Why Fort Knox is Totally Forbidden
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Today we explore the #history of Fort Knox, America's most important gold depository and occasional archive of vital historical documents.
Chapters
00:00 - Where does the United States keep all of its Gold?
00:53 - Describing the volt of the United States Bullion Depository
02:02 - Why America’s gold was moved to Fort Knox
02:53 - Why you can’t visit Fort Knox
03:14 - Construction of United States Bullion Depository
04:11 - The complicated process of moving gold to the Bullion Depository
05:01 - Why the Library of Congress moved vital American documents to the Bullion Depository
06:12 - United States Bullion Depository during the cold war
07:24 - Why even Presidents don’t visit Fort Knox
08:45 - The Bullion Depository and Fort Knox in popular media
IT’S HISTORY - Weekly tales of American Urban Decay as presented by your host Ryan Socash.
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Clarification: the incident described at 9:00 was not carried out by the U.S. Mint Police.
Clarification: the incident described at 9:00 was not carried out by the U.S. Mint Police.
It's now full of Blockbuster VHS tapes
😂😂😂
Not my tapes, they’re still behind my couch.
🤣
Or millions of pieces of paper with I.O.U. on it...
Like in the simpsons episode
I grew up in Kentucky and my dad took me to Fort Knox to see the Patton Museum. Before we left, he decided to drive up to the gate of the gold depository building and asked if he could “see the gold.” We were met by armed military police who were not in the mood to humor his request. To this day I can’t imagine why he thought that was a good idea. 😂
If you don't ask the answer will always be no
If it's any consolation your father isn't alone in what he did.
Fortune favors the bold but even still that’s extremely bold 😂
@@anthonyxuereb792 I can imagine their were quite a few that did that (we are Americans after all) that would also explain the seriousness of the response.
Your father is an American Legend. Asked the question most of us are afraid to ask. I say, make them tell you no. As Americans, is it not our gold and our fort?
Gold plated steel bars, securely stored in a pretense of wealth.
Would not matter. The country can't repay its debts ever. There are only two solutions: (1) print worthless paper and repay debts that way, forever ruining confidence in the dollar, or (2) repudiate all debts, public and private.
@@floycewhite6991 They don't need to repay debts, just the interest, majority of debt is held by US citizens anyway
I've driven by it many times and it truly is a surreal piece of American History. You get pretty close to it just driving by on 31W but it's rumored that they don't take kindly to people stopping along the highway. What a cool place.
It is american history it was built 1800s I thank it was a military prison they took the wall down they should have tours
That is for show. They actually have a small mint there and they do have gold but they have more silver than gold. more than 99% of the gold they claim is there is spread around in 31,000+ post office vaults.
I was stationed at Fort Knox late 1980s. Immediately adjacent to the depository's northern perimeter is the base golf course. A story that made the rounds of people on post was the golfer who ignored the signs to move past the outer low fence line to retrieve a golf ball and ended up on his face and spread eagled in the grass when the response force arrived.
Story, because government workers are knee deep in bull.
Is it empty?
Please tell us is it empty
Out if spite rather than anything practical…they could see he was a golfer..if not, they shouldn’t have guns.
My neighbor says he was stationed there in the 90s and claims the rumor is there Is no gold.
With 31,462,154,854,903 of US debt. I think Fort Knox is protecting a city worth of IOU notes.
Our economy is 20 trillions our debt is fine. I would like it lowered by lowering social security payments just a little . Over 20 years ,the debt would go up just a little while the economy expanded. DO NOT give dead beats $400 billion for debts for college.
@@paulbedichek5177 The national debt is now $32 trillion, that is a quarter of a million dollars for every US tax payer, the country is essentially bankrupt.
@@paulbedichek5177 AMEN
that's what the Chinese are for!
its been emptied out for decades. thats why they dont allow visitors or any audits, even though its supposed to belong to the taxpayers.
Great story! While with the 5/33rd Armor at Ft. Knox '80-'82, part of our duties was "Eldorado Duty" (City of Gold). Two tanks were always prepared to be at the Depository within 30 minutes. Extreme cold temps meant having to start the designated tanks (M60) every two hours around the clock, so they could move out at a moments notice. It was dangerous doing that at 2 AM in the cold with nothing but cat-naps of 1.5 hours in between starting the tanks. Came close to crushing someone when a tank got too cold to start and we had to slave it off - like with jumper-cables. Never get between two tanks if one is running.
