The Building That Gave Residents Cancer

It’s 1980, you and your family are moving into a new apartment inside a recently built complex. You’re excited because it has an operating elevator and even running hot water. It’s so modern compared to all the other old, dilapidated buildings in the area. You get your keys and, over time, you settle into your new home with your family.
Little do you know, this building will soon take everything you hold dear away from you. This is the real-life horror story of the families who lived and died in Apartment 85.
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[@Peppermint0M]

My engineering lecturer at university used to be a public works engineer. He and a colleague lost a similar caesium vail during construction of the city bus station in the 1970s. They shut the site and combed the area with a Geiger counter for three days straight to find it again!

[@friedrichjunzt]

In sowjet russia, just like today, human lifes do not count much.

[@RoundShades]

This is why they combed so hard.

[@CrazyBear65]

Did you mean _cesium vial?_

[@AlwaysADekaranger]

Oh boy this was my final essay for college report

[@World-8.1B]

This was uploaded 2 seconds ago

[@YourDearestSmiley]

@@World-8.1Bthey mean that they made the final essay before the video. As in this “WAS” my final essay.

[@World-8.1B]

@@YourDearestSmiley I don't understand

[@HowManyPoco]

They wrote an essay about what Brew is covering. ​@@World-8.1B

[@alexaalford493]

@@World-8.1Bso

[@akumuryuu]

So, long story short, need to own a Geiger counter.

[@juanmacias5922]

Apparently checking for mold, lead, and asbestos as well. xD

[@daveyjones8969]

Nowadays, you should legitimately check products made in China...

[@riripari2042]

​@@daveyjones8969 I've pretty much given up because I keep seeing reports about just about everything. Micro plastics in drinking water. Recalls for numerous products. It just never stops. You gotta worry about everything at this point.

[@VNeto94]

​@@riripari2042 we have to embrace the chaos, suffering and death while trying to avoid it. The best strategy is to keep everything as natural as possible. We gotta do what we can.

[@The-One-and-Only100]

A scintillation detector is better than a geiger counter

[@dzibird5356]

Theres a neighborhood in Nevada that was similar. Within a year of moving there, almost half of the original residents died or were dying from cancer. Supposedly, it was built on testing ground for radiation...

[@unhinged_minds]

when was this? and could you please specify the location

[@jai_lyricz]

Wow really more details plz. I hope they were paid

[@Nesany]

bro is gatekeeping the name of the neighbourhood

[@vapingcat1885]

@@unhinged_minds Just google Downwinders

[@mj-rg9kp]

I used to live in Nevada, which neighborhood?

[@eaglescout1984]

Despite its danger, humans have no way to sense radiation. We can't see it, we can't feel it, we can't smell it. So, it leaves us very vulnerable to instances where sources of radiation are where they are unexpected.

[@ferretyluv]

I mean, you can feel radiation. It feels warm. If you’ve ever had one of those portable X-rays, the limb that got xrayed will feel warm afterwards, like you set it in front of a radiator.

[@nathanlong8295]

Radiation can only be felt but not noticed. It all depends on results and testing.

[@daveyjones8969]

You can notice it if your cellphone footage is grainy, you just need to know what to look for. *There's also that fluid that shows the trails of radioactive particles, but it's probably easier to just get a Geiger counter lol.

[@daveyjones8969]

​@@ferretyluvThat could be, let's say, weaponized in the right hands.

[@seer-9126]

​@@nathanlong8295When the gamma radiation is so high that you can feel it, you know it's too late

[@gerardomacias7370]

Reminds me of a House episode. When a small metal device caused a boy, his father, and friends to suffer radiation poisoning. Scariest moment for me was when House pulled out the Geiger and it started going haywire.

[@daveyjones8969]

Don't remember that, but was it a piece of scrap someone was carrying around? Happens a lot, actually. "Orphan sources" they call them. Also, that's an "evacuate the hospital" moment, as opposed to the usual quarantine (half the time initiated by House on purpose lol...love that guy).

[@gerardomacias7370]

@@daveyjones8969 yeah. In the episode they thought it was a STD he got over seas with his friend but turns out it was a piece from his dad scrap yard. His dad intended it as a keychain/family keepsake. Turns out it was part of a device used in wells to measure depth or something. And the amount of radiation he took was equivalent to 100 x-rays. Which is super scary to hear.

