No gimmicks here, no tricks, just the sort of thing most kids dream of at some point or another: Discovering a weird hole in the ground and dropping a camera down into it.
If you need the TL:DR version, here you go. About five straight minutes of this:
Until this happens:
Luckily, a handy dandy geologist popped into the video's comments to offer his professional opinion of the affair:
The first 15 feet or so are a steel Casing that goes to rock. The remainder is an open bedrock hole. The hole was likely drilled by a Cable Tool Rig. That might be the drill bit and cable at the bottom, it may have been lost after it entered the natural cave.
The rock is likely a Paleozoic-Carboniferous-Pennsylvanian limestone/shale.
The pipe across the surface is similar to that I have seen near Pittsburgh, where shallow natural gas (related to the first oil well) was piped under low pressure to a gathering site. The well is possibly a natural gas well that accidentally hit a cave and was then abandoned.
These wells are common, what is less common is the cap next to the well, many are open. Abandoned gas wells are a bit of a problem. My guess is that this is in the Appalachian mountains somewhere.
