Hilltop ruins, a tight tunnel and 'This Was Never Meant to Be Found!'
Josh's hike to a strange structure passed 700,000 views in five days, and the comments are trying to work out where in the world he was.
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This Was Never Meant to Be Found! 😱 #ancienthistory #history #hiking #adventure #exploring
Posted on Wednesday to a respectable first day, "This Was Never Meant to Be Found!" then kept climbing, and by the weekend it had passed 700,000 views. That is far beyond anything else Josh put up in a week of five uploads, and it pushed the whole channel to nearly three times its usual daily pace.
The short is classic Josh the Intern, the hiking and hidden-gems channel: a walk up to an old structure on high ground, a look at its shape from a distance, then a squeeze through a narrow opening near the end. The comment section has turned into a guessing game. Many viewers simply ask which country it is. Some suggest Turkey, one names the Hittites, others think it was a lookout or a water store, and the most popular joke is that it used to be a Costco. A few gently push back on the dramatic title, and plenty of people mostly want to know what he would have done if an animal had been waiting in that tunnel.
The rest of the week kept the same mood: a Google Earth mystery, a hollowed-out mountain, a creepy-finds roundup and a drone discovery posted on Sunday. Among the mystery and curiosity channels around his size, Gravity Dreams had the big week, while Kyle Hates Hiking ran calmer than usual. Josh, at 961,000 subscribers, is not far from a million himself.
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What viewers say
The shape of the whole structure from a distance is amazing
@VictoriamjSee it on YouTubeMan if I was younger I want to go exploring with you guys! I used to do this back when I was in my twenties I'm in my 60s now but man we didn't have videos and drones we didn't have Google Map this is too cool you guys be safe
@johnmusto7594See it on YouTubeIt was an old Costco
@garthmiller6932See it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Josh the Intern
- Subscribers
- 961,000
- Videos published this week
- 5
- Video published
- September 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 728,484
- Views on its first day
- 50,091
The numbers
Here is how Josh the Intern's week looks in figures.
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What was the capital of the ancient Hittite empire, in what is now Turkey?
Hattusa, in central Anatolia, was the Hittite capital and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
