Enigmatic Discovery
Almost without realizing, Christopher walked toward the strange thing he had seen. Small, dark, and mostly obscured, by the other trees it seemed to be hiding. He wondered if it could just have been an old, dark tree as he got closer to it. Then he realized what it was and in his excitement, he made a misstep which caused him to fall 3-feet down.
Dazed, stunned, covered with leaves and mud after his fall, Christopher stood up and brushed himself off as best he could while staring ahead of him. The strange thing he had seen was not a tree, but an entrance into the earth. Even stranger is that it wasn’t a natural cave, it was man-made. Could it be that he had discovered a mine on his own property? He knew he had to explore it.