I was stationed at the USAF base at Comiso, Sicily, Italy from 1987 to 1989. The base is listed on the big status board at 23:48, lower left, in yellow. The "GLCM" means it was a ground launched cruise missile base. I worked in Comms. Great video, brought back some memories!
La Davil Le Rusher There is no misteryes about Cov 2, the origin is the same of all flu virus we fight every year whit vaccination campaigns. The problem is that people move around the world in hours, is a virus hard to fight by the body, and we dont have any cure at the moment. So-> Stay home, clean hands and avoid to touch your face. To be calm is the strongest thing we can do 👍
@@thisnameisalreadyful Don't know about other places, but for Turkey the map seems to be very accurately pointing to places well kept even today. So I guess they are active even today for sure.
The white crystals on the ground is saltpeter aka Potassium Nitrate. Common food preservative. Also grows through concrete structures in the presence of moisture.
Thank you, nice video, as an Italian signal corps specialist when I was 19yrs old in 1984 ,i was stationed nearby and knew that base, those were the times when we still expected an invasion from the Warsaw pacts forces, we were really on the front line.
@@allycat-gk5zt Non se può dire,perché ce sta il rischio che qualche malintenzionato ci vada per fa vandalismo.Pure vicino a dove vivo io ce ne sta uno,però evito di parlarne.
It's quite reckless to enter a place like this without oxygen sensors. With all that rust around you can might as well walk in to an area with low oxygen and never walk out of it. Quite common safety hazard inside non-ventilated areas on ships, but can occur even inside buildings. The biggest danger is that while human body can recognize high CO2, it will not recognize low oxygen.
I used to live 20 minutes from this place and my uncle when was in the military used to work there for few months. The base it is called "NATO Proto Base", in the Caserta area, south of Italy.
So glad to see you taking PPE seriously....honestly so much asbestos was used in a lot of these military places and old soviet place too it makes common sense.
Wow! This is really high quality exploring! Never seen anything of this hard core level on youtube before. You deserve many compliments for your expertise and value!
Never understood why people make such an effort to get into these places and then trash them. Imagine how much more we could have learned if they were the first in.
Thanks for bringing us along on this fantastic adventure! It was so interesting but I could never have crawled that way you did through the narrow space!!!! I could have been in trouble claustrophobia is obviously not a problem with any of you!! Awesome video content!!!
I am Italian and in my area there are numerous similar bunkers also dating back to the fascist era, below the historical center of my city (also under my house) there are military tunnels. I think I will visit this base in the future.
I was stationed in Naples at the Nato Base. I spent many weeks here we called it Proto over a 6 year period. man the memories. I worked in the Crypto Vault
This is few kms away from were I live, heard so many cool stories about it . I went to highschool nearby that base, Some days we skipped school and went messing around in one of the old (walled obviously) galleries that brings into the base ; there are many, some known, some complitely hidden. also, all the entrances,exits and service galleries have been walled! Some says it actually had a sea exit.
@@L.Parisi al confine fra provincia di Caserta e provincia di Latina, fra l'alto casertano e il sud pontino verso il litorale Domizio. Se vuoi scrivimi in privato
I would be very careful with tunnels like that, if one of you gets stuck or gets injured, there's no way you can get out alive. It's a good idea to agree on procedures for confined spaces like those tunnels, for example, have one of you remain outside and the leading person carry an extraction rope which is also useful for moving around equipment.
This kind of stuff is on my bucket list. I'd love to do this stuff 1 time in my life. I love old places that have been left behind. I love the history. Keep up the great work.
Amazing bunker! Well it more looks like tunnels underneath the mountain XD Strange to notice that in case of fire there are several numbers... You should think there there would be one single number to dial in case of emergency. That bunker really reminds me of the faults they have in the game Fall Out :) Fun times with friends! Too bad Corona hit the globe... Looking forward to the next video :)
It's huge. If you do some more reading/watching: There is a giant underground water tank where an echo lasts for minutes. And there is an elevator shaft where noone can reach the lower level because it's blocked by the elevator. Who knows what still lurks down there :)
It just amazes me the amount of money these countries invested into nuclear weapons and defense against nuclear weapons. Imagine the infrastructure that could have been had instead :|
There wouldnt be nuclear power without the weapons programs and without those. In turn we might have never started to look at fusion, which we still havent cracked, but inching closer. Fusion = Borderline "free" none environmental impact power. Aka the holy grail in context of fixing global warming.
@@Lobos222 still wrong dude ;) as you see in the video its ill invested money, they would have done sience on nuclear fission anyway with way more money if not spend on such things like bunkers etc ! maybe we would even have fusion rn if we wouldnt had spend all that money on concrete buried below ground ! ;) but its indded really nice for yt videos tbh thumps up for that
@@Lobos222 Or making even more powerful weapons without radioactivity this time. The destructive power would be many, many times more powerful than the largest hydrogen bombs. You would be looking at gigatons!!!
