Wow, 14 years and no deaths. Amazing. This is the first I've heard of this special room. I'm getting my Mountain climbing getup and my flashlight and I'm heading up Mount Rushmore.
Little known fact ... one of the buried plaque is letting you know that your extended car warranty is about to expire and it also goes on to give you important information about your credit card account.
I spent my life on the high steel and quite often put my life in the hands of the crane operator while I was dangling in a basket at the end of that cable. Local 825 Operating Engineers are the best in the country! In my 35 years, I never had a problem with the operators
I sure did. I was an ironworker working the high steel on the Olin Fertilizer Plant next to the Houston Ship Channel for a few months in 1975. I made 8 bucks an hour to risk my life with no safety equipment till some stupid crane operator dropped several hundred pounds of steel on my foot. It turned purple. The boss didn't report it, and was scrambling to cover his ass. I finally quit.
@@nitromartini1422 so sorry that happened to you man, amazing that you survived. Things we do when we’re young, I just shake my head now at the chances I took.
@@fredziffle5219 : That's the way construction work is. When I was a construction worker in Las Vegas, at least 15 guys died, mostly from scaffold falls. I was working for a scrap metal recycling company, and fell 24 feet because of bad rigging. I got wound up in my welding leads and hit the ground on my feet with my welding hood on. A forklift operator asked if I was an acrobat when he saw the accident. When I was working on Mandalay Bay, a guy working on the Venetian had a 4000 lb panel dropped on him. Splat. When I was working for Marathon LeTourneau in Brownsville, Texas, a huge steel section fell on a guy and spattered him into goo. They scraped him up and put his body in several paint buckets. You can really get killed on a construction job.
My grandparents knew a park ranger at Mt. Rushmore, so when I was younger we actually got to hike up to the vault and stand on top of the heads. I don't think they allow that anymore, so it feels cool to have done that. Abe's nose is way bigger than it looks from below! 😁
@@kennymichaelalanya7134 This was before social media had really exploded! I think at the time I had a flip phone in my pocket ;) But you're right! That would've made for a great pic!
If this had been done by the History Channel then they would have left out all the historical records and claimed Templar Knights and Aliens were involved in the tunnel.
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Great story, I had no idea I've never heard of this. Too bad it wasn't completed. Thank you for this back story and history. I'll never forget my first sight of Mt. Rushmore when I was 14 years old, 51 years ago. It's in my eyes and mind like it was yesterday. Such an incredible feat Beautiful!! A Colorado Mountain Grandma, USA 💜
In the UK back in the late 1970's or very early 1980's a brand of Tea Bags called PG Tips would come with a small collectable card inside the box, I think the current card series at the time was based around wonders of the world and a photo of this was one of the cards. Info was on the back of each card. That was the first time for me, I was 10 in 1980.
Just an FYI for everyone; the parking lot at the bottom of Mt. Rushmore is over 5000 feet in elevation above sea level. They over dramatize by making it sound like a mile high monolith by saying “over 5000’ high”. In actuality, the top of the mountain is only about 500’ above the observation area.
The idea of the full vision of what mt. Rushmore could have been fills me with so much wonder. Especially if they could have fully finished the mountain sculpt.
I'm sure I heard talk that there is actually plans to complete the origional guys idea and carving out their bodies and adding finishing touches? If that's true I'd love to see it go through
Wow this is incredible. I so wish I could visit this place and even the secret hallway. I absolutely love history so much. My greatest wish is to spend an indefinite amount of time visiting the most historic places of the U.S.A.
@@skywalkn297 Black Hills and the Badlands are amazing. Went to Custer and saw hundreds of Bison. It was once in a lifetime experience. Deadwood is really cool too. Went to a place where its an enclosed building and they are digging up Mammoth bones. It's really neat. Oh and Devils Tower in Wyoming is cool too. Make the trip you won't regret it.
Well if you consider that US History dates back to 1776 its a little more than less than 100 years. All this video is saying is the reason it was built was to be a US history museum that ended up incomplete because of WW2
To erase the Indigenous history that site has and to prevent landclaim of their sacred mountain by those nations that till today fight to get their site for worship back.
Been there several times. It's a grand sight. Watched the presentation each time I went. Worth it every time. Worth it to go to Keystone and go to the Borglum museum as well.
I knew the blasting foreman, the man in the chair with his legs crossed whittling dynamite, ‘Art’ John Arthur Johnson. It was incredible as a little kid hearing him tell stories about the building of the monument. Many of the builders are buried in the Keystone cemetery that has a great view of the “Heads”.
For better or worse, we prioritize other things. For example, if every penny that was spent on just the NFL -from tax-payer subsidized stadiums, to corporate sponsorships, and all the way down to the money that fans spend on food while at the stadiums- if all of that was instead spent on art instead, we'd have a whole lot more amazing art! (fwiw: I don't have anything in particular against the NFL, but the fact that we pay professional athletes _so much more_ than we pay educators, first responders, heck, even garbage collectors, i.e. based on salaries, we demonstratively _value_ entertainers more than people who actually contribute to our society being able to function, well, that disparity genuinely pains me!)
There were tunnels underneath Niagara Falls as well... You used to be able to go through them and almost touch the falls from the inside ..which I did but it is closed off to the public now
We were there in 1985, and on the Canada side you could walk under the falls and onto a platform just almost to the horse shoe falls. It was amazing, will never forget. Beautiful there, we also went to Goat Island on the American side, really impressive.
They were originally supposed to have the front torsos of the Presidents carved into the mountain as well as their heads. Crazy Horse is another huge carving about 8 miles South of Mt. Rushmore that is under construction into perpetuity. After standing on Crazy Horse's arm, the guide said the 4 heads on Mt Rushmore would fit inside Crazy Horse's hair.
Yeah it's a bummer they bit off more than they could chew there because it would be a serious feat of human achievement, even with modern methods. Also, they realized people will come see it even if it's not finished so they're like, well, why would we bother then! We can just leave it be and make as much money as if we spent millions to finish it.
