Closed Cities: Secret Towns Kept Off Your Maps
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.3 • 10.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
The majority of human beings currently live in urban areas -- and this trend seems set to continue. According to the most recent estimates, two-thirds of humanity will live in urban areas by 2050. However, not all cities are created equally. In fact, countries throughout the world are home to cities that, in one sense or another, do not officially exist. So what exactly are these secret, closed cities. What goes on there? Why are these areas hotbeds of the stuff they don't want you to know?
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| 1:36.9 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 1:43.6 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. A production of I Heart |
| 1:50.1 | Radio's How Stuff Works. Welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. They call me Ben. We are joined |
| 2:04.8 | as always with our super producer Paul Mission Control second. Most importantly, you are you, |
| 2:10.8 | you are here and that makes this stuff they don't want you to know. Got a confession for you, Matt. |
| 2:17.7 | All right. I did my quarterly dive into our podcast reviews about every three months. I do that. |
| 2:25.9 | I noticed your Twitter request for reviews. Oh yeah. It followed me on Twitter. Yeah. Yeah. |
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