This is Texas Tower 4.

It was one of several towers like it that stood miles off the coast in the middle of the Atlantic.

The work on it was nerve-wracking, the weather was brutal, and if something went wrong, the men on board were truly stranded alone in the ocean.

This is the horrifying story of Texas Tower 4, and as always, viewer discretion is advised.

In the 1950s, the United States was on edge almost like never before.

With the Cold War, in full effect, Soviet bombers could theoretically be on their way in any

second, and if they made it across the Atlantic Ocean undetected, it would be devastating.

So the US Air Force did what any anxious superpower would do under the circumstances.

It started building towers in the middle of the ocean.

Not just any towers, though, these were known as Texas towers and they were massive radar platforms planted miles off the coast in the Atlantic,

greatly resembling oil rigs you might see in the Texas oil fields.

And they were designed to spot enemy bombers before they got too close and hopes have given the US a precious 30 to 60 minutes of warning time to scramble

jets and prepare defenses. Basically, if something deadly was heading toward America, these

towers were the eyes nervously scanning the horizon. Of these towers, Texas Tower 4 was

the boldest of the mall. It was planted 63 miles or 101 kilometers off the coast of Long

Island, New York, and 185 feet or 56

meters of water.

It was supposed to be, and in many ways was a technological wonder, but from day one, Tower

Four was seemingly cursed.

Not in some metaphorical way, as in the tower gave off bad vibes, but in the form of

concrete flaws, support issues, and a sort of ever-present sense

that the whole operation might be one gust away from disaster.

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