@@jamestaylor766 it’s so little and infrequent it’ll likely not be finished at least not in our lifetime. The look to the naked eye hasn’t changed one bit in the last 10 years.
It’s time we finished it. This generation doesn’t appreciate what America is and what it’s done. I’m not saying it’s perfect, but no country is. However, what we have done, and what our nation was founded and built on, is pretty incredible.
It wasn’t built when they said……it’s atleast 500 years old….another advanced civilization built it……..no way in hell humans could have built that especially in that era…..hammers and chisels?…… with no way to get visual perceptions to know where to chisel at……… a total scam on humanity.
@@brianstrachan3451 The Woke....aka the modern Western Taliban. There have been many discussions of blowing up Mt. Rushmore because of the "atrocities" committed by Washington, Roselvet, etc, etc... you know like they have done with countless Confederate and Southern monuments.
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 - March 6, 1941) was an American sculptor most widely known for the colossal sculpture Mount Rushmore National Memorial. He was also associated with various other public works of art, including Stone Mountain in Georgia, the statue of Union General Philip Sheridan in Washington, D.C., as well as a bust of Abraham Lincoln which was exhibited in the White House by Theodore Roosevelt and which is now held in the United States Capitol crypt in Washington, D.C.Borglum was also deeply involved in Ku Klux Klan politics.
"...it has been claimed that Borglum was a member of the Ku Klux Klan,[23] an article in the Smithsonian Magazine denies that there is proof that he officially joined the KKK."
Indeed. Borglum was a KKK member thru and thru. He had already completed Stone Mountain as tribute to the confederacy. Next step, Rushmore, despite the land belonging to the Lakotas deemed by the Fort Laramie treaty of 1868. This abomination should be swept clean. All of it. And it's no wonder a racist like Trump pays homage to a white supremacist tourist site like Rushmore.
They also fail to mention the fact that the black hills where "confiscated" after the discovery of gold in the area, even thought the U.S. had signed a treaty with the Lakota Sioux declaring that land (which was/is sacred to them) was theirs only a decade before. The Lakota Sioux tribe won the case in the supreme court, and where "rewarded money" which they didn't take because they just want there land back.
The Ancient Egyptians taught them everything they needed to know to create Egypt right here in America. Must I add that the Ancient Egyptians discovered America before Christopher Columbus.
It’s technically unfinished. They’ve made it in such a way that weathering will only improve it. In 2000 years, if the land remains unaltered, it will be as the original architects designed.
@@lukequigley121 Ha! That is so great! I was 12 when this came out. and it just popped up in my head the other day! Bet millennials don't know what we are referring to!
@@justrosy5 Good to know. Then clearly, if we want to finish it, the additions need to include honoring those native people, and proceed only with their approval.
Little did he know, American already has huge underground tunnels and stuff for future generations to find...... Just imagine what the aliens will think when they find Area 51. LoL
After learning about this in my history classes in grade school, I wanted to see this monument with my own 2 eyes before I died. I got my wish, and I was thrilled to see it.
This site may have been chosen as much because it was sacred to Native Americans as because it offered a large "canvas." The mountain was the home of the sacred ancestors, and the Grandfathers could be seen on the face of the mountain in the form of mammoths. Look at the artists' rendering of the mountain at 0:14, and you can actually SEE the mammoth walking out of the mountain's face. Destroying this Native monument and replacing it with the faces of white men -- and not just ANY white men, but the leaders of the government that had so often betrayed and cheated Native Americans -- was the stamp of the victory. The tyranny of the colonization of an already populated land is now what's being memorialized, not the power of Nature in Native American beliefs. But white men always seem to view the destruction of Nature as a triumph.
Ive flow to the U.S. 3 times to go to Sturgis, and I visit Mt Rushmore and Crazy Horse Memorial each time, they are marvels that every American should see once in their life time.
This was a fascinating video, but there was no closed captioning! Some of us older folks don't hear as well as we used to. I always use CC when watching RUclips videos, but there was nothing.
My grandpa worked on rounds around the mountain. He got in a fight with a new worker and got his teeth punched out. My grandpas teeth are still there to this day.
Well if you were to talk to the forest rangers that give tours and work on this area, they will tell you that there is more things hidden in the area that they really are not allowed to talk about.
Just visited in July. It was absolutely more than I ever hoped for! I just sat there looking at it for an hour. Hey, when you leave take a right turn. You get a stunning profile of George Washington! If you stay in Rapid City make sure you eat at Krispy Krunchy Chicken! By far the best you will ever have. My family and I are still talking about it!
The idea of hiding these plates here isn’t something outrageous and mind boggling, just simply look at history and the question we have about other structures like the pyramid, a simple hey this is who we were and what we think and what we did in our life time. Just think about 3021 and reading these plates if they were still available would be an amazing thing for these individuals who bring them back to the light.
It’s stupid and poorly designed though. They’ll have corroded bad after a decade and they way they’re positioned in a stone hole that way with drainage will keep them waterlogged majority of the time and advance the corrosion. Doesn’t matter if you caulked/sealed or whatever, when it comes to future proofing none of that lasts.
Boy, do we need that historic evidence intact today when new Americans who came from oppressed countries want to change this nation and completely do away with its foundational principles for liberty from such oppression...thank you for the post and we should be watchful that no one "mysteriously destroys" this national monument.....protect it LORD and this nation.
It's not true this was the first of its kind in this country. Stone Mountain was completed before this monument was started and the same man did both. In Georgia, we also had the Guide Stones that were mysteriously blown up recently. Rather than rope the area off to investigate, the area was bulldozed over.
