Inside The Devil's Home Base: Exploring Bombay Beach California Ghost Town
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2023
- Think about the world after the apocalypse, the best example of that world is Bombay Beach, California. Bombay Beach is a fascinating, sad and depressing disaster zone. It's a ghost town in every sense - broken homes, dismantled cars and empty trailers with the aura of lost souls lingering around every corner. It also smells like salt and rotten eggs, while decaying fish bones align the beach in a frightening pattern of doom. The ghost town is located on the Salton Sea, California and is the lowest community in the United States at 223 feet (68 m) below the sea level.
Bombay Beach's decline began in the 1970s, when the runoff, full of salty chemicals, led to a warning that the salinity of the lake would no longer sustain wildlife and the town became a ghost town.
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I love this video! Perfect music, camera work using a floating effect, and effective narrative using captions. Coolness! 💛🙏🏽
So glad you liked it 👍💪
I feel like you should have more likes. this is fascinating!
Thanks! Glad you liked it 👍
For a ghost town the asphalt looks in good shape way nicer then the street I live on lol !
Budget money spent
@patricktheplumber5482 and @OddlyExplorer We haven't had paved roads here in Bombay in decades 😂 that asphalt was laid down about 2 months ago.
This is such a marvelous place to explore. Once you get used to the smell of course. I've had the privilege of traveling completely around the lake and seen all this amazing place has to offer.
That's awesome 👍
Two pieces of good news about Salton Sea for y'all. First, the Salton Sea Management program is working on 1750 acres of the lake and the shore near Salton
City and Bombay Beach. The goal is to restore the habitat and to mitigate blowing dust. The second is that lithium has been discovered there with companies working on low impact extraction. Nothing brings in progress like money and, as the video shows, this place is in of all the help it can get. I'm old enough to have first visited Salton Sea with my folks in the late Fifties. Ya' shoulda been there.
Scientists say that unless the Salton sea is refilled with water, all this money is wasted for nothing
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Countless millions of dollars have been wasted for decades, it's maddening really and sad. Interestingly current talk is that a reduction in the amount of lake water may likely have a cause and effect relationship with the area's seismic activity in that less water will relieve pressure on the multiple fault lines that come together within the Salton Sink.
The dust mitigation program in Bombay Beach consists of rows of hay bales laid out in various locations at the playas edge. Many, my myself included, find it a joke as the amount of dust kicked up from tilling the soil and then hauling the bales to locations was immense.
The flying fish sculpture is absolutely amazing!!! Such a beautiful piece of art.👌
I totally agree!
Should open up a spray paint store there.
Great business idea, go ahead
Comment should be pinned! 💛
Lol
I seen several videos of bombay beach and I must say yours was very interesting 👍
Glad you liked it 💪
The bus at 1:09 is from a UK bus service called first bus, the color scheme matches the ones they use and it’s the same kind of model. I’m scratching my head on how it ended up randomly in a ghost town in California, someone must have imported it over only to leave it like that…? People can and do live in them in the UK, but I don’t see how or why someone would import one unless maybe they were from the UK and already owned it.
Maybe someone’s old food truck project, I have seen them like that before.
Very weird, probably very rare as well in the US.
Yes you are right about that! 👍 I noticed that too, the bus looked out of place, a european type. Great observation, thanks! 💪
Probably a superior build, Your school buses leave something to be desired built properly they are not, That "double decker" has a steel frame throughout and fair up well in crashes turning car's into mincemeat, I've seen it, The car was the "crumple zone" a bit of plastic ripped off the bus and the "air brakes" severed that was it, Back on the road 2 day's later, The was finished
@@OddlyExplorerEuropean style? Obviously to a American? All the countries in Europe have different buses or don't bother and just have trams, Countries in Europe? Quite a concept? So Europe isn't a country but a land mass
Place looks pretty awesome to explore
Yes indeed, a unique type of a ghost town, artistic version of it.
My Grandfather lived there years ago in one of the Mobil homes. In the good old days. Wish I knew which one.
Good old days….
We can’t get enough of millennial urban explorer type exploiting tweaker Art.
Bravo.
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This is a good place for that stuff!
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I went there and is weirdly wonderful. Spent 2 night there
Wow that’s awesome 👍
As an artist, I am amazed at how eerie it looks, yet you captivated the artistic side of it so well. Love it 😍💕🎨
Glad you liked it 👍 Next time I will try to film it with more details
I just spend a weekend there and my band performed at the Ski Inn for their Harvest Festival. My first drive through, I thought I found the birthplace of the zombie apocalypse. I met a lot of the locals and they were so awesome!. Such a beautiful tight knit community without the craziness of your standard southern California town.
Very cool! 👍
Fascinating place. Definitely going to visit.
Get ready for the heat
****** Great Video. An ARTISTS PARADISE .....
I absolutely agree with you, an artist’s heaven to improvise 👍
WOW WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT
Definitely 👍
It's got a real NEW world vibe. Some nice talented artists. You could just sit down and think of what it means to you and create that dream. Is the water for drinking? I'd assume electricity is available for the after dark views. GReat sound track too !
