your city is full of fake buildings, here's why
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
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Somewhere on your street there may be a house that isn't a house; instead, there may be essential city infrastructure like electrical substations, tunnel ventilation, or a water pump hiding inside. In this video, Sabrina drags Taha and Melissa along to figure out what is inside some fake buildings in New York, Paris, and Toronto and why they needed to be hidden in the first place.
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Video by Sabrina Cruz
Video Editing by Sabrina Cruz and Joe Trickey
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Special Thanks to Melissa Fernandes and Taha Khan
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aesthetic Justice and Urban Planning (2002). Hanna Mattila via Geojournal.
The Architecture of Deceit (2013). Meg Van Huygen via AtlasObscura.com.
Artist Project / Transformer Houses (2006). Robin Collyer via Cabinet Magazine.
The built environment and mental health (2003). Evans via J Urban Health
Comment by M.S. Smith on Transformer Houses (2006) via BLDGBLOG.
Fresh Air for Tunnel: Plant Site Purchased (1907) via New York Tribune.
Powering Urban Growth (2019). Tom Odell via UA-cam.
Power Houses: Toronto Hydro’s Camouflaged Substations. Steve via WebUrbanist.
Harold Alphonso Bodwell via Bodwellfamily.org
Housing In My Backyard: A Municipal Guide For Responding To NIMBY(2009). Affordability and Choice Today.
The Toronto City Directory 1912 via Archive.org
Turning on Toronto Exhibit via City of Toronto.
Toronto neighbourhood residents upset (2021). Kamil Karamali via GlobalNews
What's Inside This House on Wade Avenue? (2014). Eric Mennel via North Carolina Public Radio.
Who Participates in Local Government (2018). Einstein et al. via Perspectives on Politics.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 this building is real... SIKE
00:26 paying the bills
01:38 down the rabbit hole
02:15 paris is a 2 minute walk away
03:06 a fake building in a haystack made of fake buildings
03:45 what is a fake building?
04:30 what is inside fake buildings?
05:58 why do fake buildings exist?
06:41 an irrelevant side quest that took too much time so now you need to see it
08:40 why are oil companies trying to act slick
09:25 a call to beef with the nimbys
10:50 an alternative plea for good design
12:01 it's just so ugly lmaoo
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Welcome to the joke under the fold! Here's some architectural humour for you:
Some of Toronto's most famous substations are built in the Beaux-Arts style, and some it's clown colleges in the Bozo-Arts style.
Leave a comment with the word BUILT to let me know you were here ;-)
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So pretty much the devs were lazy and the game isn’t as immersive as they say
Fallout 4 vibes
I thought it was because of how much space the details take up💀
It’s the back rooms
Yyy....yeah? Lol.
Reason why we can’t enter ALL of the buildings.
I worked in flood control pumping stations for years in a small city. I was told by fellow workers that the very nicely built and landscaped pump stations were designed to minimize the complaints from neighbors who didn’t want those stations located in their neighborhoods. So as a pump mechanic, I spent hours cutting hedges and planting flowers and weeding those flower beds, along with rebuilding massive pumps.
Why not hire a landscaper?
@@tann_man probs not worth the specific cost.
That’s actually a nice way to incorporate needed utilities in a visually appealing way. :) I like it!
the suburb mentality and its consequences have been a disaster for north america
@@suzuplaza Absolutely. NIMBYs are the bane of everyone.
I actually like this a lot, allowing ugly but necessary structures to exist without disrupting the aesthetic of the city.
i dont cause those houses could be used to house people who actually need a home, this is one of the many things thats unessary but our gov does anyway
@@LyraPyxisVTYeah, but without pumps, electricity etc. everyone around would have a bad time. You can't house people in their ...
@nadiaulrich ya but these houses are no longer necessary as they were used for military that's how I see it
@@LyraPyxisVT The alternative to these facade houses isn't homes, its uncovered substations, ventilation shafts, oil rigs, and transformers. Removing the facades would have absolutely no impact on homelessness.
Not to mention we already have more available homes in the US than we have homeless people. The issue isn't quantity of housing, its the distribution.
@Will-fl3hj it kinda would, but removing said houses that are fake and no longer used could be used to put an actual house there to rent out
My grandparents said that buildings like these were designed around the time of world war 1 for national defense to help prevent attacks on our infrastructure. This had actually proven to be very effective. Paris is a prime example of this on a wider scale, where they made a clone of the city with three different zones. There were lights, buildings, and artists who would paint dirty glass on top of factories.
Be careful, Sabrina might look through your family history to check your authenticity.
Here in Germany, a story is told that goes something like this: A large mobile phone provider built a radio tower in a village and as soon as it was erected, residents complained of various physical problems - such as headaches or bad sleep. The company responded: "We take your concerns very seriously, but the unit isn't even powered yet."
Stress will do that to you and anticipation can cause stress. :0
"This damn 5g !"
lol, can confirm, ich habe diese Geschichte tatsächlich auch schonmal gehört :D
@@Joy-zz8wz yes, however, also people will lie to get it removed (power stations and such have a negative impact on property value), also nocebo is a thing. However to a company, it is all just noise, if all it takes a a cheap facade to shut up all the complaints (and in turn people also happen to not develop nocebic ailments) then it’s a win win
😂😂😂Oh mann' I think this proves that fear of the unknown causes dumb thoughts and conclusions ' think religion and death
The idea of being a child in New York, living next to a house with no one in it for your entire life, until you see thousands of people pour out of it is so funny
Ducks need HUGS
You hear about a train accident on the news and see a hundred people pour out of a building next door you had previously thought to be uninhabited
"Huge family gathering, I guess"
@@Margen67 Garfunkel and Oates has a song about that
I see you share an appreciation for good profile pictures
"Mom, why do we live next to a clown car?"
I first learned about this 7 years ago. After I learned about fake houses (and fake trees that are electrical poles) I could no longer unsee them. This was especially when I was in North Carolina on vacation and I had seen homes that were really pump stations (as you mentioned in this video.)
Wait until you learn how good we are at putting up cellular antennas. In an urban area, they are everywhere.
wait until you find out theres a country that uses fake grass and they no longer have grass
As a designer the part where Sabrina says "...that good function can't exist without good form (11:43)" i loved
Something you didn't bring up is kids. I grew up next to an uncovered substation and my cousins and I would throw empty soda cans and crumpled up tin foil balls at it to make it spark. Kids are too stupid to understand signs, but add the shell of a normal house and there's no temptation. We absolutely caused at least one local black out throwing things over the fence. Plus, putting up a stick frame house is just as much work as putting in the massive fence.
Probably mitigates the noise too
When a kid sees a "Danger: Keep Out" sign their brain auto-translates that to "I Dare You!"...
@@noneofyourbeeswax01 Very true
@@bocanthandlethis humans are so dumb its amazing we havent nuked ourselves to death already
Putting up a house shell is absolutely not the same amount of work as putting up a chain link fence
Sabrina going through an entire commenters genealogy in order to prove their authenticity is some next level dedication
we love to see it
I want an interview with this MS SMITH.
