"So I'm going to go back to the elevator on the 32 floor" *finds out that the 32 floor no longer exists and he's forever trapped in the liminal spaces that make up this hotel
There was an old Twilight Zone (original 1950s series) like this. Someone goes on the elevator to the unused 13th Floor of a department store. The mannequins live there, as in actually come to life....
More like dumb & naive! It's seriously a stupid fuckin thing to do! If they'd caught him or searched his footage(which they do) they'd instantly arrest his dumb ass & charge him with some majorly deadly shit like "espionage" &/or "crimes against the state" which both only lead to death! There won't be any REAL trial. The ONLY reason they'd do a trial at all is because he's a foreigner & they'd have to put on a show trial for world media who'd surely be there and broadcast N. Korea pretending to have an real judicial system as they always do! They'd claim he's a spy pretending to be a tourist to infiltrate N. Korea & evaluate N. Korean 'infrastructure' for future warfare to take out "Dear Leader" who's the people's only savior(🙄) preventing Europe & America from invading where they'll enslave all the men, behead all the children, pillage every home & rape all the woman! This guy could expect to be sentenced to either concentration camp or execution but he better pray for execution because in the camps he'd be in literal HELL! He'd be brutally tortured to death slowly in every way imaginable & way more you could never imagine!
The Prophet's mosque in Medina consumes more electricity than the entire country of North Korea. 400ish MW vs what?? That really blow your mind. Edit: it's actually 12GW for the mosque and 1.5GW for the country (548 kWh a year per capita)... meanwhile my household of 3~4 people consumes 7500 kWh a year
@@amir3515 Every pillar in Prophet's Mosque is fitted with ACs. And there's hundreds of pillars. The ACs are what consumes so much energy. Should be using renewable energy sources rather than burning coals and fossil fuels.
@@amir3515 Prophet's mosque is a 1400-year-old building with lots of history. This is indeed a special place, it's even mentioned in the Hadith. Outside of the 3 Holy mosques, it's a place of worship like any other, throughout the planet. The problem is not about the massive electricity and its costs, it's the amount of CO2 being released by burning coals in order to meet the 12GW demand. That's scary.
The horror genre needs to learn from this. eerie emptiness and lonelyness but still knowing that people are around, and could very well be watching or listening just around the corner. Scary as hell
yes... like, they're surely gonna send an armed squad just to catch you and torture you because you went to an empty floor in an hotel... thats how dictatorship works, isn't it?
Thats not that unusual. A lot of buildings have an elevator that has more levels cause it leads to the top and the top is not that frequently visited so no more than one elevator is needed
That's actually alot more normal than you think. Depending on the building. Some elevators will only take you to residential suites or hotel suites... ect. Some will allow only a certain amount of levels to be accessed.
Otto Warmbriers fate was such that upon returning to his floor the elevator doors open only to reveal 5 armed state security agents - who quickly rushed him each grabbing a limb while the fifth agent pulled a pre-primed syringe out of his breast pocket and in one motion with frightening accuracy & speed sunk the tip into Warmbriers restrained rear shoulder, simultaneously sinking the plunger and its payload of generic Chinese veterinary grade sedative designed for bovine use -rendering Otto into a deep state of unconsciousness nearly instantly. Even more terrifying then the initial ambush was agents adeptness with state sanctioned abduction - indeed Otto barely had a chance to place the events together being completely blindsided - it was only after the needle was stabbed into his shoulder that he realized he was being abducted ...he opened mouth and yelled as loud as he could, hoping to bring attention to his plight, but no sound would escape his mouth, as the paralytic effects of the sedatives had already effected his vocal cords. The last fleeting memory as he decends into a thick mental fog was looking into his captures ink black eyes. The agent steel glaze locks eyes with Otto while a sadistic maniacal expression washes over his face, hes always been amused by the terrified muted response of his victims own bodies betraying them due to his ......."pharmacological intervention" as he later would type in his standard INCIDENT REPORT, which, unfortunately for Otto, the "status of accused: " section was finalized with a red stamp - the text of which read "IN CUSTODY / ONGOING INVESTIGATION"
Try being a security guard for a week at some old factory, hotel, skyscraper, abandoned hospital, current hospital etc. Wander empty dark hallways alone for 50 hours a week.
@@JerrysJets Probably dogs because that shit is not going to kill you instantly and dogs will torment you and fight you. An anti air cannon will blow you to a mist instantaneously. I would rather be anti air gunned than dog fed.
Many might not realize that Erick is really brave for exploring and recording this. If you did this in the US, likely nothing bad or remarkable would happen if the management caught you. In North Korea, he could have gotten in major trouble if authorities found out he had footage of a second-rate mostly empty hotel.
When you consider the treatment Otto received for a very trivial offence, you have to realise how fortunate you were. I can't believe even unused floors don't have surveillance installed.
stupossibleify yes this video is insane. Likely extremely rare footage to get away with this. They literally will check your camera for stuff like this
I have been to North Korea several times, and even live in the city of Dandong in China which is just across the river from a North Korean City. This guy has serious balls to be even doing, let alone filming, this. I don’t feel safe doing that in China either. This guy, like other foreigners who film sensitive content, likely went to the 3rd floor of the Pyongyang train station on the 7th day of the tour, and went to the broker (who looks nothing like a broker) that smuggles footage like this across the border into China, and paid him an INSANE amount of money. Then he sneaks it across the river into China (Living in Dandong I’ve seen a few at night) and then places the camera and its footage in a house in Beijing. You then have to fly to Beijing, go to the house, and pick up the footage.
@@La-PetitMort Yes, it really is. I’ve lived in Dandong for 20 years as an international school teacher, and in recent years have seen greater frequency of people fleeing North Korea
I was expecting _actual empty floors._ Like, the elevator opens and you'd only see a massive pitch-black room. You'd turn on the torch on your phone and you'd find naked cement on the floor and walls. The only things there were the elevator, the door to the stairs, and at the very end of them, the large panels they sometimes turn on to give impression they're actual rooms with people in them. But no, these useless floors are actually built inside too. Well, built in a very loose way, as if it's a game prototype level come true.
