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 😀👍
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.
@@AbandonedUrbexCanada wonderful.
How can something built in 1985 be abandoned for over 40 years?
OMG you're from the future!
@@michaelwhite2823I later realized it was built in 1985 not 1982
@@michaelwhite2823 lol
@@michaelwhite282339, 40, big deal lol
So sad that he couldn’t finish his dream home. Thanks for sharing this beautiful place.
Awesome find. He said an atomic bomb couldn't penetrate it, but ironically mother nature claimed it. Great drone footage.
I wonder how it would be finished and maintained.
Mother Nature hasn’t reclaimed it yet, they are coexisting, that concrete will probably last a couple of centuries
What an amazing discovery, Brent! I explore vicariously through your work, thank you for sharing!
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!
For sure! Still working on getting the drawings if there is any. Town is looking into it for me
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!!!💥💯💥💯
Thank you! I really enjoyed this one. Might have to do an overnight there 👌🏻
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.
This is beyond awesome! But I have to admit: I spent quite a bit of the video looking out for that bear!
Among the coolest urbex spots I have ever seen! Bravo!
Wow, thanks!
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.
What's his name? Sounds like an interesting guy.
Might have the wrong guy
@@AbandonedUrbexCanada
There a general reason for the gatekeeping, Brent? Why can't we know the name of this person? Why's it such a secret?
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
@@AbandonedUrbexCanada
Understood, and totally reasonable. Thanks for the reply and love the videos!
Congratulations on 150K Subscribers!
I enjoy watching your videos :)
Thank you!
Love the music you have for this video ❤
Thanks!
Kinda like the other round structure, wasn't it a rotating structure.
Incredible... Wow 🤩👌
They had a vision...
Another great video. So sad that it was never completed .Thanks for sharing
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.👋🇨🇦
Cool, thanks
I would love to see the original architects plans of this place, the concept is so cool.
Me too, still working on it
What a find Brent. I’d love to know how he got all the materials in. Hope to seeya soon!
Looks like a WWII bunker, I can't imagine how it might have looked finished and furnished. Love the drone footage
This was awesome would love more history on it great Video 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
Thank you Janice!
I would love to live there. It's sad that the owner couldn't finish his dream.
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
Awesome find that is a nice veiw
Very intriguing! Love it! Great video❤
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….👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
I thought this building looked familiar too. I think he did another round, cement building some time ago.
Loved your drone shots and the music that accompanied it.
Thanks I appreciate it
It's so sad to see it's not finished. I can imagine the great times they would have had there. I know i would have ❤
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
Hello Brent ! That's a real strange find .
Wonder what happened to the original owner's family and why the property was left behind.
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.
Brent fantastic video,,thank you for all your hard work take care of yourself😊
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.
Beautiful view thanks for sharing have a lovely weekend
What a beautiful spot.Nature wise it reminds me of my homeland,Finland.That spiral staircase looked deadly.Thank you for posting.Greetings from UK
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.
Thanks Laura!
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 🇬🇧
Thanks Gill! Glad you enjoyed it 👌🏻
That’s an interesting one. Would like to know what Possessed him to build such an elaborate concrete structure.
What a place that could have been Brent!
Hello Brent
Who it was so cool I loved it you must have had fun 👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️😺😺😺👋👋👋
Brent, this was amazing to watch. As are all your videos. Keep going with the fantastic videos.
I bet this place would’ve been amazing had he lived long enough to complete it. So sad he didn’t.
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.
I send my location when alone, just in case I don’t return 👌🏻
Brent, the respect you show these places is awesome. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you!
This was an amazing find and great video. You keep finding great places. Thanks again Brent.
Awesome thanks!
YAY!! Happy long-weekend, Brent!
Have a great weekend!
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❤️😊
Thank you!
Great vlog. Thanks.
I could see one of the outside areas being a large greenhouse
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❤🤗🙏🏻
Thanks so much Linda! You are very kind 😃
So Amazing! I Loved this video!
Now Im heading down the rabbit hole of who was the builder of this masterpiece! Thanks Josh!! 💖🙏
How?!? I have tried googling and have found absolutely nothing
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.🛖👍🆒
Thanks so much Irene, glad you enjoyed it 👌🏻
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!
Your always finding the most awesome places to explore!
👍🏻
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
Another banger Brent keep them coming !!! Always enjoy your journey of exploring Canada yea
Thank you very much!
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.
Just look for the overgrown ones 👍🏻
Great drone shots ❤
NATURE reclaims everything with enough time !!!!
Cool!!
I don't know how you can walk up those stairs and look over the edge. I couldn't.
Cool place bro…great video!!! But this guy a Ko-Fi too will ya lol 😊👍🏻
Thanks buddy ✌🏻
Got'a wonder how they got all that concrete up there?
Has to be a road
Used to be a driveway
Pump trucks
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.
Thanks Brent! You find the best places! Mother Nature retakes what we take out. Stay safe out there!
Thank you
Beautiful
Time I am, the destroyer of all things (material). So much so being indestructible, even the bears are scratching it away. Great video!
Thank you!
I'm shared of heigths and spiralsteers and bears! This explore is like my wurst nightmare😮
Man don't get yourself hurt, and if you don't get bug repellent then get yourself some centrella and mix it with oil .
Fascinating find.🍻
Great find!
Thanks!
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.👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks!
This is awesome place. 18:04 that looks like big summer room/roofed terrace area and are next to right could be carage.
Wow This is so awesome. Thank You Brent. If I were you I sure wouldn't go there again without bear spray at the least. Yikes! Be careful
Where can we find that interview you played in the beginning of the video?
Great exploration
It's interesting how quickly modern structures decay compared to structures built during Roman times, etc.
You can't say that this property will be demolished by developers.
Nice place Tank you friends
amazing find!
Amazing as usual
👍🏻thanks
Thanks awesome video
Glad you enjoyed it
That’s epic
Kinda sad ... Died before his vision could be realized. Really cool tho
Loved this one , hope you never ran into a bear scary
Thank you!
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 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Glad you found me!
Imagine what the views would have been like 50 years ago, with out all the over growth
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 😀👍
Is this for sale? In Ontario? Can tou reveal which lake it is?
17:37 I bet that was going to be a solar greenhouse capable of growing food all year round.
Probably correct
Where is this?