Let's talk about secrets.
It's human nature to want to know what we can't know, to have what we can't have, the most
alluring things in life are often those that are unattainable.
So true what Sheila would talk about alluring and unattainable.
I guess we're doing this now.
Who? Sheila. She was this angelfish that I knew when we got beat.
Oh, no. Oh, she had the most perfect girls and all my own pelvic fins went all the way
back. No, no, no.
I'm talking about secret places.
Oh, I dreamed of that.
She was secret places.
Hey, you know what I'm talking about.
No, I don't.
I mean, I do, but we're not.
Why am I even talking to you?
I lost my train of thought. Yeah.
You're really floundering and floundering.
You see what I did? And I'm fired today, baby.
Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, what are you doing?
Oh, come on.
Can you take a joke?
Oh, no. We, um, akula.
These are the most secret places in the world.
Off limits to almost everyone.
Wouldn't you tell us we can't go inside or photograph or even know what's happening in
these places? Well, we need to know why.
Welcome to the Y files were smart folks like us come to laugh and learn today we're
talking about the most secret places in the world and the mysterious theories that
surround them. A few weeks ago, we covered the scariest places in the US that you can
actually visit. The locations on this list are different.
You can't visit any of these without special access and no one really knows what's
happening inside. And when you don't give the public information about something, we'll
fill in the blanks. Cultish.
You ready to behave? Oh, thank goodness.
Oh, I couldn't breathe.
Just give me a second. Ok, I'm ready.
Drama queen, area 50.
What are we're getting right to Mehar.
Right to the meat. You can't do a list of secret locations without this one area.
Fifty one has been a perennial American obsession for more than 50 years.
It's been the backdrop for countless movies, books, TV shows and YouTube videos.
In twenty nineteen, this well known but little understood location basically broke the
Internet when some crazy person got millions of people to RSVP.
Yes, to trespassing on area fifty one.
Did we RSVP?
Yes, we did not.
Yeah. You're not as dumb as you look.
Area 51 is located in Rachel, Nevada, about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, and is a
remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base.
It's so highly classified that the military disputed it even existed for years.
Yes, it is. The Air Force finally acknowledged Area 51 is real in 2013, but nobody really
knows what's happening in there.
Built in nineteen fifty five as part of the Nevada Test and Training Range Complex, it
was initially constructed by contractor Lockheed Martin as a test facility for the U2 spy
plane to see those planes.
That joke worked on two levels.
I appreciate you noticing now.
Although it's never been declared top secret, the area is highly protected and deadly
force is authorized against trespassers.
So what's going on there?
Well, the official statement is for operational security reasons, we do not provide
detailed information regarding what takes place in the facility.
Not good enough.
I agree. The most widely circulated theory is that Area 51 houses an alien spacecraft
that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in nineteen forty seven.
Along with the bodies of the pilots, we got 80 bodies.
That's huge. The Air Force said the UFO was a weather balloon.
I don't buy it. Oh, you don't trust our super honest, transparent government and military
industrial complex? I do not.
Lots of people don't. Area fifty one operated in secret for decades until nineteen eighty
nine when Bob Lasar, who claimed he worked there, gave a public interview where he said
that the military reverse engineered alien spacecraft and utilized that technology in
American military and space programs.
I believe that. I know you do.
And think about how quickly technology advanced in the second half of the 20th century.
Look at it this way, 20 years before Roswell.
Nineteen twenty seven, Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic Ocean in the spirit of
St. Louis, a single engine, single seat aircraft.
And that was a huge deal.
He became an international star.
That's 20 years before Roswell.
OK, well, about 20 years after Roswell, we were launching satellites into orbit and
landing people on the moon fake nose.
Oh, the moon landing was was faked.
They were fine, fine, fine, fine.
I don't want to get into this now, but still, the airplane was just invented about 20
years before Lindbergh.
So there are huge leaps forward in technology in a relatively short period of time if we
use the alien stuff.
But we have no evidence.
But it's clear that technology advancements started accelerating in the 50s and 60s
because of something.
What do you guys think? Let us know in the comments that these technological leaps come
from reverse engineering alien spacecraft, or was it something else?
R.A.F. men with the Menwith Hill is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire,
England, which was built to provide communications and intelligence support services to
the UK and the US.
Now, even though this is a Royal Air Force station, in the 60s, operational control was
transferred to the National Security Agency of the United States.
No boys were then created the largest electronic monitoring station in the world.
There's monitoring mean spying.
Sure it does. And there it is.
Project Echelon is a surveillance program operated by the US, Australia, Canada, New
Zealand and the UK, also known as the Five Eyes.
Oh, I love that phrase.
You're thinking of five guys.
Yes, they do have good fries.
Right. All right.
So the five eyes and spies, nice developed echelon into a global system for the
interception of private communications.
And we're talking mass surveillance of high threat individuals and corporations via
industrial espionage.
Who decides who is a high threat?
Yeah, I thought so.
Echelon is now a global network of electronic spy stations that can eavesdrop on
landlines, cell phones, fax machines, computers, it can even track bank accounts.