I never cared for the Guidestones, but does it matter who made them, who blew them up, or whatever Illuminated monument that may or may not be put in its place? Not trying to be a poopy-pants, just genuinely asking. Thanks for educating me and others on the fact Stone Mountain and Mt. Rushmore were designed by the same man, makes me rethink the social engineering (not that I was for it) of wanting to remove Stone Mountain. It's interesting, because most of the Confederacy were either Freemasons or Knights of the Golden Circle, and the Union was led by a Rosicrucian (Lincoln) with Freemason Generals. That's where the term "Brother fighting Brother" in describing the Civil War comes from, as in the Masonic sense of "Brotherhood". Also rather interesting, is how the Freemasons view the "North" and the "South", one being a place of desolation and abandonment, like "winter".
@@mzdtmp2 , on the guidestones, I think it matters who blew them up and why. They should be prosecuted. Was it a group or individual or even the government? Who knows? I never got to see them. They simply were a curiosity. I've never heard that the north and south belonged to various different organizations like that. i don't doubt it. I find that interesting. I had read that one of the reasons for the war was the South brought in a lot of money through tariffs that the North didn't want to lose.
In the book "Logans Run" deep inside Mt. Rushmore is a vast computer complex and the main computer was called "The Thinker" and this computer ran the world
Gus Borglum was enticed to leave his stone carving project at Stone Mountain to work on Mount Rushmore. It was NOT the first project of it's kind. That is absolutely false.
I love how they never mentioned how this mountain was very significant for the Native Americans yet the government didn't care that they were taking away Native American land. They have never cared.
what a lovely monument built on the sacred mountains of the native Americans. A delightful testimony to our conquering and genocide of a people. Isn't our country great? The whole thing should be blown up and removed.
It is made of solid stone, you twit. Do the rocks holding your trailer melt in the summer? This ugly pile of rubble was made like 85 years ago. It's not ancient.
Has the Washington Monument eroded away or fallen? Check when it was finished. It's been a while. Granite is pretty tough stuff. Take a look in a few million years, both should show some signs of wear. Haven't you been paying attention to the world around you at all in your +-30 years?
The way RUclips tosses ads randomly into the middle of excellent videos like this one is DISGUSTING. We all need to pledge to NEVER purchase anything advertised here.
It's a fantastic thing, that in the 1940's they had the TECHNOLOGY to even START building MT RUSHMORE. And also, being 5,000 feet above ground is some VERY BRAVE SH*T TO DO.
Really? The Egyptians built the pyramids 5,000 years ago and we still don't know exactly how they did it so that's far more impressive. Also they were 500 feet high not 5,000 feet. The base of the summit is at 4,500 feet.
@@leomartin1903 Correct. But two of the four never owned slaves so you are ignorant. Most democrats back then owned slaves. You can see them now on the new inner city black voter reservations. You know, your perpetual victims.
@@steveconkey7362 ignorant means not to know, but there ARE FORMER SLAVE MASTERS, UP THERE, NO MATTER HOW MANY THERE ARE UP THERE. And I DONT KNOW, because I DONT VOTE.
Tourist tip. If you're visiting Mt Rushmore, find the road to Horse Thief Lake. As you leave the Rushmore memorial area, look to the side of the mountain for Pecker Rock. It's a huge formation a couple hundred feet tall. You can't miss it.
IIRC it was in the TV show Buck Rogers in the 25th century where they depicted some great headquarters embedded Mt. Rushmore. So there was some basis behind their fiction even if it didnt get much further than planning. There were obviously a lot of issues with the idea of some grand national archive at this site, mostly access and logistics. I think the artist would have liked it because it would make his work seem even more important.
@@RobinRinge whoop dee do. They owned the land... Got that in writing? Well gee no ya dont because not one tribe in what would become the United States had ever developed any form of wrtten record keeping. The indians would still be living in teepees and dying by age 29 of easily curable diseases if it werent for the gift of European colonization. The indians are better off for it, the world is better for it. Every technological advancement in your life can be attributed to Europeans and their meticuloust record keeping. Even if we choose to adopt your negative slant on it, what about it? Both the wrong and the wronged, are long ago dead. Indians come into this world with more rights and privileges than the rest of us, and since when in human history was a weaker, less capable civilization protected from encroachment by others? Never have and never will be. I suppose you would whine about the poor cro magnon man's demise by those horrible homo sapiens. This is the world today. Always somebody cryin about somethin.
This monument the more I read about it the more depressing it is. Imagine having your land stolen, and on your secred holy site they damage and build a monument to people who contributed to it all. I bet that secret vault doesn't even contain a copy of the legal document enshrining that land to the Sioux Nation that was illegally violated.
What they left out was that this mountain was sacred to the Sioux tribe and held great power to them. It was the mountain of the 6 grandfathers I believe, please fact check me. The mountain was then defaced and refaced with racist presidents who fueled the Native American genocide. Never forget that there was history before we arrived here.
You can read all about that history at one of their tax free casinos built on the same "sacred" land down the road. Also, the Sioux stole the land from the Black Foot tribe when the racist Sioux killed them and drove them off the land and enslaved them. So there's that. Get off your high horse. People have been colonizing and enslaving other people for tens of thousands of years. Name a color or race, they all did it. It's still going on now in Africa.
And? Most call it Mt. Rushmore TODAY (the time/space we're occupying/experiencing), and not many call it "The Mountain of Six Grandfathers" except to those that it was part of their culture/religion. If you're not of it, you are guilty of cultural appropriation, to bounce back some PC nonsense.
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The fact that they didn't have one death on the job site for 14 years is Extraordinary especially back in those days.
Maybe they did they just swept it under the rug
They were tougher back then, someone fell off they just rubbed some dirt on it and walked it off
Now a days, people get hit by a work truck just walking to have lunch! That is amazing nit to have any fatalities!
Probably lost a couple but they were swept under the rug or written off as something else...
U right about that
I think that is one of the biggest achievements in all of this, no casualties.
Increadible. Puts some modern countries to shame
honestly remarkable
Any of you assholes ever hear of The Lakota Sioux?
@@Wouldpkr Yeah, Why are you calling people Assholes???
