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The only time I have ever been to this place is in Fallout 76, but I am quite impressed with how accurately it is depicted in the game.

Omg this is insane to me that you’re posting this - I was just at the greenbrier in July, my mom works for World TeamTennis, who as you mentioned in the video moved their season there for 2020 due to Covid. I got to stay there as a result of her job & had an amazing time; obviously not all activities were running because of the pandemic but given the circumstances, the hotel did a really good job with implementing rules to reduce the spread of the virus (there were no new infections the whole time I was there). We stayed in the West Virginia Wing & got to tour the bunker, it was so cool! An absolutely beautiful place - I hope to go back! Thank you for making this video, this is one of my favorite KZfaq channels!

As a native, I can tell you that this was only a secret to everyone NOT in a 50 mile radius, for decades. My grandfather told me about it before it was even declassified.

I was fortunate enough to stay here for a week back in the early/mid 2000s. It was incredible, absolutely beautiful and the service was top notch.

I play Fallout 76 on the regular. So this is a particularly cool video. Thanks Simon!

I took a tour of this back 2010ish. Pretty amazing and highly recommended.

I like that "other legislative needs" was right after "latrines". Seems apt.

I’m from White Sulphur Springs! i know every square inch of that resort like the back of my hand!

Not far away is the Green Bank Radio Observatory, it would make a nice Side Projects episode.

I'm from west Virginia and a huge fan of all of your channels. PLEASE do a geographics of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, another local amazing spot. Love to see videos of my barely known state. Lol

Excellent reporting. I worked at the Greenbrier in 2002 and met several of the secret-keepers. Your capsule summary is commendable.

_Country Roads, Take Me Home..._

Anyone else immediately click on this that has played FO76 at some point? *raises hand* As always, great content Simon!

I had the wonderful fortune of staying on the grounds, and seeing the town. Absolutely beautiful!

We just started our channel all about West Virginia history and folklore. Really cool to see a large channel like yourselves cover some WV history and locations. Love your work!

watch out for scammers there. they price stuff too many "caps" and sometimes blocks the golf courses with ridiculous buildings that sometimes deify gravity

Playing FO76 and at the in game Whitesprings that is based off the Greenbrier. Ironic. And awesome this popped live when it did

That Wash. Post reporter was probably real proud of himself, revealing the big secret bunker. Good job. Except that probably cost the taxpayers a couple of billion dollars to build another one.

"Rural West Virginia?" Simon acts like there's such a thing as urban West Virginia. I've stayed at the Greenbrier. It's really nice, and VERY expensive.

Many thanks for this video! My grandfather worked at the Greenbriar resort in the 1950s. I enjoyed learning more about it.

I've been by it a dozen times but never stopped. My grandparents met there during WW2 after grandpa was injured in Europe and grandma was a nurse. They were married and he went home and she was shipped to England.

I grew up down the road in Roanoke, VA and have been up to the Greenbrier many times but didn't know the whole bunker backstory. Great video!

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Hey Simon! As a WV resident I have come to know this resort very well. Jim Justice is our current governor. They hold a lot of parties there and I have attended quite a few Greenbrier Classics. If you ever decide to visit let us know and we will show you around!

Several years ago I took a tour of the Greenbrier Bunker. It was an interesting experience. We were shown a small part of it.

I love this place! I've been meaning to go again. Skip the tour though, most of the bunker is closed as server farms. You see almost as much as the documentary, which you can find anywhere. Some of the bunker is open without a tour

Bethesda ironically rented the bunker for the public Fallout 76 reveal.

I live about 2 hours from there and can remember learning about this as a kid.. it still blows my mind! I surprised you didn't cover the "alleged" underground highway from Washington DC to the Greenbriar! 🤣

I used to work there. First job outta culinary school

Thank you for this! If you can squeeze it, please consider doing a video about Mount Weather in Virginia. It shows up in movies and TV but they rarely get it right. This is where the President was sent in case of emergency.

Absolutely love the Norm example at the end, he is a legend is his own self...great vid as always Simon and also congrats on the new baby!

