 — Just miles from Pittsburgh, in Butler County, they’re preserving the world’s heritage.
Not to mention, they’re doing it 220-feet below ground in an old abandoned mine.
KDKA’s John Shumway says he’s had some incredible experiences during his TV career, but Iron Mountain is mind boggling.
Search Iron Mountain on the web and you’ll discover that it’s a massive storage company. In fact, whatever you have, they can store it, shred it, back it up digitally, slice it, dice it and make Julienne fries.
But this story is about Iron Mountain’s crown jewel hidden 220 feet below the rolling farms of Northern Butler County.
During the first half of the last century, 500 miners every day went below ground to bring out the rich limestone that fed the three rivers area steel mills.
When the mining was done in the early 1950s, the site was abandoned, leaving behind massive caverns carved out of a seam of limestone so thick that tractor trailers can easily drive through its corridors.
Today, Iron Mountain’s limestone walls are painted a brilliant white, and bright lights illuminate the passages so you quickly forget you are even underground.
The 50 degree water of the 150-acre underground lake is pumped throughout the mine to maintain a temperature perfect for document preservation.
Fifteen generators stand ready to make sure the mine, and the 2,700 people working there, are never in the dark.
Behind door after unmarked door are the vaults. Ranging in size from a few hundred square feet to 220,000-square feet, there are 125 large vaults, another 25 smaller units and hundreds of acres still to be developed.
“One vault [is] the size of a shopping center,” says Iron Mountain’s Tom Benjamin.
In those vaults, you will find everything from the original prints of classic motion pictures, to studio masters of classic albums and documents of every imaginable description.
I would name drop some of the big name clients who use Iron Mountain’s Butler County mine, but the company protects its clients’ confidentiality, so no names here, but use your imagination, think big and you’ll probably be right.
Trust me; I have only scratched the surface of what the mountain holds. We were only supposed to be there a couple of hours and left three and a half hours later and it felt like 15 minutes.
One of the treasures held in the mountain, the Corbis Image collection – 27 million visual images, stored there by Bill Gates to prevent their deterioration.
“We have quite a few folders for Lincoln, looks like 18 so you can see here. Statues, monuments, Lincoln memorial, the cabinet,” said Ann Hartman, the Corbis senior manager of library and records.
But the most treasured of all is probably a picture believed taken either during or around the time of the actual Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln in the center, hatless, and delivering what he felt was a poor performance of a speech still memorized by school children throughout the country.
The reporter says it's hard to wrap your mind around the size of this place, as one vault alone was 25,000 square feet!
He stated there were 15 just like it, that was back in 2014, and they hadn't even developed the entire mine.
Anytime a client needs a document, the Iron Mountain staff retrieves it.
There is an underground lake of 50 degree water is pumped through the mine to control the temperature.
15 generators stand by to provide power to the entire 1.8 million square foot mine.
The Marriott hotel and 4 Federal Agencies house data centers at Iron Mountain.
Look at there, Hillary Clinton and George Clooney in the same file drawer.
Negatives, images, Glass plates, slides, here is a glass negative,
A refrigerated section that houses the Corbis image collection.
1932 Lunch a top a skyscraper,
Photo remains, but they way they put it, the glass negative had an unfortunate spill,
Iconic shots of legends and their negatives,
More evidence of underground bases,
Done by a local station KDKA-TV,
Rare Look Inside The Famous Iron Mountain KDKA-TV
220 ft underground.
Construction was continuing as evidenced as they drove through the underground tunnels.
Marriott hotel and 4 federal agencies house data centers there.
They claim the amount of storage that is stored there electronically, far surpasses the amount of data stored there physically.
They also have a digital studio which is interesting.
For some reason, brought to mind Sunspot Observatory.
They pull the originals from movies and studio recordings from the vaults to use in commercial work. So they put them on their machines and digitally mix them to the customer's needs.
So all 220 feet below the Butler County countryside.
They of Course tell you, due to All the value these vaults hold. . .so the entertainment industry value. . .Security is incredibly tight.
He also states, they have only developed 145 acres of the thousand acres they Could develop underground. Just interesting.
He claims you don't know where it is until you drive right up on it.
It's in Boyers.
Here is another underground facility in a joint effort between the United States and Canada,
Main headquarters for NORAD moved from Cheyenne Mountain to Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, CO
For information on the Cheyenne Mountain complex you can go here as this covers not just the info on Area 51 being at a different location than they claim, but also just a Few of the underground facilities that Have been reported on the news
Inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex expert miners at lead and silver who could quickly excavate and assemble. Amazing feat of engineering!
Hear about the engineering feats and what all is contained in this complex. How Cheyenne Mountain Complex Is a Wonder of the World!
Hear a first hand description and footage of the "fresh feel" to it as you go inside the mountain.
Description of the giant blast doors, specifications.
How the personnel could live there due to all it is equipped with including all life support systems with ability to do so underground.
Some of what this complex is equipped with
- Small Fire dept.
- Small hospital
- Small Chapel
- Gymnasium
- Barbershop
- Cantina
- it feels like a small city which is was intended to be according to personnel.
- to be completely self-sustaining.
Designers designed the base to operate entirely on it's own, cut off from everyone else for 30 to 45 days.
Equipped with huge reservoirs for potable water. There are 5 lakes inside the mountains and they tell how they planned on those from the very beginning.
