World’s Loneliest Man, Amazing Salt Mine & Houses Without Doors | Mystery Places | Free Documentary

[Music] [Music] our journey begins in Argentina we are looking for the loneliest man in the world and already the way to him is very lonely in order to find him we have to organize an ancient roadmap on newer Maps or in the sat-nav his town doesn't even exist [Music] as soon as we've crossed the hill the landscape changes drastically we're tarmacked roads were a second ago muddy trails formed the path to a big lake and there is supposed to be a city here [Music] the closer we get to the town the order the landscape becomes thousands of dead trees are stood alongside the road what happened here what dark secret is behind the town with only one inhabitant and who lives here in the middle of nowhere in Argentina out of their own free will the drive takes over 20 minutes through this barren landscape without us meeting a single person until suddenly out of nowhere a modern gate appears Villa epic when the mysterious town 600 kilometers south of the capital Buenos Aires a town where only a single person is living but it quickly becomes clear the modern gate is deceptive not much of epic when is left many thousands of people must have once lived in Villa Park when today few buildings still have all four walls most of the city is destroyed as if a gigantic explosion has torn everything apart within a fraction of a second it seems more like a war zone than a town on our search for the loneliest man in the world we are venturing deeper and deeper into the naked ruins of this place and then we hear him from afar it is an odd feeling to see someone approaching you after hours of being alone here may we introduce the probably most lonely man in the world driving the possibly coolest car on the planet what an entrance what a guy thousands of questions that we want to ask the 85 year old shoot through our brains but mainly one specific one what happened here defense secretary as so awkward to anyone defense territory atresia Hotel de noviembre you know my guess is supported many of the patterns a community massacres cosa we're pablo lives now the water was 10 meters high just a few years ago and where we are driving along here in the buggy used to be the bottom of a lake Pablo takes us on a sightseeing tour through the town and tells us about its history a story that is inseparably connected with the lake the lago epic when has a similar salt content to the dead sea and had been attracting tourists from all over the world since the 1920s [Music] the ruins of the pool are silent witnesses to epic winds better days week-long exceptionally heavy rain made the water levels rise dramatically in 1985 the dam breaks and the water floods the city in only a few hours for 25 years to come epic when would vanish in the lake until in 2009 due to a long drought the water begins to retreat and the remains of the town are exposed again we while driving through the Rowan's with Pablo we feel as if they are still alive for the 85 year old on the left the cafe on the right and ice cream parlour a journey into the past for us and never faded memories for Pablo [Music] we notice how much the loneliest man in the world is enjoying telling someone about his city and suddenly we are stood in front of Pablo's favorite place for him it is the same place as back then a pile of rubble consisting of washed stones and dead poplar trees [Music] [Music] not even one hour after the dam broke the water inside the hotel had reached the ceiling hurriedly Pablo left the house there not knowing that he would only get to see this place again 25 years later anything that doesn't swim very well is still at the same place as it used to be but how can Pablo live here in the ruins of his town he doesn't live in these his buildings anymore down by the shore all the structures are destroyed a bit further up the road many houses survived the years underwater better we want to find out how Pablo fends for himself and most importantly how he deals with the loneliness if you don't count the three dogs and the approximately 150 chickens [Music] about five years ago the then 80 year old swapped his TV and shower for this life here two rooms kitchen bathroom completely without any electricity but with a gas cooker and he shows it with pride Pablo doesn't need anything anymore and if something should be required like a new bottle of gas his children and fourteen grandchildren help him one of them even only lives half an hour away by car and comes by every week all the rest is done by Pablo himself and that is exactly how he wants it he is especially proud of something that he built himself in the garden why did you choose to live right here in this house una familia tambien in tennis don't habla receives a small state pension that he can survive on easily one of his grandsons brings him fresh fruit and vegetables from the supermarket every week and just as you would expect from a real Argentinian also lots of wine and meat so Pablo rarely leaves his town and we to realize that for this evening we don't need anything else this is all very well but only one question is still on our minds when we set out on our search for the loneliest man in the world we're expected to meet a bitter human being but here in the Argentinean Atlantis we found quite the opposite an 85 year old who is hospitable and full of shuara vivre and who also just on the side makes an incredible asado [Music] in the end we are sure Pablo isn't lonely at all he is happy what do you wish for the future of at the moment there are no plans of rebuilding the ruins of Villa epic when but as long as Pablo is living here he will keep his city alive and so we leave Pablo and this mysterious place and travel to Masdar City pomp and splendour wherever you look indoor skiing facilities at 45 degrees outside temperature the United Arab Emirates are not really known for saving energy therefore even more surprising 25 kilometers away from the center of Abu Dhabi the shakes are building a city of the future 40,000 people are supposed to live here one