We lived in Vegas in the 80’s. I never thought I’d see Lake Mead drying up THIS much!! Thanks for your videos, God bless.

Thanks for educating me about St Thomas and Lake mead. I had no idea the lake level had dropped so much. I visited Hoover Dam in 1983 when the lake was almost full. To see it now makes me sad. I saw a brief (6 min) video that said (as someone else has commented) the concrete steps were the entrance to the St Thomas School. There was a picture of the school with those recognizable steps in front. It also said there were some people who refused to leave. One guy held out to the bitter end because he didn't believe the water was really going to reach his house. There's a picture of the water at his doorstep and they had to help him leave in a boat! Gotta love his spirit. I'm new to your KZfaq Channel but I've subscribed and have already watched about 20+ of your videos. I can't believe some of the places you go into. You are a petite, beautiful woman but you could never be my girlfriend. I could never date a woman whose "cojones" are bigger than mine! Keep up the good work!

I have always wondered about that place my great grandfather lived there worked on the dam then mined in kelso as well as many other mines along the old t&t railway, what I find most interesting is how similar the construction is to a lot of the ruins I find right here in Apple valley but then again a they may have been built by some of the very same hands ,thank you for this

Thanks for the tour, Love the desert and its surroundings. Cheers.

Holy cow, holy cannoli and now holy crikey! You never cease to amaze me. Another great video. Thanks for hiking in.

My family and I would go to lake Mead on weekends fishing and boating , we talk about the city way down under water . Don't recognize it now, course that was in the late 60's . you are so cool ,love your videos !!!!!

I remember taking my jet ski to those ruins when it first started popping up, too shallow for a boat but a jet ski could make it, I also remember that all being full and driving over it in my boat, sad

Another GREAT video WH and informative to boot. Not sure how much time you spent exploring there but as a photographer I spent just 4 hours there, the light was never to good, and had to marvel at how those people lived so far away from other towns and still made do. Tons of shells and I even noticed some fishing line on a couple "bushes" not long after starting out on the trail. Keep visiting/documenting interesting places, makes me want to visit some of them.

I grew up in Overton..my Gmas family was one of the last to leave St.Thomas...

Wow, awesome video! This makes me want to come out and visit the bottom of what was once Lake Mead. I love all your videos, Greta job.

Just watched this video being from Wisconsin I found this very interesting and unique so glad you did this video great history watch alot about Lake mead and the level of water dropping, never knew this town ever existed. Great video thanks for the great job making it.

Thanks for this adventure! It was great fishing where you are in the 80's. Had no Idea this was down there. Outdoor explorations like this, are among my favorite activities. Fascinating look at nature and history in the desert.

Sarah Jane, your "combing her hair with a fish skeleton" comment has me with beer out my nose! Do love your commentary.

Very cool! I love to see the construction of old buildings and homes like that.

Wonderhussy, you have such a knowledge that is priceless! Thank you for putting in the hard work for this video!

Hi Girl, that last building at 16:14 mins was the original school house.

Would be so fun if we could time travel and explore the town within a month of the lake forming.

Great video. You do an amazing job narrating your videos. Thank you.

Great videotape

Always a pleasure watching your videos!!! Informative, interesting, and intelligent! Thanks!

wow amazing find! No wonder this lady is in such great shape...she hikes everywhere!

That was cool and informative. Thank you Sarah.

You're so awesome good positive attitude. Thank you for sharing this video with us. Very cool of you.

it look like you are having a good time keep up the good work my friend xx

In 20 years you will be able to explore the ghost-town that was once Las Vegas .....

Overton is where I found our families first arrowhead! Great history there. The underground dwellings are so cool. There are artifacts everywhere, especially by the old horse corrals. I found the most on the red sand, right in the dirt road leading to the corrals.

www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/97a277a65dba1c79d84a69be272980d56439c82d/c=0-20-800-620&r=x408&c=540x405/local/-/media/2015/06/06/StGeorge/B9317609698Z.1_20150606153632_000_GKKB028L5.1-0.jpg this is the building you were showing at 16:45 if you look close it has the same stairs and building shape. the square things you kept finding around the town site are cisterns for water storage.

