Why Fort Knox is Totally Forbidden 

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Not my tapes, they’re still behind my couch.

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Or millions of pieces of paper with I.O.U. on it...

Like in the simpsons episode

Our economy is 20 trillions our debt is fine. I would like it lowered by lowering social security payments just a little . Over 20 years ,the debt would go up just a little while the economy expanded. DO NOT give dead beats $400 billion for debts for college.

@@paulbedichek5177 The national debt is now $32 trillion, that is a quarter of a million dollars for every US tax payer, the country is essentially bankrupt.

@@paulbedichek5177 AMEN

that's what the Chinese are for!

its been emptied out for decades. thats why they dont allow visitors or any audits, even though its supposed to belong to the taxpayers.

If you don't ask the answer will always be no

If it's any consolation your father isn't alone in what he did.

Fortune favors the bold but even still that’s extremely bold 😂

@@anthonyxuereb792 I can imagine their were quite a few that did that (we are Americans after all) that would also explain the seriousness of the response.

Your father is an American Legend. Asked the question most of us are afraid to ask. I say, make them tell you no. As Americans, is it not our gold and our fort?

Story, because government workers are knee deep in bull.

Is it empty?

Please tell us is it empty

Out if spite rather than anything practical…they could see he was a golfer..if not, they shouldn’t have guns.

My neighbor says he was stationed there in the 90s and claims the rumor is there Is no gold.

Is that because the gold has already been stolen by our "government's" leaders ? Our money isn't backed by gold, so I'll bet some insiders hauled all of it home.

As a journalist, I have visited Ft. Knox for news stories, and I visited once to counsel a soldier who had gone awol.

@@brianarbenz1329 If the soldier was AWOL I assume you didn't "counsel" him at Fort Knox...also, as a journalist why would you be counseling him? Not disputing just curious.

​@@Capt_OscarMike AWOL soldiers are placed in PCF (Personnel Confinement Facility) for counselling and eventual outprocessing, if they ultimately choose to leave the service.

One trip to Ft. Knox was to do a story on a private contractor modernizing the base's computers. But when I got there he was not able to make it -- because he had been arrested. The arrest was off base and not military related. His employer's HQ in South Carolina claimed he had used the company credit card to buy lots of personal electronic supplies for his own use. I went to the jail in Louisville to look at his arrest record and found that this man had a list of alcohol-related crimes a mile long. I don't know what role booze played in his alleged credit card misuse. But when I met him, he had that red nose and sunken cheeks. Very unexpected twist in that story.

It is american history it was built 1800s I thank it was a military prison they took the wall down they should have tours

Kentucky.... EXTREME COLD.... LOLOLOL

They didn't have tank engine heated blankets back then?

if there were really gold in there 2 tanks should be there constantly , no be able to be there within 30 minutes.

@@yourfriendlyneighborhoodic128 I was just a tank crew member that trained Army officers and Marines on tank gunnery. I didn't write the policies. I just followed orders. I don't think anybody was going to get very far with the gold in 30 minutes. It would take them longer than that to get past the machine guns. There is really gold in there. "Before that day, President Roosevelt was the only non-authorized personnel to step foot inside Fort Knox and inspect the vault. Since then, only treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, Governor Matt Bevin, and a handful of other Congress members visited the vault in 2017."

@@davidpalmer9780 I never heard of any.

It should all be sold to pay down the debt.

Agree.

You're correct, yet it's still there. But I raised the question as to whether there's more gold in the vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, because the US stores some portions of gold reserves from a couple of countries who feel that's the best place to keep it. I was too lazy to go check Google...

Germany tried to retrieve its Gold that's supposed to be down there. They were denied to even inspect the Gold and some pressure from the media, the US sent a tiny amount back to Germany. It came out, that the Gold Germany received was not the Gold they originally deposited there. There is suspicion, that the Gold is long gone, which explains the US' behavior. Eventually attention to the case died down and nothing happened since.

@@abcde_fz how do you know it’s still there?

Dude, the rich schemed away that gold 40 some years ago. I am certain that its an empty room as far as gold goes.

