Imagine finding this is your backyard!
After 10 years this family decided to open these creepy metal doors in their backyard
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1/10 In the 1960s affluent families often installed cement bunkers as shelters from a possible nuclear attack and when the Zwicks bought their house in 1999 they assumed thats what the odd structure was.
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2/10 The Zwicks cut the rusty chain and descended into the depths and they thought to document their findings.
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It was a shelter built at the height of the Cold War! When people felt that a bomb could drop at any moment, many families laid up stores of food water and supplies whether the effects of a nuclear winter.
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4/10 Inside the Zwicks found an 8 by 10 chamber filled with pots and supplies from 50 years prior.
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5/10 City records revealed that the builder was a surgeon named Frank Pansch who lived in Neenah decades before Pansch had the fallout shelter installed in 1960.
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A toilet an oven and electric lamps had been installed in the shelter the family would have been able to survive comfortably down there luckily it never came to that.
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Historians estimate that the shelter probably cost about $1200 including ventilation systems a phone line and electricity donated Neenah historical society.
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8/10 The Zwicks found candles, snacks, cans of water, and for some reason, a phone book.
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9/10 Taken as a collection, these artifacts offer a comprehensive snapshot of cold war america.
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10/10 "It's interesting to have a piece of history in your own backyard", Hollar Zwick told her local fox station.
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