I love this video, I definitely want to go there someday. Awesome and informative.

That red tank is a cattle tank.

Used to live in Henderson in the late 70's and spent a lot of time at Lake Mead and the dam, didn't have to pay to get into the park back then. Also got to see the lake when it was full to the brim and we spent a bunch of time at the dam watching the spillways, pretty awesome sight that we will probably never see again.

16:00 When I was a kid I was hiking with my dad when we heard gun fire. My dad became really alarmed at the shots because he could tell, bu the sound that were were down range. About the time he started to say something a shot rang out and the bark of a tree next to me exploded off. The bullet must have passed my body by less than a foot. That's when I became really alarmed. More shots rang out and I was already dropping when dad told me to drop. We couldn't see the shooters but dad yelled for them to stop shooting. They yelled back a sorry, then my dad stood up and headed through the brush to where the shots came from. I had never seen him that angry. I got worried because I could see dad was pissed and he clearly wanted to talk to the idiots who were shooting into the trees. My dad was never violent, but I was afraid he might try to kick some ass, and they were armed. But he just yelled at them. I think he was more angry that they nearly shot me than anything else. He was very protective of my sister and me.

I flew into Las Vegas a couple of years ago and we flew right over Lake Mead. I was shocked at how low the water was. I saw one marina where it looked like they rented house boats. The boats were all gone (moved to a different location) but you could see the docks. They were HUNDREDS of feet away from the water.

Thanks for sharing this info, I may be living under a rock but I wasn’t aware of the drought situation and the fact that Las Vegas consumes all of that water

I love the explorations you do. I love the West and it really piques my interest in going out that way soon. New subscriber. I really like your take on some of our social issues. It’s refreshing, especially being in the heart of the Midwest

I love abandoned places. Terrific video!!! Thanks.

Great tour thanks for sharing.

OMGosh can’t believe Lake Mead has dried up that much my family traveled 5 hrs to go there every holiday weekend such great memories I probably watered skied over that town so sad I love your videos I have lived so close to so many of the places you filmed love all the ghost towns too 💖💖💖

once again, thank you so very much. I'm dpoing some amateue histrory and just love your material.. xo!

That is stairs to the St. Thomas School House!

I love the History! You do so well ; keep up your Good work , Wonder 💜😃✌

@7:39 Sarah talks about the bodies that may have been dumped in Lake Mead. I'm watching this in May 2022 about a week after a 55-gallon drum was found at the bottom of dried-up Lake Mead and guess what was in it.

If you ever feel brave enough, you should visit Groomlake, or Dreamland... area 51... Love your videos take care.

So interesting! I remember when they made Lake Silverwood in CA and there is an old town under it. Can't remember the name but I remember going through it a few times as a kid.

very nice video, wondering where the cemetery is,no boats or anything else there ,wondering what is buried in the ground maybe lost gold bars or coins,no metal detecting makes me wonder why?

I lived n Las Vegas NV for 2 yes back in 2014-2016 and Lake Mead was severely low at that time, too. Such a shame to see what has happened up there. Best regards and God Bless you and your family.

What a cool video. Thank you for exploring this city and sharing.

love to check these ruins out! never been! Can U still go there now in 2019? I would think there's even more ruins today!

it's amazing so much of that town is left.

Thanks for taking the time to make this video..

Thank you for sharing....

Hey Miss Hussy really enjoy your explorations and what an amazing imagination! I mean you thought (out load) that those steps might have led to a brothel before "The Great Flood! :-) And when you imagined a mermaid might have used the other bldg. as her boudoir where she would hang out and brush her hair that was awesome. You seem to have a child like imagination!! I find that to be a very endearing quality in a person and with your exploratory nature It must really enhance the experience for you and your followers. Keep the vids coming love them. Thx...Wes

..... Like your smile..... Love your style.....!!

Same thing happened in western Massachusetts in the 1930s. Four towns were evacuated and destroyed to create the Quabbin Reservoir, so that the city of Boston could have water. In that case, the buildings were completely gutted. They also had to move graves from cemeteries to higher ground. This would never happen today.

You're funnny,I love your sense of humor....theres another town that was flooded in upstate N.Y,it's still under water.Its called Lake Delta. We get too much rain for it to ever dry up.