@@erickr.8977 Really! Some people have no class at all! There was no call for his name calling.
"Behind Abe's head lies a secret tunnel"
I mean it would be kinda insensitive to put it inside his head given how he died...
That one made me spit up my coffee lol
I just realized what that means and it made me choke on my soup.
So rude but funny
Honestly I was in hysterics when I heard this and had to stop to comment.... this is incredibly ironic
Insensitive, maybe. Historically accurate, absolutely.
What is amazing is that both Mr. Rushmore and Hoover Dam were being built at the same time! Two marvels of the first half of the 20th Century.
Yes. Back when America actually had the ambition to build things.
Ancient aliens!
Wow, 14 years and no deaths. Amazing. This is the first I've heard of this special room. I'm getting my Mountain climbing getup and my flashlight and I'm heading up Mount Rushmore.
Safety policy wasn't chinese that time
Little known fact ... one of the buried plaque is letting you know that your extended car warranty is about to expire and it also goes on to give you important information about your credit card account.
What a fail
and it tells you youre pre aproved for a loan
Your should try building a better joke next time.
@@McYeroc what people don't call and bug you 10 times a day about your extended car warranty?
🤣 extended warranty on your transmission 😂
I should add, it is indeed a fine thing that there were no casualties.
Are you sure there wasn't any?
@@kirkdurkadurka 2:06
lol and now we have warning labels on everything. i wonder what those guys from back then would say
Ya wasn’t super convinced on that one
maybe no casualties building it but many indigenous americans died trying protect that land from white people destroying it.
Somewhere Nicolas Cage is watching this and taking notes!!
@Stop Begging what the hell...that was random 😂😂😂
@Stop Begging the fuck you on dude?
@Stop Begging dude I'm 35 wtf!! Why would you assume I'm 18!!!
@Scrypher thank you!!! Lmfao
Fucking knew that movie was real.
I spent my life on the high steel and quite often put my life in the hands of the crane operator while I was dangling in a basket at the end of that cable. Local 825 Operating Engineers are the best in the country! In my 35 years, I never had a problem with the operators
I sure did. I was an ironworker working the high steel on the Olin Fertilizer Plant next to the Houston Ship Channel for a few months in 1975. I made 8 bucks an hour to risk my life with no safety equipment till some stupid crane operator dropped several hundred pounds of steel on my foot. It turned purple. The boss didn't report it, and was scrambling to cover his ass. I finally quit.
@@nitromartini1422 so sorry that happened to you man, amazing that you survived. Things we do when we’re young, I just shake my head now at the chances I took.
@@fredziffle5219 : That's the way construction work is. When I was a construction worker in Las Vegas, at least 15 guys died, mostly from scaffold falls. I was working for a scrap metal recycling company, and fell 24 feet because of bad rigging. I got wound up in my welding leads and hit the ground on my feet with my welding hood on.
A forklift operator asked if I was an acrobat when he saw the accident.
When I was working on Mandalay Bay, a guy working on the Venetian had a 4000 lb panel dropped on him. Splat.
When I was working for Marathon LeTourneau in Brownsville, Texas, a huge steel section fell on a guy and spattered him into goo. They scraped him up and put his body in several paint buckets.
You can really get killed on a construction job.
You were a very Brave man!
@@nitromartini1422 Yes, construction is one of the most dangerous/hazardous jobs
My grandparents knew a park ranger at Mt. Rushmore, so when I was younger we actually got to hike up to the vault and stand on top of the heads. I don't think they allow that anymore, so it feels cool to have done that. Abe's nose is way bigger than it looks from below! 😁
I wish you would've taken a picture . That would've been great to see in social media
@@kennymichaelalanya7134 This was before social media had really exploded! I think at the time I had a flip phone in my pocket ;) But you're right! That would've made for a great pic!
Or just a camera
If this had been done by the History Channel then they would have left out all the historical records and claimed Templar Knights and Aliens were involved in the tunnel.
Maybe sasquatch
"there's no way the chisel marks would look like that in 1940"
@@orensish you could work for the history channel
Or that the freemasons built a gym in there lol
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I saw Mt Rushmore around 1970. Even as a Canadian, it was pretty darn impressive. Really impressive!
I saw it about the same time. 1976
“Even as a Canadian” said like Cana-duh has actually fucking accomplished something on the world stage. Thanks for the bacon now shut the fuck up.
Crazy horse is pretty cool to
@@gasolinedreams2691 : off your meds today, huh?
@@gasolinedreams2691 lol this guy
Discover Channel: 80% adverts, 1% new fact, 19% repeating the same fact after each advert break
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Great story, I had no idea I've never heard of this. Too bad it wasn't completed. Thank you for this back story and history.
I'll never forget my first sight of Mt. Rushmore when I was 14 years old, 51 years ago. It's in my eyes and mind like it was yesterday. Such an incredible feat Beautiful!!
A Colorado Mountain Grandma, USA 💜
I went there in '64 on a family vacation when I was 10... took my wife there in '08 and was amazed at how much the visitor area had changed!
I’m gonna complete it but with anime. Hentai for the ages, just as the founding fathers always wanted.
In the UK back in the late 1970's or very early 1980's a brand of Tea Bags called PG Tips would come with a small collectable card inside the box, I think the current card series at the time was based around wonders of the world and a photo of this was one of the cards. Info was on the back of each card. That was the first time for me, I was 10 in 1980.
Hope you someday find out the truth behind these sculptures
I saw Mt. Rushmore on a youth trip out West. It was very interesting to see the work that had been done the rock formations.
"Behind abes head is a secret tunnel"
Me: well it's not so secret now...
There was a not so secret tunnel in Abe's head. Other than that Mrs Lincoln, how did you like the play?
Too soon?
@@michaelmacgeorge1082 I was thinking the same .
More like forgotten tunnel
What secret? We were taught about this in school. Wasn't anyone paying attention?
