This Mountain Was Off-Limits for 100 years… Here’s What’s Hidden at the Summit!

While exploring on Google Earth, something strange caught my eye. A perfect square in the summit of this mountain. Perfect squares don't happen naturally, which means this has to be a man-made structure. But why would anyone build something up here? Curious for answers, I started doing some research on this mountain, and what I found was shocking. So this entire mountain was once a secret military base, active for over a century through both world wars. It was off-limits for decades, but now hikers can finally explore it. So I set myself with the goal to try and reach the summit of this mountain and uncover the truth about this strange structure. But this actually turned out to be an insane adventure, and what I found along my hike up to the summit was crazy. So without further ado, let's jump into it. Hey everyone and welcome to a brand new video. My adventure began at the base of the mountain, right here, and the route I was planning to do would take me up the steep mountainside and along the ridge until I reached the summit with a squared structure. Now this area of the mountain doesn't actually have any official hiking trails, but I wanted to hike here because of this structure that I also found while on Google Earth. Now it might just be a rock, but to me it looks like it could be some sort of man-made structure. But there's only one way to find out, so I began my hike up towards it. Yeah, right away we're off trail, which is a good sign. It means no one's really going to these places, so it should be a bit of a hidden gem. There seems to be sort of a clearing, either by animals or other hikers, but it is not used a lot. This is for sure, it is really overgrown. So many of these bushes are thorns, which is super rude. They're ripping me apart. My poor clothes. Oh, excuse me, thorns. I had just started and already I was caught up and filled with thorns. And what was worse was the further I hiked, the worse the trail became. I was starting to worry that I wouldn't even be able to reach the structure I had found on Google Earth, never mind actually summit the mountain itself. But then, just through the thick overgrowth, I spotted something pretty crazy. We've got some sort of structure up here. Still got to get through this mess. I had spiders hanging off my eyes. This is one way to start the morning for sure. Oh, something stung me right in the butt. The closer I got to the structure, the more overgrown and thorny the trail became. This is crazy. Clearly nobody had been here for a long time, or so I had thought. Tell you what, I'm close, but this is the hardest bit. We made it. Now that's pretty weird because there's no way that was part of this. This has been added later. Question is by who and why? Who's come out here and made this? You get some sort of water system here. No one's using this as their home. Stuff like this is odd. I'm a little bit worried that someone might be using this as their home. They're not going to be too happy that I'm exploring it. This looks like a well. So weird. What is going on in here? The windows have been blocked up here. This place is giving me the creeps. So this was clearly once a military fortification, but now it seems someone has converted it into something else. Entire sections have been sealed off and whoever did this went to great lengths, constructing doors and setting up water collection systems. But why and who was behind it? Not wanting to stick around and find out, But that's when I hit a major problem. But I wasn't giving up. I was going to find a way to the top of this mountain no matter what it took. So with the sun now rising on a new day, I had set myself with a new plan on how I was going to get to the top of this mountain. This time I was taking a totally different approach, following a well-established trail that would lead me straight to the summit. But what made this route even more exciting was the shape of this section of trail. It was zigzaggy. Like extremely zigzaggy. And let me tell you why that's totally awesome. Historically, the military built these type of trails so that troops could move up steep terrain more easily. Which means at the end of this section of trail, there's a good chance I'll find a large military ruin. We're starting to get some views now as we head up over the trees. I just love the landscape here. It is so incredibly beautiful. As I neared the top of the first section of the hike, the military path I've been following suddenly disappeared, vanishing into a lush overgrown forest. Which could only mean one thing. Whatever this path was leading to had to be hidden somewhere in these trees. So I moved carefully, scanning my surroundings for any signs of old military structures. And maybe I was focusing just a little too much on that. But brushing the leaves off my butt, I then entered a clearing in the trees. And that's when I found it. Look at this. We have reached the fortification. It looks epic. It is absolutely massive. Let's find a way inside this fort. I think I can see just down there. There's an entrance. Let's find a way down into the moat. Here we go. This is looking promising. Look at how enormous this is. Wow. Just outside the fort. It is enormous. Here's the entrance. Let's head inside. Right away you can see these. This is where people would be able to shoot anyone who managed to break through into the actual fort. So even if you got in, you'd have to deal with these guns. Old hangers. Oh, this looks like the toilets. Yeah, definitely the old toilets. This fort was absolutely massive. It had multiple floors, all filled with rooms and long corridors. It was a real maze. And I was surprised by how little light got in from outside. If I wasn't careful, I could really get lost here. Oh, this is like an old gun post here. Wow, look at the massive metal rings. See, here is exactly where they would have had the gun mounted. A massive one as well. That is really cool. Whoa, look in here. They have drawings of saints in the actual gun post. That is a crazy thing. Look at this. So clear where the gun would have been. And up there you've got another, some sort of holy figure. Wowzers. This can't have been long abandoned. The wood is still here too. You got a furnace there to stay warm. That is crazy. Wow, look at this. This one is crazy looking. Big