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Narrator: They're watching you.

More than 4,000 satellites Circle the earth.

Every day, they uncover new, Mysterious phenomena

That defy explanation.

Dungeons of the apocalypse,

The men who were planning The end of the world.

What is under these trees?

Kiarszys: look what I found. Oh, god.

Narrator: Flaming fields of freaky fires.

Rows of flames erupted Across this vast area.

But why?

Narrator: and the town Being swallowed whole.

The major disaster is Playing out before our eyes.

Baffling phenomena.

Mysteries from space.

What on earth are they?

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On my mark, it will be T-minus five seconds.

Narrator: September 25, 1967.

A thor-agena rocket Carrying a corona satellite

Takes to the skies From vandenberg air force base

In california.

Ruben: corona is an amazing Program for its day.

Launching something Into space, period,

Was a brand-new concept.

Wawro: It was a real game-changer

'cause now it allowed American spy satellites

To traverse airspace undetected

And take very High-resolution photographs

Of anything they wanted to.

[ camera shutter clicking ]

Narrator: Two years into its mission

As the spy bird scans western Poland, it captures this image.

Chamberlain: among this Really heavily wooded forest

Are concrete structures.

This looks like A whole complex,

Almost like a mini city here.

Morgan: the fact that a spy Satellite was designated

To photograph this means It ain't no girl scout camp.

We're probably looking At something

That was of significant National security interest

To the united states military.

Narrator: yet declassified Cia documents revealed

The massive structures Baffled their top analysts.

Investigators turn to Recent satellite images.

It just deepens the mystery As far as I'm concerned.

In one area, these structures Are visible to satellites.

And in another, the forest Has reclaimed them

And overgrown them.

Ruben: What is under these trees?

Why did somebody Build something so big

And then just abandon it For decades?

Narrator: intrigued by what Could lie in the forest,

Polish archaeologist Grzegorz kiarszys

Is traveling to the site In the satellite images.

Something could be concealed In that dense forest.

And it raises the question About why cia was interested

Specifically in that place.

To find out, I need to go there

And see what features survived Until the present day.

Narrator: During world war ii,

The nazis build concentration Camps in poland's forests.

After the war, This vast woodland falls

Under the dark shadow Of soviet communism.

Kiarszys: It looks like we are here.

Narrator: to locate up close What the cia

Were looking at from space,

Kiarszys is turning to The latest aerial technology.

Maybe when we look From above, we'll see more.

*

Narrator: the drone uses laser Pulses to scan the forest,

Effectively stripping away The canopy

To create a lidar image Of what lies beneath.

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And for the first time In decades,

The mystery structure Is mapped in detail.

It tells me that there is A lot of remains

Around the landscape.

This is very interesting.

*

Kiarszys heads towards The first of the features

Revealed in the lidar image.

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Moving north, an unusual Feature in the forest floor

Catches the archaeologist's eye.

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Kiarszys: This looks like a trench.

Narrator: the presence Of a trench suggests

That whatever was kept here Needed protection

From ground assault.

And the lidar data Reveals this was just

One of many trenches surrounding The central structures.

This shows that whatever Was kept in the zone

Had to be secured For all the time.

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Narrator: yet when kiarszys Gets closer to the central zone,

The mystery of what Took place here deepens.

Kiarszys: oh, god.

*

Narrator: the forest floor Is littered

With decaying Personal possessions.

Some belong to women And young children.

As kiarszys explores further,

He finds chilling clues to what May have happened to them.

*

The macabre collection Sheds light

On who the structures Were built for and when.

Look what I found.

That was a soviet army Uniform

And that's original button.

This is a bag,

And there is a date inside.

It's 1982.

All those artifacts

Are not only evidence of Presence of soviet soldiers,

But also whole Russian families here.

*

Narrator: as kiarszys pushes Further into the forest,

He spots One of the large structures

That intrigued and mystified The cia during the cold war.

It looks like there is A little opening on the side.

Maybe we can get into it And explore.

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Oh, god.

*

Narrator: coming up,

Inside the secret Soviet compound.

Kiarszys: this is incredible.

Narrator: And buried dead or alive.

The sheer scale and horror Of it is mind-boggling.

Narrator: archaeologist Grzegorz kiarszys

Is in the forests of poland

Searching for a long-lost Soviet compound,

Rediscovered Using new aerial images.