​@@Trigger200284 Possibly, still, I for 1 ,would like an audit .

Mr. Goldfinger robbed it during the 1960s ! :-)

@@Trigger200284 you obviously have no idea how it's laid out... There are multiple vaults or "gold rooms" as you seem to prefer, and on multiple levels... Before you go and think too much, take a minute and educate yourself.

@@kevinfreeman3098 I am fully aware of how a vault works. I am fully aware of how fort knocks is supposed to have gold. Take a minute to educate yourself as to what my comment said before you reply with building layouts when I commented that the rich have disposed of the gold for their own purposes. You see, you can have a 4 bedroom house and no beds. The only way you know if the beds are there, is if you can see them. The owners claim there’s beds but there’s no proof. I think you might be brain damaged…

Doesn't have anything to do with the post? Lmfao, it absolutely does, the Cavalry and Armor are the primary reasons it was built there, you could have no locks and no "security" at the vault and you still wouldn't get off post when you have "guards" in battalion size in heavy armor and bloodthirsty, crazy assed horse soldiers just waiting for a reason to go fubar sh!t... Otherwise they'd have planted it in say Missouri or Nebraska. Don't care what anyone says, it very so much has to do with the military and their firepower being as far away as to where you can stand there see nothing, feel the ground rumble, turn around light a cigarette and turn back around and be staring eye to eye with 500 battle rattle troopers and over 5,000 backing them up in under 10 minutes... But by all means, assume what you'd like, it was brought there because of the Army, otherwise they'd have left it with the wingnuts and SAC in Colorado, but I guess they didn't like the Sally's to have anything but computer's and the keys to the big boomsticks and weren't real fond of the idea of possibly having to mine the gold a second time if the mountain took a hit, if you're tracking. Granted much of that came later(threats like nukes) however they were in the presence of some of the finest minds in the world and wanted to cover their 6. No way in hell the wingnuts or Treasury police would stop an invading force(that was the main concern, not just "vault busters", they were planning for a massive, coordinated attack, think of 'Diehard' type gold heist)

My wife was born in the Fort Knox base hospital while her father was stationed there. Even as civilians we were able to go back and visit the base. It is only the depository itself that is off limits.

@@UnlikelyToRemember Ireland army hospital... That's the name of the hospital on Post

As someone who lives in Elizabethtown i can confirm the gold vault and fort knox are two separate bodies. i regulate fort Knox as a civilian.

@@kevinfreeman3098 that was the name of it. I haven’t been on post since 2011 and believe the hospital isn’t there anymore. Only a clinic to take care of the people. My X worked at the hospital for years and son also. My dad also died from cancer on the 7th floor b-wing in 1983 there. Was treated there a few times as a kid when we lived on post and also when I worked on post as a civilian. Fort Knox isn’t what it was a few years ago that’s for sure.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OXgEg0FVvD4.html shows Goldfinger broke into Fort Knox!

It makes excellent sense to store your valuables under the auspices of the cabal.

August 24 and June 1936

​@@RandyleeKingSrwhats that date for

Yes,and a great decision,it made the US so much more wealthy.

Hmm, I have bills redeemable for silver. Pls lmk if you remember when it happened.

@@TamagoHead August 1971

@@ojnavarro Ty!

Happened during John Kennedy's Presidency. Our good friends the French, whose rears we've saved twice, started requiring all other countries or businesses who owed the French gov't to pay in U.S. dollars. Then the French exchanged the dollars for U.S. gold. Kennedy got tired of it, and the law was changed.

There is a second, lesser known depository for silver, gold and platinum at the West Point (NY) Mint. The mint produces and sells commemorative coins with all three metals.

Fort Knox did not keep gold coins--they all had to be melted into bars first before coming into the premises. People received paper money for their turned in gold coins.

Thanks for watching!

Can confirm.

A good friend of mine trained people in the California desert to operate tanks. He did it for like 6 years. One day he just left, I guess, and moved back to southwest Ohio. A few years past and the military snatched him up one morning in an unmarked van. We didn't hear from him for a while but when we finally did we had to drive to Fort Knox to pick him up and take him back home.