They claim one big surprise, "early on" was the discovery of a spring. Gave them an inside fresh water source to replenish the lakes.
You don't have to listen to the entire report if no time. Bringing this in Right where this description starts,
Especially when you consider the structures inside the mountain are Free Standing. Really something to hear these professionals speak about the mountain being Alive!
It is stated it is an Essential Institution for a global power.
Buildings are made out of Navy grade steel.
At about 7:09 starts speaking of structure. States the buildings themselves are Free Standing and according to professionals, extraordinarily none of the buildings inside actually touch the surrounding rock.
Buildings are cushioned on a bed of 1,300 gigantic steel springs.
That way they can ride on those springs and bounce sideways, up and down, front and back.
One professional speaks of all the work to make sure the rocks and the mountains don't cave in. There is a belief to make sure the mountain "thinks" it is full, then he states. .."Because the Mountain is Alive!"
I find this interesting due to this verse in the bible,
Luke 19:40
“And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”
Why am I telling you about all of us? For those that are not familiar, a group of us requested for investigations into the Getty.
For those out there who doubt what can be done inside of a mountain, Cheyenne Mountain Complex is just One of many examples of what can be created both in mountains and underground.
Went over some of the Getty here,
Florida Pizzafire Explosion Broward, Fires near Getty Santa Monica, Epstein
For those who understand what's up and what's literally down. . .should see this video.
Only a little over 3 minutes.
Aerial view shows raging Getty Fire burning on westside of Los Angeles
Hear where he says they have 5 institutes, they are world wide and signals all their "good works!"
USA - Opening of the Getty Center
Visiting the Getty Villa & Getty Center in One Day
Now if you look into some aspects of the Getty this is what you will find,
In 1974, J. Paul Getty opened a museum in a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum on his property in Malibu, California. In 1982, the museum became the richest in the world when it inherited US $1.2 billion. In 1983, after an economic downturn in what was then West Germany, the Getty Museum acquired 144 illuminated medieval manuscripts from the financially struggling Ludwig Collection in Aachen; John Russell, writing in The New York Times, said of the collection, "One of the finest holdings of its kind ever assembled, it is quite certainly the most important that was in private hands." In 1997, the museum moved to its current location in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles; the Malibu museum, renamed the "Getty Villa", was renovated and reopened in 2006.
Now let's take a look at J. Paul Getty
mysterious bunker house near Tulsa International Airport, where he lived when he owned Spartan Aircraft Company in Tulsa, OK. We explore rumors of secret underground tunnels. Getty was reclusive and cautious. This bunker home was built by Getty to keep him safe from potential kidnappers.
Hear about his concrete bunker right here,
J. PAUL GETTY THE OIL TYCOON MYSTERIOUS BUNKER HOME - On Virgin Street near Tulsa Airport
A lot of marble in there,
Marble is a rock resulting from metamorphism of sedimentary carbonate rocks, most commonly limestone or dolomite rock. Metamorphism causes variable recrystallization of the original carbonate mineral grains. The resulting marble rock is typically composed of an interlocking mosaic of carbonate crystals. Primary sedimentary textures and structures of the original carbonate rock (protolith) have typically been modified or destroyed.
So "legend" has it Getty had secret tunnels to the Spartan factory, but according to this report, "so far no one has found them." Interesting. Why is his lead in reminding me of the mockery from the Denver Airport vid I showed you guys?
Why even Mention the "tunnels?"
Are they worried or trying to keep speculators at bay? How did the rumors get started in the first place?
That means we need a jaunt down Feasibility Avenue. This requires dipping our toes into the magic of Google!
I mean who doesn't enjoy the "magic" of Google? Have I mentioned before they got their start Here? I surely must have in one of the detailed reports.
So his home was on E. Virgin Street. Interesting name for a street. Take a look at the distance to the Tulsa Airport.
Find out more about the creators of Keyhole and a house close to the Getty owned by an A lister known to have a tunnel running between homes at least on Their property.
More info on how it ties into the owners there and some rather telling history. This will include not just Hollywood starters and royalty, but places around the U.S. and more around the world with known tunnels.
You can go to the bottom where there are sources beyond what I covered in this article or wait for the soon to come connector articles. Will add as soon as I have enough Steem to add them in.
Please let me know your thoughts and what you are seeing out there! Godspeed!
Sources and Connector articles,
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-02-05/gauguin-sculpture-getty-head-with-horns
http://www.iamnotastalker.com/2012/09/17/the-cecil-b-demille-estate/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/luxury-homes-tout-underground-tunnels-1433426068
https://desplainesvalleynews.com/getty-elected-president-of-the-west-central-municipal-conference-p2164-90.htm
https://steemit.com/tremintinabase/@artistiquejewels/tremintina-base-in-new-mexico-and-other-underground-verified-vaults-and-tunnels-about-2-hours-away-from-epstein-s-zorro-ranch
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/cecil-b-demille-los-angeles-home-article
https://shop.getty.edu/products/departures-11-artists-at-the-getty-978-0892365821
https://www.priceypads.com/the-w-c-fields-estate-7149000/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/underground-tunnels-los-angeles
https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/lost-tunnels-of-downtown-la
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/secret-underground-tunnels-discovered-below-10846349
https://architectofthecapital.org/posts/2016/11/6/dupont-circle-tunnel-digger