Just out there on 12/31/2022 - there are a number of signs now (with photos!) describing the buildings and how all of those water cisterns were used. It’s amazing to think that the town was 60 feet underwater in 1945, and that you can’t even see the lake from the townsite now. For viewers considering a visit, it is still a great cool weather hike. However, the museum is primarily about the lost Native Puebloan culture - and has only a passing reference to St. Thomas. Apparently, almost everyone makes that assumption. The on-duty docent actually got kind of prickly about it when I was there 😂.

Thanks for the video, I was raised just down the road between Overton and Logandale , and that was our playground back in the 60s-80s .... haven't been back there since 87 .... THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO !! BROUGHT BACK LOTS OF MEMORIES !! AND WATCH FOR UFOS ... THEIRS LOTTS OF THEM AT NIGHT TIME ✌️👽👾👽✌️... ps. say hello to Wayne Newton for me !! we used to be neighbors up there !! sending y'all lots of luv all the way from Mexico !! 🇲🇽🌮🌯🌮🇲🇽

I'm relocating to Vegas soon, I didn't realize how bad this situation really was. Crazy.

I heard that a lot of the wooden structures were burned completely away so the wood would not float to the surface of the lake and be dangerous debris for boating and would damage the generators in Hoover Dam. Then all that’s left are the foundations and the mud.

Thanks for the adventure

If it starts raining hard, get out fast ;) Thank you for sharing this.

That tree was cut down before the flood girl. It didn't die in the lake.

I reckon those grill covered things were wells and they used to pump the water into the the thing next to it for there horsies.

yaaaaaaay, I'm glad you GET IT. thanks for being really awesome! I love your videos!

My wife and I used to SCUBA dive all five Basins back in the 70's and 80's when St. Thomas was 136 feet under the surface of Lake Mead. BTW, target shooting is prohibited where you are. Not allowed in the entire NPS Lake Mead area in fact. Hunting however can be allowed with a permit.

That would be a great old town to go through with a metal detector.

Another Great video. Good Job !!! Keep them coming.

The Earths atmosphere contains the EXACT same amount of moisture (water) than it did when the Earth was formed. The Earth's atmosphere is nothing but a gigantic terrarium. You may not see it (water) where it is usually found, but it is somewhere else being utilized.

Love your Instagram and Tumblr pics..RAWRRS:) And of course this channel too:)

Yes, another find to explore!!! Amazing that lake mead is so low. You fly over bama and see the Colorado river, were it dumps into the sea? It is all but dried up there. Another interesting video!

F.Y.I. Las Vegas uses only 3% of the water from Lake Mead. The other 97% is distributed throughout the SW and even Mexico. The biggest user is California agriculture.

That was the basement or cellar/refrigerator of the foundation that was filled with mud. The "little chimney looking things" were probably old wells that they capped for safety. Don't let the sound of target practice in the wild scare you. When you hear bullets wizzing by or random gunfire in the city then be scared. Most target practice includes some kind of backstop.

That is excellent I’m going to have to go down there out there yes definitely thank you.

So I'm watching you today 2/11/17, seeing the dried up Lake Mead lakebed, that whole valley all dry today. Meanwhile, at Oroville Dam, in Oroville California the main spillway is falling apart, the huge outflow is tearing the mountainside apart. And for the first time in 50 years since Oroville Dam was completed, water is overtopping the never-used Emergency spillway. In Reno, the ground has not been dry in well over a month. I hope some of this season's snow and rain in the West is reaching the Colorado river watershed! Thanks for your excellent videos, Wonder Hussy!

Got an idea for you, get four rare earth magnets, put each one in a sock, use strong fishing line sew each binding stich and leave 10 ft, on each sock. Thrift store or old belt, with holes around it or hole punch it. stand and put fishing line through hole in back middle and pull til sock is about 36" behind you, yup it's gonna drag, doesn't hit your feet when u walk. Tie and pull through again and knot. Do the same with the rest. Now put belt on hips when when exploring on land. check once in awhile and see if any rocks are attached to your socks. if yes put in bag, and continue. Most exciting thing you may have picked up a meteorite. And it's all logged because you record all your adventures. Thank me when you get rich from them.

