Any siblings fight, but you put us all in a bunker for a couple months, trying to help my dad finish building his castle he has wanted for so long, I mean, you are bound to go at war with each other.”įor his part, Brent Sr. “We've all been living our own separate lives in different cities, and we all came together in a bunker, a small bunker, (where) we've been living together 24/7. “It's been a long time since we've all lived together,” said Brent Sr.'s daughter Lindsey, 22, a self-proclaimed prepper herself. The siblings' disparate personalities (the black sheep, the girly girl, the chip off the old block, the tough chick) bring out some familiar “reality” show dynamics. In the series, the former infantryman puts his grown kids through survival drills, including practice incursions from armed militia, gas attacks and more. The site also includes land for farming, a water pump and booby traps against would-be invaders. And then within that, I needed it to be in the center of an extremely large piece of land with only a few people there.” It needed to be near a major metropolitan area … an hour to an hour-and-a-half drive so we could, in the meantime, be able to get whatever we needed. “It had to be somewhere we could get in a relatively short period of time. For now, the family resides in two bedrooms, a dining area, a living space and one bathroom.“I needed it to be secluded but not totally isolated,” he said. With over 6,000 square feet of living space – not including the 30,000 gallon fuel tank converted into storage space buried under the castle – there’s more than enough room for Brent Sr., his children, grandchildren and even a few friends to survive the roughest of times. It stands 34 feet tall with all the walls made of cinder block filled (not capped) with rebar and concrete. has been working on the castle since 1999 (he was concerned about Y2K) and just finished putting the roof on a few months ago. With their series of booby traps (more on that in a bit) and a simple, but effective, alarm system, there's really no way someone can approach the castle without them knowing about it first.īrent Sr. The family has picked a very strategic location for their fortress - it's only accessible by four-wheeled drive vehicles with one way in and one way out, and they have the high-ground vantage point from every angle of the mountain. Whether you agree or disagree with prepping, there's something absolutely fascinating about building a huge medieval-style castle on top of a mountain. National Geographic Channel has created a show, called Doomsday Castle, that follows the family as they work (and occasionally fight) together to finish building their father's dream. Instead of following the exploits of multiple families as in Doomsday Preppers, the spinoff focuses solely on Brent, Sr. How would you eat, drink, and survive if an EMP strikes? Well if you've been prepping for years for just such an event, like Brent Sr., you travel high into the hills and take refuge in your fortified EMP-proof castle.īrent, Sr., along with five of his ten children - Brent II, Ashley, Lindsey, Michael and Dawn-Marie - have taken to the red clay-stained hills of Carolina to build a reinforced castle complete with booby traps, murder holes, an underground bunker, a trebuchet and of course, a drawbridge spanning a fire moat. Solar flares, like the one that just missed the earth a couple weeks ago and the one scientists predict will hit in September 2013, are a major concern. Think EMPs aren't a legitimate threat? EMPs can be triggered by numerous events including solar flares.
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