At the end of it I just thought "Congrats Sabrina. You just doxxed someone"
@@U.Inferno doxing is not what's happened in this video since all info was publicly accessible
More like some next-level Sabrina
Nice work on how you cut this video together. I especially liked how dynamic and friendly you made it feel with you playing with the sunlight and the projector light. This was fun to watch and I know it would've taken many hours to make.
Hidden In Plain Sight sounds like an interesting series to pursue. Were I live, is still rural enough that most unsightly utilities are built out of the way and far from housing, but those that are close to subdivisions are typically hidden using landscaping and tall hedges. We do have many “frankentrees” or cellular towers designed to look like tall evergreen trees.
TAHA TRAVELLING TO PARIS EVEN THOUGH WE LITERALLY HAVE FAKE BUILDINGS IN ENGLAND IS SO FUNNY
I was just thinking "But London..." the whole time
I mean, a free vacation as a business expense
even funnier when you consider that London's fake buildings are arguably the most well known examples.
I do feel sorry that he was never able to go through the EU line in France for this channel as it was much quicker than the International one.
9:14 lol
The fact that Sabrina previously claimed to have watched Sherlock frame by frame and somehow still forgot that there are fake buildings in the uk
To be fair, she didn't say she paid attention.
they mentioned fake buildings in sherlock? ive literally forgotten all of this show im sure you're right but i didnt know
@@Leafpool2 yeah I think it's in season 3 where they are in a building whose insides are actually an abandoned train station whose construction stopped for some reason. To cover this up they just built a house over it.
@@husaynbootwala1729 I never understood that part! Thank you! I was just like "Ah yes, a spy doing kidnapping in a weird place."
@@husaynbootwala1729 Close, it's an air vent for the underground. Early underground trains were steam powered, so they needed regular breaks along the line for the smoke/steam to escape, and in that case they demolished some houses to make room. To avoid it looking ugly from the street, they covered the gap with facades that matched the other houses.
In Hong Kong , we dont hide them unless its in a expensive district, we have brick buildings that match the color of the surrounding but it says like ‘ xx electrical substation ‘ in big bold letters and usually it has a public bathroom free to use .
9:18😂😂 the hang up😭
"I don't know what this proves, I just spent two days putting it together" 💀💀 Never related more
She proved 2 things:
1. The commenter is probably who they said they were.
2. That you can figure out a random person's genealogy in about 2 days based on 1 comment on the internet. (Which is honestly kinda terrifying)
the lost art of fact checking
Sabrina's unhinged dedication to this small thing is why I watch her.
The original question was sound... Delving I to the family tree of a social media post was definitely weird. I wonder if that person will ever find this video.
@@justinwhite2725 HAHA this was awesome.
I was just watching this, not really intending to subscribe until that little rabbit hole. Now? “Coming Alice!”
I love Unhinged Conspiracy Board Sabrina.
Unhinged? It's just research. Verify your sources.
Sometimes, the YT recommendations come up with something completely outside my usual, often resulting in a very enjoyable video. This is one of those. Great job, and thanx!
I've already known about this but it's always interesting to watch people finding buildings I didn't know about. But mostly wanted to say, this is the most fun video I've seen today. Thank you.
This really feels like the buildings in video games that you can't get into
Oh shoot true
now we know what they need to work on after the GTA leak lol.
Exactly! That's the exact feeling
I love that Sabrina could've just googled "UK fake buildings" at the very beginning of all this but instead found some in Paris and went "eh close enough right"
111 👍
yeah, there are enough façade buildings in the UK, just for the Met alone.
She would have got Downing Street nr 10. Puppets and clowns included.
But she's from Toronto (I'm from Ottawa, myself); France fits in Ontario three times, with room to spare. "UK to France" is a short distance to us. Ottawa to Toronto alone is about a 5 hour drive. You can spend a whole day driving across Ontario, Canada; and still be in Ontario.
@@nephicus339 yep! im in texas which is obviously _very_ big, and while planning a trip to europe, i was genuinely surprised to see how close the uk is to france - just a few hours on a train! whereas where i live, it takes an hour to drive across the city, let alone to a _different_ city. over the summer i took a roadtrip to a different state and it took six hours. it may sound dumb, but i find it really interesting how something so normal for us can be seen as so weird to do in a different country
I am so impressed by the production quality and writing on this vid, as well as your delivery! Subscribed
This just landed on my home page and I HAD TO comment because this was so beautifully done. I had no idea these even existed but still love learning new info I never knew I needed haha!
I grew up in a rural area where nobody cared enough to disguise substations, or sewage treatment plants. I've since lived in or visited many large cities around the world, but it never occurred to me these facilities would be hidden among the architecture. This was fascinating.
I remember throwing cans through the fence to make them spark with mates, good times. Being the kid responsible for a (albeit extremely temporary) blackout was a hell of a power trip.
Same. I remmeber constantly passing through some transformer substations which have just a conxrete wall with some paintings separating it from the public, just as phone towers. And oil rigs in the town's outskirts just fenced off
I had similar experiences in more rural areas where substations weren't disguised at all. Just some really tall fences and trees on the east and south sides neatly trimmed to obscure the view to suburbanites in certain areas given prevailing winds.
Because if people knew they lived next to these things they would riot.
@@HighLieBHpower trip, haha.
I get this eerie vibe in bigger cities all the time that most of the buildings are only for show with facades like in the Truman show
Lmao no. It's to hide vital infrastructure
This is EXACTLY how it feels.. cities freak me out
@@samanthamartin1407 it's not that deep bro in my opinion I lived in cities all my life who even cares?
@@kmk900___ I mean it's not really supposed to be deep.. like I've always lived in pretty populated areas near very large cities, and I just feel claustrophobic and anxious jn the city, I would much prefer going off to live in a rural area or a forest because that is where I feel more at home. Some people get freaked out in rural areas because they feel so isolated. It's cool that you like to live in the city though, nothing against cities at all. There's a place for everyone.
@@samanthamartin1407 Yeah I'm one of those people who hate feeling isolated in a small rural town and it's also a bit scary if your house is truly isolated by itself like you can't run to a neighbors house if your in danger you are basically disconnected from society in a way.
It's so nice to find another youtube channel with people who have basic human decency and believe in human rights. Society at large is so not reality-affirming--especially if you are disabled in any way, so online stuff is often how I find people to relate to. Thanks for being a person.
I just fell in love with this channel.
I definitely vibe with the aesthetic justice concept. Living in a poorly maintained and/or poorly designed neighborhood can have a negative effect on your mood and affects how you interact with it. If your surroundings are nice, you're less likely to treat them poorly, but if they aren't, you don't care if you screw it up, accidentally or on purpose.
If the liberal cities would stop creating poverty they wouldn't have to hide it.