Imagine being in the elevator waiting for the second stop and it opens to a dark unlit unfurnished floor with this dude standing there. I'd piss myself no joke.
Jin Johnson I don't think there's a motion sensor thing or whatever it is that detects an object is in the way of the door Soooo you might get your hand chopped off :/
Exactly. All rooms are bugged, elevators are bugged and the hotel is full of cameras everywhere...and yes there are army/intelligence people monitoring everything in stations on the locked floors.
Dude that is absolutely terrifying, I have stumbled into empty floors in high-rises in downtown Dallas TEXAS before and it's creepy but doing that in NORTH KOREA absolutely not. What if the elevator simply wasn't programed to stop on that floor after you walked out of it, what if the all stairs led to a dead end I'd be having a panic attack
I actually phantisized of going to one of those dark floors, laying down and passing away and no one would ever find me. So ideal. I want to make it come to pass
Well remember that at least half of North Korea's population do not have any reliable electricity grid. But given that they have it in short supply the least that would have done is send the whole of Pyongyang into a black out.
tjperez69 I'm sure they have backup generators and things along those lines to avoid power outages in pyongyang, or at least in the hotels. They know that they'd look bad if tourists knew how poor things like the power grids were there. Well, tourists DO know, but NK does everything they can to make their country look less bad to tourists than it really is.
really? I would've thought they would at least try to convince people power is all good in NK. you'd think the the government there might think of giving all the hotels backup generators in case of power outages, and just not tell anyone the power is running on generators when it is.
No he's not. Simon Wilson went and the one who took him has been there 70 times and says the people who talk the loudest, he guarantees that they've never been there. None of these commenters have been there.
You can only travel on the passport you are a citizen of, if he traveled on a false passport he would be arrested. And he can't exactly travel incognito.
3:00 Just Imagine this door actually opening, only for it to reveal Kim Jong-Un sat down behind a desk, directly facing the door. He looks straight into our protagonist's eyes with a disappointed look on his face, before saying "you just couldn't help but poke around, could you?". Then the video suddenly cuts out.
Oh god I seen Japanese horror films I know how this is gonna end. Demon schoolgirl crawling upside down and backwards like a spider across the floor screaming North Korean propaganda backwards.
The scariest part of all this is you could actually be found by a creepy man and taken to be tortured for the rest of your life here. Genuine real life horror.
To be honest, I find the video rather interesting. The dimly lit or dark alleys, the fact that there is a table tennis right out of the lift for some reason, the unfinished stairs, the doors, the overall lighting... It all looks very surreal and calming at the same time, and like one of those Urbex videos or "exploring" videogames. On the other hand, I shiver at the thought of what could have happened to Erick if someone found him snooping around...
Yes and there was a huge fire here on the top floors of the hotel june2015 this is uploaded sept2015 hmm. People who record the fire on video were arrested.
The area itself is peaceful, but the fact it’s inhabited by despots who are constantly listening to you and probably watching, for any excuse to torture you for death and you’ve got a entire country to try to escape from should that happen, that’s not
I would take a guess that they have known he was exploring but did nothing as the floors he seen were meant to be seen if necessary. After all he stayed away from the locked 28 level floor. And that is why they did nothing overt over this.
Wow...randomly positioned staircases, locked stairwell doors, and not a single emergency escape sign anywhere. Are fire safety laws non-existent in Pyongyang?
Well, why would you expect a fire... Apart from the tourists (and maybe soldiers on standby), no one uses electric devices as much, so it's a relatively low risk of a fire arising.
I wish I could noclips right into Pyongyang. Looking at my computer / Wishing I could climb though to that place I see on my screen Looking around for that portal / This is the kind of world that I'm longing to be in. And I can hear the breezes calling / Through a wall of raging chaos / like a ghost that keeps on calling, til my feet are on their ground. Take me away, to the DPRK. I've been jonesing so long. Take me away to the twinkling of those sights in the city of Pyongyang I'm traveling into their time zone, watching the sun set slowly around the curve of the world And I dreaming of those who care about, loving one another without regard to the color of their skin While the USA is collapsing into a ball of confusion, you will find me with joy laughing, happy that I found the true solution Take me away, to the DPRK. I've been jonesing so long. Take me away to the twinkling of those sights in the city of Pyongyang I've got to get away I've got to get away I've got to get away I've got to get away I've got to get away I've got to get away I've got to get away I've got to get away I got to get away, I've got to fly away, yeah yeah I got to get away, I've got to fly away, yeah yeah
They already execute all their citizens 😔 (I mean obviously not literally all but the majority are starving and they do send people to prison camps and many die)
I wouldn’t call these floors empty, there just aren’t many guests so a lot of the rooms are vacant and they keep the few guests they have in the same areas/floors rather than across the building. Probably to save energy.
+Adam R Yeah that is just looks like "The Horror Hotel of Pyong-Seng" where mainly rooms are empty then full. I wouldn't want to spend a night alone in that Horror Hotel in Pyong-Seng it is scary indeed.
And some Office Buildings and hotels actually have that built in as part of the Design. One Bank of elevators will only service a certain number of floors and the alternate Bank provides access 4 the rest period but for fire safety standpoint that hotel is a nightmare waiting to happen if they ever had to do an evacuation ., the stairwell says makes no sense and no emergency lighting ., with unfinished stairwells on certain floors..... an instant safety hazard
Yeah it definitely seems like they have no consistency whatsoever. If you looked at the staircase in the first part of the video, it's completely different from the second stairwell with the green plastic floor, not to mention they were discontinuous.
