🌍🔍Uncovering My Absolute Favorite Discovery on Google Earth!  

We just need to date it

Wow! Thank you, Deborah! I took over 30 minutes of drone footage so it was tricky to figure out which shots to keep

Send the footage to the national archives

I can confirm this feeling - The editing and the panoramic dronefootage is freaking professional quality

theres no way in, because it was flooded back then..it would be interesting to catalogue, allthe structures heights from a point. see if there built the same hight up the cliff. which would mean, it was flooded..@@TheTrekPlanner

Wow thank you so much for your comment! I love hearing stories and experiences like these. I would love to see those blankets. Do you know where those are at?

I know the villages of Acoma and Oraibi were occupied back then when the people were leaving the cliff dwellings and are still occupied to this day, I still remember grandmother making piki every morning and singing while she ground corn

Pueblo

If you ever want to venture out farther north check out Jarbridge NV,

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I was just thinking the same exact thing.

You can see the black streaks up the wall of the cliffs from the smoke of their fires.

@@divinelightshine

@@divinelightshine Why on earth did you think it was a good idea to post such a nonsensical, inane, and obnoxious comment? Are you an unhappy, insecure elementary school kid? Obviously preserving ancient archaeological sites matters vastly more than fueling the curiosity or treasure-seeking high of some juvenile, selfish individual who wants to collect a souvenir, or take a selfie in the doorway of one of these ancient dwellings.

​@@divinelightshineRespectful of what the rocks represent - the people who built them.

not devine at all.@@divinelightshine

We are still hard working poeple! lol! I assure you that some of us are still working this hard for life! Your comment is lovely, I just want to remind people that we are still here, m'lady! You are probably native decent...

music reminds me of donkey kong country

That is very interesting. What additional equipment or imaging software does it require? Is it some thing that the average photography and videography hobbyist could purchase and use or is it more expensive and specialized? Thanks.

And could it be mounted on a hobbyist drone?

🤯 I. Want. One. Now! 😮🤤🤤🤤

It's hard to imagine the kind of effort it would take to move all of the rocks and logs to such precarious places. You deserve an award for all of these discoveries!

The new iPhone 15 has Spatial Video that is designed to be used on the Apple Vision Pro headset.

You have no idea how much your comment meant to me. Some of these trips are harder than others, but seeing comments like yours, really inspires me to keep going. Thank you immensely -Jeff

​@@TheTrekPlannerI thought this one of my old comments thanking you!!! One thing bud!!! Time to up your game!!! Soda before a hike!? And nothing with you I suppose...hmmm!? I was a life time scout....til events caused me to resign that once proud organization. They taught me...BE PREPARED!!! Put together a go bag you can keep in your vehicle....remember....4 basics...5 really. WATER!! FOOD. FIRE, SHELYER....I add medical. Not to preach...but we need you dude!!! Stay safe!!¡!😊😊😊

I'm with you Gregs. I discovered alot of stuff hiking back in my 20s and 30s. In my 60s now and 7 kids later, I'm tired. Loving these videos.

@@davidklein1667 The soda was a mistake! Never again will I drink a mountain dew before/after a hike! haha I don't think it's apparent in the video but I did have a backpack full of water and snacks.

@@TheTrekPlanner I was one of those ppl too! We're all over yr channel lol. Disabled now, I used to plan all trips around a hike. Good for you having water/snacks, tho i wouldn't expect less after watching your vids. haha Mountain ew! It happens . Oh and this find was AMAZING. WTG TY

Yes Thank you so very much ❤. I love this because it’s something I’ve always wanted to do!

PS, be extra careful about picking up pottery shards because a few years ago, several land owners were prosecuted by the department of the interior for collecting pottery from their own land. Mostly because it's considered to be protected under the antiquities act. Anyway, have fun and keep making videos. Thanks, Collin.

