Just an early solar home which was rotated for sun tracking. The concrete basement would collect the sun heat which would be released at night to heat the house during the winter months. I've been in afew houses such as this back in the late 70's which were very unique and ahead of their time. Someone didn't quite finish their project.
At first I thought this was an abandoned railway round house and they just added walls to the top. But that’s not likely because you would’ve noticed a n abandoned railway line going through the property
I've been there! my friend's grandparents used to live down the road before it got turned into a quarry and we explored all around there a few times. His grandparents knew the story and told us but I can't seem to remember it. So great to have this video as evidence so my friends believe me that we found this place.
Yeah. I'm at the beginning of this video and like a lot of them I'm disappointed in the lack of initial research these people do when putting up these videos. You'd think the local city would have the permits for this even if they're old records. Let me know if you can see this comment through the New Nazi Censors.
Back in the early 70's my mentor had pictures of this place. He came back to the states and I help him build the first round rotating milking parlor at Carnation Research center in Snohomish County Washington. Based on his pictures he took. Had many of late night calls when it fell off the track during milking. But with bugs worked out many more where built around the US. Glad I came across your video thanks.
Rotolactors look nothing like that house! That central post/room would not be there if that place was made for cows. You don't need to rotate the roof or even the building for a Rotolactator. You rotate the small section of the floor that the cows stand on. Look it up, and you will see many examples, and none look like that building.
Yes but that gave building gave my mentor the idea. I am sure he was the first to do the round rotating barn. Hater are everywhere. I am 70 and sure he was the first.👍
That pit covered by the plywood was unexpected. Never know what you might fall into. The condition of those vehicles really shows that place has been abandoned for a long time.
@@AbandonedUrbexCanada Obviously not a house.. More like some type of Hydro Turbine installation connecting to a underground aquifer..(From the REAL PAST.)
A greenhouse with an opaque roof and walls. Uh-huh…whatever. BTW, a cursory search through property records would expose previous owners and provide answers. Any real explorer would realize this. Those lime green spheres are fruits from a common North American tree normally planted in hedge rows. It is very rot resistant and was commonly used for fence posts. Once again, an “explorer” would know that.
It's an Osage orange. The wood from the tree is widely used by wood sculptors. The fruit has some eating potential, as well as being used as a natural deterrent for spiders!
In the midwest US we call the Osage fruit "hedge apples" The Osage tree branches wee used to make long bows by the Native Americans. And, hedge apples placed around your house are supposed to keep spiders away.
Thank you for adding your post about Osage tree. It was valuable to me because my neighbor has one and I didn’t know what it was. I would like to plant the Che variation.
Oh man that ladder you climbed. That was bearly holding on at the top there. Amazing place. Strange the equipment has not been stolen. Some seriously heavy duty equipment there. Scrap now, but back in the day. Im my country you can look up building permits (with drawings) from the local government. Any way to do that for this property?
I've been watching your channel for a couple of years and watch a lot of urban exploration videos " but there's something about your channel that sets you apart from the rest"! It's never repetitive or boring! I think you really care"! Thanks for your time and dedication Brent!👍💯👍💯👍💯👍💯👍💯👍💯😎😁
It’s because you doesn’t repeat redundant words and mansplain everything. He also understands the beauty of silence and his camera work doesn’t make us want to hurl.😉
Kinda glad I watched this one late, the comments are a plenty! This unique building explore sure brought out alot of discussion, curiosity, opinions, and awe. Thank you Brent it was a Banger!!
Wow, so amazing! At first, I was thinking, who on earth would want their home to rotate, but then I thought the same exact thing that you did, and that the rotation was for some sort of way to heat the home through the sun. Somewhat like solar heat? I'm thinking it would be a very big undertaking, but it may have the possibility of being restored. It's unbelievable seeing all the items that were left behind, the vehicles and the generator and snowmobile and tractor and so forth! Incredible! Awesome video Brent, thank you! 👍😊
The video display reveals a very abrupt exit, i.e abandonment, the value of equipment would have been massive numbers back then even now if being current technologies abandoned expenses raises curiosity about underlying storyline. Sincerely Grateful for this share. Unique characteristics
I would really like to know more about the individual(s) that built that thing. And what made them abandon such an exquisite project. This is just amazing.
What an odd building. I find it hard to believe it would have been a house.. & theres not even a real door.. but a step through window... heaven forbid if it came off the rails! I guess this one remains a mystery! Thanks Brent..
Really cool place, would be interesting to have seen it completed. That fruit was from an Osage orange tree, if you burn wood for heat, that wood puts out some of the highest BTU’s, got to be careful with it, I’ve heard of guys loading up their wood stoves with it, getting them so hot they glow.
My grandparents house west of Calgary had a tank in the basement that collected precipitation, it was by the Bow River at the Bearspaw dam. This seems more industrial than a home. Sadly no commenters seem to know what it was.
Definitely not a grow op. Growers keep it simple and sure as beck don't spend tens of thousands dollars for a set up. A box cart underground maybe but not this structure. Early solar heater home, gone bad.
Another great find Brent! Thank you for sharing and looking forward to all your spectacular finds in the year 2024!! Stay amazing Brent! Thank you for all you do for us!! You are appreciated! ♥️
That was insane! Reminds me of the Ukrainian farmer who built a ship on his Saskatchewan property so he could sail up the Saskatchewan river to get to the Ocean and sail on to see his family that he left behind. Weird objects in weird places. Great explore Brent! I agree it looks lkke some ECO design attempt. Cheers.
Interesting place - could have been finished for a variety of uses I guess. Maybe a home and agricultural use - rotating to follow the sun for heating and for growing crops. That old GMC truck had an emblem on the fender that said ‘Robinson - Guelph’ so I looked it up and Robinson GMC is still in business in Guelph, Ontario. 👍🏻
Whomever designed that house was absolutely brilliant. I wonder if their plans are online, I’m totally in love with that place. It looks like they recycled everything and used it and incorporated it into everything that they were planning but sadly something happened to them before they could finish their dream. My husband and I up cycle things from the local junkyard and turn it into art and useable everyday items. Our society has come to be such a throw away society when we used to take such pride on making things that were built to last or that were able to be fixed. If we went back to that way of thinking and living our landfills would be less full and we would respect our environment more. Thank you for sharing this amazing piece of art. I honestly wish to know the architect.
