"So I'm going to go back to the elevator on the 32 floor" *finds out that the 32 floor no longer exists and he's forever trapped in the liminal spaces that make up this hotel
There was an old Twilight Zone (original 1950s series) like this. Someone goes on the elevator to the unused 13th Floor of a department store. The mannequins live there, as in actually come to life....
Thats not that unusual. A lot of buildings have an elevator that has more levels cause it leads to the top and the top is not that frequently visited so no more than one elevator is needed
That's actually alot more normal than you think. Depending on the building. Some elevators will only take you to residential suites or hotel suites... ect. Some will allow only a certain amount of levels to be accessed.
@@JerrysJets Probably dogs because that shit is not going to kill you instantly and dogs will torment you and fight you. An anti air cannon will blow you to a mist instantaneously. I would rather be anti air gunned than dog fed.
The Prophet's mosque in Medina consumes more electricity than the entire country of North Korea. 400ish MW vs what?? That really blow your mind. Edit: it's actually 12GW for the mosque and 1.5GW for the country (548 kWh a year per capita)... meanwhile my household of 3~4 people consumes 7500 kWh a year
@@amir3515 Every pillar in Prophet's Mosque is fitted with ACs. And there's hundreds of pillars. The ACs are what consumes so much energy. Should be using renewable energy sources rather than burning coals and fossil fuels.
@@amir3515 Prophet's mosque is a 1400-year-old building with lots of history. This is indeed a special place, it's even mentioned in the Hadith. Outside of the 3 Holy mosques, it's a place of worship like any other, throughout the planet. The problem is not about the massive electricity and its costs, it's the amount of CO2 being released by burning coals in order to meet the 12GW demand. That's scary.
Many might not realize that Erick is really brave for exploring and recording this. If you did this in the US, likely nothing bad or remarkable would happen if the management caught you. In North Korea, he could have gotten in major trouble if authorities found out he had footage of a second-rate mostly empty hotel.
More like dumb & naive! It's seriously a stupid fuckin thing to do! If they'd caught him or searched his footage(which they do) they'd instantly arrest his dumb ass & charge him with some majorly deadly shit like "espionage" &/or "crimes against the state" which both only lead to death! There won't be any REAL trial. The ONLY reason they'd do a trial at all is because he's a foreigner & they'd have to put on a show trial for world media who'd surely be there and broadcast N. Korea pretending to have an real judicial system as they always do! They'd claim he's a spy pretending to be a tourist to infiltrate N. Korea & evaluate N. Korean 'infrastructure' for future warfare to take out "Dear Leader" who's the people's only savior(🙄) preventing Europe & America from invading where they'll enslave all the men, behead all the children, pillage every home & rape all the woman! This guy could expect to be sentenced to either concentration camp or execution but he better pray for execution because in the camps he'd be in literal HELL! He'd be brutally tortured to death slowly in every way imaginable & way more you could never imagine!
yes... like, they're surely gonna send an armed squad just to catch you and torture you because you went to an empty floor in an hotel... thats how dictatorship works, isn't it?
Imagine being in the elevator waiting for the second stop and it opens to a dark unlit unfurnished floor with this dude standing there. I'd piss myself no joke.
Dude that is absolutely terrifying, I have stumbled into empty floors in high-rises in downtown Dallas TEXAS before and it's creepy but doing that in NORTH KOREA absolutely not. What if the elevator simply wasn't programed to stop on that floor after you walked out of it, what if the all stairs led to a dead end I'd be having a panic attack
I actually phantisized of going to one of those dark floors, laying down and passing away and no one would ever find me. So ideal. I want to make it come to pass
I wish I could noclips right into Pyongyang. Looking at my computer / Wishing I could climb though to that place I see on my screen Looking around for that portal / This is the kind of world that I'm longing to be in. And I can hear the breezes calling / Through a wall of raging chaos / like a ghost that keeps on calling, til my feet are on their ground. Take me away, to the DPRK. I've been jonesing so long. Take me away to the twinkling of those sights in the city of Pyongyang I'm traveling into their time zone, watching the sun set slowly around the curve of the world And I dreaming of those who care about, loving one another without regard to the color of their skin While the USA is collapsing into a ball of confusion, you will find me with joy laughing, happy that I found the true solution Take me away, to the DPRK. I've been jonesing so long. Take me away to the twinkling of those sights in the city of Pyongyang I've got to get away I've got to get away I've got to get away I've got to get away I've got to get away I've got to get away I've got to get away I've got to get away I got to get away, I've got to fly away, yeah yeah I got to get away, I've got to fly away, yeah yeah
No he's not. Simon Wilson went and the one who took him has been there 70 times and says the people who talk the loudest, he guarantees that they've never been there. None of these commenters have been there.
Sagar Badade What's the worst that could happen? I find being alone in places like that both comforting and exciting :) Though maybe not in North Korea, who knows, they might decide to shoot you for leaving the lights on :p
Try being a security guard for a week at some old factory, hotel, skyscraper, abandoned hospital, current hospital etc. Wander empty dark hallways alone for 50 hours a week.
The horror genre needs to learn from this. eerie emptiness and lonelyness but still knowing that people are around, and could very well be watching or listening just around the corner. Scary as hell
The scariest part of all this is you could actually be found by a creepy man and taken to be tortured for the rest of your life here. Genuine real life horror.
"There is a ping pong table in the middle of the lobby and doesnt even have a net, rackets or balls" North Korea: *"Yeah, well i just thought that, well rackets, nets and ping pong balls are a bit too rebellious and represent a threat to our nation."*
Exactly. All rooms are bugged, elevators are bugged and the hotel is full of cameras everywhere...and yes there are army/intelligence people monitoring everything in stations on the locked floors.
