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We stopped off in VA to check out some caves, as ussual. This time it was the caverns at Natural Bridge Village. Open until November we got there on the last day they were open before closing for the season. We entered through a door int he gift shop, and through a 500 foot long tunnel to the caves entrance. The tunnel was dug because the natural entrance would take four hours to get to the same spot you can now walk to in two minutes! In a hole in the ceiling was a bat, in the spring when they wake up they fly all around the caves. We went into a room with a small pool and a blocked off passage. The passage used to be a regular route on the tour, until geologists found the floor was only two inchs thick, with an eighty foot drop beneath! Next we viewed a rather large crack, going up several stories, it's one of the few places where the fault line is apparent, an earthquake split this part of the cave a long, long time ago. At the end of the fault is a wall, behind that is another entrance to the cave. When it was being explored wind was blowing through this entrance, and the explorers mistook it for a screaming woman they thought had found her way into the cave and got trapped! When they broke through the wall and heard the noise getting louder they thought the cave was haunted and got out as fast as they could. When the cave was finally reexplored they found the tools left behind by the earlier visitors. 
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