@@Amplexius That's super naive. It's doubtful _any_ real research into nuclear power would've happened without the weapons programs. I mean, _why_ would they have bothered?!
It is sad that thses places are left abandoned, just to rot away and disappear or for people to rip them apart. Great that you document these places before they rot for good!!
either bag the shoes or wash them (in a stream...or away from your home) following... asbestos is no joke...I'd tell your friends to ditch the clothes they wore too
Awesome vid guys! Not sure if you know this already, but ethanol solution will kill fungus. It dissolves the cell membrane. If you get some pure ethanol and dilute it in a spray bottle to about 70% strength, you can spray it on your bags, clothes etc to stop nasties growing!
@@weareallbeingwatched4602 do you known what kind of hardware (CPU, Operating Systemsor just serial terminals) are inside?? I cant find any info in the web. Thanks
I did a quick search and apparently, this company did business primarily with NATO and the US military. There seems to be very little, if any public information on that particular type of terminal. If someone were to nick them, polish them up and try to sell them on eBay, certain people might want to know their location.
That tunnel at the beginning is a blast tunnel and its function is to divert the pressure from an exploding nuke through the other side of the mountain perpendicular to the entrance to the bunker.
Very interesting video. A few of these have been preserved and turned into museum's in the U.K. Very airy places to visit but still very interesting even for younger generations who didn't live through the cold war.
These type of places where cost effective, they kept the peace and prevented war. The enemy did not fully know most of our defenses and attack facilities to what extent they capabilities.
Watching this, I felt like I was catching a fungal disease through my screen. This has been one video where I’m glad I wasn’t there and breathing in whatever was inside that bunker.
New subscriber here just wanted to say that this was a great video and I'm going to binge watch some more while quarantined! Great content stay safe and healthy!
Everytime I watch any of your episodes, I shit in my pants, my heart beats go up and I sweat sitting in my air conditioned room. You guy have some guts.....tks for showing us THE UNSEEN. 👍
Si trova in Campania provincia di Caserta, di preciso tra il comune di Carinola e quello di Sessa Aurunca. In una strada provinciale di montagna che unisce questo due comuni c’è l entrata di questa base NATO chiamata PROTO.
GREAT EXPLORE.. Love the Panda hat, haha oh man I was claustrophobic 2 feet into that tunnel, on your bellies. Are those HEPA filter masks for Asbestos ? BE SAFE GUY'S....... 6:50 mark, that is some great example of Efflorescence Crystalline deposit, not a fungus. Wow Other Grey hair fungus looks like a Poop fungus or Phycomyces. Probably cat. fun stuff, lol Damn, so many variations of mold down there. Nasty, Nasty...
Amazing dedication gents, I just wish somebody had the foresight to keep places like this in reasonable working order or repurpose them for civil emergences, storage of medical supplies even civilian government structures, its senseless after paying all that money out to build them in the first place to only to let them rot.
Immersive and extremely interesting movie but ... you are totally unconscious. Some warnings: RADON (heavy and radioactive gas, accumulates at the bottom) is often present in the Italian subsoil; in unventilated and deep places accumulations (always at the bottom) of carbon dioxide (CO2), odorless gas that causes suffocation are possible; without external support / agreed communications / times, it is extremely dangerous (or rather INSANE) to enter. Moreover: you are not equipped with a radioactivity or gas (oxygen) detector and (I don't even imagine) first aid kit; you do not have helmets (anyone with caving experience will be able to confirm their usefulness). These are the first things that come to mind. Why do you think the structure has been walled up? To defend the scrap metal it contains? For the next video, think about it, get informed. You have a life to live in front of you.
I do think they should have a detector but not just that, they should be using different filters, not just dust ones like they have. They cost more but if you end up needing them you'll be happy, and they last a really long time even in use.
Can’t believe the turkey bases are so poorly named, it says batman, surely it should be Wayne manor or the batcave! Truly great work, watched probably 20 episodes in a row!
Went TDY there a few times to install secure voice (KY-65) during Display Determination exercises in the late 80s. Hilarious how operations ceased during the 9:00ish panini break :-). Edit: Is it weird that all I can see is all the recyclable material left behind :-)
Baby wipes clean but do not really sanitize... You are young and healthy so maybe no big deal. As someone else advised, I would change out of everything when you get out and bag it and change into uncontaminated clothing. Or wear tyvek as one of you did. Also, re-wearing the tyvek means you are carrying the contaminated suit around with you. They are really intended for single use and disposal... You could really use a safety person on the outside, with radio links. I realize that traveling light enables you to get in and out of some of these(maybe all?) of these sites, but I was thinking what if one of you had a medical during that crawl-in, you really didn't have a good way to rescue them and get out. It would be nice to so some more margin of safety when you are underground. Great video, be safe.
This stuff is so fascinating, love it. I watch videos like this, and I can't help but think what an unfathomable waste of resources the Cold War was. Don't get me wrong, I am pro-military and understand the need for a strong national defense. Just the Cold War in general was a case study in wasted resources from a build up to a confrontation that never happened.