Yes, many solar panels there besides normal electricity.
the people have made this place into a tourist attraction ,, years ago it was a vacation place back in its day I use to go there and watch the boats and people fishing ,,and they would bar ba que on the beach ,,I never tried the fish ,,but there use to be a place to get hamburger,s and soda pop and fish bait,,this place is so strange now
Well, it is a tourist attraction now.
Bombay little known fact; has the best asphalt road in America , boasting zero pothole tolerance
Great observation, indeed the town has a brand new shiny ✨ pavement
The car graffitied up like a railroad box car would be a fun restoration. Leave exterior like that and drive it around.
Awesome idea 👍
Brilliant!
Glad you liked it! 👍
Better than a horror movie
Because it's real
You probably don't know this but the lake was accident man made accident year's before hand, And the lake became a attraction but with no run off, No change of water
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This is what will be left of everyone's commercialized existence in a thousand years.
I think you are right 👍
Amazing place, I have made the trip many times and did a video/photography doc on the place.
Very cool!
Is it haunted? Would probably have to be.
Looks rather charming🖒
To some extent yes 👍
I discovered this while on Google map's and did a Google search which directed me to TH-cam presuming that was the same as this, Basically a playa lake, Water flows but doesn't flow out,but lost to evaporation leaving behind salt, That's what the Bonnerville salt flat's are a huge inland sea lost to evaporation and this lot built a "Resort" around it without understanding it, And it became too "Salty" and was abandoned?
Salton Sea is a disaster due to chemicals and salt.
@@OddlyExplorerChemicals from where? Out in the Desert.
@@OddlyExplorer Just been to Google map review first one
Check out this review of Salton Sea on Google Maps
goo.gl/maps/Y9ayGhhY264dXcQj7
I like the strategically placed farting and flies in the soundtrack.
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*YOU KNOW SOMEPLACE IS TRULY DEAD WHEN NOT EVEN METH COOKERS WANT TO MOVE THERE*
I believe there are some
So charming, like Mayberry.
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Oh my!😮
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Bizarro world bro!
Indeed, amigo
Looks like my neighborhood could possibly be a tourist attraction. Me and momma need the money. 🇺🇸🍺
That's a GREAT opportunity I think! Charge a small entrance fee like state parks do.
Another interesting place to visit in California...
at 9:11 i miss us here :( that's sad
Yes, indeed
so i take it some people still do live there ?? by the dogs barking and some of the new cars i saw?? i wonder what it looks like in it's hay day :) any pictures or videos of that ??
People still live there. They drive cars and have animals
@@OddlyExplorer wow
@@OddlyExplorer they still get electricity and running water ??
@@morganophelia5963 not sure if they have running water but they have electricity and throw parties at night
@@OddlyExplorer cool
love it
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I remember as a child my family would pack up n drive seemed like forever to go there. Then we stopped Goin. Now u kno why. I kno if it would of been a predominantly black own hms r town. Then these things would not b called art. Even though we stopped goin. Them memories of the salten sea, The fun times n family vacations has never left.
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I never heard of it. Look so depressing there
Until you see it…
Wow, a mostly barren desert town that stinks, population is primarily elderly, the heat is off the charts, and the art fad I'm sure will quickly dwindle. What's not to like?
The sun heat is up to 110F in the summer... Population is middle-aged to senior.
Can you say Grand theft auto!
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"Artists intellectuals and hipsters" aka the cancers on society
Many of them use prohibited substances that fuel their creativity )
They put a gate up
So it looks like Midian
That’s supposed to be the entrance ))
Sad
I agree
It's too bad that it is not narratated, there is so much to see on the video that is interesting but I have to read instead. Nothing wrong with reading but took away from the appealing visuals that I didn't finish the video.
That's a good point to consider, thanks! 👍
Damn.
I thought I found another cool Fallout 76 builder base camp!
Lol 😆
Is this sandy shores gta
You play too many games lol
North Shore is real Sandy Shores
Poor Lemmy sadly passed
Poor Lemmy
Lemmy don't care.
I am leaving Imperial Beach tomorrow heading to Anza Borrego, Bombay Beach and Slab City. After that I will be slowly making my way to Pittsburgh PA.
Lucky you! Have fun! 👍
I would desalinate the sea to a percentage that a new eco system could be built. Talk about new life being breathed back into the town. For those that say it is impossible, think again.
Great idea my friend 👍
I thought again; still impossible..
@b_ks lol , I agree
So the movie Bad Batch is becoming a sort of reality.
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A lot of Bad Batch was filmed not far from Bombay Beach, in Slab City.
Why ! 😮
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Tweekers out there
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At least get rid of it all!!!!! It’s disgusting!!!!!!
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Build back better 😊
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WWAGOT
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@@OddlyExplorer Why Would Anyone Go
There
Slab city
That’s good idea, coming soon 👍
Sad
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Not sad to me and I live here, full time. Stunning sunrises and sunsets daily guaranteed, the freedom to be who you are, boundless creativity, meeting new friends from all over the world who come specifically to visit Bombay Beach.
One's trash is another's treasure.