This is why they keep restricting access to new places and have programs installed in to drones to prevent them from being able to be flown in “restricted areas”

@@TartarianTruthTV Lol. Cool, bruh: the government is attacking you on behalf of... the History Channel?

@@simonjohnston9488 everything you just said was completely out of your head. I didn’t mention any of that at all…

@@TartarianTruthTVHoly shit I always love seeing other people that know about Tartaria

Almost like this technology is super new and accessible now and doesn't have to rely on public money funding ridiculous costs. If Americans hadn't become so braindead History Channel would still be producing good shit, but they produce what gets views, and the average American doesn't have the attention span for this

This. It's why I think this channel is better than other similar ones. He doesn't come across as pretentious and he doesn't talk just to hear himself. I also love taking adventures based on "I found a weird thing on Google earth"

Oooo yeah agreed!

Reminded me of the ambient sounds on halo maps

As everyone flocks to angels landing

idk man I agree sometimes but when all I could hear was his footsteps I would of rather heard babbling or at least some scenic music lol. The feet stomping on the rocks in the dead silence definitely irritated me.

Spiritual training site is a very good hypothesis. Such sites were purposely remote so the initiates could focus without distraction. Many ancient traditions around the world had analogous remote sites.

Extremely well observed! The sound of nature, the wind... perfect.

That's exactly what I was thinking about during this video..

This is beyond awesome. Thank you so much for sharing your adventures.

May be

they got a hell of a lot further than I ever did playing irl minceraft

"Oh I'm afraid said base is fully operational!"

Thanks. The name fits, its a very defensible retreat, but not a long term settlement.

Let alone he read a note about not going in and nearly 15 seconds later goes in. I hate these channels who claim they found it on google earth but clearly people have already located it.

@@CaptAxolotl it's pretty fucking weird. "I searched thousands of places on Google Earth, and then by a miracle i found it, an unknown place without a name that's actually called the Citadel, so i had to get my brothers special over landing truck with 6 wheel drive and high clearance. We finally took a highway to a state maintained trail head and paid two bucks each to walk 4 miles. But we had to bring OUR OWN SNACKS. The worst part was we had to pay 15 people not to hike so we could be alone there." It's like this guys who build cabins alone in the woods, but they have all these power tools that somehow stay charged. KZfaq grift.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

​@@CaptAxolotl, if you hate it so much, why don't you click not too recommend channel, easy.

Thank you! Being respectful to the ruins is more important than anything. Glad to hear that because it's hard to know what to fill the silence with during drone shots. I personally love ambient nature sounds

@@the_pov_channel I, too, appreciate not having music overlaying or concealing the ambient sounds of nature. Good work; good hike; stay safe; be well.

Looks like the Green River in Utah

​@the_pov_channel it was the best idea to not add music, it really adds to the mystery and insane atmosphere this place has. Makes you alone with your thoughts and feel like you are there.

@@RazainthewoodsRoad Canyon.

Agree. It was most likely used as a look-out tower

If true, then there might be more structures hidden somewhere.

Observance and research are drastically different from each other

I think those are already found and studied. Klick bate.

@@imas84 100% correct. this site is called "the citadel" and it is very popular among locals and tourist on the grape vine. Certainly there are many who have never heard of it, but I doubt a dude whose profession is touring the southwest and making films about it has never heard of this site, nor had to search for hours on google maps to find it.

Sorry to hear. Sending good vibes to you ❤️

Will do friend. Thanks for your support and stoked to have you along for all the adventures

Have you seen the outrider USA bikes? For people with mobility challenges?

I agree whole heartedly. I have COPD and watching and witness their journey. I thank them. I always look forward to a new adventures.

dam im sorry to hear that its life from a whole different perspective

There's just something profound about this sort of thing.

Whens the next sleeper video coming?

I just found this channel and I have to agree. Great video!

I didn’t even know this place existed. What a great video.

They were defending against nephilm.

I can’t help but think his propensity for walking on ice near cliffs is NOT responsible.

I find it physically painful to watch.

@@deker0954 I recoil immediately. I cannot help that my brain screams "Nope."

me too, couldn't go there in real life and I so appreciate that others can...Thank you

It got scary for me a couple of times.

My brain was having an argument with itself “It’s not real!” “But it’s so steep and deep!”

I wondered if it was repurposed for a well designed trap to spring on the unwanted. Scary if you think about it.

