OFF LIMITS: The Most Secret Places in the World — Transcript

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1. 0:00Let's talk about secrets.
2. 0:02It's human nature to want to know what we can't know, to have what we can't have, the most
3. 0:07alluring things in life are often those that are unattainable.
4. 0:10So true what Sheila would talk about alluring and unattainable.
5. 0:16I guess we're doing this now.
6. 0:17Who? Sheila. She was this angelfish that I knew when we got beat.
7. 0:21Oh, no. Oh, she had the most perfect girls and all my own pelvic fins went all the way
8. 0:27back. No, no, no.
9. 0:28I'm talking about secret places.
10. 0:31Oh, I dreamed of that.
11. 0:32She was secret places.
12. 0:33Hey, you know what I'm talking about.
13. 0:34No, I don't.
14. 0:36I mean, I do, but we're not.
15. 0:38Why am I even talking to you?
16. 0:41I lost my train of thought. Yeah.
17. 0:43You're really floundering and floundering.
18. 0:47You see what I did? And I'm fired today, baby.
19. 0:51Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, what are you doing?
20. 0:53Oh, come on.
21. 0:54Can you take a joke?
22. 0:56Oh, no. We, um, akula.
23. 0:59These are the most secret places in the world.
24. 1:01Off limits to almost everyone.
25. 1:04Wouldn't you tell us we can't go inside or photograph or even know what's happening in
26. 1:07these places? Well, we need to know why.
27. 1:17Welcome to the Y files were smart folks like us come to laugh and learn today we're
28. 1:21talking about the most secret places in the world and the mysterious theories that
29. 1:25surround them. A few weeks ago, we covered the scariest places in the US that you can
30. 1:29actually visit. The locations on this list are different.
31. 1:33You can't visit any of these without special access and no one really knows what's
32. 1:36happening inside. And when you don't give the public information about something, we'll
33. 1:40fill in the blanks. Cultish.
34. 1:43You ready to behave? Oh, thank goodness.
35. 1:48Oh, I couldn't breathe.
36. 1:50Just give me a second. Ok, I'm ready.
37. 1:55Drama queen, area 50.
38. 1:59What are we're getting right to Mehar.
39. 2:01Right to the meat. You can't do a list of secret locations without this one area.
40. 2:05Fifty one has been a perennial American obsession for more than 50 years.
41. 2:10It's been the backdrop for countless movies, books, TV shows and YouTube videos.
42. 2:15In twenty nineteen, this well known but little understood location basically broke the
43. 2:20Internet when some crazy person got millions of people to RSVP.
44. 2:24Yes, to trespassing on area fifty one.
45. 2:27Did we RSVP?
46. 2:28Yes, we did not.
47. 2:29Yeah. You're not as dumb as you look.
48. 2:32Area 51 is located in Rachel, Nevada, about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, and is a
49. 2:37remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base.
50. 2:40It's so highly classified that the military disputed it even existed for years.
51. 2:46Yes, it is. The Air Force finally acknowledged Area 51 is real in 2013, but nobody really
52. 2:52knows what's happening in there.
53. 2:53Built in nineteen fifty five as part of the Nevada Test and Training Range Complex, it
54. 2:58was initially constructed by contractor Lockheed Martin as a test facility for the U2 spy
55. 3:03plane to see those planes.
56. 3:06That joke worked on two levels.
57. 3:08I appreciate you noticing now.
58. 3:10Although it's never been declared top secret, the area is highly protected and deadly
59. 3:14force is authorized against trespassers.
60. 3:17So what's going on there?
61. 3:18Well, the official statement is for operational security reasons, we do not provide
62. 3:23detailed information regarding what takes place in the facility.
63. 3:26Not good enough.
64. 3:27I agree. The most widely circulated theory is that Area 51 houses an alien spacecraft
65. 3:34that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in nineteen forty seven.
66. 3:37Along with the bodies of the pilots, we got 80 bodies.
67. 3:41That's huge. The Air Force said the UFO was a weather balloon.
68. 3:46I don't buy it. Oh, you don't trust our super honest, transparent government and military
69. 3:50industrial complex? I do not.