As a mechanic I 100% agree all the way, I see it every day in my job, nothing's built to last or even be repaired anymore, it breaks, you get a whole new assembly, throw all the usable stuff away that could've been fixed if it was designed better
@@theautofromhell6529 . We make multiple trips to the junkyard every month and the valuable items that we find absolutely blow my mind! I see whole mopeds that just need a few parts but people are too ignorant to install them so they just throw them away or valuable antiques that just need to be cleaned up and people are too lazy or uneducated to just use soap and a Brillo pad and we make bank . People ask us “ how do you do that “ every single time and I just tell them that we love to rescue things and I see beauty in reused items. The stupidest little things are given up on and I honestly see so many opportunities in the future for people who don’t have imagination and who don’t want to actually work. I just keep telling my daughter to learn multiple trades and she is going to make bank .. oh and to also collect lead and other precious metals 🧐
Hello,Brent. This has to be the strangest structure you've ever shown. I don't see it as a grow op and can't even guess. There was a grow op near my house years ago, it looked like a normal suburban house. Love the old vehicles!
Looks like a house but it's got a huge gap in-between of where the base of the outer lower roof meets the rails and tracks on top of its circular walls , the Gap between where the top of the walls meets the lower roof rails would be letting way too much air and rough wet bad weather into the property.... this Leeds me to believe that it infact is a greenhouse for growing cannabis carefully descised made to look like a house from a distance but it's clear when you investigate it it's actually grow house for cannabis lol @@AbandonedUrbexCanada
Grow ops come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. I'm skeptical as to whether that was its original intent just due to the cost of such a structure, and if it was discovered just how obviously strange it is
Hello Brent! This is an interesting building. Would love to know more about it but since it’s been abandoned who knows the real story. Those green ball like things around the tree you picked up was hedge apples. The tree wood is a very hard wood and the farmers use to utilize the wood for fence posts due to how hard it was. Thanks for sharing this incredible place.😊❤
Definitely an unusual structure. I wonder if the central concrete structure was to be a control room. It’s difficult to tell if it was amateurs or professionals building it but either way I guess the money ran out. You sure do find some crazy places. Thanks for taking us along.
So from what was shown in the video. I think this Solar greenhouse was built or used in the 70's GMC truck was from late sixties, early seventies. The outlets on the generator were three prone, which I do believe to be early seventies when that came about. Prior to that the elec. outlets were two prong. Cool old place, cool video. Thanx for taking us along.
Cool building!! I don't believe that is a septic tank inside under the floor. Methane discharge plus the odor would make that a truly bad idea. My guess is that it is utilities access. I would bet you that this rotating assembly was originally for some commercial/military application and later re-purposed into a rotating greenhouse. Hard for me to imagine this elaborate of a structure just to spin a greenhouse. Could have much easier and more cheaply built a greenhouse with a spinning interior floor in my mind without having to bear the load of and rotate an entire building. Anyway, who knows, just my $.02. Maybe El Chapo was growing weed up there N of the Border? It had to have cost millions to construct. Pretty amazing engineering regardless. Thanks for sharing!
Yea , exactly ! I'd say that is an old radar station from the cold water . That part was removed and somebody built this current structure where the radar dome was . No way is this a home or grow , purposely built to grow pot ! It would cost a fortune to build . 100% an X-military building !! Good call .
I would guess it was meant to be some sort of observatory or the first floor of a bunker; probably government. What I find weird is that the cars, tools and equipment date back to the 60's' ; As if all of that relatively new equipment was just abandoned. Pretty strange.
The Osage Tree produces the wrinkled green fruit that is sometimes called 'monkey balls' or Osage Oranges. Farmers used them as natural fence to keep cattle in. pretty cool building. would have liked to see it when it was up and functioning. Thanks for sharing!
Hopefully someone can finish the dream build. The hardest work is already done. The hole may be for refrigeration? The center could be stairway to upper level. This guy definitely worked in the construction trade and saved leftover materials to build. I would love to see it finished!
This is the most interesting find I have seen, and I've been following other urban explorers. I'd be most interested in any history on this place. I'll keep checking back. Great find, and exploration. So many unexplained features. Like how they would power rotation.
At first, I thought it was a train roundabout, but actually I’ll bet it’s part of the dew line old radar installations that were in that area they moved on a massive turret
It's odd it wasn't ever in service, unless the original platform was salvaged when it got decommissioned. Then whoever worked on it just never got the platform completed.
I have no idea what this place was or would be, but it is the oddest place I have ever seen. A lot of money was lost when whatever it was didn't get finished. The land itself must have been very costly. Thanks for a very interesting exploration.
The green fruit is called a hedgeapple or Osage orange. They can be eaten but are not very tasty. The Osage orange tree has a beautiful wood. It makes great bows.
Don't think it's military. It was a off the grid project, like my friend's underground geodesic dome designed for nuclear war survival. When he died, his heirs sold it to the Navy, however.
@@samanthabloggins1775 I beg to differ with him but during the 60s and 70s there were many station buildings in western Canada built in secret by the US and Canadian government to monitor USSR and China radio waves and communication. Including the Aframe buildings just like this one.
Seriously overbuilt & for a reason, likely military & or scientific originally. Turntable like the old railway roundhouse's. Possibly built for radar or stellar observatory that was never completed then someone acquired in the late 60's or 70's & built the A-frames over top of... and sure, kiln drying facility for crops (including weed). Fascinating. Thanks Brent & HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Yeah, I totally agree on all points. This likely went through several "lives". Someone probably purchased an old government/military/scientific ... thing.... and tried to repurpose before giving up. (Or losing interest.)
I don’t think it’s government work. I worked on some remote concrete houses and this work looks like it’s all done by the same guy who had skills but too funky to have been done by a contractor.
Happy 2024, lovely Brent. Was so excited for your first blog of the New Year. Not disappointed. How do you do it ? What a fascinating and thought-provoking place You NEVER disappoint. Good health and prosperity follow you and catch you up this year ! With love Janice 👵 🇬🇧 xxx
That brilliant. I ve oftentimes thought of builing a house like that.never knew one actually existed. The sun is so useful if used properly. When i go to Greece i only go to one place .the one with morning sun and afternoon shade. The vinyards in capetown with afternoon shade command higher prices
I would have to say it appears to be someones dream, of a house that would be completely self sufficient. The house set in the ground, with solar gathering roof to both gain solar heat but also to grow your produce. I had similar dreams back in the early 70s. I never even got STARTED on mine before life intervened. But HOLY SH-T, what an OVER THE TOP, MAGNIFICENT "DREAM"!!!!!!!!! JUST "WOW!!!!!". I am totaly in AWE!!!
