Bangor Cave (pics)

[Speeding]

Yesterday a couple friends and I went to Bangor Cave near the Blount Springs area in northern Alabama. In the 30s this cave was sort of an underground (literally) club, and also a hidden illegal casino in the back room behind a steel bolted door. It's kind of a local secret. There are no signs to get to it, no markers of any kind. You park on the side of a road and hike through the woods a few hundred yards to get to it. There is a bunch of graffiti and trash in there now from kids partying and whatnot over the years, however that's only near the entrances, few ventured further than a couple hundred feet into the cave.

This is a pic looking out from a man-made room inside the main club room, I guess this was for people working the bar or something:

I guess from the recent rains but the floors were insanely slick, you had to be careful every step you took. Each of us fell several times.

This is a broken wall, possibly separating the club from the casino?

Looking up from the other side of the wall. You can barely see the rope other cavers have left. Without the rope climbing up or down that mud wall would have been impossible

This is the 2nd entrance we found. I'm just guessing but it felt to be about a mile or so from the main entrance.

Not sure how/if this entrance was used in the 30s.

Random cave pics now...

We crawled on our knees and elbows for several hundred feet only to run into a deadend. I think water may run through this because there were leaves everywhere.

Random graffiti:

Wish I took pics of the main club room. I'll see if I can find pics from my first trip to the cave. I didn't go but about 50 feet into it the first trip as we were on bikes.

 

[Speeding]

Oh, and a group shot of us right before we left. This was in the main club room.

 

[Bones]

That's real cool.

What spray bomb something nobody is gonna see Wanna be gang bangers.

 

[InDaShop]

so you are a spelunker

 

[Bones]

so you are a spelunker

DAMMIT! I was just googling that word!

 

[InDaShop]

ricky thats so cool. did you catch any of the History Channels series "Cities of the Underworld"? Cool cool stuff.

There was a lot of speakeasy type establishments in caves along the Mississippi River during Prohibition. They had one episode dedicated to touring them.

 

[xjkrawler]

sahweet looks like they used to have a good ol time in there :afro:

 

[under_psi]

nice pics...thank god thurr was no watermarks.....

 

[BamaTJ]

Cool, I have always heard about it. Sucks it is covered in spray paint now

 

[CHASMAN9]

Ricky, is that the same cave that crazy woman said she was kidnapped and called out on her cell phone and got the fire dept. to waist their time to find her? If I remember right, she said she was raped and left there. It turned out to be B.S. and she got drunk and made it all up. She was just lonely and wanted some attention. Crazy beoch. pepper.gif

 

[Juan_Hong_Loe]

nice pics...thank god thurr was no watermarks.....

Yeah WTF!

Pretty cool though.

 

[bigsilly]

That is pretty cool. I looked an article up and read it after seeing the pics. Too bad about the graffiti though.

 

[Speeding]

nice pics...thank god thurr was no watermarks.....

Yeah, I didn't watermark 'em because 1-the picture quality sucks, and 2- I didn't want the photos traced back to me that easily. I'm not sure how legal it is to be there.

 

[Speeding]

Cool pic I found online of the Bar:

 

[InDaShop]

I bet those two bar whores put out! pepper.gif

 

[Speeding]

More pics from the main room:

Main (man-made) entrance:

The bar maybe?

Top of the bar looking down:

 

[Rescue1]

We have a similar set of caves here. We've always called them" Weaver caves" becuz that is where the're located.

 

[Tcameron]

straight up bangen

 

[onealdodge]

that's cool as hell and illegal brothel,casino,bar in a cave and the old picture w/ the 2 whos i bet that place was the ****.....

 

[under_psi]

thanks for sharing thos for real ricky...it looks cool...i think that the graffiti is a nice touch....better there than on a very visible high $ downtown office building....