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Secret Town Deleted Scene

🕑 Added 2021-02-26 15:34:46 +0000 UTC

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Leon Mika

This explains that detour on the real time "cab ride" video. I was curious as to why Grey turned off the highway to follow this road that seemly led to nowhere. I assumed it was just to take a break or that he took a wrong turn.

Neil Neyman

Not a paper town — Looks like it once was a gold mine. https://westernmininghistory.com/mine_detail/10189199/

Ofek Kandel

Maybe it's a fake town? people who create maps put fake towns on the map so when people copy it they can prove they really did copy it because they copied a town the doesn't exist (Great Video on This - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeiATy-FfjI)

Erik Bevins

Looks awesome!

Ben Gold

So it appears to be a placer mining operation; heavy elements like gold drop out where there is a decrease in a river's flow speed and energy, like just the down stream side of a waterfall or rapid. There are indications that flow speed was much higher in the past, so the Nevada side was higher or California was lower. Anyways here is the mine map: https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/mol/index.html It is estimated to be missing 40,000 mines in California (mostly small shafts). The abandoned mines are reclaimed either by filling or turning into bat habitats with entrances that keep out people.

Michael Kenworthy

Google Maps does not show much more than what was on the video. Just a few houses in among the trees and some bare spots of land.

Vlycop

But by looking for them you break the bound that make you a good Grey follower.

Kevin Konrad

You know, there are face pics of Grey out in the wild. Or so I’ve heard...

Luke Frederick

Says on Wikipedia that it used to be a gold mining town which got its peculiar name because miners didn't want the location of the gold getting out. Interesting stuff.

Brian

I was concerned that this was going to turn into horror: "You are on the fastest available route:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh09uIN6tl0

John West

"Listen...smell that?"

alexwlchan

How I imagine this actually happened: Grey: *turns up at Secret Town with a camera* Secret Town residents: *get out their own camera, start filming Grey* Grey: … Secret Town residents, chanting: Run away, go far from here Say nothing of this place Or we will open up the web And show the world your face Grey: Deal. *dashes back to Bailey Blue*

WalkerTexasCoder

“I hear ...amphetamines”

John West

What is the California equivalent of "I hear banjo music:"?

Lynx88

Great to see Bailey Blue again. She's quite the car!

J Passmore

Looks like just another small mining "town" that probably wasn't much more than a few shacks near a claim. Lots of similar logging "towns" where I grew up which, if there's anything left, is an overgrown dirt road leading to an overgrown field and a pile of broken glass and rusted cans that used to be the dump.