Dave B the confrontation never happened in large part because of the resources that had been used to make it unsustainable and unwinnable man, that's hardly a waste. Better spend money than lives IMO. That's the whole point of the doctrine of the Cold War.
How you know it’s demonetized?😄😂 No we’re fine ! This was in the south of Italy when it was still “pretty safe” to go. But now I’m grounded for the rest of the year probably😞
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath There is a National Health Service banner across the bottom of your video for mentioning Coronavirus. You might be ok, I assumed it was all videos with that, you got me reading up, apparently not all 'bannered' videos get demonetized. Good to hear you guys got out ok. I'm sure you'll find something to explore.
@@CyclingSteve I'll do my best :) That's just a regular banner to spread awareness :) All my uploads are demonetized when I upload then.. I have to let them check one by one.... This one is still a no-go :)
until it gets snagged and you can't reach back to untie it... maybe around the wrist on a long enough bit of paracord? At least that way if you get hung up you can ditch it.
Amazing. I wonder if they would renovate the bunker if need be. Anyway Hope you guys aren't grounded for too long because of the Virus . Looking forward to the atomic shelter video now :). Stay safe out there
Great Video and an interesting subject. May I make a couple of suggestions though? First get and carry a couple of Sensors. CO2, low Oxygen and Radon. They are well worth the cost. Second, when crawling through narrow spaces like your entry Tunnel don't push your Packs ahead of you. Instead bring some Cordage along with you. (I like 100 foot lengths.) Attach a Carabiner to one end and attach that to the drag Handle on the Pack. Do your crawl to the exit or to the end of the Cord and then pull the Pack along behind you. (If you really want to be safe attach 2 lines to the Pack. One for you and one for the person following you. They can unstick the Pack if needed.)
That doesn’t look like normal equipment for nato command bunker....there was a massive long control panel the same as in space launches......I think maybe this was also maybe missile launch site or maybe test site for something.....there was one control I saw for exhaust outlets 🤷♂️...very interesting
Those Delta Terminals (Computers) were only used by the US Military, no other world military would have had them, and they are from the early 80's, so this must have been sealed off the in the past 20 to 25 years and was in used by the US government.
Amazing stuff. Wished I experienced more of the time when computers weren't invading our lives, but were just Text terminals, to display, actual information. Instead of who got butthurt about life on facebook. Question, Was the shown model actually sold on the private market?, or government orders only?
@@yomadman90 This would be about right, most active cold war bunkers in Europe were decommissioned around '91 - '92 and maintained by caretaker/s until the mid 90s when they either got demolished (mostly above ground structures) or sealed up.
@@MokokerMovies In a quick search online, the only reference I found was to 10 7260TCs acquired by the CIA in 1981 (a FOIA request, for whatever reason - Freedom of Information Act). The request also had a notation saying that they wouldn't be getting 9600 BPS out of them until upgraded.
That looks like an OTH radar facility. That stands for over the horizon. They bounce radar waves off of the upper atmosphere and can detect aircraft coming in from very very long distances. Remarkable systems actually.
99% sure this is Proto. It was one of the first NATO mountain bases or bunkers. Cheyenne Mountain Complex was actually based off this complex (in the aspect of what to do and not do). Proto closed mid 90s (want to say 96) sad to see it in such disarray. If the cold war had gone hot, this base was one of the first to know.
I kinda liked that more than the ammo factory but it was cool seeing all the machines and that rocket launcher.... Both epic sites!!! Greetings from Florida's East Coast!
The ferrous metal was almost untouched, mostly copper and aluminum were cut and disassembled, and the equipment where precious metals in the form of gold and platinum could be contained was partially disassembled.
Another class video. Pleased your wearing masks. 👍 You guys should pay for a confined space training course, it would help you a lot with the places you go. It could also save your life. ♥️
Dudes, you got to wear charcoal filter masks. Those dust masks are not sufficient for protecting against all that shit that was in there. Stay safe so you can keep making amazing videos!
Your videos are really good. It's almost like being there. They have a movie-like quality as well. I thought that the shot of the camera being set up on tripod to shoot the command center room's highlights was very like a time period movie opening shot, or might be an archaeological scene opening where some archaeologists were study an ancient people who allowed actual Pandas to pilot primitive airplanes painted a touch too reddish. Possibly aliens too. You sound like aliens to me (I'm American and have a bizarre accent due to living in very different States for many years) but it doesn't matter because only weird people are interesting.Your jokes about the mushrooms on the pizza juxtaposing the fungus-filled bunker were great. Keep it up.
those "vintage" computer contain a fair amount of gold and other rare materials, back in the days they used very high quality materials (not just a coat as for today) and the conductors contain Gold and even Palladium i think, which are pretty expensive!
Definitely an awesome place, that's for sure. Just a suggestion: when crawling into places, like this, rather than pushing your packs jus use a length of para-cord tie one end round your waist and the other to the bag and drag it behind you.