One of your strangest explores, but still a great video! Has me stumped. Agree with some comments, maybe a "green" house from the 70s to track the sun for heat, especially with all of the equipment and vehicles left behind from the 60s/70s. Not sure about being a home...how do you get to the upper level? Strange days back then...expend energy to turn the house 180 and back every 8-12 hours to save money for heat...lol. Looked like on the outside even that somebody tried to burn the whole place down...but didn't realize concrete doesn't burn..
Happy New Year, Brent . I hope you had a wonderful Christmas 🎄. It did look like a solar run greenhouse. What a shame they were unable to complete it. I think it would have been successful and ahead of its time. It would be interesting to know the real story behind it. Thanks for taking us there, Brent. Be careful as we want more interesting explores.
This may sound a bit off topic of exploring abandoned places, but I found this channel almost 3 years ago when I was going through a period of depression and bad anxiety. The videos are calming and bring a sort of "peace" into my mind. Going through another tough time, I came back. Brent, you seem like the type of friend who would take somebody along to explore with you to get them outside and cheer them up. The respect you show for these places is unmatched with other popular abandoned exploring channels. They may be respectful as well, but they make it somewhat obvious that they didn't ask for permission to be there. I don't get that vibe from these videos, which eases the tension. Keep it up! I'm from southern Indiana btw
I'm really sorry you are currently going through a tough time. If my video help you just a little I'm so grateful for that. If I was closer I would ask you to come outside for an cool explore (with permission of course) Keep doing things you enjoy and keep busy. This will help I'm sure. Hope you feel better soon 😁
@AbandonedUrbexCanada thanks I'm better now. That actually means a lot! I have a tendency to share more information than I think I should so I'll say it's just... LIFE. I've been a worry wart my whole life. That's why I think it's good to have productive hobbies to keep our minds distracted and balanced out that way we can work through our worries. And yeah, if we were closer I'd definitely go on an explore with you! But you make it feel as if we're all there with you. Take care man!
What a cool explore! I think it was meant as a house, too. A really neat concept for a house. Too bad no one wants to restore it and make it work. That fruit looks like breadfruit but I doubt it could grow there.
@@amitisshahbanu5642 They're Osage oranges, or horse apples. Apparently squirrels, chipmunks, and deer like to eat them. They're edible but they're very bitter and they hold a gross latex-like liquid, so most humans don't like them but I guess if you were starving you could manage to eat one lol. They drop from the tree in the fall. The wood from that tree is good for making boats and musical instruments.
Brent another great explore! Definitely was made to stand time. Strange that they would leave all the tools and cars behind like they were coming back and something happened. Hope you had a Happy New Year!
It looks like a cold-war relic of the 1960's. possibly and old radar sight or sounding rocket tracking site. It appears that a new owner later added the deck and A frame structures, possibly an early "Hippy-Preper", to attempt self sustained living. A-frames were popular as a quick and cheap form of construction that doesn't seem consistent with the foundation work.
This makes a lot of sense, I also noticed that the concrete chunk and the lid are quite different in quality. It certainly has a feeling of trying to adapt an idea to an existing structure... the method of sealing the rotating deck - which isn't circular! - to the foundation to close the massive gap is not apparent and smells like a let's-just-wing-it situation. Not the same degree as Ark Two but in that ballpark. Perhaps an aborted installation that was bought up cheap?
Very interesting. 2 wheel cart probably for a cutting outfit. Acetylene and oxygen tanks and hoses. They are called hedge apples from a Osage orange tree.
should talk to concrete companies in the area and see if anyone was delivering there, if they even had those up there back in that time. Someone has to know about it, there is no way to build something like that and nobody know anything about it. Very cool!!
@@Sadler2010 We have dragged and pushed concrete trucks up driveways, to get the job done. Mixer would take forever and would need that much in bags delivered making the job take way longer than need be. IMO
@@swmplvr That leaves either a concrete plant being close enough or a large mobile plant being trucked in to make it onsite like I've seen used in some cases in my area.
The French name for the tree is Bois D’Arc. It’s said the central plains natives used the wood to make bows. After the dust bowl of the 1930’s thousands of miles were planted as windbreaks, hence the name hedge trees…
That was a great video but you missed the best and most important thing that was there. My dream car on the other side of the ford econoline van, the 1966 Chevelle malibu. It was burgundy and still had the V8 motor in it. I was hoping that you would go around the van and check it out, If you ever get back there Please check it out.
This beautiful, strange beast absolutely MUST be finished. Can you just imagine it finished as a kind of Greenhouse/ B&B/ Museum kinda thing? I personally cannot stand the idea of historic builds such as this disappearing, without even a nod to the original builder(s). Breaks my heart, it does.
That place will stand for hundreds of years. That latter you were on was just so holding itself in place. Luckily it held or you'd have went face first into the concrete top edge before the top of the ladder would've came to rest on the wall bellow the top edge. Ouch.
Love the drone footage. And what a cool place. It reminds me of some kind of military building. Its quite intriguing whatever it is. Great find Brent. Enjoy your weekend :o)
Feliz ano novo amigo Brent, como sempre seus vídeos são surpreendentes viajar junto com você pra esses lugares abandonados e maravilhosos são fascinantes. Deus te abençoe e a toda sua família. Saúde e sucesso.❤❤❤❤
Several people have surmised it was for railway roundabout. Not possible. It's way too light duty for that purpose. Look at those tiny rollers first. Very little weight bearing ability. They are way too far apart for heavy rail use. The Steel work is not heavy enough either. Then look at how far above the ground the rotated platform is. If was a round about the table would be at ground level. It's way too high.
I never heard of a rotating house before. It was fantastic. I could not imagine what it was being built for. I will dream of this one. You are amazing!
I live near San Diego California, my parents built their home on a mountain and a doctor purchased a piece of land near us and was going to do a rotation house. It was in the 80’s, in the end he did not do it due to the cost.
