People Laughed At The Price Of This, Until They Saw What's Underneath

Some amazing houses and buildings have been built over the years. Sometimes their pricetag will surprise you. Coming up are some surprising bunkers.

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[BeAmazed]

Who else thinks 2020 is the year this place becomes useful?

[insertnamehere]

I would live there just because, it's such a nice place, I would make that my home even if weren't in a apocalypse.

[alexanderpetrov]

I love how the solar panels & wind turbines are expected to work in case of a direct nuclear missile hit.

[archangel]

I love the idea of living in an underground structure complete with all the modern conveniences and creature comforts of a regular house. What I like even more is if the underground dwelling is a secret to everyone who lives above. The only issue I see with the place shown in this video is that it appears to only have one entrance/exit. If something were to happen to that you wouldn’t be able to leave which would trap you inside. If I owned this underground bunker I would’ve made sure to have another strongly fortified well hidden exit to allow for a quick escape if need be.

[devos]

Funny the older I get the more I notice certain things, every time they showed the furniture my back hurts just thinking about those stairs and I instantly yell out "pivot!" Better have a freight elevator for that price

[robertmosher]

If I had that kind of money I would just build my own where the entire internet doesn't know where it is!

[Deathtrap-nhvm]

I wouldn’t be scared by a post apocalyptic event. See any post apocalyptic can be predicted. The thing I’m scared of are people. People can be very unpredictable

[JRotten]

Well, I'm poor, so I'll be hiding in a storm drain for free. Cya all

[nelvin]

who else comes straight to the comment section before watching a video

[mortem-tyrannis]

99% of the time the people who can afford this type of shelter are the people you probably don't want to survive an apocalypse event...

[simply_exploring]

Good luck getting to the bunker BEFORE the nuke goes off 👍

[JaysSmoke]

Them: 17 Million
Me: *3 take it or leave it*

[emiparker]

"A reinforced hole in the Earth"




Charming.

[monikhadka]

The only thing that’s deep and valuable is how to win Minecraft with one stick

[Taxi_for_takeoff]

2019: These doomsday preppers are nuts!
2020: Where can I find 17.5 million?

[alicemendoza]

I’m » hoping there will be a housing crisis so I can buy cheaply when I sell a few houses in 2024. As a backup plan, I've been thinking about purchasing stocks. What advice do you have for choosing the best buying time? On the one hand, I continue to read and see trading earnings of over $500k each week. On the other side, I keep hearing that the market is out of control and experiencing a dead cat bounce. Why does this happen?

[kenibnanak]

There are at least a half dozen structures with similar underground facility built by the government for the government, but better concealed by having a tract housing above ground shell. I have been in 3 such places and know of a few more. Back in the day Uncle Sam would acquire a tract of land, build the underground part, then hire a home builder to put a tract housing house on top and surround it with other tract housing. As each tract house surrounding the important one (usually with 4 to 6 acres of land around them) the government would transfer title for that plot to the builder who was then free to sell it off to unsuspecting buyers. Some of the communities even have (had?) unsuspecting HOAs. You could have 40 or 200 similar houses built by the same builder with different families owning each of them, thinking they were in a community (at least 1 was of the gated kind), but actually only 1 of the houses was important. Sometimes 1 builder would build a few dozen then contracts were secretly done with other builders who built other styles of houses. From the air (or street) it just looks like different neighborhoods in a suburb.

[jamesstevens]

The “Survival Condos” complex looks like it should be a part of some post-apocalyptic FPS/RPG

[SwiftCreationStudio]

I would love to live in an underground house or a house with an old style fall out shelter, not so much having to use them for their intended purpose, but I suppose it'd be pretty handy if it did happen

[i-..--..--..-i]

Wow! $17.5 million. I remember when AT&T sold it for $237, 000 as surplus real estate. An electrical contracting company owned it for about ten years after that. It was one of the original pre-fiber optic cable optical communications network hubs designed to link the eastern seaboard military bases and Continuity of Government Command Posts. My uncle helped build it and worked there occasionally in the 1960s and 70s. Optical communications systems are MUCH more resistant to ElectroMagnetic Pulse and other forms of disruption that can occur in a major conflict. In the early days of they were very hard to clandestinely tap as well. During a conversation I had with a neighbor who was a Strategic Air Command officer from the 1960s up into the early 1990s he mentioned that the Irwinville site had a much higher targeting priority than Moody AFB or any of the other military bases in the state by the Soviets. He said that the Soviets had probably allocated around 100 megatons worth of multiple nukes to make sure they got that target. Then he told us, vaguely, how bad the estimated C.E.P. and failure on the soviet nukes was. Think tens of miles. I'm not sure exactly what his job was but he had an insanely high security clearance. I remember back in the 70s as a small boy he came home on leave and was in the hardware store. He ALWAYS carried a government issued pistol concealed and had a federal government issued ID card that said he was authorized to carry it everywhere and that he was not to be questioned or detained for any reason with a phone number to call if you had any problems with that. This was back before state CCW licenses were easily obtained.

If you think all that sounds insane and like B.S. look at some of the old nuclear war government published survival films. There's a British one in particular that goes into exquisite detail about how many nukes the Russians planned on dropping on the greater London area in the 1960s-1970s. It's absolutely terrifying. There's also an old 60 minutes episode from the 1980s where a guy who worked for E Systems, a long since merged with Raytheon Electronic Warfare Systems, I.S.R., & Communications gear manufacturer, accidentally shot and killed a woman through the wall of his Texas motel room with his federal government authorized Glock 21. He whipped out his "don't screw with me & call this number" ID card and the MiB Feds showed up to handle the situation. The Cold War was not a time for joking around. Both videos are or were posted here on YouTube at one time.

Some company called ZapCom, LLC. bought it post 9/11 and was doing all sorts of secret squirrel R&D and training for some electronic voodoo hardware. They bought the facility because it was dirt cheap and it is specially constructed with layers of special materials designed to block the intrusion OR ESCAPE of any kind of electromagnetic radiation, i.e. radio waves. They are the ones that renovated it to it's current form. There's a thread on REDDIT where someone posted the original for sale ad when ZapCom was trying to sell it around 2012-ish for just $2.5 million. One of the company owners chimed in on the thread and gave a few details and warned people not to try and rubberneck around the site. It's located just south of the tiny town of Irwinville, Georgia on Pinetta Road by the way. There's a lot of speculation as to what the company was testing and using down there. Some think it was counter IED black boxes to disable or disrupt IEDs being used in the Middle East against our troops. Others think it may have been something much more esoteric like part of the Area Denial "non-lethal" system that was tested on a HUMMVEE about 40 miles south at Moody Air Force Base outside Valdosta, Georgia. It's the one that uses microwaves emitted from a flat planar "satellite dish" antenna and heats the outer layers of your skin causing a burning sensation and cataracts in your eyes. If you dig out the supposed frequencies that thing is capable of transmitting you'll come away with more questions than answers. It's very likely that it is capable of doing a lot more things than making you feel like you are on fire.