ring. Wow, look at that. That is crazy. This was a massive fort. That's weird. I wonder why this is here. Goes up one more flight. Whoa, that's cool. You'd use this to move the gun. Wow, this would be right on top of the fort. That is super duper cool. BF, there's some writing there. Wow, this is a devil one. Two guns. So with some later research on this fort, I found out that it was built in the 1860s by the now collapsed Austro-Hungarian Empire to fortify its southern territories. It was actually active in both world wars and especially in World War I when it was involved in a large-scale artillery battle with local forces. Wow, look at that. But I'll tell you something even crazier than that. As I was leaving the fort, I was then greeted by these little piggies. Oh my goodness, look at this. Hi, everyone. You cutie pies. Very cute. Hello. After spending some time with my little piggy friends, I then began the second stage of the hike. I would now be following the ridge of the mountain until making the final ascent up to the mysterious summit. But as I began along the trail, I quickly stumbled across another military relic. Got a big old building that's definitely military. There's the entrance. I reckon we got to go inside. Yeah, this mountain clearly has got a lot of military defenses. So I think we're going to bump into a lot of structures like this, which is cool. Alrighty, I've just come back out. And yeah, I think it's just a small gun placement, really. You can see sort of what it would have a view of shooting out. Especially if this was cut clean, you would have an incredible viewpoint to shoot down at the harbor. We got a pillbox just here. Yeah, this was super defended. Wow, look how well hidden this building is. That is cool. Let's have a quick look inside. Oh wow, very interesting. I wonder what these were. I guess it must have been a massive base to have more than just the fort and all these buildings around it to kind of support it. And I think that's because Montenegro for a long time was the border, Austria-Hungary. It's as far as it reached out. So I think they probably fortified their outermost border, which makes sense. That's why we're seeing so many fortifications. It seemed the closer to the summit I got, the more military structures I started to find. It was clear that whatever was on the summit of this mountain, they really wanted to defend it, which made me more and more curious as to what the structure I had found on top could be. And with the trail now not being so steep, I was making some real good progress towards it. That is until I got distracted. I found this small trail just off the main path and it wasn't marked on any of my maps. So curiosity got the better of me and I decided to follow it to see where it would lead. And this turned out to be a terrible idea. I'm very curious to see where this trail actually leads. There's nothing marked on my maps. I want to go to the end of it and find out why this trail was built. What is at the end of this trail? But I will say this trail is kicking my butt. Oh, here we go. This trail is leading to something. So this is what the trail was leading to. Some sort of small house. It's got some antennas on it. Oh, we got like a... Yeah, it's definitely some sort of communications thing. This is old electronics. Wow. Yeah, just an old electronics tower. Yeah, it's quite cool. Was it worth the detour? Maybe not. But yeah, cool to see. Now with no more distractions, I was focused on reaching the summit of this mountain. And oh boy, was this hike gorgeous. This part of the trail really opened up to some incredible views. I don't know how well you can see the summit just in front of me. And I can already tell from this vantage point that there is a building on top. So we did not find just a square stone over Google Earth. This is definitely some sort of structure up there. That is the structure we're going for. You can see it just on the summit. I am almost there. It was now time for the final push to the summit, which I thought was going to be straightforward. But as I pushed through the trees towards the top, I started to stumble across some pretty strange stuff. So I'm coming up to the summit. I can see what I think is stone outlies of an old village maybe. Some sort of structure you can see here more clearly. Definitely man-made stone walls. But I think they are the structural foundations of buildings. So once we see what's at the top here, hopefully we'll get an idea of what this summit was used for. You can see here some sort of old brick house maybe. Look at this sort of carved circle. Looks like it could be a defensive post maybe. Let's get to the top and find out. Wow. Okay, this was definitely old gun placements. It's just been blown up. Look at that view you would have had. I reckon there would have been a massive gun on this. Same with this one here. Absolutely enormous gun would have been placed on this. After many hours of hiking and a lot of sweat, and I could now see what the square structure was. And honestly, as I went in for a closer look, I was a bit disappointed. It just seemed to be a small building, which probably once housed radio communication equipment for the military base. But that disappointment did quickly fade as I discovered what else was on this mountain summit. Check that out. That is awesome. So that is definitely a pillbox. But look at the view it faces. My goodness, that is amazing. Let's go in and check it out. Well, if you're ever in any doubt as to which country I'm in, there's the massive Montenegro flag. Wow. Just incredible spot. All right. Unfortunately, this has been used as a rubbish dump. That's a real shame. But you can see where they would have had the guards and able to shoot out of here. All right, guys. So mystery solved. The square thing I found on Google Earth was that building, which is clearly just an old maybe radio tower, communications tower. What's interesting is that it was built on top of a military site. This entire mountain base was just converted into a military base for defense. I'm standing right on top of a pillbox, which stands on top of the mountain summit. That is pretty epic. Thank you so much, Montenegro, for another epic adventure. I really hope you guys enjoyed this one. And if you did, make sure to leave a like. Comment below where I should go to next. I'll see you in the next adventure. Bye.