day at the moment the complex has 500 inhabitants ten years ago the Emirates Prime Minister's brother commissioned the Eco City to be built but by car we can only reach the edge of Masdar city as inside this place there are no roads accessible to cars we're sent to catch a very special train at the PRT station BRT stands for personal rapid transport a transportation system with autonomously driven cabins big enough for 4 people the future of mobility could look like this for us too the cabins move on magnetic tracks that are in the ground originally there was supposed to be 100 stops but currently the further development is stalling the ride to the city of the future isn't very far already after 3 minutes we have arrived at our destination the center of Masdar city because we have to get filming permission first we are already being expected our custodian doesn't want to be filmed but will accompany us after all Masdar city is a very prestigious project for the shake being in contact with many other cultures is normal in mazda city people from 70 nations work here but we don't see many locals so what makes this place different to other cities our first impression it may be hot but the 43 degrees outside temperature feels quite airy and the houses seem to be different to other cities there are hardly any windows everything is oddly screened off some buildings have a sort of shell around them others are on stilts and right in the center there is a tower that is open at the bottom clearly a kind of chimney but what is it for the man who can explain this best to us is the man who Co designed everything here the architect Chris Juan he - isn't a local the Londoner was given the task of designing some of the buildings in the city of the future he shows us how everything here is geared towards cooling as one of the main energy consumers in this region our air-conditioning machines all the faces of the buildings are designed in a way that no sunlight can directly enter this is helped by special windows with circular coatings they keep the light off from outside but you can look through them from the inside the stilts of the houses are also a means of cooling on the windy side of the building they are far apart this way lots of air streams inside that then travels to the courtyards through a much smaller opening this creates a kind of Jetstream effect and what about the strange tower its purpose is not to make something go upwards what is up there is supposed to come down as at the top of the tower nozzles spray little droplets of water into it you can see here it's catching the wind and misting device at the top that cools which makes it heavier and come down across this means the cooled air at the top uses the chimneys effect and while traveling downwards creates cooling wind that in turn lowers the temperature in the surrounding squares the architect gets us to feel the temperature of the floor near the tower and really it is cooler here than in the surroundings and friendly mr. Wan also helps us gain access to the student accommodation in the city most of the pupils have scholarships and may live here free of charge people who want to be accepted at this elite university need to have good grades many letters of recommendation and need to pass language tests tomash from poland has managed to achieve all of lis above and has been studying biochemistry in Masdar city for three years to date the 300 students make up most of the population of the city this is the living room we can't find any real luxury here but normally the students aren't used to having it anyway however due to the lack of sunlight the flat feels a little gloomy do you sometimes miss the sunlight actually we learn what tomash likes most about this place is the sense of momentum that exists everywhere here it's not like any other University where you just go study and leave here you come you study and you leave at the same time you live the concept you you had you're surrounded by this ideas and about this this wonderful creativity that is everywhere around in the beginning there was still a person employed to tell the students when they were using too much energy now there is a monitor in each flat that also displays emails and calendars but unfortunately it isn't completely working yet instead he proudly shows us what his university already has to offer a well-stocked library and huge laboratories the school is supposed to become an elite facility for scientists working on the topic of sustainability at the moment 10 different subjects are taught here tomash and his colleagues are for example trying to find out what could best be done with plants and biomass here in the desert so basically in all these seats you weekend we can see it may sound unspectacular and theoretical but tamar sends us where this is already practically used one kilometer outside of Masdar city in the middle of the desert there has been a fish farm here for a while which is really quite special normal Agriculture's often have environmental issues regarding the wastewater from the fish tanks scientist Hendrik Visser shows us how these problems can cleverly be solved using biochemistry and this is how it works in the first place and the fish are bred their excrement is very rich in nutrients and is therefore moved onto a second tank through the water exchange there the waste provides the best nutrients for saltwater loving plants whose seeds can be turned into biofuel then everything continues in bayson number three where there are mangroves they completely clean the water and all of it can be pumped back into the basin width of fish this altogether is a completely clean circle the idea is that if we can prove that this concept works in the UAE where it's very hot - very salty water we can export that idea to anywhere else around the world on our way back from the fish farm we discover a strange construction that looks more like something out of a science fiction movie we want to find out what this giant made of steel and mirrors exactly is and therefore meet the Frenchman Nicola Claire Vey and his team