Ancient Ruins Deep in the Great Smoky Mountains That Shouldn't Exist

🌲 Want even more Mysteries? Check out The Appalachian Mystery Collection: https://gum.co/u/a5atd7n4 Most people see the Great Smoky Mountains from a pullout on Newfound Gap Road and assume the place is wilderness. It isn't — people lived on this land for thousands of years, and the evidence is still standing where almost nobody looks. This countdown works through 18 ruins in the park and the valleys around it, from stone chimneys with no houses left to a bare rock ridge that lost its forest in a single night and never grew it back. Number one is the oldest town in the southern Appalachians, and the reason it's still intact is not the one you'd expect. RIGHT NOTICE: The Copyright Laws of the United States recognize a “fair use” of copyrighted content. Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act states: “Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.” This video and our YouTube channel, in general, may contain certain copyrighted works that were not specifically authorized to be used by the copyright holder(s), but which we believe in good faith are protected by federal law and the fair use doctrine for one or more of the reasons noted above. Fair Dealing: Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988 (UK) section 30 states “Fair dealing” with a work for the purposes of criticism or review, of that or another work, does not infringe any copyright in the work provided that it is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement. Copyright in a work is not infringed by the use of a quotation from the work (whether for criticism or review or otherwise).