200 Year Old Message Hidden in the Ohio Woods
200 Year Old Message Hidden in the Ohio Woods
Lewis Wetzel was a legendary frontiersman, and he left a hidden message for those who came after him.
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A thousand thumbs up 👍
Is there information on where his grave is?
By all contemporary accounts, Lewis Wetzel was illiterate. I cannot imagine a frontiersman, even if he could read & write, carrying a chisel & hammer into a remote area to leave a message on a rock. Most historians consider this message a hoax, most likely inscribed on the rock in the mid to late 1800s.
wow… that’s very cool.
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I didn’t realize Jed Clampett was a cohort of Davey. He must be a lot older than he looks. "Weeee, doggy".
Some of the big flat rocks next to the message rock looked like they could have been the top of a burial site. There are many ancient burial sites like that in Europe, so it wouldn’t be surprising if there are some here too.
Why are you so adamantly intentionally mispronouncing frontier? You don’t say get the Fraunt door but you think it clever or intelligent or whatever to say fraun teer. It’s not accent because I’ve traveled through a LOT of this country and never heard anyone talk like that.
This is a very cool video. To see that before the state gets a hold of it and turns it into a paved pathway with park benches and a sign is special.
I have ancestors, who knew Louis Wetzel and have samples of their handwriting and now have seen Wetzel’s. What amazes me is the quality of the borderer’s handwriting.
it makes you wonder how much stuff like that is out there that nobody knows about.
https://youtube.com/channel/UC7d2hmW6xRPmHviZWs600CQ
Absolutely perfect
Cool.
Excellent video, thank you.
Dude, this kind of adventure is exactly what life is about.
Wetzel last seen running in Eastern Ukraine toward Russians lines…
Revisit it
Great story of a great man aka death wind
Bryan ohio
Hats off to the property owner who so graciously allowed you to pursue your quest on his land.
Ya don’t have to be from Ohio to appreciate this video…
Wow just wow
I’m from Erie pa never knew of Lewis Wetzel, glad to know of this lost History
Did the message say Go Steelers?
what this article isn’t telling is that Lewis Wetzel was in actual fact the very BEST of the best frontiersmen…he could outrun everyone, outshoot everyone, and outfight anybody….and this he proved many times over……he was probably the most unsung hero of the early frontier, and has never gotten the credit for bringing as much Peace to the area as he actually did because of his unrelenting war against the indians…he was simply a "No BS" guy who killed the indian wherever and whenever he found them, and all those he killed didn’t kill anymore whites……simple, but in those times extremely effective.
I was told this wasn’t craved by him. They said that he couldn’t read or write?
pretty good for a man who was said not to be able to read or write ?
HEY! WHO PROTECTS HIS ROCK?!? It should be a national shrine. If no one is doing so, perhaps we need to start a non-profit and a gofundme to buy the land and protect it ourselves.
Awesome video
THIS SHOULD BE A NATIONAL PARK! Wetzel was a hero to those settlers so he is, in fact, and American hero and should be recognized as such!
You forgot to mention his Whole Family was Butchered while Kayaking.
And the Fact he only Killed Warriors.
Amazing piece of important American social history. That’s quite something.
Man your videos are awesome
He might’ve been thinking of peace but more importantly,he was thinking of us! You and I. He sure the hell wouldn’t want us to set back passively and watch it all be stripped from the Children and their children. Stand up!
Wow! That is an extremely cool thing you did, buddy! Thank you so much for sharing your accomplishment and some beautiful footage of the area with us!
Lakewood Ohio
I don’t mean to ruin this but I think Wetzel was illiterate. Seriously
It probably says leave Ohio
I am so impressed! Thanks for being willing to follow the call – Lewis Wetzel would be lost without people like us. I have hiked many places and old cemeteries to rediscover heroes from the past. We need their example.
There are rocks off the Dog Slaughter Falls trail here in Kentucky with some carvings on it. We also have the Red Bird Petroglyph rock, which is really cool cause I’m a descendant of his, my maternal grandmother is a Sizemore Cherokee. Now that I think about it there are carvings near Eagle Falls and Cumberland too, made a couple of those myself. We keep hearing the rich folk are coming here to build a fancy resort in the middle of my Daniel Boone/Red River Gorge/Natural Bridge paradise, and as much as we could use the money and jobs I pray it doesn’t happen.
I learned he was born and baptized as Ludwig. The best Indian fighter in all of the the times anyway.
Yep I’m born there… We are also die hard abolitionist ✊ it’s like a sport for us 🇺🇲
I guess that today’s children will never learn of cool things like this…instead they will be forced to learn about the LGBTQ alphabet crew and about the 764 new genders and drag queen story hour…
He actually was tried ,convicted,and sentenced to death by hanging but a crowd of over 200 showed up and threatened to free whetzle by force if necessary. Not wanting to lose support of the settlers the judge freed him and dismissed the charges
Wow, great effort and story, glad you took the time to vid this and share it with all, Thx much
Cool. Thanks
Simply incredible! I live in Ohio and have read of Eckert’s books. Lew Wetzel is a character of history I will never forget!
Looks like a little hobbit cave house at the end there
Wow thats so awesome. If you didn’t document this it would probably disappear…
Like many of our present-day warriors. Coming back to a so-called civilized world, it’s not an easy thing to do.