After 10 Years This Family Decided To Open These Creepy Metal Doors In Their Backyard

In the 1960's, affluent families often installed cement bunkers as shelters from a possible nuclear attack. When the Zwicks bought their house in 1999, they assumed that's what the odd structure was.

In 2010 the Zwicks cut the rusty chain and descended into the depths... and they thought to document their findings.

Inside, the Zwicks found an 8 by 10 chamber, filled with cots and supplies from 50 years prior! It was a shelter built at the height of Cold War.

It was a time when people felt that the bomb could drop at any moment. Many families laid up stores of food, water and supplies to help the effects of a nuclear winter.

A toilet, an oven, and electric lamps had been installed in the shelter. The family would have been able to survive comfortably down there. Luckily, it never came to that.

The Zwicks found candles, snacks, cans of water & a phone book.

Taken as a collection, these artifacts offer a comprehensive snapshot of Cold War America.

City records revealed that the builder was a surgeon named Frank Pansch, who lived in Neenah decades before. Pansch had the fallout shelter installed in 1960.

Historians estimate that the shelter probably cost about 1,200 dollars, including ventilation systems, a phone line and electricity. The Zwicks donated everything to the Neenah Historical Society.

"It's interesting to have a piece of history in your own backyard" Hollar-Zwick told her local Fox station.