This is one of the structures That was visible

On the classified Satellite imager.

Narrator: cia files reveal The purpose of these structures

Baffled intelligence agents During the cold war.

Kiarszys hopes A narrow entranceway

He's found will help Solve the mystery.

Kiarszys: oh, wow.

*

Narrator: the structures Discovered from the air appear

To be just a small part of A massive subterranean compound.

Kiarszys: This is incredible.

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That looks like a diesel tank.

Narrator: whatever was once here Is long gone.

But it appears to have Been manned

And guarded By a huge number of people.

Kiarszys: That would be a septic tank.

And bathroom.

So that would be the main Electrical room

And some wires there can be Seen hanging from the floor.

Narrator: one of the larger Rooms yields clues

To what the russians Were doing here.

Kiarszys: and then the both Sides of this room

Were very thick Blast-proof doors.

There are some relics Of a ventilation system.

Whatever was kept here

Required Very specific conditions.

The temperature And the humidity

Had to be controlled For all the time.

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Narrator: In a blast-proof chamber,

The archeologist spots Some artifacts on the floor.

Okay, so those are seals.

Narrator: As an expert of the cold war,

Kiarszys thinks he recognizes This type of seal.

I'm pretty sure That those were used

To seal containers With nuclear warheads.

Narrator: kiarszys' aerial data Has uncovered a secret facility

Capable of securing A massive stockpile

Of the most devastating weapons Known to mankind.

But something about the size And shape of the missiles

Kept here is unusual.

The storage rooms are actually Quite small,

Which tells me That they could be used

Only for storage Of tactical nuclear warheads.

Narrator: Tactical nuclear weapons

Can unleash a destructive force 20 times more powerful

Than the bomb That destroyed hiroshima.

But what's even more Terrifying is how they're used.

The cold war is well known For the threat

Of the use of nuclear weapons.

The tactical nuclear weapon Would be used in the presence

Of your own troops On a battlefield.

Narrator: the use of tactical Nuclear weapons on a battlefield

Is almost unimaginable.

With the push of a button, Commanders devastate key targets

Before deploying thousands Of troops to fight it out

On an apocalyptic, Radioactive landscape.

Imagine the reality of combat Where everyone

Is from head-to-toe

In their nuclear Protective suits

Using machine guns

And they're lobbing tactical Nuclear weapons at one another

All the while.

Narrator: Recovered cold-war files

Reveal that in the late 1960s,

The kremlin secretly moves Dozens of nuclear missiles

To the site in the image, Just a few hundred miles

From the soviet-controlled Border with western europe.

They disguised The missile bunkers

And surround the compound With barracks,

Housing young families.

Morgan: The soviet union wasn't stupid.

They knew that we were Watching.

Wawro: The soviets work hard

To make this look like just An ordinary military base,

Concealing the fact that there Are tactical nuclear weapons

Stored all over the place.

Kiarszys: it was well hidden In the woods.

And it was well kept from The people who lived nearby.

Narrator: from here, It seems the communists

Intended to wage nuclear war, The war to end all wars.

Yet kiarszys' Investigation reveals

That this is just one element Of the soviet subterfuge.

This was a true Armageddon bunker.

Kiarszys: this is proof that There was nuclear weapon

Kept within the territories Of poland.

And that's proof That people lived

Once in the shade Of nuclear holocaust.

Narrator: For over three decades,

The secret site remains Primed to unleash nuclear hell

On european cities and american Bases just over the border.

Hymel: they have no idea That in the woods,

There are all these Nuclear weapons.

And so, their lives could change Like that in one moment.

Narrator: following the collapse Of the soviet union,

The soviet soldiers and their Families abandoned the site,

Leaving the area strewn with Their belongings and equipment.

Over the following years,

The clandestine base is Reclaimed by the forest,

Only to be revealed From the skies once more.

The truth about this facility Has only just emerged.

And it makes me wonder,

"What else is out there?"

*

Narrator: coming up, Mega inferno usa.

Ruben: It's like living next to hell.

It is absolutely apocalyptic.

Narrator: and the forbidden Tombs of the black pharaohs.

This site is Absolutely extraordinary.

Narrator: september 13, 2018,

An aerial camera flying over America's western seaboard

Photographs these features.

Ruben: This is very strange.

They're like the craters Of the moon in california.