Great video, WH!

That clay is seventy years of silt ..The buildings concrete construction had trapped all the sit inside it . The rest were made of wood which decayed. Great video by the way.

I am glsd that you are curious...always an interesting video!

I’m not sure if you will go over this.. but people refused to leave the town before it was vacated. The settlers didn’t believe that a lake would actually happen!

At a guess, the Parks Service has welded Rebar grills over the cisterns to stop wildlife and curious people from falling in and adding to the bodycount in Lake Mead.

Oh, cool, we'll get to walk all through this soon

I had been to Overton a few times. 1996 was the last year I was there. Even then, the water had been receding. Someone had said that Logandale, a nearby town, had been deserted, already, because of the lack of water. Wonder Hussy, you are seeing now, what I visited many years ago. You need to go check out Ft. Piute, off of hwy 95, aacross from the Laughlin turnoff. If you haven't been there, you need to check it out.

In Australia, the little town of Adaminaby was flooded by the Eucembine dam forming lake Eucembine in the mid 50's. In times of severe drought, the old town becomes visible from time to time and I have heard that the first time it re-appeared after being flooded for about 25 years, some flowers like daffodils actually sprouted in some of the old gardens

Fun fact: there was a test run for a customized b-29 superfortress on one of the military bases around lake mead and the sun reflecting off of the water of the lake or the glass of the plane (I don’t remember all I remember is that the sunlight reflected off of something) and the plane hit the water and skimmed a few hundred feet and now it’s at the bottom of the lake so we’ll preserved that you can still see the numberos and signs on the inside and some of the outside of the plane and still see the co pilots headsets still on the flight stick

The lake is not actually drying up. Its just more water is being taken out, then rain and snow melt are putting back in, or at least that is the way it was back in 2017. When you consider alot of the water that goes into lake Mead comes from Wyoming and Colorado, and some times that is not a lot.

Makes you wonder how much of that clay is at the bottom of the dam. Howdeep really is that water.

I always enjoy every one of Your videos

It was likely an old Well. Shooting into a concrete or stone wall is not like shooting into a berm. Very dangerous. Rounds can and do return straight back. Been there.

Very interesting. You do a great job. Love you adventures

It’s such a shame that Lake Mead is drying up. Everyone looks the other way!! I need to get back out to the dessert. It’s been 4 years and I am not getting any younger!! Wonder Hussy thanks for reminding me of the ‘the best of the West’. I need start planning my next vacation out to Vegas and the West!! I would love to visit with you in Vegas.

The sense of wonder in your voice really sells this informative video. Thank you.

I just wonder how the heck such a large tree ever grew in such a dry climate.

Just looking at the places makes me feel like I'm in the hot desert! Cool video though!

Its not the hotels that use the most water. It's the irrigation people use to water lawns when you live in a desert. you did mention it but the irrigation takes way more than the hotels

That sucks ya can't metal detect there; that's my favorite hobby. That's my grand daughter in my profile pic playing with my "tector" as she calls it ~ Lol

Wonder did the lake regain some water during covid since Vegas tourist population was very low.

That 1500 Gallon Tank looks like a fire department water tender drop tank to me. Those are carried on the water tender trucks, "dropped" on the ground, set up the portable "drop" tanks and the trucks empty there water in to them, then leave to refill the water tank on the truck. What in the heck it's doing out there I do not know. Interesting video thanks for making and sharing it with us.

Surprised you don't see many or any fish hooks hanging in the ruins !

I don't know for sure but would bet that those "chimneys" were cisterns for gathering rain water plus supplemented by hauling water and they probably had wind mill towers or hand pumps that had that curbed catch pan of concrete next to them. In that climate they would not want to waste any water by letting the excess hit the sand. Hope that is helpful.

I went here for a feild trip last year and it was so much fun to see everything. Except for the almost hour And thirty minute drive

Those shafts with the grates were probably cisterns and there was either a bucket and a rope or a pump , the smaller squares are watering troughs for horses, the cisterns probably had a cover on them , to prevent evaporation, it being the desert, I just wonder how they filled the cisterns