I wouldn’t call these floors empty, there just aren’t many guests so a lot of the rooms are vacant and they keep the few guests they have in the same areas/floors rather than across the building. Probably to save energy.
Otto Warmbriers fate was such that upon returning to his floor the elevator doors open only to reveal 5 armed state security agents - who quickly rushed him each grabbing a limb while the fifth agent pulled a pre-primed syringe out of his breast pocket and in one motion with frightening accuracy & speed sunk the tip into Warmbriers restrained rear shoulder, simultaneously sinking the plunger and its payload of generic Chinese veterinary grade sedative designed for bovine use -rendering Otto into a deep state of unconsciousness nearly instantly. Even more terrifying then the initial ambush was agents adeptness with state sanctioned abduction - indeed Otto barely had a chance to place the events together being completely blindsided - it was only after the needle was stabbed into his shoulder that he realized he was being abducted ...he opened mouth and yelled as loud as he could, hoping to bring attention to his plight, but no sound would escape his mouth, as the paralytic effects of the sedatives had already effected his vocal cords. The last fleeting memory as he decends into a thick mental fog was looking into his captures ink black eyes. The agent steel glaze locks eyes with Otto while a sadistic maniacal expression washes over his face, hes always been amused by the terrified muted response of his victims own bodies betraying them due to his ......."pharmacological intervention" as he later would type in his standard INCIDENT REPORT, which, unfortunately for Otto, the "status of accused: " section was finalized with a red stamp - the text of which read "IN CUSTODY / ONGOING INVESTIGATION"
I was expecting the "empty" floor is like a carpark with no lights and a unpainted cement floor and bunch of pillars. Also with expose plumbing on the ceiling.
It's the context that he's in a country that made a foreigner beg for his country on international television before sentencing him to execution just for stealing a poster that makes sneaking around in these rooms creepy.
@@machina5 they didn’t sentence him to execution, it was forced labor camp for 15 years. He was released 17 months later and died shortly after returning home due to severe brain damage
@@machina5 far worse actually. IMAGINE the difference between a clean execution vs being so severely tortured to the point that your brain begins to atrophy
Well remember that at least half of North Korea's population do not have any reliable electricity grid. But given that they have it in short supply the least that would have done is send the whole of Pyongyang into a black out.
tjperez69 I'm sure they have backup generators and things along those lines to avoid power outages in pyongyang, or at least in the hotels. They know that they'd look bad if tourists knew how poor things like the power grids were there. Well, tourists DO know, but NK does everything they can to make their country look less bad to tourists than it really is.
really? I would've thought they would at least try to convince people power is all good in NK. you'd think the the government there might think of giving all the hotels backup generators in case of power outages, and just not tell anyone the power is running on generators when it is.
Looks down hall, "I'm a little bit creeped out right now", turns to leave but then turns back to hallway, "Let's actually explooorre" I laughed out loud to this, I relate so hard
Jin Johnson I don't think there's a motion sensor thing or whatever it is that detects an object is in the way of the door Soooo you might get your hand chopped off :/
When you consider the treatment Otto received for a very trivial offence, you have to realise how fortunate you were. I can't believe even unused floors don't have surveillance installed.
stupossibleify yes this video is insane. Likely extremely rare footage to get away with this. They literally will check your camera for stuff like this
I have been to North Korea several times, and even live in the city of Dandong in China which is just across the river from a North Korean City. This guy has serious balls to be even doing, let alone filming, this. I don’t feel safe doing that in China either. This guy, like other foreigners who film sensitive content, likely went to the 3rd floor of the Pyongyang train station on the 7th day of the tour, and went to the broker (who looks nothing like a broker) that smuggles footage like this across the border into China, and paid him an INSANE amount of money. Then he sneaks it across the river into China (Living in Dandong I’ve seen a few at night) and then places the camera and its footage in a house in Beijing. You then have to fly to Beijing, go to the house, and pick up the footage.
@@La-PetitMort Yes, it really is. I’ve lived in Dandong for 20 years as an international school teacher, and in recent years have seen greater frequency of people fleeing North Korea
I was expecting _actual empty floors._ Like, the elevator opens and you'd only see a massive pitch-black room. You'd turn on the torch on your phone and you'd find naked cement on the floor and walls. The only things there were the elevator, the door to the stairs, and at the very end of them, the large panels they sometimes turn on to give impression they're actual rooms with people in them. But no, these useless floors are actually built inside too. Well, built in a very loose way, as if it's a game prototype level come true.
3:00 Just Imagine this door actually opening, only for it to reveal Kim Jong-Un sat down behind a desk, directly facing the door. He looks straight into our protagonist's eyes with a disappointed look on his face, before saying "you just couldn't help but poke around, could you?". Then the video suddenly cuts out.
As a retired security officer, I can tell you the layout of that building from a fire safety standpoint oh, it will honestly give you nightmares. Can you imagine a hotel that size built built in any other country and no backup generator for if the lights go out ., and you had to do any evacuation?
this dude went to these abandoned floors, turned on the lights of the whole floor , talked how creepy it is the whole way through and then uploaded the whole damn thing to YT. What a Chad!
I am surprised that he was able to slip away from his chaperones and explore the hotel like that. I am also surprised that the buttons for the upper unoccupied floors actually work.
They already execute all their citizens 😔 (I mean obviously not literally all but the majority are starving and they do send people to prison camps and many die)
