Omg this is insane to me that you’re posting this - I was just at the greenbrier in July, my mom works for World TeamTennis, who as you mentioned in the video moved their season there for 2020 due to Covid. I got to stay there as a result of her job & had an amazing time; obviously not all activities were running because of the pandemic but given the circumstances, the hotel did a really good job with implementing rules to reduce the spread of the virus (there were no new infections the whole time I was there). We stayed in the West Virginia Wing & got to tour the bunker, it was so cool! An absolutely beautiful place - I hope to go back! Thank you for making this video, this is one of my favorite UA-cam channels!
As a native, I can tell you that this was only a secret to everyone NOT in a 50 mile radius, for decades. My grandfather told me about it before it was even declassified.
Same here. My grandad drove a dump truck while building the bunker. He also worked as a night watchman after it was built. When the cat was finally let out of the bag he said he was glad he could finally talk about it.
The bunker was designed with the idea that it was far enough from Washington not to be directly targeted by a nuclear missile. But can there be any doubt that the Soviets knew it was there? If so, the Greenbrier would have been at least a secondary target. I wonder if anyone ever checked the declassified KGB files to see?
@@danielduncan6806 i agree with him. even as an introvert fallout is better when working as a team, especially since they added daily ops. ing and other game critics just say the same, if something is "popular" and "new" they usually give it a bad review and give it pretty biased, but if its "popular" and "new" doesnt mean its good, but thats my opinion and you might enjoy those types of games
How's the game? I stopped playing right around the christmas present glitch. My account might be banned because someone gave me 1000 presents, but I never did the glitch, or any glitch. I was getting annoyed about the game stuttering whenever I quick changed weapons. That, and storage space was not fun to juggle, since I'm usually a hoarder in rpg games. I'm hopeful that microsoft will overhaul the game (more than it currently is), but that'll have to wait till next year.
Yikes. Fallout 76 was such a shame. They destroyed one of the best franchises in history and ruined Bethesda's good name with one of the most broken soulless cash grabs in gaming history. I pray they find what little soul they have left and put it all into the next elder scrolls.
We just started our channel all about West Virginia history and folklore. Really cool to see a large channel like yourselves cover some WV history and locations. Love your work!
watch out for scammers there. they price stuff too many "caps" and sometimes blocks the golf courses with ridiculous buildings that sometimes deify gravity
I love this place! I've been meaning to go again. Skip the tour though, most of the bunker is closed as server farms. You see almost as much as the documentary, which you can find anywhere. Some of the bunker is open without a tour
That Wash. Post reporter was probably real proud of himself, revealing the big secret bunker. Good job. Except that probably cost the taxpayers a couple of billion dollars to build another one.
@@JOESMITH-qs8ue Maybe the govt already had a new bunker built, and allowed the reporter to talk about this one to divert attention away from the new one?
I thought the same thing at first, but I actually stayed at the Greenbrier in July & took the bunker tour, where I learned that by 1992 the bunker was actually already obsolete, and technically it was kind of wasting taxpayer dollars just to keep the place maintained every year & pay undercover agents to maintain it. See, by that point in time, if a missile were to be launched at Washington there would not be nearly enough time to get all of Congress out to West Virginia! The bunker was built when missiles were carried by airplanes but by then they could be launched on rockets and arrive in minutes, causing much more damage than older nukes. There was quite literally no way the Greenbrier bunker would have been of any use by that point, and i think that was part of the point Ted Gup was trying to make - he wanted to expose the fact that tax dollars were likely going to waste there. I guess you could argue that no bunker could really protect all of Congress now if anything were to happen 🤷♀️ but if there is a new bunker...it’s probably closer to Washington!
@@lavendervvitch99 I would rather not see my tax money go to liars but I really have no say in the matter. But still go to know what is going on with the money.
"Rural West Virginia?" Simon acts like there's such a thing as urban West Virginia. I've stayed at the Greenbrier. It's really nice, and VERY expensive.
@@RecordWestVirginia Yeah, I'm from West Virginia, so I've been to Charleston plenty of times. That's about as urban as it gets, I think. Huntington is roughly as big, but it's not as much like a city, and Morgantown is just WVU.
