Welcome back everyone.
In todays video were gonna be taking a peek at some locked doors around the world that
people have been forbidden from opening.
Sometimes its to protect whats inside from you, sometimes its to protect you from whats
inside - and sometimes we have no idea what lies beyond that door.
I don't have the answers - but I can tell you almost everything else about them.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary Locked Doors That Should Never Be
Opened …
Starting off at number 10 we have Vault B[a].
Padman abh aswamy Temple is one of the most sacred and popular temples in India.
It is visited by many pilgrims and tourists throughout the year.
However, for all the visitors to the temple - there is one room that nobody can enter.
They say it is a locked room filled with hidden treasures and shrouded in a deadly legend.
This rumour seemed to actually be true when in 2011, the Indian supreme court set out
to explore the temple and document its belongings.
They discovered six secret vaults with that had no latches to open them.
Inside they found 22 billion dollars worth of jewels, statues and coins.
Well, they know that 5 of the vaults contain that.
Vault B has remained sealed ever since its discovery.
They simply cannot open it up.
Nobody knows what lies beyond its gates.
Because of the secrecy around Vault B, urban legends have begun to spread.
People say that any attempts to open Vault B will unleash calamity on the locals.
They point to the fact that one of the committee members lost their mother while trying to
investigate what was inside Vault B. Others insist that Vault B has some sort of hidden
trick of some sort, that there is a hidden tunnel beneath the vault.
Of course, if this is true, that only produces even more questions …
Next up at number 9 we have Chernobyls Basement.
Those of you who have been watching my videos for more than a year will know that I never
seem to go long without talking about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant that exploded
in Ukraine in 1986, spreading a toxic cloud over Europe and creating a dead zone around
the town of Pripyat for decades to come.
Although visitors are now permitted to go on special tours up to the actual building,
there is one places that people still cannot enter.
Inside reactor 4 is a room that contains the Elephants Foot - a dense mass of sand, glass,
concrete and nuclear fuel that weighs 100 tons.
It is the remains of the nuclear core that melted through its containment vessel.
At the time of the explosion was so radioactive immediately following the catastrophe that
being exposed to it for 300 seconds was enough to kill you within two days.
Event today, the situation hasnt improved by much.
These days you wont be killed after spending a few minutes in there, it will take an hour
- but thats still crazy if you think about it.
Because of all this, the Elephants Foot room remains sealed to the public - although I
don't think it even needs to be sealed, I think people are smarter than that.
Moving on to number 8 now we have Black Dolphin Prison[b].
This prison is where the worst of Russian criminals are locked away.
Almost 700 criminals are contained there including child molestors, murderers, terrorists, cannibals,
serial killers and what the authorities refer to simply as -maniacs- … All prisoners are
serving life sentences for their crimes.
The inmates are kept in isolated cells with 3 steel doors.
Theyre allowed 90 minutes of exercise a day and are kept under 24 hour supervision.
Every 15 minutes, a guard will check on an inmates.
They are fed soup four times a day and are allowed no contact with the outside world.
Prison guards even place blindfolds on new arrivals so that they cannot map out the prison
to plan an escape.
Its a seriously dark place - Russia does not want a single prisoner there to escape.
For Russia, the locks on the prison cells and the final lock on the prison doors are
some of the most important in the whole country …
Next up at number 7 we have The First Emperors Tomb.
Deep under a hill in central china lies The First Emperor of Chinas tomb.
He died in 210 BC, over 2000 years ago.
He has remain undisturbed ever since.
For centuries, this was due to its location being a closely guarded secret and also out
of respect.
In recent years though, why has nobody been there?
Well, the respect is still there but some archaeologists say that this is because nobody
has the technology to go in there and excavate it.
Theres also the fact that the moat is surrounded by an actual moat of Mercury.
Next up at number 6 we have North Brother Island[c].
This island is located in the east river off the coast of the South Bronx in New York.
It is home to Riverside Hospital.
It was built in 1855 in order to house patients with extremely infectious diseases such as
typhus, tuberculosis, yellow fever and smallpox.
During WW2, it was used to house military veterans.
Then, the government put heroin addicts in there for treatment before finally closing
it for good.
People could understand why they closed the hospital - but the authorities actually closed
the entire island - forever.
New York now forbids anyone from visiting.
Of course, this has sparked many theories about what is inside Riverside Hospital.
Some say it is haunted by the people who suffered there including its most famous ghost known
as -Typhoid Mary- … others say that people are still being contained there for secret
government projects.