A trap? Can we all actually go back, pause it, and think how is this even possible?? Why is it not one of the greatest monuments in existence lol

All of the structures are built from the same rock exhibiting the exact same traits, this piece is just larger before it gets fractured into smaller pieces via jointing and natural faults. A much more impressive example of this natural process is the Al Naslaa formation you can google if you are interested in the topic. @@ZaneM01

​@@ZaneM01 breaks off a bigger rocks falls rolls and comes to rest in that position perhaps the bottom erodes over time as well

Jesus christ

*awe

Me too. 81 yrs old. Appreciate this. Wonder how they got water and food.

​@@marjoriegarner5369Me too and I don't see fire pits or anything

Brilliant comment!!! You have spoken for many of us!! Thankyou @paulapridy6804 !!!

Logic would want they build some water rentention with stone and clay at the bottom but may they had a source or river passing by, who know. for food maybe the region was more populated by animal at this time, they could also have made some terasse farm to retain water and nutriment ( some cliff side look too clean to be only erosion) Look like there is a path from bottom to almost the top probably with the last section being jointed by some sort of scafold or rope to avoid the bridge lenght , actualy the cliff look more reworked than the bridge part probably to slow down visitor approach @@marjoriegarner5369

inside the house you can see one of them still have a strong black coating on the rock ceiling around 7:00 , you can also notice some kind of small " window " at the very top of the wall that were pushing smoke outside @@jackiemack8653

This video is very ahistorical, unfortunately the creator is more concerned with editorializing than educating

@@shmooveyea It's missing the point to complain about being "ahistorical". Nolan and Jesse make no claim to being experts, nor are they trying to present a full explanation beyond an amateur opinion. The video, which is superbly shot and edited, does little more than document and re-create the wonder & awe they felt when they visited this unique place. Others who are better suited can educate and draw more informed conclusions. Let's instead be impressed at how carefully they have avoided giving too much information about where this place is, all the better to protect it for many years to come.

half the comments are about learning more in this video than _____. Any content like this has the responsibility to get the basics correct, as the OP points out. It's *basics* not some comprehensive lesson@@yorktown99

@@yorktown99 Thats valid af, tho the claim that people lived there for "potentially thousands of years" had me with a raised eyebrow when he said it.

@@crazycheii The term Anasazi was used because it was the word used by Diné people when describing Ancestral Puebloan sites, i.e. "Anasazi bi ghan". (Pardon the spelling) So it wasn't the anthropologists and archaeologists who, "wrongfully termed the ancestral puebloans as Anasazi". The ancestral Puebloans are by definition also Anasazi/people different than Diné and these Anasazi/Ancestral Puebloan's descendants do live on in the contemporary Pueblo villages.

Wow thank you. They took a dream of the coolest fort in the world and made it into reality.

Look up pre clovis people's very interesting findings

The biggest threat to "native" Americans was each other. They were Mongolian. Not native to America. They originally came over to North America when there was a land bridge connecting eastern Europe to America. Those aren't "well built". The Roman Empire existed at the same time as those were being built. "Native" Americans were not "incredible". They were savages who were too busy killing each other and worse, to progress in the slightest. They hadn't even domesticated horses before we taught them to.

Then why did they all need to be killed?

​​​@@DobuDobuDobuDot he mentioned in the video that native Americans killed each other because they were members of different tribes that were at war. However, the libs in school only want to harp on the whites killing them. Ex. Puebla and Navajo fight, Navajo win, and take land. Liberals: "oh well" White settlers and Navajo fight. White settlers defend their homestead and keep/take the land. Liberals "oh my God, colonists! Reeeee!

Yeah maybe you won't support people like this if you really care. They go out with drones to ruin extremely stoic sites like this for add revinew. Because for some reason they feel the need to be Indiana Jones and need to inflate their ego for money and prosperity. If they really cared they would document it with the proper people

They did not live in an extreme place. The place was ideal at the time of construction. The native Americans did not build it.

​@@artemiserituWho on earth built it then?

@@neo7759 Our ancestors. This was built by ppl who we haven't been told about. This is a ancient mining pit that is hidden in plain site by the powers that be in charge of this world.They don't want us to know what they have done to the earth because they are still doing it.

@@neo7759 READ THE BIBLE! jk I'm curious too.

If you know anything about the people who lived in this area, please share. What an amazing cultural artifact…

All people born in America are native Americans. As for the people's who were there before Europeans came in large numbers, they were not one people but many, and had many ways of culture. Perhaps it was built by those who were there before the ones you call 'native American'?