In most video’s where people explore places they’re not supposed to be there’s not much at steak and they dont talk in fear of being caught, THEN THERES THIS MAN he’s literally doing something that could get him put in a camp for 15 years and yet he’s talking like he’s perfectly fine. This is true bravery i respect you.
And, within 24 hours of this being uploaded to UA-cam, the hotel manager is carted off to a labor camp for "permitting subversive activity". Taking and publishing these videos may have consequences.....
I was expecting the "empty" floor is like a carpark with no lights and a unpainted cement floor and bunch of pillars. Also with expose plumbing on the ceiling.
Oh my god. This must be absolutely terrifying. The silence. The darkness. The blinking lights in that one hallway. The mirrors at the end of those hallways.
Looks down hall, "I'm a little bit creeped out right now", turns to leave but then turns back to hallway, "Let's actually explooorre" I laughed out loud to this, I relate so hard
I've heard of some paranormal elevator game you can only play in buildings that have enough floors. I don't know exactly how it goes but I think it's relatively easy to find if you look it up
"ok im a little creeped out now"
"ok lets continue to explore"
that is how people die
Jordan Calderon i read that's how PewDiePie
Lets find some souvenir posters to take home
Yea I can't qWHITE relate
In movies
Jordan Calderon tru
Now imagine the elevator door opening with Kim standing behind the table with a ping pong paddle and he says "I have been waiting for you"
Only if he was Dennis Rodman! And the room will be stocked with booze and weed! 😂
"Now brother lets enjoy a game of ping pong shall we?"
Hahahaha
why do I hear boss music?
Balls of fury 2
This man did a whole special ops mission by himself
Bravo six going dark
Also no enemy team either 😂
He helped guide the seals during the bin laden mission 😂
@@jwaj roger that
Backroom at north korea😅
"So I'm going to go back to the elevator on the 32 floor"
*finds out that the 32 floor no longer exists and he's forever trapped in the liminal spaces that make up this hotel
SCP confirm
This is the most genuine liminal space you can get. This hotel is literally the back rooms of the universe.
Backrooms, North Korean edition
North Korea is the backrooms in real life. Only a few can get in, only a few can get out. And instead of entities, it's the north korean military
There was an old Twilight Zone (original 1950s series) like this. Someone goes on the elevator to the unused 13th Floor of a department store. The mannequins live there, as in actually come to life....
Feels like you're in a game, outside of the area where you're supposed to be
The locked floor is the developer's room.
Look up the Backrooms.
aw yeah 666th like
Reminds me more of myst
Unreleased DLC area.
he's not afraid of him being alone, he's afraid of someone being there with him
Fuck dude. This comment gave me chills.
Exactly that.
Imagine Kim Jong Un being that certain "someone".
@@ManuelMedellin. Alone? Not so scary.
Dear Leader is never alone.
There was probably an SS Officer watching everything he was doing on cameras. Thats how they caught that kid who took a poster.
Like being in North Korea isn't creepy enough on its own.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lmao i swear
@Blood Beryl nope its creepy
@Blood Beryl different as in a whole corrupt regime. Which is definitely creepy
@Wendy Laan I see you have 777 likes. Go get yourself a lottery ticket !
My man really went into the Backrooms and survived, what a legend
Cautiously waiting for that jumpscare.
missingmochiguman yooo for real
Yeah mee too. Too bad this guys is a good guy
Five Nights at Koryo's
me too
0:51 Thank me later
BALLS OF STEEL
I got balls of steel
you got balls of steel
He's got balls of steel
She's got um..................
Oh OK
She's got pussies of steel
@@willie4093 wait that's illegal
Balls of stupidity, saggy and empty.
More like dumb & naive! It's seriously a stupid fuckin thing to do! If they'd caught him or searched his footage(which they do) they'd instantly arrest his dumb ass & charge him with some majorly deadly shit like "espionage" &/or "crimes against the state" which both only lead to death! There won't be any REAL trial. The ONLY reason they'd do a trial at all is because he's a foreigner & they'd have to put on a show trial for world media who'd surely be there and broadcast N. Korea pretending to have an real judicial system as they always do! They'd claim he's a spy pretending to be a tourist to infiltrate N. Korea & evaluate N. Korean 'infrastructure' for future warfare to take out "Dear Leader" who's the people's only savior(🙄) preventing Europe & America from invading where they'll enslave all the men, behead all the children, pillage every home & rape all the woman! This guy could expect to be sentenced to either concentration camp or execution but he better pray for execution because in the camps he'd be in literal HELL! He'd be brutally tortured to death slowly in every way imaginable & way more you could never imagine!
@@CutterDriftwood i think he uploaded this video in America, so they can't do anything to him
North Korea is like a country that's in early access
Alex Arellano alpha version
The guy in the video is a beta tester
Alex Arellano Kim jong un is a shitty dev
And it doesn't even support mod
Is it a prison country??🤔
Who’s heart skipped a beat when you saw his reflection in the mirror thinking it was someone else 😭😂😂
SAME🤣
Seriously wtf is up with those mirrors. Just why.
@@REChronic54 Probably makes it lil bit bigger for some reason
I would have f*cking screamed ever time.
I swear to God I freaked out a little
By turning on that light, you sucked an entire village's electricity 🙈
The Prophet's mosque in Medina consumes more electricity than the entire country of North Korea. 400ish MW vs what?? That really blow your mind.
Edit: it's actually 12GW for the mosque and 1.5GW for the country (548 kWh a year per capita)... meanwhile my household of 3~4 people consumes 7500 kWh a year
@@amir3515 Every pillar in Prophet's Mosque is fitted with ACs. And there's hundreds of pillars. The ACs are what consumes so much energy. Should be using renewable energy sources rather than burning coals and fossil fuels.
@@amir3515 Prophet's mosque is a 1400-year-old building with lots of history. This is indeed a special place, it's even mentioned in the Hadith. Outside of the 3 Holy mosques, it's a place of worship like any other, throughout the planet.
