# What do you think is behind the metal door in the padmanabhaswamy temple? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 28, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061 "2017-06-28T16:47:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dude\_robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e7dd6/32.png) [@dude\_robert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dude_robert)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/1 "2017-06-28T16:47:59Z")
So, I heard about the padmanabhaswamy temple on youtube whilst looking at some sep 23rd/planet x/nibiru videos that talk about a giant turtle with a wheel of pizza coming over and eating the earth, and happened to see a video on that temple. I looked up some questions on Quora, and apparently there are a surprising amount of people who think that there are giant nuclear snakes hiding behind the doors that will eat everyone if the doors are opened and then the world will end, or something. Of course that will not happen, because giant snakes are not hiding behind the doors, IMO, but what do you think about it? Do you think it should be opened? Is it even a real door, or just a metal wall pretending to be a door? Also, are there any plans on opening the door at some point in time? I think it would be very interesting to see what is behind it, if anything. It would be similarly awesome if there were actually nuclear snakes hiding behind the door, because then we could easily colonize the solar system and meet other alien races, very easily. It would be a massive boost for humanity overall, since all the diseases would be instantly cured and it would basically be like The Culture from Iain M Banks. Is there any way, do you think of opening the door without damaging it or the surroundings? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/2 "2017-06-28T18:00:34Z")
> **[Padmanabhaswamy Temple](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmanabhaswamy_Temple)** > > The Shree Padmanabhaswamy Temple is a Hindu temple located in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the state of Kerala, India. The name of the city of 'Thiruvananthapuram' in Malayalam and Tamil translates to "The City of Lord Ananta" (Ananta being a form of Vishnu). The temple is built in an intricate fusion of the Chera style and the Dravidian style of architecture, featuring high walls, and a 16th-century gopura. While as per some traditions the Ananthapura temple in Kumbla in Kasaragod The p... Very interesting, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/3 "2017-06-28T18:03:19Z")
I think it’s the Ark of the Covenant. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/4 "2017-06-28T18:07:03Z")
A pronunciation guide. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/5 "2017-06-28T18:09:23Z")
I think behind the secret padmanabhaswamy temple metal door is a colony of mutant sheep that have been surviving by turning carnivorous and eating the rats and cockroaches and worms and centipeds and bats and the kind of vermin like that that like to live in underground secret temple vaults and maybe creatures we haven’t seen befre in this lifetime or next one so I don’t know it could be these monsters or someone else or maybe the giant nuclear snakes that will eat us and shit us out into space and colonzying allt he moon and mars and venus but maybe venus is too hot what kind of toilet paper would we use on venus because it’s so hot wouldn’t the toilet paper set on fire or something and that would relaly burn so be careful if you have to ppoop on venus! ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/6 "2017-06-28T18:11:43Z")
Geraldo Rivera is planning a news special where they open the door and show everyone what’s behind it. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/7 "2017-06-28T18:13:18Z")
> [@dude\_robert](#): > > S… a giant turtle with a wheel of pizza coming over and eating the earth, and happened to see a video on that temple. > > … giant nuclear snakes hiding behind the doors that will eat everyone. > … It would be similarly awesome if there were actually nuclear snakes hiding behind the door, because then we could easily colonize the solar system and meet other alien races, very easily > > … > > Is there any way, do you think of opening the door without damaging it or the surroundings? Can’t they see through the door using reverse filtering thin layer micro scanning ionized koiniter resets with dipolar marble diodes? I thought that shit could see through anything. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/8 "2017-06-28T18:14:28Z")
Serious answer? Probably nothing as whatever wealth was there was stolen decades or centuries ago. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/9 "2017-06-28T18:16:30Z")
It’s the Great Egress. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/10 "2017-06-28T18:17:06Z")
1. Obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/11 "2017-06-28T18:20:05Z")
[According to this article](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/30/the-secret-of-the-temple), the temple has all sorts of treasure in it which was kept secret (and denied) until the India Supreme Court forced them to open (some of) the vaults for a small number of observers. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/12 "2017-06-28T18:26:55Z")
Its where they keep Shiva locked ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/13 "2017-06-28T18:30:24Z")
The [temple priest](https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/9AFF/production/_90397693_mediaitem90395534.jpg) says he’s personally searched all the vaults and they are all empty, so people should stop enquiring about them. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/14 "2017-06-28T18:40:59Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > A pronunciation guide. Yeah, not to mock a foreign language, but I think that temple was named by [a normal human typing with his human hands](https://xkcd.com/1530/). ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/15 "2017-06-28T18:42:20Z")
Apparently, the rumors of vast quantities of gold have [attracted treasure-hunters from the West](http://17909.cdx.c.ooyala.com/t2NTBuNzE65K5-xos_MUEiTX1MnC2RBo/promo303567522). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/16 "2017-06-28T18:51:07Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Apparently, the rumors of vast quantities of gold have [attracted treasure-hunters from the West](http://17909.cdx.c.ooyala.com/t2NTBuNzE65K5-xos_MUEiTX1MnC2RBo/promo303567522). Little do they know that gold was stolen by the Nazis and buried in a train in Poland! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/17 "2017-06-28T19:02:48Z")
Snakes… Why’d it have to be snakes? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/18 "2017-06-28T19:09:47Z")
Somebody already asked this: [Who's Behind the Door? by Zebra HD - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofz0iJQd-xU) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/19 "2017-06-28T20:51:31Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > [Padmanabhaswamy Temple - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmanabhaswamy_Temple) > > Very interesting, actually. > [@](#): > > The Deity is visible through three doors – the visage of the reclining Lord and Siva Linga underneath the hand is seen through the first door … Wait, what? Why would I want to see that. Eww. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061/20 "2017-06-28T20:58:33Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > A pronunciation guide. _Padmanabhaswamy Temple is located in Thiruvananthapuram…_ Why would you say that? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-behind-the-metal-door-in-the-padmanabhaswamy-temple/790061.md?page=2)