- Guys someone came with a gun
and fired shots at the castle.
They're firing shots at me.
I left everything behind.
And now I'm trying to find a safe place to go.
That's them there, with a flashlight.
Oh, they're coming closer.
But I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to do.
I'm turned around, there's a couple this way.
(upbeat music)
- All right crew, you know the deal by now.
Let's go on an adventure.
(relaxing music)
Easy, easy.
It's okay, it's all right.
Okay, you guys have got horns.
There it is.
How do we even get there though?
(relaxing music)
Yeah.
(heavy breathing)
We found the secret entrance to Satan's castle.
But look, the sun's almost down over the mountain.
It's only like 3:30 here.
I've got to find a space to camp before the sun drops,
because it's going to get cold hand
and I need to catch my breath.
I'm going to explore quickly,
find a campsite,
and you guys are going to learn a bit more about this place.
It's mysterious to say the very least, let's go look.
- [Narrator] This castle was originally constructed
in the bronze age, 500 BC.
Originally thought to have been built by the Eurotins.
There has been a lot of action here
over the last 2,500 years, the land has been conquered
by the Medes, the Persians, Romans, Sassanids,
Georgians, Seljuks, Ilkhanids, Safavids, and the Ottomans,
just to name of few.
Each group renovating and adapting the fortress,
defending it and ultimately losing it.
If rocks could tell stories,
I don't think we'd ever leave this place.
Most of the historic details of this castle
have been lost to time.
It's a mystery, but we're humans,
so everything needs a story.
For hundreds of years,
the castle is said to have been housing a demon,
some sort of devil has claimed it as his own.
That's where it got the name Satan's castle.
And that's why some are still afraid to go there.
But we don't believe in that stuff, right?
Right.
Let's explore.
This is the main entrance.
You can see the little spindly path we came on.
We walked up here and I'm pretty sure
that's how it always was
because this definitely looks like a main door.
And look at that up there,
it's like a toilet, they wouldn't have a toilet,
maybe it was for defense as well.
If this was the front door,
you could drop things or shoot things down from up there.
Not exactly sure, all speculation.
Oh look, there's another one here.
A hole in the middle of the rampart above us
that goes down like 20 feet.
Look at this, look at this, look at this.
Oh no.
It's a light, is this place lit up at night?
It wouldn't make any sense though.
I mean, obviously the lights here,
but the town is way beyond the edge.
You can't even see it.
So it would be lit up for, I mean,
no one will be able to see it lit up,
but the cables are cut, look at that.
These cut wires where the first clue
to my misadventure later that night.
But look the original castle wall, up careful.
And if you look over, it's a long, it's a long way down.
You can see it stretching who along the edge here.
All right, what is it, what is it, what is it?
It could be a well, but you think?
- [Narrator] Not quite a well,
a cistern it's made to hold water,
not tap into the groundwater, which is far, far below.
- This looks like a church, right?
- [Narrator] And not quite a church,
but a chapel where there would be no permanent pastor
or congregation,
but would serve the same purpose
to the residents of the castle.
- Much more care
was put into putting this building together.
The other one's just basically cobblestones,
all glued together with mortar.
But this, the stones were actually flattened and carved.
(heavy breathing)
All right, look at this,
a tunnel.
Maybe it goes in the tower.
Any demons, any devils?
No demons, no devils, just an empty hole,
but another hint to what was to come later in the evening.
This looks like relatively easy climb,
but it's probably 10 meters, 10 meters maybe.
Technically it doesn't look that difficult,
but I'm here by myself
and I don't really need to take any unnecessary risks.
Oh, it goes to the rampart.
Look, you can see right here,
slow and steady, slow and steady
(laughter)
Looking at this.
Yeah.
See the path, that's the way in.
So I think that would have been the original way
into the castle, for sure, that makes sense.
Is this the, yeah, this is what we saw from the top.
That's the very front door, we saw this from the bottom
when we were first coming in.
You can see the light from the doorway.
This was the shoot down.
That means a tunnel, oh yeah,
the tunnels right here.
For defense, right?
What would you drop, rocks,
cauldrons of hot oil?
That's a long way down, man.
Good thing I didn't find that by accident, jeez.
Over here too, look almost like a little pill box.
This is easily the coolest castle
I have ever seen in my life.
I love coming to these places and just wandering through it
and just discovering, it's my favorite kind of travel
and my favorite kind of adventure,
just coming to places and observing and being curious.
I don't need a tour guide,
but honestly I just like discovering things.
That's why I fell in love with travel
and you come to a place like this
and your imagination can go wild.
And you feel like you're actually wandering through a time
in the past or some kind of video game,
and this is all virtual reality.
That's why I travel, guys.
(adventurous music)
All right, it's getting cold.
I have a decided on a spot.
We're going to sleep right here next to the tower.
I would have loved to get on top of the tower.
However, I think we need professional climbing equipment
to go up here.
I think there was at one point a rope
or a ladder or something, but no more.
And hey, I want to live the camp another day.
So this will be home.
I've cleared some rocks.
Let's get set up before it gets really cold.
Before that sun completely disappears, it's almost gone.
Let's go.
(wind blowing)
Tent set up, fire made, sun over the horizon.
(adventurous music)
I noticed that the path is lit by streetlights, strange,
but the castle is not, turns out the wires were cut.
I can't say I'm disappointed.
It's a beautiful here at sunset.
(grunting)
Well, it's a rock.
There's probably going to be a few of those under there.
Maybe you don't sleep in a castle next time.
Come on, there we go.
All right.
Hey, if you're looking for a job
and you can start a fire
(coughing)
consider applying for my fire management position
because I always let it go out.
For dinner we've got two apples, also a bag.