Just an FYI for everyone; the parking lot at the bottom of Mt. Rushmore is over 5000 feet in elevation above sea level. They over dramatize by making it sound like a mile high monolith by saying “over 5000’ high”. In actuality, the top of the mountain is only about 500’ above the observation area.
Thanks for that. Ive never been there but when they said that I thought of looking up at el capitan from yosemite valley which is 3000' high.
Do you feel relevant now?
@@christip20 wtf does that mean? Are your widdle feewings hurt by geography now? 😂
NOW I feel relevant!
@@christip20 do you feel like a complete waste of consciousness? You are.
what you say is true. They could have explained that better.
Any fellow 90s kids having flashbacks to the ending scenes in Richie Rich?
Team America world police headquarters!!!
Yup.
Cruisin' USA for n64
@@martinbudinsky8912 me too, early 2000's kids
meanwhile 2000s kid having flashbacks of Ben10
The idea of the full vision of what mt. Rushmore could have been fills me with so much wonder. Especially if they could have fully finished the mountain sculpt.
I'm sure I heard talk that there is actually plans to complete the origional guys idea and carving out their bodies and adding finishing touches? If that's true I'd love to see it go through
That talk has been going around for decades
Not from what I understand. They shut it down due to the fact they didn’t have anymore suitable rock to go any further.
Problem is, anybody today would f it up.
Wow this is incredible. I so wish I could visit this place and even the secret hallway. I absolutely love history so much. My greatest wish is to spend an indefinite amount of time visiting the most historic places of the U.S.A.
South Dakota is full of history. I went in 2016 and it was one of my favorite vacations.
Likewise.
@@Tjs71384 what’d you see in SD if you don’t mind me asking
@@skywalkn297 Black Hills and the Badlands are amazing. Went to Custer and saw hundreds of Bison. It was once in a lifetime experience. Deadwood is really cool too. Went to a place where its an enclosed building and they are digging up Mammoth bones. It's really neat. Oh and Devils Tower in Wyoming is cool too. Make the trip you won't regret it.
Absolutely, and have a beer with the local folks.
Why do they talk about the historical findings and evidence as if it were 1000s of years old, rather than literally less than 100.
Because to Americans this is old, in the grand scheme of things they're a relatively young country.
& written down & organized for them in their own language to read.
Well if you consider that US History dates back to 1776 its a little more than less than 100 years. All this video is saying is the reason it was built was to be a US history museum that ended up incomplete because of WW2
They have to somehow tie aliens into it.
To erase the Indigenous history that site has and to prevent landclaim of their sacred mountain by those nations that till today fight to get their site for worship back.
Been there several times. It's a grand sight. Watched the presentation each time I went. Worth it every time. Worth it to go to Keystone and go to the Borglum museum as well.
We also visited crazy horse mountain. And wall drug
_"Just gotta order the Hallway Part.. should be here in 2-3 weeks."_
*- The First American Contractor*
Lol.
That part never came because of the world War, they left a monument behind the head statues, but never worked on making the stairwell after the war.
@@debbiebernhardt5406 way to ruin a joke dude!
@@tylerbickert9594 I liked this detail, never knew about it. Wish they resumed the making of that stairwell.
@@debbiebernhardt5406 Kind of a waste of money right now don't you think with so many sick n out of work.
I knew the blasting foreman, the man in the chair with his legs crossed whittling dynamite, ‘Art’ John Arthur Johnson. It was incredible as a little kid hearing him tell stories about the building of the monument. Many of the builders are buried in the Keystone cemetery that has a great view of the “Heads”.
That’s a total lie……everything about Rushmore is a lie
@@bigdaddyjim9135 Hold lemme grab my tin foil hat real quick lmao
@@fkw0k3t4rd5 maybe you'd rather grab my meat stick.....lmao!
@@bigdaddyjim9135 😂😂
Forget about the troll above. Thank you Dawn. I wished to know his stories myself.
How do we not have such amazing rock art since these!! These are amazing and shows how great our people can make out of rock!!!
For better or worse, we prioritize other things. For example, if every penny that was spent on just the NFL -from tax-payer subsidized stadiums, to corporate sponsorships, and all the way down to the money that fans spend on food while at the stadiums- if all of that was instead spent on art instead, we'd have a whole lot more amazing art! (fwiw: I don't have anything in particular against the NFL, but the fact that we pay professional athletes _so much more_ than we pay educators, first responders, heck, even garbage collectors, i.e. based on salaries, we demonstratively _value_ entertainers more than people who actually contribute to our society being able to function, well, that disparity genuinely pains me!)
There were tunnels underneath Niagara Falls as well... You used to be able to go through them and almost touch the falls from the inside ..which I did but it is closed off to the public now
They're still open to the public.
Disney did it. they want to be the only ones showing the backside of water.
Actually, they're still open to the public
We were there in 1985, and on the Canada side you could walk under the falls and onto a platform just almost to the horse shoe falls. It was amazing, will never forget. Beautiful there, we also went to Goat Island on the American side, really impressive.
Theyre sewer pipes I'll bet u smell like a rose
They were originally supposed to have the front torsos of the Presidents carved into the mountain as well as their heads. Crazy Horse is another huge carving about 8 miles South of Mt. Rushmore that is under construction into perpetuity. After standing on Crazy Horse's arm, the guide said the 4 heads on Mt Rushmore would fit inside Crazy Horse's hair.
Yeah it's a bummer they bit off more than they could chew there because it would be a serious feat of human achievement, even with modern methods. Also, they realized people will come see it even if it's not finished so they're like, well, why would we bother then! We can just leave it be and make as much money as if we spent millions to finish it.
There is probably nobody left that knows how to complete crazy horse.
It's also something Crazy Horse would have no doubt found abhorrent.
@@djjazzyjeff1232 there still carving crazy horse
@@jamestaylor766 it’s so little and infrequent it’ll likely not be finished at least not in our lifetime. The look to the naked eye hasn’t changed one bit in the last 10 years.