of scientists from Masdar City they are working on new methods of using solar energy more efficiently and more cheaply we want to store energy during day when we have lots of Sun to reuse it at night and continue produce electricity even when we don't have Sun their idea is the following around the UFO there are parabolic mirrors on stilts they concentrate the sunlight and then reflect it up towards other mirrors these concentrate the light again and send it downwards to a container filled with salt crystals due to the bundling up of the light great heat is produced here at over 500 degrees centigrade the crystals melt and thusly contain the energy now this way they save up the energy and it can be used once required to produce electricity the new thing about this idea similar solar thermic energy plants have to pump for salty liquid up a high tower using a lot of energy themselves this is not necessary in this construction solar energy can now be produced more cheaply at the moment this project is still in its test phase but we find out already today solar energy is cheaper in the UAE than other electricity and why would it be any different the Sun shines here on 365 days a year slowly it is becoming clear Masdar city isn't a PR stunt with green technologies it is possible to make serious money here simply because of this the next buildings of Masdar city are already being built at a rapid pace already within the next five years the shaykhs city of the future is supposed to double its size compared to today we are leaving this incredible town and are making our way to weanling in China here there is supposed to be a strange house we ask for directions we are driving into said direction the area looks like a war zone everywhere there are half destroyed houses something is going on here nobody seems to live here anymore we stopped by the side of the road and asked the workers who are in the middle of tearing down a building what the strange house is all about I'm also immunity mother would [ __ ] others have found a hint automation achievement yes here we and the workers are still busy tearing everything down more and more houses are vanishing but what happened to the residents we continued our drive and after the next bend there is really a house right in the middle of the road is this the house that we are looking for there is not much traffic here yet so we park up right next to the building are we in the correct place from the balcony of a neighboring house we see that it is it looks pretty rundown on the sides you can see where the other buildings around it were torn down and the higher levels look as if they are uninhabitable does somebody really live there in a ruin in the middle of a road let's see if someone will open up all bow again is 67 years old and has been living right in the center of the road for over a year with his wife the road is completely new and was constructed around his house the tarmac leads to the also newly erected train station of when Ling a short while ago the city of over 1 million inhabitants was connected to the high-speed train network the residents had to move away and the municipal government compensated them with about $27,000 so they could buy a new property somewhere else 400 families had to move because of the mammoth project but one person refused who all began he feels that the compensation is not enough he wants more money from the government [Music] along with so together with his wife he is holding his ground the government have increased their offer to $32,000 but the couple are still refusing for time no all bargains face keeps getting more and more well known at first blogs and social media report about him then national television by now Lal Bagh n is famous all over the world rehousing of people due to building projects often occurs in China as well as property owners that refuse to leave the Chinese call these people and their houses nails and nail houses but no one has ever held out as long as Lal Bagh and therefore the internet community calls him the hardest nail of all time twenty years ago he already lived here growl bogan is a duck farmer he raises his ducks at a little palm just across the road but unfortunately he doesn't make a lot of money from this so he grows his vegetables and rice himself in order to buy his house he had to borrow the money he is also fighting so fiercely for a better offer because of the debt it is not really living in the house anymore the upper floors are empty formally Luol bargains daughter used to stay here with his grandchildren but they moved out a long time ago the house attracts many curious onlookers every couple of minutes somebody stops to take a picture and many encourage law began four wheelers Jimmy darling three that's the woman you eat huh funny well at school in me but yong li w pushes the honking stop children katana well mrs. Whittington's the vidya namaha what you eat what you security apparatus the Vidya attempt against injury today shattered compose the meal she need a comforter potato fun to watch our negative on - so she ate everything Kumar - yo check washing companies well you don't even a double turn has a different emphasis on your per modern-day Germany attacked many are surprised as to how long the protest has been tolerated in order to chase nail house inhabitants away the government have been known to turn off the electricity and the water at dwell bargains house everything is still working but it seems as if the authorities are slowly getting fed up with us being here and the subsequent attention this black pickup truck keeps driving past the house so I'll bow again is very nervous now after a longer phone conversation he doesn't want to speak to us anymore not even inside the house again and again he suddenly stops the interviews he takes us to the door no alb up ken is hoping for the issue to be settled soon and he doesn't want to ruin the chance of this happening through the interviews of course we respect this he is afraid that in our radio microphone there is a hidden government transmitter and gives it back to us