinmoorman4512
    @melvinmoorman45125 ай бұрын

    Wow! Love the sharing brother!

  • @Bradmoore1979
    @Bradmoore19795 ай бұрын

    Great story! Really enjoyed the video!

  • @baitammo4652
    @baitammo46525 ай бұрын

    Thats fantastic! I would love to here the whole story of your night in the field!!

  • @TheZinminjr
    @TheZinminjr5 ай бұрын

    Love your passion and sincerity. I wish you were my dad.

  • @ShawnKimbro

    @ShawnKimbro

    5 ай бұрын

    Ha ha... Thanks for that and I hope my sons feel the same!

  • @johnnyallen5736
    @johnnyallen57365 ай бұрын

    That's a great story. Thanks

  • @sharonrowland1196
    @sharonrowland11965 ай бұрын

    Good Morning Shaun 👋😃 I'm an Arrowhead Collector I've 5 boxes with Arrowheads in them. I LOVE Arrowhead Hunting 👍😃❤️ Shaun you're not boring I'm interested in hearing everything about your over night experience please. Shaun what State you live in? I'm in South Georgia

  • @ShawnKimbro

    @ShawnKimbro

    5 ай бұрын

    I'm in Maryland, originally from East Tennessee. Thanks for your comments.

  • @RESURRECTINGRELICS
    @RESURRECTINGRELICS5 ай бұрын

    You evidently don’t live too far from us, when you mentioned the tomatoes I was blown away. I’ve found a few arrowheads by accident myself 😂 I really enjoyed the story, I like the part about the fingerprint! check out some of our finds! I’m sure you’ll see a lot of stuff you’ve found yourself being from this area👍👍👍

  • @ShawnKimbro

    @ShawnKimbro

    5 ай бұрын

    I certainly will - thanks for the head's up!

  • @SugarMapleForge
    @SugarMapleForge5 ай бұрын

    Thanks for sharing! It's my dream to find an arrowhead or stone artifact.

  • @allenwmclaughlin
    @allenwmclaughlin5 ай бұрын

    FL point hunter here--awesome find

  • @johnfugate3432
    @johnfugate34325 ай бұрын

    Found the video very interesting thanks

  • @johncarbutt4311
    @johncarbutt43115 ай бұрын

    I look for artifacts a couple days a week along the Perkiomen river here in Pa. Haven’t found much but it’s fun to look for them! Sometimes I’ll find fossils or just really cool rocks.

  • @ShawnKimbro

    @ShawnKimbro

    5 ай бұрын

    That seems like it should be a great area to hunt. Good luck!

  • @davidclark2046
    @davidclark20464 ай бұрын

    If you can find the video you made on VHS we'd all like to see that. I live in Whitwell, tn and I stay in the fields on the weekends..keep the content comin..

  • @placescott2316
    @placescott23165 ай бұрын

    Awesome story. I collect relics also.

  • @savage11smw33
    @savage11smw335 ай бұрын

    I as well would like to hear about your camping experience. I live in once native land here in Ohio. Seen and heard things as well.

  • @manlookingforacity
    @manlookingforacity5 ай бұрын

    It is proper to take some tobacco or cornmeal and ask permission to the original owners of these artifacts. It’s just respect and is part of a sacred exchange, and an acknowledgment of these original occupants of the land. “Mitakuye oysain”.

  • @davidperry5631
    @davidperry56315 ай бұрын

    I live in Ohio, my dad got me started when I was 4. That’s when I found my first one. I am 63 now and I have picked up over 10 thousand pieces. I have around 200 hammers,axes,celts and other hard stones. I have 30 pieces of slate. Now I have a 4 year old grandson. You know where we will be this spring. Trump 2024!

  • @sladeamos7059

    @sladeamos7059

    5 ай бұрын

    Where from in Ohio

  • @davidperry5631

    @davidperry5631

    5 ай бұрын

    I am in North west Ohio, in the great black swamp area. I just got back from arrowhead hunting.1 point and 4 knife blades. I am between Bowling Green and Grand Rapids on the beaver creek.

  • @TurnRocks

    @TurnRocks

    5 ай бұрын

    Great area to find them

  • @sharonrowland1196

    @sharonrowland1196

    5 ай бұрын

    David Congratulations on your 4 year old grandson!!!! 👍🤣 And Definitely yes that child will be so proud of Collecting Indian Artifacts, Give that Child something to remember doing with YOU while he's little and only 4 years old 👍🤣 Hope you & your Grandson finds a lot of Arrowheads And Very Successful Hunting. 👍🤣 I LOVE everything about INDIANS myself. 👍🤣👋 HAPPY HUNTING &HAVE A VERY SUCCESSFUL HUNTING TRIP EACH TIME YOU GO ARTIFACT HUNTING!!!!!! 🤣👋👍

  • @EagerJackrabbit-wy6zn

    @EagerJackrabbit-wy6zn

    2 ай бұрын

    BIDEN 2024 Four more sane years!

