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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Ark Two Shelter

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Forty-two school buses have been buried in Horning’s Mills, Ontario - covered in concrete, they’re house up to 500 people in case of nuclear fallout. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/ark-two-shelter

Transcript

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0:00.0

If the world ended tomorrow, what would you need to survive?

0:10.0

Food, water, after time you need maybe some plumbing or electricity.

0:19.0

But what about after that, after all the life and death stuff had been taken care of?

0:25.0

What about a library to pass knowledge on from the past?

0:30.0

Or some kind of language, maybe a universal language to communicate between all the survivors?

0:37.0

How about a dentist?

0:41.0

For one man in Canada, answering these questions was his life's work.

0:46.0

He built a bunker in Ontario, a sprawling 10,000 square foot complex.

0:51.0

And in it, he tried to prepare everything that would be needed for the end of the world.

0:57.0

And to start a new society out of the wreckage.

1:16.0

I'm Dylan Thuras and this is Atlas Obscura.

1:20.0

A celebration of the world's strange, incredible and wondrous places.

1:24.0

Today, we're headed to Arc 2, in Horning's Mills, Ontario, Canada,

1:30.0

to wait out the end of the world.

1:35.0

That's after this.

1:50.0

Imagine you're standing inside a school bus.

1:55.0

There's a curved metal roof above you and a familiar long rectangular aisle down the middle.

2:01.0

There are seats on either side.

2:05.0

Now, imagine that you're standing in that school bus, but buried underground.

2:10.0

Instead of seats on either side, there are bunk beds.

2:14.0

The roof is low and rusty and the windows are all blocked off.

2:19.0

Because the giant hole this bus is buried in is filled entirely with concrete.

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