ABANDONED Controversial Theme Park Near Disney World. (Holy Land Experience) Explore # 121
experience love experience Joy experience Jesus Holy Land Experience is an incredible place where you can go back in time and not just see but experience life in biblical times hey welcome back explorers today we're at a pretty unique spot here we're at an abandoned theme park it's actually like a Christian theme park Jesus was crucified here every day they did like a they did a bunch of shows there's no like roller coaster rides here but it's just definitely a theme park, like take a look at this its supposed to resemble Jerusalem and they did a really good job doing that this place is just amazing I'm actually here with two other fellow explorers in here with adventuring with Trevor I'll put his Link in the description I'm here with Chris I'll put his Link in the description as well they all got YouTube channels and social media accounts so they're exploring they're doing a video as well this place is going to be getting demolished pretty much any day they're building a I think a hospital here but this place has been a pretty happening place from the 80s to the 90s and then the sales of the ticket sales and that really dropped down so they ended up selling this place we're going to explore this place before it's gone forever yeah I guess they did baptisms here they'd walk down the stairs and do a baptized I'm not too sure I'm not too familiar with all the religious stuff but you wouldn't want to do a baptism right now in that water it's all pretty gross the Holy Land Experience theme park recreated the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in the first century the park opened in 2001 which would allow people to experience Israel as it was in Jesus time the grand opening received National publicity some generated by the Jewish activists who said the Holy Land Experience was designated to convert Jews Irv Reubin chair of the Jewish Defence League compared the theme park to the Holocaust Rubin was arrested a short time later on charges that he conspired to bomb a mosque in California and the office of a U.S congressman Rubin died by suicide in 2002 while awaiting trial in a Los Angeles prison the Holy Land Experience could not break even it just cost more to run by 2007 the park was 8 million dollars in debt the park was saved by Trinity broadcast network TBN they bought the Holy Land Experience in 2007. they plan to use it as a studio and a set for new Television Productions in the first year they laid off about a quarter of the staff and outsourced some of the more expensive maintenance including cleaning and Landscaping The increased the number of Visitors by about 25 percent updated some of the attractions and added brand new ones visitors could now get their picture taken so it looked like they were walking on water with an actor portraying Jesus. t's Martha's Kitchen see we see what's going on in the kitchen nothing it's a bunch of uh sweet relish there's a screen unfortunately the Holy Land Experience still requires lots of cash in 2010 TBN put more than 40 million dollars into it in 2011 another 23 million in 2012 TBM stopped raising money with telethons after much criticism of the fundraising practice and cut support to the theme park to about 2 million per year sadly ticket sales started falling from about 250 000 visitors it dropped to 180 000 paying adults in 2013. and then just continued to decline after this tax records show nearly 9 million dollars in ticket sales in 2014 dropped to 8.5 million the
next year and down to 7.1 million the year after that ticket sales dropped to 5.5 million in 2018 and then plummeted in 2020. tenants was down about 50 percent before covid-19 and then the park was shut down by the pandemic in August 2021. it was then sold to a health care company for over 30 million dollars they have plans to redevelop this property and build a large Health Care Facility I don't know what's left in this place a lot of this place is uh sealed up I think so we're only going to go into the places that are wide open um at this place here I don't know you could tell like they started ripping stuff out like maybe the tiling like the stuff that they want to keep I guess but the reason why the power is still on here is because I gotta get my light it's because there's workers still coming here and removing some stuff so this is where they did a show oh wow I don't know if I could turn the lights on. look at this look at all the seats here bro too bad we couldn't turn the lights on more like this place is like look at this place look at all that look at all the mold on the seats it's all mold on the seats look at this that's all mold wow it's quite the place here oh we're gonna go in the VIP Booth here back here this is behind the stage here oh they're here this is the stage there's Chris down there he's exploring this is crazy I've never oh look at this we're like right up here wow I don't know how safe this is up here but okay that's enough of that I'm not going too far up here you get the idea though what you can see all inside everything's all left this is like the gift shop probably where they had a tablet the dust in here they see they took something off the walls here yeah like maybe tiling like very expensive tiling maybe yeah you know they had like a Rock sort of looking like yeah you know Jerusalem yeah hot dogs six dollars turkey legs eight dollars they're really milking them for all their work oh I didn't leave any food behind no that's too bad go ahead you could have used it smell the mold oh this is I've seen that on TV that that used to be a miniature like City because I've seen a video on YouTube of them touring somebody touring this place oh there's Jesus right there Peter yeah and I think people got to come here and remove some pieces from this it used to be a miniature City this is a replica of ancient Jerusalem this was the world's largest indoor model of first century Jerusalem this 25 foot wide model is meant to represent Jerusalem Circa A.D 66. this is yeah I heard that the people came in here and they got to take like a souvenir before they demolished this place they got to take like one of the castles or is there any people in it yeah look at this even like the Moss baby Jesus I'm like I'm impressed this is like this was very very well done I'm flabbergasted like I've never been I was just like saying earlier I've never been here but I think this is the ideal experience oh look at this what's in there what's this door it's like they blasted it look at that there's something something like it must have been seriously broke his door down here cast only room so here's another room where they did shows not sure what they did in here I just know they did some shows in here this place is this massive I don't know if we're going to be able to see everything today but look at all the posters left behind here King David thank you oh where are we here this place is just demoed here already started taking stuff apart look at this place I feel like I'm in Jerusalem this place is as crazy the skull take a little peek to see what it's like what is it here nothing oh here's the restrooms we don't really need to go in there we all know what a restroom looks like is that a Yeti cup no oh what is this this looks totally trashed what is this place this place is just demoed here oh you know what this is this is a Mini Putt there's Jesus playing mini pot right there oh yeah okay they totally dug this place up oh what is this what's in here an octopus wow that's kind of spooky and then oh we got Jesus here he's there he is he fell all right let's keep going here this place is just crazy I've never seen anything like it yeah it's pretty uh pretty smashed up over here but there's this place is this huge like we've been here for quite a long time and we got lots to do lots of checkout here you know a gift shop nothing much left in here thank you foreign hey guys I hope you enjoyed this video this place was just so awesome so glad I had a chance to explore this with these guys we had a lot of fun here today hope you enjoyed the video this place is just massive there's a lot to cover we only went into places that were wide open some of the places are all locked up and sealed up but the workers are still kind of coming through here I think removing some stuff before demolition so this place is going to be demolished really soon and I'm pretty sure they're gonna be building a brand new hospital here which is good everybody needs a hospital it's nice to have more so let me know in the comments what you think about this place I'm not really religious so I don't know too much about all what that went on here but it was a lot of fun yeah I'm in Florida so he can't beat that I love the warm weather and the Sun so I'm glad I'm here but let me know in the comments what you think of this video Please Subscribe and follow the guys I went exploring with today Chris and Trevor I'll put their links in the description definitely see you guys on the next explore
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