God bless you brother or possibly sister

@@collincluff7955really?.. Everything I’ve ever been told by people who own land down south is that it’s theirs, and they have the “rights” to whatever is found. Now what they do with things they find is what’s most important.. but I’ve on someone’s land down by Moab about a decade ago and they have countless ruins on their land.. and it’s so archaeologically important that the archaeological department from BYU came down and studied the area there, and they found that it’s the oldest known indigenous site in North America at over 40,000 years old. We were there about 6 months before BYU went and it was absolutely amazing what was there.

See, this proves that global warning is a thing.

Drought conditions reduced these areas in precolumbian times.....were these....climate changes???? oops

@@user-hx6do7zi7f yes, it's been going on for thousands of years. Drought conditions can last for hundreds of years and can come on suddenly. It may have to do with the shift of the jet stream. Why this shift occurrs is anybody's guess. Incidentally, droughts in the SW, Midwest, and mesoamerica are associated with cooler, not rising temperatures.

Thanks for answering my question. "Where is the worst place to be during an earthquake?" That loose rock looks really scary!

@@user-hx6do7zi7f Yeah, but not manmade, as the liars would have us believe. Worship the Creator, not the creation.

Hey Brandon! Thank you for your comment and for watching!

my thought was it had been too open, letting dust, water, and birds a place to land, so "board" that thing up

it is likely that these structures are north african. Dr. Barry Fell indicates that north africans were in the US southwest on anceint times. see his book Saga America

@@raymondtonns2521 these are pueblo ruins sir.

@@raymondtonns2521 Quite the appeal to authority, seeing as though the deceased Fell's area of actual expertise was starfish and the like. He was a zoologist, not an archæologist.

he was a linguist first archaeologist second@@annakeye

Thank you!! I am having so much fun doing this and I'm glad you are able to "join" with me as often as you can! 🙂

Hey bud!! I understand your enthusiasm for this stuff!! Since you live in the East..as I do...thought you'd like to hear about something on my area! I live in central Pennsylvania. In Susquehanna county are cairns...or spires....piles of rock 20 or so feet high. Nicely constructed so are in fairly good shape! Were they boundaries!? Most feel they Weren't graves! Hit me back if you find it on Google...give me your opinion...ideas!?

I really appreciate your comment! I am hoping to come out east and see Cahokia and other mound sites in the near future! I would love to see some different landscapes

Those cairns look really cool. What strikes me about the mounds we have in the Eastern part is they are organized like the sites I visited down in Central America. I have visited a few parks with mounds in Florida, Alabama and Georgia, they are all organized just like the ones in Central America. @@davidklein1667

@@TheTrekPlanner that one is on my list also. I most of the states, they have parks with mounds in them. So far I have visited most in Florida and some in Alabama and Georgia. I have a special needs child, if I don't show up two weekends in a row, meltdown city. He likes to travel so I am hoping one day we can do some extended travel.

Thank you so much for watching! 🙂

@@TheTrekPlanner PLEASE - I want to look at this area in Google Earth. Where is it? THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

Driving through Utah, I realized it'd been a while since I'd walked my miniature dachshund. It was a nice day, so I didn't mind that she had taken me far from the highway. She turned a corner around a big mound where if you looked up, you would possibly be first person in this desolate desert area to see a lone petroglyph high above.

You mean Mesa verde.

@lindatyler3372 No he has it correct. I used to live in Sedona and I have been there. I think you have it mixed up with Mesa Verda down by Phoenix.

Camp Verde is in AZ. Mesa Verde is in CO.

Ive read the climate was a lot different when those houses were built and as the area became more of a desert around 700 AD they were gradually abandoned. There was likely plenty of water and natural (temporary) pools and (permanent) seepages, wild game, birds and eggs, and wild grains, roots, etc in that area's heyday.

Except for the comments you never disclosed the location. I see Utah mentioned but being a dumb cdn don't know know it is related to grand canyon mysteries. OK I saw dragons or demons in the pictographs. I'd hide too if that was in the valley below.

Robgrey6183 mentions most of these have been cataloged. Have you ever tried to get more info from the registries on sites you have visited? That could make these videos even more informative.

I would be nice if you had at least told in which state this photography was taken. These are defensive dwellings where the residents went when invaders came. Thanks for the impressive views and for not climbing up to them.