And all that data is stored at Echelon computers, which can keep millions of records on
millions of individuals, companies, even countries.
Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for The Washington Post, summarized
the leaks as follows.
Secret legal authorities empower the NSA to sweep in the telephone, Internet and location
records of whole populations.
There are reports that every text message and phone call in the world flows through
Echelon. And then is that added to the files of the sender and the receiver and stored
for later analysis?
Is this legal?
Well, well is the wrong answer.
It's not legal in the United States without a warrant, but this facility is not in the
United States. That's a big loophole.
And officially, this project doesn't even exist.
So nothing to see. Here go this crazy thing.
Lockheed Martin, the company seems to show up in an awful lot of these videos.
Yeah, I noticed that, too.
So what do we do about it?
Can you make one of those for me?
I'm terrified right now.
I'm using a stolen Netflix password.
Oh, I know you stole it from me.
I didn't really peg you as a fan of the Twilight movie.
Stop breaking my horns.
I need some protection over here.
Where are you, pal? There you go.
Yeah, I don't know why, but I feel so much better.
I know it does. What do you guys think?
Is Echelon real?
Are you concerned about governments reading your texts and screening your calls?
Let us know in the comments.
Now, whether the emergency operation center built in nineteen fifty eight meant whether
serves as the operations center for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a.k.a.
FEMA. It's part of the United States is continuity of government plan.
And it's a relocation site for the highest level of civilian and government personnel.
This is a five hundred and sixty four acre high security federal government facility
along the land in Clark County bordering Virginia, built during the Cold War as a
relocation site. The facility consists of two parts, the above ground FEMA complex and a
six hundred thousand square foot underground facility.
Reportedly, it's a fully self-contained city with its own leaders, its own police and
fire departments, even its own set of laws.
This underground bunker has a hospital, dining and recreation areas, sleeping quarters, a
self-contained water system, emergency power plant, even a radio and television studio,
which is part of the emergency broadcasting system.
People are said to be able to survive down here in isolation for years without ever
leaving the compound. Sounds a lot like 20 20 too soon.
Mount weather has been designed to survive conventional, chemical, biological, even
nuclear attacks, even though it's been operated and maintained for over 60 years.
Very little is known about about whether the general public first learned about it in
nineteen seventy four when TWA Flight 514 crashed nearby.
And up until then, most federal officials didn't even know it existed.
Has it ever been used?
Oh yeah. Mount Weather was briefly activated by federal agents on April 7th twenty
fifteen after a major power outage hit Washington, D.C.
It was also used during the 9/11 attacks with the entire congressional leadership was
transported there by helicopter.
All the Congress in one bunker.
Oh, I'd rather take my chances with the bombs.
I hear you. Nobody really knows who's on the mount weather list, but it's a pretty
exclusive list. So how do we get on a list?
Of course. It will work it a tails off over here, though, what's a favorite hit the
thumbs up but a like but no one ever but you got there.
I mean, come on. Are you doing that by walking around with a mask?
Angry, depressed.
Come on. Help a brother out.
Mad mezo mezze.
The Yamen, along with Kavinsky Mountain are claimed by the US as being secret nuclear
facilities with underground bunkers because large excavation projects have been observed
by satellites. Several military garrisons were built on the site and then merged into the
closed town of Gori, a close town.
Close town is a residential area where travel is restricted in and out.
How many people live in MEZO?
Whatever little estimates are, there are thirty thousand military and another thirty
thousand non-military personnel.
But nobody really knows because people haven't been able to enter or leave for over 20
years and nobody knows.
Well, countries in the West have been asking Russia for years what's going on in there.
And the story keeps changing.
It is a place for mining rocks.
It is a place for making delicious cheeses.
It is like a big Home Depot.
They really said that they did that.
I don't trust those guys.
They're Russian. They don't care what you think.
The global seed vault.
Oh, that looks like the thing that the was drive around.
It's just a big cow deep in an icy mountain above the Arctic Circle between Norway in the
North Pole lies a resource of vital importance for the future of civilization.
It's not coal, oil or precious minerals, but seeds.
Millions of seeds from more than 900000 varieties of food crops are stored in the global
seed vault on Spitzbergen, part of Norway's Svalbard archipelago, that tell the people
how many tries it took to get that right.
Go ahead, tell them it took me 14 tries.
Bulbar guard Cappello aka fog.
It's been a long day, folks.
The seed vault is basically a huge safety deposit box to protect against loss during large
scale regional or global crises.
So if they drop bombs on us, we still got Tomatis, we still got tomatoes.
The seed bank is one hundred and twenty meters inside a sandstone mountain and employs
seriously advanced security systems.
Seeds are packaged in these special foil packets that allow them to last basically
forever. The facility is managed by the Nordic Genetic Resource Center, but they only
open the vault to make deposits.
There are no permanent staff on site.
A Spitzbergen was considered ideal because it lacks tectonic activity, has permafrost and
it's one hundred and thirty meters above sea level, which keeps the site dry even if the
ice caps melt. Also, Norway typically tries to stay out of military conflicts.