Without high moisture and vandals, that place would be quite well preserved. Although some damage was obviously caused by the soldiers and, I imagine, a civilian contractor removing everything valuable from the place when it was officially closed down. However, the mountain must be full of cracks with water flowing in them, so it was a doomed place. It's hard to imagine it would have been entirely healthy even when the facility was operational. There might have been some employees with stuffy noses and itchy eyes.
I was stationed at the USAF base at Comiso, Sicily, Italy from 1987 to 1989. The base is listed on the big status board at 23:48, lower left, in yellow. The "GLCM" means it was a ground launched cruise missile base. I worked in Comms. Great video, brought back some memories!
I wonder if it shows unknown active place
@@peterzingler6221 It very well could have, since that was a controlled access facility.
What about Coronavirus? Nato know something? Talk please, people are dying cause of this shit.
La Davil Le Rusher There is no misteryes about Cov 2, the origin is the same of all flu virus we fight every year whit vaccination campaigns. The problem is that people move around the world in hours, is a virus hard to fight by the body, and we dont have any cure at the moment. So-> Stay home, clean hands and avoid to touch your face. To be calm is the strongest thing we can do 👍
@@thisnameisalreadyful Don't know about other places, but for Turkey the map seems to be very accurately pointing to places well kept even today. So I guess they are active even today for sure.
Wow what a place! Great episode!
You guys need to go back to Europe, hopefully by next Summer after all this COVID-19 madness dies down.
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Thanks guys ! Also waiting for borders to open? :)
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Hey, is there anyway its possiple to send a private message to you guys? :D
@@ketvaa info@bobthissen.com
The white crystals on the ground is saltpeter aka Potassium Nitrate. Common food preservative.
Also grows through concrete structures in the presence of moisture.
Cyber Cat isn’t that one of the major components of gunpowder also?
Cyber cat it's also called efflorescence
@@dennishudson9723 yes
Yes it is.
Most production on the previous era is by pissing on a spot of ground and filtering the contents.
Thanks, I was wondering. I have something similar growing in my garage
Thank you, nice video, as an Italian signal corps specialist when I was 19yrs old in 1984 ,i was stationed nearby and knew that base, those were the times when we still expected an invasion from the Warsaw pacts forces, we were really on the front line.
ciao, ma scusa ma dove si trova quella base? mi piacerebbe molto entrarci ed esplorarla
@@allycat-gk5zt Non se può dire,perché ce sta il rischio che qualche malintenzionato ci vada per fa vandalismo.Pure vicino a dove vivo io ce ne sta uno,però evito di parlarne.
@@allycat-gk5zt Montevergine
@@mariom1950 Almeno qui é il segreto di pulcinella, ho un sacco di amici che l'anno visitata (me compreso, non tutta)
@@psyber1130 uooo grazie grandissimo ora vado a farci softaire XDDDD
This has a really strong Metro 2033 vibe... love it !
It's quite reckless to enter a place like this without oxygen sensors. With all that rust around you can might as well walk in to an area with low oxygen and never walk out of it. Quite common safety hazard inside non-ventilated areas on ships, but can occur even inside buildings. The biggest danger is that while human body can recognize high CO2, it will not recognize low oxygen.
Tbh I would be more scared about random claymores or mines left inside the bunker.
@@dieterbohm9700why would there be claymores in a bunker that wasnt in a warzone?
@@kernobil8162people leave traps in abandoned buildings all the time, just yesterday i saw a claymore in a microwave
I used to live 20 minutes from this place and my uncle when was in the military used to work there for few months. The base it is called "NATO Proto Base", in the Caserta area, south of Italy.
google maps, 41.216374, 13.958394
Do you know if there a replacement for the base ?
I 'worked' at Proto in the 90's. That video brought back memories.
@@juandenz2008 It's all moved to Lago Patria I believe.
No way I would ever crawl through such a small concrete tunnel! Impressive that these guys make such an effort!
I almost developed claustrophobia watching them in that under floor. Great video
So glad to see you taking PPE seriously....honestly so much asbestos was used in a lot of these military places and old soviet place too it makes common sense.
Амбер Amber in these old military places and old soviet places? It’s an old American base and asbestos was used all over the world!
yes the hat is important
The thing isn't so much useful if they dosen't know how to use them.
and Hanta
Not much use the suit if your not wearing gloves or shoe protectors either 🤷♂️
Those tunnels you crawled through where the wires used to run would frighten me too much, you are all very brave!!!
Only people with balls can do urbex, you are not one of them
Wow! This is really high quality exploring! Never seen anything of this hard core level on youtube before. You deserve many compliments for your expertise and value!
Never understood why people make such an effort to get into these places and then trash them. Imagine how much more we could have learned if they were the first in.
Thanks for bringing us along on this fantastic adventure! It was so interesting but I could never have crawled that way you did through the narrow space!!!! I could have been in trouble claustrophobia is obviously not a problem with any of you!! Awesome video content!!!
I am Italian and in my area there are numerous similar bunkers also dating back to the fascist era, below the historical center of my city (also under my house) there are military tunnels.
