Exciting new discovery

[skully]

We've got a hot one on our hands.  It's one of those locations that (we believe) nobody has documented online.

I'd like to open this topic for discussion on the board for I think that you guys/gals may have some cool suggestions.

We've found a once-secret military (but now retired) location that was so heavily guarded that activity there only occured at night and the power in the surrounding town was literally shut down to prevent any photography from the air to take place.

This location has up to 50 bunkers!  Each had a critical role in storing "military stuff".  What exactly do they store now?  We don't know. 

There is a huge iron door in front of each bunker with heavy duty welding and giant thick padlocks of a grade never seen by us before.  Other then that, they each are a sealed sarcophagous.   

... except for one thing.   

Each bunker has an air vent on the top of it.  The air vent has a cap.  If you remove the cap you expose a chimney-like structure about 2x2 foot wide.  About 3 feet down is a iron cage material.  I'm pretty sure that the iron cage can be moved.  Using the almighty Surefire we can see an air tunnel that goes about 6 feet down and bends in, seemingly toward the large cavernous inside of the chamber.  Think fucking King Tut's tomb.  Wwwway cool.

So, I have some ideas on how to see what's in there.  Was wondering what the community thought...  I'll post some video of the opening if you'd like to see it.

[Zebra]

"Was wondering what the community thought"

Well Skull....I don't know what the CM thinks....but if you don't mind bustin in with an EIB 11B10....I can gaurantee yer 6 is covered.

[floored]

where

[Megster]

Whoa, sweet.

[skully]

where

Come now.  That would be too easy.  We'll gladly tell you guys about it's approx location once we've had our way with it.   

I'm looking for some ideas.  What would you do?  I want to see in there.  I have some ideas but was wondering what you folks thought.

[n8wood]

Sounds like the south side of Prudence Island.

[Megster]

Camera on a rope with a timer so it takes a picture inside the room?

Dynamite?  heh

You can't fit in the hole, right?

[skully]

Those were some of things that we were thinking. 

Plan A
First I figured that I could fit in the hole.  It'll be pretty tight and I'm a little out of shape so maybe that's not a good idea.  Maybe hire a circus midget?    Imagine calling the cops because someone is stuck in a reinforced concrete structure?

Plan B was what you said:
Rig a high intensity light on a video camera.  Lower it down on a rope and take some images of the inside.

Is there a Plan C?

[Megster]

A couple of my friends are small enough to fit, and one always gets mistaken for a midget even though he misses the height requirement by a couple inches.

And I think Moving Unit/Spacemonkey would be willing to fit since some of his pictures show him coming out of small tunnels.  He goes places I wouldn't dare go.

Plan C:

Wait until someone shows up, knock them unconscious and steal the keys for the lock.

Plan D:

trained monkeys

[military nut]

nothing like a cool new spot to make the exploration blood boil. damn id love to go when you do.

[skully]

I'm going to be releasing a new video probably this weekend so you can see some more info about the location.  Wait until you see this!

[skully]

Here's that video.  Check it out and let me know what you think about the shaft. 
http://www.insanebunkers.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=75

[Cavanaugh Park]

A couple of my friends are small enough to fit, and one always gets mistaken for a midget even though he misses the height requirement by a couple inches.

Heeeyyyy! Eff youuuuuu!



I would never without some sort of idea as to what I'd meet down there. Anything could be down there.

[Megster]

ahahahhaa it's still true.

[skully]

You guys saw the video, right?  It's that air vent grate at the end of the video that is the entry.

This is what I have in mind right now (I'd be curious to hear Dakiel's thought too.  Dakiel where you at?):
-Attach one or two trusty Surefire flashlights to a DV camera.
-Carefully mount a rope to lower the camera-light rig.
-Lower the rig and see what's happening in there.

What the video didn't catch was what was beyond the grate.  At the bottom of the grate is a 5+ foot drop.  It's basically a concrete shaft.  The shaft then stops and opens westward into what we think it directly into the room.  We should get some decent shots of the inside without us actually entering.

It's sort of like when they sent that robot camera into the mummy's tomb or Capone's vault (hopefully not the latter).   

[Dakiel]

What the video didn't catch was what was beyond the grate.  At the bottom of the grate is a 5+ foot drop.

More like 25+

[Megster]

I didn't see the video I'll have to ask Zack about it or go to his house to watch it.  Damn dial-up..

[urbanexplorer]

Skully i have a friend who was in the airforce he was a metal fabricator for the airforce and also in his civilian job afterwards he should know what locks the military uses at top secret bases and probably has a portable tool that will cut through it because whatever the military makes they usually make something to defeat it (i don't know how he managed to keep these tools and i don't wanna know but he did) i cant promise anything but i will ask him
i also have another friend who is a car repossesor who happens to have pick sets and an auto pick the kind you squeeze until the tumblers fall ill ask to borrow them if my airforce buddy doesn't have anything but the guy with the pickset is real freaky about borrowing his picksets out but its worth a shot ill let ya know soon

[Dakiel]

Lock Picks will not open it.

[Prometheus]

"Jaws of life"... and a midget.

[urbanexplorer]

how about myself a couple of cool peeps i met on IB  and a whole lot of ticks    i think were in..........................................................peeps you know who you are 

[Alex]

I found this site accidently while looking for pics of Danvers state.  I used to explore there and Nahant when I was in high school.  Well I just moved back to the area after 6 years active duty in the USAF. 

At any rate I'd be willing to bet I know exactly what type of doors abd locks you have on your hands.

Is this your door? http://www.ostrompainting.com/images/photo15.jpg

And lock? http://www.dscp.dla.mil/gi/general/locks/HIGHSEC.gif

[skully]

Yep, those are them.  Great photos BTW.  Surprising the one with the guys mounting the large iron door seems to be fairly new.

[Alex]

Not my photos.  Just stock ones I yanked off the web.  I'm gonna PM you and we'll talk there.

[DeMiNe0]

This looks fairly interesting. I have a cammera mounting system that i use to get hard to reach shots... think of it as a very stiff plumbers snake.

I would love to tag along with you guys and see this place for myself.

[skully]

Ah, I guess we should have posted back here and told the forum that we did indeed see the inside of the bunker. 

[urbanexplorer]

i second that 

[Prometheus]

Ah, I guess we should have posted back here and told the forum that we did indeed see the inside of the bunker. 

Pictures??