[@daveyjones8969]

@@gerardomacias7370 I kinda figured. During my 20s, I led a real rough and tumble lifestyle. I got into a fair bit of fights, but also did incredibly dangerous things while camping, like tripping on a log in the fire to have it land on top of me, but I couldn't throw it right away because I was surrounded by tents with people in them lol. Second degree burns all over both forearms. Anyway, I was getting a lot of x rays as a precaution, and I asked the radiologist if I was getting a dangerous amount. He starts saying how it's nearly impossible for someone to "overdo it". Then he looked at my chart and his eyes went wide, and he changed his tune to "Actually, you may want to slow down..." 😂

[@violetaura9007]

I was just thinking about that episode! It was so sad and heartbreaking

[@arsonfly]

That was uranium, wasn't it?

[@USArmyVet91]

Unbelievable that something so small, could have such devastating impacts. On a happier note, the Aussies impressed by ensuring the same thing didn't happen to them. Scary stuff... great Narration, my friend. 👍👍

[@daveyjones8969]

Almost every modern nation has orphan source incidents, including Australia. Just with a cursory search, I found a report from 2021 that said a potential orphan source is lost every THREE DAYS in Australia alone. You should check these things before bragging about your country's superiority. *In fact, taking pride in how your country turned out is a waste, since YOU didn't contribute to how it has developed over time. I'm Canadian, but I don't pretend I was part of the liberation of the Netherlands in WWII...

[@luvghd]

@@daveyjones8969wow why so bitter? calm down!

[@graenicholls4657]

@@daveyjones8969 Dude, his username is USArmyvet91... I don't think he was bragging about his country in any way. Learn to read. Also, I'd love to see the link to this 'report'. seeing as you make the claim, you should provide a link.

[@edsanville]

Luckily, the fact that the orphan sources emit a lot of radiation tends to help us to locate them more easily.

[@FKEY]

That's what she said.

[@nadiaterezon8281]

This is my nightmare. I don’t live in a nice apartment. Whenever I go back home I can’t breathe and I always get sick. I can’t afford anything nicer. I’m so worried.

[@enbykeith]

Likely mold. Mold test kits are cheap online!

[@stuartpenman6387]

i agree its most likely mold , get it checked

[@jamesharrison2763]

Ventilation for mold and keeping dust levels low will help.

[@adawg3032]

Honestly it’s smart to own a Geiger counter for stuff like this. They really aren’t that expensive, considering they can see something lethal, that your eyes cannot.

[@mistingwolf]

Was the company responsible for the quarry held accountable at all? All those people who suffered.... it's so sad. :(

[@marchduck2958]

A company. In USSR. 🙄 No one held accountable for this

[@marchduck2958]

No one did

[@heliosgnosis2744]

@@marchduck2958 Even if this happened in the US, this is the late 1980s not much if anything would have been done, maybe after a decade or so but even then, in the end just wasted life is all that would be the end result. This world is the problem not a certain nation., take a look around at common ppl anywhere, those who so rule them yeah, they are not there to make life better for the common person anywhere or place on the globe/map.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

Yeh but I understand their mindset ​@@heliosgnosis2744

[@marchduck2958]

@@heliosgnosis2744 , lol, you assumed that I didn't mean. I meant there were no companies back then as we understand them in the capitalist manner. I'm Russian, so I heard about such cases. Crimes are either punished or not, in any sphere in USSR you could have the whole administration or some usual worker punished for something less dangerous like this, so it wasn't about time, it was done, as I think, to not taint the image of the government. I share your worldview from what I see, but I think that any crime should have and investigation upon it ending with the fair punishment or justification

[@hosmerhomeboy]

Similar thing happened at a coal mine I work at. A few decades ago (before I was ever on site) one of the maintenance guys found a shiny piece of metal. He put it in his pocket and forgot about it. It turned out to be from one of the sensors, and was radioactive enough that the poor bugger lost most of his leg. He was otherwise okay.

[@anjachan]

new fear unlocked!

[@artbk]

almost every video, tho not for me on this particular case, because I was terrified of radiation for most of mmy life, thanks to that leaky nuclear submarine movie

[@tharuka25]

😅😅

[@juanmacias5922]

I find it wild that they couldn't find the vial of an element that emanates so much radiation, I'd think they'd be able to use Geiger counters, or some sort of measuring device to find it.

[@friedrichjunzt]

They just didnt care.

[@Kalvinjj]

As the radiation received drops with the square of the distance, you'll end up having very little information in a wide area if you don't have a clue where it is. If it's far enough, you'll not get much above the background radiation, if you have a good guess where it fell, and it didn't sink into the ground or such, you would find it quickly enough but otherwise it is really a needle in a haystack.