Kentucky.... EXTREME COLD.... LOLOLOL
They didn't have tank engine heated blankets back then?
if there were really gold in there 2 tanks should be there constantly , no be able to be there within 30 minutes.
@@yourfriendlyneighborhoodic128 I was just a tank crew member that trained Army officers and Marines on tank gunnery. I didn't write the policies. I just followed orders. I don't think anybody was going to get very far with the gold in 30 minutes. It would take them longer than that to get past the machine guns.
There is really gold in there.
"Before that day, President Roosevelt was the only non-authorized personnel to step foot inside Fort Knox and inspect the vault. Since then, only treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, Governor Matt Bevin, and a handful of other Congress members visited the vault in 2017."
@@davidpalmer9780 I never heard of any.
I'm a Truck Driver and have delivered many loads to Fort Knox and I enjoy going there and have always been met with great attitudes and even have had escorts to different locations on the property
Fort Knox and the gold depository are two separate entities. The depository is located at Fort Knox, but is not part of Fort Knox.
I was stationed at Fort Knox in the 70s and then Fort Knox was an open post. Civilians were allowed to enter. However, the depository was closed to everyone.
Is that because the gold has already been stolen by our "government's" leaders ? Our money isn't backed by gold, so I'll bet some insiders hauled all of it home.
As a journalist, I have visited Ft. Knox for news stories, and I visited once to counsel a soldier who had gone awol.
@@brianarbenz1329 If the soldier was AWOL I assume you didn't "counsel" him at Fort Knox...also, as a journalist why would you be counseling him? Not disputing just curious.
@@Capt_OscarMike AWOL soldiers are placed in PCF (Personnel Confinement Facility) for counselling and eventual outprocessing, if they ultimately choose to leave the service.
One trip to Ft. Knox was to do a story on a private contractor modernizing the base's computers. But when I got there he was not able to make it -- because he had been arrested. The arrest was off base and not military related. His employer's HQ in South Carolina claimed he had used the company credit card to buy lots of personal electronic supplies for his own use. I went to the jail in Louisville to look at his arrest record and found that this man had a list of alcohol-related crimes a mile long. I don't know what role booze played in his alleged credit card misuse. But when I met him, he had that red nose and sunken cheeks. Very unexpected twist in that story.
I find it extremely hard to believe that they took us off the gold standard and the gold is still there.
It should all be sold to pay down the debt.
Agree.
You're correct, yet it's still there. But I raised the question as to whether there's more gold in the vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, because the US stores some portions of gold reserves from a couple of countries who feel that's the best place to keep it. I was too lazy to go check Google...
Germany tried to retrieve its Gold that's supposed to be down there.
They were denied to even inspect the Gold and some pressure from the media, the US sent a tiny amount back to Germany.
It came out, that the Gold Germany received was not the Gold they originally deposited there.
There is suspicion, that the Gold is long gone, which explains the US' behavior.
Eventually attention to the case died down and nothing happened since.
@@abcde_fz how do you know it’s still there?
As a veteran and former resident of Fort Knox. Any attempt to gain entry will be futile. Even if a group got in. There's enough fire power to make sure that either they left in hand cuffs, or body bags. The place would be surrounded within minutes by the Army.
I lived at Ft. Knox in the early 80's. I got into so much trouble for riding my bike through the golf course that surrounds the depository.
I believe it’s time to have an audit of what’s there. Not just one room, but the entire facility!
Dude, the rich schemed away that gold 40 some years ago. I am certain that its an empty room as far as gold goes.
@@Trigger200284 Possibly, still, I for 1 ,would like an audit .
Mr. Goldfinger robbed it during the 1960s ! :-)
@@Trigger200284 you obviously have no idea how it's laid out... There are multiple vaults or "gold rooms" as you seem to prefer, and on multiple levels... Before you go and think too much, take a minute and educate yourself.
@@kevinfreeman3098 I am fully aware of how a vault works. I am fully aware of how fort knocks is supposed to have gold.
Take a minute to educate yourself as to what my comment said before you reply with building layouts when I commented that the rich have disposed of the gold for their own purposes.
You see, you can have a 4 bedroom house and no beds. The only way you know if the beds are there, is if you can see them. The owners claim there’s beds but there’s no proof.