It’s time we finished it. This generation doesn’t appreciate what America is and what it’s done. I’m not saying it’s perfect, but no country is. However, what we have done, and what our nation was founded and built on, is pretty incredible.
Just have to respect the way this was created and how it was accomplished in those times!
It wasn’t built when they said……it’s atleast 500 years old….another advanced civilization built it……..no way in hell humans could have built that especially in that era…..hammers and chisels?…… with no way to get visual perceptions to know where to chisel at……… a total scam on humanity.
It's unbelievable that some people in today's society want this amazing piece of art and history to be demolished! I hope they don't succeed!
Who
@@brianstrachan3451 The Woke....aka the modern Western Taliban.
There have been many discussions of blowing up Mt. Rushmore because of the "atrocities" committed by Washington, Roselvet, etc, etc... you know like they have done with countless Confederate and Southern monuments.
The democrats
When the communist Chinese invade it will be destroyed
Nah never. Then you would look back further than Washington and they don't want that either.
If this was actually made, we'd have a third National Treasure movie on this for sure
I visited Mount Rushmore with my grandparents 35 years ago. Was I hallucinating?
Yea, this is completely real and it’s huge
They actually are making a 3rd film.
@@ianbusche1471 yeah ik that Mount Rushmore is real, I was talking about the chamber that was gonna be made behind it
@@USSTOLEDOSSN769 ik that Mount Rushmore is real, I was talking about the chamber behind it that was gonna be built
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 - March 6, 1941) was an American sculptor most widely known for the colossal sculpture Mount Rushmore National Memorial. He was also associated with various other public works of art, including Stone Mountain in Georgia, the statue of Union General Philip Sheridan in Washington, D.C., as well as a bust of Abraham Lincoln which was exhibited in the White House by Theodore Roosevelt and which is now held in the United States Capitol crypt in Washington, D.C.Borglum was also deeply involved in Ku Klux Klan politics.
It took a lot of Gutzon to make his living from stone. 🤣
"...it has been claimed that Borglum was a member of the Ku Klux Klan,[23] an article in the Smithsonian Magazine denies that there is proof that he officially joined the KKK."
Indeed. Borglum was a KKK member thru and thru. He had already completed Stone Mountain as tribute to the confederacy. Next step, Rushmore, despite the land belonging to the Lakotas deemed by the Fort Laramie treaty of 1868. This abomination should be swept clean. All of it. And it's no wonder a racist like Trump pays homage to a white supremacist tourist site like Rushmore.
They also fail to mention the fact that the black hills where "confiscated" after the discovery of gold in the area, even thought the U.S. had signed a treaty with the Lakota Sioux declaring that land (which was/is sacred to them) was theirs only a decade before. The Lakota Sioux tribe won the case in the supreme court, and where "rewarded money" which they didn't take because they just want there land back.
In other words he was a Democrat
The Ancient Egyptians taught them everything they needed to know to create Egypt right here in America.
Must I add that the Ancient Egyptians discovered America before Christopher Columbus.
This is so interesting. Those were some tough and brave men. First I ever heard of a tunnel and vault thank you for the information
North by Northwest brought me here.
"they had zero casualties" that's amazing
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It’s technically unfinished. They’ve made it in such a way that weathering will only improve it. In 2000 years, if the land remains unaltered, it will be as the original architects designed.
"In the year 2525, if man is still alive....." - Zager and Evans
Hope the faces fall off
At some point in time I think the woke folks will have it put back into its natural appearance.
@@lukequigley121 Ha! That is so great! I was 12 when this came out. and it just popped up in my head the other day! Bet millennials don't know what we are referring to!
Why would they?
Sssssh, you're not meant to expose the secret location of Team America's HQ!
I don’t think I appreciated this work of art until I was an adult. I def would love to see this in my lifetime.
le fact is how no one lost their life making this. So many things could go wrong, but they did not. Great workI think the most remarkab
What a vision, I wish he could have built it all.
I would have said, "Let's do it!" but the whole thing is on ancient Native land.
Don’t let Trump get the idea it’s unfinished.
@@justrosy5 and?
@@justrosy5 Good to know. Then clearly, if we want to finish it, the additions need to include honoring those native people, and proceed only with their approval.
@@andrewheffel3565 totally agree!!
Little did he know, American already has huge underground tunnels and stuff for future generations to find...... Just imagine what the aliens will think when they find Area 51. LoL
They're already in area 51 what are you talking about?
They founded Area 51 though.
Wait till they find decomissioned ICBM silos
A whole inside Abe's head? Sounds about right!
Bisayawaa!
Pun intended?
Wait, I thought he got hammered in the ass so much that he actually died from being hammered in the ass..
@@djjazzyjeff1232 "hes breakin my butt!"
I went to through the comments just to check if I’m not the only one thinking of this.
@@A-1622. a good eye for meme
After learning about this in my history classes in grade school, I wanted to see this monument with my own 2 eyes before I died. I got my wish, and I was thrilled to see it.
This site may have been chosen as much because it was sacred to Native Americans as because it offered a large "canvas." The mountain was the home of the sacred ancestors, and the Grandfathers could be seen on the face of the mountain in the form of mammoths. Look at the artists' rendering of the mountain at 0:14, and you can actually SEE the mammoth walking out of the mountain's face. Destroying this Native monument and replacing it with the faces of white men -- and not just ANY white men, but the leaders of the government that had so often betrayed and cheated Native Americans -- was the stamp of the victory. The tyranny of the colonization of an already populated land is now what's being memorialized, not the power of Nature in Native American beliefs. But white men always seem to view the destruction of Nature as a triumph.
National Treasure here we go again
I've never sense Mt. Rushmore up close & personal. What an interesting legion, that's for sure.
Maybe one day I'll get out that way. Ya never know!
I saw this in the awesome "Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century "TV series in 1980, it's no mystery.
