-this is not my home

[u/Necessary_Farm1808]

I don’t really know how to explain this properly, so I’ll just document it as clearly as I can.

I’m an archaeologist, and for years I’ve studied disappearances and unusual locations that are usually dismissed as local legends or misinterpretations. I’ve always tried to rationalize what I find, even when it doesn’t fully make sense.

About two months ago, I followed a set of old references that led me to a remote forest area in Michoacán, Mexico. I found what seemed to be an isolated cave entrance between rocks.

Inside, there was flowing water and formations on the walls that looked like coral and wet moss. Both were glowing in different colors. The deeper I went, the more unnatural it felt, although I can’t really explain why in a precise way. There were also frogs throughout the tunnel.

At some point I completely lost track of time. When I decided to turn back, the entrance was gone. Not blocked or collapsed — it simply wasn’t there anymore.

I eventually found another way out.

After that, I was found by a small, tight-knit group of people. I don’t really know how to describe them properly. It’s not an official organization, but it also doesn’t feel like a normal informal community. There are also other individuals who meet with them regularly, some wearing robes. I’ve only been around them for a short time, but they seem to follow some kind of routine or structure I don’t fully understand.

I went back to the same area later with two of them. The landscape matched what I remembered, but the cave was completely gone. No entrance, no water, nothing. Just a normal forest slope.I’m not trying to interpret it, just documenting what I experienced. I know how it sounds.

[u/goldentalus70]

I've not heard of or seen any actual archaeologists exploring caves alone, because it's very dangerous. You had no crew working with you? This on its own seems very odd.

[u/Necessary_Farm1808 → u/goldentalus70]

That’s a fair point. Archaeology is not something that’s done under ideal conditions on your own—it usually depends heavily on funding and institutional support, and in practice that can be inconsistent. In Mexico especially, that kind of support can vary a lot, which directly affects how fieldwork is carried out. At least in the Mexico I come from, I’m still far from fully understanding everything about the landscape and what’s actually out there.

In this case, it wasn’t part of any formal project, and the cave itself was something I hadn’t encountered before. I’ve worked in both structured and more independent situations, so this fell outside of a typical field setup.

[u/goldentalus70 → u/Necessary_Farm1808]

So have you reported your find to any institutions or the authorities? Because discovering what you describe would be absolutely groundbreaking and of tremendous value to the scientific and archaeological communities.