CLASSIC: Closed Cities: Secret Towns Kept Off Your Maps
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The majority of human beings currently live in urban areas -- and this trend seems set to continue. According to the most recent estimates, two-thirds of humanity will live in urban areas by 2050. However, not all cities are created equally. In fact, countries throughout the world are home to cities that, in one sense or another, do not officially exist. So what exactly are these secret, closed cities. What goes on there? Why are these areas hotbeds of the stuff they don't want you to know? Join Ben, Matt and Noel as they unravel the mystery in today's Classic episode from 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | Fellow conspiracy realists, we're returning with a classic episode this evening, |
| 0:05.7 | a true story. |
| 0:06.8 | A while back, we looked around the world and we realized, we mentioned this on the show |
| 0:12.0 | in episodes or even strange news or listener mail or interviews earlier, the majority of human |
| 0:17.4 | beings now live in urban areas. |
| 0:20.3 | Most people live in cities. That trend is probably |
| 0:23.6 | going to continue, but you can't go to every city. Yeah, that's right. Not all cities are |
| 0:31.1 | created equal. In fact, countries throughout the world are home to cities that in one way or |
| 0:35.1 | another don't exist. One of these is Oak Ridge, Tennessee. |
| 0:40.3 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:41.1 | I wanted to mention that because it is in the United States. |
| 0:44.3 | These are not as far flung nor as rare as one might assume. |
| 0:49.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.9 | So let's explore hidden cities that you can't go to in this classic episode of stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:55.3 | Hey, it's A Martinez. |
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