Local Man Is Stunned When His Collapsed Driveway Reveals A Secret Room Under His House

[@Duknow-Media]

Take a tour of the shelter along with Simon himself. Can you believe its impressive backstory? It really makes you wonder what bits of history might be hidden in your very own driveway… kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZW2e5quhbtrgJo

[@xslayz8399]

Did You Know ? 10 and wow

[@domianplanescrosser8831]

COOL, AWESOME, CREEPY, AND HISTORICAL!!!!!!!!

[@HomeImProveMentHow]

Did You Know ? That's incredible no telling what you might find or hidden compartments inside there

[@ursaltydog]

A definite asset to his home's property... He can slather some new concrete inside.. weatherproof it more.. put in long sleeping bunks.. stock back water and provisions.. install a new ladder and hatch.. Great month of sundays project..

[@MegaDirtyberty]

Good idea.......until others who watched this video will come looking for it in a disaster.

[@robertperkins1184]

The siren went off and my grandmother hurried everyone into her shelter (basement) in Swansea, Wales. The all clear was sounded and Nana emerged to find an unexploded bomb in her bedroom. She and my mom made it through the war. Yay!

[@trippymemez8759]

So your grandma or whoever keeps a live explosive?

[@clydestribling2327]

YES THAT GRANDMA SLEPT NEXT TO A BOMB THAT WAS DELIVERED VIA AIRMAIL ! READING COMPREHENSION A LITTLE LOW ?

[@ghostbravomike2817]

Clyde Str haha true

[@jaytoor5088]

Where abouts in Swansea? I lived in Uplands and Mumbles for a while

[@nevillemason6791]

I have a much smaller but similar shelter in Liverpool next to my house built 1934. The government encouraged homeowners to build shelters with new houses if they could afford one as war loomed. On tv a few years back in Lancashire a guy was tipped off by a neighbour when he moved into a new house he had a hidden shelter in the front garden as this video. He uncovered a beautifully built brick arched structure which he converted into a large wine cellar!

[@cookingwithjesus]

I've never in my life heard anyone mispronounce Luftwaffe or Vauxhall before.

[@jerseybean59]

And "Lutton".

[@eraldorh]

Yeah he sounds like a bit of a mong. Clearly doesnt put much effort into research.

[@tommyfudgefinger]

And Luton.

[@MrMAC8964]

The americans or "child killers " as i call them, cant spell or pronounce anything . (ps they have now lost the right to a capitol letter as well)

Capital

[@ZnenTitan]

Hmm, "Loofwaf and Vallhauza" I guessed he meant the German air force in WWII, but I swear I was scratching my head trying to figure out what the car was. (Never in my life have I heard anyone massacre the name Vauxhall with such cheery enthusiasm)

[@willieboy8798]

i spent a two tours flying over Europe in the US military. Stuff like this every where, in the ugliness of WWII is a beauty of history. thanks for posting it. Sir!!! I went to school in Britian, the English are wonderful people and they are strong willed. Stop nit picking a pronunciation at least they are not talking ill!

[@lokki245]

"Baaams" dropped by the "Loooftwaaaf " ...ha ha ha

[@TheMijman]

Lokki can't even say it right. jeez

[@lokki245]

Sam Brown I know right! He's masquerading as a journalist but can't pronounce the name of one of the most famous air forces in history! ...even when it's a key aspect of the story's background.

[@JoelHudson]

Lokki yea I'd bet he doesn't even know it translates to "RedWave" either.

[@AndrewAMartin]

Joel Hudson got his translation from Nena's "99 Luftballon" in German became "99 Red Balloons" in English, LOL!

[@finno123456]

Lokki I dropped a big looof waaaaaf in there that's why the door came off I was nearly buried in there a good job I was using a torch and not a match 😂😂😂

[@carmelpule6954]

At my old age I do remember the 1940-45 war and in Malta we have many of those shelters that the younger people do not know about. In my youth I used to walk in these shelters which were dug under the bastions built by the knights of St John in their fight against the Turkish Suleiman and Dragut Empires. I am probably the only one left where these old shelters are.

[@goneinablinkofaneye9772]

Carmel Pule' Please use google earth and maps to help record the information. to many of that generation's sacrifices have already been forgotten. Please.

