I spend a lot of time on Google Earth searching for abandoned structures. I seen this large building so I had to mark it on my map and take a closer look. This structure was designed to be completely offgrid a Self-Sufficient home. It was built in 1985 by a very smart man. He had great vision and ideas for the amazing structure. The walls are 1 foot thick, 4000psi of reinforced concrete tied into the granite bedrock. It was secured into the bedrock with dowel pins every 5 feet. The owner/builder said nothing would move this house not even an atomic blast. He said it was built like the pyramids to last forever. Sadly he passed away and the house was not finished. I hope one day someone will finish this house and enjoy the nature surrounding this place.
Would absolutely love a follow-up video to this one Brent - if you locate any drawings - likely hand drawn! Would love to hear more of that interview as well! Great explore! Keep them coming!
Your videos and content are among my very favorites. You don't just record an abandoned place, you give it back it purpose and identity. Even if for just a little while. You do your homework ! You are awesome my friend ! ❤ 🙏
What an incredible find. This man had his own vision for a home, sad he died before it was completed. Really Really seculded spot, luv it!!! So glad you hiked back in and located it! You brought us a great explore and the drone fly over gives perspective on the scale of this place. Thank you, Thank you for all of the leg work, filming, and editing to share this explore with us. You Always keep us coming back for more!!!💥💯💥💯
Esso Esclad insulation; perfect for keeping out wind, rain and cold air but buyer beware it will NOT stop a bear. Excellent find Brent. Have missed your company on here this past Summer, hope all is well my Friend.
Pics with the original owner taken in 1985, a year after I graduated high school. The drone shot going from ground level up through the stairwell was awesome!!! I would love to have seen this place finished.
I went down the rabbit-hole on the owner of this one a few years ago. What a life. Rich and poor many times and finally made it huge right before his death.
I try to protect the places I explore, if I give out a name it would give out the location. Within days the place would be covered in graffiti and destroyed
This is a great place and is in a very remote area to bad it never got finished but glad you found it and got the chance to explore it thanks for the video and Thank You.👋🇨🇦
My Dad would have loved this. He was a mechanical engineer who loved underground and self sustaining sructures. I would love to have a place like this and to have those views. Thank you so much for sharing this ❤
What a bizarre and unique building. You sure know how to find these places Brent. Radar!! Haha!Patio furniture on the top. Railing, outdoor barbecue, big enclosed sunroom ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hi and Hurrah !! Missed you - so xcited when I saw you had posted. How u dwin ? We 🇬🇧 are in the midst of a heatwave and I'm all heatwaved out !! I really enjoyed the post because it was so unusual and so far removed from your usual posts. I wonder what happened to these people and their dreams. Bear claw marks made me shiver please be safe . I liked the open circular viewing platform but as usual as you wandered round the clues got more and more confusing . Dont give up your explores I look forward to your work as I am now more or less stuck indoors with spinal probs and you keep me entertained ! Stay safe Brent and keep xplorin ! Janice 🇬🇧 xxx7
Good job I always like photos from the history that you put there. It's a shame that more is not known about the building and the owner, why he built it and who owns the land now. Thank you
Hellooo Brent! Since I’ve been subscribed for at least a decade (another older account), it felt as if I’d seen this before. The other similar structure I don’t think had the same water view or access to it. Too bad it didn’t get finished. Amazing find….👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
The wall you walk out on is probably meant to function as a thermal heat storage, google earth-house, there they have a heart wall that is heated by the sun during the day to emit the heat at night into the house, the pipes you see in the ground floor can even be intended to circulate the air from the heating battery out into the house, 20:30 into the movie you pass that "room", it is south facing? It was probably intended as a greenhouse to be able to grow your own vegetables and provide heat to the house. What an incredibly nice house this could be Nicely filmed
What a great explore! And a beautiful lake! Great drone footage. As soon as you saw those bear claw scratches I googled "what are the gun laws in Canada?" Lol Thanks for sharing and stay safe.