The problem is not about the massive electricity and its costs, it's the amount of CO2 being released by burning coals in order to meet the 12GW demand. That's scary.
@@amir3515 bruh just leave their money alone😂 personal value is different for each people and you can’t expect everyone to share your value.
😂😂
The horror genre needs to learn from this. eerie emptiness and lonelyness but still knowing that people are around, and could very well be watching or listening just around the corner. Scary as hell
That's Silent Hill.
A lot of horror movies do that my friend
That's already 99.99% of modern horror
Ever heard of the backrooms?
liminal spaces
Id have been afraid of armed soldiers in that elevator when it opened
Burning Kitsune Mask Cabin in the woods?
Burning Kitsune Mask nothing but arrested and tortured not to come back home
*Oops sorry boys wrong floor!
Burning Kitsune Mask
My reaction would be like "AHHH!!... Oh, a human. I thought you were a ghost"
yes... like, they're surely gonna send an armed squad just to catch you and torture you because you went to an empty floor in an hotel... thats how dictatorship works, isn't it?
The first elevator has 32 levels. The second elevator you went in on the empty floor has only 29. Thats even more creepy
Thats not that unusual. A lot of buildings have an elevator that has more levels cause it leads to the top and the top is not that frequently visited so no more than one elevator is needed
That's actually alot more normal than you think. Depending on the building. Some elevators will only take you to residential suites or hotel suites... ect. Some will allow only a certain amount of levels to be accessed.
@@dorianpalinic5703Hmm. Are you sure? Cause it could be the work of a demon, or potentially even an evil witch
What a great scene to be in horror movies
this shit is scary than any horror movie.
@@jasonbourne9884 exactly bruh
this is more scarier than most horror movie haha
its scarier because its real life instead of fantasy ghosts and demons
Its scary because on one really even knows whats going on in the whole country at all
I'm just surprised the hotel has electricity.
Lord Zizumias the city main power source
Lord Zizumias
I'm surprised that there even is a hotel.
They lost $6,000,000,000 in property damage because he turned on the lights
You know, its remind me about 80s asians building...
Yeah, Very very very old,,,
(3.51) well and i never see any dark room in a luxurious hotel in Japan...
0:56 BRUUH I THOUGHT THAT WAS A PERSON NOT HIS REFLECTION
same XD
Me too
Same, still... dat creep me out.. 🤤🤤
Yeeeah me too!!!!!
Maybe he was just supposed to think it was a reflection… (ha)
Despite being many floors up, it feels like it's underground.
Him - "I'll have to admit, I'm a little creeped out right now"
Also him - "let's explore!"
Nothing creepy. It's an hotel with accessible bedrooms. Wtf i spent 3 minutes of my time for this shit.
Essentially every horror movie protagonist ever.
@@mirzamirza7878 It's not creepy if it's not North Korea
HAHA
Bruh who else thought there was a dude in the hallway holy shit
Gmac Vols i almost shit myself
Then what is it exactly?
Darian it’s his reflection.
Me too!! I was like “why didn’t he say anything about that man in the hallway”; then I realized it was his reflection. They got me....
If I saw that I would have scared the crap out of myself and left not knowing that it was a mirror
You got some real balls bro
Otto Warmbriers fate was such that upon returning to his floor the elevator doors open only to reveal 5 armed state security agents - who quickly rushed him each grabbing a limb while the fifth agent pulled a pre-primed syringe out of his breast pocket and in one motion with frightening accuracy & speed sunk the tip into Warmbriers restrained rear shoulder, simultaneously sinking the plunger and its payload of generic Chinese veterinary grade sedative designed for bovine use -rendering Otto into a deep state of unconsciousness nearly instantly.
Even more terrifying then the initial ambush was agents adeptness with state sanctioned abduction - indeed Otto barely had a chance to place the events together being completely blindsided - it was only after the needle was stabbed into his shoulder that he realized he was being abducted ...he opened mouth and yelled as loud as he could, hoping to bring attention to his plight, but no sound would escape his mouth, as the paralytic effects of the sedatives had already effected his vocal cords.
The last fleeting memory as he decends into a thick mental fog was looking into his captures ink black eyes. The agent steel glaze locks eyes with Otto while a sadistic maniacal expression washes over his face, hes always been amused by the terrified muted response of his victims own bodies betraying them due to his ......."pharmacological intervention" as he later would type in his standard INCIDENT REPORT, which, unfortunately for Otto, the "status of accused: " section was finalized with a red stamp - the text of which read "IN CUSTODY / ONGOING INVESTIGATION"
wait until that one triggered feminazi comes in and tries to bash you for using the term "balls" and accusing you of being a sexist cis white male
WhiteNuggets yikes
Yeah he got the balls. Now he needs racquets, net and a player.
1ssam Albendazole u sound triggered bro lmfao
imagine how many people were recording videos like these except they never managed to leave the country, to say the very least...
Lol 2 hours ago
that doesn’t happen often lmao we would be hearing constant stories of tourists going missing
Yeah like a tourist disappearing during a visit to North Korea wouldn't immediately make front page worldwide. Are you dumb?
hello minecraft man
THIS👀
What if you see Kim Jong Un just running down the hallway screaming?
Nuke in hand and everything.
+fatal deep outbreak 😂
unrealistic situation kim is to fat to run
Wouldn't see him running, maybe on a segway! :D
Dont make fun of great leader you western culture fatass xDDDDD
that guy has got some serious balls to go in such a place alone thats damn creepy
Sagar Badade and to top it off in a country like north korea
Joe Mama not a country like north Korea IT IS NORTH KOREA
My thought was that he could have been arrested for being in an unauthorized area.
Try being a security guard for a week at some old factory, hotel, skyscraper, abandoned hospital, current hospital etc. Wander empty dark hallways alone for 50 hours a week.
