All language subtitles for Mysteries.of.the.Abandoned.S06E02.Swamp.of.Despair.1080p.DISC.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-DoGSO_track3_[eng]

[ SUSPENSEFUL CHORDS STRIKING ]

Narrator:
A MERCILESS COMPLEX DESIGNED
FOR SUFFERING...

THERE'S DORMITORIES.

THERE'S WHAT LOOK
TO BE CLASSROOMS.

THERE'S WORKSHOPS.

IT'S A BIG MYSTERY.

...STREETS OF A SUNKEN
PIRATE CITY

DRENCHED IN INFAMY...

THE HARBOR WALLS ARE
CRUMBLING INTO THE SEA

AND THE WHOLE AREA
HAS BEEN LEFT TO COLLAPSE.

...AND A SHADOWY
SUBTERRANEAN COMPLEX

CRITICAL
TO DEFEATING HITLER.

LOOKING AT THESE DOORS,

LOOKING AT THESE DOORS,

NEVER IN YOUR
WILDEST DREAMS

COULD YOU IMAGINE
WHAT LIES BEYOND.

*

DECAYING RELICS,

RUINS OF LOST WORLDS,

FORGED THROUGH YEARS OF TOIL,

NOW HAUNTED BY THE PAST,

THEIR SECRETS WAITING
TO BE REVEALED.

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*

*

OFF THE COAST OF CROATIA,

IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE ADRIATIC SEA,

IS AN ISLAND FEW
HOLIDAY MAKERS DARE TO VISIT.

*

Auerbach:
IT'S A MOONSCAPE, BARREN.

THERE ARE MOUNTAINS OF ROCK
PILED UP HERE, THERE.

IT'S A PALETTE
OF GRAY AND WHITE.

IT'S A PALETTE
OF GRAY AND WHITE.

*

Nusbacher:
THIS IS AN ISLAND THAT IS
NOT THE LEAST BIT WELCOMING.

IT IS STARK.

IT IS BURNED

AND IT'S DEAD.

*

STRETCHING UP THE HILLSIDE
IS A SERIES OF STEPPED RUINS,

REALLY JUST
THE OUTLINES OF WALLS.

IF YOU LOOK A LITTLE
MORE CLOSELY,

YOU START NOTICING
SOME SINISTER ELEMENTS.

YOU START NOTICING
SOME SINISTER ELEMENTS.

AS YOU SEE THIS PLACE
SURROUNDED BY FENCING,

MACHINE GUN POSTS,
AND BARBED WIRE

AND THE MYSTERY
KINDA THICKENS.

Narrator:
A PLACE BUILT
FOR A BRUTAL PURPOSE.

Nusbacher:
THIS IS AN ISLAND DEDICATED
TO BREAKING THE HUMAN SPIRIT.

THIS IS A PLACE DESIGNED
TO DEHUMANIZE.

*

Narrator:
WHAT WAS THIS INCONGRUOUS
SETTLEMENT USED FOR?

Narrator:
WHAT WAS THIS INCONGRUOUS
SETTLEMENT USED FOR?

WHO LIVED HERE, AND WERE
ARE THEY BEING PROTECTED

OR HELD AGAINST THEIR WILL?

*

THIS STERILE ROCKY OUTCROP

IS GOLI OTOK.

LOCAL HISTORIAN
DARKO BAVOLJAK

HAS SPENT YEARS
SCOURING THIS DESOLATE SITE.

*

*

Interpreter:
THIS IS AN ISLAND

WHERE PARANOIA AND VIOLENCE
REACHED THEIR HEIGHT.

Narrator:
THE MORE YOU EXPLORE THIS SITE,
THE MORE BAFFLING IT BECOMES.

*

Wawro:
AS YOU GET CLOSER, THERE'S,
YOU KNOW, SLEEPING QUARTERS.

THERE'S AN AUDITORIUM.

IT'S HARD TO KNOW
WHAT THIS PLACE IS.

Nusbacher:
THERE IS NO READILY
APPARENT REASON

WHY YOU WOULD BUILD THIS
SEMI-INDUSTRIAL FACILITY

WHY YOU WOULD BUILD THIS
SEMI-INDUSTRIAL FACILITY

ON AN ISLAND
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEA.

*

Narrator:
GOLI OTOK'S ISOLATION
IS KEY TO UNLOCKING ITS PAST.

*

BECAUSE IT'S OFF THE COAST,
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN OUT THERE.

THE FATE OF THE PEOPLE THERE
WILL NEVER BE KNOWN.

Nusbacher:
LOOK AT THE BUNKERS.

THIS IS A PLACE THAT
IS DESIGNED TO BE PATROLLED,

DESIGNED TO BE DEFENDED.

DESIGNED TO BE DEFENDED.

BUT IT'S NOT,
IN ANY WAY, CLEAR

WHAT WAS WORTH GUARDING
AND PATROLLING HERE.

*

Narrator:
IN FACT, THIS SITE
WAS A BRUTAL PRISON.

IT'S KNOWN
AS CROATIA'S ALCATRAZ.

*

[ SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE ]

Interpreter:
THE FIRST PRISONERS ARRIVED
ON THIS ISLAND

ON JULY 9, 1949.

AFTER THAT,

AROUND 12,000 CONVICTS PASSED
THROUGH THIS PLACE

AND THEY BUILT EVERYTHING
THAT YOU CAN SEE HERE.

AND THEY BUILT EVERYTHING
THAT YOU CAN SEE HERE.

[ CONTINUES
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ]

*

Narrator:
BUT WHY DID SOMEONE GO
TO SUCH LENGTHS

TO BUILD A PRISON
ON THIS BARREN ROCK,

FAR OUT TO SEA
AND WAY OUT OF SIGHT?

*

AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR,

THIS SITE WAS PART
OF COMMUNIST YUGOSLAVIA,

WHICH WAS STILL ALIGNED
WITH MOSCOW,

BUT IN 1949,

THE INFAMOUS YUGOSLAVIAN
DICTATOR MARSHAL JOSIP TITO

THE INFAMOUS YUGOSLAVIAN
DICTATOR MARSHAL JOSIP TITO

BROKE AWAY FROM THE SOVIET UNION
AND ITS LEADER JOSEPH STALIN.

BUT NOT ALL YUGOSLAVIANS
AGREED WITH TITO'S VISION.

[ CHEERING AND APPLAUSE ]
THEY WANTED TO STAY
WITH SOVIET-STYLE COMMUNISM,

[ WHISTLING ]
AND THE RUTHLESS DICTATOR

HAD A HARSH WAY
OF DEALING WITH DISSENTERS.

TITO WANTS TO BE ABLE

TO TAKE PEOPLE
HE THINKS ARE LOYAL TO STALIN

AND MAKE THEM DISAPPEAR.