[@JasonTDolan]

1939-1945

[@goneinablinkofaneye9772]

Jason Thomas Dolan . im glad i live in the time i do. So glad indeed.

[@alvaroakatico9188]

Carmel Pule' I'm guessing you're 83 years old give or take a couple of years. Old is nothing but a number some would say, but they just don't know, they don't know.

[@9999plato]

My grandparents immigrated from Malta and they told me about the bombings, the Church where a German bomb crashed down and failed to explode. Probably a slaave laborer whose act saved many. I heard the people were starving and ate anything moving.

[@justinlis668]

At least it wasn't the septic tank

[@kathleentyson6727]

I am now 68. When i was in the fifth grade there was a house across the street that had an air raid shelter! Our teacher had heard about it and asked the owner if our class could tour it. It was really interesting to tour it. We had air raid drills monthly at my school they actually frightened me. The sound was low and slower at first,but then it would become quicker and deafeningly louder it was an ominous sound indeed. This was an interesting post thanks!

[@D4mo84]

Precision bombing raids on Liverpool, Birmingham and parts of London?? DID YOU not KNOW, almost every major City in the UK was carpet bombed? Talk about understatement.

[@notsure8041]

My neighbor who just bought several acres across from me told me he had found a underground shelter. So I went to check it out, when I got over there he popped his head out of a round hole about 15 inches across. I said its not very big is it and he was like no only about 5 x 8. He was in a septic tank from an old mobile home.

[@stuartwatkin3969]

The pronouncing of some of these words are terrible....

[@calebklyne6406]

Stuart Watkin you leave vo-haul out of this haha

[@PokemonLord666]

This sentence was poorly constructed. ****Pronunciation****

[@angeladeen6168]

Stuart Watkin not all pro's are called Nancy! And so what my names terribinka! ( how rude)😀😁😂

[@Kjca_1998]

VOHUAL 😂😂😂

[@plumpstery5199]

luftwaff

[@oleggorky906]

I thought you were going to say that they found a burial site for an ancient noble, filled with treasure. 😮

[@Bookiemouncher]

I wouldn’t have told the news or anyone lol, I’d make it a chill hang out spot.

[@joewoodchuck3824]

I enjoyed the video. The problem is that your secret room is no longer a secret. The other point is that in the U.S. at least we'd be charged extra property tax once the town finds out about it .

[@chapiit08]

Right on! I personally wouldn't advertise such a find.

[@stash.]

Its beside the pavement at the end of the driveway where people walkpast regularly

[@nieze]

Precisely my thought

[@alanpartridge2140]

Burt Habard No you do not get taxed on the number of rooms, council tax bands are determined by the value of the property, the "bedroom tax" only applies to those on benefits who get large houses courtesy of the state.

[@TestTheAcid]

if you call a 1 bed flat with a storage room a large house youre a moron, its a strawman tax which is why they make landlords take it , if it was lawful why dont they do what they usually do give with one hand and take it with the other.

[@alanbrown397]

Voh hall? lutt on? loooft waff ? Next thing you know, he'll be off to the Isle of Wiggit.

[@bluemarshall6180]

Alan Brown 99 Balloons?

[@BrianC1664]

you mean the izzle of wig-hit

[@andilock8276]

At a company in Manchester (England) where I once worked, I had parked my car in the car park one morning and was walking across it to start work when I noticed a very deep hole opening up! When the company inspected it, that too turned out to be a large air raid shelter nearly thirty yards long and fifteen feet wide!

[@andilock8276]

Oooooooo! Lol such profanity haha I doubt it was, she was only five feet tall haha!

[@phoenixman8569]

I remember my late mum telling me of her times in Great Brittan when she was a child and her mum taking her to refuge in those (tube stations)when the warning sirens rang for everyone to scramble to shelter when bombers came and the all clear signal when it was over.

[@zzdoodzz]

An air raid shelter with 1 to 2 feet of dirt overtop of it. Maybe its's me but a direct or nearby hit would do quite a number on that thing.

