There's a Nuclear Weapon Buried Somewhere And We Can't Find It 

I live 25000 miles from the location, I was not even born, still terrified to know this incident

Damn you're old, me to, lol.

@@redstonemacanic2434 being born in 1956 means they are 66 years old.

This is simply one of the most American things i've ever heard

@@asadhafeez9681 you're lying I guess?

US Navy divers finally recovered it in very deep water using what was then revolutionary deep diving equipment. The first black master diver was involved. There was a movie about him starring Cuba Godding Jr.

My dad was part of a team that mapped fields where one of the 1 of 4 bombs had hit a mountain and scattered its contents over those fields. They had to scoop up the top few inches of the entire area and put them in 55 gallon drums and I think they dropped them into the ocean but I really don't know for sure what they did with all that dirt. Anyhow, we were living in Germany at the time and before he left he brought home a Geiger counter to learn to use before heading to the site to begin searching for radioactive stuff. He claimed a few years later some of the guys doing the mapping had died from radioactive exposure but I was just a kid at the time so I don't really know or remember much of those details either.

We have concrete valts full of nuclear waste from medical and waste from power plants but mostly medical covering the ocean floor in multiple countries.

@@edreynolds8721 The aircraft carrier, the USS Independence, was sunk roughly 30 miles off the California coast near the Farallon Islands, and was rediscovered in 2015. It was not sunk under the Golden Gate Bridge.

@@john_t_england So most if not all of what Ed Reynolds has written can be taken with a bucket of salt . Seems he has a big chip or maybe a forest on his shoulder regarding Britain. He also forgot to mention "Three mile Island " , conveniently . Doing the blame game very badly

I wish I could buy you a pack of beers, funniest shit I have seen commented on this platform for many many years.

​@@tom4208irish?

@@N0v4.fr05t. I have irish in my blood but not enough to really consider myself an irish man

I wish more people could see this comment. It's hilarious! I can picture them yelling back and forth in the noisy aircraft. 😂

​@@tom4208 😂 Thanks I'll gladly accept them in spirit 🥂

Grandmothers, always so practical.

The devil heater

We've all heard of "the demon core incident". That would have been "the demon HVAC incident".

😂😂😂

Mark Whatney-disco vibes, anyone???

Good thing I live all the way in Boone a good 300 miles from Goldsboro! A lot of my family is from Goldsboro though so I’ve always been interested in this. If there are any Goldsboro natives my cousin started Goldsboro Brewery.

You're not Scott free yet bud, keep in mind that the NFS is only about 60 miles away in Erwin. If either of those things goes off, we both get to watch each other's skin melt off because I live in Burnsville.

@@dogge929 lol I was thinking the same thing. This nuke is so powerful that 300 miles wouldn’t be far enough.

Lmao I live within 10 miles of the place

@@Brosef336Boone is so beautiful!

did you change your thumbnail or am i going nuts

You are 100% correct!

Well, doggone it!! I enjoy Thoughty2’s videos a lot also and to hear this one was extra good makes me jealous. Can’t enjoy the story as much because I’m a North Carolinian. Locally and colloquially, this story is “getting long in the tooth”. But Thoughty2 is welcome to come for a visit to work on a video. He and I can look for white squirrels and boomers, hunt for ginseng and lion’s mane, eat boiled peanuts and livermush, show him a proper tobacco plant and, heck, if he gets *too* bored, I’ll find a church with snakes as a part of the service.

Not even close, with the 5 minute ad banter. These attack and destroy billions of my braincells per picosecond encountered by it. I need an in-video ad banter killer. Anyone a suggestion?

@@Xogroroth666 Meditation, bro.

Cool. Old school military guy passing on his story to be remembered by a couple kids. Edit: you might not have been kids, but you were to him.

And long thick round things , both thick and thin - which is still in situ . A good find , if precautions are taken , to find the buried treasure - and thin long rod , to fit your post .

Somebody is down bad . haha

‘Can I just put the tip in , nothing will hapen’

Imagine penetrating so hard and so fast that you could only recover one of your 2 cores.

Don't forget that untrimmed patch of overgrowth

Its funny bc it kinda gives u the perception that whatever you’re around is just a normal thing to be around and you assume they’re everywhere bc its all you know. Can only really appreciate that stuff once you see what other places are like

This episode happened a few months before I was born in Raleigh. There are photos from Las Vegas of above-ground regular "atom bomb" tests, not H-bombs like this one. Those spindly a-bomb mushroom clouds photographed from the Las Vegas strip are as far away as Goldsboro is from Raleigh. If it was an H-bomb the cloud would fill the camera's view finder.

