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The Man Who Discovered a Lost Ancient City in His Basement

A man from Derinkuyu, in the Nevsehir province of Turkey was renovating his basement. Using only a sledgehammer, he broke through one of his walls; and felt cool air coming in from the other side.

Inside he found a small room-sized cave. This area of Turkey has complex cave systems so he thought he accidentally stumbled into one.

He didn't.

That first small room -- was only the beginning. Let's find out why.

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Yeap, why is this video unavailable, whyyyyy?🤐😪😭

Paula Soto Maior

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The Why Files

why can't I see this video? such a bummer!

Dena Sewell

Your comment is old so you may not see this! I would speculate that if humans spent a long time underground, and their children were born underground etc, they may become accustomed to it and even feel safer there? I was watching a fascinating YouTube video last night about a whole city in Africa built on water :o For a lot of us, we might become uncomfortable very quickly balancing on beams over murky waters to get from place to place etc, but this is how they live their whole life and they love living there (though poverty is sadly a huge issue). Or like how some sailors become so accustomed to being at sea, that they develop a preference to it? Back to the underground city, I love being underground ^_^ There is a silence and a stillness when you can feel the weight of the Earth above you that you never experience in the open air. If enough people developed that feeling, I can see how an underground city could thrive!! Apparently there are entire underground cities (where people actually live) in this world to this very day. I think there is even one in New York if I recall correctly :o It's such a fascinating topic, I wish there were more hours in the day so we could spend more time learning about all the cool stuff in the world :D edit: I now can't find any info about the modern underground city in New York, though I've only done a quick search. I researched it about ten years back, and remember asking a friend who lives in New York if she'd visited the underground city which had apartments and streets and all-sorts. I had heaps of images of the entrance-way and everything :o Now I can find no reference of it, and don't know where I stored my research. What if it was all just a vivid dream??

Manumelita Ngamai

Wow, that was really interesting thanks mate 👍

Daniel McGrath

I’m not so sure that these cities were built for humans at all. At least not how we understand them to be by todays measure. People have a very hard time spending long periods of time underground and that’s because of the Earth’s natural frequency, called the Schuman resonance. It’s oscillates at 7.83 Hz and is also the exact same frequency of our brain’s alpha waves. People tend to become very I’ll, depressed, their sleep patterns are distrusted and generally feel like crap. This is why, when out in nature, you feel more in tune with your surroundings. A study in 1952 confirmed this. They may have been built for temporary protection but they seem too elaborate for only that purpose. Just a thought. Your videos always get me thinking

Moon Raker

Another great upload, AJ 😊

Moon Raker

I never know whether to comment here, on YouTube, or on our Discord. Why not all 3!?!? Great job as usual AJ

Jim Hoffman


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