Secret Nuclear Bunker – Unusual Wikipedia Monday

If you live in the internet as much as I do, you might have already stumbled upon this picture and wondered about it’s authenticity.

Well, wonder no more, because Wikipedia holds all the answers!

The explanation:

The Secret Nuclear Bunker at Kelvedon Hatch, in Essex, England, is a large underground bunker used during the cold war as a Regional Government Headquarters. Since being decommissioned in 1992, the bunker has been open to the public as a tourist attraction (known as the Secret Nuclear Bunker), with a museum focusing on its cold war history.

The bunker is accessed through a normal looking bungalow (and then a 91m tunnel) and could house up to 600 people for three months. It had it’s own water supply and generators. It even had air conditioning, which right now makes it sound like the perfect place to work. Or hide in.

Then again, there are downsides.

Taken from here.

But that’s not all there’s too it. Googling the bunker to provide you with some nice pictures, brought me here, where I found this.

I see you wondering why I would post this picture. Therefore, here a little zoom:

What the fuck is going on there? Is it really a tourist attraction? Then why the fuck is there somebody operating? And is someone else reminded of House on Haunted Hill? Spooky. It seems like not all is done there.

12 comments

  1. But wouldnt a nuclear bunker that can house so many people for so long need some sort of an emergency room/operation theatre? Perhaps that was some sort of scale model showing the ER.

  2. @baph:
    Some research showed that they actually have wax figures doing some everyday bunker tasks, I guess this is one of those… But I still found it pretty funny/eerie when I saw it first and didn’t know that yet. That’s why I left it here like this.

  3. It does look sort of spooky. And I can understand how it can be quite eerie when you zoom in on something in a harmless photo and see something..er.. out of the ordinary.

  4. Ecch… House on Haunted Hill. Just when I thought I had forgotten how terrible that movie was! Not even Geoffrey Rush saved it! Now I’ll have another almost 10 years of “Oh wow, that was so uninspiringly unscary and dumb” haunting me…

  5. I’m sorry I brought up bad memories… I remember that neither Geoffrey Rush nor Taye Diggs’ HAWTness helped any in that movie… very sad. If I wasn’t used to seeing good actors in bad horror movies, I might have really been disappointed.

  6. Wash away the bitterness of that Geoffery Rush version with the original 1959 Vincent Price film. Cheesy now but 15 years back, I remember having nightmares because of that film.

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