We Found An Abandoned Town Hidden in the Arizona Mountains. 

Just to clear up my mistake I had gotten my facts mixed up this town was founded in the 1870s and ended in 1940s sorry for the mixup.

This was awesome! I was injured 27 years ago at 18 and loved exploring abandoned places. Unfortunately my injury ended that. So, THANK YOU for doing this. I really enjoy watching your videos.

Dude Ruby has never been forgotten we in Az, just didn't feel like sharing it with anyone

Ruby Arizona. Where my grandfather was born and was raised in the 1930s, he moved around from different mining towns in the 1940s. so I enjoyed the video thanks for bringing back beautiful memories of my grandfather's childhood town. It'll be adventure to explore his stomping grounds, and it is not a waste land. It's a beautiful part of Arizona.

We’ve been there a couple of times. The long rectangle structure early in your video was the scales for the mine. The large piece of equipment laying in the ground is a refrigeration unit - that was the general store. Amazing place !

Ruby, Arizona! Just visited myself a couple of weeks ago (first time). Family history there! Building next to jail....town store/post office. Bandits killed owners in 1920. First sheriff of Santa Cruz County, Sheriff White killed while transporting prisoners to prison. Thank you! Awesome Video!

The drone shots in the beginning were awesome and how cool is that staying the night in a town in the middle of nowhere with no one else there right on man

Thank you for your excellent narration of this former town. I appreciate your honesty on what you are seeing and eliminating what you believe 'might' have happened. I almost feel as though I was walking through it with you.

the coolest part about this is the fact knowing all those buildings saw and was in the "wild west" if all those walls could talk...

The pit that your buddy fell thru the surface were truck scales. You can see the pedestal in the background where the weight readings would have been taken. That is why the timbers are so heavy duty. They were meant to hold a truck or other vehicle while getting weighed

I knew a nice old guy that worked for the state of Nevada. He went to old ghost towns and tended to fences, etc. He would spend the night. I asked him if he ever heard or saw anything at night. He said that he never tells this to people, but told me that he heard lots of people talking and heard piano and banjo music as clear as can be. The abandon buildings came alive at night. Old Charlie never drank, was a regular church goer . He said he just let them party and never tried to go near.

Ice Plant. Those are ice molds. They would fill the vat with salt brine and chill it to below freezing. Put fresh water in the molds and make big blocks of ice.

You and your crew are not alone.People are watching you.

Incredible, just so incredible. For a town to still have standing structures that is roughly 200 plus years old, give and or take some years from used buildings from the 30’s or so is amazing. And in the desert? It’s such a harsh environment. Thanks Jon. 💜loved it. I’d so want to check this fantastic location. Have a great day. Glad Tims foot is ok, you so don’t want to mess around especially being so remote. Awesome drone shots btw. ♥️HB

Thanks for watching this was one of the highlights of our roadtrip.

Thanks for taking me along appreciate it man. As far as not getting it perfectly about dates as such it’s all good!💪🏻🐸🤙🏻🤙🏻

I don't care if the info about that ghost town was accurate, but let me tell you i was at home on a Friday night thinking of going out but that video somehow put me in a serene mood and now I am staying home! 😎

Thank you for sharing! I really enjoy your videos that have the history with them. I think I know where you were at, and I thought it may be dust by now. I went to it in the mid 1980’s. My friends and I would spend our weekends going to ghost towns in AZ desert. I lived in Apache Junction. Your trip is bringing up wonderful memories:)

Thank you for giving us clean, awesome and informative videos. You keep it real and I love watching. Stay safe!

So awesome. I love to get out and explore also. 😎 1870s wow. Great vlog Jon

This is a pretty awesome place..we had a slide like that at our elementary school.. It was awesome.. Glad Tim didnt go any further or get hirt worse... Thanks Jon for another awesome video!!

Absolutely LOVE this Video!! The footage, the history, everything is awesome!! Congrats Jon and Tim 🎉🎊💜☮️

That hot tub tells me that it has been occupied at least in the '70s

Camera man going too fast, slow down bro let us capture all the detail of things, please!

That place you initially called a shaft but wasn't very deep is actually a scale for weighing out trucks...the pipe sticking up was where the balance mechanism was mounted!!

Bham nailed the Unknown I love it. I must go here. Thank you so much for sharing

Their are a lot of abandon town's,cities, places, homes in the world. What a shame their are so many. All those places being left to rot away.

You're supposed to yell "LOOK OUT!!!" before you go dropping anything down a shaft.

If anyone ever tries to vandalize the place the caretaker should lock em in the jail for a day. 😂

Great video as always, and I know this might sound silly but that town seems so sad some how, as if it is waiting for it's people to return, told you it was silly didnt i but thats the strange strong feeling i get, so please dont laugh, thank you for sharing it with us all.

The wood platform you fell through was maybe a large scale of weighing ore on a vehicle...