I think you might be brain damaged…
Over the three plus decades I have served our Veterans at VA Hospital. I have met several U.S. Army Soldiers that were stationed at Fort Knox. I always ask, only one had ever been in the building and never got close to stairs or an elevator. Very cool video. Thanks.
Interesting.
Never really thought on the topic before seeing this post.
Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
@4:00 No. The Appalachian mountains do not extend that far west. Ft. Knox is in the Bluegrass Knobs region, a terminal moraine. The Appalachian Mountains proper are some 160 miles east of Ft. Knox.
I have lived in Knox and worked there from 1966 to 2010. The maintenance shop I worked in the 80’s did some work in the gold vault. We were in there for a week but clearances and everything to get us in there took almost 4 months. I seen people that came from different places in the country and thought they could just drop in and tour the vault because their importance in the government. I would just laugh at them and say good luck. After 9-11 things really got tight around the vault. As said in other post the vault has nothing to do with the post itself. It’s under the treasury department.
Doesn't have anything to do with the post? Lmfao, it absolutely does, the Cavalry and Armor are the primary reasons it was built there, you could have no locks and no "security" at the vault and you still wouldn't get off post when you have "guards" in battalion size in heavy armor and bloodthirsty, crazy assed horse soldiers just waiting for a reason to go fubar sh!t... Otherwise they'd have planted it in say Missouri or Nebraska. Don't care what anyone says, it very so much has to do with the military and their firepower being as far away as to where you can stand there see nothing, feel the ground rumble, turn around light a cigarette and turn back around and be staring eye to eye with 500 battle rattle troopers and over 5,000 backing them up in under 10 minutes... But by all means, assume what you'd like, it was brought there because of the Army, otherwise they'd have left it with the wingnuts and SAC in Colorado, but I guess they didn't like the Sally's to have anything but computer's and the keys to the big boomsticks and weren't real fond of the idea of possibly having to mine the gold a second time if the mountain took a hit, if you're tracking. Granted much of that came later(threats like nukes) however they were in the presence of some of the finest minds in the world and wanted to cover their 6. No way in hell the wingnuts or Treasury police would stop an invading force(that was the main concern, not just "vault busters", they were planning for a massive, coordinated attack, think of 'Diehard' type gold heist)
My wife was born in the Fort Knox base hospital while her father was stationed there. Even as civilians we were able to go back and visit the base. It is only the depository itself that is off limits.
@@UnlikelyToRemember Ireland army hospital... That's the name of the hospital on Post
As someone who lives in Elizabethtown i can confirm the gold vault and fort knox are two separate bodies. i regulate fort Knox as a civilian.
@@kevinfreeman3098 that was the name of it. I haven’t been on post since 2011 and believe the hospital isn’t there anymore. Only a clinic to take care of the people. My X worked at the hospital for years and son also. My dad also died from cancer on the 7th floor b-wing in 1983 there. Was treated there a few times as a kid when we lived on post and also when I worked on post as a civilian. Fort Knox isn’t what it was a few years ago that’s for sure.
Fascinating, but you left out the military surrounding the fort. Two colleagues, Canadian tank soldiers, told me about training there with the US tank corps. They didn't try to get inside, but they were positive that just getting past the US tankers would be almost impossible.
Can confirm.
A good friend of mine trained people in the California desert to operate tanks. He did it for like 6 years. One day he just left, I guess, and moved back to southwest Ohio. A few years past and the military snatched him up one morning in an unmarked van. We didn't hear from him for a while but when we finally did we had to drive to Fort Knox to pick him up and take him back home.
May of been at one point but the all the armor divisions was transferred
@@PrinceCezar27 The Canadian tankers were envious of the US equipment. they could be quite disparaging of their UK and US second hand equipment.
The US Bullion Depository is located next to Ft. Knox, not in it. Two separate parts of the government on separate land. The Department of Defense and the Department of Treasury are next door neighbors here.
One very important factor hasn’t been mentioned. The outlawing of private ownership of gold in 1934, just one year before Ft Knox was built….. hmmm 🧐
10% of gold owners complied and turned in their gold for paper money. A few months later the dollar was devalued by a third -- just as people feared would happen.
