Members: ToXiC & Myth
Pictures by: ToXiC

Most of our trips are random scout trips after bar close. "Hey I was by this area today and I've heard there was something here or I saw something promising.". Mostly along those lines are we bound when it comes to random moment exploring.

Anyway after I got off of work from the bar me and Myth decided to bike over to Nicollet Island and search the various sized and shaped manhole covers for probable entrance into the "Infamous Satans Cave" as Action Squad had called it.

After searching about 6 manhole covers and going down and back up them. I decided the go from memory about a particular picture I had seen which gave a vague idea to the entrance. After a couple more manhole covers we lifted one up and were about to give up when me and myth noticed that the manhole rungs seemed alot older than the rest, more weathered, and at the glorious bottom noticed allot of foot traffic going down the old Nicollet Island Water Main.

Ah! Scout missions are the best. You never know what you're going to find. So we proceeded down the old rungs, a couple of them were actually well loose, and slippery. Down we went too excited to care that in about 30 minutes the sun would be up and people would be getting ready for church or whatever people do on Sundays these days.

We got to the bottom. It was small, cramped, and muddy up the ass. Obviously this wasnt some modern carved out hole. It was smaller and less maintained than the modern underground passages. It was old brick, a half foot fool of muck, rusty disused pipes, old side corridors, and unused water hoses.

Along we went so excited, checking every corridor we could find. Not necessarily looking for Satans Cave but anything and everything that was of interest in Urbex. I was just enjoying myself for a good 30 minutes with this old brick. I was really just enjoying myself. I didnt have a care in the world. It wasn't until after awhile of tunnel walking that my back finally got soar and I realized that this could take awhile. Oh well I enjoyed the pain like anyone else.

A corridor here, a side passage there, a manhole above me. After about 45 minutes of walking everywhere we could we came to a small break in the brick archways of the tunnel. I got on my knees. It wasnt a large hole, it seems more like someone had used a mallet and just broken through it, I popped my head inside and brought my head light up and looked around. A large sandstone cave. I knew we had found the "Infamous Satans Cave".

We crawled through the small hole and jumped down into the nice cold dry soft St. Peter Sandstone. It was very pleasant. Me and Myth walked down the corridor to what we thought might be the main cavern. It was. I looked around.

I yelled!

"Beer cans, bottles, tea lights, graffiti. What the fuck! What the fuck is so god damn infamous about an underground landfill?!?!"...

I calmed down from my 10 second rage and thought to myself about my first couple of experiences at Lilydale. While comparing this to lilydale this didnt really surprise me after a minute of thinking. I accepted that fact and made the best of it. We ended up going back to the Water Main System since I had had allot more fun there. We found more of the same and a couple smaller caves. Took the long way out and exited through a bums home.

I need to go back one of these days and just do a photo shoot the various nooks and crannies we found because I think they looked awesome.

I later went to Walgreens to develop the photos from the 2 disposables I had brought. For some reason the 2nd Camera which held all of the cave photos came out blank. WTF?!

(Left: Old Rusting Valve connected to the water system)

(Right: A entrance to the side tunnels, there were alot of these, and they were usually dead ends to a pipe going up or they were simply collapsed)

(Left: Myth climbing into a small side cave along the tunnels)

(Right: A decaying part of the tunnel system with a broken garden pot)

(Above: ToXiC having a smoke break along the tunnels ancient walls)

2nd Trip Photos of the cave.

(Left: A good Inscription carved into the side of Satans Cave)

(Right: Muffyn & Steve-O)

(Left: Old Candle Light Holder, the kind for the ceilings, you know)

(Right: The infamous 3 devil faces in Satans Cave)

(Above: Squeek & Muffyn)