Nelson: The scale on them is massive.

It looks like the diameter Is about a city block.

And not only that, But above them to the north,

There's a whole bunch Of other smaller circles.

Narrator: what's more, The 300-acre site

Sits at the heart Of san luis obispo,

A rapidly growing city Where plots of land can sell

For around $1 million.

We're talking about Prime real estate and here

To have an abandoned pit Of circles, that's really weird.

It really makes me wonder What has happened here.

Narrator: former intelligence Officer trevor albertson

Has seen formations Like these before.

Dr. Albertson: It looks very similar

To a triple-a anti-aircraft Artillery site

As it would have appeared in California during world war ii.

Narrator: California is militarized

In the immediate aftermath

Of japan's devastating attack On pearl harbor

On december 7, 1941.

Fearing further attacks On the mainland,

The army scrambles to move Artillery regiments

To america's west coast.

Much of the american pacific Fleet lay in ruins

At pearl harbor, Therefore the west coast

Of the united states Was largely undefended.

Narrator: the rapid deployment Of anti-aircraft guns

Across california fuels paranoia

That a full-scale Japanese invasion is imminent.

[ air raid siren blaring ]

Their worst fears appear To be realized

When the weapons unleashed 1,400 shells

Into the skies over hollywood,

An incident later referred To as the battle of los angeles.

It consisted of an air Defense artillery crew

Believing that they saw A japanese aircraft

And deciding to shoot it down.

Narrator: It proves to be a false alarm.

The trigger-happy gun crews Had mistakenly targeted

A u.S. Weather balloon.

Yet their spent shells

Claimed several lives As they rained down onto l.A.

Dr. Albertson: in many ways, It was one of the greatest

Friendly-fire scenarios

Ever experienced By the u.S. Military.

Narrator: in california, There are the remains

Of big, circular gun placements, But not here.

I don't believe that we're Looking at coast artillery

Or anti-aircraft defenses

Because they're way Too close together.

We tend to disperse them.

Narrator: martin morgan thinks The circle's precise arrangement

Is significant.

Morgan: the oil and gas industry In the united states

Has regulations So that each fuel storage tank

Must be spaced An equal distance to its size.

So what you're seeing In the image

Must have been A fuel-storage facility.

Narrator: the larger circles are A titanic 800 feet across.

Records reveal only The san luis obispo tank farm

Had oil reservoirs this big.

This site is one of the largest Oil-storage facilities

In the world.

Narrator: The mammoth facility

Is built In the early 20th century,

Following a catastrophic Sequence of events

During the birth Of california's oil industry.

Dr. Dennie: at the end Of the 1800s, commercial oil

Was discovered, setting off The california oil boom,

Which is like The next gold rush.

Narrator: Thousands of prospectors Flock to the golden state,

Eager to turn the black gold Into a fast buck.

Ruben: there are vast fortunes To be made.

It's the new american dream.

Narrator: But on march 15, 1910,

For one driller,

That dream descends Into a nightmare

When he strikes a massive Pressurized-oil reserve

Under the san joaquin valley.

The subsequent eruption

Unleashes A 200-foot-high fountain of oil

Into the california skies.

The oil keeps flowing For over 500 days.

It creates a lake of oil Big enough to launch rafts on.

It's the largest accidental oil Spill in history.

Narrator: in response, hundreds Of men work day and night

To build the san luis obispo Tank farm.

Three months later,

Oil from the gusher Starts flowing

Into its 1-million-barrel- Capacity reservoirs.

Morgan: something must Have happened here

To wipe this facility Off the face of the earth.

And what we're left with

Is just the vestiges Of what was once there.

Narrator: the aerial photographs Yield a clue.

Dr. Dennie: on the image, You can see little black patches

That indicate areas That have been charred.

Perhaps this area Was at one point on fire.

Narrator: local historical Records confirm the theory.

In 1926, a lightning strike hit The tanks here at the tank farm

And set the whole thing on fire.

Boom.

Narrator: six giant reservoirs Of oil ignite.

The resulting blast sends 1,000-foot-high flames

Into the heavens.

The explosion is so powerful,

It creates Its own weather system.

Eyewitnesses report seeing Hundreds of fire tornados

Erupting from the blaze.

It's like living next to hell.

It is absolutely apocalyptic.

Dr. Dennie: This inferno raged for five days

And burned Over 6 million barrels of oil.