Oh man! Imagine if you find a random girl staring at a wall and then decides to turn her head towards you slowly. Just like the movie "The Grudge" 😭
Oh, let's just build a stairway that takes you nowhere
*welcome to floor 31.5 of the Koryo hotel - on this floor we have....er....nothing.*
Stairway to Nowhere. Coming Soon
Hey, I think I've read an SCP based on this comment!
Oh, they must have been inspired by the Winchester house.
*Stairway to Hogwarts: Koryo Edition*
This is a country that literally blew up a guy with anti air cannons just for falling asleep at a meeting. You have some serious balls for doing this.
i thought he fed him to bunch of dogs?
@@votpavel you probably mean some other poor guy
@@votpavel I don’t know what’s worse.
@@JerrysJets Probably dogs because that shit is not going to kill you instantly and dogs will torment you and fight you. An anti air cannon will blow you to a mist instantaneously. I would rather be anti air gunned than dog fed.
He probably was not raised like a pussy like a lot of people are these days.
No? No blood pouring out of the elevator or twins standing in an empty hallway?
Thats a Jessie episode
That is the shining movie dude
@@liliyashcheglova9968 I remember that one.
Nope.....in NK you supposed to affraid the army more than the ghost
Plenty of ghost lose jobs here
Here’s Johnny with axe.
Trying to “explore” and “opening locked doors” in Korea is how you get dragged away and tortured.
Forever
This is why I have no sympathy for these kinds of people if that does happen. Knowing the consequences yet still does it. Complete foolishness.
For real....
How else will the information escape?
kinda melodramatic bro
your voice in combination with these empty hallways makes me feel oddly comfortable.
Imperfektionist thanks... I think :)
Imperfektionist same
Many might not realize that Erick is really brave for exploring and recording this. If you did this in the US, likely nothing bad or remarkable would happen if the management caught you. In North Korea, he could have gotten in major trouble if authorities found out he had footage of a second-rate mostly empty hotel.
ofc north korea would have that your point is so mute. like you will go to jail for not having a poster of the old leaders on the wall
@@fondbeebboop9705 moot*
@@fondbeebboop9705Is English your first language?
@@calibos3329 very much so i just don’t care that much to be 100% legible anymore
@@fondbeebboop9705It’s ‘moot’ not ‘mute’
When you consider the treatment Otto received for a very trivial offence, you have to realise how fortunate you were. I can't believe even unused floors don't have surveillance installed.
stupossibleify yes this video is insane. Likely extremely rare footage to get away with this. They literally will check your camera for stuff like this
I have been to North Korea several times, and even live in the city of Dandong in China which is just across the river from a North Korean City. This guy has serious balls to be even doing, let alone filming, this. I don’t feel safe doing that in China either. This guy, like other foreigners who film sensitive content, likely went to the 3rd floor of the Pyongyang train station on the 7th day of the tour, and went to the broker (who looks nothing like a broker) that smuggles footage like this across the border into China, and paid him an INSANE amount of money. Then he sneaks it across the river into China (Living in Dandong I’ve seen a few at night) and then places the camera and its footage in a house in Beijing. You then have to fly to Beijing, go to the house, and pick up the footage.
@@x6621 uh what? Is this true?
@@La-PetitMort Yes, it really is. I’ve lived in Dandong for 20 years as an international school teacher, and in recent years have seen greater frequency of people fleeing North Korea
@John Dew Yeah. I did feel that many times.
This shit is creepy asf
Nightshark it’s just like the old Japanese PlayStation one game LSD or Lucid Sapient Dream
This comment board is creeps af.
"Ok I'm a little creeped out now"
"Ok let's continue to explore"
American horror movies in a nutshell
i salute you man....i wouldnt have done this alone
367 Likes no comment wtf
Alone or not, does it matter ?
North korea be like : you are sentenced to 15 years in prision for going up there.
And by prison they mean slave labor in a gulag
More like torture until you're dead. Fuck North Korea.
15 years of death
Yeah true!
In NK not only you but also your 3 generations serve the sentence.
I was expecting _actual empty floors._ Like, the elevator opens and you'd only see a massive pitch-black room. You'd turn on the torch on your phone and you'd find naked cement on the floor and walls. The only things there were the elevator, the door to the stairs, and at the very end of them, the large panels they sometimes turn on to give impression they're actual rooms with people in them.
But no, these useless floors are actually built inside too. Well, built in a very loose way, as if it's a game prototype level come true.
now that's creepy
Sounds like a nice backrooms level
@@kutthroatjd6048 just what i was thinking
aame
That is literally how they make all theirs tower buildings, nobody even lives there
Imagine being in the elevator waiting for the second stop and it opens to a dark unlit unfurnished floor with this dude standing there. I'd piss myself no joke.
So.. did he ever arrive at his room?
I dunno mate
Probably because he uploaded this 😂
Yes he did but all his friends went missing and were never seen again.
Princess Kayla wow plot twist 😐
It's because he doesn't have any friends
I think i'll move to North Korea because the elevators close instantly over there.
LOL
+antoine19634 lol, except there is a good chance of being stuck for a lengthy period.
The problem is that the elevator doors can chop your hands off instantly
Charles Campanero thats not how tnworks
Jin Johnson I don't think there's a motion sensor thing or whatever it is that detects an object is in the way of the door
Soooo you might get your hand chopped off :/
The floors are empty because Pyongyang is not a vacation hot spot I'd never go to North Korea for any reason
What's The Use People Don't Listen Anyway are you doing okay man?
@I'll Hold Your Beer - Give The People Hell, Ellen! hey are you alright there?
I'll Hold Your Beer - Give The People Hell, Ellen! Oddly specific
@@aragornsonofarathorn2170 what did he say? (He deleted the comment)
Yeah there is nothing surprising about this video whatsoever.
