Hey everybody, this is Alejandro.
This week I look for a forgotten Lookout Tower
deep in the heart of South Austin.
According to rumors on the Internet, there
is an unfinished lookout tower from the 1800s
in the woods next to a church in South Austin
with a big white cross.
I knew of a church that matched the description
and review of Google maps showed a large wooded
preserve next to that church.
There was even evidence of trails and of a
strange unidentifiable marker.
This preserve seemed like a strong candidate
for the site of the lookout tower.
With this information I set out to see what
I could discover.
Just to give you an idea of what’s around
us.
There’s nothing, but woods on each side
of this trail.
We actually found something incredible walking
off the path.
We saw a bit of barb wire through some trees
and we found this.
Now this used to be a farm.
This preserve used to be a thousand acre farm
and this is an abandoned possibly animal pen.
It’s surrounded with barb wire and this
right here used to be the gate.
This wood is really really old and it’s
clearly structure.
Barb wire fence all around it.
This must have been some kind of entrance
where the animals were brought in and out
through this fence.
This is really really cool and I’m really
glad we found this, just seeing some barb
wire through some trees on the path.
This is awesome.
We just left the abandoned forgotten animal
pen and now we are finding even more signs
of an old settlement.
Right here there is some kind of wheel.
It’s extremely rusted.
We saw these snakes earlier so I don’t want
to go through it too much.
There’s some writing that’s rusted over.
I’m not sure exactly how old this is, but
hopefully this is another sign that we’ll
find that old lookout tower that I saw in
the Internet.
Up to this point of my search I made some
incredible discoveries, but I still had not
found that strange marker or the lookout tower,
which was the goal of my search.
Come back two weeks from today, on Monday
February 20th, to watch part two of this video
and to see if I found the lookout tower.
In the meantime, this is Alejandro.
Thank you for watching.
I’ll talk to you later.
Bye.