It seems it was the inspiration for the whitespring bunker in fallout 76

Is it just me or does Simon look a lot like the guy from Biographics?

Declassified in 1992 and by 2000 we were all going there to tour for school field trips. It's super cool!

Grew up about 5 minutes from there. Still remember when the bunker was opened up back in the 90s and they let us school kids tour through it. Kinda neat really. Nobody found it surprising. We had the largest runway in the state and air force 1 did touch and goes sometimes weekly.

I think this is the only geographics place I have ever been to.

Stand down soldier, you're at the Whitespring!

You mean... Whitespring Resort?

Think that's a weird state name, most of Kentucky was once called Transylvania. There's still a Transylvania University in the state

Very happy I found this video, I watch Simon religiously and I grew up in the area around The Greenbrier. This place is absolutely amazing, if you ever get the chance to go please do!

While attending law school at Washington & Lee University in South West Virginia, I participated in a clinic assisting inmates at the Alderson Federal Prison Camp for Women. The prison was located about 15 minutes from the Greenbrier. Three law students would visit the prison each week, working out to each student making 5 trips a semester. During my last trip to Alderson, my fellow students and I decided to stop by the Greenbrier for tea. It was an incredibly beautiful place. Most of the inmates I encountered were there because of drug crimes and did not come from particularly privileged backgrounds. But at least one of the inmates I assisted had family stay at the Greenbrier while visiting her. There certainly were inmates that did come from more affluent backgrounds. She was after my time, but Martha Stewart is probably the most (in)famous former resident of the prison and I would guess many if not most of her visitors stayed there. There would have almost been something poetic about placing the seat of government right next to a prison. But as the prison serves only women and most of Congress is still made up of men the rhyme falters a bit.

Thanks for making a video of the Greenbrier! I live about 20 minutes away from it.

This one time, in college, we played a jazz gig there, and we visited the basement gift shops and bought cigars. Then we half snuck around near the bunker entrance to get a peek at it. The place is relatively massive, and just driving by, you wonder why the loading dock is about the first thing you notice when you see it. Not the usual faire for a high end resort.

I used to live near The Greenbrier. I’m glad I have left that area. The one time I recall going there, I was not all that impressed.

Ironically in fallout 76 it has a tendancy to get nuked on a regular basis

Country roads, take me home To the place I belong West Virginia, mountain mama Take me home, country roads

The Greenbrier is one of my old jobs I was raised in West Virginia and lived in lewisburg 10 mins from the resort I miss living there but sadly I moved to get away from the meth the county was so nice at one point but now tweeters rule now lol but this so far is my favorite video you have made thank you

I grew up 20 minutes away in Callaghan VA just over the state line.

I've been waiting on this one. Went for a tour a few years ago. It's a pretty cool place.

I would like one on houska castle its a really weird castle with the defensive walls on the inside because they though there was a portal to hell there. Great halloween subject! The nazi's also did some shady stuff there. (Yes I will persist!)

Excellent research Simon 🦋 Thank you for sharing 👍 Have a great week

Do Mount Weather next

Now you should talk about (ahem!) Bilderberg Hotel.

Glad to see WV has made it to Geographics!

In the same vein, the Diefenbunker - Canada's similar bunker outside Ottawa - might make for an interesting story. I can vouch that it was a fun and interesting, if a bit quirky, tour.

Thank you Simon!

One of the best. Most interesting. Thanks Geo team.

There was rumor of Cass Scenic Railroad to buy the Amtrak rail line going passed the Greenbrier, then again I wouldn't be surprised if West Virginia were to place it under official Historic Preservation so they could do that. If this plan does follow through, that would bring in tones of caps-... Er, I mean... Tourism dollars to the area connecting the entire Valley with steam locomotives from the Greenbrier to Elkins, WV. They could go crazy with it and connect the ski resorts all along the mountains too. That's of course if someone doesn't nuke it for XP grinding and legendary hunting...