The. I said they try while the press has emphasized its use in the event of a major
global catastrophe, the Sebald will be more frequently accessed when gene banks lose
samples due to mismanagement, accidents, equipment failures, funding cuts or natural
disasters. And these events are actually pretty common.
War and civil strife have a history of destroying seatbacks.
For example, the National Seed Bank of the Philippines was damaged by flooding and then
later destroyed by a fire.
And the seed banks of Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq have all been lost completely from Bob.
I'd rather end on a high note.
Thanks to the global seed vault, many of those seeds were recovered.
Tomatoes, tomatoes, Vatican secret archives.
Fifty three miles of shelving.
Thirty five thousand volumes, millions of pages going back twelve hundred years, housed
in one of the most iconic bastions of religion and culture.
The Vatican's apostolic archives are the stuff of historical legend and Dan Brown books,
but they're absolutely real.
The archives indexes are not public and they're only accessible to very few scholars.
And then only after the deposits have been stored for at least seventy five years and
they're housed in a fortress inside the Vatican.
Why do we have to wait seventy five years to read this stuff?
I'd rather not get into it.
I got anyway.
Notable documents include Henry the Eighth Request for a marriage annulment, handwritten
transcript of the trial of Galileo and letters from Michelangelo complaining he hadn't
been paid for his work on the Sistine Chapel.
They stiffed Michelangelo on his bill.
Apparently they did what it yeah, someone out there gets it.
The secretive nature of the Catholic Church and the potential information within have
fueled years of wild speculation about what's inside.
And there are tons of crazy conspiracy theories about what's in the archives.
And we talk about a few yes, we can disclaimer.
We are merely reporting we are not endorsing any of these theories.
I may endorse one.
You may not. Fine, fine, fine.
What do you get? Many conspiracy theorists believe the archives show the Vatican is
hiding proof that Jesus didn't exist.
No, boy, you're right.
Yes. That it is good thinking.
Another theory says the Vatican has evidence of extraterrestrials and that the pope is
conspiring with aliens to implant us with computer chips.
There's also this great theory about a device.
I have to say it slowly.
It's called the Crono Visor.
Crono Visor out.
Try saying that word fast and watch how quickly a YouTube video gets banned.
Anyway, the Crono Visor is a machine that allows the operator to view past and future
events. And it was designed by an Italian priest and scientist who is trying to prove
evidence of the crucifixion.
And the archives are said to contain the three secrets of Fatema, which is a series of
visions and prophecies that predict the end of the world.
And of course, some people believe the archives are controlled by the Illuminati, which
the Vatican is a founding member.
Fact. A conspiracy theory that turned out to be true is that the Vatican archives
contained a document that absolved the Knights Templar of crimes against the church.
In 2001, the Shannon Parchment was discovered in the archives and the parchment is dated
August 13, 08 as Shannon France and contains interrogations, confessions and absolution
of the Knights. When the Shannon Parchment was made public in 2007, it confirmed the
legacy of the Knights Templar by proving that Pope Clement, the Fifth, actually absolved
the group of heresy in thirty eight.
It's a fascinating document that reads like a Law and Order episode, actually a Law and
Order SVO episode, if you know what I mean.
If you want to check it out, I'll put a link to the full text in the description.
And if you want to see a whole video about the Knights Templar, I do let us know in the
comments and we'll get on it real.
Thirty nine room thirty nine also called bureau thirty nine.
An office thirty nine is officially known as the Central Committee Bureau.
Thirty nine of the Workers Party of Korea.
And it's a secretive North Korean party organization that seeks to bring in foreign
currency to party leadership.
The organization is estimated to bring in one billion dollars a year or more and may be
involved in activities such as counterfeiting hundred dollar bills, producing meth,
heroin and committing international insurance fraud for big, big bucks.
La la la la la la la la la la la.
Hold on. What we ease into this, this is crazy.
Ok, ok. Will ease into it.
Office thirty nine was set up in the 1970s by the founding father of North Korea, Kim Il
Sung, as a kind of a royal slush fund.
It takes its name from the office it occupies inside the Worker's Party building in the
capital, Pyongyang, not far from the official residence of the party leader.
Much of what we know about room thirty nine comes from a defector that ABC interviewed in
twenty eighteen. He said he spent five years working as an agent in the design group, an
umbrella corporation that smuggled ginseng, gemstones and gold into China so it could be
sold on the international markets as Chinese gold, apparently evading United Nations
sanctions, was easy and China played a central part.
It just changed. Company names and had branches in different countries.
We don't know much about the internal operations of room thirty nine because the defector
is afraid of assassination attempts on himself and his family.
But there are plenty more shady details which link below.
Should we be talking about this now?
You're squeamish. Well, I was fine until the last story and maybe we can cut this one
out. It's too late now.
Well, how do you say I'm sorry?
In Korean you saw how I was being rhetorical.
Is that is that is that really how to say it?
Yeah. Why do you say we all have secrets, don't we?
Yes. Yes, we do.
Thanks for hanging out with us today.
My name is A.J. That's Hellfish.
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