@@briancrawford8751 Huntington's downtown is pretty urban but it's fairly small in terms of actual square miles. I do think there is an effort being made to grow all three of the cities we've mentioned. But, like most things in West Virginia, it's a slow process. lol
I'm from west Virginia and a huge fan of all of your channels. PLEASE do a geographics of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, another local amazing spot. Love to see videos of my barely known state. Lol
I live about 2 hours from there and can remember learning about this as a kid.. it still blows my mind! I surprised you didn't cover the "alleged" underground highway from Washington DC to the Greenbriar! 🤣
Hey Simon! As a WV resident I have come to know this resort very well. Jim Justice is our current governor. They hold a lot of parties there and I have attended quite a few Greenbrier Classics. If you ever decide to visit let us know and we will show you around!
Thank you for this! If you can squeeze it, please consider doing a video about Mount Weather in Virginia. It shows up in movies and TV but they rarely get it right. This is where the President was sent in case of emergency.
Very happy I found this video, I watch Simon religiously and I grew up in the area around The Greenbrier. This place is absolutely amazing, if you ever get the chance to go please do!
I've been by it a dozen times but never stopped. My grandparents met there during WW2 after grandpa was injured in Europe and grandma was a nurse. They were married and he went home and she was shipped to England.
This one time, in college, we played a jazz gig there, and we visited the basement gift shops and bought cigars. Then we half snuck around near the bunker entrance to get a peek at it. The place is relatively massive, and just driving by, you wonder why the loading dock is about the first thing you notice when you see it. Not the usual faire for a high end resort.
While attending law school at Washington & Lee University in South West Virginia, I participated in a clinic assisting inmates at the Alderson Federal Prison Camp for Women. The prison was located about 15 minutes from the Greenbrier. Three law students would visit the prison each week, working out to each student making 5 trips a semester. During my last trip to Alderson, my fellow students and I decided to stop by the Greenbrier for tea. It was an incredibly beautiful place. Most of the inmates I encountered were there because of drug crimes and did not come from particularly privileged backgrounds. But at least one of the inmates I assisted had family stay at the Greenbrier while visiting her. There certainly were inmates that did come from more affluent backgrounds. She was after my time, but Martha Stewart is probably the most (in)famous former resident of the prison and I would guess many if not most of her visitors stayed there. There would have almost been something poetic about placing the seat of government right next to a prison. But as the prison serves only women and most of Congress is still made up of men the rhyme falters a bit.
Grew up about 5 minutes from there. Still remember when the bunker was opened up back in the 90s and they let us school kids tour through it. Kinda neat really. Nobody found it surprising. We had the largest runway in the state and air force 1 did touch and goes sometimes weekly.
The TV series Sylvania Waters! Sylvania does mean trees, Latin I think. I think it would have been a better name for the state. Completely differentiate itself from Virginia. No need to add the"west".
I would like one on houska castle its a really weird castle with the defensive walls on the inside because they though there was a portal to hell there. Great halloween subject! The nazi's also did some shady stuff there. (Yes I will persist!)
The Greenbrier is one of my old jobs I was raised in West Virginia and lived in lewisburg 10 mins from the resort I miss living there but sadly I moved to get away from the meth the county was so nice at one point but now tweeters rule now lol but this so far is my favorite video you have made thank you
@15:35 And the reporter was not charged with treason, because "the public has a right to know!" They weren't too bothered by that in the days before and during the D-Day invasion, if a reporter that leaked plans would be shoot under the same charge.
In the same vein, the Diefenbunker - Canada's similar bunker outside Ottawa - might make for an interesting story. I can vouch that it was a fun and interesting, if a bit quirky, tour.
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Hey I would like to see a Geographics video about the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India! I visited the temples and caves recently and was absolutely astounded. Unfortunately I didn’t have a guide so it was just me and my yoga teacher walking around.. but please do a deep dive into it! If I remember correctly, it was built over 400 years (out of a friggin granite mountain!) and included work and design from the Indian Hindus, Islamic Moguls, the Jains, Buddhists... and was actually something the Moguls didn’t destroy but further helped to create.