[@carv7374]

In México there is actually a story pretty similar to this, Cobalt 60 ended up used to make building material, and till today there is no idea where those materials are

[@moistsquish]

This is probably the saddest story I've ever heard

[@deborahaumiller7391]

Great to see the old format!!

[@A1Animator]

Does that mean the wall from spiderman was bitten by a radioactive wall?

[@T-J-S]

U

[@Ben-CipherK.OStyle]

Congratulations

[@yangliu6901]

yo bro congratulations for being the first comment Edit: I see what you did there, clever

[@T-J-S]

This comment was literally "D" before he edited it. Great way to be the first comment lol

[@antipathetic9603]

Body wash

[@haileybalmer9722]

Ah, Cobalt 60. A substance so dangerous that its casing is marked "Drop and Run."

[@bleukreuz]

I assume it is to warn random person who might find it so they know to get away from immediately.

[@Prehistoric_YT]

Father: Please! We have evidence. Our children and the children before them all died of cancer in that room. Please investigate! Government: Eh. Give us two years to decide…

[@jackr2287]

Soviet government, no less.

[@friedrichjunzt]

In Sowjet russia, you can be glad anything was done at all.

[@Prehistoric_YT]

@@friedrichjunztTrue

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

I think all government just next Budgeting for next year

[@saphiremeadows4829]

I think my next door neighbor apt is cursed too. People keep dying. Not from radiation poisoning but various other things. I'm glad I don't live in that apartment.

[@bekabeka71]

Is it the soviet building?

[@SusLord633]

For god sakes this guy can make literally anything sound dangerous. Rip for the families too.

[@thelibyanplzcomeback]

Nah, that's the news media's job.

[@andiftheycallmeaSLUT]

are gamma rays not dangerous???

[@levithebaddest2369]

Wut? A radioactive apartment is definitely dangerous

[@SusLord633]

@@levithebaddest2369 No I was talking about normal apartments. I think it's crazy how he can find stories involving death with like anything possible.

[@merriquelynn866]

I’m happy to have the little chibis back. They’re so cute and just feel more personable.

[@MaxComix]

Yay!!! Thank you so much for bringing back the amazing animations!!!!! Can't tell you how happy this makes me 🥰

[@zehkiel8018]

I haven't been recommended your stuff in a while. I thought you stopped posting. Checking your channel, that's not the case, and I've got a lot to catch up on. Hype

[@olm8829]

That’s soviet union for you. - We have lost an extremely dangerous item, what should we do, should we call the people with radiation sensing equipment who could find it? - No, are you insane? Search for it with your bare hands and continue to work! Of course it was just swept under the carpet and never reported. That’s what they’ve done or at least tried to do with every incident back then.

[@poka26ev2]

8:09 If the tiniest amount of radioactive material is dangerous, then what about the six NUKES lost to date?

[@CMStrawbridge]

Oh, we're all constantly being irradiated for sure, just some more than others

[@ferretyluv]

These vials are concentrated. Nukes are massive and won’t fission until they explode.

[@poka26ev2]

@@ferretyluv I know that the radiation from the nuke is not a big hazard unless eaten, but nukes overtime decays and particles ends up in the water

[@Slyfoxx]

​@@poka26ev2if it makes you feel any better 5/6 of the lost nukes are located in the ocean, so they're essentially speed running that water contamination lol

[@Lexi_panda]

brew: this building will take everything you love away from you Me: that's sounds like a crazy ex-

[@PerceptionVsReality333]

Like my 1st ex wife, but for my sanity's sake I let her take almost everything house included as long as she went away.

[@CookiePieMonster]

I'm just surprised no lawsuit followed.

[@AmaroqStarwind]

It was the Soviet Union.

[@rine3440]

I'm not, lawsuits in eastern europe, especially in ussr weren't as common and easily filed as they were in the US back in the day ( i have no idea where You are from but im guessing US). They would often end in the destruction of the plaintiff's career or would just be covered up as file mistakes or something else.

[@CookiePieMonster]

@@AmaroqStarwind Ah, I definitely missed that part lol, I was using this as background noise.

[@CookiePieMonster]

@@rine3440 Yeah, I misunderstood where this took place.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

​​@@CookiePieMonster the house is Government own. How do you sue a government-owned house

[@lynxxkit]

I swear everything can give you cancer at this point 😭🙏

[@yuukanee]

yes, existing is just causing cancer to you, just that yoyr inmune system is stronger, but cancerigens just make it more cancer than you inmune system can digest

[@Somnus_et_Somnia]

That is correct from medical point of view. It just needs the adquate substace to be activated. Those are different for different people.