@@benjaminollis7621 No human is native to land mass, but to earth. What they don't tell you is that these humans who hid under the rock were running away from nephilim, this is a scientific fact.

​@@abel4776If its a fact please share your hard irrefutable proof with scientific theory and experiments and examples. You cannot just claim something with no evidence is a fact ans no the bible or whatever religious texts you have do not count.

@@krounos1 I have a source for them: They made it up.

just made a comment its there its a native man thats cool af

Im not sure you know the meaning of the word unique.....

I certainly do. @@StopBanningMaStuff

How's this not unique captain negative? I just had to say I live to hike fish hunt whatever and I been watching too much KZfaq myself because a car cut me off and it broke my leg in 6 places so I'm growing bone around titanium rods etc. now, I really feel your pain😂 I'm planning a sw trip to see these spots I haven't seen and spend some time camping w no service hopefully.

Or how to spell KZfaq..........its not u tube. It is KZfaq or YT. @@matildagreene1744

I think it a prison,

Seems like a dumb place to build really

Eh. It’s like any strategic decision. There are pros and cons to building remotely and elevated like this. I don’t think it’s black and white, genius or stupid. I’m sure they had their reasons and could comprehend the consequences they might run into. Both of these takes are reductive.

No water source, no food source, cannot sustain a siege for over a week. Seems to me it's simply a destination for pilgrimage where people may have stayed for a night or so.

@@hans7856 That's a very good point!

@@Pusfilthsays the clueless person who is sitting on a couch in the city lmao go back to your video games.

Hi, where is it? I want tot look around the area on Google maps myself. Thanks.

Idk why they are treating it like a secret. Obviously ppl know where it is. All I know is Utah. Southern Utah is the best I can give ya

@@JvariW Different groups have different reasons for being secretive about the exact locations of native American ruins. Those of us who explore these sites are secretive because we've seen so many sites degrade when they become too well known, and too many people begin to visit there. Many of the sites with scattered pot sherds and corn cobs a decade ago are now stripped bare, as people carry off the very archaeological resources that attracted them to visit in the first place. Instead, we find sites littered with trash now, instead of artifacts. We find that sites have been desecrated in recent years, as selfish visitors dig up grave sites and storage cysts, looking for artifacts to steal. We also come across people who have exceeded their skills, and need rescuing. I consider it my duty as a human to help my fellowman when I find someone in need. But it screws up my own vacation plans when I spend my day helping someone out of a canyon they did not have the skills and gear to enter in the first place. I have to shorten my own hikes when I give my water to somebody who did not take enough of their own, and found themselves desperately dehydrated. I don't want to encourage visits to places like this, on a public forum, because it will lure people into visiting a place that is simply too dangerous to visit for most of the people who watch youtube videos. Hiking in southern Utah requires skills, knowledge and fitness that too many people simply do not possess. Too many people think that the GPS maps on their phones will guide them. GPS simply doesn't work in canyons with no cell service, or when your phone battery is dead from "searching for service" for hours. The Bureau of Land Management doesn't encourage visits to most of the ruins in southern Utah for the same reason: they don't have the staff or funding to make remote sites safe for visits by the general public, nor to protect the sites from thieves. Their resources are already stretched too thin policing the sites that are well known and easily reached.

@@godsgod1677 It's in Bear's Ears National Monument. I realize that's a huge area, but if you're exploring by Google Earth, you'll find lots there to explore. I don't want to give a more precise location, because it might lure people to go visit a place they are not prepared to reach safely. This site is simply not safe for most people to visit.

​@@JvariWThey are not mentioning this because most times "hidden" places/sights become famous they get destroyed sooner or later, by masses trying to get the best pictures there while trampeling everything and taking "souvenirs" aka rocks, shells, plants etc... That's also why the exact location of the last "tallest tree in the world" is kept secret.

I agree! I’m in my 50s with some heath issues which will never allow me to go explore these kinds of places. So thankful there are channels such as this.

Frank come to pa I’ll go hiking with you anytime

@@bicboy17 If I could afford it, I’d be on a plane tomorrow. PA is on my bucket list.

@@frankedgar6694 that’s awesome man , I’d really like to see Alaska one day when I can afford it. Hope you good health man, I hope you can get out on that hike one day.