Interesting place, glad the bear was elsewhere when you were there. Definately not my style of home but, im sure the owner was very proud of it. Thanks for sharing
Amazing! The amount of time, effort and money to go that far with the structure. Only to have it be slowly reclaimed by nature and weather. Thankyou for sharing your hiking adventure with the rest of us!!.
The photo of the owner and two ladies on the observation deck shows the incredible view that he had then. Those perpendicular concrete walls that are about 3 feet high that you weren’t sure about is the foundation for a circular tank… probably the cistern / water basin.
Thats the most amazing find you've found wow it would be awesome to see the plans what he wanted it to all look like thank you for sharing your videos with us so amazing have a blessed day
Would have just loved to see it completed. It did have a military theme to it. It is a shame no one in the family could have seen it through to completion. Gotta love those drone shots. Thanks for taking us there, Brent.
Love your channel Brent as you always manage to come up with something different - that place was incredible, or would have been if finished. Great explore and super drone footage ! Gill 🇬🇧
Cool. I just wonder what would happen if you fell and got hurt. All alone, no cell coverage, no one around. Freaks me out thinking about it. I hope you tell someone where you're going and to call the police if they don't hear from you by a certain time. But amazing video! Be safe.
That was another great explore. From the pictures of the owners it looked like the trees weren’t that tall in 1985 so they probably had a great view of the lake. There must have been some way they got all that concrete and supplies in there. Brent it was scary you traversing those stairs. Thank you for a great video❤️😊
Oh Brent❤🎉❤❤❤ LOVED EVERYTHING about this fabulous & interesting explore...even the mystery...THANK YOU THANK YOU for all of your hard work, and diligence to provide the BERY best films for us. You ate so loved and cared about❤ Long time subscriber, elderly, with many health issues. Touring and exploring your lovely country, Canada, alongside you brings me such joy!! GOD BLESS you young man, and keep you healthy and safe❤🤗🙏🏻
Hi Brent What a cool house or mansion. It’s very secluded there and to know there are bears there I wouldn’t want to live there. I always thought round houses were called YURTS. Made all of concrete. It’s a shame they never finished. Probably would have been like a palace in the middle of the woods. This was a great one Brent. Thank you so much for showing us around today. By the way the drone footage was beautiful. The lake was cool too. Stay safe and well.🛖👍🆒
Those metal steps were giving me bad anxiety. I was so worried for your safety. Of course you wouldn't be showing this if you died. Not good that the cell service was bad. Thank you for all you do to film these episodes for us!
It seems so relaxing when you got to the first platform, with the forest and wind Cant see the lake. The lake is huge Im really enjoying this video If it was finished more people might be living on that lake
I try all the time to find some off road places on google maps, can't count how many hours I've searched with little to no luck. I wish i knew where you found all these incredible places so i could visit some near me.
What a truly unique place. The drone footage is amazing. How great it would have been to see an artists impression of the finished building. So sad that all that work came to a halt, though it's still a terrific construction.
The beauty about places like this is, you get to imagine what it was suppose to look like, what it might have been like and what it is now, ..Why would anyone want to build there?,..why not?, if you have the means to do so and the desire to make it happen, go for it...Too bad this one didn't make it into fruition...it would of been epic, but for whatever reason, besides the obvious financial reason. Maybe the dream was bigger than the wallet...possibly?...either way THIS was an epic find! THANK YOU for taking my imagination on another journey into the past.👍👍👍👍👍
How did get concrete there is close to a town ,it looks impressive,I would say that the concrete channel is for water heating ,I from New Zealand so we are young country,great content cheers
I found your channel today!! I'm addicted, I'm going to do a marathon Note: Sorry if there is anything written wrong, I don't speak English LOL 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Since there was no refrigerator, I expected you to open the blue barrel!! Thanks for a great video and for goodness sake, take some bear spray or a hand gun with you. Nothing scares me more than bears and sharks!!
this place is Awesome! sad it never was finished. would be Kewl if someone bought the property, found blueprints for the place, and did finish it out. if I had that kind of money, that's what I would do, but I would leave all the trees obscuring it from sight. tho that would make it hard to get supplies and equipment in for the job, but I like that its mostly hidden 😀👍