It crazier to think how many people in thos comment section wouldn't exist right now. Of course the people from that area, but others as well. I really don't think the US would've taken blame for killing their own people. So this would have been the start of Cold War and possibly the beginning of the end for many of not all depending on how dumb we were. Considering this even happened I would say pretty dumb.

As if the government would approve education about anything that makes them look less than stellar lol

@@cowboybob7093 admittedly VERY briefly before the camera man died horribly, most likely

I think some of those nukes ended up in other countries. They were not lost at all.

I learned about it years ago on Mysteries at the Museum which is interesting. We also had a incident in Spain aswell.

Thought2 and MrBallen 2 my fav story tellers on youtube. Thoughty does more uploads i think. But admit Ballens way of telling the stories is usually better.

In most cases I've already heard the story he tells several times before, but he usually tells it a lot better than many others.

It’s the moustache… that glorious, perfect, manly moustache. It grants him immeasurable knowledge and otherworldly story telling abilities

He is thinking *2 times ?

Also, the undercarriage of both planes was down. My inner nerd, was in full-on "Hulk mode" watching that.

Hmm, YT must've deleted the other comment 🤔

@ADAM STEELE lol I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist pointing out two things: The first of which should be blatantly obvious, is it not? I too, have an "inner" 🤓 (nerd) The other would be my own personal, satisfying and egg headed love at discovering oxymorons. I'll leave it at that so as not to ruin the potential discovery for others 🔎🔬🔭🧪🔍

last i knew B-52s didn't refuel any aircraft. they were the ones getting fueled. obviously someone clueless made that animation. kind of weird someone would go to the trouble and effort to make a video then not get something that simple right.

@@danielbradley5255 : Ha, I know what you mean. My original comment, did acknowledge the obvious mistake. But alas, for some reason, ze RU-vid overlords didn't agree.

Or 22 fat broads from the local bar room dive.

That's one of the biggest differences between the U.S. and Europe. - One uses the metric system - The other has been to the moon!

Like 23,621 stone?

@@kd6420 they actually used the metric system to get there xD

@@kd6420 You forgot that the much touted trips to the moon were made possible by scientists and engineers who used the "metric system". The Apollo project documentation shows that all the calculations and design measurements were done in "metric" and translated into feet, inches and lbs on the last stretch, so that American workers could manufacture the parts and American pilots could fly the spacecrafts.

Think it's preventing the start of the new world simultaneously

So true🤣😂

All comments above this is true. At least at the time of writing this

The flavor saver

Agreed….but what’s it hiding 🤔😳

And so made an animation of a b-52 with its gear down getting fuel from a third scale model of a xi'an y-20 that was behind and below it...this is leaps and bounds beyond that time that sam o'nella re-painted a p-51 to be a japanese plane.

@@n108bg That's exactly what I thought! Funny you should mention it, though, because I only found Sam O'Nella's channel a few weeks ago. Was the P-51 backlash the reason he stopped posting for two years? (BTW, I just went there and he put up a new vid a couple days ago.)

@@RB-bd5tz I'd say indirectly, I don't think he ever came out and said why he was on hiatus.

I was a 135 maintainer, i died a little

honestly i unsubbed because of that

u go boom

I’ve had a front row seat to this ALL of my life….a few inches closer isn’t going to make any difference.

There's no bomb there isreal stole it.

the plutonium buried there is worth 30m$

This is "Military Intelligence" defined. 😂

Considering the adversary was Soviet Russia, and how Russia has always covered up disasters (there are stories of Tsars ignoring inconvenient serf-catastrophes because the festivities must go on! seriously) - What I'm getting at is: *Imagine the horrific near-misses and real disasters ordered to be silenced (by) Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev etc.*

Amen! I was a Cold War soldier in the early 1970s. I'd hate to tell you how many times we fired anti-aircraft missiles with live, "tactical" nuclear warheads at Russian bombers, only to cancel the launch sequence with scant seconds to spare. Once we actually did launch such a rocket, but destroyed it in the air when the Russian pilot broke off his attack. The "Cold War" was the most badly-named war in history.