That's the idea. Post-Apocalypse, America begins to rebuild. If anyone asks where Congress is, the answer obviously is 'Classified'. At least for say, 90 days, then it's 'Oh, did anyone check if someone let them out?"
Essentially sacrifice the entire population, but make sure that congress escapes to their bunker and survives. That way they can continue to "lead" all the dead people who had been obliterated by the nuclear war.
There was rumor of Cass Scenic Railroad to buy the Amtrak rail line going passed the Greenbrier, then again I wouldn't be surprised if West Virginia were to place it under official Historic Preservation so they could do that. If this plan does follow through, that would bring in tones of caps-... Er, I mean... Tourism dollars to the area connecting the entire Valley with steam locomotives from the Greenbrier to Elkins, WV. They could go crazy with it and connect the ski resorts all along the mountains too. That's of course if someone doesn't nuke it for XP grinding and legendary hunting...
0:35 Hokay, so basically we got China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, North Korea, the UK, and us, with nukes. We've got about 2,600 more than anybody else, whatever. 8:43 The Interstate Highway System would probably make a great video for Megaprojects. The story is much more in-depth and involves the Autobahn (another great idea for Megaprojects) and a cross-country trip in the 1910s.
When Bethesda destroyed their reputation and the Fallout series by releasing Fo76 I was watching a ton of videos about it and people playing it and lots of them ended up at this location. Very interested to see the real deal. Spoiler for the game, everyones dead. For the first time ever no survivors. The Greenbrier did make it, and is maintained by robots.
Heh… 4 years later, Settler Responders took it over.. the Appalachian Mountains are occupied again.. scorched plague is cured, and soooo much more has happened. lmfao 😂
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You should do a video on the bombing of Dresden
Never use cnn footage. If you want your channel to be real and credible don't use cnn footage.
The only time I have ever been to this place is in Fallout 76, but I am quite impressed with how accurately it is depicted in the game.
I've been there back in the 2000's it's Beautiful 😇
Omg this is insane to me that you’re posting this - I was just at the greenbrier in July, my mom works for World TeamTennis, who as you mentioned in the video moved their season there for 2020 due to Covid. I got to stay there as a result of her job & had an amazing time; obviously not all activities were running because of the pandemic but given the circumstances, the hotel did a really good job with implementing rules to reduce the spread of the virus (there were no new infections the whole time I was there). We stayed in the West Virginia Wing & got to tour the bunker, it was so cool! An absolutely beautiful place - I hope to go back! Thank you for making this video, this is one of my favorite UA-cam channels!
I took a tour of this back 2010ish. Pretty amazing and highly recommended.
I was fortunate enough to stay here for a week back in the early/mid 2000s. It was incredible, absolutely beautiful and the service was top notch.
As a native, I can tell you that this was only a secret to everyone NOT in a 50 mile radius, for decades. My grandfather told me about it before it was even declassified.
Same here. My grandad drove a dump truck while building the bunker. He also worked as a night watchman after it was built. When the cat was finally let out of the bag he said he was glad he could finally talk about it.
Same here, just about everyone here in Kanawha County knew about it even before construction on it had been started.
I just hope the next one is more secretive then :)
Know Congress told their friends
The bunker was designed with the idea that it was far enough from Washington not to be directly targeted by a nuclear missile. But can there be any doubt that the Soviets knew it was there? If so, the Greenbrier would have been at least a secondary target. I wonder if anyone ever checked the declassified KGB files to see?
I play Fallout 76 on the regular. So this is a particularly cool video. Thanks Simon!
That isn't something you should mention in public, you aren't the least bit embarrassed?