70. 3:53Lots of people don't. Area fifty one operated in secret for decades until nineteen eighty
71. 3:57nine when Bob Lasar, who claimed he worked there, gave a public interview where he said
72. 4:02that the military reverse engineered alien spacecraft and utilized that technology in
73. 4:07American military and space programs.
74. 4:10I believe that. I know you do.
75. 4:12And think about how quickly technology advanced in the second half of the 20th century.
76. 4:16Look at it this way, 20 years before Roswell.
77. 4:19Nineteen twenty seven, Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic Ocean in the spirit of
78. 4:23St. Louis, a single engine, single seat aircraft.
79. 4:27And that was a huge deal.
80. 4:29He became an international star.
81. 4:31That's 20 years before Roswell.
82. 4:33OK, well, about 20 years after Roswell, we were launching satellites into orbit and
83. 4:38landing people on the moon fake nose.
84. 4:41Oh, the moon landing was was faked.
85. 4:43They were fine, fine, fine, fine.
86. 4:44I don't want to get into this now, but still, the airplane was just invented about 20
87. 4:49years before Lindbergh.
88. 4:50So there are huge leaps forward in technology in a relatively short period of time if we
89. 4:56use the alien stuff.
90. 4:59But we have no evidence.
91. 5:00But it's clear that technology advancements started accelerating in the 50s and 60s
92. 5:05because of something.
93. 5:06What do you guys think? Let us know in the comments that these technological leaps come
94. 5:10from reverse engineering alien spacecraft, or was it something else?
95. 5:15R.A.F. men with the Menwith Hill is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire,
96. 5:20England, which was built to provide communications and intelligence support services to
97. 5:25the UK and the US.
98. 5:26Now, even though this is a Royal Air Force station, in the 60s, operational control was
99. 5:31transferred to the National Security Agency of the United States.
100. 5:35No boys were then created the largest electronic monitoring station in the world.
101. 5:40There's monitoring mean spying.
102. 5:42Sure it does. And there it is.
103. 5:44Project Echelon is a surveillance program operated by the US, Australia, Canada, New
104. 5:49Zealand and the UK, also known as the Five Eyes.
105. 5:52Oh, I love that phrase.
106. 5:54You're thinking of five guys.
107. 5:56Yes, they do have good fries.
108. 5:58Right. All right.
109. 5:59So the five eyes and spies, nice developed echelon into a global system for the
110. 6:05interception of private communications.
111. 6:07And we're talking mass surveillance of high threat individuals and corporations via
112. 6:12industrial espionage.
113. 6:14Who decides who is a high threat?
114. 6:19Yeah, I thought so.
115. 6:20Echelon is now a global network of electronic spy stations that can eavesdrop on
116. 6:25landlines, cell phones, fax machines, computers, it can even track bank accounts.
117. 6:30And all that data is stored at Echelon computers, which can keep millions of records on
118. 6:35millions of individuals, companies, even countries.
119. 6:37Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for The Washington Post, summarized
120. 6:41the leaks as follows.
121. 6:43Secret legal authorities empower the NSA to sweep in the telephone, Internet and location
122. 6:48records of whole populations.
123. 6:51There are reports that every text message and phone call in the world flows through
124. 6:55Echelon. And then is that added to the files of the sender and the receiver and stored
125. 7:00for later analysis?
126. 7:03Is this legal?
127. 7:04Well, well is the wrong answer.
128. 7:07It's not legal in the United States without a warrant, but this facility is not in the
129. 7:11United States. That's a big loophole.
130. 7:14And officially, this project doesn't even exist.
131. 7:17So nothing to see. Here go this crazy thing.
132. 7:20Lockheed Martin, the company seems to show up in an awful lot of these videos.
133. 7:24Yeah, I noticed that, too.
134. 7:26So what do we do about it?
135. 7:29Can you make one of those for me?
136. 7:31I'm terrified right now.
137. 7:33I'm using a stolen Netflix password.
138. 7:35Oh, I know you stole it from me.