*

Narrator:
IN HIS COLD-BLOODED
PURSUIT OF POWER,

Narrator:
IN HIS COLD-BLOODED
PURSUIT OF POWER,

TITO HAD TURNED
ON HIS OWN PEOPLE.

HE ROUNDED UP THOUSANDS
OF POLITICAL PRISONERS

AND SENT THEM HERE,
TO THE PRISON ON GOLI OTOK.

THIS IS TITO'S GULAG.

THE BUILDINGS ARE
A STARK REMINDER

OF THE IMMENSE PARANOIA
OF A REGIME

THAT DIDN'T TRUST
ITS OWN PEOPLE.

THEY WOULD SPEND YEARS LIVING
UNDER THE HARSHEST CONDITIONS,

HUDDLING ON THIS
LIMESTONE ISLAND,

HUDDLING ON THIS
LIMESTONE ISLAND,

PROTECTED BY A FEW BLOCKS,
BEING WORKED NEARLY TO DEATH.

Narrator:
THE INMATES' PUNISHING WORKLOAD
INCLUDED QUARRYING,

EXCAVATING
A NETWORK OF TUNNELS,

AND BUILDING
THE VERY FORTIFICATIONS

THAT KEPT THEM IMPRISONED.

*

[ SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE ]

Interpreter:
THERE ARE MORE THAN
100 BUNKERS ON THIS ISLAND.

MANY WERE USED
TO STOP PRISONERS ESCAPING.

[ CONTINUES
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ]

Narrator:
THOSE UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH
TO END UP HERE

Narrator:
THOSE UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH
TO END UP HERE

WERE SUBJECTED TO TITO'S
RELENTLESS REEDUCATION MACHINE,

A MACHINE THAT WOULD TURN DARKER
THAN ANYONE COULD IMAGINE.

*

HERE IS A PLACE
THAT WAS BUILT, BUILT UP,

MADE ALMOST
BRUTALLY MAGNIFICENT

IN ITS ABILITY TO CAUSE
PEOPLE MISERY AND PAIN,

SO THAT THEY WOULD BE
COMPLIANT.

Narrator:
YUGOSLAVIA'S SECRET POLICE

KEPT A CLOSE WATCH
FOR THE SLIGHTEST INDISCRETION.

KEPT A CLOSE WATCH
FOR THE SLIGHTEST INDISCRETION.

THE FEAR OF BEING SNATCHED
AND SENT TO GOLI OTOK

BECAME PART OF YUGOSLAV SOCIETY.

Auerbach:
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA
IS IMMENSE.

IMAGINE BEING
LITERALLY DISAPPEARED,

BEARING SEIZED FOR CRIMES

YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW
YOU'RE BEING ACCUSED OF,

SO QUICKLY AND SO SECRETLY,
THAT EVEN YOUR FRIENDS

AND FAMILY
DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU'VE GONE.

*

SOMETIMES PEOPLE EXECUTED
THEIR PERSONAL GRUDGES

BY INFORMING UPON PEOPLE

THAT HAD NOT REALLY COMMITTED
ANY POLITICAL CRIMES!

THAT HAD NOT REALLY COMMITTED
ANY POLITICAL CRIMES!

THEY JUST WANT TO SEE THEM
SENT TO GOLI OTOK.

*

Narrator:
DID ANY OF THESE ENEMIES
OF THE STATE SURVIVE

TO TELL THE TALE

OR DID YUGOSLAVIA'S DISAPPEARED
VANISH FOREVER?

[ SUSPENSEFUL CHORD STRIKES ]

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]

*

Narrator:
OFF THE COAST OF CROATIA
IS GOLI OTOK,

MARSHAL TITO'S BRUTAL PRISON,

WHICH STARTED REEDUCATING
POLITICAL DISSENTERS IN 1949.

BUT SOMETHING MORE PERVERSE
THAN THAT WAS AT PLAY.

A SMALL NUMBER
OF SENIOR OFFICIALS

WOULD HAVE OVERSEEN THIS GULAG,

BUT THEY WERE NOT RESPONSIBLE
FOR KEEPING ORDER.

BUT THEY WERE NOT RESPONSIBLE
FOR KEEPING ORDER.

THE PRISON DISCIPLINE
WAS ACTUALLY CARRIED OUT,

IN LARGE PART,
BY THE INMATES THEMSELVES.

*

SO NEWCOMERS ARRIVED.

THE OLDER INMATES WERE FORCED
TO WHIP THEM AS THEY PASSED BY.

Narrator:
THOSE WHO SURVIVED ROSE
THROUGH THE RANKS

TO METE OUT
THEIR OWN FORM OF TERROR,

AS BARRACKS SUPERVISORS.

Interpreter:
THE BARRACK SUPERVISOR WAS
THE MASTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.

HE COULD ORDER ANY PRISONER
TO VICIOUSLY BEAT ANOTHER.

HE COULD ORDER ANY PRISONER
TO VICIOUSLY BEAT ANOTHER.

[ CONTINUES
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ]

THESE BRUTAL CONDITIONS CREATED
A KIND OF PRISON HIERARCHY

WHERE PRISONERS WERE ENCOURAGED
TO HUMILIATE EACH OTHER,

TO INFORM ON ONE ANOTHER,
TO BEAT ONE ANOTHER.

Nusbacher:
EVERYBODY WAS AN INFORMER.

EVERYBODY WAS AN ABUSER.

EVERYBODY WAS VIOLENT.

AND NOBODY FELT SAFE.

*

*

ABOUT 600 DIED
ON THE ISLAND,

WHICH MEANS, YOU KNOW, THOUSANDS
RETURNED TO THE MAINLAND

AFTER BEING BROKEN
AND REEDUCATED,

BUT THOSE WHO CAME BACK,
THEY DIDN'T DARE SAY A WORD.

*

Auerbach:
WHAT WERE THEY AFRAID OF?

WHAT IF SOMEONE INFORMED
ON THEM AGAIN

AND THEY WERE RETURNED
TO GOLI OTOK?

*

Narrator:
THIS FEAR RIPPLED
THROUGH YUGOSLAV SOCIETY

UNTIL 1989,

WHEN THE COLLAPSE
OF THE BERLIN WALL

WHEN THE COLLAPSE
OF THE BERLIN WALL

MARKED THE BEGINNING OF THE END
FOR COMMUNISM

AND TITO'S GULAG CLOSED DOWN.

*

TODAY, THE CRUMBLING
BUILDINGS OF GOLI OTOK

ARE A HAUNTING REMINDER
OF TITO'S TOTALITARIAN REGIME.