@@floycewhite6991yep I saw only 40 percent of gold was stolen.... But sheepoeple did know the gold in banks since 1917 grab all gold in banks ownership
First time seeing your content. Great narration and engaging subject.
The timing of the construction of the Fort Knox depository is shortly after the USA government ended the backing of money with gold and the turning in of all US Gold coins. One has to consider that all the turned in gold coins, the ending of issuing new ones, that the depository was needed to store them to make room for silver for then new coins.
There is a second, lesser known depository for silver, gold and platinum at the West Point (NY) Mint. The mint produces and sells commemorative coins with all three metals.
Fort Knox did not keep gold coins--they all had to be melted into bars first before coming into the premises. People received paper money for their turned in gold coins.
US currency hasn't been backed by gold since it went off the gold standard.
Yes,and a great decision,it made the US so much more wealthy.
Hmm, I have bills redeemable for silver. Pls lmk if you remember when it happened.
@@TamagoHead August 1971
@@ojnavarro Ty!
Happened during John Kennedy's Presidency. Our good friends the French, whose rears we've saved twice, started requiring all other countries or businesses who owed the French gov't to pay in U.S. dollars. Then the French exchanged the dollars for U.S. gold.
Kennedy got tired of it, and the law was changed.
When the Louisville, Ky media was allowed to see the inside of the vault a few years ago, several commented how surprised they were how dusty and dirty the gold is.
Where did the dust come from? 70% of dust in building interiors is from shed human skin cells. Nice bullshit story though.
well, yeah? It's basically a giant concrete barn that never ever gets a cleaning crew inside. It's not airtight otherwise the oxygen would be consumed and it would be lethal for the personnel inside. Air blows in with dirt on it.
I’d bet that there isn’t even a roll of quarters in that place. It’s so well protected because they don’t want anyone else to find that out.
Other countries also have their gold at fort Knox. If there is a exchange of gold between two countries that have gold stored there, the gold is just moved from one country's deposit to the other country's deposit.
Uh, no... That's BS. It's ALL stored in the Federal Reserve in New York, Fort Knox has been EMPTY for quite a long time. All it houses are "props"... Not gold, or any other valuables.
A while back Germany (now unified) wanted their gold back. The request was refused. They then asked to just inspect it. Again...refused. They had to get the courts involved and finally were given a time table to be given back their gold in many small shipments over many years. Every bar of German gold was clearly marked but the few that they got in the first (late) shipment was unmarked and when asked where THEIR gold was...were told that it had to be remelted to be shipped. BS. The truth was their gold was LONG GONE and the Fed had to scramble to get a hold of some to send them. What gold is actually there has been leveraged, sold and traded since we were taken off the Gold Standard.
You are confusing Fort Knox with the NY Federal Reserve in Manhattan. There is more gold stored at the NY Fed than at Fort Knox but most of it is not the property of the United States Government.
That is not Ft Knox,but NYC,which has far more gold.
@@recoilrob324 got a source? Didn't think so.
In the video, it's said that 4 million dollars was the total for the initial transfer of gold.
In the graphic at 4:35 it's clearly 4 BILLION dollars. Even in the 1930's 4 Million wasn't a lot of money for the net value of the US treasury.
I think they meant that it cost $4,000,000 for all of the labor, probably including the cost to build the building and transferring the gold. The ENTIRE VALUE OF ALL THE GOLD transferred was $4 billion. Remember until 1934, gold was valued at $20.67 then got raised to $35 until technically 1971, when it got raised again to $38. In 1973 it was raised to $42.22 although no place on earth (including the US government) was buying or sell it at that price. It's still mind boggling to read that it cost roughly $1,000,000 (probably $20,000,000 in 2023 dollars) for that secured building when today it would cost $20,000,000 just to get anything done. Government spends like there's no tomorrow.
@@stanleykijek6983 You need to take a course on economics. There are terms like inflation, value-added, and appreciation you have no concept of
Named after Henry Knox, Continental Army General and first Sec of War.
Most famous perhaps for his attack on Fort Ticonderoga where he seized cannons that were used to force the British out of Boston.
I live here currently as an army recruiter 😅 I drive by it everyday from Louisville to Fort Knox. Pretty cool building.
Fort Knox was originally the first gold store for the Federal Reserve Bank. Now there are 12 Branches of the Reserve in different cities. Now Fort Knox holds historical records of the US Military.