we don't want to agitate you I'll bow again even more and drive back to our hotel the next morning we want to speak to him again but a police car is on patrol outside the house and prevents us from parking in front of it the police tell us that we may not film here anymore apparently everyone including passers-by and onlookers are being sent away from now on we are under surveillance we have to go back to the hotel there a government official is already waiting for us but she doesn't want to say anything on camera she informs us that the police is supposed to keep the peace at the house so the negotiations with Lowell boggin can continue meanwhile we want to know how do the people that already moved away live now general Chan and his wife yang Feng Ling were rehoused two years ago with the compensation money they built a house on this new property on the bottom floor they have opened a supermarket the lady from the government follows each of our steps of course now the couples answers are anything but critical that blue bogging could get more money than them in the end due to his protests doesn't bother them below so Naga putih Cody another quality so Yolanda hediye negative one essentially turns saw sleepwalker not a lawyer who couldn't do much in Zhanna and really shortly after we had to leave the area the house is torn down a Chinese colleague was able to film with a small camera what happened did Lal Bagh and give up he is nowhere to be seen we try to reach him via telephone his wife picks up the couple have accepted the government's offer of $32,000 also they're going to be given a plot of land in another area it seems as if they didn't get into trouble [Music] why exactly they gave up now we will never find out it also remains unclear why we weren't allowed to film the all-in-all positive outcome of the story and finally now Chinese television is extensively reporting the tearing down of the hardest nail house in history we are leaving China and are moving on to village car in Poland the Cathedral of village car underground and made entirely out of salt through an unassuming door we enter for over 900 years salt has been dug up here commercial mining was only stopped 20 years ago first we have to walk down some steps to be more specific 380 of them we are now 64 meters underground and begin our tour in a chapel that is normally closed to visitors of the mine it is the oldest chapel dedicated to st. Anthony and was built in the 17th century but sadly it is in very bad condition we almost can't recognize any of the old statues for a long time warmth and damp air entered the chapel and due to the high amounts of condensation the statues were destroyed over time the rocks oxidized and patinated like silver covered with dust but everything is pure salt here here in village Coeur the salt isn't in the ground in layers but in big lumps therefore unique halls and chambers come to exist when it is extracted [Music] for the caves not to collapse they had to be supported by elaborate wooden constructions the bigger the block of salt the bigger the holes whose wooden frames are pieces of art in themselves like this 35 meter high cave from the 17th century the pillars were built in 1905 two hundred years ago this chamber was practically empty the stairs were somewhere on the side and everything was dark in here [Music] the salt was chiseled from the rock by hand and shaped into cylinders so that it could be rolled more easily salt is heavy it weighs twice as much as water a cylinder like this weighs 1.5 tons in order to take it up to the surface there were different aids such as pulleys or horse mills [Music] the horses - were lowered down into the mine in special slings this way in 2002 the last horse was hoisted up to the surface and retired we carry on deeper into the mountain to the second tier in over 90 metres depth here the Chapel of Saint Conger is located this is the real attraction of the former mine [Music] the miners used to extract two different kinds of salt here apart from only digging up salt the miners also utilized their artistic skills and used the created cavities in order to produce amazing places for the generations to come [Music] everything here is made out of salt [Music] only three miners created this incredible Cathedral within about seventy years of building time from the floor to the statues to the chandelier everything is made of salt every weak mass is held here the grotto is a consecrated Church 100 meters below the ground for over 700 years tourists have been led through the piece of art made from salt Copernicus Goethe and Jim Carrey have already been here for the miners the chapels had a great significance the work was dangerous and everyday they prayed that they would come back to see daylight again equipped like real miners we go down into a shaft from the 15th century [Music] without any lighting and decorations the salt chambers are less inviting what isn't looked after regularly falls victim to decay small chapels and prayer alcoves can also be found everywhere here the oldest is from the 17th century an amazing labyrinth of corridors and chambers for us novices completely unfathomable totally as a surprise 100 meters below the ground suddenly a cave with a huge obelisk dedicated to the Emperor of Austria as a memoir to his visit sometime during the 19th century and we carry on even deeper down our destination is the Hall of Maria Teresa also from the time of the Kaiser the salt mine a village Kerr is absolutely unique huge halls a gigantic Cathedral Fresco's and statues everything made of salt and deep below the ground [Music] we leave this fascinating place and travel on to Hong Kong a ship in the middle of the city from above it's an incredible site surrounded by skyscrapers and rush-hour traffic a stranded passenger liner how in the world did it get here [Music] [Applause] we head for the district of Hung Hom that's where it's supposed to be the city ship huge high-rise buildings all around and right in the middle we find it a real ship completely seaworthy 110 meters long 20 meters high and 14 