Beneath Missouri Lies a Lost World Older Than the Pyramids

Beneath the Missouri lies a cave older than the pyramids, holding the largest cave entrance room in the United States — and on top of it, men once built an entire town chasing marble that never existed. What they actually pulled out of the ground was bat guano, sold by the ton for fertilizer and gunpowder, and it made just enough money to doom the town they'd built on top of it. When the guano ran out the company collapsed, the town burned to its foundations, and Marmaros became a ghost town the world forgot for decades. Then a Canadian dairyman bought the "useless" cave for ten thousand dollars, opened it to the public, and set off the strangest resurrection in American roadside history — the failed mining town that came back as one of the most visited attractions in the country, with a lost world still sitting silent beneath it. RIGHT NOTICE: The Copyright Laws of the United States recognize a “fair use” of copyrighted content. Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act states: “Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.” This video may contain certain copyrighted works not specifically authorized by the copyright holder(s), but which are believed in good faith to be protected under fair use. Fair Dealing: Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (UK) section 30 also permits fair dealing for criticism, review, and quotation with sufficient acknowledgement