My family JUST finished that series xD
Ive flow to the U.S. 3 times to go to Sturgis, and I visit Mt Rushmore and Crazy Horse Memorial each time, they are marvels that every American should see once in their life time.
Thanks for the video very interesting
This was a fascinating video, but there was no closed captioning! Some of us older folks don't hear as well as we used to. I always use CC when watching RUclips videos, but there was nothing.
Listen harder..
RUclips generally automatically adds captions. I wonder why this one does not have it...
What? Speak up!
See this is the kind of stuff we should learn in history class. This is actually cool unlike most useless things they tell us.
They told us in 5th grade
@@YourAverageExJunkie told us there’s tunnels behind mt. Rushmore? What school you go to?😂
Yeah, this is extremely useful information...
They be too busy telling you how Slavery built America. 🥷🫂🗣💩
@@blameks9136 it's called public school. No idea what's so funny. I guess you went to school but didn't go inside.
Me being a Canadian citizen, I wanted to see Mount Rushmore. I took the family and when you see it in person, wow.
What an amazing tour and explanation!!
I can't hear about Mt. Rushmore without thinking about "North By Northwest!"
The company dedicated one of the 16 plaques to be an advert of "The history of our great company and look at the good we did"
Kind of a bummer to have those documents buried there and never finished the hall itself!! 🤔
My grandpa worked on rounds around the mountain. He got in a fight with a new worker and got his teeth punched out. My grandpas teeth are still there to this day.
Did he learn his lesson
He gives a good gummy
Thank you for this video
Great video! Learned a lot...ty!🎉🎉
Let's start a gofund me page and finish this man DREAM.
Well if you were to talk to the forest rangers that give tours and work on this area, they will tell you that there is more things hidden in the area that they really are not allowed to talk about.
Like what?
@@jakekinzer well the vault, and other hidden areas that only a few rangers are allowed to go
I'm sure there are plenty of secrets there that no one either knows or is allowed to tell
No one died making mount Rushmore because the presidents had their back
Your right. They didn't have any political b.s. to push.
Going to see this marvel in 2 weeks! Mrs. Adams and I can scarcely contain ourselves!
Just visited in July. It was absolutely more than I ever hoped for! I just sat there looking at it for an hour. Hey, when you leave take a right turn. You get a stunning profile of George Washington! If you stay in Rapid City make sure you eat at Krispy Krunchy Chicken! By far the best you will ever have. My family and I are still talking about it!
The idea of hiding these plates here isn’t something outrageous and mind boggling, just simply look at history and the question we have about other structures like the pyramid, a simple hey this is who we were and what we think and what we did in our life time. Just think about 3021 and reading these plates if they were still available would be an amazing thing for these individuals who bring them back to the light.
Yeah, they have to sensationalize everything these days. Just the simple history of it is interesting enough.
It’s stupid and poorly designed though. They’ll have corroded bad after a decade and they way they’re positioned in a stone hole that way with drainage will keep them waterlogged majority of the time and advance the corrosion. Doesn’t matter if you caulked/sealed or whatever, when it comes to future proofing none of that lasts.
Boy, do we need that historic evidence intact today when new Americans who came from oppressed countries want to change this nation and completely do away with its foundational principles for liberty from such oppression...thank you for the post and we should be watchful that no one "mysteriously destroys" this national monument.....protect it LORD and this nation.
It's not true this was the first of its kind in this country. Stone Mountain was completed before this monument was started and the same man did both. In Georgia, we also had the Guide Stones that were mysteriously blown up recently. Rather than rope the area off to investigate, the area was bulldozed over.
I never cared for the Guidestones, but does it matter who made them, who blew them up, or whatever Illuminated monument that may or may not be put in its place? Not trying to be a poopy-pants, just genuinely asking. Thanks for educating me and others on the fact Stone Mountain and Mt. Rushmore were designed by the same man, makes me rethink the social engineering (not that I was for it) of wanting to remove Stone Mountain. It's interesting, because most of the Confederacy were either Freemasons or Knights of the Golden Circle, and the Union was led by a Rosicrucian (Lincoln) with Freemason Generals. That's where the term "Brother fighting Brother" in describing the Civil War comes from, as in the Masonic sense of "Brotherhood". Also rather interesting, is how the Freemasons view the "North" and the "South", one being a place of desolation and abandonment, like "winter".
@@mzdtmp2 , on the guidestones, I think it matters who blew them up and why. They should be prosecuted. Was it a group or individual or even the government? Who knows? I never got to see them. They simply were a curiosity.
I've never heard that the north and south belonged to various different organizations like that. i don't doubt it. I find that interesting.
I had read that one of the reasons for the war was the South brought in a lot of money through tariffs that the North didn't want to lose.
My question is why not finish Mt. Rushmore like Gutson wanted?
In the book "Logans Run" deep inside Mt. Rushmore is a vast computer complex and the main computer was called "The Thinker" and this computer ran the world
Gus Borglum was enticed to leave his stone carving project at Stone Mountain to work on Mount Rushmore. It was NOT the first project of it's kind. That is absolutely false.
I love how they never mentioned how this mountain was very significant for the Native Americans yet the government didn't care that they were taking away Native American land. They have never cared.
Yeah and the natives took it from each other
Well I’m all in, let’s finish it how was originally supposed to be
@CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH I second that motion.
Shit.... BLM museum at best
@@maxiepattie85 what?
@@maxiepattie85 stfu
@CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH I think it's a little late for that mate, lol.
I wish they’d finish making the hall. I understand they wouldn’t put some records in there, but I would like to see it completed the way he wanted it.
Some day they will 🤗🤗🤗🤗🌹
Thanks. Fascinating!❤
They should definitely use those blueprints and finish it!!
Those poor sacred mountains…. :(
I wish they had used a different mountain. But its super beautiful and amazing
Just curious why?
@@dandelion12522 it was sacred land that was stolen from the natives.
