They recognize 26-year-old Joshua Meraveka ... so he cracked the cave open. The first people to pull themselves out were the Awim, and then the Imboin and other groups, and finally the Meakambut.

But despite all that, people lived there for a long time." The caves were expanded into rooms ... when I was only 10 or 11 years old. "I used to stop in on Friday night, come home from school ...

The Alle-Kiski Valley Historical Society archives contain old newspaper clippings ... of Michigan Avenue in Lower Burrell. People who have visited the cave say it is cut into the shale face ...