I found this by accident, love your video and commentary found this oddly relaxing to watch. Thank you

No cell service, you say. Good thing Arizona will allow me to open carry.... Great video, btw. Love the drone footage...

THANK YOU JON FOR ANOTHER AMAZING VIDEO, ALWAYS LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT.... FAM

I am from the UK. We don’t have this sort of history. The video is so interesting. Thank you.

At the time I watched this video, you had 1.5 million views and 12k Likes. Impressive! Congrats! Keep up the good work!

would love to do an EVP Session in that Town..Very kool of you to share this gem. thank you

I didn’t know you were going to be in my neck of the woods Jon. Most people are surprised by the history of Arizona. You should check The Lost Dutchman Mine in the Superstition Mountains ⛰ there was also a plane accident about 5+ years ago and everyone in the plane died when they crashed into the superstition Mountains. I could see the flames from my yard that’s how close I am to the Superstition Mountains

I calculated the mine shaft to be about 572 ft deep, based on the rock drop.

Thank you for your channel we wife have never had a vacation so your channel takes us there God bless always it's breath taking

This place is an awesome find! If only the walls could talk imagine the tales they could tell just in the history alone.

This place screams run for your life while you still have the chance 😱

Wow, Dejavu: We lived in Tucson as a Kid, We went Camping in Pena Blanca Lake, as a 10 Year Old then we drove thru some real Windy Road and My Dad Asked for Directions from this Guy that lived in a House in a Mining Town (Ruby Arizona). I now know my Dad was Quaisi-Lost, But Him being a "Dad" He was in Denial. Anyway the Guy gave my Dad Directions. That was back in the 1950's. Thanks for the Ride back in Time, Kudos on The Video Excelente! Ed the C from Cameron Park, California.

I loved the footage. You made you're own little documentary. ;)

Very good video. I checked the town on Google Earth, and was surprised that street view actually drove along a dirt road passed the town's entrance. Wish you added footage of the dried up lake with some ruins on and next to it, and given an explanation on what those three very large holes/craters are up top of the hills South West of the town !

Daaaaaang that's a long ole way for me to go to get a sticker lol. Great video as always, thank you Jon. Btw, just sat here watching your video I actually saw 2 false black widow spiders at opposite ends of the bedroom eek. One brave Husband later and we're good xD xx

And to think, someone drove that truck there and just left it, so much history there just left unknown it drives me crazy!

We had slides like that in the 60's & early 70's, we used to rub them down with wax paper to slide faster & it was very fast

... really appreciate the narration and the history ... and respect for the stuff still there ... blessings ...

interesting to see how people lived and i could just kind of imagine how it would've been. Thank you!

You have such a calming presence my goodness, such a breath of fresh air!

Brother, i live in Rio Rico near this, and other ghost towns. Replace the word "found" with "followed the signs" to Ruby, Washington camp.....etc.

This town seems like the perfect staging area for the Cartel drug mules and the human smuggling coyotes. Thanks for the video, God Bless

how could it be abandoned since 1930 depression? When there is a book from 1960 in the class room.

That’s a good thing bats are great to have around to keep misquetoes down

I love the landscape of the american west. Its really the landscape you cant find anywhere else.

You should adjust your sound / microphone after the loud music plays. Your narration is very quiet.

Tall slide. Kids still had brains and common sense back then. No biggy. Reminds me of a documentary, where an archeologist is exploring an old cliff-dwelling indian site, and commenting how she couldn't understand how children could have possibly survived there, with 100 foor high shear drops. People are intellectually devolving, despite technology making us appear more intelligent.

Hello great video lots to see . Just watched wonder Hussey video just came out Nov 18 2020 the town of Ruby has changed a lot in 2 years for the good .🤔 Cjd wash state . Thank you for the show on Ruby az 👍

I was there just a couple of months ago and things have changed since you made this video. The Wynn Corporation bought a huge parcel of property and built the biggest water park in Arizona. Slides, bouncy cages and water boarding fun for the whole family.

When Tim dropped that rock down the shaft was AWESOME👍

Here in Newfoundland , they resettled many small outports during the 1960’s . Beautiful areas worth exploring .

Great find. Cool content. I'm loving the epic childhood death slide.

People see out of the box and the potential what you can do with this town rebuilt and start fresh. The way they live in those days is better then now. Imagine the peace and quiet you get. With people who you love. I for one would love to live in a town like that. Don't know about you if, I ever hit the millions that the first thing, I would do.

Only reason it's still abandoned is because I'm on vacation. I'll be home soon.

Hi Jon. Made it to Ruby. The room where you left the stickers was close. It had a security steel door on it. Notice say they are opening up museum there in June or July. That room is all cleaned up. No stickers for us🙁

This is the first Exploration Unknown video I have seen. I liked that you described the feeling (no wind) and smell of the things you investigated. Makes me feel like I was there with you. I was born in 68, before lawsuits were a thing and yes, we had 20 ft slides and I loved them, dangerous as they may have been. Thanks again, I'll check out your other videos.