I have zero interest in this monument after learning how they desecrated the Native American one.
@@saintbyron5150 looks way better now.
@@daroob ok lmao
what a lovely monument built on the sacred mountains of the native Americans. A delightful testimony to our conquering and genocide of a people. Isn't our country great? The whole thing should be blown up and removed.
the only question i have about the whole landmark, is how the hell didn’t it erode or fall apart after all these years?
It is made of solid stone, you twit. Do the rocks holding your trailer melt in the summer? This ugly pile of rubble was made like 85 years ago. It's not ancient.
Supposedly it was build in way, where it improves over years.
Granite
They consulted an Egyptian who was familiar with stone monuments that last 5,000+ years.
Has the Washington Monument eroded away or fallen? Check when it was finished. It's been a while. Granite is pretty tough stuff. Take a look in a few million years, both should show some signs of wear. Haven't you been paying attention to the world around you at all in your +-30 years?
Wish they started creating the stairwell, they could of ran modern poles just to give it access to the abandoned tunnel.
The way RUclips tosses ads randomly into the middle of excellent videos like this one is DISGUSTING.
We all need to pledge to NEVER purchase anything advertised here.
What ads?
It's a fantastic thing, that in the 1940's they had the TECHNOLOGY to even START building MT RUSHMORE. And also, being 5,000 feet above ground is some VERY BRAVE SH*T TO DO.
Really? The Egyptians built the pyramids 5,000 years ago and we still don't know exactly how they did it so that's far more impressive. Also they were 500 feet high not 5,000 feet. The base of the summit is at 4,500 feet.
@@steveconkey7362 so from the ground to the top of the head those ex-slave masters was only 500 ft?
@@leomartin1903 Correct. But two of the four never owned slaves so you are ignorant. Most democrats back then owned slaves. You can see them now on the new inner city black voter reservations. You know, your perpetual victims.
@@steveconkey7362 ignorant means not to know, but there ARE FORMER SLAVE MASTERS, UP THERE, NO MATTER HOW MANY THERE ARE UP THERE. And I DONT KNOW, because I DONT VOTE.
A project similar to this in magnitude and successfulness will probably never be seen again in the USA.
Tourist tip. If you're visiting Mt Rushmore, find the road to Horse Thief Lake. As you leave the Rushmore memorial area, look to the side of the mountain for Pecker Rock. It's a huge formation a couple hundred feet tall. You can't miss it.
I think when they made the tunnel they felt like putting it behind Abraham’s head for comedic effect 😂
Team America: World Police was a documentary.
We need more shows like this and I hope someday they finish this monument or add to it.
Watching stuff from Discovery UK, from Canada, for info on US. 🙃
You just need Australia and you'd be all set.
IIRC it was in the TV show Buck Rogers in the 25th century where they depicted some great headquarters embedded Mt. Rushmore. So there was some basis behind their fiction even if it didnt get much further than planning. There were obviously a lot of issues with the idea of some grand national archive at this site, mostly access and logistics. I think the artist would have liked it because it would make his work seem even more important.
@@RobinRinge whoop dee do. They owned the land... Got that in writing?
Well gee no ya dont because not one tribe in what would become the United States had ever developed any form of wrtten record keeping.
The indians would still be living in teepees and dying by age 29 of easily curable diseases if it werent for the gift of European colonization. The indians are better off for it, the world is better for it.
Every technological advancement in your life can be attributed to Europeans and their meticuloust record keeping.
Even if we choose to adopt your negative slant on it, what about it?
Both the wrong and the wronged, are long ago dead. Indians come into this world with more rights and privileges than the rest of us, and since when in human history was a weaker, less capable civilization protected from encroachment by others? Never have and never will be.
I suppose you would whine about the poor cro magnon man's demise by those horrible homo sapiens.
This is the world today. Always somebody cryin about somethin.
This monument the more I read about it the more depressing it is. Imagine having your land stolen, and on your secred holy site they damage and build a monument to people who contributed to it all. I bet that secret vault doesn't even contain a copy of the legal document enshrining that land to the Sioux Nation that was illegally violated.
Yes...I was unable to collect souls during construction...damn Americans.
WOW, great video. Mount Rushmore always amazes me.
Wow that's very interesting.
Hopefully some day I'll get to see it in person.
SECRET TUNNELLLLL, SEECCRETT TUUNNNELL THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN
That song was literally playing in my head when they showed it!!!!!!
The mountain is site to see, beautiful.
What they left out was that this mountain was sacred to the Sioux tribe and held great power to them. It was the mountain of the 6 grandfathers I believe, please fact check me. The mountain was then defaced and refaced with racist presidents who fueled the Native American genocide. Never forget that there was history before we arrived here.
You can read all about that history at one of their tax free casinos built on the same "sacred" land down the road. Also, the Sioux stole the land from the Black Foot tribe when the racist Sioux killed them and drove them off the land and enslaved them. So there's that. Get off your high horse. People have been colonizing and enslaving other people for tens of thousands of years. Name a color or race, they all did it. It's still going on now in Africa.
Amazingly work started in 1927 and when the roads were built the first car to arrive appears to be a 1950 Chevy. Presidents and time travel. Amazing!
The black ops 6 trailer bought me here
The mountain of six grandfathers was known by the Lakota long before Mt. Rushmore was changed.
And? Most call it Mt. Rushmore TODAY (the time/space we're occupying/experiencing), and not many call it "The Mountain of Six Grandfathers" except to those that it was part of their culture/religion. If you're not of it, you are guilty of cultural appropriation, to bounce back some PC nonsense.
@@mzdtmp2 really?
@@lino556 Yes, And?
@@mzdtmp2 ridiculously funny. But thank you. 😊
LMFAO
Whats stopping them from completing it? I find monuments such as this one, to be extremely fascinating
they have better train tunnels deep underground now. simply no need.
@Gee Jrrr On a site that is sacred to them no less.
democrats also known as communists are stopping it from being completed.