*

ALL OF US IN THE WEST,
WE ALLOWED OURSELVES TO THINK

THAT, UNLIKE THE OTHER
COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIPS,

THAT, UNLIKE THE OTHER
COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIPS,

TITO'S DICTATORSHIP
WAS NOT FOUNDED

ON BRUTALITY
AND PRISON CAMPS.

OF COURSE, WE WERE WRONG.

*

Narrator:
IN THE SWAMPY WETLANDS
OF LOUISIANA,

IN A REGION
WITH A FRACTURED PAST,

LIES A SPRAWLING SITE
WITH A SHAMEFUL STORY TO TELL.

[ GUITAR STRUMS
LACONIC COUNTRY TUNE ]

[ GUITAR STRUMS
LACONIC COUNTRY TUNE ]

*

Wawro:
IT SEEMS ENTIRELY
OTHERWORLDLY

BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT THE BAYOU.

YOU'VE GOT
THE STRANGE WILDLIFE,

YOU'VE GOT SNAKES CRAWLING
THROUGH THE GRASS.

YOU'VE GOT CROCODILES.

*

IT'S PRETTY FORBIDDING.

IN THIS LANDSCAPE,

NOT ONLY DO YOU HAVE
THE REMAINS OF BUILDINGS,

LIKE BRICK FOUNDATIONS
BARELY EXPOSED,

YOU ALSO HAVE
EXISTING STRUCTURES,

YOU ALSO HAVE
EXISTING STRUCTURES,

VERY, VERY SIMPLE WOODEN
STRUCTURES, SIMPLE CABINS.

Narrator:
THESE BUILDINGS
AND THE ABANDONED MACHINERY

THAT LIES SUBMERGED IN THE
STEAMING SWAMPS AROUND THEM,

HOLD THE CLUES
TO WHAT THIS SITE ONCE WAS.

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]

IN THE DISTANCE,
YOU CAN SEE

SOME KIND OF A CRANE
OR INDUSTRIAL FACILITY

AND SOME OTHER
HEAVY EQUIPMENT

LAYING AROUND
IN STATE OF DISREPAIR.

*

*

SO, IT LOOKS LIKE
WE'RE COMING UPON

A BASIC AGRICULTURAL
ESTABLISHMENT,

BUT FOR WHAT, EXACTLY?

*

THERE IS A SENSE
OF FOREBODING

THAT SOMETHING
MIGHT'VE HAPPENED HERE,

THAT YOU CAN'T QUITE
FIGURE OUT WHAT.

*

Narrator:
WHO WERE THE WORKERS FORCED
TO CALL THIS PLACE HOME

AND HOW WERE
THEIR LIVES ENTWINED

WITH THE HISTORY
OF A DIVIDED AMERICA?

[ SUSPENSEFUL CHORD STRIKING ]

[ SUSPENSEFUL CHORD STRIKING ]

*

THIS SITE IS A PUZZLE.

IS IT INDUSTRIAL?

A SMALL TRAIN AND OTHER
ASSORTED PIECES OF MACHINERY

RUST AWAY
IN THE SOUTHERN HUMIDITY,

BUT THE CLUSTER OF SHACKS
AND A DESERTED SCHOOL

HINT AT A COMMUNITY.

BUT WHERE HAS EVERYONE GONE?

*

PAUL LESLIE
IS A LOCAL HISTORIAN

PAUL LESLIE
IS A LOCAL HISTORIAN

WHO HAS SPENT YEARS STUDYING
THE HISTORY OF THE SITE.

*

Leslie:
I CAME HERE AROUND 1977

AND SO, I PRETTY MUCH
DISCOVERED IT THEN.

AND I WAS JUST
COMPLETELY STUNG

BY THE PRESENCE
OF SO MANY BUILDINGS.

IT WAS LIKE A TIME CAPSULE.

Narrator:
THE STORY OF THIS SITE BEGINS

WITH A PRODUCT
THE WHOLE WORLD CRAVED --

SUGAR.

*

*

WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE
IS A SUGAR PLANTATION,

A KIND OF AGRICULTURE
THAT WAS VERY COMMON

IN THE U.S. IN THE
19th CENTURY AND BEFORE.

SUGAR WAS REALLY AN INTEGRAL
PART OF THE LOUISIANA ECONOMY

BECAUSE IT WAS
THE ULTIMATE CASH CROP.

*

Narrator:
THIS ISN'T JUST
ANY SUGAR PLANTATION.

IT'S LAUREL VALLEY,

ONCE ONE OF THE LARGEST
PLANTATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA.

*

*

IN THE 1830s,

A FAMILY BY THE NAME
OF TUCKER ARRIVED

AND TOOK OVER THIS LAND

AND BEGAN BUILDING UP
THE PLANTATION.

Narrator:
BUT THEIR AMBITION
CAME AT A COST.

*

Mitchell:
THE TUCKER FAMILY ARRIVE
WITH A COUPLE OF DOZEN SLAVES.

WITHIN 20 YEARS,

THEY HAVE ALMOST 170 SLAVES.

IT'S A PHENOMENALLY LARGE
SLAVE HOLDING FAMILY.

IT'S A PHENOMENALLY LARGE
SLAVE HOLDING FAMILY.

THE PROCESS OF MAKING SUGAR
WAS A REALLY BRUTAL ONE

AND IT WAS INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT
FOR THE LABORERS INVOLVED.

Narrator:
AT THE HEART OF THE TUCKERS'
OPERATION WAS THE MILL.

*

Wawro:
THIS IS THE OLD SUGAR MILL.

IT'S BUILT IN THE 1840s,

BUILT WITH BRICKS THAT WERE MADE
ON THE PLANTATION BY THE SLAVES

AND THEN ASSEMBLED
PAINSTAKINGLY,

SOMETHING LIKE
366,000 SLAVE-MADE BRICKS.

*

*

THE MILL WAS OPERATIN'
24 HOURS A DAY.

IT NEVER SHUT DOWN,
UNLESS THE EQUIPMENT BROKE.

Narrator:
THE WORK WAS BRUTAL.

THE DAY HERE AT LAUREL VALLEY
WAS ONE THAT STARTED

AT AROUND 7:30
AND ENDED CLOSE TO 8:00.

IT WASN'T AN UNCOMMON THING

TO HAVE PEOPLE PLOWIN'
IN THE FIELDS AT NIGHT.

AS FAR AS THE WORKING
CONDITIONS, THEY WERE HARD.

THE AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY WAS
AROUND 25 YEARS OF AGE.

THE AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY WAS
AROUND 25 YEARS OF AGE.

Meigs:
THIS IS SLAVE LABOR IN SOME
VERY DIFFICULT CONDITIONS

DOWN HERE IN THE SWAMPS,

WITH MOSQUITOES AND MALARIA
AND THE BLAZING SUN.

