Top 10 Restricted Places More Secret Than Area 51

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Top 10 Restricted Places More Secret Than Area 51. Area 51 isn’t the most secret place on Earth. In this video, we reveal restricted places more secret than Area 51, including classified military bases, forbidden zones, and locations so hidden that access is nearly impossible. These mysterious sites are surrounded by secrecy, conspiracy theories, and unanswered questions that governments don’t want you to explore. 0:00- Intro 0:18- RAF Menwith Hill 1:28- Runit Island 2:31- Diego Garcia 3:29- Farallon Islands  4:17- Fairmont Banff 5:36- Denver International Airport 6:41- Deep Underground Command Center 7:44- Mount Shasta 8:26- Northern Triangle subtropical forests

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00:00Satellites are listening to every call you make at a military base.

00:03A dome is leaking deadly radiation into the ocean from a small island.

00:07And another series of islands are crawling with radioactive sharks.

00:11From haunted hotel rooms and secret spy museums to underground cities,

00:15these are restricted places more secret than Area 51.

00:18Royal Air Force Menwith Hill is a super-secret facility in England.

00:22It's a military base up in North Yorkshire,

00:25and even though it's technically an RAF station,

00:27the United States runs most of what goes on there.

00:31When you see pictures of it, what jumps out are the huge white domes.

00:34Those domes are covering big satellite dishes that point at the sky.

00:38Those dishes are listening to signals and communications from all over the world.

00:42Basically, Menwith Hill is part of a massive spy system

00:45that the U.S. and the U.K. use to gather intelligence.

00:49They're listening to phone calls, emails, and who knows what else,

00:53trying to figure out if there are threats out there before they happen.

00:56The idea is that this stuff will help stop attacks or criminal stuff before it gets out of hand,

01:01but because it's listening in on so many signals,

01:04a lot of people wonder whether it goes too far.

01:07Do they sweep up personal information from ordinary folks?

01:11Yeah, almost definitely.

01:12And because of that, for decades, people have protested outside the base.

01:16They see it as a threat to privacy and don't trust what's happening behind those walls.

01:20And understandably so.

01:22A place like this makes you wonder where the line is between keeping people safe and just spying on everyone.

01:28Out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean lies Runnet Island, part of the Anahuataka Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

01:34To the untrained eye, it's just another tiny speck of sand and palm trees, but there's something buried here.

01:40Between 1946 and 1958, the United States detonated dozens of nuclear bombs across Anahuataka Atoll.

01:48The test left the islands contaminated with radioactive soil, debris, and fragments from six different islands.

01:55In the late 70s, the U.S. launched a cleanup, but not the kind that you'd expect.

01:59Workers gathered the radioactive soil and debris and dumped it into a massive crater on the island

02:05that had been created during a 1958 nuclear test called Cactus.

02:09So they mixed it all with concrete and then poured a giant slab over it, creating the Runnet Dome.

02:15Some call it the Tomb.

02:16The dome was never built to last forever, though.

02:19Minor cracks have already shown up.

02:21Scientists warn that storms and rising ocean levels could eventually let radiation seep out into the surrounding lagoon.

02:28Obviously, the area is strictly off-limits.

02:31Barely anyone gets to set foot on Diego Garcia.

02:34It's a tiny island out in the Indian Ocean, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory,

02:38but the U.S. built a huge military base there.

02:41Back during the Cold War, the U.S. decided Diego Garcia was the perfect spot for a Navy and Air Force outpost

02:47because it's right in the middle of the Indian Ocean, with quick reach to the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

02:53The base is so locked down that most of what happens there is secret.

02:57There are stories it's one of the most important U.S. military hubs in the world.

03:00Because it's so isolated, rumors have grown up around it for years.

03:04Some people claim there's a secret prison on the island where prisoners are taken and never seen again.

03:09Others think it might be a place where they test weapons or do experiments that nobody's supposed to know about.

03:14None of this has ever been officially confirmed, but because it's off-limits and so isolated,

03:19it really doesn't seem like much of a stretch.

03:22What we do know is this.

03:24Unless you're military or have some special clearance, you're not stepping foot on that island.

03:29The Farallon Islands are a group of rocky little islands off the coast of California that most people call the Devil's Teeth.

03:36And that name fits.

03:37A bunch of things make this place dangerous.

03:39First, there are a lot of hazards in the water around this island.

03:42There are shoals and jagged rocks that can rip the bottom out of a boat if you get too close.

03:47Second, the water is full of sharks.

03:49A lot of them.

03:50And then there's the radioactive waste.

03:52Back in the day, tens of thousands of metal drums full of radioactive material were dumped around the islands.

03:58Around 47,800 drums.

04:01These drums have been sitting there for decades and many of them are slowly leaking.

04:05So that means the water, the fish, and the wildlife around the islands are getting exposed to radiation.

04:11You can imagine swimming around mutated sharks.

04:14Because of all that, the Farallon Islands are off-limits to the public.

