![]() ![]() "Down here it's a little more pleasant," Ed says as he opens a simple wood door with a tiny knocker.īeyond - is a warm cocoon of good vibes and New Age ambience. It leads to the other half of the Peden home, the former launch control center, which is where Ed and Dianna live. Jutting north from the launch bay is a 120-foot-long tunnel of steel and concrete. "Yes! Skateboarders!" he cries, beaming like a pleased schoolteacher - which is what he was when he bought this place - "You captured that concept quickly!" We suggest to Ed that it would make a good skate park, and his eyes light up. It directed the launch inferno from the missile down to a hillside exhaust port. "It makes an excellent shop," Ed tells us, "but it caused me to collect far too much useless junk."Ī large square hole in the floor leads to a gently sloping "flame pit" the size of a freeway tunnel. To the south is the vast missile launch bay, now empty, with its 18-inch-thick concrete walls, three-foot-thick concrete floors, and balky garage door. The Pedens now call their place "Subterra Castle," and it looks nothing like the abandoned hellhole Ed bought in 1982. Ed first toured his future home in a canoe. The sheet rock had melted onto the floor." It had dissolved because the entire complex was flooded with up to nine feet of water. "The gunk I hauled out of here in wheelbarrows was incredible," Ed tells us. It cost Uncle Sam $4 million to build this place Ed bought it for $40,000. He and his wife Dianna were the first people to turn one of these Cold War doomsday bunkers into a livable home, and they now run a business helping others to do the same. The door was designed to withstand the blast from a nuclear explosion.Įd's door, and his home, are in an abandoned underground missile launch complex roughly 25 miles outside of Topeka, Kansas. It took him 25 years, but it weighs 47 tons, and the vehicle that was parked behind it was a 78-foot-long Atlas E missile, topped with an atomic bomb. ![]() ![]() Subterra Castle: Missile Silo Home (Closed)Įd Peden finally got his garage door to open. ![]()
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