I think I will visit this base in the future.
Di dove sei?
What's your city??
Sai dove si trova il bunker del video?
@@annamariamiciotto5616 credo sia quello di la spezia
@@scrambler1650 grazie, sono una appassionata di storia e questo posto sembra fantastico!
I was stationed in Naples at the Nato Base. I spent many weeks here we called it Proto over a 6 year period. man the memories. I worked in the Crypto Vault
Yep that video sure did! I worked at Medical.
How are you not as famous as the proper people, I mean yall do more dangerous stuff then they do and go to some very interesting places..
i think mostly because they only recently started doing their episodes in english
It's all about the badass intro
This is few kms away from were I live, heard so many cool stories about it . I went to highschool nearby that base, Some days we skipped school and went messing around in one of the old (walled obviously) galleries that brings into the base ; there are many, some known, some complitely hidden. also, all the entrances,exits and service galleries have been walled! Some says it actually had a sea exit.
I wish I could have played there as a teenager🤩 thanks for watching!
Ciao, posso chiederti dove si trova questo posto? :-)
@@LucioTamburini sud Italia
@@liberoverardi2496 provincia? Se vuoi dirlo altrimenti basta dare degli indizi comprensibili
@@L.Parisi al confine fra provincia di Caserta e provincia di Latina, fra l'alto casertano e il sud pontino verso il litorale Domizio. Se vuoi scrivimi in privato
Imagine finding an old Bunker and Squatting in it, the ultimate Man Cave!
Have been waiting for this episode for few days. Awesome explore, thanks for sharing! Also, please be safe :)
Suddenly, I think Bethesda did a really good job with it's Vault designs in their Fallout Games...
9:35 really reminded me of the place where you confront and kill Kellogg. Just inside behind there if there was more room.
@@freedomisntfreeffs Fallout makes you think back to 4? That sucks
I would never crawl through the tunnel at the beginning far too claustrophobic for me
I would be very careful with tunnels like that, if one of you gets stuck or gets injured, there's no way you can get out alive. It's a good idea to agree on procedures for confined spaces like those tunnels, for example, have one of you remain outside and the leading person carry an extraction rope which is also useful for moving around equipment.
@@Stoney3K That was my thought as well. Very dumb of them to bring in everyone
Yeah me either I was getting a little squirmy watching that
@@Stoney3K also good idea to have a robot - quad car with camera. Safety first
Agreed, i almost had a panic attack just watching that lol, count me out
Fantastic video gents, but there's no way in hell you'd get me through that entrance tunnel.
Funny looking Hedgehog Fungus, hahaha!
This kind of stuff is on my bucket list. I'd love to do this stuff 1 time in my life. I love old places that have been left behind. I love the history. Keep up the great work.
you know you're gonna have fun when you have to Crawl through a cable shaft, nice work guys!
Amazing bunker! Well it more looks like tunnels underneath the mountain XD Strange to notice that in case of fire there are several numbers... You should think there there would be one single number to dial in case of emergency. That bunker really reminds me of the faults they have in the game Fall Out :) Fun times with friends! Too bad Corona hit the globe... Looking forward to the next video :)
Italy is the best country! thanks for this exploration:)
Great to see the full length of the explore, I had no idea this place was this big! Epic!
It's huge. If you do some more reading/watching: There is a giant underground water tank where an echo lasts for minutes. And there is an elevator shaft where noone can reach the lower level because it's blocked by the elevator. Who knows what still lurks down there :)
It just amazes me the amount of money these countries invested into nuclear weapons and defense against nuclear weapons. Imagine the infrastructure that could have been had instead :|
There wouldnt be nuclear power without the weapons programs and without those. In turn we might have never started to look at fusion, which we still havent cracked, but inching closer. Fusion = Borderline "free" none environmental impact power. Aka the holy grail in context of fixing global warming.
@@Lobos222 still wrong dude ;) as you see in the video its ill invested money, they would have done sience on nuclear fission anyway with way more money if not spend on such things like bunkers etc ! maybe we would even have fusion rn if we wouldnt had spend all that money on concrete buried below ground ! ;) but its indded really nice for yt videos tbh thumps up for that
@@Lobos222 Or making even more powerful weapons without radioactivity this time. The destructive power would be many, many times more powerful than the largest hydrogen bombs. You would be looking at gigatons!!!
It's so sad that no matter how many years pass, it seems like there will never be peace...
@@Amplexius That's super naive. It's doubtful _any_ real research into nuclear power would've happened without the weapons programs. I mean, _why_ would they have bothered?!
It is sad that thses places are left abandoned, just to rot away and disappear or for people to rip them apart. Great that you document these places before they rot for good!!
Pretty awesome that you guys make your own hard cover books! Best merch ive ever seen a channel promote, Good job!
either bag the shoes or wash them (in a stream...or away from your home) following... asbestos is no joke...I'd tell your friends to ditch the clothes they wore too
Awesome vid guys! Not sure if you know this already, but ethanol solution will kill fungus. It dissolves the cell membrane. If you get some pure ethanol and dilute it in a spray bottle to about 70% strength, you can spray it on your bags, clothes etc to stop nasties growing!
