Underground shelters for the chosen, silence for the masses

Back in 2013, we reported on the so-called elite survival bunkers and the notorious Deep Underground Military Bases — the D.U.M.B.s. Curiously, the rumors never faded. If anything, they feel more relevant today than ever. 


Despite the public silence, world powers may already be aware of a looming global crisis, yet choose to say nothing. While the masses are distracted, preparations appear to continue behind closed doors. 

Mainstream media keeps its spotlight fixed on geopolitical tension, conveniently ignoring escalating environmental and planetary risks. Governments offer no clear explanation. Scientists remain reserved. The pattern speaks for itself. 

Evidence suggests the world’s major governments have been preparing for catastrophe far longer than most people realize. 

Across continents, state agencies, defense contractors, and major corporations have accelerated underground construction to unprecedented levels. In the United States, massive subterranean complexes are being excavated in remote and restricted regions, well beyond public oversight. China has quietly built unusually deep subway networks beneath key cities, resembling a crash infrastructure program. Russia went public in 2011 with plans for roughly 5,000 new nuclear shelters for Moscow alone, while newer metro lines were designed to double as hardened bunkers. 

More recently, former HUD official Catherine Austin Fitts alleged that the U.S. has been covertly constructing an underground “breakaway” civilization for the elite, designed for near extinction-level scenarios. She claimed trillions in unaccounted federal funds were diverted into subterranean infrastructure, including an underground command grid for continuity of government during nuclear war or worse, as well as advanced transit systems. 

One acknowledged D.U.M.B. is the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, arguably America’s most secure and secretive military fortress. Imagine what else they've built. ( Video : take a look at the inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.) 

Economist Mark Skidmore of Michigan State University reviewed federal financial discrepancies and concluded in 2017 that roughly $21 trillion in “unauthorized expenditures” occurred between 1998 and 2015 within the Department of Defense and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. One Army report alone listed $6.5 trillion in unsupported adjustments for fiscal year 2015 — fifty times its official budget. 

After examining the missing trillions, Fitts estimated that at least 170 underground installations exist within U.S. territory, some rumored to extend beneath oceans and interconnect via classified high-speed transit systems. According to her, these would function as sanctuaries if governments anticipated a civilization level collapse. 

Hollywood has long been accused of predictive programming, quietly introducing future technologies, events, or disclosures into films and entertainment well before they surface in reality. In the context of underground survival infrastructure, the film Greenland is frequently cited. Its storyline depicts an extinction-level disaster in which ordinary citizens are abandoned while selected individuals are quietly evacuated to fortified subterranean facilities, including a base beneath Greenland. 

Confirmed or not, the pattern is hard to ignore: powerful institutions appear to be preparing for contingencies the public is not being informed about. And if the worst comes, one uncomfortable possibility emerges, the general population may be left to fend for itself.