SO THERE WAS NO EASY PLACE
TO BE A SLAVE,

BUT THIS WAS PROBABLY ONE
OF THE WORST PLACES.

*

WORKERS STARTED
AT VERY YOUNG AGE,

ABOUT 8, 9, 10.

Narrator:
LIFE AS A SLAVE WAS SO HARSH
THAT, FOR SOME,

BRINGING A CHILD
INTO THIS WORLD WAS TOO MUCH.

BRINGING A CHILD
INTO THIS WORLD WAS TOO MUCH.

YOU HAVE INFAMOUS STORIES
OF MOTHERS DECIDING

TO COMMIT INFANTICIDE,

RATHER THAN SUBJECT
A CHILD TO SLAVERY.

*

Narrator:
THE DESERTED STRUCTURES
AT LAUREL VALLEY HINT

AT THE CRUELTY
OF DAY-TO-DAY LIFE.

Meigs:
IMAGINE LIVING IN THESE SWAMPS,

IN ONE OF THESE
PRIMITIVE HOUSES.

NO SCREENS ON THE WINDOWS
TO KEEP OUT THE MOSQUITOES.

THERE WERE PROBABLY, YOU KNOW,
FIVE PEOPLE TO A ROOM,

THERE WERE PROBABLY, YOU KNOW,
FIVE PEOPLE TO A ROOM,

VERY, VERY PRIMITIVE
AND DIFFICULT CONDITIONS.

*

Narrator:
BUT A VIOLENT SERIES OF EVENTS

WOULD SOON CHANGE THE FORTUNES
OF AMERICA, THE TUCKERS,

AND THE PEOPLE
THEY HAD ENSLAVED.

*

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]

*

Narrator:
DEEP IN THE SWAMP LANDS
OF LOUISIANA,

A DESERTED 19th-CENTURY
SUGAR PLANTATION STANDS

AS A TESTIMONY TO HUMAN GREED.

THE SOUTHERNERS,

THEY SAW SLAVERY AS THE
BEDROCK OF THEIR ECONOMY

AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S SORT OF
AN ECONOMIC NONSENSE, IN A WAY,

BECAUSE IT'S BEEN PROVEN
OVER AND OVER

THAT SLAVERY WAS AN INEFFICIENT
WAY TO RUN ANYTHING.

THAT SLAVERY WAS AN INEFFICIENT
WAY TO RUN ANYTHING.

AND, YET, SLAVERY HAD BECOME SO
ENTWINED WITH SOUTHERN CULTURE.

Narrator:
FEW FAMILIES FELT STRONGER
ABOUT THIS THAN THE TUCKERS.

ONCE THE CIVIL WAR

[ BLASTING ]
BROKE OUT,

CALEB TUCKER LEFT
LAUREL VALLEY IN 1863

AND WENT TO JOIN
THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.

FOR A MAN LIKE CALEB TUCKER,

WHO HAS CONSIDERABLE
SLAVE HOLDINGS,

THE NOTION OF EMANCIPATING
HIS ENSLAVED LABOR FORCE

THE NOTION OF EMANCIPATING
HIS ENSLAVED LABOR FORCE

IS AKIN
TO BANKRUPTING HIMSELF.

Narrator:
WHEN THE UNION WON THE WAR,

TUCKER'S CHOICE
TO FIGHT AGAINST THEM

HAD A CATASTROPHIC IMPACT
ON HIS PLANTATION.

THE LOCAL UNION AUTHORITIES
EXACTED REAL RETRIBUTION ON HIM.

WE KNOW FOR A FACT
THAT UNION AUTHORITIES,

YOU KNOW,
PLUNDERED THE PLANTATION.

SO AS A RESULT,
THE PLANTATION,

IN THE LATTER STAGES
OF THE CIVIL WAR,

REALLY FALLS UPON HARD TIMES.

*

*

Narrator:
AT THE END OF THE WAR,

THE TUCKERS SOLD
THEIR PLANTATION

AND THE LAUREL VALLEY SLAVES
WERE FINALLY FREE,

BUT HOPE OF A BETTER LIFE
SOON VANISHED.

RACIAL BIGOTRY AND LOW WAGES

MEANT THEIR WORKING CONDITIONS
HARDLY IMPROVED.

IN 1887,

THE WORKERS ORGANIZED
A MASS STRIKE,

BUT AN ALL-WHITE MILITIA
WAS SENT IN TO RESPOND.

Mitchell:
THEY NOT ONLY TRY
TO KILL STRIKERS,

Mitchell:
THEY NOT ONLY TRY
TO KILL STRIKERS,

THEY ALSO END UP MASSACRING
BLACK CIVILIANS,

BLACK PEOPLE WHO ARE
IN THE TOWN.

AND SO HISTORIANS DON'T HAVE
A VERY STRONG SENSE

OF EXACTLY HOW MANY
BLACKS WERE KILLED,

BUT IT WAS DOZENS,
IT WAS SCORES,

OF PEOPLE BEING MURDERED,
BEING SLAUGHTERED.

*

Narrator:
THE STRIKERS HAD LITTLE CHOICE

BUT TO RETURN TO WORK
IN THE SAME SUGAR FIELDS

AND THE PLANTATION GREW AGAIN.

A BOOM BETWEEN 1890 AND 1924
MEANT MORE BUILDING AT THE SITE.

A BOOM BETWEEN 1890 AND 1924
MEANT MORE BUILDING AT THE SITE.

Meigs:
THEY HAD HUGE CRANES

FOR LOADING THE CANE
AND LOADING THE PRODUCT.

THEY HAD MILES
OF RAILROAD TRACKS.

THEY HAD TO MOVE AROUND
A LOT OF MATERIAL

AND THEY WERE WILLING
TO INVEST A LOT

IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE
TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

*

Narrator:
BUT THE GREAT DEPRESSION
OF THE 1930s

BROUGHT ECONOMIC DISASTER

TO THE SUGAR INDUSTRY
AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA.

TO THE SUGAR INDUSTRY
AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA.

EVENTUALLY,
THE WORKERS' CABINS EMPTIED

AND THE SUGAR MILL
CLOSED FOR GOOD.

*

TODAY, LAUREL VALLEY
STILL STANDS.

THE FIELDS ARE USED
TO GROW SUGAR CANE,

BUT THE BASIC HOUSES
NOW LIE EMPTY.

Meigs:
THIS PARTICULAR SITE
IS A WINDOW

INTO A PART OF OUR HISTORY,
PART OF WORLD HISTORY,

AND, AS TRAGIC AS IT IS,

IT'S ALSO REALLY IMPORTANT
TO RECOGNIZE IT.

IT'S ALSO REALLY IMPORTANT
TO RECOGNIZE IT.

IT'S A STORY THAT NEEDS
TO BE TOLD.