[@ItzTerraYT]

And that is why cures for cancers are a pretty high priority.

[@GabrielleTheGreat0718]

Fr

[@dx-ek4vr]

Being born gives you cancer

[@Reny2408]

Oh my God how sad is that, those poor families

[@TacoDuke]

Always a good day when Brew posts :D

[@gsp0113]

Great video; not the first time I've heard of this event, but you did an excellent job with it. Also: Where's Quiz? Bring her back!

[@fridgeffs5662]

Cancer apartment sounds horrific

[@Mysteri0usChannel]

Why did the Soviets mess up with radioactive material so often?

[@marchduck2958]

No them only, though. It's just easier to attract lots of attention after messing up with radioactive materials

[@mukki9476]

oh my, i better be careful with my 500 containers of ccm 137

[@daveyjones8969]

Especially if you ordered bulk from China...they're the one product that probably ISN'T radioactive 😂

[@Huck305]

Ar u ok now

[@GeometryLemmy]

A new video from Brew! Yes!

[@thisisme3238]

Hey Brew...good vid dude 👍😎

[@SalfordMatt]

Note to self: avoid any building numbered 7

[@iamhungey12345]

Especially in a Communist country.

[@daveyjones8969]

My lucky number is 13. It's also considered a lucky number in hockey, and was my favorite player's number (Mats Sundin) so maybe I'm biased lol.

[@heliosgnosis2744]

@@daveyjones8969 13 was only made unlucky by superstitious medieval religious leaders and public a like, 13 full moons a year, 13 is the array of a witch's coven, the Knights Templar were first attacked by King Phillip IV of France and the Pope on Friday the 13th, 13 Zodical Signs, and I can keep going and going. I love the number 13 myself, the History of it makes it even better.

[@Hllee6428]

7 is a sacred number though!

[@SalfordMatt]

@@Hllee6428 not anymore for me, it’s banished!!!!

[@Ubergite]

Omg didn’t know people outside of kramatorsk know this story lol. When I lived in kramatorsk I was afraid that my own apartment had some sort of radioactive material in my walls

[@halcyon3116]

@07:07 wow this is incredible and so sad!!!@ ive noticed being sicker respiratory symptoms since moving into my apt.....

[@Xnoob545]

Check for mold

[@tinabraxton4906]

Very sad. Reminds me of the Love Canal neighborhood, in New York State. It was a housing development built on land that had been a dumping ground for all kinds of industrial waste. Sometime in the 70s.

[@JoshRendall]

Someone needs to make this a movie!

[@LolWutMikehSM]

Excellent video, one small bit. You said "Donet sik" it's more like "Doh neh tsk" All one syllable of course, spaces to help seperate sounds. Beautiful work everywhere else.

[@laudergy]

new fear unlocked: getting cancer from walls

[@cheriankalayil2362]

Can you do a video about the rescue of a guy named subhash who fell in a deep hole (900ft+) in the Guna caves (Tamil Nadu, India) and got rescued by his friend? It happened in 2006. It got adapted into a movie (Manjummel Boys)

[@Cman04092]

Australia managed to search miles and spent days to find that deadly material. But at the quarry, they couldn't be bothered to search 1 quarry with the proper equipment? It sounds like they just did a regular search, and didnt use detection eqiuptment.

[@user-ui8it3bw5x]

I use cesium po a poeered clocks in my time distortion unit. Building them was very tricky but if you know what youre doing, its quite easy to assemble and easy to handle.

[@lump_of_frustration]

I played the game which plot was based on this story, I found it on Steam and that's how I learned about this case in Kramatorsk. The game is super good but idk if it has English language, it's called "Bright lights of Svetlov"

[@melissahilsenrath1343]

now I know to be careful when choosing an apartment building and never going in floors number 5 and 8 again

[@Kayolol]

Thats tragic 😢😢😰😰😭😭

[@twocvbloke]

I was thinking it was something else, steel that had inadvertently been contaminated with radioactive materials that was used in constructing buildings, turning them into radioactive hotboxes of death, but, this just seems far worse given that it was pure bad luck that the radioactive thing was sat so close to childrens' beds in a wall... :S

[@AbsintheCosmos43]

Yikes, I live in Western Australia and never heard of that!

[@arch1107]

ukraine in in the 80, of course no one did

[@brewloml5079]

Today I learned that Bean is extremely radioactive 👀

[@saphiremeadows4829]

Hard to believe something as cute as Bean is dangerously radioactive lol. And someone as panophobic as Brew doesn't care?