[@tuel3270]

It was a *groundbreaking* discovery

[@iAmIronMan0605]

Drawing the shit out like a boss

[@TheMrhycannon]

Storm shelter would have been my guess but then I'm in the US Midwest.. My son stepped in a hole while mowing our yard.. When we checked we found a den about 3 feet round.. we followed the tunnel to a neighbor's yard and under their porch.. They had a dog back there.. They sometimes fed here her but did nothing more.. We figured she must have been bored and did the digging as busy-work..

[@wiretamer5710]

The way the development of WW2 bomb shelters is described here is very problematic. The government resisted the use of subways for a long time because of the risk of flooding. And people didn't just decide to build shelters spontaneously. UK culture at the time simply didn't work like that. The government micro-planned everything and the people for the most part did what they were told.

[@KevinSmith-qi5yn]

I started watching this, then they said Luton, England and I instantly thought Bomb Shelter.

[@Aidan-ym7nm]

A similar experience happened at our Home a year before we moved out, we were going to replace our old concrete patio in the backgarden with a wooden plank one since the concrete was rather distasteful at the time, as as they were removing the concrete we discovered a set of concrete stairs that led to a 8x8 feet shelter, at the front of the stairs was a small empty pit that went into the earth which was used to drain any water, we decided to keep the shelter and store our belongings in it (which we later regret because of rainfall through the wooden boards causing our possessions to be damaged). But it was an unexpected sight to know we had been having meals out in our garden right above a bomb shelter.

[@dusterdude238]

Great Find Simon! Cheers and Best of Brittan to you! :)

[@bigfaucet5176]

Is love the strongest of all emotions?

[@savitrrakatamatah7256]

I pulled in my friends driveway one time and the front tire of my van dropped in a hole. It turned out to be a water well that was brick lined. It was used to pump water into the boiler tanks on steam locomotives. He later found out his house was originally a train station in our small town/village before they moved the tracks like a thousand feet to the west of his house and quit using passenger train cars. Our village was originally supposed to be a big city in the 1800's then a town emerged just like ten miles down and got big quick leaving our town just a village instead of a town or city.

[@k.chriscaldwell4141]

The homeowner will probably be hit with a fine for not having a building permit for the shelter, another fine for not having a permit for the excavation, yet another fine for the condition of his driveway, and a higher tax assessment, and back taxes and penalties, for the additional two rooms in the shelter. A few months down the road the gun and badge thugs will kick in his door for suspicion of having a grow room under his home. An American citizen, not US subject.

[@heathstjohn6775]

Thanks for trying to keep it. Might make your house more valuable, for the historical associations.

[@ZombieNazis]

"He was baffled" Really? Its a small underground chamber in england. How is it NOT going to be an air raid shelter?

[@Bv791510]

Awesome. It’s good to appreciate history

[@dankukdathn3923]

will definitely add more historical value to the house than some driveway; also if he could fix it up a bit, free bomb shelter / basement

[@gfxgo4095]

Local man back at it again

[@MN-sc9qs]

Gerald eagerly put this right foot down on the top step of the ladder and then, with anticipation, decided to descend further into the unknown using his LEFT foot on the next step down. You could have made this longer if you tried a bit, but good job. :)

[@sofabear1508]

Wonderful pronunciation of Luton, Vauxhall and Luftwaffe 😂

[@matriximaster]

WOW! I had no idea a Cooper Mini could do more damage than a bomb!

[@Rebel9668]

There's a room under my house that I've never had the desire to look into. When we got the place 8 years ago we were told that there was a dry cistern under a cap in the utility room. The former owners used it as a sort of cellar for canned veggies from their garden. I've never lifted the cement cap as I figure all I'd find in there would be cave crickets, lol. I have a small deep freezer sitting atop the cap.

[@atomicknight7690]

Rebel9668 you might also find a rotten corpse .

[@Rebel9668]

Doubtful as I know and am good friends with the former owners.

[@thatpantransguy]

Wow!!!! That is so cool! I mean not that having to have bomb shelters is cool, but finding something so well preserved from a chaotic period in history is such a great find! I hope the British government protects it as a historical landmark. It would be a shame to lose it.

[@1stTimeVenture]

this happened at my father in laws. we took a large truck into the back yard to deliver sheet metal for a project...well the wheel of the truck sunk...at first we just thought it was a old tree stump hole...but after getting the truck pulled out...we were faced with a old bomb shelter...where the sealed door collapsed under the weight of the truck..my father in law had lived there for 22 years never knowing that was buried in his back yard...it was pretty cool...he decided to just put a big peice of sheet metal over the open hole...and cover it back up..there was not really anything down in it..