*

Narrator:
PERCHED ON A REMOTE COAST
IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS

IS A COLLECTION OF STRUCTURES

THAT KEEP SILENT VIGIL
OVER THE SEA.

*

[ STRINGS PLAY MELLOW TUNE ]

UP ON THE CLIFFS, YOU'RE SWEPT
AWAY BY THE NATURAL BEAUTY.

*

*

BUT IF YOU LOOK DOWN
AT YOUR FEET,

YOU'LL FIND
CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS.

MAN'S BEEN HERE AND HE'S CREATED
THINGS AND THEN TAKEN THEM AWAY.

Narrator:
BUT THIS IS NOT THE ONLY ENIGMA
IN THESE FARAWAY FOOTHILLS.

CONCEALED IN DENSE GRASSLAND

IS AN INAUSPICIOUS PORTAL
TO A MOMENTOUS PAST.

IF YOU DON'T KNOW
WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR,

YOU ARE NEVER GONNA FIND IT
IN THIS LANDSCAPE.

YOU CAN JUST ABOUT MAKE OUT
BIG STEEL DOORS

YOU CAN JUST ABOUT MAKE OUT
BIG STEEL DOORS

THAT APPEAR TO LEAD
RIGHT INTO THE MOUNTAINSIDE.

NEVER IN YOUR WILDEST DREAMS

COULD YOU IMAGINE
WHAT LIES BEYOND.

[ SUSPENSEFUL CHORD STRIKES ]

Narrator:
WHATEVER IT IS,

IT'S TOO CLANDESTINE
TO APPEAR ON LOCAL MAPS.

IT'S WHAT YOU DON'T SEE

THAT'S EVEN MORE IMPRESSIVE
ABOUT THIS COMPLEX.

SECRECY WAS VERY, VERY KEY
TO THE ENTIRE OPERATION.

SECRECY WAS VERY, VERY KEY
TO THE ENTIRE OPERATION.

Narrator:
BUT WHAT IS THERE
IS MONUMENTAL.

IT'S WHEN YOU MAKE A NOISE

THAT YOU REALIZE
THE SCALE OF THIS PLACE.

[ CLANG REVERBERATING ]

Narrator:
WHY GO OUT OF YOUR WAY
TO HIDE THIS ENORMOUS FACILITY

AND WHAT IS ITS CONNECTION
TO THE CLIFFTOP RUINS?

*

THE LINK BETWEEN THE GATEWAY
IN THE WOODS

AND THE CLIFFTOP STRUCTURES
STARTS TWO MILES AWAY,

AND THE CLIFFTOP STRUCTURES
STARTS TWO MILES AWAY,

WITH HUGE METAL DRUMS
IN THE TOWN OF INVERGORDON.

YOU'RE LOOKING AT A KIND
OF INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

AND IT'S A VERY,
VERY IMPORTANT SITE.

YOU SUDDENLY REALIZE THERE ARE
THESE MASSIVE, ROUND STRUCTURES

HEADING OFF
AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE.

*

ROWS AND ROWS OF THESE
RUSTING CIRCULAR DOMES

STRETCH OUT INTO THE DISTANCE.

STRETCH OUT INTO THE DISTANCE.

Narrator:
MILITARY ARCHAEOLOGIST
ALAN KILPATRICK

HAS STUDIED THIS AREA
FOR DECADES.

Kilpatrick:
THE SITE IS VERY IMPRESSIVE.

ITS ENGINEERING AND ITS QUALITY
OF ITS ENGINEERING

IS ABSOLUTELY FIRST-RATE.

Narrator:
THESE ENORMOUS METAL
STRUCTURES DATE BACK

TO THE EARLY 20th CENTURY.

BUILT, INITIALLY, IN 1913,

THE FACT THAT THEY'RE
STILL HERE TODAY,

HAVING HAD NO MAINTENANCE
FOR OVER 25 YEARS

HAVING HAD NO MAINTENANCE
FOR OVER 25 YEARS

OR THEREABOUTS,

THEY'RE STILL STUNNING,
IN AMAZING CONDITION.

*

INSIDE THESE CIRCULAR DOMES,
IT'S ALMOST PITCH BLACK

AND COVERED IN THIS
ALMOST POWDERY WHITE SUBSTANCE.

IT'S QUITE SPOOKY.

Narrator:
THE WHITE POWDER
IS ORGANIC MATERIAL

THAT BETRAYS THE FACT THAT THESE
TANKS HAVE LAIN EMPTY FOR YEARS,

BUT THESE WERE ONCE FILLED

WITH THE 20th CENTURY'S
BLACK GOLD --

WITH THE 20th CENTURY'S
BLACK GOLD --

OIL.

*

THE LARGEST OF THESE
ENORMOUS STEEL TANKS

IS ALMOST 120 FEET HIGH
AND 45 FEET ACROSS.

THE WHOLE TANK FARM

COULD HOLD HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS OF TONS
OF OIL.

Kilpatrick:
YOU HAD 44 OIL TANKS
CONSTRUCTED.

EACH ONE OF THESE TANKS
CONTAINED

5,000 TONS OF FUEL OIL.

*

Narrator:
SO, WHAT HAPPENED
TO ALL THIS OIL

Narrator:
SO, WHAT HAPPENED
TO ALL THIS OIL

AND WHAT CONNECTS IT
TO THE COASTAL RUINS

AND THE DARK SECRET
IN THE MOUNTAINSIDE?

*

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]

*

IN THE EAST OF SCOTLAND

LIES A 100-YEAR-OLD TANK FARM
THAT WAS ONCE

THE BIGGEST FUEL DEPOT
IN THE COUNTRY.

IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR,

IT WAS A KEY
ROYAL NAVY FACILITY.

*

WHEN YOU CONSIDER
THE IMPORTANCE

OF FUEL TO THE NAVY,

OF FUEL TO THE NAVY,

IT'S AS IMPORTANT
AS AMMUNITION OR GUNS.

NO FUEL, NO FLEET.

*

Narrator:
INVERGORDON SITS
ON THE CROMARTY FIRTH,

A DEEP INLAND WATERWAY
THAT LEADS OUT TO THE NORTH SEA.

*

Barratt:
INVERGORDON WAS REALLY,
REALLY IMPORTANT STRATEGICALLY.

THAT SHIPS COULD SLIP IN
UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS,

FUEL UP,
AND THEN DISAPPEAR OFF.

*

*

Narrator:
THANKS TO INVERGORDON,

THE ROYAL NAVY MAINTAINED
UNMATCHED POWER

AND ENSURED VICTORY OVER GERMANY
IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

BUT THE CLIFFTOP STRUCTURES
EAST OF INVERGORDON SUGGEST

THAT THE SAFETY
OF THE FUEL DEPOT

WOULD SOON BE UNDER THREAT.