It would be cool to restore and boot up one of those Delta terminals
There is a lot of old classified tech that never saw the light of day, and has been scrapped and is turning into dust/rust somewhere.
u cant motherboards and all electronics is removed..its only metal case left in there
@@weareallbeingwatched4602 do you known what kind of hardware (CPU, Operating Systemsor just serial terminals) are inside?? I cant find any info in the web. Thanks
I did a quick search and apparently, this company did business primarily with NATO and the US military. There seems to be very little, if any public information on that particular type of terminal. If someone were to nick them, polish them up and try to sell them on eBay, certain people might want to know their location.
This is so cool. I wish I could go there. But no way I would get into that tight tunnel.
That tunnel at the beginning is a blast tunnel and its function is to divert the pressure from an exploding nuke through the other side of the mountain perpendicular to the entrance to the bunker.
That place is a mycological paradise. Never seen mold in such abundance.
You guys got the best videos!!
Amazing place and an amazing explore. Thank you for sharing. Best wishes Paul
Very interesting video. A few of these have been preserved and turned into museum's in the U.K. Very airy places to visit but still very interesting even for younger generations who didn't live through the cold war.
Thanks for the video.Intresting as always. I realy like your panda Hat :P
@3:28; reminds me of Bishop in the tunnel between the Atmosphere Air Air Handling Unit and the Up-link Array.
A dangerous thing to do (for androids or humans)..
These type of places where cost effective, they kept the peace and prevented war. The enemy did not fully know most of our defenses and attack facilities to what extent they capabilities.
How do you keep travk of the exit in those tunnels?
Must be quit the maze!
Thumbs up! Loved the vid!
impressive and beautifully filmed. i'm writing from this bunker, warn me when the virus's gone.
Awesome!!! Great video to watch tonight :-D
Vault 99. You should check your pip boy to see if there is any rads.
Watching this, I felt like I was catching a fungal disease through my screen.
This has been one video where I’m glad I wasn’t there and breathing in whatever was inside that bunker.
I still remember some of these places, thank you for the video.
New subscriber here just wanted to say that this was a great video and I'm going to binge watch some more while quarantined! Great content stay safe and healthy!
Everytime I watch any of your episodes, I shit in my pants, my heart beats go up and I sweat sitting in my air conditioned room. You guy have some guts.....tks for showing us THE UNSEEN. 👍
How do you find out about these places, and the entrances? Locals? Forums?
StreetDogSteve infatti ce io nn ho mai sentito parlare di una cosa simile tranne la base nato con le tre parabole
@@luca_vecchi0581 Dove si trova questo posto? Intendo proprio come regione
@@keidikacaku8216 Credo sia quella in Campania
Keidi Kacaku nope
Si trova in Campania provincia di Caserta, di preciso tra il comune di Carinola e quello di Sessa Aurunca. In una strada provinciale di montagna che unisce questo due comuni c’è l entrata di questa base NATO chiamata PROTO.
GREAT EXPLORE.. Love the Panda hat, haha
oh man I was claustrophobic 2 feet into that tunnel, on your bellies.
Are those HEPA filter masks for Asbestos ? BE SAFE GUY'S.......
6:50 mark, that is some great example of Efflorescence Crystalline deposit, not a fungus. Wow
Other Grey hair fungus looks like a Poop fungus or Phycomyces. Probably cat. fun stuff, lol
Damn, so many variations of mold down there. Nasty, Nasty...
wow. Please take one of those keebs with u at home. I would kill for those keycaps(Orange Dolch looking ones at the beginning)+ switches
Wow! Incredible video guys! Thank you for brining us along to see this cool place.
Amazing dedication gents, I just wish somebody had the foresight to keep places like this in reasonable working order or repurpose them for civil emergences, storage of medical supplies even civilian government structures, its senseless after paying all that money out to build them in the first place to only to let them rot.
R Catlow the cost of upkeep would outweigh the benefits to society
what you can do to make crawling though the tunnel easier is tying your bag to one of your legs and dragging it instead of trying to push it.
You must carry enough battery's to power a couple of Tesla's
And a couple of emergency torches.
Immersive and extremely interesting movie but ... you are totally unconscious.
Some warnings:
RADON (heavy and radioactive gas, accumulates at the bottom) is often present in the Italian subsoil;
in unventilated and deep places accumulations (always at the bottom) of carbon dioxide (CO2), odorless gas that causes suffocation are possible;
without external support / agreed communications / times, it is extremely dangerous (or rather INSANE) to enter.
Moreover:
you are not equipped with a radioactivity or gas (oxygen) detector and (I don't even imagine) first aid kit;
you do not have helmets (anyone with caving experience will be able to confirm their usefulness).
These are the first things that come to mind.
Why do you think the structure has been walled up? To defend the scrap metal it contains?
For the next video, think about it, get informed. You have a life to live in front of you.
