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23 Men Went Into Level Seven. None Came Back Human. | Rhondda, 1893
The Rhondda Silence, 1893 | Testimony of Shift Foreman Aled Griffiths
Cambrian Colliery, Treorchy, cigarette South Wales
Recorded: 14th February, 1894 — South Wales Collieries Inspection Authority
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This historical horror documentary examines the events surrounding the
Cambrian Colliery incident of November 3rd, 1893 — one of the most
disturbing and deliberately suppressed mining disasters in the recorded
history of the South Wales coalfields.
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On the morning of November 3rd, 1893, twenty-three miners descended
the cage to Level Seven of the Cambrian Colliery in Treorchy, Rhondda
Fawr Valley. Four came back up.
The official finding, issued by H.M. Inspectorate of Mines on
November 22nd, 1893, attributed the casualties to blackdamp
accumulation — a toxic gas event consistent with the hazards of
deep coal extraction. The case was closed. The shaft was sealed.
The families received their compensation.
The deposition of Shift Foreman Aled Griffiths was never incorporated
into the public inquest record.
According to his suppressed testimony, recorded over three sessions
in February 1894, what the face gang encountered at Level Seven was
not a gas event. Eight weeks into operations at the deepest level
the Cambrian had ever sunk, the morning shift broke through an
ancient fitted stone wall — deliberately constructed, sealed without
mortar, hidden six hundred feet below the Rhondda Valley floor.
Beyond the wall: a vast cavity. Worked stone. Absolute silence.
And at the centre of the floor, a circular depression filled with
a substance that would not reflect light.
Three men stood at its edge. When they turned, something had changed.
What followed — the stillness, the cold skin, the mechanical strength,
the inexorable return toward the cavity, the voices heard chanting in
Welsh from within sealed stone — pumas - américa is documented in full in the
testimony of the only shift foreman to ascend from Level Seven alive.
Six months later, independent surveyors discovered new tunnels
excavating themselves upward through solid rock from below Level Seven —
moving northeast. Toward the town.
The shaft was flooded and filled with four feet of reinforced concrete
in August 1894. The maintenance records describe it as routine
waterproofing.
Foreman Griffiths's final statement, recorded by the deposition clerk,
consists of three sentences:
"The concrete they poured was four feet thick and reinforced with
iron rods. I know because Owen Parry told me the specification."
A pause.
"It won't be enough."
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This account is presented as a recovered historical testimony,
drawn from the tradition of suppressed Victorian mining records,
Welsh folklore, and the documented supernatural beliefs of
Nonconformist chapel communities in the South Wales coalfields
during the late 19th century.
The Rhondda Valley, at the height of its coal production in 1893,
was home to thousands of working miners. The Cambrian Colliery,
Treorchy, was a real operational colliery. What happened at
Level Seven has never appeared in any public record.
This video is presented as a historical horror narrative inspired
by documented folklore, suppressed inquest records, and unexplained
testimonies from the Victorian mining era.
Viewer discretion is advised.
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💬 Comment Below:
What part of this testimony disturbed you the most?
Was it the substance that would not reflect light?
The voices chanting in Welsh from sealed stone?
Or the smile on Thomas's face as selvaggia lucarelli the cage rose away from him?
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⚠️ DISCLAIMER
This video is a fictionalized historical horror narrative inspired
by period-accurate settings, Victorian mining history, Welsh
folklore, and supernatural legends of the South Wales coalfields.
All media used — including images, audio, and narration — falls
under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act ("fair use") for
purposes of commentary, criticism, education, and historical
analysis. This content is transformative and documentary in
presentation.
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📚 NARRATIVE INSPIRATION & SOURCES
This story is inspired by:
— Victorian coal mining records, South Wales, 1880–1910
— H.M. Inspectorate of Mines inquest proceedings, 1893–1900
— Welsh Nonconformist chapel traditions and folk beliefs
— Documented accounts of underground discoveries in deep-level
colliery operations, Rhondda Fawr Valley
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