Comments on: Nazigarten

Nazigarten

orthogonality — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:38:04 -0800

~~Nazi~~ German Bunker in my Garden: "[...] the previous owner told us that there was a tunnel built by the germans during WW2. He said it was big enough to drive into, [...] So I traced some WW2 reconnaisance photos of the property, which appeared to show the entrance road to my bunker. [...] And that's where the quest began....." (Original thread here, first link is to condensed but more readable blog.)

By: yort

yort — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:59:02 -0800

if the youtube BBC story on this is any indication, this is more like Al Capone's vaults. oh well.

By: DreamerFi

DreamerFi — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:03:25 -0800

If you ever felt like Mefi has its threads full of useless remarks and all kind of shit, try to follow that thread. I find the story interesting, but gave up - it's almost impossible to find the posts by the guy owning the property amongst all the garbage... Perhaps somebody braver than me can find and link to all the individual posts... other than that, good find, ortho!

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:16:39 -0800

So that's one less place where the Amber Room might be. Still, it must have been interesting to be the guy who found out he had a 60' bunker under his yard.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:22:31 -0800

Just read the weblog, DreamerFi - it's a teensy bit disappointing unless you really like photos of rusty metal, but much easier to read through. (That said, I'm sure I'd be pretty excited if I found a WWII-era tunnel in my garden too.)

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:53:22 -0800

I love these kind of stories, even if they end only with the uncovering of a big hole in the ground. This one already has a few surprises, even if they're not the discovery of Nazi booty. I'm excited to hear more. And I was sad to see Bob go.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:54:31 -0800

Well one never knows. There might be a scottish guy down there punching numbers into a computer. Or maybe I just watch too much tv.

By: Razzle Bathbone

Razzle Bathbone — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:12:17 -0800

Abandoned Nazi bunker, another thing I need to add to my Zombie Apocalypse survival checklist.

By: Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese

Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:18:46 -0800

This is the money quote: "Oh, and I hadn't warned the wife either... so I had this to explain [giant hole in yard, earth-moving equipment] when she came home."

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:20:15 -0800

"...even if they end only with the uncovering of a big hole in the ground." Just a big hole in the ground? Holy crap, do you know how excited I would be to discover a weatherproof steel-roofed underground RV storage tunnel and workshop that size on my property? You'd be able to see my boner from space!

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:37:54 -0800

so I had this to explain [giant hole in yard, earth-moving equipment] when she came home. "Don't worry, honey, it's just a Nazi bunker."

By: nudar

nudar — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:16:05 -0800

Seconded Crash. When I was a kid, my friends' parents owned a farm up in the hills, and we spent pretty much all our available time searching for these kinds of things. The place was dotted with all sorts of abandoned mine shafts and hidden gems, and the holy grail was the legend of an abandoned WWII tank somewhere out there. We never found it, but coming across something like this tunnel would have blown our ten year old minds. That part of me never died, finding something like that today would be just as good, if not more so.

By: exogenous

exogenous — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:26:03 -0800

Awesome. A very little history of the German occupation of the Channel Islands.

By: mosk

mosk — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:29:17 -0800

From his user profile on the Pistonheads site, he has a nifty blog of his own with much more condensed and readable descriptions of his find: http://gardenbunker.blogspot.com/

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:20:32 -0800

me: I love these kinds of stories, even if they end only with the uncovering of a big hole in the ground. mr_crash_davis: Just a big hole in the ground? Holy crap, do you know how excited I would be to discover a weatherproof steel-roofed underground RV storage tunnel and workshop that size on my property? You'd be able to see my boner from space! I'm not disagreeing with you at all, Mr. Crash. I was saying that even just finding a big hole would be exciting. Finding a steel-lined tunnel is awesome! I do not need a climax worthy of an action flick to enjoy this stuff.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:49:04 -0800

Too bad the nazis never envaded America, otherwise we'd have stuff like this. Wait, what?

By: ryanrs

ryanrs — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:52:44 -0800

America has a bunch of nifty underground structures courtesy of the cold war.

By: nuswanto

nuswanto — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:06:30 -0800

Interesting story. Not much story about the nazi bunker out there.

By: bystander

bystander — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:44:06 -0800

What a fantastic discovery, and the hints that there might be other bunkers too. I love poking through the junk the previous owners leave behind under houses we've lived in, I can't imagine how exciting this would be.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:33:07 -0800

Too bad the nazis never envaded America, otherwise we'd have stuff like this. Wait, what? You should read up on Prescott Bush and the Smedley Butler affair. And then consider that Prescott's son and grandson have been running your country. No invasions necessary.

By: JibberJabber

JibberJabber — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:58:29 -0800

This post only reminds me that I live in a boring house and neighborhood. Then again, if I uncovered something like this in my yard the HOA probably has some clause against excavating cool shit without prior approvals...

By: atchafalaya

atchafalaya — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:45:20 -0800

I grew up in Germany, and crawled through several bunkers as a kid. There was a hill near where I lived we played on a lot, behind an old fire station that had burned. We were told the hill was a bunker, but didn't know any more than that. Years later, a family bought the fire station and turned it into a pension. They dug into the hillside in back and uncovered a door, which led down some stairs to a bomb shelter. My friends and I spent some time exploring it, including an emergency escape tunnel that led to a dirt-filled dead end.

By: flug

flug — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:55:30 -0800

Too bad the nazis never envaded America, otherwise we'd have stuff like this. Wait, what? Last year I was digging to plant a tree in my yard. Hit the corner of rectangular cement box. Covered by a metal plate. In fact, rather like this (from one of the blog pages). Inside it looked rather like this as well (from the same blog page). You can only imagine what we thought it might be--treasure chest, secret passageway, entrance to a cave, nuclear bomb shelter . . . But I won't drag out the suspense--it turned out to be a septic tank. If only we'd had Nazis invading America, we could be digging up something interesting instead of a roomful of 50-year-old crap . . .

By: Z303

Z303 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:38:24 -0800

Really fascinating, the blog is great but a pain to scroll up and down to read the story in order from the beginning, so I've linked all the entries below Background Shrub Clearance Arrival of Digger The Boulder Breakthrough First Video Inside Mini-Hammer Arrives Goodbye Bob! Clearing the Entrance Inside at Last! What Would Dave do? Guns! Guns! Guns! Waiting Game Luftwaffe Connection? Local Historians puzzled What's behind the garage? Photo behind garage Time to slow down a bit! Next door Tunnel? Video inside Tunnel More Video Getting Impatient A little bit more history... BBC Feature 1940's Recollections French Railway Steelwork? Forward Planning "Lego" Garden Bunker Set Identifying the guns shhhh...Don't tell my wife Local Myth and Legend Digging can resume!