  • @kfox79
    @kfox795 ай бұрын

    Show the video you took of the site please

  • @randywilson2500
    @randywilson25005 ай бұрын

    Wow great story my friend at least you tried, it's a shame that it takes money to save some of our country's history especially native American history

  • @Itsahardknocklife9690
    @Itsahardknocklife96905 ай бұрын

    Two little boys had two little toys 😂😂😂

  • @JeannetteSalazar-z6c
    @JeannetteSalazar-z6c8 күн бұрын

    I got some arrowheads but I do not know what kind are they

  • @Magaeatsboogers
    @Magaeatsboogers4 ай бұрын

    I have a Question, I found lots of spear heads above a creek for Years, Two years ago I found an oval shaped rock a little larger then a large hand, and it has a Hole in the Middle and is Tapered down to the hole on both sides at a 45 degree. I am thinking it was used to size arrows by pushing through the sharp Hole but Its just a guess.

  • @ShawnKimbro

    @ShawnKimbro

    4 ай бұрын

    I’m afraid without looking at it, it would be a hard to guess. A good way to tell if a round hole is natural or not is to look for drill marks. If man made , the hole will usually be wider at the top than it is in the center and usually less smooth than the rest of the stone. There are a lot of natural reasons there would be a hole in a rock as well.

  • @Magaeatsboogers

    @Magaeatsboogers

    4 ай бұрын

    the stone is 1.5 inchs thick and the hole is in the center of the Stone, and is tapered on both sides and meets in the dead center of the stone to a sharp edge, if you put you pinky into it, it will cut it if you twist. its not natural and was found with 127 arrow heads on 1/5th of an acre. @@ShawnKimbro

  • @Cutter-jx3xj
    @Cutter-jx3xj5 ай бұрын

    Shawn I am 64 and I live in Comanche county Texas. City of Comanche as well. I grew up here and as a child could go pretty much anywhere to arrowhead hunt, rabbit hunt or fish. I have metal detected 40 yrs. In the past two yrs we have been over run by liberal Californians who have came in and bought all the farms, ranches and everything else. One of the biggest Comanche camgrounds has been bulldozed clean, has 10 ft fences and the cameras around it and a 2 million dollar home right in the center of it. Most of the Californians here a rude, arrogant and talk down to locals. That has happened EVERYWHERE here. Theres absolutely no country fields left. They don't know the history of their land and could care less. I've often wanted to ask them about the strange stuff happening behind their security gates and ten ft fences. And they want to know why they aren't liked here. I was in Servier in December and it didn't look much better up there😢 by the way, I have been a sensitive all my life and I do believe in ghosts, especially where native Americans were involved. I could tell you of many encounters

  • @cliffbardo9205
    @cliffbardo92055 ай бұрын

    Got a few 100

  • @williamarnett3234
    @williamarnett32345 ай бұрын

    Brother, you can’t do that! Leave us without telling that story! You did us wrong bro! Tell it!

  • @sharonrowland1196
    @sharonrowland11965 ай бұрын

    Yeah they need to STOP DESTROYING CROPS. I HATE THOSE COMPANIES. I bet you found a lot of Artifacts didn't you Shaun?

  • @ShawnKimbro

    @ShawnKimbro

    5 ай бұрын

    Yes. Many more broken points that didn't go in the frame and some of the pottery is impressive. Yeah, the companies don't care about anything but $$.

  • @sharonrowland1196

    @sharonrowland1196

    5 ай бұрын

    Yes it's alway's about Money; It's Money this, and Money that, It's alway's about damn Money. And they also need to STOP 🛑🛑🛑🛑 destroying Indian Sanctuaries that were built and made by the Indians, Shaun You agree?

  • @pisswobble1571
    @pisswobble15715 ай бұрын

    I'm sorry, but I can't get excited about triangular pieces of stone😕

  • @lylebrimingham7369

    @lylebrimingham7369

    5 ай бұрын

    I mostly don’t bother, but here I go . It was totally about the fire places and house sites , and the lay out of the village. Work tools and broken pots exposed where they lay , did you listen to him tell the story. Maybe Listen again and pay attention. Any one who loves and respects our history would be amazed walking up on the site .