[@roberthaworth9097]

Gotta love that British zoning. The thin steel doors look to have been covered with a layer of slate only 1.5" or so thick, so of course the entrance eventually collapsed. Big thing is, nobody told any subsequent owners about this huge void in their property; that's cause for legal action in the US, and I can't imagine the paperwork this guy will have to go through to "legitimize" his find as livable space, should he choose to do so.

[@adelaidemarie]

Why in the world would he tell everyone about his Secret room?

[@iamskilldog4538]

Should be called guy from Luton finds air raid shelter under his driveway.

[@victwenty2324]

NICE WEED GROW ROOM IN THE DRIVE WAY

[@lindabrookes1756]

I have been told on several occassions that my Maternal Grandad who lived in Tooting / Mitcham, in SW London dug out a space under the floorboards in their kitchen in 1938. It was the lead up to the Second World War and the fear of invasion by Hitler's troops was very real. The space he made was a place for his wife and four daughters to hide if the Nazis invaded England. People laugh at Dad's Army but there was a very real fear of Invasion. I think it was the Battle of Britain, the war in the air over England, that stopped Hitler landing on English soil long enough for us to fight back in Europe. My father fought in the Middle East throughout the Second World War, to keep England (and thereby Europe) free from dictatorship. Their determination and courage , and of the many men and women in Btitain who lived tbrough this terrible time should not be dismissed lightly.

[@chasevans7171]

Vo haul. The car built in Lutton.... hilarious. Sorry to be pedantic but it's vauxhall (pronounced "VOX-ALL) and the place is Luton (LOO-TUN). Other than that, cracking vid of a bonkers discovery. I wish I had a driveway like that. Id buy a few old manequins and make some pop up zombies to scare people. Better entertainment than telly. Might have to wait until after pizza safely delivered before deploying though.

[@guidedmeditation2396]

Darn, no treasure or alien artifacts? It is still interesting.

[@DaigoParry]

Why didn’t he try to become batman? He could hide his supercomputer and his car underneath it. He just needs to hire an Alfred. 😆

[@GULF-BANK]

"They must have built the driveway on top of the shelter." Thanks

[@mervyncouture1161]

My mum said i spent my first Christmas in the tube as they called it

[@alaskanalain]

A friend of mine found one in his garage. Narrator keeps repeating over and over how the driveway was damaged etc. in the beginning. Hardly anything gets said in the first 3 min.

[@TheSexhaver2625]

He looked so stunned in the thumpnail

[@kaylieornelas8044]

You can use the shelter room for a tornado 🌪 safe room it can serve the same purpose as it did for those in ww2

[@epicuploader6936]

I bet there's loads still uncovered

[@colonelsanders4006]

I'd auction off the old milk bottle and newspaper, reckon they'd fetch a decent price . .

[@gordonadams5891]

I had such a space under the garage. Turned out to be a septic tank.

[@denkgod2272]

Man I hate it when I accidentally break my driveway and have to excavate a historical landmark

[@tirippin296]

Loftwuaf 😂 it’s called Luftwaffe😂

[@dowserdude]

Now this would make a great wine cellar..

[@LostWithoutCause]

i think thats what i'll do with it to be honest

[@houstonbigfooter]

Or grow room.

[@markhowards420]

Houston Bigfooter good idea in theory but not such a good spot seeing as it's under his driveway...

[@davidporowski9512]

Dowserdude Council will likely double your property taxes for extra bedrooms, then fine you for not meeting codes; like ventilation or fire exits. You Are Welcome for the warning.

[@jonathantiedt9860]

My great grandfather was in north Africa

[@hamishferguson4166]

uk secret room = grow room £££

[@budlit1854]

Hamish Ferguson UK weed good? Probably not !

[@travis4798]

Underground tea operation. I'll show myself out...

[@1ukjunglednbraver]

little do you know

[@andrewwilliams3883]

Hamish Ferguson bro tell me y I was thinking the same thing ha

[@K20DFX]

heard of stardawg? UK cheese? Wilsons Big Bud?