As long as the building remains under lock and key, we may never know the answers ...
Moving on to number 5 we have The Sphinxs Hall of Records[d].
Rumour has it that a secret lies under The Great Sphinx in Egypt - the Hall of Records
- an ancient library full of hidden information.
Its said to contains piles of documents, scrolls and lost information - even the whereabouts
of the lost continent of Atlantis if youre into that sort of thing.
Those who push this theory believe that investigation into the existence of the Hall of Records
has been blocked by the Egyptian government, further fanning the flames of a coverup.
They point to seismic surveys that apparently suggest a large rectangular chamber 25ft beneath
the monuments front paws.
Critics have called these theories pseudoarchaeology but the belief in a secret locked room below
the Sphinx is still being pushed by many!
Moving on to number 4 we have The Lascaux Cave[e].
On September 12, 18 year old Marcel Ravidat discovered a mysterious cave near the village
of Montignac in France.
He brought his friends back and they discovered paintings on the walls of animals.
It wasnt until experts were called in that they realised what they had found.
The cave contained almost 600 paintings that dated back to 17,000 years ago.
They were made by neolithic people and have become one of the most breathtaking examples
of early human artwork ever discovered.
The people who made this immortalized their life and the animals they depended on in ways
which we had previously thought was beyond them.
Their color schemes and 3d illusions have made historians rethink just how primitive
our ancestors were back then.
The cave was opened up to the public in 1948 however, in 1955, the heat, humidity and contaminants
produced by the visitors had seriously damaged the paintings and mould began to grow.
The cave was closed to the public in 1963.
The cave now remains locked behind a door - its ancient paintings of a long gone world
are now shrouded in darkness …
Moving onto number 3 we have Svalbards Global Seed Vault.
You may not have heard of this place but it may just be our best defence against a the
apocalypse.
This vault is buried inside a Norwegian mountain, just 810 miles south of the north pole.
It is protected by ocean, hundreds of miles and frozen wasteland, and even a few polar
bears.
Even if you get there, the vault itself is deep inside the mountain.
Its said to be able to withstand a nuclear holocaust or an Earthquake.
So what is so important that it needs this kind of protection?
Well, seeds.
Yeah.
Seeds.
Over a million seed samples.
They represent over 13,000 years of agricultural history.
If there is a disaster, some species of plants or perhaps even all of them might be under
threat.
If the plants in a species all die and we don't have any seeds left, its going to be
very hard or even impossible to bring them back.
Thats where the seed vault comes in.
It could be a light in the darkness if the world as we know it ever comes to an end.
Without plants, we wouldnt be able to survive very long.
The authorities who run the vault keep strict control of who can go through their locked
doors, the survival of the world may one day depend on it …
Moving on to number 2 we have Area 51.
No list of this nature would be complete without mentioning the famous Area 51.
Thats the nickname of Edwards Air Force Base, owned by the United States Air Force.
The facility in Nevada is renowned for its ultra secrecy.
Anyone who tried to get close is turned around by the vigilant and 24 hour military security
there.
This, of course, has led many people to theorise about what exactly they are so secretive about.
Many will tell you that its a testing facility for advanced aircraft and weaponry.
Others believe its actually a containment facility for a crashed alien spacecraft and
its alien owners.
Specifically, these conspiracists say it houses the remains of an alien crash landing in Roswell,
New Mexico in 1947.
For this reason, many people fear what lies behind the many locked doors of area 51 …
And finally at number 1 we have Ise Grand Shrine.[f] This is Shinto Shrine in Japan
that is held in high regard by many believers.
It is so sacred that only members of the Imperial Family can enter.
Nobody else is allowed to see the inside of the shrine.
As such, not very much is known about the inside of it or what goes on there.
What we do know is that it represents an important part of the Shinto belief of death and the
renewal of nature.
Because of this, the entire shrine is burned to the ground every 20 years.
The current shrine was rebuilt from the ashes in 2013 which means you may be able to witness
a new one in 2033 - if youre willing to wait that long.
If you go before that though, youll be left staring at the mysterious locked door and
wondering what secrets lie behind it …
Alright guys, that was everything I could tell you about some of the most secretive
locked doors in the world.
Do you have any theories about what lies behind them?
Do you know of any doors that will never be opened again?
Im interested to hear … thanks for watching as always guys, my name is Danny Burke and
Ill see you all in the next video!