I like your video, in 1981, I crawled into an old abandoned theater in Rome, and there were some paintings on the walls. I didn't stay too long. Thanks for sharin
I'm so happy to see the drone shots, it adds another dimension to the area that you just can't get from the ground level. I also think it was meant to be a house for some rich eccentric folks. The fruit is from Asia but I can't remember the name of it.
The fruit is from an Osage orange. The fruit, closely related to the mulberry, is not edible. The wood was often used to make bows. Looking at this structure makes me think so much of a turntable in a railroad roundhouse. Seems an odd place for such a structure though.
Nice toque! Have the same one in 4 different colours. A princess auto find 😂 Love your videos, I've seen them all! Your my favorite explorer. Happy New Year's! Make your way to Manitoba! I'd love to see stuff out this way!
I really enjoyed this video! If it wasn't a house, it should be. Kitchen, dining room, a bathroom and an office downstairs. The bedrooms and a few more bathrooms would be upstairs. Oh Yeah, those bumpy round things you found on the ground outside are Osage Oranges. Some people say they're edible, some say they're not. I've never eaten one and I don't intend to. I hope YOU won't eat one either!
Such a cool place. Beautiful natural setting... Would make a beautiful home and art studio...Love this. I wonder what happened to the owner's or if anyone still owns the property? Sad to see it so neglected.
Personally I've been here and I can confirm it is not a growing site or a war relic it was a house built in the 80s 90s for a family that randomly disappeared. My Grandparents knew these people and they would always ask for water so I know its not a growing site and it was never used in the war just a family with weird house dreams. But I've got no clue about why they left all that stuff just sitting there.
Definitely a grow house of sorts.. Other than positioning it for free heat/sun, why else would it be able to rotate?..🤷♂️ Just my opinion.. Happy New Year Brent..😉👍
Another guy built a house like this out in California I think it was. He had to basically invent the center pipe swivels for water, sewer and power, since nothing like that exists. So I think these people got ahead of themselves and could not work out the swivel for those utilities.
I think it's just simply impossible, think about it, is has to hold water/pressure whatever in, so has to be tight but also moved, it could be possible with rubber seals but the amount of maintenance they'd need would be ridiculous and it would be unrealiable, probably never get signed off for a house
Just an early solar home which was rotated for sun tracking. The concrete basement would collect the sun heat which would be released at night to heat the house during the winter months. I've been in afew houses such as this back in the late 70's which were very unique and ahead of their time. Someone didn't quite finish their project.
Sounds very feasible and sort of what I thought
Exactly.. during time of oil embargo.. Definitely NOT an old radar site. I should know I worked at one during cold war..
At first I thought this was an abandoned railway round house and they just added walls to the top. But that’s not likely because you would’ve noticed a n abandoned railway line going through the property
I remember reading about a solar home like this, maybe in Popular Mechanics back in the day
That's freaking awsome!!!
The truck is an early 70’s GMC C10, the van is a mid 60’s Ford Econoline, the red car is a 66 Chevy Malibu
Thanks
That econoline need to be restore that's such a Nice van
I've been there! my friend's grandparents used to live down the road before it got turned into a quarry and we explored all around there a few times. His grandparents knew the story and told us but I can't seem to remember it. So great to have this video as evidence so my friends believe me that we found this place.
I wonder what part of Canada it's in?
Southern Ontario
I'd love to know where , there's a leblond lathe just sitting rotting away I'd love to refurbish there
Please don’t disclose locations on my channel. I try to protect the locations not have them vandalized and burnt to the ground
Can you ask your friend if they remember the story?? We’d all love to know!
...the relics of someone living the dream decades ago & long forgotten.
Someone really invested a lot of time and money in this structure. It would be awesome to know the story behind this.
Yeah. I'm at the beginning of this video and like a lot of them I'm disappointed in the lack of initial research these people do when putting up these videos. You'd think the local city would have the permits for this even if they're old records.
Let me know if you can see this comment through the New Nazi Censors.
made for a movie no doubt
@@larrysingleton2864 Yeah, seems like it would add a lot to the video.
@@markgaudreau8053yes a supernatural thriller haunted MOVIE
Back in the early 70's my mentor had pictures of this place. He came back to the states and I help him build the first round rotating milking parlor at Carnation Research center in Snohomish County Washington.
Based on his pictures he took.
Had many of late night calls when it fell off the track during milking. But with bugs worked out many more where built around the US.
Glad I came across your video thanks.
I live in Snohomish county I think I know where the Carnation Research center is.
Very interesting story, especially the falling off the tracks during milking 🐄 😂
Rotolactors look nothing like that house! That central post/room would not be there if that place was made for cows. You don't need to rotate the roof or even the building for a Rotolactator. You rotate the small section of the floor that the cows stand on. Look it up, and you will see many examples, and none look like that building.
Yes but that gave building gave my mentor the idea. I am sure he was the first to do the round rotating barn. Hater are everywhere. I am 70 and sure he was the first.👍
Like I said it gave him the idea. Look it up and check with Carnation Research farm, I positive it was the first
That pit covered by the plywood was unexpected. Never know what you might fall into. The condition of those vehicles really shows that place has been abandoned for a long time.
So dangerous these places. Always a chance to fall for sure
@@AbandonedUrbexCanada that pit is for fresh water not sewer being a green house it would need large water storage
@@abefehr6155fresh water would come from the dug or drilled well on the property
@@AbandonedUrbexCanada Obviously not a house.. More like some type of Hydro Turbine installation connecting to a underground aquifer..(From the REAL PAST.)
Considering the construction materials; It has a doomsday bunker feel about it.@@AbandonedUrbexCanada
Hey Brent, that's an indoor green house, I've seen one in Saskatchewan. The greenhouse would rotate to maximize sunlight collecting.
Yeah a green house with a tin roof
@@larrynelson4909It has a glass roof?? It's a green house.
No - it 101% isn't
A greenhouse with an opaque roof and walls. Uh-huh…whatever.
BTW, a cursory search through property records would expose previous owners and provide answers. Any real explorer would realize this. Those lime green spheres are fruits from a common North American tree normally planted in hedge rows. It is very rot resistant and was commonly used for fence posts. Once again, an “explorer” would know that.