meters wide right in the middle of the street the only water in sight is a little puddle so we'd like to know what the ship is doing here [Music] they call me kept us out for them homicides have my fun become relevant okay cuz I go over there so nobody here is surprised by a huge passenger ship in the middle of the city we want to know a bit more about all this so we take a look inside the vessel [Music] in an area over 130,000 square meters in size there are 300 shops cinemas game halls and even a bowling alley we are in the shopping mall and there's even a gourmet restaurant inside you don't notice you're in an unusual structure we still don't really know the story behind the stranded ship and so we've come to see Agnes PR spokeswoman for them all apparently the building has cult status hyukoh families are being so vague again saying I am Sam she got me a year something Aleksey my occasional and I call yourself a man Choi how did you even take on my song my song on your how about you the shopping mall was only constructed in the ship quite recently before that it was empty for a few years Agnes shows us the deck from the railing to the radio mast everything is in perfect working order this ship really could sail away the way you want my company coat you tell I'm a whole good [ __ ] Sunday I want [ __ ] oh hey sup guy was like a guy said how lies they want you don't lie my jade I should not have chosen OCC a lot and there she lies in a sea of skyscrapers we leave this impressive place and travel to a place just off the coast of Taiwan we are looking for hearts that are supposed to be in the sea the island with its 60,000 inhabitants uses two hearts for its advertising wherever it can and not even 10 minutes after we've set off we already find them that twin hearts a stone formation right in the middle of the ocean it almost looks as if someone had simply placed a huge necklace in the sea [Music] we even find a viewing platform but wherever we look no tourists on the information board it says that the twin hearts were especially built by the Islanders but why the only information board in the area does not answer this question somebody has to be able to tell us what they are all about are they art or some kind of superstition so we drive to the next village maybe somebody here can tell us more a party lights aura so did I eat a fool the friendly gentleman also has another tip for us he says that it only gets really exciting near the hearts in the afternoon and really on our second visit the platform is heaving with tourists with their selfie sticks and happy couples as we look more closely we discover why the tide is low and the hearts made of stone are clearly visible now then something starts to happen at the shore [Music] chin howl and qionghua appear everyone has been waiting for these two men so they are not artists just two fishermen that have come to see to their fish trap their grandfathers carefully piled the structure up by hand and this is how it works the tide drives the fish in the direction of the heart through the small opening they swim into the basins and due to the currents they can't get back out again when the tide is low the water level sinks and the animals are caught inside the heart probably the easiest way of catching fish ever on magong island the people have been fishing like this for centuries which in how and qionghua only have to drag their Nets through the water for a couple of minutes a job that doesn't take any longer than 20 minutes but somehow there aren't really that many fish in the net in the end to be precise not a single edible one coincidence couple yeah sighs so no here to say what a great idea of how those judging kid don't bother me most me young hero AG buyer honey so the Islanders really used to fish like this today it is only show the fishermen may not make any money from the spectacle but are happy that visitors come to their Island we leave the huts in the sea and travel to our last mysterious place - halong in Vietnam from here we set out on our journey three hours across the open sea at the bottom of some sheltering rocks in the middle of the ocean the floating village of Quan is located 700 inhabitants live here there are neither any streets nor cars and the people are mainly fishermen one of them is hung Huynh and the villagers are so-called water nomads they only settled here ten years ago in quar one previously nobody lived here the houses are attached to the rocks with ropes polystyrene and air filled spheres keep them afloat they make the houses swim 70 children live in qua one and none of them have ever set foot on land early on they learn how to row with their hands and feet this keeps the villagers fit Lin is 7 years old and for a year now she's been rowing to school every morning the school is probably the only floating school in the world the pier in front of the school at a length of 6 meters is the longest walkway in the village once a week wholesalers from the mainland which is three hours away sell their wares to the traders in the village Quan is the oldest vendor in here she would like to leave this place like almost all the adults here electricity a car and a television are Kwan's dream meat and vegetables are very sought-after in the village as normally there is only fish fishermen hung still doesn't want to leave [Music] the nurse won't really analyse some kitchen and lumber too many militants area sailors I say I'll say say I'm sorry Dilys I saw Olivia today with his income from the fishing hung mainly buys rice in order to feed his wife and child for six months he and from Hanoi has been teaching the three-year groups in the village very quickly she realized that teaching here is very different the legends say that a dragon plowed through the land with its tail and this way created almost 2,000 limestone rocks in the middle of the sea thanks to these rocks the water village even survived the tsunami [Music] you

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Id: XVV7GKdR1fE

Length: 51min 39sec (3099 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 21 2020