The Films
Since 2015, Frank has filmed hundreds of abandoned mines, from Alaska to Mexico and as far as Australia, and put out a new film nearly every week.
Film No. 404
The Yankee Boy, rebuilt on camera: the caved-in portal, the first timber sets, the breakthrough to the back of the mine and the first tour, all in one film.
Also Showing
An abandoned mine explorer visits two of the largest ghost towns in Canada and enters the long abandoned mines under them to see what remains.
On Frank’s channel since the spring of 2026.
The Filmmaker
“I enjoy exploring Underground Abandoned Mines and making films about what we find.”
The Tag Board
Many old mines kept a board of numbered brass tags, so everyone knew who was underground. Frank numbers his films, so here every tag is one of them.
On YouTube
Each sign opens Frank’s films from one place on YouTube.
Never go into an abandoned mine. Abandoned mines are dangerous: bad air that gives no warning, rotten timber, hidden shafts under loose ground, rock that fails without a sound. Frank has years of experience and proper rope equipment, and it is still dangerous work. The films are the way in.
And one rule as firm as the first: these places, and everything left in them, are history. Take nothing, damage nothing, leave every site exactly as you found it.
The Channel
165,000 YouTube subscribers · 400+ films
Frank has a second channel too, under his own name → (opens in a new tab)
YouTube figures as of October 2026.
That’s the whole deal. Frank picks one photograph out of the archive, tells you the story of the day it was taken, and signs off until next month. A short P.S. points to whatever’s new — films and mine pages — and that’s it.
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