I do think they should have a detector but not just that, they should be using different filters, not just dust ones like they have. They cost more but if you end up needing them you'll be happy, and they last a really long time even in use.
@Marius Zmuidinas This isn't a book, is personal experience, wisdom due to age.
@@noth606 Gas filters don't last long, they usually last only a few hours of usage.
@@noth606 those filters are not even 7093 b from 3M LMFAO this dude is in fuckin sane.
@@noth606 you can hear a Geiger counter clicking at 4:35. Very faint in the background
OMG!!!! Amazing!!!!! episode! Thank you!! it reminded me of OSTWALL BUNKER !! in Poland
You found the real black mesa! Nice
Nice with some action. Contrast to many vanilla videos out there. Good job! Cheers.
Thanks a lot! Have you checked the playlist most dangerous adventures?
so nice to see this adventure, this bunker is still rare among our urbexers
Nice job men. Respect from Turkey. old nato allies 🇹🇷🇮🇹🇺🇸🇬🇷
Thanks! Newer episodes have all Turkish subtitles :)
YOU MOST NEED A NOCIVE GAS DETECTORS GUYS!!... YOU RISK YOUR LIFE SERIOUSLY !
CO2 !!!
@@SurG30n more likely RADON
Can’t believe the turkey bases are so poorly named, it says batman, surely it should be Wayne manor or the batcave!
Truly great work, watched probably 20 episodes in a row!
Went TDY there a few times to install secure voice (KY-65) during Display Determination exercises in the late 80s. Hilarious how operations ceased during the 9:00ish panini break :-).
Edit: Is it weird that all I can see is all the recyclable material left behind :-)
so Iam glad you took things with you to clean up, I hope you took them out with you also, no point in contaminating other things..good job
Baby wipes clean but do not really sanitize...
You are young and healthy so maybe no big deal. As someone else advised, I would change out of everything when you get out and bag it and change into uncontaminated clothing. Or wear tyvek as one of you did. Also, re-wearing the tyvek means you are carrying the contaminated suit around with you. They are really intended for single use and disposal...
You could really use a safety person on the outside, with radio links.
I realize that traveling light enables you to get in and out of some of these(maybe all?) of these sites, but I was thinking what if one of you had a medical during that crawl-in, you really didn't have a good way to rescue them and get out. It would be nice to so some more margin of safety when you are underground.
Great video, be safe.
This stuff is so fascinating, love it. I watch videos like this, and I can't help but think what an unfathomable waste of resources the Cold War was. Don't get me wrong, I am pro-military and understand the need for a strong national defense. Just the Cold War in general was a case study in wasted resources from a build up to a confrontation that never happened.
Dave B the confrontation never happened in large part because of the resources that had been used to make it unsustainable and unwinnable man, that's hardly a waste. Better spend money than lives IMO. That's the whole point of the doctrine of the Cold War.
Good job guys.. great memories from that bunker 😂
Chiara, su per giù mi dici dov'è? Regione o provincia se non vuoi entrare nello specifico, al resto penso io
21:48 love the Tropospheric Scatter dishes!
Instant anxiety watching you guys crawl through that tunnel.
My new fav channel - great work guys
Aaaaand demonetized! Great video guys, I hope you all got out of Italy in time and didn't catch anything nasty.
How you know it’s demonetized?😄😂 No we’re fine ! This was in the south of Italy when it was still “pretty safe” to go. But now I’m grounded for the rest of the year probably😞
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath There is a National Health Service banner across the bottom of your video for mentioning Coronavirus. You might be ok, I assumed it was all videos with that, you got me reading up, apparently not all 'bannered' videos get demonetized. Good to hear you guys got out ok. I'm sure you'll find something to explore.
@@CyclingSteve I'll do my best :) That's just a regular banner to spread awareness :)
All my uploads are demonetized when I upload then.. I have to let them check one by one.... This one is still a no-go :)
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Still in Italy? Oh no...
@@Krystalmyth Grounded in the Netherlands right now...
imagine hearing running steps towards you in the middle of the long tunnel.
3:50 die hard moment
Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..."
Top tip when going through confined spaces. Tie your gear around your ankle and drag it behind your. Fantastic video as always thanks for sharing
until it gets snagged and you can't reach back to untie it... maybe around the wrist on a long enough bit of paracord? At least that way if you get hung up you can ditch it.
@@afterlifedes you have a very valid point there lol
I wouldn't block my only known exit.
Amazing how many abandoned structures there are. Things just forgotten.
Amazing. I wonder if they would renovate the bunker if need be. Anyway Hope you guys aren't grounded for too long because of the Virus . Looking forward to the atomic shelter video now :). Stay safe out there
Would likely cost too much to be feasible unfortunately
Great Video and an interesting subject.
May I make a couple of suggestions though?
First get and carry a couple of Sensors. CO2, low Oxygen and Radon. They are well worth the cost.
