Drone Captured Something Not Meant to be Seen!

In this episode of Outer Range, I've returned to an area that holds some of the most breathtaking and mysterious sights I've ever discovered, but this time I may have stumbled onto something even bigger, what could be the remains of an ancient community. I'm eight miles deep in rugged terrain, the kind of place you'd think no one could survive, and yet the evidence suggests they did. So the question is, how did they live here, and what secrets did they leave behind? Well good morning, it's Nate here with Outer Range, and I'm back into an area that I've been to before, a different, I've been to the region before, but I had a friend tell me that there is more cliff dwellings in this area than what I found. So hey, let's enjoy the journey and come with me, and let's see what we can find together. Pretty steep canyon here, we're up in the, we're up in the pines now. There's a huge boulder right there, pretty rugged country to get through to say the least. I mean this is like, this is going to test your patience for sure with everything pulling on you, and beautiful though. Found me a game trail, happy for that. Right here on the edge of the cliff, so the animals will also try to find the easiest route. Big, big country. I'll pan around here to show you what I'm looking at. Sorry if I sound a little bit out of breath if I do, it's because, well, I actually am out of breath. Okay, so I just came up over this ledge, get my first glimpse of a dwelling across the way, so the lead I got that I didn't know what I was doing when I was in here and missing these dwellings and coming back is totally worth it. So let me just show you what we've got here. Look at this little opening here with the, kind of has a rock in it, so I'm going to check it out here and see what we, see what we have. If I don't fall getting there first, which is a real possibility. Huh, more than I actually thought that it would be. Let's see if I can get the camera in there a little bit. Perhaps you can jump out here and bite me. No thank you. That is a perfect little habitat for, for some little animal and up above me is the reason this canyon was inhabited. It's actually got a waterfall coming off of it even through the dry season and we made it all the way up to the head of this canyon and now all the pieces of the puzzle start coming together. We are, again, we keep, keep cruising. Oh, sooner than, or it's a different one. I started to say sooner than I thought. We're at different ruling. I don't know. Wow. Okay, this is the first of several rooms anyways. I see several more down there, but let's just come over here. I don't think I even have to peek in this way. I think, oh no, I think I can walk around them because wow, the fronts have, have falling, fallen here. So perhaps the turn up here, perhaps the overhang wasn't enough to, to protect them. Just a small, small little room here. There's actually no way to get around them without now evidence of many, many fires. Look at this post. Now this is another post that has been burnt and many of you have put into the comments that that was to preserve it from insects and maybe deterioration, but the second little alcove here, it would have been a room. I call it an alcove, but let me just turn around here. So the whole, the whole front is completely gone. So, and then I think we'll go around the corner and there'll be something else, even though this has, I don't know if that's natural or happened after the fact or others been here and violated. I don't know. Let's just peek. We'll peek through. Oh boy. Oh boy. Look at this. Okay. I'm not going to touch anything, but look at this ceiling. Oh wow. So this is, this is an upper story here. Wow. Let's go around and see what we can see here. Oh, fascinating. They really were, they really had a good understanding of architecture. So here's, I'm in the front of it here, but if you look back here, the way this wall comes together and I can get a little closer without missing anything up here. Can you see the way the angle of that wall is? And then they use the cliff here to make this down here a second, a lower floor and that an upper, but all of it is fire burnt here. You see, from where I'm at, you can see the elevation of these roof supports here. So down below me, see those beams that I don't know how full this is right here of, well, the front wall probably collapsed into there. This wall here probably collapsed. So there's just debris. Step around the corner. Some of their masonry work here with the, you see here, the Adobe exterior. And then this is just kind of open face. It probably had the Adobe over it before, but you can tell part of the architecture. Here's a room up here that I don't think I'm going to be able to get to. I will not climb on any. Oh, wow. So here's a wall. Here's a little opening in the back and the room that I wanted to get into and see what was there. I can't get into due to, I'm not going to climb on the wall and there is this opening right here. So what I'm going to do is put my camera hand through there and show you what the room looks like. And we'll see it together. Okay. If I don't drop my camera, look at this, look at this space. There's actually a doorway to another room, but I can't get to that doorway without climbing on something. So that will be off limits, but this is the view. This is the room that I was hoping to get into. Now you can see the alcove from this area. And up there, the hole is where I put my camera through. And you saw earlier, still was a little small for me to get through. So we are going to kind of live with this view right here. The same thing. It's another, now this has evidently broken up at some point. Oh, look at that beam. Oh