'I have a manhole in my back garden – what lies underneath leaves people horrified'

A antheral who lives successful a erstwhile World War Two service campy has shared the concealed task helium is conducting beneath the manhole screen successful his backmost garden, and radical are divided

A antheral has lifted the lid – virtually – connected an bonzer underground lair beneath his garden, each hidden by a manhole cover.

Dave Billings, who shares his enactment connected YouTube and TikTok, lives connected what was erstwhile the tract of a World War Two service camp. After spending years constructing off-road contention cars and Motorsport Roll cages, Dave embarked connected an ambitious caller task – carving retired a 40-foot passageway connecting a web of bunkers to his house. Now, it's astir finished.

In a caller video, helium is seen descending done the manhole, landing connected a woody pallet with wheels. As Dave films his journey, viewers are shown a premix of aged and recently built bunkers arsenic Dave glides on the way heavy nether the earth.

The way opens up to a immense ceramic chamber, which helium says volition soon beryllium finished, earlier returning to the archetypal bunker and ascending a chromatic staircase, emerging from a well. The task has near immoderate of Dave's followers feeling uneasy, with 1 commenting: "You are brave, I'm having a panic onslaught conscionable watching you."

Another shared their dread: "This encases each my worst fears." A 3rd remarked connected the expanding anxiousness they felt arsenic Dave descended: "As you started going down my fearfulness level went up, past adjacent further erstwhile you laid down. Only bid was seeing the larger rooms connected the end, but these tunnels are not for me."

Dave kicked disconnected the unsocial task successful December 2023, transforming a shipping instrumentality into a operation reinforced with timber and factual to forestall collapse. He said: "It's 1 happening gathering yourself a bunker, but there's 1 much happening you've got to deliberation about," earlier revealing his solution: an illustrative publication that helium claims "tells you however everything is made."

"Penicillin, country tools – it fundamentally goes done however civilisation was made," helium said. "But my favourite spot is however to marque intoxicant – due to the fact that I deliberation if you're going to past a atomic blast, you're going to request terrible amounts of alcohol."

Critics person weighed in, however, with 1 sceptic retorting: "If a atomic weaponry was to beryllium dropped, nary of the earthy things successful that publication would beryllium immoderate bully for consumption," adding dryly, "I accidental you could devour the book."

And different pointed retired a flaw successful Dave's endurance strategy: "Unless you person each of the supplies listed successful the publication stored distant successful your bunker you're inactive not gonna survive. Eventually you'll tally retired of nutrient and supplies and everything supra volition beryllium radioactive."