TDW 1675 - Woman Buried In Her Ferrari

0:03 Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here.

0:03 Today is going to be

0:07 majestic. See what I did there? It's my

0:10 second channel, daily vlog channel. It's

0:12 the daily woo. This is a really cool old

0:15 theater. I'm standing on the curb in San

0:17 Antonio, Texas. And you really cannot

0:20 stop off down here without paying a

0:24 visit to history, the Alamo. And this is

0:29 the subject of the last tattoo I ever

0:31 got. It is right there located on my

0:35 arm. I am not going inside today. I'm

0:37 going to be in the Austin San Antonio

0:40 region for the next week or two. And I'm

0:42 saving this for a later date. But did

0:45 you know that this was the only location

0:47 from Peewee's Big Adventure that was not

0:49 filmed in Southern California? One shot

0:51 of Paul Rubin holding a map walking

0:54 inside those doors. Wonder if they flew

0:57 here specifically just for that one

0:59 scene. And as cliche as it is, it's

1:02 always funny to

1:03 wonder where the heck is the basement.

1:07 Look inside this window here across the

1:10 street. It's like a miniature golf

1:12 course and there's a jeep with some

1:14 skeletons. That's the undead up there.

1:18 Stay away from those guys. They mean

1:21 trouble. It's not too often that an Uber

1:24 driver drops someone off at a

1:28 cemetery, but that's what he just did on

1:31 the outskirts of town. Sometimes finding

1:33 a place to park Large Marge in a bigger

1:36 city is very difficult. So, I opted to

1:38 take rides today to some of the spots I

1:41 want to show you. And this one is an

1:44 interesting one. On March 10th, 1977, a

1:47 woman by the name of Sandra West, a

1:50 resident of Los Angeles, but whose

1:53 family were oil tycoons here in Texas,

1:57 passed away. She outlived her husband by

1:59 9 years. But when she died, there was a

2:02 very peculiar stipulation in her will.

2:06 Her request was to be moved from

2:08 California here to Texas and laid to

2:11 rest in the family plot. That doesn't

2:14 seem too unusual, right? Oh, there's one

2:15 thing I forgot to add. She wanted to be

2:17 buried in her 1964 blue

2:21 Ferrari. That's where the twist is. But

2:23 her brother-in-law, who was the sole

2:26 inheritor, he passed away in

2:28 2012, did not approve of this idea. In

2:31 fact, he tried very hard to make this a

2:35 nonreality, going to court for two

2:37 months just to get out of it. But she

2:41 got the last laugh in the will. If he

2:44 did not obey her wishes, he would not

2:46 get the $2 million. Instead, he would

2:49 only get $10,000. And while $10,000 is

2:53 nothing to turn your nose up at, I think

2:55 all of us would think about $2

2:59 million. Bury her in the car. Her body

3:02 and her car were then transported here.

3:07 A very large hole was dug right in that

3:12 spot and the car was lowered nine feet

3:15 into the ground and then covered in

3:19 concrete as to asssure no one would ever

3:22 be able to steal it. The crane was

3:25 stationed there and they had to hoist

3:28 the incredibly heavy

3:31 box right

3:33 down into the ground there. And the

3:37 interesting thing is that was not the

3:39 only unusual fact about this. She also

3:43 wanted to be buried in a sexy

3:46 neglig with the seat tilted back for

3:51 comfort. If you were just casually

3:53 walking through the grounds, you would

3:55 have no idea that right here is a

4:00 car underneath the earth in this exact

4:10 spot. No clue

4:10 whatsoever that it's here. Sandra West,

4:13 1939 to 1977.

4:16 Even in

4:18 death, he made your wish a

4:27 reality. But holy cow, that's a weird

4:27 story. There's a legit vehicle right

4:31 there.

4:33 Hey, how are you? Yes, sir. How you

4:35 doing? All right. You were right. You

4:37 were right here. I was exactly. I bet

4:39 you were like, where'd he go? Where you

4:40 got here in about 3 seconds. It's like

4:42 some kind of crazy demon. They turn all

4:43 this into a hobby house. 13th floor.

4:46 Looks like something out of like the

4:47 movie Alien or something. Yep. It's

4:49 pretty wild. Does that train actually

4:50 work or is it just parked here? It's

4:52 actually one of the original trains that

4:55 were here when this is actual a real

4:58 train station. The driver was telling me

5:00 all kind of very interesting stories and

5:02 he told me to check out this place, the

5:05 Minger, which used to be a brothel

5:08 established in 1859.