It was a catastrophe.

Narrator: A century after the blaze,

The land here remains caked

In a toxic cocktail Of charred crude oil

That will take another 25 years to clean up.

Until then, the circles Will endure as a grim memorial

To the forgotten disaster Visible from space.

*

Coming up, pharaoh csi.

Janulis: the skeletons are laid In a position

That implies that these people Were probably buried alive.

Narrator: and things heat up In rural france.

French farmers have even gone As far as to set sheep on fire.

Narrator: January 10, 2019,

An orbiting camera Above the nile valley in sudan,

Northern africa, Captures this image.

Paul: in the center of all Of this fertile land

Is a massive patch Of desert area.

Narrator: for archaeologists, A seemingly empty patch of land

In this part of the world Is highly unusual.

The fact that we've got This huge, vacant area

Along the fertile nile valley --

I mean, this Is very valuable property --

It shows that there is something Extremely significant here.

Narrator: closer analysis shows There is something in the sand.

Janulis: the shapes I see In the sand here

Remind me of other images I've seen from sudan,

Which show pictures Of burnt-down villages

That were destroyed By militia groups.

Narrator: for decades, this land Has been the scene

Of terrible violence

That has left Two million people dead.

Dr. Hunt: this area has been So enormously destabilized.

Seceding regimes have Pretty well destroyed sudan.

Narrator: in recent years, Many communities

Have fallen victim To a new form of terror

At the hands of a government Militia called the janjaweed.

Meaning "Devils on horseback,"

The janjaweed rape, pillage And burn villages to the ground.

This has led to genocide And war crimes

On a really massive scale.

These have often resulted In destruction of villages.

So this may be an area that Has been destroyed by conflict.

Narrator: Other analysts don't think

The structures are casualties Of recent violence.

Dr. Hunt: you'd expect to see Ash, blackened walls,

Soot, even some residual timber.

So it must be something Immensely older.

Narrator: if the structures In the image are ancient,

Another settlement nearby Could help shed some light.

It's very close to a site Called kerma,

Which has ancient roots Dating back 4,000 years

To a mighty kingdom Known as the kush.

Narrator: this region was once Called nubia.

And for 3,000 years,

It was ruled by a warrior people Called the kushites.

Their archers were famed Throughout the ancient world.

This was known As the land of the bow.

They were prosperous, They were great warriors,

And they fought off those

Who would take their wealth From them.

Narrator: the kush kingdom Grows immensely rich

For its armies control

The main trading routes Across north africa.

Dr. Bellinger: They derive their wealth

Largely from gold and ivory,

And the kushites Were the egyptians'

Greatest source of gold.

And we know how much The egyptians love their gold.

Narrator: the structures In the image bear the hallmarks

Of one particular Kushite structure.

These circular shapes, They resemble the tumuli

That we know the kush kingdom Used to bury their dead.

And the only thing that could be Important enough to retain

As open space In this densely settled land

Around the nile Is a burial site.

Narrator: Yet image analysis reveals

This is no ordinary cemetery.

The necropolis contains 40,000 tombs

Up to 300 feet across.

This site is absolutely Extraordinary.

It's like the city of the Dead of the kushite kingdom.

Narrator: archaeologists Discover some kushites

Are buried with treasures To take into the hereafter.

For the funerals Of elite sections of society,

Offerings of human sacrifices Are widespread.

Dr. Bellinger: they are Following egyptian practices

Which believe that's essential After death to be served

And surrounded by all of The people they were in life.

So family members, Loyal retainers,

Even prisoners of war.

Narrator: The largest mound,

Believed to belong To a kushite king,

Contains hundreds Of attendant bodies.

Janulis: the skeletons are laid In a position

That shows movement And distress.

It actually implies That these people

Were probably buried alive.

The sheer scale and horror Of it is mind-boggling.

Narrator: As the kingdom grows,

So does the size Of the kush tombs.

In 719 b.C., The kush conquers egypt,

Ruling it for 88 years

During a dynasty Called the black pharaohs.

These black pharaohs Are actually entombed

In pyramid-like structures, Much like those seen in egypt,

Although the pyramids Are smaller

With steeper sloping sides.

Narrator: to date, only around 10% of this city of the dead

Revealed from space Has been excavated.

What other treasures or horrors Of the mighty kush it contains

Remains to be seen.

