Re-enact '10 Cloverfield Lane' with your own Limestone missile silo
Did you get the wrong message from “10 Cloverfield Lane,” the new J.J. Abrams-produced flick that stars a crazed survivalist who holds a woman against her will in an underground silo? Well, we’ve got a piece of real estate for you.
A 17-acre parcel of land in Limestone, just a short distance from the former Loring Air Force Base, has hit the market. But this isn’t just a typical plot of land in northern Maine farmland — the chain-link fence surrounding the property could be a give-away of that — the property was once a former Nike missile launch site complete with barracks, and a missile assembly area.
Oh, and a 15,000-square-foot missile silo 22 feet below ground.
“It’s as dark as the inside of your pocket down there,” Dave Prentiss, the current owner of the property, told the Bangor News during a recent tour of the property.
The former missile launch site was purchased by Prentiss and his wife, Sue, while house hunting in 1985. What caught the couple’s eyes was the old missile assembly and testing building, which they thought would be ideal for an auto restoration shop.
Plus, who wouldn’t want to live on a former military site?
“These were traditional warheads, not nuclear warheads,” Prentiss told the BDN of the weaponry once built on the site. “If they had been nukes, I wouldn’t have touched this place on a bet.”
In addition to all of site’s original above-ground buildings, the couple decided to build a new, two-bedroom home on the property, which is now on the market with a price-tag between $300,000 and $499,000 by the Eskridge, Kansas, specialty real estate company 20th Century Castles LLC.
“Some of the people who buy these do talk about zombies, and others are survivalists,” Edward Peden, who with his wife Diana Ricke-Peden, owns the real estate company, told the BDN. “With what is currently going on in North Korea and the fear that the Cold War may be heating up, there are people who want to have options of living in a nuclear-proof structure. Some of these sites are the strongest structures ever built on the planet.”
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