Idk, if I lived next to a seemingly peopleless house after a while I would be creeped out by it… Guess it depends on the person too because I don’t see substations as a negative modifier on my mood, they’re just substations lol.
@@asmrtpop2676 Emptiness/lack of people can definitely play into that as well
Speaking as someone who helped design a city substation and pump station enclosures, I think she could’ve found the answer in a more succinct way if she had just reached out to the department of water and power, planning commission, or city architect. We city designers love talking about our work! It’s not a secret. There are plenty of community meetings where we invite the public to give their input. 😅
Most modern city dwellers lack the capacity for abstract thinking that’s needed to see these buildings. Wells. Telephone switches. Substations. It’s all magic to the incurious.
She did all the work in a very in depth and enjoyable way. She gets the credit for the fun, informative way they gave us the info. 😍😍
Yeah, but that doesn't sell Native stationary bikes and deodorants, does it?
The drama was necessary for viewers.
Where's the fun in that?
Wow, thank you for the video you've created. I believe there are many reasons for constructing such decoy buildings. As a Ukrainian who survived the first blackout event caused by .ussians and is preparing to face another one this year, I can attest that these buildings are constructed to protect or safeguard critical infrastructure by hiding them. During times of war, enemies often target vital infrastructure like electrical substations to disrupt daily life and cause significant hardship.
There's literally a King Of the Hill episode that shows the neighborhood build a fake house on a substation cause it was dangerous and ugly (it was at the end of the episode after the house of Ted Wasanasan's house had to be destroyed cause it was putting the neighboring houses in danger by falling apart during a storm).
Hi! This is a fun topic. My Dad worked for the city utilities company, and we could easily recognize all of their " little houses", around town. Not only did they keep their equipment dry and protected, but it was a nice dry place for any worker who had to make any adjustments or repairs on the gages or dials.
Sabrina will now proceed to dox your entire family
watch out she’s gonna check your family history too
@@-bloodstone-7038 that sounds SO ominous and threatening, it's hilarious--
*gauges
@@-bloodstone-7038 not if i check out her family history first
Melissa saying "well, this is underwhelming. it just exists." is a WHOLE FREAKING MOOD
Whenever people meet me
@@Crabernacker oh no. Anyway
Lowkey a underrated channel not what I usually watch but very interesting, definitely got a new sub!
There’s a row of houses in my city that are decorated to look like they have 1920’s style shops and decor inside using pictures stuck on windows. There’s even a cat in one window. I always just thought the houses were dilapidated and unfit for living in, so were boarded up and decorated so they didn’t look awful to the public. Now, I could see them being used as some kind of facility
I guessed what this was about by the thumbnail- there's a hydro station two blocks from me that looks like an adorable little cottage, but if you go down the alleyway you get a bunch of warning signs about how the electricity will murder you super dead. I had always just figured that the house had been repurposed, but I guess it makes as much sense for it to be built that way for the aesthetics.
'murder you super dead' lol yeah. We have an electrical thingy out in the open and it would look much better covered in a cute house. There's one a few miles away in a house though, and technically it's better looking and safer.
I have the same thing near me. It’s some sort of water station but looks like a cottage. I recently moved and these surrounding cities are boujie… its some sort of city code that functional buildings arent allowed to look functional or be ugly. They all have to look residential / historic.
I wasn't able to guess actually but ya i remember one that was in the town i went to uni, corner of the road, little lonely house all by itself, the signs around it made it pretty clear it was a hydro something or other though. Actually never have it much thought like ya, it's a substation that looks like a house...
“will murder you super dead” 😂 Honestly. There is no truer way of putting it. If you want to really get through to someone and leave an impression, sometimes you just gotta make it super super clear what’s really at stake. 🤓
Damn... Not just "dead', but "super dead". You'd better stay away then.
These fake buildings was basically the final resolution of the plot of a later season episode of King of the Hill. A McMansion was built in the neighborhood, but it was shoddily constructed and caused a bunch of problems, and in the climax the neighbors got together during a storm and dismantled the house. The city ended up putting an electrical grid on the emptied lot, and Hank and the guys again came together to build a suburban house façade over it.
I just watched that episode!
REAL JUDGE HEADS KNOW **scoots across my office in a rolling chair**
@@futsuu ASS TAG! YOU'RE IT!
I know exactly what episode you're referring to, as a person who has seen all of KOTH like a dozen times over. Super cool what ideas the creative team came up with for some episodes.
Found it! S13 E3 Square-Footed Monster
I learned about these in an episode of King of the Hill actually lol. One of Khan's frenemies (i know his name but can't spell it) buy a lot on their street, then puts up a mini-mansion. The majority of the episode is the characters reacting to how much of an eye sore it is, and fretting about the impact it will make on the neighborhood, but after the mini-mansion gets destroyed during a bad storm, the owner decides to simply tear it down and sell the property to the city. At the end of the episode, the characters all stand in front of a normal looking house, but an overhead shot of the neighborhood reveals that it has no roof, and is just a facade for a powerplant like the one in this video. Pretty great ending, yuuup
I’m so late but this is the type of video I expect to see when I go on UA-cam, so well thought of
My Father worked for Bell Canada in Toronto. He used to point out fake houses to us as we'd drive around the city. He said that they were built mainly during the post-war period of paranoia and the purpose was to disguise critical infrastructure so that it wouldn't be easily recognized and targeted by enemy air craft (Yeah, In Toronto) - They stopped this practice sometime after the cold-war since the air-raids were pretty much obsolete. That's why newer subdivisions don't tend to have these fake buildings. At least not for this purpose.
Yeah, in the modern world its hard to imagine a carpet bombing run being attempted on an inland North American city. They just are too hard to invade by conventional warfare.
One of 3 things would happen:
1. A comado team would just do sabotage missions because all of the relevant information is readily available online. (Between utilities publishing system info and google earth/maps)
2. Nukes would be used since ICBMs have a far better chance of reaching the intended target than a bomber group, and they won't waste one of those on anything less than a nuke. (Nukes deal wide spread damage so almost no point in targeting something small enough to pretend to be a house)
3. If it was somehow a conventional war all the way to the end, by the time bombing if Toronto or Chicago is a viable option the USA and Canada would have effectively lost the war. Our Navy's are our primary defense, and to reach Toronto you would have to get past them, and neutralize multiple military bases, and likely capture all the cities between Toronto and the Atlantic. (Which is most of Canada's core cities plus the capital, and likely America's coastal cities as well, including our capital.)
I know this is a bit dark for a video on fake buildings hiding infrastructure, but its just doubling down on how unlikely it is that we bother hiding infrastructure from potential invaders. We are much more likely to hide it as a regular house to avoid having to deal with NIMBYs. (Especially considering how much of our infrastructure is protected by the mutual desire to have nice things, and the hope people head warning signs saying something will kill you painfully.)
Exactly. Fake buildings exist to some point all over the world. It's a security thing to prevent bombing of critical infrastructure in case of war.