139. 7:37I didn't really peg you as a fan of the Twilight movie.
140. 7:40Stop breaking my horns.
141. 7:41I need some protection over here.
142. 7:43Where are you, pal? There you go.
143. 7:48Yeah, I don't know why, but I feel so much better.
144. 7:51I know it does. What do you guys think?
145. 7:53Is Echelon real?
146. 7:55Are you concerned about governments reading your texts and screening your calls?
147. 7:59Let us know in the comments.
148. 8:02Now, whether the emergency operation center built in nineteen fifty eight meant whether
149. 8:07serves as the operations center for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a.k.a.
150. 8:12FEMA. It's part of the United States is continuity of government plan.
151. 8:15And it's a relocation site for the highest level of civilian and government personnel.
152. 8:20This is a five hundred and sixty four acre high security federal government facility
153. 8:24along the land in Clark County bordering Virginia, built during the Cold War as a
154. 8:27relocation site. The facility consists of two parts, the above ground FEMA complex and a
155. 8:33six hundred thousand square foot underground facility.
156. 8:37Reportedly, it's a fully self-contained city with its own leaders, its own police and
157. 8:41fire departments, even its own set of laws.
158. 8:43This underground bunker has a hospital, dining and recreation areas, sleeping quarters, a
159. 8:48self-contained water system, emergency power plant, even a radio and television studio,
160. 8:53which is part of the emergency broadcasting system.
161. 8:55People are said to be able to survive down here in isolation for years without ever
162. 9:01leaving the compound. Sounds a lot like 20 20 too soon.
163. 9:04Mount weather has been designed to survive conventional, chemical, biological, even
164. 9:09nuclear attacks, even though it's been operated and maintained for over 60 years.
165. 9:14Very little is known about about whether the general public first learned about it in
166. 9:18nineteen seventy four when TWA Flight 514 crashed nearby.
167. 9:22And up until then, most federal officials didn't even know it existed.
168. 9:25Has it ever been used?
169. 9:26Oh yeah. Mount Weather was briefly activated by federal agents on April 7th twenty
170. 9:31fifteen after a major power outage hit Washington, D.C.
171. 9:34It was also used during the 9/11 attacks with the entire congressional leadership was
172. 9:39transported there by helicopter.
173. 9:41All the Congress in one bunker.
174. 9:43Oh, I'd rather take my chances with the bombs.
175. 9:46I hear you. Nobody really knows who's on the mount weather list, but it's a pretty
176. 9:50exclusive list. So how do we get on a list?
177. 9:54Of course. It will work it a tails off over here, though, what's a favorite hit the
178. 10:01thumbs up but a like but no one ever but you got there.
179. 10:04I mean, come on. Are you doing that by walking around with a mask?
180. 10:07Angry, depressed.
181. 10:08Come on. Help a brother out.
182. 10:10Mad mezo mezze.
183. 10:13The Yamen, along with Kavinsky Mountain are claimed by the US as being secret nuclear
184. 10:20facilities with underground bunkers because large excavation projects have been observed
185. 10:25by satellites. Several military garrisons were built on the site and then merged into the
186. 10:30closed town of Gori, a close town.
187. 10:33Close town is a residential area where travel is restricted in and out.
188. 10:37How many people live in MEZO?
189. 10:39Whatever little estimates are, there are thirty thousand military and another thirty
190. 10:43thousand non-military personnel.
191. 10:45But nobody really knows because people haven't been able to enter or leave for over 20
192. 10:50years and nobody knows.
193. 10:51Well, countries in the West have been asking Russia for years what's going on in there.
194. 10:56And the story keeps changing.
195. 10:57It is a place for mining rocks.
196. 11:00It is a place for making delicious cheeses.
197. 11:03It is like a big Home Depot.
198. 11:06They really said that they did that.
199. 11:08I don't trust those guys.
200. 11:10They're Russian. They don't care what you think.
201. 11:14The global seed vault.
202. 11:16Oh, that looks like the thing that the was drive around.
203. 11:19It's just a big cow deep in an icy mountain above the Arctic Circle between Norway in the
204. 11:24North Pole lies a resource of vital importance for the future of civilization.
