Arizona Man Purchases Home And Discovers An Underground Hatch In Backyard

A Wonderful Place To Hide

The shelter would have been used to provide a safe space for residents of the property to go to in the event of a nuclear blast. An air filtration system existed to pump safe air from the surface to the people hiding below.

Making It Look Presentable

Sims estimates that it was filled in at some time between the late 1960s and the mid-1970s, a period of relaxing of political tensions when the U.S. pursued arms limitation treaties with the Soviet Union.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.