@@ProfPoindexter1968 Sources?

@@ModernProspector I assume top secret. Those sources I mean.

I lived near Stantonsburg, NC at the time. I saw the pit after they reopened the road. They had massive pumps removing water they supposedly quit at digging 165 feet. The hole was also used to bury pieces of the B-52 that were not returned.

Nuclear bombs don't detonate on impact, and are not armed just by dropping it. There are multiple safeguards in place, and has to be a legitimate drop for the computers to take over the fuse. Nuclear bombs need a very precise series of events and explosions to actually detonate. You can mash them into the ground at 50,000MPH, and it still won't explode.

@@Mrbio41 there's gotta be some chance

@@jesscorbin5981 I mean minuscule. A nuke takes a series of millisecond timed explosions that have to trigger pretty much perfectly to detonate. And those can explosions only happen when the bomb is actually armed, and the computer takes over. That’s why you can crash planes with nukes and they don’t go off.

Plutonium would contaminate the ground water for centuries. I would be reluctant to drink or even use domestically any water sourced from that area. Crops too might be highly suspect. Official response from government would have been, " Let's bury it for the next generation. We will lose promotion."

Details...details...it's not nearly as scary...

Good to know.

Nice to see a comment from somebody who knows how a Teller-Ulam design bomb works. Thanks for saving me a bunch of typing.

Finally! Someone who knows the truth.

Cynical reply: Yeah, but how many decades did it take to come up with all those details. Honest reply: Things like the tritium bottle being full - makes logistical sense, reassuring.

Then how come I never win the PowerBall...?

@@buckhorncortez because if everybody has the buff and only one person can win it's like nobody has the buff

Exactly we cancel each other's buff when we compete. It's pvp scaling XD. But then there are still people who are lucky on their own merit so they are just kind of annoying.

because that would be too quick, we're to go slowly and painfully...

Maybe it’s Earth itself with the luck buff and not humans?

Why must we use bigger planes to refuel slightly less big planes?

@@digitalcurrents mid air refuelling is an important method used to extend the range of aircraft so they do not have to land. This saves time and fuel. Aircraft have a limited maximum take off weight but can actually hold more weight once they are in the air. Fuel is heavy, so by using only a minimum amount of fuel at take off, this allows the plane to carry a larger payload. Once in the air, it can add the extra weight of the fuel. Tanker planes, by necessity, are larger in order to carry more fuel and to be able to refuel many aircraft. Interestingly, the SR71 BLACKBIRD spy plane had fuel tanks that were not liquid tight. The SR71 operated at high speeds that caused incredible friction and therefore extreme heat. To deal with this heat, the plane was made of titanium, a metal both lightweight and strong. Titanium is also heat resistant and won't melt at these higher temperatures. However, when metal is heated, it expands. To account for the expanding metal in the plane, the seams between panels and in the fuel tanks were left with gaps so the metal would expand when heated and seal the gaps. So when the SR71 took off, it was leaking fuel and immediately after takeoff it would refuel to top off its tanks. Once it reached operating altitude and speed, the fuel tanks would seal when the heated metal expanded.

@@digitalcurrents When I was active duty in the AF in the late 70s we used KC135s to refuel to F111s routinely and they were nuclear capable strategic bombers used for deterrence as a part of the MAD triad but I never saw one loaded with nuclear weapons actually fly missions. That would have meant its time to party like there's no tomorrow and kiss your butt goodby.

@@williamwalker1264 thank you for your service.

@@MrDDiRusso thats some crazy old world engineering shit lol. That plane would have never been made nowadays.

God ain't going to get cheated out of Revelation.

Yeah, air raid sirens - and they had to be tested - during fifth period in junior high school - glad it was only once a month! Do a search for the RU-vid title _Chrysler V8 Air Raid Siren. At "Big Daddy" Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing._ And this clip explains how they work (not how I thought, mechanical not electrical) _Klaxons; What makes them sound like that?_

What's the plot twist?

What the fuck are you even talking about man...

That's kinda gross.

Why do you write this all the time

I enjoy your corndogs sir

I think it's more "little known" than secret. Everything involving it at all seems to be declassified now. Still, hilarious comment about the sign :D Yeah I'd say that's not too secret.

I don’t think he called it a secret once😂

Dont worry theres only been like 32 Broken Arrow incidents

@@goatpepperherbaltea7895 literally a little more than one minute into the video he calls it a secret.