The fact that I'd be in North Korea would scare me more than an empty hotel
I am Not Going anywhere around there
The fact that he can get arrested for being up there and there can be someone waiting for him at any moment is what makes it scary
@@flamingomingo9810 I doubt he'd be off strolling if he wasn't allowed.
The thought of Trump getting re-elected scares me more than North Korea ever could.
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 he's bad, but not quite that bad yet
In the locked floors the spies are sitting who monitor the bugs in your room
Exactly.
All rooms are bugged, elevators are bugged and the hotel is full of cameras everywhere...and yes there are army/intelligence people monitoring everything in stations on the locked floors.
+KyoKonKyoChin I wouldn't put it past NK to bug the "tourists" hotel room.
You moron, the East Germans did the exact same thing. Why wouldn't NK do this?
Dick Buttox You better consider those rooms bugged to the max
If I were him I'd take the elevator to that floor just to see what's behind the locked door... I think it'd be best if I never visit North Korea.
2:06 when you turned those lights on, the people in some suburb of Pyongyang lost power.
Why?
Just calling the elevator throws some nukes out of service.
@@sapphlacson8016 only the city gets some light. Most of North Korea remains without light
All 100
Are you done copying the same joke over and over?
Dude that is absolutely terrifying, I have stumbled into empty floors in high-rises in downtown Dallas TEXAS before and it's creepy but doing that in NORTH KOREA absolutely not. What if the elevator simply wasn't programed to stop on that floor after you walked out of it, what if the all stairs led to a dead end I'd be having a panic attack
I actually phantisized of going to one of those dark floors, laying down and passing away and no one would ever find me. So ideal. I want to make it come to pass
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 Please don't do that. There are people out there who love you.
I expected to see rooms full of bodies of all the tourists that disrespected the Dear Leader
Space Whale same
3:01 That's the room where they hide those dead bodies
you got balls man
Ivan Alvarado Balls? He's a scared pusssy.
Unnamed Player titanium coated
No he doesn't, he's just a dumbass
If he did, he would of walked into the city
lol dude is just walking on hallway
Swich on all lights on all floors and the whole country will fall :D
Actually from what I hear, the power regularly goes out; so I'd be scared riding on elevators and exploring.
Well remember that at least half of North Korea's population do not have any reliable electricity grid. But given that they have it in short supply the least that would have done is send the whole of Pyongyang into a black out.
tjperez69 I'm sure they have backup generators and things along those lines to avoid power outages in pyongyang, or at least in the hotels. They know that they'd look bad if tourists knew how poor things like the power grids were there. Well, tourists DO know, but NK does everything they can to make their country look less bad to tourists than it really is.
Reasonable they have electricity shortages and water limits all the time in Pyongyang from what I've heard
really? I would've thought they would at least try to convince people power is all good in NK. you'd think the the government there might think of giving all the hotels backup generators in case of power outages, and just not tell anyone the power is running on generators when it is.
Considering how most floors have a uniform design, the rando stairs and weird closed doors on the stairwell kinda creeps me out.
0:52 at first i thought that was another person
Owen Burris me too
Owen Burris i nearly pissed myself
Owen Burris Yeah I thought that too😨
I would of bolted to the elevator
I would have shit myself
Hes lucky he didnt run into a group of organ harvesters or cannibals
They took his kidneys while he slept already.
Heh... lucky he didn't run into a hundred armed soldiers and get taken to a labour camp
Robby S that's only in america
Robby S, that’ll make for a good horror film. Lol
Should have been brave and climbed the stairs up to the 33rd floor.
And there would be Kim Jong un fapping to a Lady Gaga video.
Or went to the 28th floor via elevator
Dude. If your not in some North Korean labor camp right now, you are easily one of the luckiest people alive.
No he's not. Simon Wilson went and the one who took him has been there 70 times and says the people who talk the loudest, he guarantees that they've never been there. None of these commenters have been there.
Something about your voice lends it especially well to narration. Love these vids.
Thanks +yellowfolder!
+Erick Tseng how do you even get in to north korea?
Anywhere in Russia. The US govt. trapped him there by revoking his passport, he didn't choose to stay there.
He can't travel he has no passport. He is in Russia.
You can only travel on the passport you are a citizen of, if he traveled on a false passport he would be arrested. And he can't exactly travel incognito.
I am disappointed he didn't go up the stairs on the 32nd floor. That usually implies more floors.
The blank buttons could have been placeholders so that the panel looks symmetrical.
Surveillance floors…
If you notice when he gets back on the elevator on floor 27, the buttons end at 29.
@@alethosyne yeah. That’s creepy, he’s got on a different elevator or someone was watching him and playing this game with removing button stickers
@@elevator_satellite they couldve just removed a column
0:00~0:30 and 3:33~
Elevator model is 1985 Hitachi HVP-I, and elevator speed is probably 2.0m/s.
Well that’s impressive
Ah a fellow elevator enthusiast
Smart
Oh
Sheesh hitachi makes everything, ranging from construction equipment to sex toys to vcr players and now elevators? Yeeesh
This dude just showed us "backrooms" in real life.
I made a real life "Backrooms". Why burn my computer up processing all the graphics when I could just record a real-life version practically anywhere?
This is like LSD dream emulator all over again..
NeonExtraSir LOL TRUE
Dmt unleash the truth
Yea but it s a bad trip
Ahh shi- nightmares
3:00 Just Imagine this door actually opening, only for it to reveal Kim Jong-Un sat down behind a desk, directly facing the door. He looks straight into our protagonist's eyes with a disappointed look on his face, before saying "you just couldn't help but poke around, could you?". Then the video suddenly cuts out.
That's how Far Cry game starts
Yes, and then Kim Jong-Un uploads the video to UA-cam
horror movie in itself
@@giovannizebele5350 the most villainous of things to do
Tbh that makes Kim look like a cool and Mysterious dude. Which of course isn't possible.
The whole damn country is creepy.
