Most secure vault in the world archive#
Of course, Catholic officials say there is nothing clandestine going on in the centuries old, labyrinthine vault, and the things inside it aren’t so much “secret” as they are “private.” The archive is defended 24-hours a day by the Pontifical Swiss Guard, and is said to have vast storerooms and over 50 miles of shelves lined with documents dating back to the 8th Century. There are no shortages of conspiracy theories surrounding the Catholic Church (after all, Dan Brown made a career writing about the stuff), and a reoccurring theme is if the public could only gain entry to the Vatican Secret Archives then all the Church’s mysteries would be exposed. It just so happens this subsurface bank is also next to a governmental reserve, the Bank of England, and the subway tunnel connecting the two coincidentally (or not if you’re a skeptic) shuts down every weekend.Īs with any proper safe, both the JP Morgan vaults are capable of surviving a direct nuclear blast. The location of the bank’s other vault was a mystery until in March 2013 when Zerohedge discovered it was located in London below the firm’s office complex. Some conspiracists believe the two super-bunkers are connected by an underground tunnel and somehow JP Morgan and the government are in cahoots to manipulate the US economy. While the sheer size is impressive, some people are more interested in its proximity to the United States’ Federal Reserve Vault, as the two stockpiles are positioned right across the street from each other. One of them is found five stories below street level in Manhattan, New York and, at over a football field in length, is regarded as the largest gold vault in the world. JP Morgan and Chase has a couple of notable, highly-secure repositories. Somehow it seems like the perfect location for the white-haired WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange.
When you look at pictures of Pionen it resembles something straight out of a spy movie, complete with futuristic-looking panels of computers, a floating glass conference room, and everything surrounded by rough mountain walls. The Swedish Internet service provider Bahnhof converted the fortified space into a data center and defended the bunker with a 40-centimeter thick door that’s only accessible by one tunnel and capable of withstanding a hydrogen bomb. While multiple governments, corporations, and anyone else with major secrets to hide might wish WikiLeaks was more vulnerable, its servers are exceptionally safeguarded in the Pionen Bunker, a former civil defense center concealed in the side of White Mountain in Stockholm. Currently, one of their most notable renters is WikiLeaks, the famous stateless news agency and unapologetic whistleblowers. The Pionen Bunker is a co-location center that rents secure space and bandwidth to a variety of retail customers. They even have a “behind the scenes video tour” of Granite Mountain Records on YouTube. Mormon leaders dismiss the conspiracy theories and say the reserve holds nothing more than microfilm and microfiche that the church is restoring and converting to digital media. For instance, Mormon detractors believe the vault contains discrepant church historical documents that are being suppressed to avoid making the church look bad or possibly prove the whole religion was fabricated. Still, a cavern capable of surviving the apocalypse does seem a little overkill for storing paperwork, which has led some to assume there are more mysterious things being kept in the bunker. So, what kind of top secret stuff is a religious group squirreling away in an underground lair? Supposedly, just some humdrum genealogy records and other church documents. There are some administrative offices inside the complex, but it is not open to the public or even church members. Although surrounded by rock (technically quartz-not granite), don’t think you can go dynamiting your way in there as it was constructed to withstand a nuclear blast and has steel, bank-safe type doors designed to seal tighter under impact. The Mormon Vault, a.k.a the Granite Mountain Records Vault, is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and is built 600-feet into the side of a giant rock in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah.
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