It's an Osage orange. The wood from the tree is widely used by wood sculptors. The fruit has some eating potential, as well as being used as a natural deterrent for spiders!
Thanks! I looked it up also. I would not eat it for sure lol
There is a large tree in central Texas with fruits that look like big oranges which are heavy enough to knock one out if they land on one's head.
In the midwest US we call the Osage fruit "hedge apples" The Osage tree branches wee used to make long bows by the Native Americans. And, hedge apples placed around your house are supposed to keep spiders away.
People make jellie out that fruit but it is not good to just eat.
Thank you for adding your post about Osage tree. It was valuable to me because my neighbor has one and I didn’t know what it was. I would like to plant the Che variation.
Oh man that ladder you climbed. That was bearly holding on at the top there.
Amazing place. Strange the equipment has not been stolen. Some seriously heavy duty equipment there. Scrap now, but back in the day.
Im my country you can look up building permits (with drawings) from the local government. Any way to do that for this property?
Sketchy and cringey 😂 he just said I’m alone and I’d hate to get hurt too…
I literally just left the same exact comment about the ladder lol
I cringed when he got to the top and I saw the support
1/8” of the rusty ladder rung touching a concrete ledge undercut by 2’😮
Yes it was barely on🤣 we can do a tittle search for names of former properties and permits issued but don’t think they will provide drawings
I've been watching your channel for a couple of years and watch a lot of urban exploration videos " but there's something about your channel that sets you apart from the rest"! It's never repetitive or boring! I think you really care"! Thanks for your time and dedication Brent!👍💯👍💯👍💯👍💯👍💯👍💯😎😁
It’s because you doesn’t repeat redundant words and mansplain everything. He also understands the beauty of silence and his camera work doesn’t make us want to hurl.😉
Hey thanks Henry. That means a lot 🫡
Thank you!
@@kaceyharms3135agreed!!!
I Totally agree 👍
Thanks!
Awesome! Thank you very much for this 😊
That abandoned van looks like the mystery machine off Scooby-Doo!😎👍
Kinda glad I watched this one late, the comments are a plenty! This unique building explore sure brought out alot of discussion, curiosity, opinions, and awe. Thank you Brent it was a Banger!!
Definitely one of the more interesting abandoned UA-cam vids I've ever seen. Really interesting!
Wow, so amazing! At first, I was thinking, who on earth would want their home to rotate, but then I thought the same exact thing that you did, and that the rotation was for some sort of way to heat the home through the sun. Somewhat like solar heat? I'm thinking it would be a very big undertaking, but it may have the possibility of being restored. It's unbelievable seeing all the items that were left behind, the vehicles and the generator and snowmobile and tractor and so forth! Incredible! Awesome video Brent, thank you! 👍😊
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed my video 😊
It depended on the supervision of one main mortal.
What if you wanted a different view for bedroom or living room? thats why the swivel.
What a strange yet interesting place. I'd love to get some history behind it.
The video display reveals a very abrupt exit, i.e abandonment, the value of equipment would have been massive numbers back then even now if being current technologies abandoned expenses raises curiosity about underlying storyline.
Sincerely Grateful for this share.
Unique characteristics
The place looks amazing.. l can definitely imagine it being rebuilt 😊
"Rotating House"
You surely got my attention Brent!
(Yet to view, an absolute must.)
I would really like to know more about the individual(s) that built that thing. And what made them abandon such an exquisite project. This is just amazing.
Me too
where is it?
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Wow.
Someone had great vision. I’m thinking they passed suddenly.
Crazy find.
What an odd building. I find it hard to believe it would have been a house.. & theres not even a real door.. but a step through window... heaven forbid if it came off the rails! I guess this one remains a mystery! Thanks Brent..
Really cool place, would be interesting to have seen it completed. That fruit was from an Osage orange tree, if you burn wood for heat, that wood puts out some of the highest BTU’s, got to be careful with it, I’ve heard of guys loading up their wood stoves with it, getting them so hot they glow.
My grandparents house west of Calgary had a tank in the basement that collected precipitation, it was by the Bow River at the Bearspaw dam.
This seems more industrial than a home. Sadly no commenters seem to know what it was.
Alberta made use of cisterns, hard to find water there but it rains a lot, had an old house north of Calgary that had one.
I share your suspicion Brent - probably an intended grow-op> Great find! Great explore! Thanks Brent!!
Definitely not a grow op. Growers keep it simple and sure as beck don't spend tens of thousands dollars for a set up. A box cart underground maybe but not this structure. Early solar heater home, gone bad.
Another great find Brent! Thank you for sharing and looking forward to all your spectacular finds in the year 2024!! Stay amazing Brent! Thank you for all you do for us!! You are appreciated! ♥️
Thanks so much! You’re very kind 😊
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That was insane! Reminds me of the Ukrainian farmer who built a ship on his Saskatchewan property so he could sail up the Saskatchewan river to get to the Ocean and sail on to see his family that he left behind. Weird objects in weird places. Great explore Brent! I agree it looks lkke some ECO design attempt. Cheers.
Interesting place - could have been finished for a variety of uses I guess. Maybe a home and agricultural use - rotating to follow the sun for heating and for growing crops.
That old GMC truck had an emblem on the fender that said ‘Robinson - Guelph’ so I looked it up and Robinson GMC is still in business in Guelph, Ontario. 👍🏻
I drive past it almost daily. Noticed that emblem too!
Whomever designed that house was absolutely brilliant. I wonder if their plans are online, I’m totally in love with that place. It looks like they recycled everything and used it and incorporated it into everything that they were planning but sadly something happened to them before they could finish their dream. My husband and I up cycle things from the local junkyard and turn it into art and useable everyday items. Our society has come to be such a throw away society when we used to take such pride on making things that were built to last or that were able to be fixed. If we went back to that way of thinking and living our landfills would be less full and we would respect our environment more. Thank you for sharing this amazing piece of art. I honestly wish to know the architect.
