Your average city or town is pretty boring but all over the world there are mysterious
towns and villages which people can't explain these towns are sometimes weird but awesome
and sometimes they're just plain scary from an illegal underground city where 50
000 people live to a town in the usa which has been on fire for 60 years underground city china
during the cold war china decided to build some bomb shelters under beijing china the underground
great wall was built for military defense that's because china anticipated a nuclear war with the
soviet union but of course the soviet union no longer exists so you may think that this
underground city is now empty but no 50 000 people live underground in beijing it's actually illegal
to do this so that's why the population has to be under the radar i guess that's easy when you're
literally living like a mole the city is complete with many things there are small houses for people
to live in but there's also restaurants hospitals and schools there are theatres factories a roller
skating rink and also a grain mill there's even an oil warehouse and a mushroom cultivation farm
that's because mushrooms can grow underground with no sunlight the people who live there are
mostly poor young people from other parts of china they come to beijing but want somewhere
cheap to stay so they can get some work you can rent a space underground in this city for about 57
per month you enter the underground city through a very discreet doorway and the living conditions
under here are not great things are quite dirty because everyone is quite poor and can't afford
a cleaner also everything is done by artificial light because of course there's no natural light
underground there are also hallways filled with trash people often share very small rooms together
this of course costs less money but it means you have no space or privacy the people who
live underground are known as the rat tribe of beijing or at least that's what the higher
class people in china call them thankfully most of the young people who move here can
find work at some point they can then start to live the dream of living not underground
centralia usa there's lots of great towns and cities in the united states
some are very safe and affluent while others are on the more dangerous side but centralia
in pennsylvania is a town like no other that's because it's been on fire for more than 50 years
it was once a bustling mining town but a hidden underground fire turned centralia into a ghost
town centralia had a booming economy thanks to its mine and over 1200 people lived in the town but
it could not be more different today all of the buildings are abandoned and the only thing living
here is smoke the mine fire happened in 1962 and the fire actually began simply out of laziness
the city needed to clear up some trash because of a big memorial day celebration they had so that's
why they decided to put the trash into the mine and then set fire to it this then spread through
the rest of the mine and created a gigantic fire under the town the mines all closed because of
unsafe carbon monoxide levels the ground then got hotter and hotter in some locations the roads are
900 degrees fahrenheit or 482 celsius poisonous gas filled everyone's homes and basements
sinkholes in the road began to form with smoke pouring out of her a 12 year old boy even fell
into a sinkhole created by the fire and the town's two cemeteries even dropped into the fire below
them eventually congress bought out the residents and told them to leave town according to the epa
the fire could burn for another 100 years and some have nicknamed centralia the united states is
chernobyl that's because it's very toxic and dangerous and you can't live there
kalachi kazakhstan what if i told you there's a mysterious town in kazakhstan where everyone
sleeps for days that's the case with kalachi or as its nicknamed sleepy hollow people in this village
would get a sleeping sickness which caused them to fall unconscious for days sometimes people walking
down the street would fall asleep all of a sudden they would then stay there sleeping for two days
people also experience bizarre hallucinations for example one girl said she saw an elephant trunk on
her mother and one boy imagined horses and light bulbs flying around his head the men there wake
up after 12 hours to six days for many years it was a total mystery as to why this happens
no one knew why this mysterious village made everyone fall asleep this led to it being
nicknamed the village of the damned that's because many believed that it was cursed but the truth is
far more reasonable to find the cause we need to look at the town next to kalachi this is the now
abandoned mining town of krasnagorsk this was a uranium mining town but the uranium mines had
gas leaking out of them this gas then floated over to kolache and caused everyone to get sick
this sickness caused the hallucinations and the sleeping it took a long time for them to work
this out as there's only 160 people in kalachi but they only solved this mystery in 2012.
side effects also included headaches and memory loss and research has found that the village has
abnormally high carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon levels 68 of the 223 families in the village have
moved but believe it or not there are still people living here today even though they know the risk
i guess home is where the heart is derenkuyu turkey we've already seen one very mysterious
underground city in china but china is not the only country with mysterious underground cities
and in many ways this ancient city is even more mysterious it goes down 200 feet below the ground
and it's large enough for 20 000 people to live in it it was first built in the soft volcanic rock
and it said this would have happened between 8 or 7 bc amazingly though for centuries this village
was abandoned and forgotten about but in 1963 a resident in the local area found a mysterious room
behind a wall in his home he dug into it further and then found a network of tunnels in 1969 it was
further excavated and they found the underground city the inside looks amazing and it's massive
people would have literally lived like moles in caves and remember this was before artificial
lighting so they'd have done everything by candlelight midris or drazinski poland
in one tiny polish village there's a big mystery that's that there are no boys ever born in this
village it's what's known as a strange population anomaly that's because every single baby ever born
in this village has been a girl it's not known why the genetics of new babies are always girls in
this village the villagers have desperately tried to have a baby boy but it's never worked they've
even tried some unorthodox tactics told them by spiritual people for example sometimes mothers
change their diets to try and get a boy sometimes they'll also keep an axe under their marital beds
but many scientists say this is simply a weird statistical coincidence the chance of having a
boy is one out of two but just because one mother doesn't have a boy doesn't mean it's more likely
for the next one to have a boy so that's why in theory this town could never have a baby boy
they haven't found anything special about this village explaining why only girls are born here
of course men do live in this village but they've moved from other villages
and right now this place remains a mystery nagoro japan nagoro is a village built inside a volcano
but that's not even the scariest part about it if you went here you'd assume that you traveled into
a scary movie but there are 350 life-sized creepy dolls these dolls made of straw and dressed in old
clothing are all over the town they were made 10 years ago when the population began diminishing
and a decade later you'll still find these dolls all over the place you can even explore this town
on google maps and see the creepy dolls of course these were made when the population was going down
and right now there's only 27 people living in nagoro the youngest of which is over 50. it's
thought that by the year 2050 there will be no people living here only dolls the reason many have
left this village is because it's located on an island it can be found on the island of shaikoku
but there are pretty much no jobs or opportunities here which is why everyone's moved or passed on
monowi usa we've seen towns in this video with small populations
but nothing can compare to america's smallest town minowi nebraska has only one resident
she is the town's mayor treasurer librarian and bartender elise eiler is 84 years old she lived
here with her husband but he passed on and now she's mayor of america's smallest town
chefchaouen morocco if you went to this place you'd imagine that you've stepped into an
alternate reality where everything is blue but no it just so happens that everything in this town is
painted blue it has 42 700 inhabitants and the buildings are painted blue as a sign of sky and
heaven whittier usa whittier is a tiny town in alaska where everyone lives in the same building
you'd better get on with your neighbors because everyone's living under one roof 218 people live
in this building it's complete with a school and a post office it even has an indoor police
station the reason why is because the alaskan town sees 250 inches of snow every year this
means no one can really move around outside anyway so it's easier simply to have everyone in the same
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