The radioactive fuel (uranium and plutonium ) is still there buried 200ft down. Amazing to think how heavy that thing was that it buried half of itself 200ft down.

@@patricktaylor4431 really? We had to hide under our desks and everything lol

I went to grade school in the 60's and 70's and we never did the drills either. Guess they didn't care if we died back then.

@@MakeshiftMartyr I'm from Kentucky and I remember those drills. We actually had a fallout shelter between the two school, the elementary and middle schools. So it's possible since we had that we would practice going into it from time to time. I was a sensitive little soul, well still am, so I cried my eyes out the first couple times.

@@tubedude54 😂

@@illbeyourstumbleine yeah, it took me quite a while to under what was happening.

True Lol

Oh yeah... I can still remember nuclear bomb drills in school... just what a younger generation should be taught. ;o)

Hahaha

@@gnarthdarkanen7464 I'm so wondering if that's better or worse than the active shooter drills of today.

I believe one of those nuclear bombs is still somewhere in the ocean oof the cost of Spain as well.

@@kbanghart Well, at least in elementary, we had "intruder" drills... They seem similar, but the bomb drills specifically got kids away from windows as if it was likely to make a difference. We also had to "duck and cover" for a bomb that sounded like a really big firecracker we weren't supposed to look at... A lot wrong with the 80's, but I occasionally miss my innocence. ;o)

You are right, he is on my top 3 YT channels, along with Mr.Ballen and Fascinating Horror. Honnorable mentions: - Bedtime Stories - Dark History - Scary Interesting If you don't know any of these, please try em out, they are worth it. Cheers

@@mistral-unizion-music Thx mate, you just added to my list. Cheers!

That's just the stuff we know about. It's no wonder people have no trust in governments when this is what they do as a hobby.

Man US problems are effing large scale. How many plutonium cores they have dropped around the world. I think there is one in Himalayas or there was I don't know.

main problem they have lost one whole bomb in a swamp. I can just imagine our future a dude decideds to build a skyscraper on a swamp because the city grew too much and turns out he digs up a intact bomb and goodbye city.@@IronFist080

Mr Fourty 2 got a rocking new haircut

you cannot accidentally set off a nuke, they are made to be deliberately set off, in order to prevent a nuclear explosion from happening on accident and wiping out a US city

Yes - the public knew about Strategic Air Command and their mission.

almost 5 mil subs, hardly underrated

@@richardbottom9843 Still underrated

thats crazy....ud think the wings falling off would make it more streamlined lol

Truth should be sacrificed more often in favour of cripple rhyme.

I think he would also make a really good interviewer.

And loose any credibility that he has? Your better off staying on youtube.

If the soviets had sold a nuclear warhead, we would know about. Someone who has interest in buying a nuclear bomb either does so to scare off others or to use it. Or would you be hiding a radioactive nuke in your basement just for fun?

That is too logically, we are dealing with the government, who downplayed the situation

They probably knew it opened 19.5 feet under the ground an just buried it an never even tried to look for it. But how's it ok to farm it an grow crops around it but not build on it. Wouldn't it leach into the ground water if anything ?

It’s probably still intact - remember, it’s designed to be robust enough to maintain it’s symmetry while being compressed by the explosive initiators. Also, it’s likely sufficiently well shielded that the sensing technology of the time couldn’t pinpoint it. Modern computer-based imaging systems that use radioactive sources, if adapted to the problem, could likely find it, given enough time to acquire data points. This is assuming that the core in question is, in fact, the fission-based primary, and not the fusion-based secondary. If what’s missing is in fact the fusion core, there may not be enough radioactive material present to be a major hazard. I’m no atomic expert, but I was under the impression that the fuel used in the secondary was principally tritium; not plutonium or uranium as is used in the fission based primary.

Now see, I knew I wasn't the only person who thought this story smelled far too fishy to end on the way described. The recovery team was confident enough the radioactive material was dislodged from the bomb itself into the ground yet unable to find it at all but still certain it was somewhere under the field and stable enough that the field is still farmed to this very day?

“Excavation of the second bomb was eventually abandoned as a result of uncontrollable ground-water flooding. Most of the thermonuclear stage containing uranium and plutonium was left in place, but the "pit", or core, of the bomb which is needed to trigger a nuclear explosion was removed.”

That's how Governments work...