my goodness. Now this opening is plenty big for me to get through without touching anything. Oh, wow. And this shows you the fragility of these ruins. You can see where it's cracked here and it's cracked on down. So probably, now I don't know, could be a hundred years, could be two years, but the front of this one will likely fall also. But look at this beam. Now this beam, to give you an example, is about this space here. It probably has a 10 inch diameter and 20 feet, probably 20 feet long. So where they even got this beam at or got it up here, then this full area, very unique. Just kind of lean over here. I'm going to need to take pictures with another camera, but why they built this straight wall here and had this little hidden area in the back, I don't know. Because they could have just, that's a fireplace or something. And I think it has to do with something down here. It must be a fireplace or something. If you know why some, why they would do this, please put it in the comments. When they normally, if they had the back wall to use like this, they would use it, but they built a, it's almost like a false wall in the front. And then you have about a two foot section, maybe 30 inch section here in the back. And you can see what they've Here's an aerial view of the first amazing set of structures. Okay. So I'm, I don't know, uh, 50 feet from that, the big room that I just come through. And there's this amazing spring here. I just wanted to video it. Look at this. If you follow a little trail right there, right on the cliff edge right there, it'll take you right, right over there to that really large cliff dwelling. I don't know what it is of an evening or early morning. It's always means more to me whenever I visit these places, but I've just stepped around coming through the brush and greeting me right here is a wall. Oh, how magnificent. Oh my look at this. Look at this. Okay. So this is sensory overload for sure. And it's going to kind of come up right here. Now we'll say at one time I'm standing in a room, the walls have fallen, but back here. Oh, wow. I just got to tell you, it never gets old. There's something with this, with this dying vegetation and the fresh green and the walls, the ancient walls. Look at this still an old beam up across the top. Oh my what's up here. What am I looking at? What is right here? Okay. Piece of pottery. Another piece here sitting here on this stone. Oh goodness. What am I? What's down here? It's just everywhere you look. I did not bring a light. Here's more beams. Huh? I don't know what to think of these. I don't know if this is much, much, much later. It's just cut off too clean on the end. This right here just cut off too clean. I don't understand that at all. We're, I mean, we're eight miles back in some place here, a little stash or something back there, back under here. I see what's in this place. Oh, wow. Look at this. Well, I hate to use too many wows and look at this, but I can't really explain. Is this, can you see something here in the camera? It shows, I got a little glare on there. I'm trying to get it off. It looks like possibly, and right here, some sort of rock art. Just to get the full scope of what we're looking at, you're looking at two stories there and it continues, just continues. Let's see what's in there. There's a room with a little, little lentil here, the way this was built, but it would have been probably a smaller opening going into a two-story room. I don't think there's an entrance to this room, or yes, there is. I can see it over here. Let me just walk up over here. All right. Now, it's a bit overwhelming. See where the wall has fallen down in the front? This would have all been structure here. Now, it's just a pile of rubble. Look at this support post. Amazing, amazing, amazing. Here, I'm at a doorway, but this is not going from outside to inside. This is going from room to room. Now, I'm probably too big to try to go through this doorway, so just put my camera in here and let you see this. Look at this beam. This would have been two-story also. Look at these black walls in the back. Getting the very distinct feeling that this is an area that was added onto. As more people came, they were adding onto this to make room. I think this right here shows it as well as anything. This was a doorway, it looks like, at one point that went outside, but then now it's mudded over with the wall built to create another room on the outside. It looks like they was making room for more people. I guess the question would be, why was more people coming here? Here's definitely some petroglyphs back here, or some rock arts. This is pictographs right here. Look at these right here, the size of my hand for scale right there. Oh, look up here. What is this? There's another one. So, why were there more people here than other places? Were these dwellings later on in a time of peace? The structures are located in some of the most rugged country I have ever been in for signs of ancient life. What do you think? Hey everybody, thank you so much for watching our video again. We love having you along for the journey that we're now on. I want to say congratulations to Scott who won the last print that I was giving away. That was the 10th video. The good news is I have 15 more. I printed 25 total, so there's 15 on my website that can be purchased if you do want that one. I'm going to be doing another giveaway in the future of another drawing that I'm doing, but hey also on my website behind me you see some of my prints. I'm doing my first ever print release as an artist and boy would they make amazing wedding presents, Christmas presents, birthday presents. I appreciate your support. Thank you for following The Outer Range and we'll see you next week.