There is some degree of truth in this. I work in infrastructure security and we are having serious talks in the U.S. about bringing back this practice because of the fear of kinetic attacks (polite speak for terrorists shooting or bombing targets).
There was also the threat of sabotage by enemy infiltrators or local people who sympathize with the enemy. A lot of infrastructure is disguised even in smaller towns.
Most modern building are hideous so there’s no need to try and disguise another ugly thing
Sabrina’s presentation section gives me the Conspiracy Theory meme from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia vibes and I’m so here for it
Exactly this!!!
This isn't the first time this channel has made me think of that meme lol
Omg the effort and research that went into this ... that bodwell montage is crazy 🤣
btw i used to work on cell sites and the fake building ones aren’t actually fully fake buildings, cell sites are nestled into whatever tiny space is useless to the primary business that owns the land and the rest of it operates as normal. for fake items you’ll mostly see them as fake trees :)
I thought that I’d never heard of this, then you showed the picture of the oil rig disguised as a building. That’s when I realized that I actually know about several fake buildings in my neighborhood that are other things-like telecom exchanges-disguised as normal buildings.
Edit: the reason I know about the telecom buildings is because of the NIMBY attitude. I actually defended several nuisance lawsuits against telecoms over things like adding a new cell tower to a neighborhood. You know, because the neighborhood was complaining about terrible cellphone service, but also, they don’t want the tower to ruin the look of their neighborhood… even if the company puts it at the end of the street near the fire road… because that might ruin the tiny spot on the cliff where people like to watch the sunset… idk why the company didn’t just do a fake building. Probably cheaper than arguing about this.
😂😂😂
Sounds like you live in an okay neighborhood. The places I've lived have more substations than grocery stores.
Just a thought, it might have been helpful to call the owners of these buildings. They might have been able to tell you why their buildings have fake exteriors.
Many of them wouldn't have "owners" per se, and almost certainly those that do probably wouldn't bother responding to questions. Electric substations, oil rigs, ventilation systems... those would be government or corporate owned.
Also, depending on country, finding the owner of a random property could be *significantly* more work than whatever she did.
@@cr1197 Most of this information tends to be public information to an extent. If it's registered to a business/large corporation, which utilities are, then you'll probably quickly run into a brick wall.
Give me a detailed plan
Since it's that easy
@@haroerhaktak2613 It's actually pretty hard for the average person to figure out how to do that research (and would be time-consuming even for an experienced person like Sabrina), even if it's all public. I'm a professional researcher (have worked in corporate law working with government information) and the process for figuring out ownership of a numbered company is not easy in most places. The information is made public, but you really have to know what you're looking for, and be able to navigate multiple - sometimes dozens - of government websites, nearly all of which are poorly designed. Sabrina's work to verify the authenticity of M.S. Smith is about as difficult and time-consuming as figuring out corporate building ownership would have been, and this had the benefit of being kooky and charming and fun, which are ultimately good for the channel.
I already had a good bit of knowledge about this subject, but just could not stop watching because Sabrina is super adorable!!
Never knew this! Now I’m going to be on the lookout for them.
Your energy giving a speech in front of an *actual* projector slideshow for an internet video is something all UA-camrs and professors of history should learn to emulate.
I agree!
And adding animations mid-presentation? Iconic.
We had a fake tree in a nearby city. It was really a cell tower. There were trees on one side of the tower, so the tower needed to be taller than the trees, but it needed to blend in, too. So they attached a few fake branches to it, above the tops of the trees on the one side of the tower. The branches stuck out at perfectly even lengths, at perfect 90 degree angles from the "trunk", like a cheap fake Christmas tree. We used to always comment on how it was such a pretty, pretty tree.
those are all over in Cali! I live way up north so mine are "pine" but in the desert SoCal they have palm tree phone towers 🤣
@@jednrrp Yes, this one was a "pine", too! Haha!
We're starting to get some of the fake tree towers in Colorado too, mostly noticeable near highways passing through the mountains. Some of them are really obvious and terrible looking, but some of them blend in pretty nicely. You can spot them if you know to look, but they're easy to miss if you're not actively looking for them.
at&tree
I also love the cacti towers in arizona
Just found my favorite youtuber, the side quest proving bodwell family just so relatable for me
Oh man, you guys just answered my biggest NYC building mystery!
(I'm an architectural engineer in NYC) in NYC there is a entity called LPC (landmarks) and they dictate the aesthetic look of buildings in NYC. If we propose to make changes to an building that is a landmarked area then we need to get the approval from LPC. So, a way to comply with their requirements is to blend in to the surrounding or match the existing construction.
This was one of the topics on urban design and architecture uni first year I attended - the answer is pretty much the latter. It is important for the neighborhood to seem cohesive and undisruptive because rhytmically designed cities improve the quality of life of people living in it.
And maybe its also good to have these thing hidden. She said they were built around the WW2 era? So it would also be less likely they would get bombarded. Was this also one of the reasons or just another plus to have fake buildings?
@@gueswho8815 The US and Canada weren't really at much of a threat from Nazi or Japanese air raids, and while small substations etc are essential on a local level, attacking a power plant would have a much larger impact
@@imogenclarke743 france and england definitely were thou
Yes. Took a course on the vernacular landscape in developed areas during my Geography degree, and we learned about NIMBY houses.
Near my parents cottage the cell towers have been designed to look like trees. We all know what they are but, even though we all want better service, people get all put out by seeing them. Now, instead of them being an annoyance, they are a curiosity that people try to find.
@@postrachsmietnikow And as I said local substations are not a valuable target, WW2 bombers weren't even accurate enough to target them in the first place either. Targets were always towns/cities or large critical infrastructure or military targets, an air raid against a substation that powers a single suburb is pointless when the same raiding group could instead attack the nearby power plant or refinery or port or airbase or train station. Also france didn't suffer this kind of bombing campaign due to its swift defeat from invasion.
Dang, got excited for this video just to realize it was the topic most of my other fav youtubers already covered lol. Still cool to hear it in your style
This was AWSOME work! I definitely learned something new.
I worked in the power industry and can confirm, that yes, these fake buildings and other disguises are used to obscure things like substations in sensitive (nimby) areas. Oftentimes now, local artists are also brought in to add a cultural touch (murals, public art sculpture, etc.) on new construction or when renovations are done. Great video!
Makes sense. No one wants to live next to something that will eventually look like an abandoned industrial area or that will devalue the thing they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on and may need to sell one day if they move. Its a good solution. Same with disguising some cell towers as pine or palm trees.
this video is answering so many questions that have occasionally rattled around in my head for years. the ones you forget about when it’s time to stop daydreaming.
@@user-yg5fl8np2h Or go out and find hobby
I like your delivery. You have held my interest throughout. Thank you.
Loved this video.. Enjoyed it a lot and learnt a lot about fake buildings and Bodwell family..
When you were discussing WW2 I was also thinking it made sense in times of war if the important infrastructure, power sub stations etc were disguised as normal houses. An undisguised power station is extremely obvious and an easy target if they want to take out the power in a local area
Absolutely.