@@danielduncan6806 i agree with him. even as an introvert fallout is better when working as a team, especially since they added daily ops. ing and other game critics just say the same, if something is "popular" and "new" they usually give it a bad review and give it pretty biased, but if its "popular" and "new" doesnt mean its good, but thats my opinion and you might enjoy those types of games
we both know that’s not true
How's the game? I stopped playing right around the christmas present glitch. My account might be banned because someone gave me 1000 presents, but I never did the glitch, or any glitch. I was getting annoyed about the game stuttering whenever I quick changed weapons. That, and storage space was not fun to juggle, since I'm usually a hoarder in rpg games. I'm hopeful that microsoft will overhaul the game (more than it currently is), but that'll have to wait till next year.
Yikes. Fallout 76 was such a shame. They destroyed one of the best franchises in history and ruined Bethesda's good name with one of the most broken soulless cash grabs in gaming history.
I pray they find what little soul they have left and put it all into the next elder scrolls.
I like that "other legislative needs" was right after "latrines". Seems apt.
Dr. Strangelove enters...
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I grew up down the road in Roanoke, VA and have been up to the Greenbrier many times but didn't know the whole bunker backstory. Great video!
We just started our channel all about West Virginia history and folklore. Really cool to see a large channel like yourselves cover some WV history and locations. Love your work!
Not far away is the Green Bank Radio Observatory, it would make a nice Side Projects episode.
Many thanks for this video! My grandfather worked at the Greenbriar resort in the 1950s. I enjoyed learning more about it.
Excellent reporting. I worked at the Greenbrier in 2002 and met several of the secret-keepers. Your capsule summary is commendable.
I’m from White Sulphur Springs! i know every square inch of that resort like the back of my hand!
Grew up in Callaghan VA just over the state line before Covington.
I grew up in Monroe County! I've been there many many times also.
You can get to know every square inch of deez nuts.
@@KM-mt5gx it'll be a quick tour. Not much ground to cover.
@@hobojesus9817 obviously. How big can balls really get?
Absolutely love the Norm example at the end, he is a legend is his own self...great vid as always Simon and also congrats on the new baby!
Playing FO76 and at the in game Whitesprings that is based off the Greenbrier. Ironic. And awesome this popped live when it did
White Sulfur Springs. Whats funny is there is a drinking fountain in the Rotonda near the golf course in FO76 that will cure all diseases.
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@@Wyldfoxx Yessss! So many players either forget about it or don't know it's there.
I saw the thumbnail and was like “waaaaait... “ 😂
Why is that ironic?
Incoming FO76 comments XD
Stand down soldier, you're at the Whitespring!
76 sucks so bad
@@Fionnachu It really doesn't, though. It never really did but saying that nowadays just proves that you haven't played it recently.
Several years ago I took a tour of the Greenbrier Bunker. It was an interesting experience. We were shown a small part of it.
I had the wonderful fortune of staying on the grounds, and seeing the town. Absolutely beautiful!
_Country Roads, Take Me Home..._
Thank you Simon!
watch out for scammers there. they price stuff too many "caps" and sometimes blocks the golf courses with ridiculous buildings that sometimes deify gravity
I was looking for a Fall Out comment.
they also have robots that love garbage
How exactly do you "deify" gravity?
I miss the regular nuclear retribution they used to face, and the hordes of glowing green zombie creatures too.
@@tncorgi92 By reconciling the graviton to the Standard Model.
I love this place! I've been meaning to go again. Skip the tour though, most of the bunker is closed as server farms. You see almost as much as the documentary, which you can find anywhere. Some of the bunker is open without a tour
That Wash. Post reporter was probably real proud of himself, revealing the big secret bunker. Good job. Except that probably cost the taxpayers a couple of billion dollars to build another one.
There has to be more to the story or the reporter would have done time for revealing national defense secrets.
@@JOESMITH-qs8ue Maybe the govt already had a new bunker built, and allowed the reporter to talk about this one to divert attention away from the new one?