This necropolis is just Beginning to reveal its secrets.

What it may yet tell us About the story of ancient nubia

Is an exciting prospect.

*

Narrator: coming up,

Weird happenings In the hills of france.

Kourounis: It looks like a city at night.

But this isn't nighttime, And this isn't a city.

Narrator: And even weirder happenings

In the hills of sweden.

It's slowly but surely Swallowing the entire town.

Narrator: april 14, 2019.

A pilot on an early morning Flight over eastern france

Captures this image.

Kourounis: it looks like A city at night

With all of the street lights

Illuminating all the roads And houses.

But this isn't nighttime, And this isn't a city.

Narrator: closer examination Of the image

Reveals something strange.

Dr. Spicer rice: you can see Rows of flames that have erupted

All the way across this vast Area in france.

But why?

Narrator: the blazes covers Several square miles.

Ellis: what's really strange Is these fires

Are very organized Into neat patches.

Given the extreme regularity Of the pattern of these fires,

It must be set on purpose.

Narrator: analysts learned That this appears

To be part Of a disturbing pattern

Of deliberate blazes witnessed Across france in recent times.

Could this possibly be A massive act of arson?

These hundreds of fires Lit intentionally

To possibly destroy property

Or maybe get Someone's attention?

In the past few years, france Has literally been on fire

Due to the yellow vest movement.

Narrator: since 2018, France's yellow vest movement

Has engaged in a campaign Of violence and arson

To protest against rising fuel Prices and the cost of living.

We're talking about 100,000 people

Taking to the streets, causing A really big amount of chaos.

Cars and trucks Blocking the streets,

Windows being smashed, Stores being broken into.

Narrator: in december 2018,

30,000 firefighters Tackle blazes

Caused by a single day Of rioting in paris.

Dr. Spicer rice: The french citizens are known

To never take Anything lying down.

Narrator: in 1789, workers Rioting over the cost of bread

Kick-start The french revolution.

Since then, the idea of power Through protest

Has become almost A national pastime.

Seems like their motto is,

"Well, if you don't like Something, riot."

Kourounis: french farmers have Been known to be very creative

With their protesting.

They've sprayed official Buildings with manure,

Dumped loads of vegetables In the street,

And even gone as far As to set sheep on fire.

Could this image be showing us The next stage of protest

Against the government By the farmers in the area?

Narrator: yet if the blazes Are protests by farmers

Against economic hardships, They've backfired spectacularly.

Dr. Spicer rice: This is the burgundy region.

The grapes grown here

Make some of the most Expensive wines in the world.

Narrator: the burgundy region Is at the heart

Of france's $17 billion Wine industry.

Not even a very angry farmer Would be mad enough

To torch one of france's National treasures.

Narrator: first cultivated by Savvy monks 1,000 years ago,

Vineyards here produce over 200 million bottles every year,

Some costing half A million dollars a pop.

*

But in recent years,

Burgundy's wine industry Has hit hard times.

Just a few years before, A extreme cold snap

Devastated the great harvest In this region.

The families growing grapes Are on the brink

Of complete financial ruin.

Narrator: the date the image Was taken corresponds

To one of these Vicious cold spells.

Ellis: the date was abnormally Cold for this area.

This is april, And there was a late frost.

They're going to have to do Something about it

To protect these grapes.

Narrator: records show That during this month,

Temperatures plummet

To an unseasonal 19 degrees fahrenheit.

The aerial image has captured A strange technique

The farmers employed to save Their livelihoods from ruin.

Dr. Kays: farmers line their Fields with torches

And then light them

So that these little fires Right next to the grapes

Are able to warm up the air Right around the grapes

And prevent the frost.

Cerveny: But it's actually not the heat Of the torches themselves

That's the primary factor To keeping the crop safe.

It's the smoke That's the critical thing.

The smoke acts like Almost a layer of clouds,

Like a fog that traps The heat of the earth

From getting out into space.

Narrator: the defrosters visible From the heavens

Enable the farmers To save vines

Worth about $120,000 per acre

And earn them a celebratory Glass of the good stuff.

Their solution is creative, Simple, and genius.

*

Narrator: coming up, The town-munching chasm.

Whatever is happening here, It's catastrophic.

Narrator: august 9, 2006.

An eye in the sky above a town In sweden captures this image.