Heap of IOUs 😂
@@ausguy4385 My great-grand kids will be paying those off for life!
@@inconnu4961 ---no, we should all be gone by then.
Makes sense
Only 1 out the of the 12 holds any gold. The 2nd District FRB. All 12 process cash to make sure it is fit for circulation however.
We even say "as safe as Fort Knox" here in the UK. That is how far and wide the term has become.
It's interesting that a former enemy (U.S. Revolution, War of 1812) held one of your sacred documents for protection during World War II and returned it to you after the war. The Magna Carta is precious to us, too, as an ancestor to our Constitution. [insert CZcams emoji for "Respect" here]
During the war when the Germans were sending V1 rockets into London at night, the MAGNA CARTA was loaded into a bread truck and driven norh to Scotkand where a lone American submarine was waiting in a cove. The MAGNA CARTA was put aboard and the sub crossed the Atlantic, swarming with U-boats. It reached the US and the MAGNA CARTA was delivered to Fort Knox where it was kept safe until the end of the war.
Do we not say as safe as the Bank of England in the UK
so as safe as letting the fox have keys to the henhouse then?
@@ripvanwinkle2002 yes having not lost my go,d or cash for 330 years
We rode past that building on the bus so many times at Advanced Camp and I never knew that was the vault. It looks like a castle.
When I was at fort Knox in the late 1990's we were told that the ball had very little gold in it but it was being used to store priceless treasures from around the world. Such as crown jewels from several different countries. Some rare artifacts and emergency supplies.
It makes excellent sense to store your valuables under the auspices of the cabal.
August 24 and June 1936
@@RandyleeKingSrwhats that date for
What a lot of people don’t realize is you actually can see this building from the highway just a few hundred feet away on the other side of the fence, you really are not that far from it.
Not that far physically. Literally that shit may as well be in space.
I went to basic training at Ft Knox in 2001. I remember seeing the depository.
Misery, Agony and Heartbreak....
Before or after 9/11? I went to basic in july 2001. Got weird after that. Went from being in a peacetime military to wartime in the blink of an eye.
Great history lesson. Much I didn’t know.
I have to say, your last name is Socash and you’re doing a bit about money?
Priceless!❤️
I am a former US Army officer, a paratrooper and combat infantry. I would like to know how the Appalachian mountains provide a barrier against airborne assault. By the very nature of airborne assaults mountains, pose zero impediment. I have also been stationed at Fort Knox. The bullion depository sits in the middle of the golf course. There are signs at great distances around the depository that says if your ball goes over this fence, take a stroke and play on.
It's the Appalachians that are the danger, you go into them hills, you don't come back out.
It was chosen in 1935. Given what everyone was working with then, they probably did seem like a deterrent at the time then
As someone from Colorado, I can tell you people from my state can stand un the middle of the Appalachian peaks and ask where the mountains are, because all we see are low foothills.
Ft. Knox is much larger than the footprint of the Depository.
It should also be noted that large bricks of gold have their own natural built in security feature, which is they are very heavy, the big ones are like 27 pounds each, so good luck stealing a large number of those things, and also if every last security feature of the depository failed, there is an army base just down the road.
I work in concrete and for small jobs we load trucks of 90lb bags in minutes. 27lbs is nothing.
@@ceedavis5178 How many people work on that kind of job?
also its placement is stupid i live in the county and its like just right next to the highway its so dumb but i guess they have thier reasons
All they need are Piper Cherokee's with Delta 9 nerve gas and Goldfinger and disable an entire regiment. I know, it happened in the 1960's. Fortunately James Bond was there to rescue us inept Americans!!!!
Ft Knox is on the base I fact it's almost int he middle of it. Plus that base is a tank base your aren't surviving if you try to steal it. They are always on patrol and even as a soldier if you went close they would threaten you. This is in 08 idk about now. But was also told there was no gold it was moved out to NY in the early 2000s
I love these!
Speaking of Fort Knox in pop culture, the building became a museum in the Star Trek universe. Money became obsolete when the world converted into a new world economy, so Fort Knox was converted into a museum. It's been noted in fiction and in reality that no one has ever broken into Fort Knox, but that didn't stop two Ferengi from trying to do so in 2365.
czcams.com/video/OXgEg0FVvD4/video.html shows Goldfinger broke into Fort Knox!