I thought the same thing at first, but I actually stayed at the Greenbrier in July & took the bunker tour, where I learned that by 1992 the bunker was actually already obsolete, and technically it was kind of wasting taxpayer dollars just to keep the place maintained every year & pay undercover agents to maintain it. See, by that point in time, if a missile were to be launched at Washington there would not be nearly enough time to get all of Congress out to West Virginia! The bunker was built when missiles were carried by airplanes but by then they could be launched on rockets and arrive in minutes, causing much more damage than older nukes. There was quite literally no way the Greenbrier bunker would have been of any use by that point, and i think that was part of the point Ted Gup was trying to make - he wanted to expose the fact that tax dollars were likely going to waste there. I guess you could argue that no bunker could really protect all of Congress now if anything were to happen 🤷♀️ but if there is a new bunker...it’s probably closer to Washington!
@@lavendervvitch99 I would rather not see my tax money go to liars but I really have no say in the matter. But still go to know what is going on with the money.
"Rural West Virginia?" Simon acts like there's such a thing as urban West Virginia. I've stayed at the Greenbrier. It's really nice, and VERY expensive.
There are some Urbanesque parts of West Virginia, but you're right even our biggest cities are nowhere near being big cities.
@@RecordWestVirginia Yeah, I'm from West Virginia, so I've been to Charleston plenty of times. That's about as urban as it gets, I think. Huntington is roughly as big, but it's not as much like a city, and Morgantown is just WVU.
@@briancrawford8751 Huntington's downtown is pretty urban but it's fairly small in terms of actual square miles. I do think there is an effort being made to grow all three of the cities we've mentioned. But, like most things in West Virginia, it's a slow process. lol
@@RecordWestVirginia They're all always going to be bigger than Logan!
@@briancrawford8751 Same for my hometown of Kenova. lol
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One of the best. Most interesting. Thanks Geo team.
I'm from west Virginia and a huge fan of all of your channels. PLEASE do a geographics of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, another local amazing spot. Love to see videos of my barely known state. Lol
Hey ricky! So I’m the author of this video, and my dad is actually from Weston, so it’s definitely on my radar as a potential topic!
Barely known state? West Virginia is one of the few U.S states I can memorize!
Greetings from Germany.
Chase thats really awesome to hear! I live 20 minutes away from weston and worked at the insane asylum for about 6 years!
Yeah I’d love to hear about the real Fort Defiance!
Ella, glad some people can keep us in mind. Hopefully no bad clichés tho lol. My step family is all from Germany! :)
I live about 2 hours from there and can remember learning about this as a kid.. it still blows my mind! I surprised you didn't cover the "alleged" underground highway from Washington DC to the Greenbriar! 🤣
Excellent research Simon 🦋 Thank you for sharing 👍 Have a great week
Hey Simon! As a WV resident I have come to know this resort very well. Jim Justice is our current governor. They hold a lot of parties there and I have attended quite a few Greenbrier Classics. If you ever decide to visit let us know and we will show you around!
I used to work there. First job outta culinary school
Anyone else immediately click on this that has played FO76 at some point? *raises hand*
As always, great content Simon!
Thank you for this! If you can squeeze it, please consider doing a video about Mount Weather in Virginia. It shows up in movies and TV but they rarely get it right. This is where the President was sent in case of emergency.
Bethesda ironically rented the bunker for the public Fallout 76 reveal.
I've been waiting on this one. Went for a tour a few years ago. It's a pretty cool place.
Love the video simon keep up the good work
Is it just me or does Simon look a lot like the guy from Biographics?
Man, you've got it all wrong; he looks *just* like the guy from Megaprojects...
I think he looks like da boi with da Blaze
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the guy from side projects
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Very happy I found this video, I watch Simon religiously and I grew up in the area around The Greenbrier. This place is absolutely amazing, if you ever get the chance to go please do!
I've been by it a dozen times but never stopped. My grandparents met there during WW2 after grandpa was injured in Europe and grandma was a nurse. They were married and he went home and she was shipped to England.
Thank you for doing this one.
Thanks for making a video of the Greenbrier! I live about 20 minutes away from it.
Stand down soldier, you're at the Whitespring!
This one time, in college, we played a jazz gig there, and we visited the basement gift shops and bought cigars. Then we half snuck around near the bunker entrance to get a peek at it. The place is relatively massive, and just driving by, you wonder why the loading dock is about the first thing you notice when you see it. Not the usual faire for a high end resort.
