Doomsday-Fearing Man Spent the Last 30 Years Building Secret Bunkers on Government Land

We all have our phobias. Some people run for their lives at the sight of insects or reptiles, others hate tight spaces like elevators, or stepping on the roof of a tall building. And while most people can live perfectly normal lives despite their phobias, there are also those who let the fear dominate their lives.

A case in point is a doomsday-fearing octogenarian in the U.S. state of Utah, who dedicated more than three decades of his life to building bunkers and cabins on state and Government land and stuffing them with provisions and weapons.

The Iron County Sheriff’s Office, which is investigating the case along with the FBI and other law enforcement bodies, has so far declined to identify the man, revealing only that he resides in the town of Parowan.

According to official information released so far, the man acted out of fear that the world might end or that society as we know it might somehow collapse. The structures he built are located in a forest bordering the ski town of Brian Head.

To prepare for the end of days, the man spent the last 30 years building four cabins and an undisclosed number of underground bunkers on land owned by the state of Utah and the federal government, sneaking the material piece by piece. Were it not for an accidental wildfire that ravaged the area in the summer, this sneaky busy bee may have continued his work uninterrupted for years.

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Doomsday prepper in his 80s spent 30 years illegally building a secret two-mile system of bunkers and cabins filled with guns, grenades and food in Utah before they were found in a wildfire.

A doomsday-fearing Utah man in his 80s spent more than 30 years building a stockpile of guns, grenades and food in scattered bunkers and cabins he illegally built in the wilderness, a Utah sheriff’s office said Friday.

‘His only intent was to defend what he had there if the end of the world was to come,’ Iron County Sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Del Schlosser said.

Schlosser said the man, fearing ‘end times’ or some kind of collapse of society or the government, slowly constructed four cabins and underground bunkers in the forest outside the ski town of Brian Head, hiking up materials in a piecemeal fashion.

The bunkers were illegally built on state and U.S. government-owned land but weren’t discovered until a wildfire ripped through the area this summer, burning two of the cabins and exploding some ammunition.

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