[@Becca_anime122]

Hey, brew, have you made any videos on night terrors

[@grayhairs6292]

the man on a photo at 4:03 is not a radiologist. he is an urologist from Belarus and has nothing to do with that story.

[@yasamirtokauskas7928]

omg you should cover the mit "building 20" also known as "the magical incubator"

[@markbruk2974]

Okay, now who left the demon core in that apartment

[@echoedmusic833]

hi stew brew

[@DerEngel-IRl]

Hehehe Got the notification and clicked on it

[@renko7940]

Ohhhh, I am from this city, yeah, we heard about that, it was ussr times … so scary Building made with concrete panels, and when workers made that panel, they dropped radioactive element in raw concrete mass

[@AyrtonTwigg]

I love orphan source stories

[@imjody]

Wtf, this is actually insane. Woah.

[@MarkFin9423]

New landlord of this apartment: "now now, this apartment is perfectly safe to rent now, it's not cursed.......who left a demon core here?" ☠☠☠☠

[@mtshyna]

My first thought was with narrowed eyes: 😒ASBESTOSSSSSSSSSS

[@jessica_entrepreneur]

Ugh that was my first thought too 😫

[@nothingtoseehere7404]

history at a school ❌ this guy ✅

[@TheSimArchitect]

6:50 Welcome

[@songofyesterday]

I feel good about the Geiger counter I own out of paranoia

[@EnderLord99]

Oh no. It wasn't even the type that entitles them to financial compensation this time! Unfortunate.

[@arch1107]

no ammount of money can replace so many dead people, it doesnt matter, what matters is that source was found and no one will get radiation from it again

[@richard09able]

This is so sad 😞

[@startrexy]

Hi brew

[@kirkc9643]

The incident in Western Australia is appalling. The radiation source had been missing for 2 weeks before anyone even noticed.

[@NongIng]

Ah cancer Time to learn what else to worry about for my upcoming job

[@thedinobros1218]

Me watching on a CRT monitor: GOD SAVE ME

[@user-qx1om2wj1h]

No one bringing up Brew's radioactive tardigrade?

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

How is hot water and a working elevator cause for excitement?

[@trashAndNoStar]

cause it was new and uncommon in 1980 USSR?

[@carv7374]

Heck, at this moment in time there is still a lot of people who don’t have a department and let alone any kind of water

[@BERSERKTHIRD]

Working elevator and hot water. Amazing, I have to move out of my villa with cold water.

[@Kingcobra6699]

Wow, such a tiny lil thing.....

[@strawberry_shortcxke]

Bro I wanna make this an essay for school

[@LeoChiu229]

Wow, it's so SCARY & GROSS! ☹☹😢😢😾😾

[@bekabeka71]

I have the luxury to be owning a house an apartment an a cottage in the countryside 👌🏼

[@monad_tcp]

Let me guess, radiation poisoning. That's why I get a geiger counter of my own.

[@bendeguztoth9620]

Similar thing in soviet regions, or at least here in Hungary, they made houses of radioactive slag, it wasnt worse, but over time, you can get your life expectancy reduced. I think it was linked to smelteries.

[@centaurkt047]

How does a solid metal piece went through processing facility of cement ?

[@OatmealPancake-ej8ky]

ok and this is currently happening in North Carolina at NCSU- Poe hall is giving former students cancer

[@warriorx86]

New fear unlocked

[@BaxterAndLunala]

"Radiation flare! Big! 40 million roentgens!" "Just lost Holland. What's going on?" "Atomic excitement scrambled the signal. 90 million now!" "Source?" "Airborne; close." "How close?" *"That close!"*

[@notohkae]

the thing in the tank looks like a tick

[@talkingtomkinger]

Just one more video till bed The video: 💀

[@animalshorts615]

rip to the victims of the ussr's shortcuts

[@iamthirdyt]

How tragic

[@silverhassium0622]

New fear unlocked... 😭

[@someoneinasia]

lesson of the video: if you move into a new apartment, bring a portable geiger counter check every corner.

[@My_Op]

85 is my favorite number, i'd chose that apartment for sure: bad luck!

[@Merik-1337]

There is even a game based on this story, called Bright Lights of Svetlov

[@Flat_Earth_Addy]

Talk about bad luck...

[@mathieuleader8601]

that colbalt was like a needle in a haystack

[@abe_nuh]

could you do a video on malaysia's highland towers tragedy? thanks!

[@Margaret-wy3xy]

How do blocks on wood make cells mutate wrongly

[@NezukoSatoru]

MY MY that's why it's better to build an own home on your own land than these kind of buildings.

[@budgie508]

I'm scared of my walls now