As a mechanic I 100% agree all the way, I see it every day in my job, nothing's built to last or even be repaired anymore, it breaks, you get a whole new assembly, throw all the usable stuff away that could've been fixed if it was designed better
@@theautofromhell6529 . We make multiple trips to the junkyard every month and the valuable items that we find absolutely blow my mind! I see whole mopeds that just need a few parts but people are too ignorant to install them so they just throw them away or valuable antiques that just need to be cleaned up and people are too lazy or uneducated to just use soap and a Brillo pad and we make bank . People ask us “ how do you do that “ every single time and I just tell them that we love to rescue things and I see beauty in reused items. The stupidest little things are given up on and I honestly see so many opportunities in the future for people who don’t have imagination and who don’t want to actually work. I just keep telling my daughter to learn multiple trades and she is going to make bank .. oh and to also collect lead and other precious metals 🧐
Hello,Brent. This has to be the strangest structure you've ever shown. I don't see it as a grow op and can't even guess. There was a grow op near my house years ago, it looked like a normal suburban house. Love the old vehicles!
Sure was the strangest place I’ve explored
Looks like a house but it's got a huge gap in-between of where the base of the outer lower roof meets the rails and tracks on top of its circular walls , the Gap between where the top of the walls meets the lower roof rails would be letting way too much air and rough wet bad weather into the property.... this Leeds me to believe that it infact is a greenhouse for growing cannabis carefully descised made to look like a house from a distance but it's clear when you investigate it it's actually grow house for cannabis lol @@AbandonedUrbexCanada
@@RESISTANCE..3yes could be a greenhouse or since it’s not finished they could have sealed up the gap
Grow ops come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. I'm skeptical as to whether that was its original intent just due to the cost of such a structure, and if it was discovered just how obviously strange it is
The same concept was done at the Opryland Hotel and convention center in Nashville, TN. The Cascades restaurant does a complete rotation in 24hrs
Hello Brent! This is an interesting building. Would love to know more about it but since it’s been abandoned who knows the real story. Those green ball like things around the tree you picked up was hedge apples. The tree wood is a very hard wood and the farmers use to utilize the wood for fence posts due to how hard it was. Thanks for sharing this incredible place.😊❤
Osage orange. The native Americans used the wood to make bows.
And they are edible.
But I don't recommend for main staple. Alot of leaching involved
And they are edible.
But I don't recommend for main staple. Alot of leaching involved .
We call them horse apples. For a kid they're heavy
bonne année merci pour votre belle vidéo . happy new year thank you for your beautiful video
Definitely an unusual structure. I wonder if the central concrete structure was to be a control room. It’s difficult to tell if it was amateurs or professionals building it but either way I guess the money ran out. You sure do find some crazy places. Thanks for taking us along.
Center would be the only logical place for a ladder or stairs in between levels
So from what was shown in the video. I think this Solar greenhouse was built or used in the 70's GMC truck was from late sixties, early seventies. The outlets on the generator were three prone, which I do believe to be early seventies when that came about. Prior to that the elec. outlets were two prong.
Cool old place, cool video. Thanx for taking us along.
Cool building!! I don't believe that is a septic tank inside under the floor. Methane discharge plus the odor would make that a truly bad idea. My guess is that it is utilities access. I would bet you that this rotating assembly was originally for some commercial/military application and later re-purposed into a rotating greenhouse. Hard for me to imagine this elaborate of a structure just to spin a greenhouse. Could have much easier and more cheaply built a greenhouse with a spinning interior floor in my mind without having to bear the load of and rotate an entire building. Anyway, who knows, just my $.02. Maybe El Chapo was growing weed up there N of the Border? It had to have cost millions to construct. Pretty amazing engineering regardless. Thanks for sharing!
I'd be tempted to buy it for a HAM Radio antenna support structure base and living areas.
Yea , exactly ! I'd say that is an old radar station from the cold water . That part was removed and somebody built this current structure where the radar dome was . No way is this a home or grow , purposely built to grow pot ! It would cost a fortune to build . 100% an X-military building !! Good call .
Thank you for sharing, as always 🙏🏾❤️🥾!! Let’s go!!
I would guess it was meant to be some sort of observatory or the first floor of a bunker; probably government. What I find weird is that the cars, tools and equipment date back to the 60's' ; As if all of that relatively new equipment was just abandoned. Pretty strange.
The Osage Tree produces the wrinkled green fruit that is sometimes called 'monkey balls' or Osage Oranges. Farmers used them as natural fence to keep cattle in. pretty cool building. would have liked to see it when it was up and functioning. Thanks for sharing!
Hopefully someone can finish the dream build. The hardest work is already done. The hole may be for refrigeration? The center could be stairway to upper level. This guy definitely worked in the construction trade and saved leftover materials to build. I would love to see it finished!
This is the most interesting find I have seen, and I've been following other urban explorers. I'd be most interested in any history on this place. I'll keep checking back. Great find, and exploration. So many unexplained features. Like how they would power rotation.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for comment 👍🏻
I love watching your videos and can’t wait to see more in 2024 !!!
Who would build all that? It would have cost a fortune back in the 50’s! Great find Brent! ❤
Such a mystery here
I am sure the property can be researched through real estate and government sites if you want to pick up the torch. Whoever did it had some dough.
Names are easy to find. Not always easy to find out what happened
Osage orange
Yes, the greenish white balls on the ground are hedge apples from an Osage Orange tree. Each contains seeds.
Nice find! Fascinating place! I agree, it looks designed to rotate in order to track the sun.
It's such a weird building. I kinda think it's industrial, just what KIND of industry? Thanks for the video Brent!
This has to be the most unusual building ive ever seen. Strange that it wasnt finished. The concrete alone cost a lot of money.
Looked like a doomsday bunker to me. Happy New Year, Brent - looking forward to another great year of content from you.
At first, I thought it was a train roundabout, but actually I’ll bet it’s part of the dew line old radar installations that were in that area they moved on a massive turret
I was thinking the same!
It's odd it wasn't ever in service, unless the original platform was salvaged when it got decommissioned. Then whoever worked on it just never got the platform completed.
I have no idea what this place was or would be, but it is the oddest place I have ever seen. A lot of money was lost when whatever it was didn't get finished. The land itself must have been very costly. Thanks for a very interesting exploration.
I'm thinking it would have been military built , possible radio wave, radar or some type of tracking. Cool explore, thanks for sharing
The green fruit is called a hedgeapple or Osage orange. They can be eaten but are not very tasty. The Osage orange tree has a beautiful wood. It makes great bows.
Hubby who is exmilitary says the roof is the wrong style for a military building.