If the bunker did need to be used due to war, what happened to the regular staff of The Greenbrier? Where they permitted in the bunker?

I’m from West Virginia this is cool to finally see a video about my state

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There's a Norm Macdonald link in the description. I'm not mad at it 👏

Ahhh so that’s what Whitesprings is based on in Fallout. And ever since the Saints stopped going to the Greenbrier, they’ve gotten much better.

Please do one on the "Cueva de los Tayos" and all the claims surrounding the subject.

My grandmother worked there in the 20's before she married my grandfather.

Great video! Did you know that from 1968-2015 West Virginia was home to an active Naval base?

My Parents stayed a the GB many times...just to play golf...it was very nice.

The White Springs Resort!

After getting hooked on Business Blaze, I forgot how professional Simon can be when he wants to.

I'm guessing it was only the members of Congress that were concerned about the fate of Congress.

Having grew up in WSS and right at the Greenbrier. I love the fact it was the best worst secret in US history.

Why would ANYONE desire to save five- hundred Senators and Congressmen ?????????

Westsylvania was a proposed British colony pre-Revolution. The proposed name of the state was Kanawha.

A nice US Cold War subject would be the Goldsboro North Carolina broken arrow incident.

For some reason, I feel like you've covered this before, a couple of years ago. Probably just me going crazy, but I've got serious deja vu.

I worked at a marina in Florida during the 90s. The owners of the Greenbriar had a yacht there. They needed a babysitter for a New Years Eve party so I had my teenage step sister go to the yacht and watch the kids. They did her right. But, they were very snobbish and judgemental. I had to clean their yacht before they came to town. As I'm cleaning, I see a tray with what looked like a joint on it in the galley on the cabinet. Well, I figured maybe someone had cancer or whatever. Then, when they got to town, all hell broke lose and I was accused of leaving a joint in their yacht!!! Really, well it wasn't me but they never trusted me again and that was that. But honestly guys, it wasn't mine lol.

Hey I would like to see a Geographics video about the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India! I visited the temples and caves recently and was absolutely astounded. Unfortunately I didn’t have a guide so it was just me and my yoga teacher walking around.. but please do a deep dive into it! If I remember correctly, it was built over 400 years (out of a friggin granite mountain!) and included work and design from the Indian Hindus, Islamic Moguls, the Jains, Buddhists... and was actually something the Moguls didn’t destroy but further helped to create.

Whereever I clicked on the timeline of the video i saw the same guy. Is there not fotage of the bunker?

@15:35 And the reporter was not charged with treason, because "the public has a right to know!" They weren't too bothered by that in the days before and during the D-Day invasion, if a reporter that leaked plans would be shoot under the same charge.

Not sure if anyone has said it, but since you mentioned it in the video, how about a vid on Raven Rock? I've got a thing for bunkers

Love the video simon keep up the good work

Simon, put Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker on one of your channels.

Hey Simon, I have been there! I was at the casino underground with some high roller gamblers!! It was awesome!!

Simon you should do the Diefenbunker

Also this place was used in the game fallout 76. Kinda funny knowing now it was a actual fallout bunker.

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0:35 Hokay, so basically we got China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, North Korea, the UK, and us, with nukes. We've got about 2,600 more than anybody else, whatever. 8:43 The Interstate Highway System would probably make a great video for Megaprojects. The story is much more in-depth and involves the Autobahn (another great idea for Megaprojects) and a cross-country trip in the 1910s.

Saw the thumbnail. Thought it looked just like the Whitespring in Fallout 76. Started watching the video. It IS the Whitespring. Realized the name change was just removing the Sulphur from the old town name and mashing it together.

Yay! I suggested this on mega projects!

Thank you for doing this one.

I finally sub'd after watching a lot of your catalog.. good stuff

So fallout 76 makes more sense.

I live in West Virginia. Thank you so much for doing this video!

dude i've stayed there! it's really really pretty (also ridiculously expensive) but that's only like two hours away from me, wild

I heard about the congressional bomb shelter back in the 1970's.

I always knew there was something about that Regis....