Second, when crawling through narrow spaces like your entry Tunnel don't push your Packs ahead of you. Instead bring some Cordage along with you. (I like 100 foot lengths.) Attach a Carabiner to one end and attach that to the drag Handle on the Pack. Do your crawl to the exit or to the end of the Cord and then pull the Pack along behind you. (If you really want to be safe attach 2 lines to the Pack. One for you and one for the person following you. They can unstick the Pack if needed.)
That doesn’t look like normal equipment for nato command bunker....there was a massive long control panel the same as in space launches......I think maybe this was also maybe missile launch site or maybe test site for something.....there was one control I saw for exhaust outlets 🤷♂️...very interesting
Those Delta Terminals (Computers) were only used by the US Military, no other world military would have had them, and they are from the early 80's, so this must have been sealed off the in the past 20 to 25 years and was in used by the US government.
Should have been sealed in 96
America shares It's tech with other NATO countries, not all of it obviously but i wouldn't be surprised if computers were one of those things
Amazing stuff. Wished I experienced more of the time when computers weren't invading our lives, but were just Text terminals, to display, actual information. Instead of who got butthurt about life on facebook. Question, Was the shown model actually sold on the private market?, or government orders only?
@@yomadman90 This would be about right, most active cold war bunkers in Europe were decommissioned around '91 - '92 and maintained by caretaker/s until the mid 90s when they either got demolished (mostly above ground structures) or sealed up.
@@MokokerMovies In a quick search online, the only reference I found was to 10 7260TCs acquired by the CIA in 1981 (a FOIA request, for whatever reason - Freedom of Information Act). The request also had a notation saying that they wouldn't be getting 9600 BPS out of them until upgraded.
That looks like an OTH radar facility.
That stands for over the horizon. They bounce radar waves off of the upper atmosphere and can detect aircraft coming in from very very long distances. Remarkable systems actually.
Bellissimo episodio...avevo sentito parlare di questo posto...Grazie ragazzi per avercelo mostrato!😎♥️
99% sure this is Proto. It was one of the first NATO mountain bases or bunkers. Cheyenne Mountain Complex was actually based off this complex (in the aspect of what to do and not do). Proto closed mid 90s (want to say 96) sad to see it in such disarray. If the cold war had gone hot, this base was one of the first to know.
I think you are correct. Whilst serving in AFSouth 1979, I spent some time in Proto and I recognise some of the areas shown on this video.
I kinda liked that more than the ammo factory but it was cool seeing all the machines and that rocket launcher.... Both epic sites!!!
Greetings from Florida's East Coast!
UAU.... Que espectacular vocês são os melhor top dos tops parabéns
Good stuff gentlemen.
Very Good, looks like Fallout scenario
great upload hello from Australia unfortunately we don't have that type of history here
The ferrous metal was almost untouched, mostly copper and aluminum were cut and disassembled, and the equipment where precious metals in the form of gold and platinum could be contained was partially disassembled.
Another class video. Pleased your wearing masks. 👍 You guys should pay for a confined space training course, it would help you a lot with the places you go. It could also save your life. ♥️
Asbestos goes through most masks, you need special p3 filter to stop it.. the ignorance of you people on this subject is astonishing
Dudes, you got to wear charcoal filter masks. Those dust masks are not sufficient for protecting against all that shit that was in there. Stay safe so you can keep making amazing videos!
He can get abekp3 filters for that jsp force 8
Your videos are really good. It's almost like being there. They have a movie-like quality as well. I thought that the shot of the camera being set up on tripod to shoot the command center room's highlights was very like a time period movie opening shot, or might be an archaeological scene opening where some archaeologists were study an ancient people who allowed actual Pandas to pilot primitive airplanes painted a touch too reddish. Possibly aliens too. You sound like aliens to me (I'm American and have a bizarre accent due to living in very different States for many years) but it doesn't matter because only weird people are interesting.Your jokes about the mushrooms on the pizza juxtaposing the fungus-filled bunker were great. Keep it up.
P.s. ¿do you have any oxigen indicator to know if it´s a safe place to breathe?
We want to go here folks :D
Thanks, ! Been to a better one in Italy, a real time capsule but took the video down since they sued me for 'having state secrets' (5 years in prison)
those "vintage" computer contain a fair amount of gold and other rare materials, back in the days they used very high quality materials (not just a coat as for today) and the conductors contain Gold and even Palladium i think, which are pretty expensive!
This is a 007 Golden Eye level in the control room lol
Definitely an awesome place, that's for sure.
Just a suggestion: when crawling into places, like this, rather than pushing your packs jus use a length of para-cord tie one end round your waist and the other to the bag and drag it behind you.
Incredible how fast human structures degrade when they are abandoned and left to the elements (even in the inside)..
Without high moisture and vandals, that place would be quite well preserved. Although some damage was obviously caused by the soldiers and, I imagine, a civilian contractor removing everything valuable from the place when it was officially closed down. However, the mountain must be full of cracks with water flowing in them, so it was a doomed place. It's hard to imagine it would have been entirely healthy even when the facility was operational. There might have been some employees with stuffy noses and itchy eyes.