Don't think it's military. It was a off the grid project, like my friend's underground geodesic dome designed for nuclear war survival. When he died, his heirs sold it to the Navy, however.
@@samanthabloggins1775 I beg to differ with him but during the 60s and 70s there were many station buildings in western Canada built in secret by the US and Canadian government to monitor USSR and China radio waves and communication. Including the Aframe buildings just like this one.
Love watching everything you find, but this has to be the most mysterious and interesting.
Seriously overbuilt & for a reason, likely military & or scientific originally. Turntable like the old railway roundhouse's. Possibly built for radar or stellar observatory that was never completed then someone acquired in the late 60's or 70's & built the A-frames over top of... and sure, kiln drying facility for crops (including weed). Fascinating. Thanks Brent & HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Thanks Scott!
Yeah, I totally agree on all points. This likely went through several "lives". Someone probably purchased an old government/military/scientific ... thing.... and tried to repurpose before giving up. (Or losing interest.)
@@nate8088or dying lol who left all his tools like this. the guy had tractors and everything
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It looks like abandoned for~ 30-40 years??? Just silence & nature.😊
I don’t think it’s government work. I worked on some remote concrete houses and this work looks like it’s all done by the same guy who had skills but too funky to have been done by a contractor.
much more like 80's 90's.... great video!
Abandoned in the 80's/90's. Surely built in the 60's or 70's
Happy 2024, lovely Brent.
Was so excited for your first blog of the New Year.
Not disappointed. How do you do it ?
What a fascinating and thought-provoking place
You NEVER disappoint.
Good health and prosperity follow you and catch you up this year !
With love
Janice 👵 🇬🇧 xxx
That brilliant. I ve oftentimes thought of builing a house like that.never knew one actually existed.
The sun is so useful if used properly.
When i go to Greece i only go to one place .the one with morning sun and afternoon shade.
The vinyards in capetown with afternoon shade command higher prices
This property is reminding me of the movie Wrong Turn!! Ugh. Creepy! Great explore Brent! 🥰🥰🥰
Fascinating exploration!!
I hope you have a great year! Thanks for the vid!😊👍
I would have to say it appears to be someones dream, of a house that would be completely self sufficient. The house set in the ground, with solar gathering roof to both gain solar heat but also to grow your produce. I had similar dreams back in the early 70s. I never even got STARTED on mine before life intervened. But HOLY SH-T, what an OVER THE TOP, MAGNIFICENT "DREAM"!!!!!!!!! JUST "WOW!!!!!". I am totaly in AWE!!!
One of your strangest explores, but still a great video! Has me stumped. Agree with some comments, maybe a "green" house from the 70s to track the sun for heat, especially with all of the equipment and vehicles left behind from the 60s/70s. Not sure about being a home...how do you get to the upper level? Strange days back then...expend energy to turn the house 180 and back every 8-12 hours to save money for heat...lol. Looked like on the outside even that somebody tried to burn the whole place down...but didn't realize concrete doesn't burn..
It wasn't made in the 60s 70s it was made in the 80s 90s and I can 100% confirm.
Happy New Year, Brent . I hope you had a wonderful Christmas 🎄. It did look like a solar run greenhouse. What a shame they were unable to complete it. I think it would have been successful and ahead of its time. It would be interesting to know the real story behind it. Thanks for taking us there, Brent. Be careful as we want more interesting explores.
Abandoned Urbex Canada thanks brent i have no idea what that place could be but i really enjoyed this video and thanks for sharing and God Bless.
This may sound a bit off topic of exploring abandoned places, but I found this channel almost 3 years ago when I was going through a period of depression and bad anxiety. The videos are calming and bring a sort of "peace" into my mind. Going through another tough time, I came back. Brent, you seem like the type of friend who would take somebody along to explore with you to get them outside and cheer them up. The respect you show for these places is unmatched with other popular abandoned exploring channels. They may be respectful as well, but they make it somewhat obvious that they didn't ask for permission to be there. I don't get that vibe from these videos, which eases the tension. Keep it up!
I'm from southern Indiana btw
I'm really sorry you are currently going through a tough time. If my video help you just a little I'm so grateful for that. If I was closer I would ask you to come outside for an cool explore (with permission of course) Keep doing things you enjoy and keep busy. This will help I'm sure. Hope you feel better soon 😁
@AbandonedUrbexCanada thanks I'm better now. That actually means a lot! I have a tendency to share more information than I think I should so I'll say it's just... LIFE. I've been a worry wart my whole life. That's why I think it's good to have productive hobbies to keep our minds distracted and balanced out that way we can work through our worries. And yeah, if we were closer I'd definitely go on an explore with you! But you make it feel as if we're all there with you. Take care man!
Glad to hear your better now. Take care 👍🏻
What a cool explore! I think it was meant as a house, too. A really neat concept for a house. Too bad no one wants to restore it and make it work. That fruit looks like breadfruit but I doubt it could grow there.
Is there a fruit tree? They looked like beat tennis balls.
@@amitisshahbanu5642 They're Osage oranges, or horse apples. Apparently squirrels, chipmunks, and deer like to eat them. They're edible but they're very bitter and they hold a gross latex-like liquid, so most humans don't like them but I guess if you were starving you could manage to eat one lol.
They drop from the tree in the fall.
The wood from that tree is good for making boats and musical instruments.
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A tennis tree,very rare!😮
Loved this one…thanks for posting
Brent another great explore! Definitely was made to stand time. Strange that they would leave all the tools and cars behind like they were coming back and something happened. Hope you had a Happy New Year!
What a find ! Such an interesting place to explore . Well done 👍
It looks like a cold-war relic of the 1960's. possibly and old radar sight or sounding rocket tracking site. It appears that a new owner later added the deck and A frame structures, possibly an early "Hippy-Preper", to attempt self sustained living. A-frames were popular as a quick and cheap form of construction that doesn't seem consistent with the foundation work.
This makes a lot of sense, I also noticed that the concrete chunk and the lid are quite different in quality. It certainly has a feeling of trying to adapt an idea to an existing structure... the method of sealing the rotating deck - which isn't circular! - to the foundation to close the massive gap is not apparent and smells like a let's-just-wing-it situation. Not the same degree as Ark Two but in that ballpark. Perhaps an aborted installation that was bought up cheap?
I can 100% confirm it is not.