Ryan Dice you are a fucking idiot. Sad some people justify oppression with dumd meaningless bull shit
was that on me lol
Imanueali Nassem You're triggered
😆
outofthezone are you a pro Nazi?
"Come play with us Danny, forever, and ever, and ever."
Turn ALL the lights on and overload the extension cord that's powering the hotel.
Haha yeah, as he turned on the lights, the rest of Pyongyang lights started dimming.
the guy in the basement who pedals the bike that generates the hotel just started pedaling faster
@@apseudonym i know this is a joke, but an average athlete could power like 5 or 6 rooms worth of lightbulbs
@@Fred_the_1996 r/woo... ok nvm
@@satan4943 neckbeard detected
Initiating 'Protocol Twitter'
*lowering the age of consent*
Done!
Dude don't get caught man, your videos are great but I think it's just too risky filming these North Korea videos
Well, he's just making a record in a hotel, and not insulting Kim Jong Un or something like that. Just a normal tourist with a camera
The nomber between 29 and 30 is 68
0:22
north korea hiding teleporting elevators from us
Should be the funny number smh
a8
They are communists, what did you expect? He wanted to show tourists that NK reaches levels you couldn't reach
Legend says he's still searching for his room
“This is freaking creepy” proceeds to walk father into the darkness
Fucking legend
I also walk my father in darkness he'll be 79 next month
Forgot the r?
@Heather shin17 commonsince?
I think you meant "Farther" US English. "Further" British English.
Oh god I seen Japanese horror films I know how this is gonna end.
Demon schoolgirl crawling upside down and backwards like a spider across the floor screaming North Korean propaganda backwards.
Paladin Boyd pFFF
The scariest part of all this is you could actually be found by a creepy man and taken to be tortured for the rest of your life here. Genuine real life horror.
What if the man isn’t very creepy?
@@obesepersonyes, what if he looks like friendly?
@@MaxLai_0104Just like Kim Jong-un. Looks friendly, but the truth is far from that
To be honest, I find the video rather interesting. The dimly lit or dark alleys, the fact that there is a table tennis right out of the lift for some reason, the unfinished stairs, the doors, the overall lighting... It all looks very surreal and calming at the same time, and like one of those Urbex videos or "exploring" videogames.
On the other hand, I shiver at the thought of what could have happened to Erick if someone found him snooping around...
to describe that area as calming in a place like NK is like looking at a spike pit and calling it cute
Yes and there was a huge fire here on the top floors of the hotel june2015 this is uploaded sept2015 hmm. People who record the fire on video were arrested.
The area itself is peaceful, but the fact it’s inhabited by despots who are constantly listening to you and probably watching, for any excuse to torture you for death and you’ve got a entire country to try to escape from should that happen, that’s not
I would take a guess that they have known he was exploring but did nothing as the floors he seen were meant to be seen if necessary. After all he stayed away from the locked 28 level floor. And that is why they did nothing overt over this.
Wow...randomly positioned staircases, locked stairwell doors, and not a single emergency escape sign anywhere. Are fire safety laws non-existent in Pyongyang?
AgentAndroid Nobody was staying up there is why
No because it’s North Korea there is no such thing as fire
well those doors with the floor numbers on them also say 소화전 which means "fire hydrant" so at least they have that going for them
In Pyongyang North Korea, fire fights YOU!
Well, why would you expect a fire...
Apart from the tourists (and maybe soldiers on standby), no one uses electric devices as much, so it's a relatively low risk of a fire arising.
2:17 i thougt somebody was standing in the hallway for a sec
gangstaflamingo it's his shadow in the mirror
same
M. Irfan Ramadhan no shit
Well that one you can sort of tell it's his reflection but look at the one at 00:51 it's way more creepier
M. Irfan Ramadhan reflection not Shadow
"Alright, we're in the Koryo hotel, we're going into the top 4 floors"
**noclips into backrooms**
I wish I could noclips right into Pyongyang.
Looking at my computer / Wishing I could climb though to that place I see on my screen
Looking around for that portal / This is the kind of world that I'm longing to be in.
And I can hear the breezes calling / Through a wall of raging chaos / like a ghost that keeps on calling, til my feet are on their ground.
Take me away, to the DPRK. I've been jonesing so long. Take me away to the twinkling of those sights in the city of Pyongyang
I'm traveling into their time zone, watching the sun set slowly around the curve of the world
And I dreaming of those who care about, loving one another without regard to the color of their skin
While the USA is collapsing into a ball of confusion, you will find me with joy laughing, happy that I found the true solution
Take me away, to the DPRK. I've been jonesing so long. Take me away to the twinkling of those sights in the city of Pyongyang
I've got to get away
I've got to get away
I've got to get away
I've got to get away
I've got to get away
I've got to get away
I've got to get away
I've got to get away
I got to get away, I've got to fly away, yeah yeah
I got to get away, I've got to fly away, yeah yeah
imagine if a staff member was on the elevator at the end
Rip
This man is braver than the U.S Army
yes because we know if we try to stand against north korea, we all die
@John Brophy Stay mad europoor
@@skeeko78 u good kid smh
@@hdexotic1914 more like if we go to war with North Korea they will execute all of their citizens
They already execute all their citizens 😔 (I mean obviously not literally all but the majority are starving and they do send people to prison camps and many die)
The Wall mirror on each hallway is creepy like someone standing there watching you.😱
A camera behind the mirror is probably watching you.
Is that even possible?
yeah, what a good idea to put mirror there
@@BoeingPrototype two way mirror
I wouldn’t call these floors empty, there just aren’t many guests so a lot of the rooms are vacant and they keep the few guests they have in the same areas/floors rather than across the building. Probably to save energy.
was waiting for the elevator to stop on a floor from being called and opening up with nobody getting in
+Daniel Mann Or the doors open and there is Kim Jong Fat grinning
Hahahaha
0:56 famous last line
How did you not scream when you seen the mirror at the end of the hall? I would of died. WHY ARE YOU SO BRAVE?!