Imagine being a young mom...so much to do...grind corn for meals. Soften your man's moccasins!! How on earth did they keep their toddlers safe from falling!?!?

That t shape door they must have blocked the bottom opening and still be able to see out as an adult

@@carolwright7503 Or possibly recognized that we are narrow from the knees down. Torso area wider, plus room for items carried.

Yes....or were they adding a porch...or "patio"...!?!?

They used a rope and baskets to bring the stones and water up. They didn’t carry it up. Think easy first. 11:13

much of which has been hidden away, lied to us about or just not acknowledged . ie: smithsonian ...

It's always the way, amazing tools like drones, when accesible to everyone just get used for stupid things most of the time.

​@@dsc7772 Go get your pals and storm the Smithsonian. 🙄

​​@@dsc7772 Isn't it obvious why??? We would not be seeing this if they didn't try to protect it.

The ancestors of the builders are very proud of them and return regularly to honor them. They are glad we find them so difficult to locate.

pretty sure the majority of people in NA are not "colonial descendants."

That's amazing. I live in LV and love learning about the history here. I wonder if the hermit built them! 😄

Keep up the hard work, you remind me of me 40yrs ago. Very good work.

No duh. That is what we mortals call a double edged sword ...Only a God gets to use a flaming one. You are not God.

@@bellelise. Thank you for your comment. It is always nice to hear from a modern day caveman.

Pristine?

And now it’s know to the world, it will be trashed and pillaged :(

@@lolux6577 Exactly! I can’t wait to go walk around and go inside those places and take a TON of souvenirs !!! Hopefully I’ll get lots of $$$ on ebai selling them. I bet I could make at least $10 a brick. 👍🏻 that’ll be $1000s right there. 🤑 BTW… did you see the directions. Or gps coordinates because I completely missed them. 😭 No? I guess I’ll have to cancel my ruinous, greedy trip since I have no idea how to find this place. 🤷‍♀️

Our Federal and State governments, Forest Service, BLM, Park Service all attemp to preserve and protect. There are many volunteers who protect ruins in person for weeks at a time.

That means a lot, thank you!! In one of my previous videos, someone commented I was going too fast with my drone, so I decided to slow it down a bit! So glad for the feedback as it helps me try to change and improve!

The notices he found referred to "The Archeological Resources Protection Act" and being on public land. So there is legal protection for their preservation. Given the remoteness, it's unlikely there are any physical protections (fences, etc.) or patrolling park rangers, but the signs make it clear. Too bad they couldn't have placed something more sturdy than plastic-covered papers held in place by rocks. The National Trust and English Heritage do a great job with historical sites! My favorite is Bodiam Castle.

The black lines on the cliff faces are called desert varnish. Not soot or ash. It is a layer of iron minerals coming out of the stone face by wearing and rain and staining the surface. Saw this many times visiting ruins in the southwest. Accent people used to scratch into the desert varnish to cut it away and expose the natural stone underneath to a create petroglyphs.

Maybe it wasn’t as inaccessible in the old days

Many things shown in the video indicate this possibly was a Bug Out last resort defensive position. Even the scrape marks on the walls leads one to believe something was being sharpened in a mass production fashion (spears/arrows). People would not go through such drastic measures to build things like this when it’s much more easily done below on flat ground. The old saying “head for the hills” comes to mind and these people must have resorted to this out of desperation and fear. The fact our You Tube creator couldn’t easily figure a way to reach these areas almost proves a point. The walls that were built excessively high for no apparent we probably set as barriers and blockers should someone with bad intent reach that level and come from the opposite direction. Clearly these shelters have indications they were short term defensive positions. The fact there is seep water close by could be another reason why this location was chosen among with the other reasons. Humans have a habit of memorializing bad periods with conflicts and battles. I theorize those pictograms are the story of how the people had to flee their village (arrows look like Teepees) and take refuge on the mountain sides (overhead line depicting mountains in the distance).

Unita Mountains? That must be near the Uinta valley and Skinwalker Ranch.