Urban explorer 'broke onto Jeffrey Epstein's island' in extremely rare footage
Topics: Jeffrey Epstein, YouTube, Travel
Jess Hardiman
Featured Image Credit: Instagram/@braccoz
Topics: Jeffrey Epstein, YouTube, Travel
An urban explorer who claimed he ‘broke onto Jeffrey Epstein’s island’ said he ‘got pretty lucky’ after managing to dodge security guards and cameras.
A few years back, Andy Bracco – otherwise known as the ‘Place Hacker’ - went down to Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James, along with his friend Jon Megna.
The pair managed to get ashore Epstein’s former private getaway, located in the US Virgin Islands, and documented their adventure on YouTube and TikTok.
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The footage shows them exploring famous landmarks of the billionaire sex offender’s $64 million 70-acre tropical paradise, including the gigantic sundial, as well as the blue and white 'temple' that sits atop a hill.
Speaking to The Sun back in 2020, Bracco said the island was still patrolled by security guards.
He said: "There is active security there - I visited the site twice over the week and one of the times was in daytime, which was a little bit riskier.
"The route we took we avoided a lot of the cameras on the island - along with the workers and guards.
"We got pretty lucky. But we planned it a few months ahead, spoke to locals and we knew what we were dealing with.
"I wouldn't suggest anyone go there unless you really know what you are doing."
The island was raided in 2019 by the FBI following accusations of sex trafficking and soliciting underage prostitutes by Epstein, who died in his jail cell while awaiting trial.
Bracco also said he and Megna noticed that some of the construction on the supposedly lavish island wasn’t actually up to scratch – including the temple, where a roof had blown away, as well fake doors with monograms that had Epstein’s initials painted on them.
He continued: "It's very strange to know how much money this guy had to see such a low quality of a structure there.
"It makes you think, is this a distraction from something else?"
At one point, Bracco and Megna came across a security camera that appeared to still be active.
"There was one super serious part when we didn't account for what I believe was an infrared camera by the communications tower," he said.
"It was pointing directly at us, and if there was a sensor facing us and depending on what software they had it could have set off an alarm. So we had to rush off pretty quickly."
In another interview with Newsweek, Bracco claimed he looked into the blue-and-white temple and spotted a staircase descending downwards - with conspiracy theorists long speculating online that the building covered an underground network of tunnels.
He said: “If I was to have entered the unlocked temple, that I clearly came into close contact with, I would never self incriminate by showing my audience how I got in. Getting in would then subsequently have allowed me to access the tunnels.
“Security most definitely existed on the island during both of my visits. The months of effort that went into planning for just a few hours of exploring are so disproportionate. I took into account so many things, asked as many resources available as I felt we needed to know while still attempting to remain surreptitious.
“On both of my visits we remained completely undetected due to following our careful planning and other covert entry procedures. We stayed away from the main dock, the main house, and the infrared cameras.”
Watch the full video here.