Elaborate Deadly Booby Traps Genius People Created

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the booby trap one of the great staples of a classic adventure film not only are they fascinating to watch on the big screen they're also the ultimate psychological weapon stretching the limits of human imagination coming up are ten of the most elaborate booby traps ever created let's just hope you never find yourself in any of these number ten baphuon during the Middle Ages in Southeast Asia there was an empire known as the Khmer Empire located in what is today Cambodia the Khmer people were for the most part deeply religious whilst there were some Buddhists most people followed Hinduism at the time and as a result they took their gods very seriously that's why when the baffle on temple was constructed in the middle Evon century to Mana Shiva the god of destruction the builders made sure to install a booby trap in case anyone decided to mess with it as the gun of destruction I'm sure that Shiva will be proud of this one a few hundred years later when a group of Buddhists were in the process of converting the place into a Buddhist temple they were in for a nasty surprise you see the temple was created with a hollow layer inside first they built a pocket using laterite which was then covered in black sandstone to both reinforce and decorate it the interior area that was created was then filled with sand so replacing the altar with a statue of the reclining Buddha wasn't as easy as they'd hoped as they started removing the stones of the wall to be repurposed to make a giant statue this released all the sand the stones were holding back completely demolishing the statue they were building and most of the temple itself in the process the work was never completed however in 1960 was partially reassembled and reinforced with metal throughout the half-finished Buddha is only barely distinguishable just goes to show there's some truth to that classic movie trope of a temple that dramatically collapses when desecrated number 9 Lee Roth belts house from a temple in the Middle Ages to a house in 2018 it turns out you don't need to travel to Africa or Asia to find some impressive booby traps as this next one is an organ let's just say 67 year old Gregory Lee rod belt isn't your run-of-the-mill upstanding citizen in 2017 he was arrested and charged for an armed standoff that involved a SWAT team a police helicopter and a Crisis Negotiation team in a separate case he was forced to pay back a seven-figure judgment fee to his 90 year old mother who eats stolen from two just a house among other things some genius thought it would be a good idea to release him for two weeks to sort that civil case Gregory had other ideas though after a warning sign was spotted on the property he owned the authorities were contacted what they discovered was an elaborate system of booby traps at the bottom of the property they found two entrance gates one blocked by a minivan forcing them to enter through the other gate the bomb squad noticed a wire attached to the gate rod belt put a round hot tub on its side at the top of the driveway and perched it against the shim that was holding it back had the gate been opened the wire would have pulled the shim away and sent the hot tub hurtling towards them similar to the classic Boulder scene in Indiana Jones but that wasn't all they found the makings of another improvised device a mousetrap with a shotgun shell the idea was the trap would have been set off as the garage door was opened possibly using string so the bar of the trap would strike the shell primer discharging the shot shell elsewhere in the property Gregory rigged a wheelchair to a shotgun shell positioned with a pipe and a piece of wood triggered with a rat trap when agents went to the house and moved the chair boom the explosion shot a pellet into the leg of one of the FBI agents luckily he went to the hospital and recovered Gregory was found guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and was now a mounting list of criminal charges when asked about any other booby traps in the house rod belts response was I would not race right in I take it someone doesn't want the house to sell for much money number 8 cemetery gun from the early 1700s to the 1900s grave robbing was very common the robbers would sell the bodies to universities who wouldn't question where they came from and would pay anything after all they could easily make the money back from selling tickets to a dissection of the body many families weren't too keen on the idea of their loved ones being stolen so the ones who could afford it would often hire a cemetery gun to be placed at their graves and the reason I say hire instead of buy is that it's only needed for a couple of weeks after that the body is too rotten for anyone to want to dissect and hence stealing the gun would be mounted onto a wooden block but not fastened so that it would be able to swivel this block would be secured firmly to the ground the barrel would be facing the body's head and the gun would be filled with any number of projectiles from rocks to buckshot as you can see from this picture at the foot of the gun were three oops each hoop connected to trip wires laid out in straight lines across the grave in an arc formation when the robbers went to the Graveyard it would be too dark for them to see and they would end up stumbling over one of the wires pulling it this would cause the gun to swivel around to the direction of the wire pull the trigger and shoot the criminal unfortunately though this didn't stop grave-robbing it merely ensued that only poor people's bodies were stolen