Doom and gloom might not be so gloomy after all.
Do you have close to $2 million burning a hole in your pocket? Have you ever wanted to live in Las Vega? Do you believe that a doomsday bunker might eventually be necessary?
If you answered “Yes” to all three questions, I may have just the place for you.
A home in Las Vegas is for sale for about $1.75 million, and while it’s not in a particularly fascinating part of town, it’s got something that probably no other home in the country has – a 15,000-square-foot living quarters located 26 feet below the ground. It features a pool, two Jacuzzis, a sauna, a four-hole putting green and a dance floor. Built in 1978, it simulates above-ground living with lights labeled day, sunset, dusk and night, and plenty of nature murals on the walls.
http://www.patriotheadquarters.com/The original builder of the home, Jerry Henderson, presented the idea for subterranean dwellings at the 1964 World’s Fair and co-founded the Underground World Home Corporation.
Take a look at this Las Vegas home including its underground bunker.
The price for this particular home is way out of reach for the average American, but if you could afford it and have plenty left over, would you want a home that featured a doomsday bunker where you and your family could survive a holocaust? Would it bring you peace of mind to know that if the worst were to occur, you could survive while many others perish?
Please let me know your thoughts about this.
The linked article is from 2013. According to Zillow.com the bank foreclosed and the property sold for $1.1M in 2014. It is not currently (Dec 2016) for sale.
Are you kidding? EVERYONE knows China has bought most of the upside down property on Vegas. Why would anyone want to be in a million $ home, just looking to be attacked? In the big city of SIN where all the not so nice crowd will be, and in the hot desert? Besides it is insulting to even suggest that we might have 2 million burning a hole in our pockrt, when most of us, stocking survival goods with every extra dollar we get, could never afford that. DISAPPOINTED IN YOU!
Seems everytime I hear the word survival on the internet there is always a dollar sign at the end. For me I have the things that will help me if something happens. However if you spend all your time money and thoughts 24/7 are you really surviving NOW. Stop obsessing over what might happen and enjoy your life with family and friends. That “awesome bunker” with the kool aid vomit color wont stand up to the rapture or a giant meteor that we will never know hit us. Have fun learn from the past live for today and if tomorrow comes do it all over again.
I’m sorry to say all you people thinking you will live a long life if the SHTF are totally wrong. you will live if all goes good only about 5 years. There are to many variables for you to live longer than that. If you have all your medications and all your antivirale meds you would live maybe 10 years but I doubt it. unless your 20 years old, then I would say you would live 10 years. If your smart? women have a chance to live 15 to 20 years due to the child bearing ability. but if not also 5 to 10 years. If someone cares for them????? But keep thinking. :)
All this talk about coming disasters has my head in a swim! I know it’s our responsibility to take care of our loved ones, yet, after we put out children through college, save for retirement, and now, ready ourselves for an underground shelter in say Las Vegas, to the tune of well over a million dollars, is unthinkable for most Anericans! I’m just a saying!
Just a few thoughts.
I’m hoping this has a grid-independent power source for a disaster scenario. What would be the water source? How about waste management? Ventilation system?
This seems more like a stealth venue for wild parties than a disaster shelter. My underground shelter would not be in the middle of a big city. It would have more than one (hidden) entrance. It would not have minimal energy-consuming appliances, and would look more homey. I’m not a fan of fake vegetation. I would have some real plants as a morale booster, which would be worth the small extra energy use for lighting.
Ooops! Typo alert. I mistakenly wrote “It would not have minimal energy-consuming appliances” but I meant the opposite. I’d want minimum energy requirements in my shelter. Duh!
Digging holes, fortifying basements, hiding under desks, duck and cover, is not new. But if it all comes down to one event I’ll be standing outside so I can get a full dose.
Did u c the pink toilet?
Must be an Elton ish who built that John.
Just sayin
Looks real nice, but I just don’t have $2 million lying around.
Why would anyone locate to Las Vegas in a survival situation? Las Vegas is in a desert and is running out of water as I write this. No point in being buried underground before your time and that’s what you would be if you lived there. Without water, there is no survival, underground or on-ground.
