“What I loved most about him is he inspired many more to care for others, not just your family,” Lau said. It was that “humanitarian” trait that attracted many others to his cause, according to Antonia Lau, a proclaimed psychic and prominent member of Beach’s wide-reaching bunker community. Himer says the bunker was a “symbol” of Beach’s ambitions, because he built it to save hundreds of people – not solely his own family. “He had a mission to serve and to make things better and rebuild,” said Adam Himer, a 30-year-old engineer who helped Beach at the bunker for a decade. “People could always come and have a meal, and people were always working on the shelter,” Eldner said. Now his family, friends and followers are facing a cataclysmic question of their own: What next? Will someone continue Beach’s mission up to and beyond an uncertain Doomsday - or will the Ark Two be buried with its Noah? Beach died on May 10, leaving behind an ailing wife, five grown children, a massive bunker, some half-finished plans for a new world and no instructions for how to carry on without him. He did all this under the assumption that the world would end soon, and that he’d be around to start a new one.īut Bruce Beach’s life came to an end before the world did, after he suffered a heart attack at age 87. Then he recruited friends, family and fellow survivalists to his cause, assembled plans for restarting society after the nukes hit and began developing a universal language that would supposedly unite humanity through a common tongue. He buried 42 school buses in the 1980s and linked them together into the world’s largest private fallout shelter, the Ark Two. Marta Iwanek/Toronto Star via Getty Images Bruce Beach poses for a photo in front of his fallout shelter in Horning’s Mills on July 9, 2015.
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