THESE ARE THE REMAINS

OF THE NORTH SUTOR
COAST BATTERY.

CONSTRUCTED IN 1913,

IT HAD BEEN UPGRADED TO GUARD
AGAINST THE NEW THREAT

TO THE NAVY'S PRECIOUS OIL

BY THE START
OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

*

*

ALL THIS EFFORT WAS TO TRY
AND PROTECT IT

FROM AERIAL ATTACK
BECAUSE AERIAL ATTACK WAS

THE MAJOR THREAT
TO THE ROYAL NAVY.

Narrator:
AND, WHEN GERMANY
OCCUPIED NORWAY IN 1941,

THEY GAINED A COASTLINE

WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE
OF SCOTLAND.

*

IN FEBRUARY 1941,

A JUNKERS 88 CAME TEARING IN
OVER INVERGORDON.

IT CARRIED OUT
A SOLO ATTACK,

DROPPING TWO 500-POUND BOMBS.

*

*

IT COLLAPSED TANK 13,

SPILLING OIL DOWN THE
ADJACENT RAILWAY LINE

AND DOWN INTO THE FIRTH ITSELF.

*

TANK 13 WAS NEVER REBUILT,
SO, NOW,

IT IS A GAP
IN THE TANK FARM.

Narrator:
THE BRITISH HAD FORESEEN
THIS DANGER

AND, FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS,
HAD BEEN BUILDING A SOLUTION

FOR STORING EVEN MORE FUEL
NEARBY.

BUT THERE'S NO SIGN
OF THE SITE.

IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHERE
TO LOCATE THIS ENTRANCE,

IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHERE
TO LOCATE THIS ENTRANCE,

YOU WOULDN'T KNOW
THIS PLACE EVEN EXISTED.

*

THERE IS A DOOR
IN THE MOUNTAINSIDE

MADE OUT OF INCREDIBLY
THICK STEEL

AND VERY FIRMLY BOLTED
TO THE CONCRETE.

BEHIND THIS UNASSUMING PORTAL
INTO THIS HILLSIDE

LIES ONE OF THE FINEST EXAMPLES
OF CIVIL ENGINEERING.

*

THIS IS ONE OF TWO TUNNELS

THAT LEAD INTO THIS
REMOTE HIGHLAND HILLSIDE

THAT LEAD INTO THIS
REMOTE HIGHLAND HILLSIDE

500 FEET ABOVE INVERGORDON.

Narrator:
IT'S ONLY BY VENTURING DEEPER

THAT THE TRUE NATURE
OF THE COMPLEX IS REVEALED.

*

THE ACCESS TUNNEL HERE IS
OVER 220 METERS LONG.

*

Narrator:
A FEW METERS LATER,

AND THE TUNNEL SEEMS
TO END ENTIRELY.

ONCE YOU GET TO THE END
OF THAT CORRIDOR,

YOU REALIZE THERE IS
ANOTHER WAY FORWARD,

YOU REALIZE THERE IS
ANOTHER WAY FORWARD,

BUT IT'S THROUGH A MUCH,
MUCH SMALLER PIPELINE.

THE STAFF WOULD HAVE TO LIE FLAT
ON THIS WHEELED BOARD,

THAT THEY'D THEN BE PUSHED
THROUGH THE PIPES.

Narrator:
THEY WOULD EMERGE
INTO A MONSTROUS VOID.

THE SPACE
WHICH IS AHEAD OF ME

IS VAST.

IT IS THE SIZE --

IN FACT, ACTUALLY BIGGER,
THAN A MEDIEVAL CATHEDRAL.

IN FACT, ACTUALLY BIGGER,
THAN A MEDIEVAL CATHEDRAL.

THE SHEER SIZE OF THIS,

780 FEET LONG BY 30 FEET WIDE
BY 52 FEET HIGH.

IT REALLY IS AN IMPRESSIVE
PIECE OF ENGINEERING.

*

Narrator:
THIS IS JUST ONE OF SIX TANKS

THAT MAKE UP THE INCHINDOWN
UNDERGROUND FUEL DEPOT.

THE FIRST WAS COMPLETED
IN 1941

AND EACH ONE COULD HOLD
5.6 MILLION GALLONS OF FUEL.

AND EACH ONE COULD HOLD
5.6 MILLION GALLONS OF FUEL.

*

AT MORE THAN 400 FEET
BELOW GROUND,

NO GERMAN BOMB COULD REACH
THE NAVY'S VITAL RESERVE.

*

A SYSTEM OF PUMPS AND PIPING
CARRIED IT DOWN TO INVERGORDON.

*

THE FUEL FLOWED DOWN
FOUR MILES OF PIPES,

FROM THE TANKS
DOWN TO THE NAVAL BASE.

Kilpatrick:
600 MEN WERE INVOLVED.

Kilpatrick:
600 MEN WERE INVOLVED.

MASSIVE AMOUNT OF TUNNELING.

A QUARTER OF A MILLION
CUBIC METERS OF SANDSTONE

REMOVED FROM THIS FACILITY.

*

Narrator:
THIS IMPRESSIVE FEAT
OF ENGINEERING

WOULD SOON PLAY
A CRITICAL ROLE

IN THE LARGEST SEABORNE
INVASION IN HISTORY.

*

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]

*

Narrator:
TOWARDS THE END
OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR,

UNBEKNOWN TO THE GERMANS,
A VAST SYSTEM OF OIL TANKS

LAY IN WAIT
BELOW A SCOTTISH HILLSIDE.

Corum:
IN WORLD WAR TWO,
THIS ONE FACILITY

CAN SUPPORT THE FLEET
FOR CONSIDERABLE TIME.

AND, WITHOUT BASES LIKE THIS,
YOU HAVE NO ROYAL NAVY.

AND, WITHOUT BASES LIKE THIS,
YOU HAVE NO ROYAL NAVY.

IN 1944,

MANY OF THE VESSELS
HEADING SOUTH

TOWARDS THE BEACHES OF NORMANDY
FOR THE D-DAY LANDINGS

REFUELED HERE AT INVERGORDON.

[ BLASTING ]
IT WAS A CRUCIAL PART
OF THE NAVAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

Narrator:
IT WAS CRITICAL TO ALLIED
VICTORY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

*

AFTER THE WAR,

THE WORLD-CLASS ENGINEERING
OF THE INCHINDOWN OIL TANKS

THE WORLD-CLASS ENGINEERING
OF THE INCHINDOWN OIL TANKS

MEANT THEY CONTINUED TO PLAY
AN IMPORTANT STRATEGIC ROLE.

THIS FACILITY WAS,
ALL THROUGH THE COLD WAR,

A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT,
AND VERY SECURE, SITE

FOR YOUR FUEL STORAGE,
FOR LOGISTICS, FOR THE NAVY.