This looks ridiculous, a bag of chestnuts.
The idea originally was to put them in tinfoil
and cook them.
Don't have tinfoil.
We'll try to cook them in the fire.
And lastly, we've got these,
which I promise tastes much better than they look.
I don't know what they're called though,
but they're hazelnuts on a string, dipped in grape juice,
and they make these like jelly rolls
with nuts on the inside.
If you know what the name of these things are, tell me,
cause they're fricking delicious.
I have no idea if this is, why you got to be that way?
Oh God.
Is there a real trick that works
to get smoke out of your eyes?
White rabbit, white rabbit, white.
(coughing)
That one was for science.
I don't have my head torch.
My head torch is one of the most important things
I put in my backpack.
It's always there, always.
And it's not there today.
I remember putting it in.
Maybe back at the beginning of the castle,
when I put my bag down, ah man.
In the future, there was head torches,
in the past, there were real torches.
All right, guys,
let's put that fire on a stick and go find my head torch.
I light the torch and start to follow
the winding paths out of the castle.
(ominous music)
(gunshot)
A gunshot, I didn't hear it.
And I continued around the side of the castle
in view of the path.
(gunshots)
Two more gunshots.
They zip overhead.
Guys, someone came with a gun
and fired shots at the castle,
(gunshots)
They're firing shots at me.
I have two choices, stay in the castle and hold my ground,
hoping this is just some simple misunderstanding,
that they think I'm some mischievous kid.
Oh, they're coming closer.
But I don't know what to do.
I don't know that to do.
Or grab my things and run.
Maybe they're drunk, crazy locals or maybe worse.
What would you choose, what would you do?
I ran.
I left everything behind,
and now I'm trying to find a safe place to go.
That's them there, with a flashlight.
(heavy breathing)
(gunshots)
You hear those gunshots?
They don't want me here.
I messaged my Turkish friends, Suat,
who lives a few hours away.
He calls the police and tells me to hide.
I get a call back a few minutes later.
He tells me the police have arrived,
but they arrived an hour ago
trying to apprehend a treasure hunter
and a potential terrorist at Satan's castle.
What?
I had been there all afternoon and not seen anyone.
I was the only one at the castle.
Oh, oh shit.
The terrorist and treasure hunter was me.
I'm told to go back to my tent,
that the military police are there waiting for me.
Hello, hello, hello.
(speaking foreign language)
- Mike, Mike?
Where are you from?
- [Mike] From Canada.
- Canada, oh?
- You made me very sick, that's a big gun.
(speaking foreign language)
(imitating gunshots)
(laughter)
- [Officer] No problem.
- [Mike] No problem.
- [Officer] You are welcome.
(speaking foreign language)
- Can I make video?
- [Officer] No. - No?
- [Officer] No, no. - No, okay, okay.
So then we make an audio note.
So you thought it was a thief?
- [Officer] Yeah, yeah.
- The only thing I was taking was photos.
How many bullets did you shoot?
- [Officer] Four or five.
- [Mike] Four or five bullets?
- [Officer] Yeah.
- [Mike] And then you?
Three, so five from a pistol and three from a AK 47
or something similar.
(laughter)
Exactly, I was like, what the, what the?
(laughter)
And then I run, I ran so fast
in the dark, with no light, up a cliff,
I could have freaking died.
- [Officer] What is your job?
- [Mike] My job is YouTube.
- [Officer] YouTube.
- [Mike] YouTube, yeah.
- [Officer] Bro, Mike, channel ID?
- [Mike] My YouTube channel is F-E-A-R-L-E-S.
You're going to subscribe, yeah?
- [Officer] Yeah, yeah.
- [Mike] Do you want me to...
- [Officer] Mike, bro.
- [Mike] We scared you a little, at least let subscribe.
(laughter)
(speaking in foreign language)
Hi guys.
(speaking in foreign language)
I caused a problem.
- [Officer] YouTube videos.
- [Mike] All good, yeah?
(speaking foreign language)
So I get taken to a nearby boutique hotel
to spend the night and we sit down to drink a coffee
and smoke a few cigarettes, no hard feelings among friends.
I guess.
Then I find out exactly what happened.
So found my head torch.
This would have been hella helpful last night
when I was running for my life.
Ah, speaking of which, I learned a lot.
Let me unfold the intricacies of the story,
now that it's the next day.
So remember when we saw those cut wires?
I told you in the beginning,
that's an integral part of the story.
We'll check this out.
So when the police arrived,
actually the locals had told them
that there was a treasure hunter here.
The locals that saw me come in,
they saw a strange car park,
a guy walk out with all this weird equipment.
No one really does this stuff, right?
And so they called the authorities.
Those authorities came and then saw all the lights off
in the castle, normally there's lights.
I thought that it was, the lights were here to keep,
you know, those damn kids out of the castle,
spray paintin' and having sex.
That's what I thought.
But no, it's for treasure hunters,
because of it's all lit up, the treasure hunters
don't come and destroy this place.
That's probably why that little cave is blasted in the side,
actually, from treasure hunters destroying it.
So they came here, they heard there was a suspicious guy.
They ran the plates on my rental vehicle,
saw that it was a rental, and saw a smashed control panel
down at the entrance.
I saw walking in again today.
So they automatically assumed a treasure hunter came,
cut all the lights and was here, just destroying the place,
looking for treasure.
And then eventually the pieces were put together
that it was actually the military police here
and everything was good.
Otherwise I probably would've spent the night
in the mountains.
Honestly, I was ready to do that.
Is there a lesson in all of this?
Probably, there probably is.
If you know what it is, drop it in the comments.
Until next time guys, chase your fears.
And I'll see you in the next video
here on Fearless and Fire.
(inspiring music)