205. 11:29It's not coal, oil or precious minerals, but seeds.
206. 11:33Millions of seeds from more than 900000 varieties of food crops are stored in the global
207. 11:39seed vault on Spitzbergen, part of Norway's Svalbard archipelago, that tell the people
208. 11:44how many tries it took to get that right.
209. 11:47Go ahead, tell them it took me 14 tries.
210. 11:50Bulbar guard Cappello aka fog.
211. 11:56It's been a long day, folks.
212. 11:57The seed vault is basically a huge safety deposit box to protect against loss during large
213. 12:03scale regional or global crises.
214. 12:05So if they drop bombs on us, we still got Tomatis, we still got tomatoes.
215. 12:10The seed bank is one hundred and twenty meters inside a sandstone mountain and employs
216. 12:15seriously advanced security systems.
217. 12:17Seeds are packaged in these special foil packets that allow them to last basically
218. 12:21forever. The facility is managed by the Nordic Genetic Resource Center, but they only
219. 12:26open the vault to make deposits.
220. 12:27There are no permanent staff on site.
221. 12:29A Spitzbergen was considered ideal because it lacks tectonic activity, has permafrost and
222. 12:35it's one hundred and thirty meters above sea level, which keeps the site dry even if the
223. 12:39ice caps melt. Also, Norway typically tries to stay out of military conflicts.
224. 12:45The. I said they try while the press has emphasized its use in the event of a major
225. 12:55global catastrophe, the Sebald will be more frequently accessed when gene banks lose
226. 12:59samples due to mismanagement, accidents, equipment failures, funding cuts or natural
227. 13:04disasters. And these events are actually pretty common.
228. 13:06War and civil strife have a history of destroying seatbacks.
229. 13:10For example, the National Seed Bank of the Philippines was damaged by flooding and then
230. 13:13later destroyed by a fire.
231. 13:15And the seed banks of Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq have all been lost completely from Bob.
232. 13:20I'd rather end on a high note.
233. 13:22Thanks to the global seed vault, many of those seeds were recovered.
234. 13:25Tomatoes, tomatoes, Vatican secret archives.
235. 13:31Fifty three miles of shelving.
236. 13:33Thirty five thousand volumes, millions of pages going back twelve hundred years, housed
237. 13:39in one of the most iconic bastions of religion and culture.
238. 13:43The Vatican's apostolic archives are the stuff of historical legend and Dan Brown books,
239. 13:49but they're absolutely real.
240. 13:50The archives indexes are not public and they're only accessible to very few scholars.
241. 13:54And then only after the deposits have been stored for at least seventy five years and
242. 13:59they're housed in a fortress inside the Vatican.
243. 14:02Why do we have to wait seventy five years to read this stuff?
244. 14:05I'd rather not get into it.
245. 14:06I got anyway.
246. 14:09Notable documents include Henry the Eighth Request for a marriage annulment, handwritten
247. 14:13transcript of the trial of Galileo and letters from Michelangelo complaining he hadn't
248. 14:17been paid for his work on the Sistine Chapel.
249. 14:19They stiffed Michelangelo on his bill.
250. 14:21Apparently they did what it yeah, someone out there gets it.
251. 14:26The secretive nature of the Catholic Church and the potential information within have
252. 14:31fueled years of wild speculation about what's inside.
253. 14:35And there are tons of crazy conspiracy theories about what's in the archives.
254. 14:38And we talk about a few yes, we can disclaimer.
255. 14:42We are merely reporting we are not endorsing any of these theories.
256. 14:46I may endorse one.
257. 14:47You may not. Fine, fine, fine.
258. 14:49What do you get? Many conspiracy theorists believe the archives show the Vatican is
259. 14:53hiding proof that Jesus didn't exist.
260. 14:55No, boy, you're right.
261. 14:57Yes. That it is good thinking.
262. 14:58Another theory says the Vatican has evidence of extraterrestrials and that the pope is
263. 15:03conspiring with aliens to implant us with computer chips.