I was going to comment the same thing.
You can't knock out a power substation if you can't find it.
I live in Europe. This was my very first assumption. Usually an airstrike of one kond or another would be used to take down these. Simply disguising them well enough from a little distance makes things alot more tricky.
In my country these facilities are often buried deep in tunnels and cavities sometimes hige facilities, inside granite hills (massive city servers, military rescue stations, sewage facilities) and electric stations in urban development either installed in buildings with WW II bunkers, vast cellars, or again underground with a visible small sugarcube type building over ground no larger than a regular ground floor garage, with some green shrubbery, around clearly indicating to pedestrians what it is, but not much of an eye sore and hard to detect from above.
All of these are security measures in case the Russians decide our territory is tactical for them.
I have friends who've been down to work on the servers. It's second level sci-fi tech in a veritable mine system.
Also underground hospital facilities for wartime.
We don't have the manpower to ever be able to outman a superpower, (resistance would last days, not like the Ukraine) but military funding and taxes in general can insure these facilities are very safe in their construction and virtually invisible. Few are aware of their location.
Everything here is digital ( I mean it, every aspect of life) and also the climate makes us (in the north) entirely dependent on electrical power as does a virtually cashless monetary system. It's a weakness in the face of invasion, military threats. Not alot of fake houses though. Our cities arent massive enough it wouldn't not be very well known. But under government owned historic property are gateways, tunnels with roads for massive vehicles reservoirs and back up generators, weapons depots, en masse.
@@patrickkenyon2326 that’s why you do what america would do and bomb everything around it too. that way you don’t feel bad for “accidentally” blowing the space around it up
@@agentsbigassforehead Yeah, that's why we design precision munitions that cost millions of dollars each.
So we can saturation bomb a city block, like a WW2 B-17...
The end of the Allied pumping station in southern England for fuel for the D-Day invasion was disguised as an ice cream stand. Look up Operation Pluto. Bombing in WW2 was generally not precision targeted. It was indiscriminate area or carpet bombing. It wasn't easy to hit targets back then even if you knew where it was.
There's a bunch of these that I've never technically been to, but have worked on. I work in energy efficiency and some of our projects have dealt with AT&T telecom centers, which are really just big warehouses with servers and routers in them, disguised as commercial buildings.
And I saw a church near my neighborhood retrofit their steeple tower to house a cell tower inside.
Guess it was as win-win since they get to collect rent from whatever telecom company is using that space to operate their equipment to provide better coverage in my area and the church gets to have a taller steeple tower 😁
@@handlemonium My church has a cell phone tower, and it's a fairly well known secret among the members. (At least, I think it is. They don't really hide it since it's in the financial reports, if anyone reads those; they do get rent from the cell phone company.) It probably helps that the church is built on a hill and the spire is the highest point nearby.
I think we had one
In our small-town city. It had a fence around it and a sign that you couldn’t pay your bill there which at the time I always thought was weird and inconvenient.
This was fascinating, thanks for this.
Late to the party, but glad YT suggested this video/channel to me! Subscribed!
Appreciate this nerdy S#!t and especially the name of this channel! Happy to be here!
I worked as a cell tower technician. Sometimes cell towers are disguised as pine trees (Ohio market) or palm trees (Florida market) its mainly because the residents around towers usually hate the look of towers so it’s to help with their views. Same thing with churches steeples having cell sights inside. All to bring the technology close to homes without looking too invading
LOL i live in florida and theres a big ass plastic pine tree cell tower next to the highway there there are no trees, now i know what it is!!
Yeah we have those in Georgia also. I've seen it mostly in the nicer parts of town like Vinings, West Paces Ferry Road area, it's like right around the city of Atlanta but where a good bit of rich people or even Hollywood stars live like Usher. That's just what I can think of right off the top of my head cuz I don't go out there very much. They're shaped like very tall pine trees but it's obvious that it's not real but it does make it look a lot better. I actually wonder why they didn't do it in more areas
I’ve seen them in Florida! It actually looks better covered up
It's usually an ugly tree but, a good looking tower. More money for me as an installer!
It also helps birds not run straight into the towers
As someone who lives rurally where these facilities are for the most part just...built right out in the open (like literally next to a cornfield sometimes), this is incredibly weird and intriguing.
Kinda the same. Except I'm not aware of these in my country, at least not on the scale of suburban houses or apartment buildings as was shown here in the UK, Paris, and a few North American cities (not a great sample size for "all over the world", I might add). And I live in a European capital that's part of a metropolis of 1 million, which you'd think would be big enough if the size of a city was the issue. I think we tend to bury a lot of infrastructure underground, transformer stations are out in the open, bomb shelters are generally more of the "steel door in bedrock" style or the entrance is incorporated into some building somewhere.
I mean sure, the vents for the underground parking hall for the big shopping centre nearby are visible structures on the surface, and aesthetics was definitely a factor in their design. But they're not disguised as anything other than vent structures. And on smaller scales too, air from underground structures definitely gets vented out through aboveground buildings, but for the examples I know of I have no idea if they're venting building air or underground structure air, and honestly, it's just a huge grey area which part of the underground tunnels is part of which building and which is just its own thing. I guess my final conclusion is that this "fake buildings" category isn't really a well-defined category, it's a collection of different things, and a lot of them are not very surprising at all.
It's your local government spying on everyone, so they don't get ahead of the harvest. You know black ops ,CIA kind of thing lol.
Aperture Science like-
@@Snaake42 its more a suburb thing than urban areas per se. generally in urban areas the commercial arguments for developing utilities will outweigh residential concerns and zoning/environmental/etc. laws that concern development won't create a need for this kind of hidden infrastructure.
Imagine living next to the building that vents the dirty subway air out
I love your style. Keep up the great work. Peace and Love.
Fake buildings remind me of how I hide redstone in Minecraft, except that instead of buildings, it's usually just lumps of wood planks.
Which is, ironically, precisely the reason why this is done!
When Sabrina finished explaining the research of Harold Bodwell's genealogical tree, I clapped. It's just so cool and inspiring, but in a "you can do that if you have enough time and commitment" kind of way
I love it, I hate it, I love that it’s possible to go so unhinged and deep dive so thoroughly into something.
On the other hand, if that’s what she can find, holy shit, what else are people finding? How many traces of a single person exist on the internet that can be woven together to know a COMPLETE FAMILY HISTORY of them?
@@Jenny77901 how far back can we go without playing with mitochondrial Eve?!
I found your channel recently. Great content. Well produced and so entertaining
I think the reason the fake buildings are created is pretty simple.
They are intended to not attract attention or be noticed. When something draws attention it becomes a curiosity.
If it looks like other things near it most people won't even notice it.
I'm a little surprised you didn't touch on the cell towers disguised as pine and palm trees. Those are weirdly effective camouflage right up until you notice it and then you see them all over the place.
oh wow now I gotta go hunt for sus pine trees 😂
i hate them they freak me
out
Yeah, I remember seeing one painted to look like a pine tree when I lived in Provo, UT. It had fake branches too. What finally caught my eye was the fact that it was perfectly straight, which made it stand out from the other trees nearby.