Nelson: This is a massive hole

In what appears To be the center of the town.

Dull: whatever is happening Here, it's catastrophic.

A major disaster is actually Playing out before our eyes.

Narrator: this is malmberget, Population 6,000.

Image analyst ken joyce uses Maxar secure-watch technology

To assess the scale Of its town-center chasm.

It's over 400 yards,

So it's over four Football fields

From one edge to the other

And several hundred feet deep.

This pit is absolutely massive.

Narrator: some analysts think The town's arctic location

May be to blame.

Nelson: Because of where this is,

This could actually be A natural phenomenon

Known as a thermokarst.

Narrator: thermokarsts occur

When subterranean permafrost Melts,

Causing the surface to collapse.

Nelson: quite literally,

It's like yanking the rug Out from under you.

Except here we're talking About ground.

And you fall in And you could die.

Narrator: vast swaths Of the arctic,

Frozen for thousands of years,

Are beginning to thaw With disastrous consequences.

Nelson: we know the arctic Is changing quite rapidly.

Ice is melting

And whole villages Are falling into the ground.

Narrator: However, geological records

Cast doubt On the thermokarst theory.

While thermokarsts Are appearing in sweden,

They're way further north.

It makes me think

That this is caused By human activity.

But what is anyone's guess.

Narrator: analysts search Scandinavian records

For projects that could account

For this massive scar In the landscape.

The swedes have A history of digging holes.

In fact, some unusual ones.

In the '60s, They built a secret naval base

Literally into the cliffs Along the coast.

Narrator: in 1969,

Military engineers excavate 1 1/2 million tons of rock

To create the musko Nuclear base.

Churchill: It may sound strange,

But sweden is stuck right in the Middle of two nuclear powers.

They have russia on one side, The allies on the other.

And if it all kicks off,

You want to keep your most Valuable weaponry safe,

So you park it Inside a giant cave.

Narrator: During the cold war,

The swedes build over 60,000 nuclear shelters

Across the country,

Capable of accommodating 7 million people.

Churchill: possibly What we're finding here

Is one of these old bunkers In such disrepair

That it's just collapsed In on itself.

Narrator: others disagree.

These things are built To withstand a nuclear attack.

They're not just Going to collapse.

Whatever this is, It has to be something else.

Narrator: analysts turn To historical images.

Looking at satellite images Between 2006 and 2019,

What I see are stark changes.

The pit is getting much bigger.

Narrator: whatever activity is Causing this crater is ongoing

And shows no sign of letting up.

All of this is evidence That what we have here

Is a very large And complex mining operation.

One clue is to the north.

We have a town called kiruna.

And that town shares its name With the kiruna deposit,

One of the largest and most Valuable iron deposits on earth.

Narrator: yet mining operations Do not take place

In the center of thriving Communities like this one.

Devin dennie learns

That the story of iron Mining here begins in 1888,

A few miles outside of town.

Dr. Dennie: these mines were Originally surface pit mines,

But over time, Miners have chased those seams

Into deeper and deeper levels.

Narrator: Over the following decades,

As the miners follow the Highly valuable seam of iron,

It leads them under malmberget.

Dr. Dennie: what's very unusual About this mine

Is the fact that these miners Have literally chased

This good rock Right under this town.

Narrator: in 1971, a hole begins To form in the town.

Miners continue extracting 14 million tons a year

From the seam,

Equivalent in weight To six eiffel towers every day.

Dr. Pepper: which leaves These big cavities

That causes collapsing,

And they just keep mining And collapsing as they go.

Narrator: in march 2012,

Another 500-foot-wide Section caves in.

This is a classic example Of a hand giveth

And a hand taketh Because the mines

Are providing economic security For the people.

But all that is rapidly Falling down in the hole.

Narrator: mining employs one In six inhabitants here,

And it's led the mine's owners To take extraordinary measures.

The quality of the iron ore Under the town is so valuable

That it's actually more cost Effective to move the town.

[ helicopter blades whirring, Siren wailing ]

Narrator: Specialist hauling companies

Are moving dozens of buildings Weighing up to 230 tons each

And relocating them To a village 4 miles away.

Yet many other residents remain,

Watching as their hometown

Is consumed by the giant hole Seen from space.

Dr. Pepper: this iron ore is So precious to the economy

That they're willing To sacrifice everything,

Even if it means Your house falling within it.