@@bicboy17 I’m not a cruise guy but the wife booked the Alaska cruise last year. We went late May. The weather was good and warm enough to enjoy being outside. Seeing whales from the ship was cool. Juneau, Skagway were cool little towns. Do it. It was fun and worth the money. Look for last minute deals too.

I thought that multiple ones have the black colour on the ceiling? Wasn’t it the fire marks?

@@dariazhempalukh There were two rooms with blackened ceilings, but he's still most likely correct. This looks like either a secure storage site or a place to retreat in emergencies, not a permanent dwelling.

@@Wlerin7 Temporary shelter against raids would be my guess.

@@Balkken: very temporary - water and food access might be problems.

@@Balkkenmy first thought, too; like Helm’s Deep in Lord of the Rings. Or that old fortress jn India that is carved into the top of a cliff. I’ve been to a similar fortified cliff side structure near Bernalillo, NM.

Thank you internet stranger. Its as simple and complex as that 🤣

He didn't find it on google earth, this is a well known site called The Citadel Ruins. Dude's a fraud, he made up the story about finding it on google earth. The fact that there's an Archeological Resources Protection Act sign there says it all.

Yea it's crazy the cliffs and drops.

The cliffs were mined, you can clearly see this. I don't know how long ago or who, but definitely many reset periods have happened on earth and the tech that mined this is gone.

@@rickdeckardbladerunner2049 yes

Do you say so because of the striations along the cliffs that kind resembles a quarry? Intresting to think about for sure but feel like its gotta be erosion right? @@rickdeckardbladerunner2049

Imagine having to take small children up there.

Yeah, it looks too remote and sparse to sustain a significant permanent population, but a small group could maintain and defend it for a long time.

Defended against who?.. other natives.

@@benjaminollis7621comanchee most likely.

@@drakesomerset129 I live in Somerset lol (UK)

If that is true, that is incredible. I never considered this, but the roof was clearly blackened by quite alot of smoke. Any idea as to what they would be signaling to their fellow tribe and family?

Woah, now that's a wild thought. Could just as easily keep people in, as out...

Definitely seems more like a prison to me. Alcatraz, basically. There's so much fortification and isolation but it also would take effort to bring supplies like food and water, something that would be easily cut off by a siege. Not ideal for a fortified settlement, but perfect for a prison.

Given the size of the structures could it have served as a temporary shelter, or maybe it was a sacred place to them?

@@aloysiusdevadanderabercrombie8- No back then if you did something bad you were killed ... they didn't keep you in prison.

@@damkayaker or exile or beating etc. Crime wasn't so much of thing if you lived in a small settlement as you can imagine. People also had to be more forgiving

Interesting thought with Man's Best Friend as part of the discussion. The still-remaining residual smells left by the Indians the dog might still parse might have offered a reasonable visualization of the peoples, animals and activities as they occurred in ruins... essentially brining the ruins back to life.

terrifying

Bwaaahahahaha!

Are you hitting on this young man? Cause it sure sounds like it 😅

Me too! You funny! Thanks for saying it. If these were my boys I’d be proud and worried sick about their safety. And talking about being worried, who ever lived here had some serious enemies to worry about. And we think we have problems…

Really! They’re just strolling along like they’re on a broad roadway!!

People like this are the issue what gives him the right to take a site that sat for a thousand years and post it on KZfaq for add revinew....so other idiots like him that don't know what they are doing to go in and ruin a site... because you know this single person is more important. Absolutely disgusting

@@pd9664second what you’re saying (as in agree with it)

Agreed. The secret and little known places of the World are getting overrun thanks to this kind of thing. A place I have vacationed at for the last 25 years has undergone massive influx of tourism and the entire character of the place is being threatened. It wasn't meant for high traffic and crowds. @@pd9664

Lighten up Francis. Geez.

He's actually preserving the site by capturing video of it and putting it on the internet for the public to access for free. Realistically, the internet will last forever. Whereas this place may eventually erode or be vandalized. Although it'll likely last forever due to the remoteness of it.

the divots are made by water but if you found the perfect bowl for grinding would you not use it? im sure they did

Thought same, great comments.

Absolutely. They could have done that if needed. There were actually two large, grinding slabs on the floors up two of the internal rooms though. I saw them. They would have cooked and done other things outdoors when possible, and retired indoors to do those things when they needed to get out of the wind and the weather. I would say that food would’ve been taken to this place over a period of time and gradually was built up for emergencies and times of need. These were the original preppers

Yeah the Pyramids of Giza had nothing on this level of engineering.😂

I imagine the environmental condition, at that time, were more suitable .