number seven screwworm fly let's talk about reproduction and I know what you're thinking what on earth does it have to do with booby traps well nothing unless you happen to be a screwworm fly the screw room flies a horrible animal that lays its eggs inside the cuts and wounds of animals and sometimes even humans it has been responsible for many farmers losing thousands of dollars from the death of their livestock whilst they were eradicated in the United States in 1980 efforts are now being made to continue their eradication across the globe whilst the most popular method is to sterilize the male's and release them back into the wild where they would fail to reproduce other methods have been tested over the course of time believe it or not there was actually a special poison made from a chemical called d ldren and this chemical is safe in small doses at least for the female screwworm fly but not the male to make their trap scientists cover the females with a small amount of Delrin which immense when the flies tried to get down and dirty they'd end up in screwworm fly heaven if such a place exists some of you might be thinking that's not a booby trap but it is the definition of a booby trap is a device or setup that is intended to kill harm or surprise a person or animal unknowingly triggered by the presence or actions of the victim and that is exactly what the screwworm fly trap is the male fly unbeknown to him gets killed when he mates with a female the plan was that every female fly with poison on her thorax would be able to wipe out 100 males and it worked it might sound bad but remember they lay eggs inside cuts number 6 Nazi picture bombs when they weren't coming up with ridiculous theories to justify discrimination the Nazis were creating ever more ingenious weapons booby traps are the perfect nuisance weapons for forces with military disadvantages so whilst retreating through Europe during both world wars the Germans defined modern booby trapping techniques after early deficiencies in explosives and early firing devices meant effective widespread booby trapping only became viable in the 20th century the Nazis in particular rigged houses in areas they were retreating from with simple and cheap booby traps utilizing simple physical principles such as pulling the application of pressure and release of pressure one of the most common traps was a grenade at the door with a pull switch they fixed the door to a wire attached to the split ring of the grenade which was anchored to the floor so that when the door opens the ring would be pulled grenade would go off right in front of the person entering the door but they didn't want to spend all their time killing off random soldiers here and there they were even more sophisticated in their thinking than that after all getting rid of those in charge over average soldiers would give them a significant strategic and military advantage so how do you create a trap designed to be triggered by an officer simple art they were known to hang paintings askew attached to wires and explosives it was thought that lower ranking soldiers would be unlikely to care or even notice but higher ranking officers seen as gentlemen would be compelled to correct the mistake but when they did it would cause a huge explosion yep it's safe to say I would have died pretty quickly in World War two number five Oak Island mystery Oak Island is a small island located next to Nova Scotia and Canada it doesn't look like much on a map but in 1795 a boy named Daniel McGinnis discovered the island was far more mysterious than people originally thought he found a block and tackle or depending on who you ask Assad branch hanging from an oak tree on the island beneath this was a noticeable depression in the ground he returned with two friends and began to dig soon they found a flagstone two feet beneath the ground and beneath that stone a shat filled with dirt they kept digging to 30 feet finding more platforms in the ground and when they were older they returned to the site with funding and professional help every 10 feet deeper they found more platforms of foreign materials like clay or coconut fibres leading experts degree it's man-made almost 100 feet down they found a stone slab which held markings in an unknown language the next day the shaft flooded with 60 feet of water and this is why it's so hard to excavate 200 years after its initial discovery numerous treasure hunters have tried and failed to retrieve whatever lies at the bottom of Oak Island mystery pit to this day no one knows what's down there and numerous people have died trying to find out numerous pits have now been dug on the island with each new find fueling bizarre speculations everything from it being a natural sinkhole to the buried treasure of Captain Kidd a pirate from the late 1600s who was believed to have hidden his fortune on an island somewhere east of Boston the problem is it's an elaborate booby trap of sorts about 100 feet down there's a large flood tunnel that connects to five diverging box drains which pour water into the pit the only thing stopping the water from filling it up are the oak platforms that occur every 30 feet or so when the treasure hunters break through one particular block of oak the pit fills up and prevents anyone from finding out what's at the bottom this diagram speculates how the flood tunnels caused the pit to flood as you can see there may even be a vault connected to a natural cave system and another vault which would prevent anyone from finding whatever lies at the bottom still wouldn't it be funny if they found what was down there and it was just a note that said haha madeyewlook