5:21 This place is pretty incredible. What

5:21 about you, cigar store Indian? You seen

5:23 any

5:25 ghosts? Keep an eye out. Here's Bill

5:28 Clinton enjoying an ice cream treat here

5:30 on the premises. This is the courtyard

5:33 area. I would have never known this was

5:36 back behind the walls.

5:44 Be cool to stay here one day. You've

5:44 always been the

5:46 caretaker. They say there are 38 ghosts

5:50 here, making this the most haunted place

5:54 not only in

5:55 town, but in Texas. For those who visit

5:58 this location for the first time, it's

6:01 always a surprise to see how many

6:03 buildings are on the site of the Alamo.

6:07 The Alamo seems very small when in

6:10 reality it stretched out into the street

6:13 and the whole battle was all in this

6:15 area where all these shops, hotels, and

6:18 tourist buses now are. In fact, right

6:21 here on the same side as coffee shops

6:23 and Ripleys, believe it or not,

6:25 underneath this glass casing are some

6:29 relics as well. Even though most people

6:31 are going into that destination, it's

6:33 stretched all the way here where I'm

6:36 standing. And here are some foundations

6:38 of adobe bricks. Right down in there,

6:41 you can barely see them. They are

6:43 protected by that sheet of glass.

6:46 Underneath the town is a river and you

6:49 can walk along the edge of

6:51 it. It's pretty awesome down here. And

6:55 from the street view, you probably have

6:57 a hard time even realizing that this

6:59 existed. It's really hard not to look at

7:00 this and think of the 80s movie Cloak

7:02 and

7:03 Dagger. Classic. In the movie, the kid

7:05 from ET ran down these stairs. Look

7:08 totally different now, though. Many

7:09 years ago, I did the filming locations

7:11 of that movie, and I was in a real hurry

7:13 to try to find all the exact spots. It's

7:15 kind of nice to just have a peaceful

7:17 moment here along the

7:18 river. Take it all in. This guy over

7:21 here, he fell in the river. You can kind

7:24 of see him like kneeling down underneath

7:27 there. I think he's reaching for his

7:28 phone. He fell off the sidewalk into the

7:32 water.

7:39 That was that

7:39 was that would not be fun. The size of

7:42 this margarita is

7:45 incredible. The kid is enamored with it.

7:48 But he can't drink one of those for

7:50 another 19 years. The guys in the 20s,

7:53 the city wanted to take this river and

7:55 cover the entire thing in concrete. They

7:58 got tired of messing with the floods.

8:01 They just said, "Forget it. We're going

8:02 to build up with this whole thing.

8:04 Couple ladies from the conservation

8:06 society were able to convince the

8:08 leaders that have room going to this was

8:11 a good thing. Couple years later, Robert

8:13 Hugman come along, an architect, and he

8:16 designed the room.

8:26 You guys see the movie Miss Congeniality

8:26 with Cinder? The swim part of that was

8:28 built right here in stage.

8:31 This is built 1939.

8:34 This is a very popular place for folks

8:35 who get buried. This island is naturally

8:38 shaped like a heart.

8:41 This island is the root system to one

8:43 bald cypress tree. The roots grow

8:45 sideways. It's shallow to keep this tree

8:47 from drowning. These are bald cypress

8:49 trees. You find these things in any

8:51 river here in South Texas. Some of these

8:53 are two and 300 years old. If you look

8:55 up on the building, you can see there's

8:57 gargoyles up there.

8:59 gargoyles and water comes out of their

9:02 mouths. This crazy gate

9:05 gate closes down in case of a flood to

9:08 protect all the businesses from

9:10 flooding. Look at this. Like a huge

9:12 metal door. It ended in 1933. That bar

9:16 opened the next day.

9:18 I think the facade of that building was

9:21 used in a ZZ top video if I remember

9:24 correctly.

9:37 I have created an event page over on the

9:37 Adam theWoo Facebook and I have added

9:40 this flyer that was made by the good

9:42 people at the ThinkGeek store who are

9:44 hosting the meetup this Sunday, February

9:49 5th, starting precisely at 2:00 p.m. San

9:54 Antonio, Texas at the North Star Mall.

9:59 Hope to see you all there. Looking

10:01 forward to saying hello to everyone.

10:02 Bring your

10:03 cameras, bring yourself, bring your

10:06 friends. It's going to be a good

10:09 time. See you then. Vlog over.

TDW 1675 - Woman Buried In Her Ferrari

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