Glad to see WV has made it to Geographics!
While attending law school at Washington & Lee University in South West Virginia, I participated in a clinic assisting inmates at the Alderson Federal Prison Camp for Women. The prison was located about 15 minutes from the Greenbrier. Three law students would visit the prison each week, working out to each student making 5 trips a semester. During my last trip to Alderson, my fellow students and I decided to stop by the Greenbrier for tea. It was an incredibly beautiful place. Most of the inmates I encountered were there because of drug crimes and did not come from particularly privileged backgrounds. But at least one of the inmates I assisted had family stay at the Greenbrier while visiting her. There certainly were inmates that did come from more affluent backgrounds. She was after my time, but Martha Stewart is probably the most (in)famous former resident of the prison and I would guess many if not most of her visitors stayed there. There would have almost been something poetic about placing the seat of government right next to a prison. But as the prison serves only women and most of Congress is still made up of men the rhyme falters a bit.
You mean... Whitespring Resort?
It's in Fallout 76, and in the game that's what it's called
Almost Heaven. West Virginiaaaaaaa
@@darth_arconan7772 I'm chilling there in game atm. Love pissing off the ghouls in to being murdered to death by the security 🙃
All hail the Enclave!
Don't get blood on the carpet.
Grew up about 5 minutes from there. Still remember when the bunker was opened up back in the 90s and they let us school kids tour through it. Kinda neat really. Nobody found it surprising. We had the largest runway in the state and air force 1 did touch and goes sometimes weekly.
Think that's a weird state name, most of Kentucky was once called Transylvania. There's still a Transylvania University in the state
There's a suburb in Sydney called Sylvania. I think it's pretty common. It just refers to trees or forests, doesn't it?
Been there, have the t-shirt 😎
For Drac and family
The TV series Sylvania Waters!
Sylvania does mean trees, Latin I think. I think it would have been a better name for the state. Completely differentiate itself from Virginia. No need to add the"west".
I finally sub'd after watching a lot of your catalog.. good stuff
It seems it was the inspiration for the whitespring bunker in fallout 76
Yes sir
Do Mount Weather next
I think this is the only geographics place I have ever been to.
.....or heard of.
Declassified in 1992 and by 2000 we were all going there to tour for school field trips. It's super cool!
Thank you
My Parents stayed a the GB many times...just to play golf...it was very nice.
I would like one on houska castle its a really weird castle with the defensive walls on the inside because they though there was a portal to hell there.
Great halloween subject!
The nazi's also did some shady stuff there.
(Yes I will persist!)
Oooo that sounds interesting! I'd love to see a vid on this!
Sounds cool.
Great video! Did you know that from 1968-2015 West Virginia was home to an active Naval base?
I grew up 20 minutes away in Callaghan VA just over the state line.
the transport helicopters used to be kept on top of Weather Mountain near Charles Town, WV
Please do one on the "Cueva de los Tayos" and all the claims surrounding the subject.
MAKE A MEGAPROJECTS VIDEO ON THE ANTARCTIC SNOW CRUISER
wrong channel
neoarmour I know. I am spamming all of simon’s channels
I used to live near The Greenbrier. I’m glad I have left that area. The one time I recall going there, I was not all that impressed.
The Greenbrier is one of my old jobs I was raised in West Virginia and lived in lewisburg 10 mins from the resort I miss living there but sadly I moved to get away from the meth the county was so nice at one point but now tweeters rule now lol but this so far is my favorite video you have made thank you
@15:35 And the reporter was not charged with treason, because "the public has a right to know!" They weren't too bothered by that in the days before and during the D-Day invasion, if a reporter that leaked plans would be shoot under the same charge.
In the same vein, the Diefenbunker - Canada's similar bunker outside Ottawa - might make for an interesting story. I can vouch that it was a fun and interesting, if a bit quirky, tour.
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
One FO76 trailer and a Peter Holland Cover later and it stuck in my head.
Hey Simon, I have been there! I was at the casino underground with some high roller gamblers!! It was awesome!!