May of been at one point but the all the armor divisions was transferred

@@PrinceCezar27 The Canadian tankers were envious of the US equipment. they could be quite disparaging of their UK and US second hand equipment.

The US Bullion Depository is located next to Ft. Knox, not in it. Two separate parts of the government on separate land. The Department of Defense and the Department of Treasury are next door neighbors here.

It's interesting that a former enemy (U.S. Revolution, War of 1812) held one of your sacred documents for protection during World War II and returned it to you after the war. The Magna Carta is precious to us, too, as an ancestor to our Constitution. [insert RU-vid emoji for "Respect" here]

During the war when the Germans were sending V1 rockets into London at night, the MAGNA CARTA was loaded into a bread truck and driven norh to Scotkand where a lone American submarine was waiting in a cove. The MAGNA CARTA was put aboard and the sub crossed the Atlantic, swarming with U-boats. It reached the US and the MAGNA CARTA was delivered to Fort Knox where it was kept safe until the end of the war.

I learned this fact from Die Hard with a Vengeance.

it's theoretically there but if a govt requests it to be sent back they won't do it. they have lent it out for a rental fee.

That's what we're told. It's been pilfered and far less than we're told.

They hire beefy high school kids to move the bars.

@@paulbedichek5177 Yeah, like bond having a gold brick in his golf bag.....

There's not just one vault. There are multiple vaults. And they look more like walk-in closets. Many years ago the press was allowed in and they opened vault doors so that photographers good take pictures and prove that the gold was there. This was like back in the 60s or something. The gold was there, but the inside of the place was hardly impressive along the lines of a James Bond movie. Think about when it was constructed and what other office interiors looked like at the time.

@@larryk1865they only showed one small room when there is supposed to be 150 times that. They also speculate that the little bit of gold shown was fake

@@blainebunton -- As I've said, it's not in the depository. It's under the Federal Reserve Bank in NYC.

Where did the dust come from? 70% of dust in building interiors is from shed human skin cells. Nice bullshit story though.

Uh, no... That's BS. It's ALL stored in the Federal Reserve in New York, Fort Knox has been EMPTY for quite a long time. All it houses are "props"... Not gold, or any other valuables.

A while back Germany (now unified) wanted their gold back. The request was refused. They then asked to just inspect it. Again...refused. They had to get the courts involved and finally were given a time table to be given back their gold in many small shipments over many years. Every bar of German gold was clearly marked but the few that they got in the first (late) shipment was unmarked and when asked where THEIR gold was...were told that it had to be remelted to be shipped. BS. The truth was their gold was LONG GONE and the Fed had to scramble to get a hold of some to send them. What gold is actually there has been leveraged, sold and traded since we were taken off the Gold Standard.

You are confusing Fort Knox with the NY Federal Reserve in Manhattan. There is more gold stored at the NY Fed than at Fort Knox but most of it is not the property of the United States Government.

That is not Ft Knox,but NYC,which has far more gold.

@@recoilrob324 got a source? Didn't think so.

I think they meant that it cost $4,000,000 for all of the labor, probably including the cost to build the building and transferring the gold. The ENTIRE VALUE OF ALL THE GOLD transferred was $4 billion. Remember until 1934, gold was valued at $20.67 then got raised to $35 until technically 1971, when it got raised again to $38. In 1973 it was raised to $42.22 although no place on earth (including the US government) was buying or sell it at that price. It's still mind boggling to read that it cost roughly $1,000,000 (probably $20,000,000 in 2023 dollars) for that secured building when today it would cost $20,000,000 just to get anything done. Government spends like there's no tomorrow.

@@stanleykijek6983 You need to take a course on economics. There are terms like inflation, value-added, and appreciation you have no concept of

It's the Appalachians that are the danger, you go into them hills, you don't come back out.

Heap of IOUs 😂

@@ausguy4385 My great-grand kids will be paying those off for life!

@@inconnu4961 ---no, we should all be gone by then.