I've been there. Had to pick up my friend who was AWOL from the army. The military just showed up early one morning and took him from the house in an unmarked van and we didn't hear from him for days until we had to drive to Fort Knox and pick him up. We went right by the gold vault building.
The reason it's so guarded is to protect the fact that its empty.
I live 10 min away. If your car breaks down on dixie hwy outside the gates, they'll send mp quick af.
Happen to me twice in 6 years. Blown tire and oil leak
Fascinating
Great video
What’s scary is that DLA was in charge of moving gold to Fort Knox. I am an Air Force civilian and DLA once lost a part I had ordered that was only traveling across my base.
They don't even want you stopping to take pictures on the highway that runs next to it. Several people did it, and were tailed by security vehicles. They are serious.
Same applies if you visit the US mints or the BEP building in D.C. or Dallas/Ft. Worth
Same applies when I got to the landfill. They are serious about putting your waste in the right place.
there is an urban myth that the vault of Fort Knox in Goldfinger was deemed so realistic someone asked Ken Adams how he knew what it looked like
They hire beefy high school kids to move the bars.
@@paulbedichek5177 Yeah, like bond having a gold brick in his golf bag.....
There's not just one vault. There are multiple vaults. And they look more like walk-in closets. Many years ago the press was allowed in and they opened vault doors so that photographers good take pictures and prove that the gold was there. This was like back in the 60s or something. The gold was there, but the inside of the place was hardly impressive along the lines of a James Bond movie. Think about when it was constructed and what other office interiors looked like at the time.
@@larryk1865they only showed one small room when there is supposed to be 150 times that. They also speculate that the little bit of gold shown was fake
@@blainebunton -- As I've said, it's not in the depository. It's under the Federal Reserve Bank in NYC.
They should have a gift shop at Fort Knox. It doesn't have to be on the grounds but should be nearby. I would buy a gold coffee mug. There could be so many cool ideas for stuff to sell...
...and profits could go towards paying down the national debt.
The way this built this is amazing, I’ve driven by the vault it’s breathtaking in real life
Pictures do not do it justice.
Additional while there is a 130 billion $ of gold in fort Knox, there is over $320 billion of gold in New York depository, but this is mainly own by foreign governments. Only 5% of US reserves stored here. Over half of US gold reserves are held in fort Knox.
I learned this fact from Die Hard with a Vengeance.
it's theoretically there but if a govt requests it to be sent back they won't do it. they have lent it out for a rental fee.
That's what we're told. It's been pilfered and far less than we're told.
LOL
there is? SHOW IT TO ME..
NO ONE HAS SEEN IT IN 50 YEARS
The Ark of the Covenant is stored there. The story got out in the late 1970's so they made a movie called "Raiders of the Lost Ark" where at the end when the USA recovers it they place it in a huge warehouse. (OK just made that up but hey you never know)
However, i am sure there is stuff stored there that they do not want us to know about. What that stuff is, well we wont ever know.
Good job 😊
The man that was shot in 2022 was not trying to get to the vault he crashed the main gate of the military base which is not even close to the vault I live close to it
A friend of mine was one of the reporters who entered the vault during the press tour. Bruce was reporting for United Press International. He said the vault's officials invited journalists to attempt pick up a gold brick, just to further reassure the public the gold was not Styrofoam spray painted gold. Public clinging to rumors knows no bounds.
The outer layer of the stack is real gold bars. The inner layers are shaped 2x4 wood blocks painted gold!
The other interesting fact about gold. It wont slide against itself. One of the reason gold bars have tapered sides is to be able to get your fingers under the bar to lift it off a stack
@@glenchapman3899 Gee, that ruins my impression of gold bars as having gracefully smooth surfaces that slide just like ice!
@@brianarbenz1329 Yeah sorry my Dad used to work for the Australian version of Fort Knox. Used to laugh at all the bank robber movies were they are stealing gold bars. As he said absolutely nothing happens in a hurry when handling gold bars
Obviously, we dont trust our government as far as we can throw them; and entirely with GOOD reasons!
I used to live in Irvington Kentucky which is close to fort Knox and I was told by locals that there isn't any gold stored at Knox any more
Great video
Fort Knox is not the biggest gold repository on US soil. The biggest one is the NY federal reserve.
Die Hard 3
I say the vault is empty. Thanks for the video.
so does Geraldo...
