California woman finds bomb shelter hidden under her bedroom
‘This house has a bomb shelter, pretty normal for back then,’ says Jennifer Little
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Your support makes all the difference.A California woman found a creepy underground bomb shelter that was built in the 1950s hidden underneath a manhole cover in her bedroom.
Jennifer Little, who runs the TikTok account kitty_girl_california, posted a video of the shelter to the app.
She revealed the shelter in three separate clips after discovering the manhole cover leading to it when moving furniture in her bedroom.
After finding the passage, Ms Little’s husband ventured down its narrow entrance to investigate, as she revealed that she was “freaked” out by the “huge spiders” they could see below.
Ms Little’s husband discovered that the passage led to a filthy underground bomb shelter built in the 1950s, containing a varied array of items and facilities that had been created to live in.
“There’s two bunk beds, there is a urinal if you need it,” Ms Little says after opening up the manhole cover in one of the clips posted to TikTok.
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Her husband shines a torch on areas of the bunker in the videos, with debris shown on the floor next to cabinets and several hooks protruding from the walls.
A dry storage room was also discovered during the search, but Ms Little revealed that it did not make much sense as “you’d have to leave the shelter to go into the dry storage room.”
Ms Little explained that the house was built in 1951, which was around the time that people in the US were concerned about nuclear bombs amid the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
“This house has a bomb shelter, pretty normal for back then,” Ms Little said in one of the clips.
“People were so afraid of a nuclear bomb happening on the California coast, especially central California because it’s so exposed. The shelter has beds and ventilation as well,” she added.
Other TikTok users were amazed by the finding, with one commentator writing: “This is so cool, everything is preserved it’s just dusty, you guys should remodel it.”
Others found the room creepy, as one account wrote: “My claustrophobia just went through the roof,” while a separate user added: “Well if there’s a zombie apocalypse at least ya’ll be safe.”
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