@@a.m.2066 exactly! just an ungodly tall brown tower with fake ass foliage
I hate those
I like your overall style & inquisitive, upbeat approach here.
the video feels like listening to an assignment just magnificently well made 😮
I grew up in Long Beach and the city has fake *islands* 🤣
To drill for oil they made a bunch of artificial islands right by the coast and covered them in fake building covers so they look like a hotel or resort from a distance. 😆 The covers were mandated by the city when it was first built (fun fact, the main architect was a former Disney Imagineer).
Main architect was a what?
@@happysmash27 the specialist engineers that Disney uses to design a lot of the animatronics, rides, and "fake" buildings in the amusement parks.
wait really?? they always just looked like oil islands to me, no fancy resort vibes at all lmao
@@happysmash27 Disney uses all kinds of weird names to describe their employees and guests. I'm pretty sure imaginere is a combination of the word imagine and engineer. Their visitors are called guests because they don't want to offend anyone by calling them the wrong gender. I'm sure you can find a list online somewhere that uses all their strange lingo.
@@KS-zc4jn Eh that’s not completely why they call them that lol.
I live in South Korea and here many otherwise ugly factories, trash collection points, incinerators, and generally unpleasant industrial buildings are completely encased from outside and painted with pleasant colors, making them resemble warehouses instead. From the outside all you see is a big nondescript box building. There are also many military installations inside mountains, but good luck finding an entrance...
What's with the military entrances? Are they underground
I recently traveled to Tokyo for work and had a wonderful time at the park near my hotel, which was really the roof of the water treatment plant.
@@yusraazeem7754 They're bunkers. If you work there, you know how to get in. If you don't work there, you don't know how to get in, and have no reason to anyway. Don't worry about it, it's incredibly boring and even the people who work there don't want to be there. It's nothing like the movies. Movies make it all seem much more interesting than reality, so just keep watching movies if any of this fascinates you. Or join the military & get a TS clearance & get stationed at one of these places to discover that everything I said is true but now you're stuck in the military for 4-20 years.
@@akraut Was that the one in Azabujuban? I spent a lot of time in that park.
Honestly, as a guy that has spoken to a number of engineers on projects like these. Half the time its the architect keeps trying to force really fancy buildings with all sorts of weird curves and exterior design on you, and the only way you can get them to shut up is to name your building CUBE (yes, actually happened), or you let them have the challenge of make the interior I want, but make the outside look like everything else around it. Then they actually get satisfied and you get what you want.
Because of pasion and number of informations that can be seen in your videos, i just love to watch your videos
In my architecture history classes I remember my teacher said that in Paris around the time they were doing massive restructuring to the urban planning they made a lot of fake buildings with the sole purpose of making the most important streets look better. That been said I think both your theories sound very possible, my best guess is that is a bit of both. Amazing job on the research.
theory 1: people around these facilities dont want them so you hide them. theory 2: they should be hidden. its really the same theory.
Could have started that way, and then were repurposed into these.
Repent of your sins and believe on the Adon Jesus the Christ, believe in your heart that He has died for sins and rose from the tomb on the third day and you shall receive the Holy Spirit of God and He shall dwell within you. You shall be saved. Be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit!
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Jesus the Christ loves you, praise YHWH our Elohim
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Evidence for Jesus Christ’s existence, crucifixion, and disappearance from the tomb (He rose from it):
The Lord Jesus Christ did exist, gathered disciples, and was crucified and went missing from the tomb. To argue about wether He was taken from the grave or rose from it, is an argument a skeptic can make. Because well if you disregard the eye witness testimony of the disciples and there willingness to die for Christ, and humans won’t die for something they know is a lie, when Peter is pinned upside down to that cross, he could have said that it was a fake, but He didn’t because it wasn’t, what care would he have about death in this world if he knew for a fact he had assurance of a life in another, Jesus Christ did rise from the tomb and is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Now the evidence for the Lord Jesus Christ’s existence really isn’t hard to find a multitude of non-Christian scholars and historians mention Him within 150 years after the time of His life. One such is Tacitus a Roman historian who reported on emperor nero’s decision to blame the Christians for the fire that had destroyed rome in 64 AD. Tacitus wrote:
“Nero fastened the guilt ... on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of ... Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome…”
In this Tacitus makes reference to not only Christians, but Christ calling Him Christus and confirming the Gospels going on to say that He suffered the extreme penalty (crucifixion) under the reign of Tiberius and by the sentence of Pontius Pilate, which like I said confirms the Gospels narrative.
Another important source of evidence about Jesus and early Christianity can be found in the letters of Pliny the Younger to Emperor Trajan. Pliny was the Roman governor of Bithynia in Asia Minor. In one of his letters, dated around A.D. 112, he asks Trajan's advice about the appropriate way to conduct legal proceedings against those accused of being Christians. Pliny says that he needed to consult the emperor about this issue because a great multitude of every age, class, and sex stood accused of Christianity. At one point in his letter, Pliny relates some of the information he has learned about these Christians:
“They were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reassemble to partake of food - but food of an ordinary and innocent kind.”
This passage provides a number of interesting insights into the beliefs and practices of early Christians. First, we see that Christians regularly met on a certain fixed day for worship. Second, their worship was directed to Christ, demonstrating that they firmly believed in His divinity. Furthermore, one scholar interprets Pliny's statement that hymns were sung to Christ, "as to a god", as a reference to the rather distinctive fact that, "unlike other gods who were worshipped, Christ was a person who had lived on earth." If this interpretation is correct, Pliny understood that Christians were worshipping an actual historical person as God! Of course, this agrees perfectly with the New Testament doctrine that Jesus was both God and man.
You may have heard of the scholar Flavius Josephus who mentioned James as being the brother of the Lord Jesus Christ, which matches what Paul said calling James “The Lord’s brother” and there is another document that Josephus may have written which goes:
“About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he ... wrought surprising feats.... He was the Christ. When Pilate ...condemned him to be crucified, those who had . . . come to love him did not give up their affection for him. On the third day he appeared ... restored to life.... And the tribe of Christians ... has ... not disappeared.”
Now it’s up to debate wether this is the entirely original document of what Josephus wrote, or if a Christian had edited it. But regardless he wrote about the Lord Jesus Christ. Wether it was negative or positive like the possible document is. Anyways there are many other statements, documents, letters, and writings of all sorts from the ancient world talking about the Lord Jesus Christ and there is not one question if He was a real person or if He was crucified and went missing from the grave. That is clear as day, He is a real person, was crucified, and went missing from the grave. And He did rise from the grave. And for more evidence of the Lord Jesus Christ, there’s the Bible and you see there is no evidence the Bible is corrupted, a lie, created by the Roman government, folktale. It is the recount of the Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, now wether you want to believe it is up to you. And what profit was there in spreading Christianity, All the early Christian suffered persecution, beatings, and were killed. Another Scholar reported that James the Lord’s Brother was thrown off a building and then stoned to death for spreading the Gospel in Jerusalem. These people went to great lengths even giving their own lives for the Adon Jesus the Christ.