We lived at fort knox late 60s to 1970 . Me father was a E8 Sargent in charge of loading trucks . We had a friend that was in charge the guns and his men .
I took my basic training at Ft Knox in 1983 and on many occasions was able to see the building call Ft Knox when in fact its a US Army military installation
A quick clarification: mentioned at about 10:00, Mitch McConnell is not a state senator - he's a U.S. senator from the state of Kentucky.
We _wish_ that arrogant sleazebag had never risen higher than state senator.
We Kentuckians don't acknowledge McConnell. He has betrayed the Republicans in America.
You left out the fact that you can actually see 24k gold on the front of the building. The seal above the door's is 24k gold. I find it funny that not a lot of people doesn't know about that mn
I am amazed how they replicated Ft Knox in "Goldfinger." A documentary some years ago one of the people interviewed said it would take quite an operation to steal the gold if thieves were to gain access. Gold is heavy. So that 1964 movie used plot of irradiating the gold rendering it useless rather than steal it thus causing economic disruption. Then Goldfinger can move in with his finances and take over. Which in ways seems like that is what is happening now.
Not sure how I got here but I subscribed 😉
Your viewers might also appreciate these two facts about the US Gold Bullion Repository at Ft Knox. Having trained there in 1974. My recollection is, that the Repository is just down the road, less than a 1/2 mile or so, from the Main Gate, which is always manned by armed Military Police. Also, I learned how to drive an M60 Tank, along with 15-20 other guys in M60 Tanks, on a parade ground directly across the road from the Repository, All 20+ tanks staying in the lane, marked by tape or chalk, or both. I remember this very well as it was 1974 & the only time I ever got a glimpse of the US Gold Bullion Repository for the 2 months of Armor Training (AIT), before being transferred to Europe & the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment,. bp
The gold was last audited decades ago, by a group of local teenaged boys, with no sampling done. I'm guessing that the building is empty.
During WW2 the Royal Family stashed the Crown Jewels in Montreal in the basement of the Sunlife Building. Cheers from Montreal. Good video btw
When I was active duty, I went onto Fort Knox looking to see something cool and that base STUNK.
Made me actually like Fort Campbell more. That's sad.
Hey Ryan, what has happen to all the "World's Fairs"? they use to be held every four years like the Olympics. I do remember the last one being in Canada in 1968, I think.
Next is in Osaka 2025. Previous was 2020 in Dubai
When I was stationed there in 87-89 we lived next door to it. The housing we lived in is now gone. It looks like it is unsecure from the road, but that is very far from the truth. The vending machines supplies are unloaded at the gate and the vault workers load them not the drivers. Neat place to see, would have loved to gotten a tour but that's not going to happen.
I live in Kentucky and that gold was removed years ago to an under ground bunker out west.
One of the visitors to Fort Knox was Auric Goldfinger.
Many believe that Ft Knox is nothing more than a wizard of Oz type of installations with no actual gold there but all the adornments to indicate there is. Years ago, the US went of the gold standard so it was then irrelevant to have a gold deposit. However, the question arose about what the reason for still having one. Where was all the gold that had been used to back the monetary system? If there is no gold there any longer, questions would persist about where it was and what had it been used for. This putting Ft Knox into the "government secrets" category conspiracy theorists love to examine.
You want to know what's inside the Fort Knox Depository? Nothing. It's empty. The gold has been gone for a very long time.
And Paul is dead.
Yep, hence all of the security, you would need a fleet of freight trucks to rob, where you gonna take it?, on the other hand , if word gets out its empty, what do you think would happen, yeh it's national security at stake, dog and pony shows prove nothing.
@@brianarbenz1329 caught him stealing the gold?
Got anything to eat in here? I lost my key and can't get out.
Back in the late 90's, my dad was stationed at Fort Knox... so for about 2.5 years, I got to live 2 miles from the Vault. It was so cool to drive by that thing every day.
How old are you,I lived there in the late 90s and went to MacDonald middle School and Scott middle school
@@AdrianSmith-ds6yv almost 40. lol
I went to 8th and 9th grades there; Scott Middle and FKHS.
@@brandonevans1043 do you remember a Sgt Garcia from the high school
Partial 9th grade
I'm 36
I go by Fort Knox often when I go on base to visit the VA clinic. There's rumors that there is no more gold in the vault.