[@CarswithNash]

That would be a cool find!

[@carlagarrett3244]

This was a nice share! thank you!

[@FastBrian1]

You'd think there would be something cool down there like pirate treasure or something.

[@gosportjamie]

Luton (pronounced Loo-Ton, not Lutton,) was a good target for the Germans during WW2 as it was the home to the Vauxhall car factory which was employed in the production of military vehicles and equipment, as well as being close to London. A lot of German air raids were far from "precision" attacks as often, if the target was obscured by weather or smoke, or well-defended by anti-aircraft weapons, the pilots would drop their bombs anywhere...

[@rickgravel6607]

Sooooo cool!!!

[@iHumerousDragon]

"loooftwaff" omg I'm dead its Luftwaffe...

[@JavierFernandez01]

Never forget.

[@agowa7438]

It would make a nice grow room.!

[@RPDBY]

Hide and shelter and read, people indeed were different

[@thomasjablonski9162]

If I bought a house with this under it, well, I would make it a gun range out of it.

[@ringocomedynews5825]

My Great Grandfather Built a really cool air raid shelter it consisted of a very thick cuboid that was on wheels

[@elvisjonesus]

Glad it was not an old septic tank.

[@wehavealwaysbeenanointed4929]

Might come into use, you never know mate. I'd clean it up, and make repairs, put it to good use. Put a couple cots, water, food, medicine, video games, trivia pursuit, short wave radio. You could clean it up, and set up local tours, and it could pay for its self? Lol

[@mikehurley5052]

Fill it with immigrants, 50 quid a week each.

[@Lazarus-aap]

Did you know; it is pronounced "Luftwaffe" with an "uh" sound at the end... It's German for (freely translated) Airweapon. The way you say it would be the same as saying "Airweap"

[@web1187]

Wish i owned one !

[@leeab2824]

Hello Lancashire England amazing story cool

[@thebrain9384]

How about the actual sinkhole (in Florida) that swallowed the guy and his room while he was sleeping?

[@FreshCoffeeParts]

Flame the weeds with a 500000 BTU torch.

[@the51project]

the Luft-waf ? NOOOOO the Luft-Waf-fa

[@acolyteoffire4077]

i thought it was an old cistern before they said it was a air raid shelter

[@revparsons3tl]

Nice man cave

[@PaulSoulsby]

Hah! Looft-waff. I didn't know that.

[@nickmajdalani7885]

Turn it into a cool underground bar

[@miami2pr]

So cool..!

[@cadjs]

Lol, the bombing raids in ww2 were not "precision" raids! That's why so much damage was done in heavily populated areas.

[@Ewoorg]

Wow great place for mancave =)

[@njones420]

these are very common, a friend of mine discovered one in his garden after buying a new house a few years ago...very cool though.

[@deadsparrow28]

Now he's got somewhere to keep those kidnapped schoolgirls he was thinking of collecting.

[@ammo381]

I wouldn't mind an extra room lol

[@victwenty2324]

to grow big budds yes we all live it

[@666kickfliper]

The way he pronounces Luton is insane

[@mariamoore5676]

It is interesting, but a sad bit of history. I thought of Anne Frank and others that had to hide during war to avoid being taken or bombed. I think it would be a fitting tribute if he would turn the shelter into a virtual museum an though no one would be allowed into it, as it could collapse, they can take virtual tours via internet. Just have to make sure there is good security to keep everything safe.

[@crazymayne69]

Interesting vid and all, but are you TRYING to mangle as many word pronunciations as possible?

[@Mirandorl]

Lutten is a lovely place in London. I believe it was bombed quite heavily by the Luftwoff.

[@andreniki8864]

Exactly xDDD Luafwaff xD

[@klaus3794]

Really a great discovery! :(

[@gratefulgal6416]

Really cool ! Thanks

[@TheAttacker732]

It's a bomb shelter... I think it's safe to assume that it's structurally sound.

[@johnstaf]

Making up pronunciations for words you don't know is bad enough, but how can anyone be so ignorant that they never heard of the Luftwaffe?

[@AsTheSeasonsGray]

I love a good VOE-Hull.

[@rich3371]

It's not the "Luftwaff", it's the Luftwaffe, emphasis on the e at the end (said like u as in tub)