Those mountains were carved by a river just like the grand canyons, so there was access to water

Yeah. I’m thinking this is a Native American “helm’s Deep.”

There isn't any people there dude

@@benjaminollis7621 I meant the people to whom this place means something. Those who left the notes asking not to enter the buildings for example.

@@richbuilds_com We knew what you mean, he’s just being a meatball.

Thats the idea! Thank you

Glad to know you enjoyed that. Cheers

Language is such a powerful cultural vehicle. Keep that flame lit.

You should consider making videos on here going through your language. You might find an audience interested in helping your people keep it alive (or at least more documented).

@@AnomalousCanid for comanche, the numunu that's like not allowed at all foreigners knowing the language is a great tragedy (from the comanche perspective)

@@gyozanomics That's unfortunate. Is it better for it to potentially disappear? I suppose it's not for me to ask.

Hey, from the mainland! 👋

Thought the same thing!

Another sphinx

Possibly a fossilized Head I know of a Fossilized Dragon in Morrocco It Stretches about 1200 Miles the Length on top Africa Died Attacking a Huge Fish in the Sahara Desert about 500 miles Visible from Google Earth Can Also See the Sliced Neck As Ancient Texts Suggests MudFossil university

Agreed!😮

It's a fossilized Head

It's not. It's really poorly researched. First of all, he kept saying "Native Americans", without specifying which group of Native Americans. When you see a documentary of Rome, no one refers to the Romans as "the Europeans". But apparently clearly identifying Native American groups is unimportant, because they are all the same, they are simply, the others, the non-whites.

@@Diego20529 Jesus Christ, dude. I bet you're a ton of fun at parties.

@@Diego20529 Such a childish reply using childish name calling as an insult. You do realize "America" is a continent right? So, just wondering.. Where's your KZfaq video unlocking the truth, smart guy? Oh you don't have one.. That's what I thought

It’s already pretty well known. It’s called the Citadel, and it’s south of Blanding, Utah.

Haha

The Citadel ruins in Cedar Mesa, UT!! Great place! Only $2 Fee per person. Easy hike. Kid and dog friendly. Get to the Kane Gulch Ranger Station and they can point you in the right direction 🤙

The people who built these homes lived in the area for centuries, but for most of that time, they lived in parts of the mesa that were more easily accessible. It was in their final decades in the area that they started building in these sites on the canyon walls, in more easily defended locations. That change was brought about by necessity: a decades-long drought drastically reduced the food supply. The residents started killing their neighbors to steal their food. During those drought years, both the Ancestral Puebloans and the Fremont culture to their north adapted to the food shortage by changing the way they built their homes, and by building food storage granaries high on the canyon walls to reduce theft. The drought never let up, though, and they abandoned Cedar Mesa, and most of the rest of the area after a few decades of drought.

Doesn't look like anyone would be defending this place. A handful of small "rooms". Not many families. Not many fighting men. Perhaps just looked cool. Even now people like to live in interesting and quirky places.

@@buakawfan333what’s left is the hard structures… what cannot been seen are the former “soft” structures that were taken when this site was abandoned, or withered away with time. The location likely inhabited many more than may appear at first look, as many similar locations are

Is this in a national park? Seeing the cliff dwellings and stuff out west has always been fascinating. My people, the Muscogee, largely built with timber and laths. Always thought stone was the way to go especially in primitive building.

Is this in Utah?

What is it called?

Anyone know what those notes say?

Most likely it was not a permanent dwelling. It was a temporary emergency, shelter, or dwelling place. They would’ve kept food and water supplies there. Think of it as an emergency shelter. They would’ve had defensive walls staggered so that anyone approaching would have to take a zigzag approach to get through the walls, giving the defenders a chance to stop them if needed. They could’ve easily connected those walls and you saw the bypass where you would simply slide down one side of the cliff and go around the wall and climb up the other side. They were clever. There were structures like this all over North America, once upon a time. Unfortunately, a lot of them have been destroyed over the last 200 years by property owners, farmers, and unfortunately, the government. I know we’re quite a few places are that have walls of earth or rocks that were defensive and others that were ceremonial. You have a lot of places up in Canada as well. Just ask the Aneshnaabe.

Wow. I find it pretty funny that a Canadian is surprised that it actually snows elsewhere in the world. But then again, you are from Ottawa.

@@viridian4573 play nice!