Officials Investigate Secret Cave Found Under NASCAR Track, Admit Conspiracy Theory May Be Right
Last week, North Wilkesboro Speedway – the legendary NASCAR track that was recently revived by someone named Dale Jr. – uncovered a secret cave under the grandstands while doing renovations.
Some believed it was a Moonshiners cave, which would confirm a decades-old conspiracy theory held by tin-foil NASCAR fans – that the property was once used to not only make illegal moonshine, but hide from the cops.
"We haven’t found a still (yet), but we’ve found a small cave and an interior wall that would have been the perfect location to not only make illegal liquor, but to hide from the law as well," the Speedway said in a statement after digging up the old cave.
That was last week. Fast-forward to last night, and North Wilkesboro decided to finally take a peak inside …
… and, I've gotta be honest with you, it's underwhelming. Sorry. Just being fair:
North Wilkesboro could have done better here
That's it? I mean, talk about a letdown. I haven't been that disappointed since Last Jedi.
And now it's just … over? They covered it up! I get it, because there's a race there in a month, and you can't put asses in seats when there's a giant hole in the middle of the grandstands, but you couldn't at least investigate it a little further?
All we have is this – again, from the Speedway:
"We didn’t want to dig too deep into the cave, we unfortunately didn’t have time to be an archaeologist," Speedway Motorsports Senior VP Steve Swift said.
"There are things under there you would see that makes no sense why they are there. We saw some things that were kind of weird, columns and an interior wall, and it made us think of some of the stories we heard in the past. There could be something to this hole.
"It’s still plausible, and maybe Myth Busters can come out and investigate it one day."
Get out of here with that, Steve. Myth Busters? No, this is 2024. We don't need them anymore. The internet is perfectly capable of figuring this out on our own if you would've just let us.
But nope. You had to cover it up and lock it away forever. Awesome.
Now, all we have is Junior Johnson. Not a bad thing, but could've been better.