Someone will catch him and sent him straight to prison/labour camp
RIGHT?! I WOULD'VE LOST MY MIND IN THAT PLACE EXCEPT FOR HIM!
He noclipped into the Backrooms but thought it was a North Korean hotel the whole time. Let's hope he is fine
my heart is pounding really hard when the elevator is going down when he needed it the most omg
@Dimas Sajiwo 3:38
Those empty floors would be good for pranking people. Dressing up like ghosts and chasing people.
the ghost won't be the most scary there. put a man dress up like a north Korean soilder that carries a gun
+Adam R Yeah that is just looks like "The Horror Hotel of Pyong-Seng" where mainly rooms are empty then full. I wouldn't want to spend a night alone in that Horror Hotel in Pyong-Seng it is scary indeed.
+Adam R Ghost prank in north korea gone sexxxuaaaaaaaaaal!
Booo..Boohoohoo.. :) :)
***** Excellent point. LOL
What if a north Korean appear suddenly
+Linda 15 actually. Pretty accurate guess based on what happened with the college student stealing a poster
+fightwithfire18 lmfao
A wild north korean appears suddenly. You use Solar Beam. Its super effective!
Nutty151 oh yeah, the wild north korean could be evolved into kim jang un right?
EmpireTV(Dragon) True. And then mega-evolve into the physical manifestation of the Juche.
this is literally one of the dreams i had a few months ago what the hell
A few years ago I always had a dream of an confusing weird decaying rotting building where I never found the way out of.
Whole hotel is basically the backrooms
you're brave 😂😂😂
Aviation18 what are you doing here?
😂😂 im all over youtube
Aviation18 lol, I get to wierd places on UA-cam too, your not alone.
Stupid NOT brave!!!!!
DON'T YOU KNOW THAT OUR ILLUSTRIOUS INFALLIBLE LEADER INSTALLED THAT LIGHT SWITCH HIMSELF?!?!?! DEATH!!!!
Interesting how the first elevator went up to floor 32, but the one at the end only went up to floor 29
And some Office Buildings and hotels actually have that built in as part of the Design. One Bank of elevators will only service a certain number of floors and the alternate Bank provides access 4 the rest period but for fire safety standpoint that hotel is a nightmare waiting to happen if they ever had to do an evacuation ., the stairwell says makes no sense and no emergency lighting ., with unfinished stairwells on certain floors..... an instant safety hazard
@@arnoldsherrill6305 they don't care, these floors will forever be empty anyway
Yeah it definitely seems like they have no consistency whatsoever. If you looked at the staircase in the first part of the video, it's completely different from the second stairwell with the green plastic floor, not to mention they were discontinuous.
If you see a picture of the building you will know why. Its a huge triangle, high floors have less area
In most video’s where people explore places they’re not supposed to be there’s not much at steak and they dont talk in fear of being caught,
THEN THERES THIS MAN he’s literally doing something that could get him put in a camp for 15 years and yet he’s talking like he’s perfectly fine. This is true bravery i respect you.
And, within 24 hours of this being uploaded to UA-cam, the hotel manager is carted off to a labor camp for "permitting subversive activity". Taking and publishing these videos may have consequences.....
@@derby1884 right .
Brave or reckless?
Where's your profile picture from, it's nice, did you draw it?
@@ofmay4328 a friend made it for me
I was expecting the "empty" floor is like a carpark with no lights and a unpainted cement floor and bunch of pillars. Also with expose plumbing on the ceiling.
Oh my god. This must be absolutely terrifying. The silence. The darkness. The blinking lights in that one hallway. The mirrors at the end of those hallways.
This is literally the backrooms level 1 in real life.
That's actually not the scary part. The scary part is getting caught doing this.
Honestly wouldn’t be scary unless u crossed paths with someone
You're lucky you didn't get caught and charged with espoinage!
More than 32 floors... You didn't go up those stairs going up
Mrmattandmrchay would go up 😂
Probably Kim Jong Un food storage room
jjjjjj
garfieldandfriends1 OMG YES MRMATTANDMRCHAY!
Roof and service access. That would probably get you in trouble if caught.
2:11 that fluorescent light flickering is literally straight from a horror movie
Imagine if there were North Korean soldiers in the dark spying on him and aiming their snipers while he waits 4 the elevator.
POKEGAMERZ 9185 NOOOO
POKEGAMERZ 9185 lol yup , that will scary XD
penalcrack because North Korea
penalcrack it's North Korea. It wouldn't surprise me.
Totally possible.
Receptionist lurks over to the digital display of the elevators:
"Someone has called the lift to the 27th floor. Gimme Kim Jong-Un on this line. NOW!"
Hahaha
1:20 "Apparently the staircase ends" - the guy turns around and realises that the staircase behind him is gone too and he is trapped! In North Korea!
Looks down hall, "I'm a little bit creeped out right now", turns to leave but then turns back to hallway, "Let's actually explooorre" I laughed out loud to this, I relate so hard
You can absolutely never go back there again.
You could totally play the elevator game in this place lol
crazyguy1913 yeah then 10 mins in government officials arrest you and throw you into a labor camp.
You could give a solid 1 million dollars for anyone brave enough to do that
crazyguy1913 what game?
crazyguy1913 what’s the elevator game
I've heard of some paranormal elevator game you can only play in buildings that have enough floors. I don't know exactly how it goes but I think it's relatively easy to find if you look it up
the backrooms are actually in north korea, never knew that lol
Edit: holy crap didn't think I'd get this amount of likes thxxx everyone 💖
I swear I have been looking for a backrooms comment for like five minutes before getting to this first one lmao congrats
@@mikytaly680 same
Hell yeah dude, those hotel rooms and hallways reminded me of the backrooms too
Oh damn u remind me of that! Thanks to u now i will not sleep
And the those creepy "Creatures" is actualy Nk Military