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🗓️ 7 May 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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The booby trap is one of the great staples of a classic adventure film. Not only they are fascinating to watch on the big screen, but they are also the ultimate psychological weapon stretching the limits of human imagination. Essentially, a booby trap is an apparently harmless device or setup that is intended to harm the victim, unknowingly triggered by the target and often designed as bait to encourage the victim to interact with it. Let's explore the most elaborate booby traps ever created in history. Hopefully, you'll never find yourself in any of these Indiana Jones-style traps!
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0:34.0 | The booby trap is one of the great staples of a classic adventure film. |
0:37.1 | Not only are they fascinating to watch on the big screen, they're also the ultimate |
0:38.7 | psychological weapon. Let's investigate some of the most elaborate booby traps ever created. |
0:45.4 | And let's just hope you never find yourself in any of these. |
0:51.6 | You're listening. You're listening to be amazed. |
1:00.0 | During the Middle Ages in Southeast Asia, there was an empire known as the Khmer Empire, |
1:06.0 | located in what is today Cambodia. |
1:08.0 | The Khmer people were, for the most part, deeply religious. While there were |
1:12.3 | some Buddhists, most people followed Hinduism at the time, and as a result, they took their |
1:17.2 | gods very seriously. That's why, when the Bafuan Temple was constructed in the mid-11th century |
1:23.7 | to honor Shiva, the god of destruction, the builders made sure to install a booby trap in case anyone |
1:29.4 | decided to mess with it. A few hundred years later when a group of Buddhists were in the process of |
1:34.4 | converting the place into a Buddhist temple, they were in for a nasty surprise. You see, the temple was |
1:40.5 | created with a hollow layer inside. First they built a pocket using |
1:44.6 | laterite, which was then covered in black sandstone to both reinforce and |
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