number four Vietnam War traps the Vietnam War was a horrible affair that South thousands of lives being taken being such a violent conflict numerous improvised weapons were created to cause fear and uncertainty within the enemy one such trap was the flag grenade Vietnam soldiers knew that the Americans would often remove their flags when they liberated a village so they would attach a grenade to the flagpole with a grenade fastened on the floor in the pin facing down the pole would be tied to a pin by taking out the flagpole they'd pull the pin out of the grenade it's simple and was sadly very effective but probably the most famous and destructive trap the Vietnam War is the punji trap basically they would dig out a hole fill it with sharp bamboo spikes and then cover it with camouflage natural undergrowth like grass american victims would step into the trap and be impaled if they weren't killed they'd be seriously wounded or die from infections as the spikes were often deliberately covered in poo they were so brutal the UN banned them in the 1980s number three bullets Americans during the Vietnam War were just as smart with air traps known as project eldest son American technicians knew their guerilla adversaries were heavily reliant on salvaged ammunition so when they captured ammunition they partially disassembled them and reassembled them with explosives this included machine gun rounds and mortar shells the Green Berets then carry the faulty ammo attend he stashes spiking cases and magazines of good ammunition with explosive rounds sparingly to avoid revealing what they were doing when used pieces of the ak-47 would typically be projected backward into the head of the individual firing the rifle and often more than one person was killed when team fired machine guns were used not only did it kill off the enemy it caused them to question the safety of their ordnance and generated mistrust between Vietnam troops and Chinese suppliers sadly this trick is still being used today with the Syrian government ceding the black market to kill rebel soldiers as well number two two of Qin Shihuang in ancient China and many other ancient cultures for that matter they took the burials of their rulers very seriously as they believed what was buried with them would be taken into the afterlife if you become lucky enough to be considered important you'd be buried with golden riches and a highly complex structure guarded with booby traps to stop people from stealing your rotten body one of the coolest such burials is that of ancient Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang the first emperor of China not only to deconstruct the Terracotta Army around 6,000 soldiers meant to protect him from evil spirits in the afterlife he also had possibly the most elaborate tomb ever invented though nobody's been brave enough to open it a Chinese historian wrote down a description of what lies inside the tomb his description states the tomb includes several mechanisms in place to stop would-be thieves from getting the body sell fire and crossbows for instance which are likely attached to trip wires which when triggered would cause this bit to fall down releasing an arrow he also mentioned a map of China that's been laced with mercury bound to poison anyone who looks at it for too long when archeologists inserted probes into the tomb they found 100 times the normal rate of mercury that occurs naturally giving credibility to the legend it's all we have to go off since the workers who built the tomb were killed to preserve its secrets and number one sarcophaguses in 1994 Mexican archeologist Fanny Lopez was conducting some routine stabilization work on temple stairs of the ancient Mayan city of palin q when she found a small crack in the walls of the temple obscured by weeds as she's shown a flashlight down the crack she found a clear passage that led to two empty chambers and one sealed burial chamber eventually they tore down the wall and found two skeletons of the chamber possibly sacrificed servants inside the sarcophagus in the center of the chamber however they found the remains of a woman lying on her back the remain were covered with red cinema a mercuric oxide used by the Mayans as a preservative the remains were therefore labeled as those of the Red Queen a mysterious noblewoman dated to 600 to 700 AD whilst lots of people claim the fine powder is dangerous its effect won't necessarily kill rather you make off get nausea or vomiting exposure but not die in fact culturally red symbolized sacred energies of blood so it was used to honor the dead rather than harm potential tomb raiders that said other tombs have been found to contain powder they may purposefully be deadly around 1000 years prior to the Red Queen's burial in what's known as the valley of the golden mummies in present-day Western Egypt archaeologists found the 33 foot deep tomb of a powerful local governor at the time god kansui off' as archaeologists opened his sarcophagus they found large quantities of hematite a valuable iron ore the director of the excavation said the hematite prickled his chest like thorns when inhaled he believed EF was surrounded by the powder to protect his tune from unwelcome visitors in fact it is potentially toxic which is why the team decided to use safety suits to clean the rest of it out so whether they're used for warfare or protection there's no denying that booby traps are incredibly interesting which trap did you find the most ingenious and are there any that I forgot to mention let me know in the comment section down below and thanks for watching [Music] you

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