Entry #1

12/15/25

Today I was browsing Google Earth up near my uncle's cabin when I encountered a strange pehnomenon. Here is what i wrote in my journal:

Located at 40°30'58"N 77°36'32"W, along a ridge that runs parallel to Minehart Run in the Tuscarora State Forest on Google Earth, there are two streetview view/photo points, one on each side of the mountain ridge. Both are taken off-trail in the woods (Don't Do!) during the day by the same person (Ben Fausey) in the fall/early winter, which i can tell because all of the leaves have fallen off the trees.

On the western side, there are three people in it as well a dog in the picture. The people are two boys and a woman. I assume the woman is their mother. The firts boy seems to be around the age of 11 and wears a blue and yellow puff jacket. The second boy, looking about 14-16, wears what i think is a dark blue camo puff jacket, but it is hard to tell becasue he is behind a tree. The third person, the adult woman who I suspect is their mother, wears a red scarf, a green jacket, and sunglasses. The dog appears to be a yellow (tanned white/light brown and white) labrador retriever, though I cannot be certain because it is facing away from the camera.

Anyway, on the viewpoint on the eastern side of the mountian on Google Earth, the photogropher is alone and standing in fornt of what looks like the entrance toa dark cave or mine or something of the sort. It definitely looks like it was made by man or something of th sort, at least at the entrance, because of the stacked rocks around and making up it.

I have so many questions surrounding it. Who is the photograpger? What is the cave thingy? Who are the people who were with him, and where did they go? Why are they off-trail in the Appalachias in the first place? Do they not know the rules?

I will try to go explore it next time we are up in the cabin. If I am allowed to, I will post more updates on this phenomenon. If not, let this be the first known written documentation of such phenomenon, and farewell.