@@Mantaray-Gaming No you can't
My father had the pickup version of the Ford Econoline thats a very rare econoline
Very interesting. 2 wheel cart probably for a cutting outfit. Acetylene and oxygen tanks and hoses. They are called hedge apples from a Osage orange tree.
should talk to concrete companies in the area and see if anyone was delivering there, if they even had those up there back in that time. Someone has to know about it, there is no way to build something like that and nobody know anything about it. Very cool!!
There's a mobile concrete mixer on site, probably too remote or inaccessible for trucked concrete.
@@Sadler2010 We have dragged and pushed concrete trucks up driveways, to get the job done. Mixer would take forever and would need that much in bags delivered making the job take way longer than need be. IMO
@@swmplvr That leaves either a concrete plant being close enough or a large mobile plant being trucked in to make it onsite like I've seen used in some cases in my area.
Hello I just watched this from Australia 🇦🇺. Wow what an odd /strange place . Liked this a lot . Thanks for sharing and happy new year .
The French name for the tree is Bois D’Arc. It’s said the central plains natives used the wood to make bows. After the dust bowl of the 1930’s thousands of miles were planted as windbreaks, hence the name hedge trees…
That was a great video but you missed the best and most important thing that was there. My dream car on the other side of the ford econoline van, the 1966 Chevelle malibu. It was burgundy and still had the V8 motor in it. I was hoping that you would go around the van and check it out, If you ever get back there Please check it out.
Yes,I remember that great MALIBU.😊
It’s just amazing that expensive equipment didn’t get gone at some point. I can’t believe all that is still there.
The greenish balls are from the Osage orange tree. One of the hardest woods to work with when woodworking (in mho)
Yup Also called 'hedge apples' around here.
This beautiful, strange beast absolutely MUST be finished. Can you just imagine it finished as a kind of Greenhouse/ B&B/ Museum kinda thing?
I personally cannot stand the idea of historic builds such as this disappearing, without even a nod to the original builder(s). Breaks my heart, it does.
Wow , very interesting place 👍
Was that the van from Scooby-Doo? Another great video, thank you.
That place will stand for hundreds of years. That latter you were on was just so holding itself in place. Luckily it held or you'd have went face first into the concrete top edge before the top of the ladder would've came to rest on the wall bellow the top edge. Ouch.
Love the drone footage. And what a cool place. It reminds me of some kind of military building. Its quite intriguing whatever it is. Great find Brent. Enjoy your weekend :o)
Feliz ano novo amigo Brent, como sempre seus vídeos são surpreendentes viajar junto com você pra esses lugares abandonados e maravilhosos são fascinantes. Deus te abençoe e a toda sua família. Saúde e sucesso.❤❤❤❤
Several people have surmised it was for railway roundabout. Not possible. It's way too light duty for that purpose. Look at those tiny rollers first. Very little weight bearing ability. They are way too far apart for heavy rail use. The Steel work is not heavy enough either. Then look at how far above the ground the rotated platform is. If was a round about the table would be at ground level. It's way too high.
I never heard of a rotating house before. It was fantastic. I could not imagine what it was being built for. I will dream of this one.
You are amazing!
Thank you!
I live near San Diego California, my parents built their home on a mountain and a doctor purchased a piece of land near us and was going to do a rotation house. It was in the 80’s, in the end he did not do it due to the cost.
I like your video, in 1981, I crawled into an old abandoned theater in Rome, and there were some paintings on the walls. I didn't stay too long. Thanks for sharin
I wonder if there is a bunker underneath it. The way it's constructed looks like there would be more underneath
I'm so happy to see the drone shots, it adds another dimension to the area that you just can't get from the ground level. I also think it was meant to be a house for some rich eccentric folks. The fruit is from Asia but I can't remember the name of it.
The fruit is from an Osage orange. The fruit, closely related to the mulberry, is not edible. The wood was often used to make bows. Looking at this structure makes me think so much of a turntable in a railroad roundhouse. Seems an odd place for such a structure though.
Cool seeing the young trees growing around that old van that was surely there first.
Nice toque! Have the same one in 4 different colours. A princess auto find 😂
Love your videos, I've seen them all! Your my favorite explorer.
Happy New Year's! Make your way to Manitoba! I'd love to see stuff out this way!
Maybe a hippie compound. Thx for the video. This place is amazing. I'd live there
I really enjoyed this video! If it wasn't a house, it should be. Kitchen, dining room, a bathroom and an office downstairs. The bedrooms and a few more bathrooms would be upstairs. Oh Yeah, those bumpy round things you found on the ground outside are Osage Oranges. Some people say they're edible, some say they're not. I've never eaten one and I don't intend to. I hope YOU won't eat one either!
Such a cool place. Beautiful natural setting... Would make a beautiful home and art studio...Love this. I wonder what happened to the owner's or if anyone still owns the property? Sad to see it so neglected.
Personally I've been here and I can confirm it is not a growing site or a war relic it was a house built in the 80s 90s for a family that randomly disappeared. My Grandparents knew these people and they would always ask for water so I know its not a growing site and it was never used in the war just a family with weird house dreams. But I've got no clue about why they left all that stuff just sitting there.
BTW this place is just off a road not in super thic forest
Cool 👍🏻 to bad you don’t know why they left
Yes I was here 👍🏻
Another great video. You always find the most interesting stuff. Love your channel.
Thank you very much!
Definitely a grow house of sorts..
Other than positioning it for free heat/sun, why else would it be able to rotate?..🤷♂️
Just my opinion..
Happy New Year Brent..😉👍
I've never heard of a rotating house. Thanks for video 📹
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Another guy built a house like this out in California I think it was. He had to basically invent the center pipe swivels for water, sewer and power, since nothing like that exists. So I think these people got ahead of themselves and could not work out the swivel for those utilities.
I think it's just simply impossible, think about it, is has to hold water/pressure whatever in, so has to be tight but also moved, it could be possible with rubber seals but the amount of maintenance they'd need would be ridiculous and it would be unrealiable, probably never get signed off for a house
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@@theautofromhell6529 the gent who owns the house designed all that. It's worth a watch for sure.
Brent, the bearing on that ladder @10:23 was frightening! Please be careful. Thanks for the awesome videos!! 🎉
Just on a 1/2” 🙈
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