THERE WERE PLANS TO UPGRADE
THE SITE FOR USE BY NATO,

BUT, THESE PLANS
WERE LATER ABANDONED

AND, IN 2002, THE SITE
WAS OFFICIALLY CLOSED.

THAT IS AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
AND AN AMAZING LIFE SPAN

THAT IS AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
AND AN AMAZING LIFE SPAN

FOR SOMETHING THAT WAS
FIRST CONSTRUCTED IN 1941.

*

Narrator:
THE OUTSTANDING ENGINEERING
OF THE VAST INCHINDOWN OIL TANKS

CONTINUES TO BREAK RECORDS
TO THIS DAY,

INCLUDING
WHAT'S THOUGHT TO BE

THE LONGEST-LASTING
REVERBERATION.

IT MEASURED ABOUT 117 SECONDS
OF REVERBERANCE

BEFORE THE SOUND
FINALLY TAILED TO NOTHING.

BEFORE THE SOUND
FINALLY TAILED TO NOTHING.

[ CLANG REVERBERATING ]

*

Narrator:
IN THE SOUTH OF JAMAICA,

AT THE MOUTH
OF THE KINGSTON HARBOR,

A WINDSWEPT CARIBBEAN VILLAGE
HIDES A HELL-RAISING PAST.

*

Selwood:
IT'S A THIN PENINSULA,
STRETCHING OUT INTO THE SEA.

YOU CAN SEE, FROM THE WAY
THE WIND WHIPS THE TREES,

YOU CAN SEE, FROM THE WAY
THE WIND WHIPS THE TREES,

THAT THIS IS AN EXPOSED AREA.

*

Gough:
A LONG BUILDING STRETCHES
ALONG THE COASTLINE.

THE PLASTER'S PEELING
OFF THE WALLS

AND IT'S BEEN BATTERED
BY THE ELEMENTS.

*

Narrator:
SCATTERED CLUES POINT
TO A MILITARY PURPOSE.

Jerram:
YOU'VE GOT IMPOSING WALLS

AND THERE'S A TOWER
WITH SOME ARCHES.

THERE'S A HUGE COURTYARD

WITH STRANGE WOODEN SHAPES
IN THE FLOOR.

TURN A CORNER
AND THERE'S A LINE OF CANNONS

TURN A CORNER
AND THERE'S A LINE OF CANNONS

IN VARIOUS STATES
OF DISREPAIR,

SOME RUSTING, SOME LOOKING
AS THOUGH THEY'RE READY TO FIRE.

*

Narrator:
FURTHER EXPLORATION REVEALS

SOMETHING WENT SERIOUSLY
AWRY HERE.

YOU CAN SEE
THAT THE WHOLE BUILDING

HAS BEEN UPENDED ON ONE SIDE,
BUT REMAINS PERFECTLY INTACT.

WHAT FORCE COULD'VE MOVED
THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE?

THE WAY THE HARBOR WALLS
ARE CRUMBLING INTO THE SEA

AND THE WHOLE PLACE
BEING SO QUIET,

AND THE WHOLE PLACE
BEING SO QUIET,

THERE'S A REAL SENSE
THAT SOMETHING HAPPENED HERE

THAT WE'RE NOT
GETTING THE FULL PICTURE,

THAT THERE'S SOMETHING
UNDER THE WATER.

Narrator:
HOW DID THE SUNKEN RELICS
OF MANMADE STRUCTURES

END UP BENEATH THE WAVES?

WHAT WAS THIS
MYSTERIOUS SETTLEMENT?

*

AN INCONGRUOUS RED BRICK FORT
OVERSHADOWS THE SLEEPY HARBOR,

SUGGESTING THE FOCUS HERE
HAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN ON FISHING.

SUGGESTING THE FOCUS HERE
HAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN ON FISHING.

THIS IS A MILITARY SPACE,
BUT WHAT PERIOD IT IS FROM

AND WHAT THEY'RE PROTECTING
IS NOT IMMEDIATELY APPARENT.

Narrator:
WHAT WAS SO WORTH DEFENDING

ON THIS FAR-FLUNG
JAMAICAN COAST?

*

THIS POINT IS RIGHT
IN THE MIDDLE

OF THE CARIBBEAN'S
BUSIEST TRADING ROUTES

OF THE 17th CENTURY.

THIS MEANT MONEY,

AND MONEY ALWAYS
NEEDS DEFENDING.

[ SUSPENSEFUL CHORD STRIKING ]

Narrator:
THIS IS PORT ROYAL.

Narrator:
THIS IS PORT ROYAL.

400 YEARS AGO,

THIS FORGOTTEN BACKWATER
WAS THE JEWEL OF THE CARIBBEAN.

LOCAL ARCHAEOLOGIST
DORICK GRAY

KNOWS HOW THE ENGLISH PRIED IT
OUT OF SPANISH HANDS.

*

THE FORT RAPIDLY EXPANDED.

AND SO DID THE TOWN,
AND PORT ROYAL SOON BECAME ONE

OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CITIES
IN THE WORLD.

WHEN IT WAS BUILT,
THIS TOWN WAS BIGGER THAN BOSTON

AND HAD MORE MONEY
THAN ALL OF LONDON.

*

*

Narrator:
BUT A FINANCIAL PRIZE
SO FAR FROM HOME

WASN'T EASY
FOR THE ENGLISH TO PROTECT.

Selwood:
THEY THEN DID SOMETHING
INCREDIBLY RISKY AND UNUSUAL.

THEY SENT AN OPEN INVITATION
TO THE MOST LAWLESS

AND RUTHLESS CRIMINALS
ON THE PLANET

TO COME AND MAKE IT
THEIR HOME --

PIRATES.

*

Narrator:
THE SECOND HALF
OF THE 17th CENTURY

WAS THE GOLDEN AGE OF PIRACY,

WITH AS MANY
AS 5,000 PIRATES AT LARGE.

WITH AS MANY
AS 5,000 PIRATES AT LARGE.

PORT ROYAL SOON BECAME
THEIR CAPITAL.

COULD THE ABANDONED STRUCTURES
THAT LITTER PORT ROYAL

HAVE BEEN HOME
TO THESE BUCCANEERS?

Selwood:
IT SEEMS LIKE A CRAZY IDEA,

BUT IT WAS A "BETTER
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW" MOVE.

BY GETTING THESE LIBERTARIANS
ON THEIR SIDE,

THE BRITISH WERE ASKING THEM
TO ATTACK THE SPANISH SHIPS,

THEREBY PROTECTING
THEIR OWN TRADE

THEREBY PROTECTING
THEIR OWN TRADE

AND DIMINISHING THEIR ENEMIES.