This place screams paranormal exploration. I could feel the activity through the video. Holy cow

Wow that's an amazing find!! Loved it

This is an old mining town founded by Mr.wickenburg. I live rigjt near there.

You had me at 20 foot water slide...I’m haunted from the past chalked boards, new trendy DIY, ya, I’m just playing...

Hey Tim, I liked your video. Ruby's perty cool ya? Brought back some good memorys for me seeing the place. It is a very old mining camp, the spanairds were aroundthere in the 1670's? 1700 then I think around the 1870's 0r so things started to fire up around there from the gringos. I believe Ruby shut down for good about 40-41. The metals pulled outa there mostly were lead zinc, copper, silver and a little gold I was told. When I was about 10-12 years old in 69-70 my older brother would take myself and usualy a friend along with him and his girl friend in his 55 oldsmobile to cut fire wood and camp out for the night. As soon as my friend and I had the trunk packed and I mean packed with mesquite wood we would go to Ruby and or other mine shafts around there and explore. What a blast we had! We would come home with a trunk full of mesquite and an old green and white colman cooler full of rattle snakes. Found a few goodies now and then. Still have an old carbide head lamp I got outa one of those old prospects. A lotta rattlers around there. If your ever back out this way before the forest service bulldozes them all I can take you to some realy cool old gold mines if youd like. I have over 400 gold, silver and copper hard rock mines on my gps that are within a 50 mile radius of my place. I almost live in the old ghost town of pantano. Its just a stones throw from here. Any how, thanks for the blast from the past, keep on trucken, Rick in Pantano, AZ. yes the ghost town.

That place is absolutely amazing... I would love to visit or camp there.

The thing you are looking at at 7.50 looks like a commercial ice maker. They would put water in the boxes and pump chilled brine though the pipes to turn the water into blocks of ice.

I camped there as a scout backing in 2003-2004. I recognized that truck, it hasn't changed at all.

Been there but it was in the 70's and it sure has changed. thanks for the revisit it was very awesome. But when we were there there was very large lizards in there and scared us have to death. lol love the video thanks.

Thanks for staying clean man. I've watched other exploration videos and its the F word every other word. No need for that.

its year 2019, they started in 1870, so really the town is 149 years old, but its still amazing. I would love to camp there.

Wow, this is cool stuff and I enjoyed listening to you explain the site! Thanks a million man.

A 20 foot slide! Back in a better time. Kids living their best life. Thank you for sharing the adventure. Y'all have a great channel.

My Grandfather was the head of the mining union there in the 1940's.

Wow I would love to have that old jail house door it's awesome

Thank you for such a great film and unlike other exploration videos where it's very loud and shouty you are so calm and clear with the story your telling us it's a great experience to watch, please keep making videos like this and I hope other you tubers learn from how you make your videos.

We were in Ruby and Aravaca, around 1966 looks pretty much the same ... thanks for the revisit

Abandoned since the 30s. No way. I saw a modern looking security camera at the beginning of the video and those books were from the 60s

You should have gone down that slide on a bike lol. Loved this video, what a fascinating place

About 15 miles west of Rio Rico, AZ close the Border , I'd be careful ! Of course I pack conceal carry every time I desert explore.

Me and my son watch this , this is only video exploration without saying bad words, like F word...this people are great and I salute you..guys and god bless you...I actuatualy subscribe and like .....

@ 9:12 I just spotted a 150 year old Chrysler 300.

The thing your boy fell through is an old scale for trucks

What great place to explore! All things considered it appears to be pretty well keeped or preserved or fozen in time or whatever you want to call it. Compared to more urban exploration sites with graffiti and senseless destruction. Thanks for sharing!

Your technique of short scene, fast pan shots with blur in-blur out of scene is well done. Leaves a goodly bit to the imagination, as any good film that's made, resulting in less equals more. The mind fills in the rest. Stay the course, Hollywood is on your horizon.

I like that you're allowed to visit and camp in the town if you like. I think more places should do that!

looks to me like it was abandoned in the 60s.....the tires, Readers Digest books, basketball court, etc

Enjoyed it, thank you.

it's great that you have knowledge of the history of that area and that you spent the night says a lot about your findings and what you're saying about the place and I'm glad to have seen this. I feel like I know something about Arizona and how far it is from the Mexico border thank you.

The hills have eyes!!!👀

Just saw your note, late 1800s to 1940's looks about right. But lots there looks like 1980's stuff.

Great find. Very cool old place. However, it appears to be only about 30 to 50 years old. Still very cool to explore.

Wow!! What a place! And that car! If I ever find myself in Ruby, Arizona, I'll pick up a sticker :) thanks for the awesome video :)