The hardest gold to keep under wraps is the gold that isn't there.
It's also forbidden in case anyone wants to verify how much gold isn't there anymore.
I have heard many, many times that there is zero gold in Fort Knox, that the U.S. government frittered it all away decades ago. I'm super interested to know whether that's true, and if so, what the heck is stored there now.
I did my basic training at Ft Knox in 1977. I drove by it and took a picture
The secret of no gold… must be kept secret.
There is no gold at Fort Knox ,it is merely a decoy.
Damn GOOD STORY.. Thank You as an American.. We keep our shit in good... I was amazed on how the Hungarians and UK asked us to hold their stuff as well. That is trust. Awesome as an Ally. I Subbed as well..
@2:54 you should have been more specific. Visitors are allowed at Ft.Knox but are not allowed into the bullion area. The vault is secured separately on the grounds of Ft.Knox. The actual main entrance to the base is just yards from the vault. As a civilian visitor that lives just 5 miles as the crow flies, I often take my family to go bowling on base. We feel much safer than traveling to Louisville because we know Ft.Knox don’t play. It is impressive how guarded that place is. I’ve seen an impressive level of security from the outside. I can only imagine what we can’t see. I’d be surprised if someone stayed alive long enough to get within 250 yards of the vault. Home of FAFO
Blows my mind that 10 minutes away is one of the largest machine gun ranges in the country 😂
Knob Creek?
@@dougs4944 you know it!
IT IS NOT a Depository, ALL of the Gold was SOLD off years ago
Does it matter
So being raised down the street from ft Knox one theory that always made sense is that there is NO GOLD BUT A OUTRAGEOUSLY AMOUNT OF MORPHINE. Because gold doesn’t do anything for a soldier injured however MORPHINE DOES ALOT
Its so safe its even kept the auditors out!
No one ever seems to mention that it is right off of a major highway and can be easily seen through a chain length fence
It used to be completely surrounded by mature trees, hiding the building.
They cut the trees down and cleared the area around it to make it easy to spot anyone approaching.
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"Chain length" 😂
@@vvillem9 I let that one slide 😆
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Nobody can read here. No worries mate.
It’s empty!
Why are so many old videos from this channel gone? I really miss them, and I don't understand why they were deleted.
1:00 and a barrier with not just one, but two [STOP] signs!
If there are aliens, they’re not at Area 51. If there’s still gold, it’s not at Fort Knox.
We don’t even know if there’s still any gold in there to this day and probably will never.
Yes - we do - sorry conspiracy clown - it was inspected as of 2017 by the SOT
@@witness1013 the guy that heads the organization that confiscated everyones gold, you drooling brainless amoeba?
@@witness1013 I was going to leave a comment that said that there used to be people who thought the gold was all gone, but reading the comments, I see it’s still prevalent.
The really moronic part is that they think that the people who stole it are the same people who control the money supply 😂
If you think it- trust your gut instinct. Government workers are trash
You should always trust and believe your government. They are there to help us all. Smh
I remember it in the Gold Finger film!
I was at Ft Knox recon school in the early 70’s. We couldn’t get near it
Going off the gold standard was the absolute worst thing that the government has ever done.
Lol; it makes absolute sense to carry around heavy, easily counterfeited gold coinage whose spot value is volatile to say the least!
Yeah, that trail of tears doesn't hold a candle to taking us off the gold standard, amirite?
I work at Ft. Knox and drive by the vault at least 5 times a week when I leave. The Vault is sectioned off from the rest of Ft. Knox. As I understand it a lot of the vault now contains a lot of computer microchips and circuit cards that would be needed in case of an EMP. A lot of teenagers were used over the decades to help count the gold and they worked cheap. Since they were farm-boys they were used to hard work. Not sure how its counted now.
On the fingers of one hand I'd wager.
Dominion, the company that made the voting machines for the 2020 election made the counting machines needed at Ft. Knox.
@@mikejohn0088 that is not a reassuring thought.
@@pauldavis9387 --tongue in cheek on that one Paul....can't count gold ingots with a machine.
@@mikejohn0088 😂
As if there’s anything there…. An audit every decade or so would be nice.
Here in England, you can just wait for the chancellor to practically give it away, no need to steal it ! Excellent documentary, never knew about the drugs being stored there.