264. 15:07There's also this great theory about a device.
265. 15:09I have to say it slowly.
266. 15:10It's called the Crono Visor.
267. 15:13Crono Visor out.
268. 15:15Try saying that word fast and watch how quickly a YouTube video gets banned.
269. 15:19Anyway, the Crono Visor is a machine that allows the operator to view past and future
270. 15:25events. And it was designed by an Italian priest and scientist who is trying to prove
271. 15:29evidence of the crucifixion.
272. 15:31And the archives are said to contain the three secrets of Fatema, which is a series of
273. 15:35visions and prophecies that predict the end of the world.
274. 15:38And of course, some people believe the archives are controlled by the Illuminati, which
275. 15:43the Vatican is a founding member.
276. 15:44Fact. A conspiracy theory that turned out to be true is that the Vatican archives
277. 15:49contained a document that absolved the Knights Templar of crimes against the church.
278. 15:54In 2001, the Shannon Parchment was discovered in the archives and the parchment is dated
279. 15:59August 13, 08 as Shannon France and contains interrogations, confessions and absolution
280. 16:05of the Knights. When the Shannon Parchment was made public in 2007, it confirmed the
281. 16:10legacy of the Knights Templar by proving that Pope Clement, the Fifth, actually absolved
282. 16:15the group of heresy in thirty eight.
283. 16:17It's a fascinating document that reads like a Law and Order episode, actually a Law and
284. 16:21Order SVO episode, if you know what I mean.
285. 16:25If you want to check it out, I'll put a link to the full text in the description.
286. 16:28And if you want to see a whole video about the Knights Templar, I do let us know in the
287. 16:32comments and we'll get on it real.
288. 16:36Thirty nine room thirty nine also called bureau thirty nine.
289. 16:40An office thirty nine is officially known as the Central Committee Bureau.
290. 16:43Thirty nine of the Workers Party of Korea.
291. 16:45And it's a secretive North Korean party organization that seeks to bring in foreign
292. 16:49currency to party leadership.
293. 16:51The organization is estimated to bring in one billion dollars a year or more and may be
294. 16:56involved in activities such as counterfeiting hundred dollar bills, producing meth,
295. 17:00heroin and committing international insurance fraud for big, big bucks.
296. 17:04La la la la la la la la la la la.
297. 17:06Hold on. What we ease into this, this is crazy.
298. 17:09Ok, ok. Will ease into it.
299. 17:12Office thirty nine was set up in the 1970s by the founding father of North Korea, Kim Il
300. 17:17Sung, as a kind of a royal slush fund.
301. 17:19It takes its name from the office it occupies inside the Worker's Party building in the
302. 17:23capital, Pyongyang, not far from the official residence of the party leader.
303. 17:26Much of what we know about room thirty nine comes from a defector that ABC interviewed in
304. 17:30twenty eighteen. He said he spent five years working as an agent in the design group, an
305. 17:35umbrella corporation that smuggled ginseng, gemstones and gold into China so it could be
306. 17:40sold on the international markets as Chinese gold, apparently evading United Nations
307. 17:44sanctions, was easy and China played a central part.
308. 17:47It just changed. Company names and had branches in different countries.
309. 17:50We don't know much about the internal operations of room thirty nine because the defector
310. 17:54is afraid of assassination attempts on himself and his family.
311. 17:58But there are plenty more shady details which link below.
312. 18:02Should we be talking about this now?
313. 18:05You're squeamish. Well, I was fine until the last story and maybe we can cut this one
314. 18:10out. It's too late now.
315. 18:11Well, how do you say I'm sorry?
316. 18:14In Korean you saw how I was being rhetorical.
317. 18:18Is that is that is that really how to say it?
318. 18:20Yeah. Why do you say we all have secrets, don't we?
319. 18:25Yes. Yes, we do.
320. 18:28Thanks for hanging out with us today.
321. 18:29My name is A.J. That's Hellfish.
322. 18:31This has been the wave files today.
323. 18:33We talk about some of the most secret locations in the world and the theories about what
324. 18:37happens inside their other secret places.
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