According to Sioux legend, as told by Chief Lost Feather, there is a secret and mysterious cave that is located on the West Mountain (near Hot Springs, Arkansas). There's an old woman and a dog that have been living in this cave for many generations. The old woman never grows any older. The dog never ages, either. They both stay exactly the same, and they have since anybody can remember. The old woman spends her days weaving a rug. She is using pine needles that she has collected in the nearby pine forest. The old woman has been weaving now for many centuries, and yet the rug never gets any bigger. The dog watches his mistress weave through narrow slits in his eyes as he appears to just nap in the corner. Occasionally the old woman puts the rug down and leaves it while she goes to stir the pot of soup that she has cooking on a fire at the mouth of the cave. The soup has probably been cooking for several centuries, as well. The minute the old w...
Linda Gentry and Corey Collins are featured on rope where many people participated in group of cavers last September
that geared up each day and made the 10-minute descent to the mound of
material waiting for them below. The cavers hand-picked the dump, loaded
the materials into large canvas bags and hoisted the recovered
materials out of the cave. A crew on the surface then sorted the
material. Over 26,000 pounds of metal was recovered, along with 360
tires, 58,000 pounds of household garbage, 15 tons of construction wood
scrap, assorted farm chemicals and a large amount of plastic. Cavers say
they estimate the dumpsite had been used for 50 years or more, with the
top layer dating to the late 1980s.
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