Makes sense

Only 1 out the of the 12 holds any gold. The 2nd District FRB. All 12 process cash to make sure it is fit for circulation however.

Misery, Agony and Heartbreak....

Before or after 9/11? I went to basic in july 2001. Got weird after that. Went from being in a peacetime military to wartime in the blink of an eye.

Not that far physically. Literally that shit may as well be in space.

I work in concrete and for small jobs we load trucks of 90lb bags in minutes. 27lbs is nothing.

@@ceedavis5178 How many people work on that kind of job?

also its placement is stupid i live in the county and its like just right next to the highway its so dumb but i guess they have thier reasons

All they need are Piper Cherokee's with Delta 9 nerve gas and Goldfinger and disable an entire regiment. I know, it happened in the 1960's. Fortunately James Bond was there to rescue us inept Americans!!!!

Ft Knox is on the base I fact it's almost int he middle of it. Plus that base is a tank base your aren't surviving if you try to steal it. They are always on patrol and even as a soldier if you went close they would threaten you. This is in 08 idk about now. But was also told there was no gold it was moved out to NY in the early 2000s

The outer layer of the stack is real gold bars. The inner layers are shaped 2x4 wood blocks painted gold!

The other interesting fact about gold. It wont slide against itself. One of the reason gold bars have tapered sides is to be able to get your fingers under the bar to lift it off a stack

@@glenchapman3899 Gee, that ruins my impression of gold bars as having gracefully smooth surfaces that slide just like ice!

@@brianarbenz1329 Yeah sorry my Dad used to work for the Australian version of Fort Knox. Used to laugh at all the bank robber movies were they are stealing gold bars. As he said absolutely nothing happens in a hurry when handling gold bars

Obviously, we dont trust our government as far as we can throw them; and entirely with GOOD reasons!

...and profits could go towards paying down the national debt.

Same applies if you visit the US mints or the BEP building in D.C. or Dallas/Ft. Worth

I live 10 min away. If your car breaks down on dixie hwy outside the gates, they'll send mp quick af.

Happen to me twice in 6 years. Blown tire and oil leak

However, i am sure there is stuff stored there that they do not want us to know about. What that stuff is, well we wont ever know.

How old are you,I lived there in the late 90s and went to MacDonald middle School and Scott middle school

@@AdrianSmith-ds6yv almost 40. lol I went to 8th and 9th grades there; Scott Middle and FKHS.

@@brandonevans1043 do you remember a Sgt Garcia from the high school

Partial 9th grade

I'm 36

Die Hard 3

so does Geraldo...

We _wish_ that arrogant sleazebag had never risen higher than state senator.

We Kentuckians don't acknowledge McConnell. He has betrayed the Republicans in America.

And Paul is dead.

Yep, hence all of the security, you would need a fleet of freight trucks to rob, where you gonna take it?, on the other hand , if word gets out its empty, what do you think would happen, yeh it's national security at stake, dog and pony shows prove nothing.

@@brianarbenz1329 caught him stealing the gold?

Got anything to eat in here? I lost my key and can't get out.

Next is in Osaka 2025. Previous was 2020 in Dubai

Knob Creek?

@@dougs4944 you know it!

Lol; it makes absolute sense to carry around heavy, easily counterfeited gold coinage whose spot value is volatile to say the least!

Yeah, that trail of tears doesn't hold a candle to taking us off the gold standard, amirite?

Does it matter

On the fingers of one hand I'd wager.

Dominion, the company that made the voting machines for the 2020 election made the counting machines needed at Ft. Knox.

@@mikejohn0088 that is not a reassuring thought.

@@pauldavis9387 --tongue in cheek on that one Paul....can't count gold ingots with a machine.

@@mikejohn0088 😂

It used to be completely surrounded by mature trees, hiding the building. They cut the trees down and cleared the area around it to make it easy to spot anyone approaching. 🍻

"Chain length" 😂

@@vvillem9 I let that one slide 😆 🤜🤛

Nobody can read here. No worries mate.

It's just dull not shiny