Amen!!!!!!!
@@cbaylor7382 Repent of your sins and believe on the Adon Jesus the Christ, believe in your heart that He has died for sins and rose from the tomb on the third day and you shall receive the Holy Spirit of God and He shall dwell within you. You shall be saved. Be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit!
-
Jesus the Christ loves you, praise YHWH our Elohim
-
Evidence for Jesus Christ’s existence, crucifixion, and disappearance from the tomb (He rose from it):
The Lord Jesus Christ did exist, gathered disciples, and was crucified and went missing from the tomb. To argue about wether He was taken from the grave or rose from it, is an argument a skeptic can make. Because well if you disregard the eye witness testimony of the disciples and there willingness to die for Christ, and humans won’t die for something they know is a lie, when Peter is pinned upside down to that cross, he could have said that it was a fake, but He didn’t because it wasn’t, what care would he have about death in this world if he knew for a fact he had assurance of a life in another, Jesus Christ did rise from the tomb and is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Now the evidence for the Lord Jesus Christ’s existence really isn’t hard to find a multitude of non-Christian scholars and historians mention Him within 150 years after the time of His life. One such is Tacitus a Roman historian who reported on emperor nero’s decision to blame the Christians for the fire that had destroyed rome in 64 AD. Tacitus wrote:
“Nero fastened the guilt ... on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of ... Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome…”
In this Tacitus makes reference to not only Christians, but Christ calling Him Christus and confirming the Gospels going on to say that He suffered the extreme penalty (crucifixion) under the reign of Tiberius and by the sentence of Pontius Pilate, which like I said confirms the Gospels narrative.
Another important source of evidence about Jesus and early Christianity can be found in the letters of Pliny the Younger to Emperor Trajan. Pliny was the Roman governor of Bithynia in Asia Minor. In one of his letters, dated around A.D. 112, he asks Trajan's advice about the appropriate way to conduct legal proceedings against those accused of being Christians. Pliny says that he needed to consult the emperor about this issue because a great multitude of every age, class, and sex stood accused of Christianity. At one point in his letter, Pliny relates some of the information he has learned about these Christians:
“They were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reassemble to partake of food - but food of an ordinary and innocent kind.”
This passage provides a number of interesting insights into the beliefs and practices of early Christians. First, we see that Christians regularly met on a certain fixed day for worship. Second, their worship was directed to Christ, demonstrating that they firmly believed in His divinity. Furthermore, one scholar interprets Pliny's statement that hymns were sung to Christ, "as to a god", as a reference to the rather distinctive fact that, "unlike other gods who were worshipped, Christ was a person who had lived on earth." If this interpretation is correct, Pliny understood that Christians were worshipping an actual historical person as God! Of course, this agrees perfectly with the New Testament doctrine that Jesus was both God and man.
You may have heard of the scholar Flavius Josephus who mentioned James as being the brother of the Lord Jesus Christ, which matches what Paul said calling James “The Lord’s brother” and there is another document that Josephus may have written which goes:
“About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he ... wrought surprising feats.... He was the Christ. When Pilate ...condemned him to be crucified, those who had . . . come to love him did not give up their affection for him. On the third day he appeared ... restored to life.... And the tribe of Christians ... has ... not disappeared.”
Now it’s up to debate wether this is the entirely original document of what Josephus wrote, or if a Christian had edited it. But regardless he wrote about the Lord Jesus Christ. Wether it was negative or positive like the possible document is. Anyways there are many other statements, documents, letters, and writings of all sorts from the ancient world talking about the Lord Jesus Christ and there is not one question if He was a real person or if He was crucified and went missing from the grave. That is clear as day, He is a real person, was crucified, and went missing from the grave. And He did rise from the grave. And for more evidence of the Lord Jesus Christ, there’s the Bible and you see there is no evidence the Bible is corrupted, a lie, created by the Roman government, folktale. It is the recount of the Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, now wether you want to believe it is up to you. And what profit was there in spreading Christianity, All the early Christian suffered persecution, beatings, and were killed. Another Scholar reported that James the Lord’s Brother was thrown off a building and then stoned to death for spreading the Gospel in Jerusalem. These people went to great lengths even giving their own lives for the Adon Jesus the Christ.
Amen!!!!!!!
@@amwhite760 Repent of your sins and believe on the Adon Jesus the Christ, believe in your heart that He has died for sins and rose from the tomb on the third day and you shall receive the Holy Spirit of God and He shall dwell within you. You shall be saved. Be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit!
-
Jesus the Christ loves you, praise YHWH our Elohim
-
Evidence for Jesus Christ’s existence, crucifixion, and disappearance from the tomb (He rose from it):
The Lord Jesus Christ did exist, gathered disciples, and was crucified and went missing from the tomb. To argue about wether He was taken from the grave or rose from it, is an argument a skeptic can make. Because well if you disregard the eye witness testimony of the disciples and there willingness to die for Christ, and humans won’t die for something they know is a lie, when Peter is pinned upside down to that cross, he could have said that it was a fake, but He didn’t because it wasn’t, what care would he have about death in this world if he knew for a fact he had assurance of a life in another, Jesus Christ did rise from the tomb and is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Now the evidence for the Lord Jesus Christ’s existence really isn’t hard to find a multitude of non-Christian scholars and historians mention Him within 150 years after the time of His life. One such is Tacitus a Roman historian who reported on emperor nero’s decision to blame the Christians for the fire that had destroyed rome in 64 AD. Tacitus wrote:
“Nero fastened the guilt ... on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of ... Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome…”
In this Tacitus makes reference to not only Christians, but Christ calling Him Christus and confirming the Gospels going on to say that He suffered the extreme penalty (crucifixion) under the reign of Tiberius and by the sentence of Pontius Pilate, which like I said confirms the Gospels narrative.
Another important source of evidence about Jesus and early Christianity can be found in the letters of Pliny the Younger to Emperor Trajan. Pliny was the Roman governor of Bithynia in Asia Minor. In one of his letters, dated around A.D. 112, he asks Trajan's advice about the appropriate way to conduct legal proceedings against those accused of being Christians. Pliny says that he needed to consult the emperor about this issue because a great multitude of every age, class, and sex stood accused of Christianity. At one point in his letter, Pliny relates some of the information he has learned about these Christians:
“They were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reassemble to partake of food - but food of an ordinary and innocent kind.”
This passage provides a number of interesting insights into the beliefs and practices of early Christians. First, we see that Christians regularly met on a certain fixed day for worship. Second, their worship was directed to Christ, demonstrating that they firmly believed in His divinity. Furthermore, one scholar interprets Pliny's statement that hymns were sung to Christ, "as to a god", as a reference to the rather distinctive fact that, "unlike other gods who were worshipped, Christ was a person who had lived on earth." If this interpretation is correct, Pliny understood that Christians were worshipping an actual historical person as God! Of course, this agrees perfectly with the New Testament doctrine that Jesus was both God and man.