I’m from West Virginia this is cool to finally see a video about my state
Now you should talk about (ahem!) Bilderberg Hotel.
Ironically in fallout 76 it has a tendancy to get nuked on a regular basis
Simon you should do the Diefenbunker
There's a Norm Macdonald link in the description. I'm not mad at it 👏
I live in West Virginia. Thank you so much for doing this video!
The White Springs Resort!
Everyone: greenbrier
Simon: GREENBRAAR
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Having grew up in WSS and right at the Greenbrier. I love the fact it was the best worst secret in US history.
For some reason, I feel like you've covered this before, a couple of years ago. Probably just me going crazy, but I've got serious deja vu.
Not sure if anyone has said it, but since you mentioned it in the video, how about a vid on Raven Rock? I've got a thing for bunkers
Can you do one on fort Monroe VA
Yay! I suggested this on mega projects!
Hey I would like to see a Geographics video about the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India!
I visited the temples and caves recently and was absolutely astounded. Unfortunately I didn’t have a guide so it was just me and my yoga teacher walking around.. but please do a deep dive into it!
If I remember correctly, it was built over 400 years (out of a friggin granite mountain!) and included work and design from the Indian Hindus, Islamic Moguls, the Jains, Buddhists... and was actually something the Moguls didn’t destroy but further helped to create.
I'm guessing it was only the members of Congress that were concerned about the fate of Congress.
That's the idea. Post-Apocalypse, America begins to rebuild. If anyone asks where Congress is, the answer obviously is 'Classified'. At least for say, 90 days, then it's 'Oh, did anyone check if someone let them out?"
Essentially sacrifice the entire population, but make sure that congress escapes to their bunker and survives. That way they can continue to "lead" all the dead people who had been obliterated by the nuclear war.
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There was rumor of Cass Scenic Railroad to buy the Amtrak rail line going passed the Greenbrier, then again I wouldn't be surprised if West Virginia were to place it under official Historic Preservation so they could do that. If this plan does follow through, that would bring in tones of caps-... Er, I mean... Tourism dollars to the area connecting the entire Valley with steam locomotives from the Greenbrier to Elkins, WV. They could go crazy with it and connect the ski resorts all along the mountains too.
That's of course if someone doesn't nuke it for XP grinding and legendary hunting...
How many different channels do you do?
Could u do a vid about the taj mahal?
0:35 Hokay, so basically we got China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, North Korea, the UK, and us, with nukes. We've got about 2,600 more than anybody else, whatever.
8:43 The Interstate Highway System would probably make a great video for Megaprojects. The story is much more in-depth and involves the Autobahn (another great idea for Megaprojects) and a cross-country trip in the 1910s.
When Bethesda destroyed their reputation and the Fallout series by releasing Fo76 I was watching a ton of videos about it and people playing it and lots of them ended up at this location.
Very interested to see the real deal. Spoiler for the game, everyones dead. For the first time ever no survivors. The Greenbrier did make it, and is maintained by robots.
Lmao. Play the game again.
Heh… 4 years later, Settler Responders took it over.. the Appalachian Mountains are occupied again.. scorched plague is cured, and soooo much more has happened. lmfao 😂
If the bunker did need to be used due to war, what happened to the regular staff of The Greenbrier? Where they permitted in the bunker?
very cool place. been there
Simon, put Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker on one of your channels.
Ahhh so that’s what Whitesprings is based on in Fallout. And ever since the Saints stopped going to the Greenbrier, they’ve gotten much better.
Whereever I clicked on the timeline of the video i saw the same guy. Is there not fotage of the bunker?
After getting hooked on Business Blaze, I forgot how professional Simon can be when he wants to.
Westsylvania was a proposed British colony pre-Revolution. The proposed name of the state was Kanawha.
Off topic, but I wonder if I can still use your code to buy from Mack Weldon? It would no longer be my first purchase so any discount would be minimal to nonexistent, though I'd love to support your channel as well as get more tailored boxer briefs for the men in my world.
Can I use Squarespace to create a website that creates and sells websites?
I always knew there was something about that Regis....