[ BLASTING ]

Narrator:
PORT ROYAL THRIVED
UNDER PIRATE RULE

AND GREW INTO AN OUTLAW TOWN
OF 8,000 INHABITANTS.

*

THE CARIBBEAN WAS LIKE
THE WILD WEST

OF THE 17th CENTURY

AND PORT ROYAL
WAS LIKE DODGE CITY.

*

Selwood:
IT WAS SAID THAT ONE IN FOUR
BUILDINGS IN PORT ROYAL

WAS A BAR OR A BROTHEL.

THIS CITY WAS KNOWN AROUND THE
WORLD AS THE WICKED CITY.

THIS CITY WAS KNOWN AROUND THE
WORLD AS THE WICKED CITY.

*

Narrator:
CLUES TO THE CITY'S FATE LIE
BENEATH THE WAVES.

THERE WAS SOMETHING FAR MORE
MENACING ON THE HORIZON,

THAT NEITHER THE BRITISH,
NOR THEIR PIRATE ARMY,

COULD DEFEND AGAINST.

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]

*

Narrator:
RUINS SCATTERED AROUND THE
JAMAICAN HARBOR OF PORT ROYAL

INDICATE THAT A LEGENDARY
PIRATE CITY ONCE STOOD HERE.

THE REMAINS
OF ABANDONED STREETS

HAVE BEEN FOUND IN THE MURKY
WATERS AROUND THE SITE

AND HOLES IN A CENTURY-OLD WALL

SHOW WHERE MOST
OF THE CITY DISAPPEARED.

*

*

WHY DID PORT ROYAL VANISH
BENEATH THE WAVES?

*

A CURIOUS BUILDING
TILTING PRECARIOUSLY

INTO JAMAICA'S SOFT, SANDY ROCK

POINTS AT PORT ROYAL'S
VIOLENT GEOLOGY.

POINTS AT PORT ROYAL'S
VIOLENT GEOLOGY.

*

*

Narrator:
THE CARIBBEAN ARCHIPELAGO
IS A GEOLOGICALLY ACTIVE AREA.

Jerram:
JAMAICA SITS EXACTLY WHERE
THE CARIBBEAN PLATE

AND THE GONAVE MICROPLATE MEET.

THEY MEET SIDE-BY-SIDE

IN WHAT'S CALLED
A TRANSFORM FAULT

IN WHAT'S CALLED
A TRANSFORM FAULT

AND THIS FAULT RUBS

AGAINST EACH OTHER
AS THINGS MOVE

AND THAT CAN CAUSE VIOLENT
JUDDERING AND EARTHQUAKES,

BUT ALSO, SOME OF THOSE
EARTHQUAKES CAN BE QUITE SHALLOW

AND CAUSE VIOLENT CHANGES
ON THE EARTH'S SURFACE.

*

*

THESE HEAVY BUILDINGS
SUDDENLY FOUND THEMSELVES

NOT ON SOLID
SORT OF SANDY SUBSTRATE,

NOT ON SOLID
SORT OF SANDY SUBSTRATE,

BUT ON A LIQUID SANDY SUBSTRATE.

WHAT WAS SOLID LAND
ALL OF A SUDDEN BECOMES LIQUID

AND THINGS SINK INTO IT.

AND, AS THE EARTHQUAKE STOPPED,

THEN THE SAND THEN ESSENTIALLY
RESOLIDIFIED ITSELF,

TRAPPING THE BUILDINGS
WITHIN IT, AND EVEN PEOPLE.

[ SUSPENSEFUL CHORDS STRIKE ]

Narrator:
2,000 PEOPLE DIED
ALMOST INSTANTLY.

ANOTHER 3,000 WOULD DIE
LATER, FROM DISEASE.

BUT THAT WAS JUST
THE BEGINNING.

*

THE EARTHQUAKE, BEING COASTAL,
ALSO CREATED A TSUNAMI

THE EARTHQUAKE, BEING COASTAL,
ALSO CREATED A TSUNAMI

AND IT'S REPORTED
THAT THE SEA MOVED

ABOUT A MILE AWAY FROM THE LAND

BEFORE THEN COMING CRASHING IN
WITH VIOLENT WAVES

THAT ATTACKED THE CITY
FROM THE SEAWARD SIDE.

*

Gough:
THE CITY CAN NO LONGER FUNCTION.

IT WAS OVER.

MANY BELIEVED THIS
WAS RETRIBUTION,

ALL OF THE DEBAUCHERY AND SIN

WIPED OFF THE EARTH
BY GOD'S WRATH.

WIPED OFF THE EARTH
BY GOD'S WRATH.

Narrator:
MORE THAN 1,000 ACRES
OF PORT ROYAL WAS DESTROYED.

THE PIRATE CAPITAL NEVER
RETURNED TO ITS RIOTOUS HEYDAY,

BUT ITS STRATEGIC LOCATION
SAW IT REBORN A CENTURY LATER.

Gough:
ONE OF BRITAIN'S MOST
CELEBRATED NAVAL OFFICERS

WAS CALLED INTO SERVICE HERE.

IN 1779, HORATIO NELSON
WAS PUT IN CHARGE

OF 500 MEN AT FORT CHARLES.

Narrator:
ADMIRAL NELSON
DID ALL HE COULD

TO PREVENT PORT ROYAL
DISAPPEARING BACK INTO THE SEA.

TO PREVENT PORT ROYAL
DISAPPEARING BACK INTO THE SEA.

THIS NAVAL HOSPITAL
WAS INGENIOUSLY DESIGNED,

WITH LARGE PARTS OF THE
BUILDING PREMADE IN BRITAIN

AND THEN SHIPPED OUT
TO JAMAICA.

*

IT ALSO SURVIVED
ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE, IN 1907.

[ SUSPENSEFUL CHORD STRIKING ]

THIS EARTHQUAKE WAS REALLY

THE SORT OF FINAL NAIL
IN THE COFFIN

AND, AFTER THIS,
MOST PEOPLE FLED THE TOWN.

*

MOTHER NATURE
HAS FINALLY CLAIMED

THE ONCE-INFAMOUS PIRATE CITY,

THE ONCE-INFAMOUS PIRATE CITY,

CONSIGNING
ITS NEFARIOUS SECRETS

TO THE DEPTHS
OF DAVY JONES' LOCKER.

*

MARINE EXCAVATION
TAKES TIME AND PATIENCE

AND, ALTHOUGH THERE'S BEEN
A FEW DIGS OVER THE YEARS,

THERE'S HUGE SWATHES OF THE CITY
THAT HAVE YET TO BE EXPLORED,

SO WHO KNOWS WHAT TREASURES
STILL LIE HIDDEN BENEATH?

*

[ SUSPENSEFUL CHORD STRIKES ]

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