You may have heard of the scholar Flavius Josephus who mentioned James as being the brother of the Lord Jesus Christ, which matches what Paul said calling James “The Lord’s brother” and there is another document that Josephus may have written which goes:
“About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he ... wrought surprising feats.... He was the Christ. When Pilate ...condemned him to be crucified, those who had . . . come to love him did not give up their affection for him. On the third day he appeared ... restored to life.... And the tribe of Christians ... has ... not disappeared.”
Now it’s up to debate wether this is the entirely original document of what Josephus wrote, or if a Christian had edited it. But regardless he wrote about the Lord Jesus Christ. Wether it was negative or positive like the possible document is. Anyways there are many other statements, documents, letters, and writings of all sorts from the ancient world talking about the Lord Jesus Christ and there is not one question if He was a real person or if He was crucified and went missing from the grave. That is clear as day, He is a real person, was crucified, and went missing from the grave. And He did rise from the grave. And for more evidence of the Lord Jesus Christ, there’s the Bible and you see there is no evidence the Bible is corrupted, a lie, created by the Roman government, folktale. It is the recount of the Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, now wether you want to believe it is up to you. And what profit was there in spreading Christianity, All the early Christian suffered persecution, beatings, and were killed. Another Scholar reported that James the Lord’s Brother was thrown off a building and then stoned to death for spreading the Gospel in Jerusalem. These people went to great lengths even giving their own lives for the Adon Jesus the Christ.
Amen!!!!!!!
I used to live in a little suburb in Ottawa, and I passed one of these places on the way to the grocery store. If the house shell was supposed to make it less scary, it didn't work! It just had the vibe of "someone was definitely murdered in this darkened house" until my Mom explained these fake buildings to me.
You did an amazing job on this by the way. Very informative. You are well spoken. And funny. Thank you for being a great ambassador of our amazing country.
This video is so well done. Keep it up
i love how your videos go from a google slide projected on a wall to in depth animations that look higher quality than most big education channels
I love the stages you go through. Normal curiosity > mildly obsessive > full on red yarn covered conspiracy theorist > normal and kinda underwhelmed person just being like.... So yeah
😂
Reminds me a lot of the Unraveled videos that Brian David Gilbert used to do for Polygon.
Yeah this is a clever thing for urban and suburban towns, I bet lots of people would think the sub stations are ugly. Disney does similar things, but for immersion in their parks. If you go some place more rural, though, these don't exist. They're not hidden here, maybe tucked away in the trees a bit, but there's usually just a regular type of utility building and you can see the sub station right behind or next to it.
In my area (Poland) i see that some substations are in the blocks of flats where normally there should be a flat. Also, few years ago I read a story that some internet service provider made server room in a flat but neighbor that lived upstairs got a pipe leak and flooded that server room. Then he got sued by that ISP.
I used to work for a civil engineering company who held contracts with many townships and small cities in our state. I can confirm pumping stations for wastewater are very frequently disguised as small homes in a similar architectural style of the neighborhood and small brick buildings that look like a micro-home, complete with blacked-out windows. These were suburbs around a major city and I started being able to drive past these imposter buildings during my day-to-day life and go "That thing pushes sewage water up the hill!"
This reminds me of SA where they disguise cellphone towers as trees. Honestly a giant tree towering over a suburb doesn't fool anyone, and I used to enjoy trying to spot them. But eventually I realised that the point was just to blend into the environment and provide a more pleasing facade.
You haven’t realized the truth at all..
i never thought of this but wow what a genius idea!
Bro, I wanna learn how you do your presentations . THEY ARE AMAZING
I spent two weird summers cataloging wireless phone cells back in the early 2010s. About one third were located on satellite towers, one third on these fake green metal pine trees (another good video idea), and the final third on business buildings or fake buildings like these! I've known about fake buildings for a decade, it's very cool to see them reach more of the public. Great vid as always!
Was just thinking of the fake trees when she mentioned the cell towers. They're pretty much the same thing as the fake houses especially if you put them near a wooded area.
Have you seen the palm tree ones? They make me laugh every time I see them.
Yes we have fake pine trees in NY state
@@chelsea5378 The fake palm trees are my favorite! They look so goofy.
As someone that's lived in decent suburban towns (as in: kinda yuppy, definitely have nimby populations) my entire life that have always had visible substations just like... neatly fenced off on the side of a road, the fact that some places would go so far as to put a fake building around them is so crazy.
I worked for a major cable company in NYC, we had fake houses in neighborhoods that held all the equipment for the surrounding area to deliver cable service. Switches, routers, etc.
This is my the first video I’ve seen from this creator and I don’t think anyone has ever deserved a subscribe more.
I have never heard of this! Here in Hong Kong, all the substations are just labeled by the electrical company very obviously with grey walls covering up a grey building, even in very expensive residential areas. Never thought they would feel out of place since they've always just... been there.
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Came here to make a similar comment about Melbourne. Except they are just out of the place budlings that you don't know the purpose of, I don't know that they don't also have some that are made to blend in
Yeah there’s a substation not just a 5 10 minute walk from my neighborhood and it literally just has a big gate around it just like the one in the vid at 4:53 in fact almost every neighborhood I’ve lived in it’s just been a gate around the substation like a 5 10 minute walk from the neighborhood in a random patch of land lol
Same, in my neighborhood whenever i go to the nearby park there's just this enormous substation in a red brick building that emits this enormous buzz everytime we walk past. It's definitely not disguised, but I guess it's partly because of how mismatched the architecture already is; a 50 year old tong lau right smack beside a fancy apartment is not unusual.
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I'm in Chicago. Sabrina would have a field day here. We have dozens of these fake utility buildings that house bunkers entrances. It's as if they assumed nobody would remember the original construction of these faux buildings. But some of us DO remember.
the ones up north always trip me out I just thought they were drug houses disguised, so I just always pretended they didn't exist lol
@@BabyWavv If you're older (60) , you would remember where the deep tunnel project entrance holes were. Those have a maintainence or park building look about them. They are real good decoys
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Very impressive sleuthing. You may call it irrelevant, but we should all be so lucky to be able to corroborate even our most minute of details. Kudos, and thank you for a very informative video. Shout out from Orillia!!
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To me, the simplest answer to why there are fake buildings like this is because these facilities don't look good and would disrupt the area visually otherwise.
Yeah exactly right, this video took 11 mins to say that. Like, I'm really confused
@@tryingmybest206 slow video week I guess
People in the neighborhood would complain
@@tryingmybest206 It's just a part of the entertainment for the video to spend so much time on it, I think.
In rural areas, they are allowed to exist despite NIMBYs being as common as they aren't numerous enough to mount a legal fight vs a corporation.