Boys and their toys. If you head North on I-15 from Las Vegas and you look towards your right. You will see a very large boulder in the distance all by itself. Believe it or not there is a man that dug under that boulder and made a home for himself. When he tried to sell his home he was shocked to find that no one wanted to buy a home with a large boulder for a roof.
In any case, both these people don’t have to worry about the zombie apocalypse.
If you choose to have an underground bunker, the one thing people seem to forget is that you need ventilation that can be isolated from the outside environment. You have to think of yourself as living in a submarine or a spaceship. Without an carbon dioxide scrubber, you wouldn’t last 90 seconds. If your system depends strictly upon outside ventilation then you are a goner. If the ventilation pipe is covered by say snow or under water you will suffocate. Should your ventilation pipe be discovered by an enemy, they could plug it up or throw a smoke grenade down the pipe and force you out or kill you out right. Suppose you don’t want anyone to know that your under ground bunker is there. All they have to do is follow the pipe. So if you are thinking of living under ground think close system and watch out for zombies.
So when is all this dooms day stuff supposed to happen?? All we here is talk.
It’s happening all around us if we just watch the news and listen to our friends and neighbors..
Dave, saying “dooms day” is a bit vague. What we do here and say her is basically bring to your attention a changing environment that seems to go against the grain of the American People. This country was founded on certain Rights that seem to be under constant fire by those that wish to control you and others for their own means. Furthermore, we try and teach as well as inform people things that they may need in case of an emergency. That is to say something more than the lights going out for a few hours.
If you haven’t noticed lately, there have a lot of server storms hitting the country. Hurricanes, tornados, fires, mudslides, and volcanos, not to mention, heavy rain storms and flooding. We try to educate people to inform them to prepare for whatever that comes their way. If you get nothing less from my comments then understand this, you need to have extra supplies and equipment until things are straighten out should Shit Hits The Fan. Think of it as being a Boy Scout, “Always be prepared.”
I would be interested in buying this home and would like to see it.
Please send me more information
How many people know about where it is
Can I get a floor plan above and below ground
Thanks
John
I built my own passively solar-heated 3 bedroom, 2 bath, living room, dining room, kitchen (1800+ sq. ft.) house on 26 acres of land in the late 70’s/early 80’s for just over $110,000. Water well inside the house for water (pipes can’t freeze), a generator to create electricity if needed. It can be done for a LOT less than you think and the savings in heating alone creates a payback almost immediately. Piece of cake and easy to do.
OH I fofrgot, it is underground but only by about a foot which is all you really need.
I think that every person, especially parents, have these thoughts in the back of their minds everyday. Seeing the daily news reports, our world in kaos. To me, a more affordable option would be for larger families and/or friends to combine resources to design, develope underground self sustainable small villages, neighborhoods, cities. Each family and or person would have a specialty-education, skill set. A wide spectrum of knowledge based areas would be required to provide an environment that could be sustainable for weeks, months, years and/or generations. IE: engineer(s), electricians(s), plumber(s), scientist(s), doctor(s), nurse(s), teacher(s), IT-computer programer(s), farmer(s), agriculturalist(s),
Botanist(s), specialist(s) in alternative energy production and maintenance. This is just a small list of the ideal group knowledge based individuall(s), not in any specific order, I believe that every person involved in my ideal scenario would be of great importance. I believe that each person would need to be able to communicate, educate, cooperate, rationalize, lead as well as be able to follow, show compassion and be selfless. My scenario, in my mind would require all involved to have an extremely strong resolve and be willing to put others, community before self. This is just a short limited description of my long thought over plans…
My faith tells me there is a better place beyond this life and while I believe in having food supply and power available for short term emergencies, I really don’t think I would want to live in a world of chaos, it is getting bad enough now with the liberal agenda, marijuana, gun battles and government into everything. I just hope my family and I go quickly and don’t have to endure riots and fallout etc.
Jackie, Never give up, never surrender. You were placed on this Earth to do GOD’s will, not to turn tail and run home.