04:17Now, let's talk about something a little spookier.

04:20Haunted Hotel Rooms.

04:21There's a story about a room at the Fairmount Banff Springs Hotel in Canada that people have been telling for years.

04:27The hotel is beautiful, set up in the mountains.

04:30But for a long time, folks have said something weird happened in one room.

04:34Room 873.

04:36The versions of the story differ, but it usually starts with a family.

04:40A couple and their daughter, staying in room 873.

04:43Way back in the early days of the hotel, something tragic happened.

04:47Some say the daughter died.

04:48Others say the entire family died.

04:51After that, people who stayed in that room reported strange stuff.

04:55Guests would check in, then suddenly run out screaming, saying they heard terrible noises or saw bloody handprints on the mirrors.

05:01Because of the weird reports and the fear of bad publicity, the hotel eventually sealed off room 873 and stopped renting it out.

05:10Even though the room is totally closed to the public, people staying nearby still talk about strange sounds.

05:16Like crying, footsteps or shadows moving around.

05:18The hotel staff usually act like the room never existed, if you ask them about it.

05:22But if you walk down the hallway on the 8th floor, there's a weird gap where a room should be.

05:28Complete with a ceiling light, just like the other rooms.

05:31And you'll see rooms ending in 7-3 on each floor, except that one.

05:36Denver International Airport is a busy place where millions of people fly in and out every year.

05:41But for some reason, it's also one of the most talked about spots for conspiracy theories in the United States.

05:47On the surface, it's just an airport.

05:49But people will point out the weird artwork, the strange symbols, and unusual design elements.

05:55One of the big parts of the rumor mill is the talk about underground tunnels and secret spaces beneath the airport.

06:02Sure, the airport does have tunnels.

06:04Every big airport has tunnels for things like baggage handling or maintenance.

06:07But some people claim these tunnels aren't just for luggage.

06:11They think behind closed doors, there could be secret bunkers for important people if disaster hits.

06:16Some even believe there are alien bodies stored away down there.

06:20These wild ideas mostly come from the fact that the airport's layout and artwork feel different from what you'd see at other airports.

06:28And there's that big blue horse statue out front with glowing red eyes, often referred to as Blucifer online.

06:35Whether it's meant to be creepy or not, the whole vibe of the place makes it easy for conspiracy talk to spread.

06:41The Deep Underground Command Center, or DUCCS, may or may not actually exist.

06:48Back in 1962, the U.S. government pitched a plan to build a massive underground facility deep beneath the ground, between 3,000 and 4,000 feet down.

06:57The idea was that if there was a nuclear attack, people inside this underground center could survive and keep running parts of the government or military.

07:04Two versions were talked about.

07:06A smaller one that could hold about 50 people, and a larger version that could expand to about 300.

07:12The plans were intense.

07:14The facility was supposed to withstand massive explosions, way bigger than any single explosion used in World War II.

07:21Engineers of the time said it could survive blasts of up to 200 or 300 megatons on the surface, or around 100 megatons if the blast was deeper.

07:30It was pitched to President Kennedy just before he died, and after that point, the project basically disappeared.

07:36Public records say it never got built, but some people still wonder if parts of it actually do exist somewhere deep underground.

07:44Mount Shasta in Northern California is a massive mountain that's beautiful and peaceful on the outside, but it's also the center of one of the wildest legends you'll ever hear.

07:54See, for a long time, people have talked about a hidden underground city beneath this mountain.

07:58According to the stories, this underground world isn't just a cave system, it's a whole city.

08:03Some versions claim it's home to an advanced civilization that either came from another world, or survived from an ancient lost land called Lemuria.

08:11Lemuria is kind of like Atlantis in the way people talk about it.

08:16The legend says this continent once existed in the Pacific, but sank into the ocean long ago.

08:22Supposedly, some of the survivors found their way to Mount Shasta and built the city under the mountain.

08:27When we imagine places on Earth that are unexplored, most people think of the deep ocean.

08:31And that makes sense, because we've only mapped a small percentage of it.

08:35But there are parts of land that are still barely touched by science, too.

08:39The Northern Triangle subtropical forests are one of these places.

08:43These forests span parts of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and stretch out across huge stretches of land.

08:50Compared to something like the Amazon, you don't really hear about the Northern Triangle nearly as much,

08:54but it's packed with life, from all kinds of plants to animals that researchers haven't fully studied yet.

09:01Scientists who have looked at the area a little bit, see it's a gold mine waiting to be explored.

09:06There could be species we've never seen before.

09:09That's plants, insects, mammals, birds, who knows what else.

09:13The forests are tough to get through, which makes it hard for big research teams to just roll in with equipment.

09:18It's also not the easiest place for a casual hike if you're not prepared.

09:22Because of that, large portions of the forests are unexplored.

09:26So whatever secrets they're holding are still out there waiting to be found.

09:31That's been the video for today. I will catch you, yes you specifically, next time.

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