Living underground doesn’t appeal to me. I don’t know, I’ll have more than ample time for that later. I’m afraid that at the age of 73, although I’m still a survivor, If it going to be a long and drawn out strugle to maintain an existance, I’m just going to have to let it go. 3 mo, 6 mo, ok I can deal with that, but I think that would be about the extent of my limit. The other reason is that my wife isn’t well and has no fight left in her. I believe about 3 mo. into this type of a senero and she would have had enough. After half a century of living with the same woman who would want to go on by themselves? Another 3 mo of lonelyness would probably do me in. So you see, while some prep is necessassary, I’m not looking at years of trying to maintain a survival program. Don’t get me wrong, if my home becomes undefenceable, we still have an rv loaded with solar power. We live in Idaho 2 minutes off of the interstate and 2 hours from Yellowstone. Mountain camping for us is in our back yard so to speak. Water is the lest of my problems here in the Intermountain Northwest. What meat we dont have I gennerally can get right outside the door of our 5th wheel. We could sit out several months in the mountains here, and the fishing isn’t bad either. I suppose it all would depend upon how fast my wife lets go and how lonely I get afterwards.
I believe that those who tell everyone about what they have and where they live, are sending up an smoke signal to those who would have no problem breaking in or attempting to steal kill and take for themselves. And if a disaster hits and the bad government wants to find you all they have to do is look up records of purchases. The best thing to do is do it privately and do not tell everybody. Keep it to yourself and your family so it will stay secure and known to those whom you want to be there.
I know a lot of what you say is very thought provoking to say the least. I feel that most of the things that are discussed, like solar/wind power is very obtainable and easy enough for most people to follow. I’ve just completed my wind generator, but have one more component that is coming in the mail, which is the all important charge controller. This devise will help from over charging your pmm (permanent magnet motor) 12 volt was my choice. 600 Watt, 12 volt low rpm. once I have the charge controller installed, then I will go to the next step and build a solar panel to back up the wind generator to keep a single marine battery up to par. Later I will add more to my battery bank. Then move on to solar water heating. I’ve not put in a underground shelter yet, and it sure wont be twenty feet underground, but at the very minimum a safe shelter for such things as tornados would be a prudent move to keep your family safe and will offer you protection from fall out (nuclear). Now Biological and chemical is a different preparation altogether you will need to research a lot more on that subject. The objective, even if your not at ground zero is to protect your family or your self from fall out for approximately 14 days. Thermal radiation is the immediate concern. Gama rays travel in straight lines, so what I’m saying is if you are four feet underground in a metal container and an air vent that is an inverted U at least 18 inches off the ground it will not get any of the fall out inside your shelter. Keep in mind that you will need food and ample fresh water supply. But just the basics to keep you warm dry. This scenario will protect your electronics, Ie, radio, TV, cell phones, ham radio etc. from (emp) electro magnetic pulse, which would destroy any electronics not protected. A lot of years ago solar storms on the sun caused plenty of interference to electronic. If there is a nuclear blast in the atmosphere unprotected electronics will not work, not even your vehicle. I could go on and on but it would just make you fear a disaster and education on these matters will help you to survive. Not everyone will perish, there will be survivor’s. So bottom line is to survive a disaster.
You speak sense to me. I would like to hear more of what you have to say.
If I had the money, I would buy an abandoned Minuteman silo. Lots of protection, restricted access, lots of floor space. Worth every penny it cost.
Do you realize that the USSR, Russia, already has your coordinates and that they may strike there first before hitting anything else in the country? The Russian’s know its there, they just know that it is no longer being used.
Interesting! But for 2.9 Million dollars you can buy an Atlas Type F missile complex just outside Boulder Co. and it comes with 210 acres of land. Much better deal. Now you can store your food up to 180 underground thanks to Uncle Sam!
Wouldn’t an underground bunker be the ultimate environment if a doomsday event does occur? Providing that the bunker is self-sustainable. It would need its own power, water and clean air filtration systems and room to grow your own garden – within (I’m just guessing, but 15,000 SF should be able to handle it). Considering all the well thought out amenities, it would be wonderful to live safely underground! There would be room to bring in our loved ones, if the need arises! Besides, I dislike mowing grass and washing windows. :) But, I totally can not afford it…oh well.